Episodes

  • Omar Shaikh

    Green finance: from local to global

    8th February 2023

    Host: Amanda Young, Chief Sustainability Officer, abrdn

    Guest: Omar Shaikh, Director, and Co-Founder of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI)

    We kick off our brand-new Sustainability Inspires series with Omar, from GEFI. This is to pay homage to abrdn’s Scottish roots and the expanding influence that GEFI has had from a local initiative to its role on the global sustainable financial stage. Find out more and be inspired to support a cause close to your heart, from wherever you may be.  

  • Catherine Bradley

    The unstoppable force of woman

    Coming March 2023

    Host: Amanda Young, Chief Sustainability Officer, abrdn

    Guest: Catherine Bradley CBE, Non-Executive Director, abrdn 

    With over 30 years of executive experience advising global financial institutions and industrial companies on complex transactions and strategic opportunities, Catherine is in her own right, an unstoppable force. She joins our own Chief Sustainability Officer to reflect on learnings along the way, in hopes of inspiring the next generation of female leaders.

  • Martin Stuchtey

    Valued by nature

    Coming April 2023

    Host: Eva Cairns, Head of Sustainability Insights & Climate Strategy, abrdn

    Guest: Prof. Martin Stuchtey, Founder of The Landbanking Group and SYSTEMIQ Professor at Innsbruck University

    In this edition of the podcast, Eva and Martin dive into the value that natural capital holds in today’s world. Drawing from both and impressive and eclectic career, Martin outlines the importance that nature holds in today’s world, not only from an intrinsic point of view, but for achieving sustainability and investor goals in today’s finance world.

What inspires you

“... little acts of kindness that people do that aren't required of them, but they just make everybody else's life more joyful - I find that really inspiring.”

Ann Meoni - Senior Sustainability Analyst, abrdn

Quoting 20th Century social scientist, Margaret Mead:

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”

Dr Lesley Dickie - Chief Executive Officer, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

“It’s been my work that’s inspired me… I’ve always been intrigued by the companies that are relentlessly, just trying to make things more effective and more efficient.”

Tony Hood - Investment Director, abrdn