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Marcelo Behar (Senior Advisor COP30 at World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Marcelo Behar

Senior Advisor COP30 at World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Marcelo Behar is a sociologist and a lawyer.

He has worked in several NGO’s on initiatives for indigenous citizenship, civil
liberties and human rights. Also worked as a journalist of International Politics
and served the Brazilian Federal Government. There he was the Special
Advisor and Chief-of-Staff to the Minister of Justice where he led the
disarmament campaign and, in 2007, became Vice-Minister for Strategic Affairs.

Practiced law for a while and then moved to the executive life working on
multinationals (CSN and Natura &Co) in the last 15 years leading areas like
Sustainability, Policy and Communications. He has always split its corporate
responsibilities with collective efforts in fora like the Ethos Institute, the World
Economic Forum, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and
many others.

Optimist by nature and by duty, Marcelo has a strong view on the imperative to reconcilie collective targets between science, policy, private sector, finance and
communities on the climate and on the nature agendas while we can still be
effective. Among many other Board roles, he is currently the Senior Advisor for COP-30 for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and for CEBDS.

Shivin Kohli (Lead, Financing for Nature at World Economic Forum)

Shivin Kohli

Lead, Financing for Nature at World Economic Forum

Shivin Kohli is Lead, Financing for Nature at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Nature and Climate. In this role, he leads the Forum's work on mainstreaming natural capital in decision making for governments, businesses, and investors. Prior to this, Shivin co-led global sustainability research and engagements for the economics consulting firm AlphaBeta, working extensively with international organisations, governments, industry associations, private sector firms, investors, philanthropies, and nonprofits. Shivin is an experienced economist and has co-authoring a number of leading agenda-setting reports on business and biodiversity, including the Future of Nature and Business. Shivin previously worked in banking, digital media, and newsdesks. He holds a BSc with Honours in Economics and Public Policy from Singapore Management University.

Tony Goldner (Taskforce on Nature related Financial Disclosures (TNFD))

Tony Goldner

Taskforce on Nature related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

For over two decades, Tony has advised government, financial sector and philanthropic leaders on a range of strategic challenges at the intersection of business, finance and public policy. These include centre of government reform, national economic development strategy and the architecting of green finance investment opportunities. He began his career in the Australian diplomatic service before moving into the private sector, first in investment banking where he focused on infrastructure project financing and then in strategy consulting as a Partner at Monitor Deloitte and as an adviser with the World Bank Group.

Sheila Murray (Chair of the Board at Teck Resources & Advisory Board member)

Sheila Murray

Chair of the Board at Teck Resources & Advisory Board member

Sheila Murray has been a director of Teck since April 2018 and was appointed Chair of the Board in February 2020.

She is a graduate of Queens University (B.Comm and LLB). Ms. Murray served as President of CI Financial Corp. from 2016 to 2019 and was previously Executive Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary of CI Financial Corp. Ms. Murray played a key role in directing the operations and setting corporate strategy for CI Financial Corp. and its operating companies, including CI Investments Inc. and Assante Wealth Management. Her role included leading CI’s mentoring program, which fosters the advancement of high-potential female employees. Prior to that, Ms. Murray had a 25-year career at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, where she practised securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and corporate reorganizations.

Ms. Murray is the past Chair of the Dean’s Council at Queen’s University Law School and has also taught Securities Regulation at Queen’s University and Corporate Finance at the University of Toronto’s Global Professional LLM in Business Law Program. Ms. Murray is also a director of BCE Inc. and Bell Canada, and a trustee of Granite REIT.

Mario Pardo (CEO of BBVA Colombia)

Mario Pardo

CEO of BBVA Colombia

Mario Pardo is the CEO of BBVA in Colombia, the largest foreign investor in the financial sector in Colombia and the fourth largest foreign investor in Colombia across all sectors. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Asobancaria (Colombia's banking association) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Colombia.

He joined BBVA in 2008 after working for Goldman Sachs for nine years in London and Paris. Since joining BBVA, he has worked as Global Head of Corporate Finance within Corporate&Investment Banking (CIB), then as Head of Strategy&Transformation for CIB and subsequently as Global Head of Enterprise Clients, a position from which he led the business development of investment banking, corporate, commercial and SMEs banking.

Mario is a graduate from Spain’s Pontificia Comillas University in Business and Economics and lives in Bogota with his wife and three children.