Gianluca Manca

Head of Sustainability at Eurizon Capital

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He served as chair of the Investment Commission and co-chair of the Asset Management working Group of the UNEPFI then joined the Business Economy Environment group of GLOBE EU at the EU Parliament. Gianluca is awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Cattolica University in Milan, Italy, where he is an MBA lecturer on Global Sustainability while he is co-head of the business simulation at the Executive Master in Finance SDA Bocconi University. At present he is a member of the EFAMA Stewardship, Market Integrity & ESG Investment Standing Committee, a member of the European Banking Federation’s Sustainable Finance wg where he serves as chair of the Disclosure/Metrics subgroup, and he is a member of the ABI Sustainability wg. He was a global equities fund manager, then focused on responsible investments in late 90s and later became the head of the global RI team. At present he is the Secretary of the Sustainability Committee and the Chair of the Charity Committee at Eurizon Capital. In the past 15 years he co-authored various papers and publications on ESG integration and climate change (UNEPFI, WBCSD, CDP). Graduated with a MSc at Bocconi University, he worked on his thesis at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and successfully passed the professional exam for CFPs.