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Frédéric Samama is Chief Responsible Investment Officer at CPR AM, having joined Amundi in 2009. He is the founder of the SWF Research Initiative and co-edited a book on long-term investing alongside Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and has published numerous papers on green finance. Formerly, he oversaw corporate equity derivatives within Credit Agricole Corporate Investment Banking in New York and Paris. During his tenure, he developed and implemented the first international leveraged employee share purchase programme. Samama has advised the French government in different areas, including employee investing mechanisms, market regulation and climate finance, and has a long track record in the crossroads of finance and government policy. During the past few years, he has focused on climate change with a mix of financial innovation, research and policy making recommendations, being an adviser of central banks, sovereign wealth funds or policy makers on this topic.

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