Helga Birgden
Chair, Sustainable Investment, Mercer
Helga Birgden is Global Chair, Sustainable Investment and Partner at Mercer. She leads on sustainable investing and governance as a global executive focused on climate change resilience, managing investment risk, return and reputation for boards, members and stakeholders. She has more than 20 years of experience advising client board and committees on sustainable investment issues, environmental, governance and social. She has prepared advice for multilateral institutions such as the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, G20 and Development Banks. Birgden is a published author and contributes to Mercer thought leadership including, climate change, biodiversity and transition with the World Economic Forum, 2022, 2021, 2020. Over the last decade she has been a leader in Mercer’s global climate change studies 2011, 2015 and 2019 Investing in a Time of Climate Change reports and 2020 Analytics for Climate Transition – ACT. She is Deputy Chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change, representing 30$tn of AUM and is on the board of the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change.
