Justine Leigh-Bell is the Chief Executive Officer at Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute. She sets AFII’s strategic direction, oversees its research agenda, and works with asset owners and fund managers to integrate climate and nature factors into fixed income portfolio construction and risk management. She leads initiatives that turn advanced research and market analysis into practical tools, investor guidance and engagement strategies, ensuring that climate and nature considerations are reflected in day-to-day capital allocation decisions. Leigh-Bell has spent over 15 years helping business leaders, financial institutions and governments find solutions to the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development. Formerly Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Bonds Initiative, she has a track record in building international non-profit organisations with a strong climate impact footprint, most notably in the development of the green bonds market working closely with financial institutions. She serves as an advisor to climate-focused initiatives, most recently supporting the Blue Bond Accelerator under the Ocean Risk Alliance, ORRAA, where she contributes to innovative financing structures that channel capital into ocean and coastal resilience. Leigh-Bell has an MSc in environmental economics and policy from Imperial College London and post-graduate training in molecular genomics at Yale.