Nathalie Wallace joins Edmond de Rothschild as Chief Sustainability Officer on Monday 6 November. As a conviction-driven investment house, Edmond de Rothschild has long believed that investments must have an impact on our society: our Group has undertaken various ESG initiatives to demonstrate our impact in concrete terms. Nathalie is fully committed to this approach and will oversee all the Group's sustainable initiatives, both in Asset Management and Private Banking. She will also use her vision and experience to further develop the strategic ESG focus of our investment house.
Nathalie will be responsible for continuing the in-depth work on ESG already begun several decades ago within the Group. She will collaborate closely with our investment teams to ensure we meet our client’s sustainability objectives. Nathalie will build on Edmond de Rothschild’s commitment to supporting positive changes that shape our society, the quality of the conviction-based investment offering and the Group’s action-oriented approach. As part of the recent commitment to the “Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative” (NZAM), she will be a driving force in achieving the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Based in Paris, Nathalie Wallace reports to Cynthia Tobiano, Deputy CEO Group, and Christophe Caspar, Global CEO Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management.
Nathalie Wallace has more than 20 years of experience combining portfolio management, strategic vision and executive leadership to spearhead the financing of the climate and social transitions. She has spent her entire career in Boston in the US for almost 25 years. Before joining Edmond de Rothschild, she had been working for Natixis Investment Managers as Global Head Sustainable Investment, member of executive, investment and seed committees, Chair of the CSR-SI committee, Board member at Mirova and Ostrum, since September 2021. Prior to that, she held the position of Global Head of Strategy and Business Development at Mirova.
Between 2018 and 2020, Nathalie Wallace worked for State Street Global Advisors as Global Head ESG Investment Strategy. Her previous experience was with CERES where she stayed 3 years as Head of Investor Engagement Program. Nathalie Wallace has several advisory roles, such as Co-lead at the climate change steering committee in the Investor Leadership Network, a G7 initiative. Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) from the French Society of Financial Analysts (SFAF) and FSA Credential from the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), she is a graduate of Institut Supérieur de Gestion Business School in Paris and the Harvard University Extension School in Cambridge.
Commenting on this new arrival, Christophe Caspar, Global CEO Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, said, “We are delighted to welcome Nathalie to Edmond de Rothschild. She is a highly qualified professional who will strongly contribute to the further development of our ESG strategy, to which we have long been committed. She will take it a step further both in liquid assets and private markets, for the benefit of our clients.”
Nathalie Wallace added: “I am delighted to be joining a Group that has always put financing the real economy and sustainability firmly at the heart of its concerns. The family has always promoted sustainable investing and I’m excited to be given the chance to help the organisation through the next stage of their ESG development.”
About the Edmond de Rothschild Group
As a conviction-driven investment house founded upon the belief that wealth should be used to build the world of tomorrow, Edmond de Rothschild specialises in Private Banking and Asset Management and serves an international clientele of families, entrepreneurs and institutional investors. The group is also active in Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Real Estate and Fund Services.
With a resolutely family-run nature, Edmond de Rothschild has the independence necessary to propose bold strategies and long-term investments, rooted in the real economy.
Founded in 1953, the Group had more than CHF 160 billion in assets under management at the end of December 2022, 2,500 employees, and 30 locations worldwide.
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