“Responding to the Expanded Mandate for Bank Regulation: Climate Change Plus – A Talk with Daniel Schydlowsky”

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Bank Regulators have the core mandate of keeping the financial system safe. In some jurisdictions, they are also charged with holding inflation down and promoting growth and employment. In the last few years, their mandate has been complicated by climate change and related socioeconomic conflicts. As evidenced by the creation of the 141-member Network for Greening the Financial System, their mandate has recently been expanded. Join the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), along with co-hosts the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, the Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA), and the CLS Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Association, as Professor Daniel Schydlowsky discusses for the Columbia University community the responses that are currently under discussion in Latin America.

Bio:

Daniel Schydlowsky headed the Bank Regulator of Peru from 2011 to 2015 during which time he was also Chair of the Governing Board of AFI, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, and President of ASBA, the Association of Bank Supervisors of the Americas. He later became a consultant to the Gates Foundation, AFI, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the FMO, the Dutch Development Agency, on topics related to the development of suitable bank regulation for cellphone banking, deeper financial inclusion, environmental and social risk analysis systems, and greening the financial system. He currently advises the financial regulator of Colombia on developing a socio-environmental cost-benefit analysis system for use by Colombian banks. He also teaches a course on regulation at the Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and another course on disaster economics in the Master in Disaster Management Program at the School of Public Health of Tel Aviv University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and taught for 35 years at Harvard, Boston University, and American University. In 2010, he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government.