Kvinnokapital request the pleasure of your company at the Gala Dinner 2023

on the 11th of May, 2023 at IVA Bankettsalen in Stockholm.

Programme

17:45 Registrations

18:00 Champagne reception

Welcome address
Inspiration from our honorary members

19:00 Dinner

Key note speeches by our guests of honour

21:00 Dessert & Coffee mingle

Guests of honour

Emily Chew, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Calvert Research and Management

Emily Chew is Executive Vice President and Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Calvert Research and Management. Ms. Chew is responsible for managing and monitoring financial and ESG performance analytics and insights across Calvert’s global product offering, managing Calvert’s relationships with investment teams that are deployed to manage Calvert’s funds, and engaging Calvert’s clients on long-term ESG investment themes. She is a member of the Morgan Stanley Diversity Council, and previously served as Morgan Stanley’s Global Head of Sustainability for Investment Management.

Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2020, Ms. Chew was Global Head of ESG Research and Integration for Manulife Investment Management in Hong Kong and Boston, where she built an ESG investing program for public markets investments encompassing research, investee stewardship, thought leadership and thematic product development. Previously, she was Head of Asia-Pacific ESG Research for MSCI Inc.

Ms. Chew is a member of the CFA Institute ESG Technical Committee, which launched a new global ESG disclosure standard for investment funds in late 2021, and is a founding member of the Bloomberg Women’s Buyside Network – New York Chapter. She has also formerly served as rotating chair of the Steering Committee of the Climate Action 100+ investor engagement initiative and chair of the Asian Investor Group on Climate Change. Ms. Chew holds an MBA from the University of Oxford, and Bachelors of Laws and Arts (honors) from the University of Melbourne.

Julie Dickson, Investment Director, Capital Group

Julie is an Investment Director at Capital Group and the Global Co-Chair at Capital Group Pride and is focused on expanding Capital Group’s LGBT+ advocacy to the wider community. She has organised events for Pride, hosted celebrations for LGBT+ history month, prolifically spoken up about coming out at work during Lesbian Visibility Week, and brought UK Black Pride into conversation with Capital Group’s internal communities- ‘Capital Group Pride’ and “Capital Associates of African Descent”.

Externally, Julie is a major donor to OutRight Action International, a supporter of the Albert Kennedy Trust to combat LGBT+ youth homelessness, and she holds a seat on the leadership team of InterInvest which helps further LGBT+ interests across the investment industry. Julie has also won multiple awards for her LGBT+ advocacy (finalist Diversity Champion at the Investment Week Women in Asset Management Awards for the last 3 years, listed in Yahoo Finance Top 100 LGBT Executives, and LGBT Great Role Model).

Sonya Likhtman, Manager Engagement and Stewardship, Federated Hermes

Sonya Likhtman works in EOS, the stewardship and engagement team at Federated Hermes. She focusses primarily on engaging with companies across Asia and emerging markets. She is also the lead engager for the Biodiversity Equity Fund and the author of a white paper called “Our Commitment to Nature”. She is currently co-chair of both the Engagement and Public Policy Advocacy working groups within the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation. Previously, Sonya worked as a sustainability consultant in London and Barcelona. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge and was a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University, where she worked on the ethics of climate change and related public policy matters. In 2022, Sonya was awarded the Rising Star Award from the International Corporate Governance Network.

With the kind support of our donors for the evening:

Keynote donors

Calvert Research and Management (an affiliate of Morgan Stanley)

Capital Group

Federated Hermes

Program donors

Affiliated Managers Group

American Century

Coeli

Fisher Investments

Hamilton Lane

Neuberger Berman

LGT Capital Partners