Thomas Viegas is Partnerships Lead at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). He has significant experience in integrating nature into economics, public policy, and financial decision-making. He joined TNFD in May Viegas was previously at the Bank of England where he spent nearly a decade working on and influencing a broad range of UK and global macro-financial policy issues. He led the Bank of England’s initial approach and strategy to nature-related financial risks. He also played a key role in establishing the foundational work on nature-related financial risk within both the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and UN Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF). Viegas was also responsible for leading the Bank of England’s external technical assistance program to other central banks and financial regulators on greening finance issues, in the run up to and including COP26. He was previously seconded as an Economic Adviser and Finance Sector lead to The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, based at the UK’s Finance Ministry (HMT).