Catherine Banat
Catherine Banat is a financial services executive with over three decades of leadership experience in capital markets innovation, strategy, ESG, and risk oversight. A strategic thinker, she has been instrumental throughout her career in driving growth by recognizing new market opportunities, building strategy to capitalize on those opportunities, and collaborating with her teams to achieve and sustain revenue goals. Catherine is a recognized thought leader in sustainable investing and a passionate advocate for the economic value proposition of integrating ESG into investment and business decisions. Because of her training and experience in credit, finance, and capital markets, she believes that all decisions around sustainability must incorporate a deep commitment to financial performance. In recent years she has seen sustainability rise to the top of the Board agenda and become an essential part of good governance.