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IBF Fellow (2024), Sustainable Finance
Herry Cho
Managing Director, Head of Sustainability and Sustainable Finance, SGX Group
Biography
Ms Herry Cho joined the Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) in February 2021 and drives SGX Group’s sustainability and sustainable finance strategic direction and implementation, to transform SGX Group and its ecosystem into a world-class, trusted multi-asset sustainable exchange.
Ms Cho currently serves as Alternate Director for Climate Impact X, is a global steering group member for Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and co-leads the GFANZ Transition to Net Zero Index Investing global workstream, Management Advisory Board member of the National University of Singapore’s Sustainable and Green Finance Institute, Convening Member of Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) and a Mentor for the Singapore Business Federation’s Young Business Leaders Network.
Prior to this, Ms Cho pioneered in the development of Asia Pacific’s sustainable finance markets, in her former role as the Head of Sustainable Finance APAC at an international European bank from 2017. She further helped shape the international market standards having served on the Executive Committee of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)’s Green/Social Bond Principles. She was also recently a member of the Taskforce for Nature Related Finance Disclosure (TNFD). Ms Cho leverages on a broad financial background in Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory, Capital Structuring and Advisory, and Equity & Debt Capital Markets.
Based in Singapore, Ms Cho has previously worked in Hong Kong, London and Amsterdam and holds a combined Bachelors and Masters (MBioch) Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, UK.