Helena Vines is Chair EU Platform on Sustainable Finance Co-Chair, Task Force on Net Zero Policy and Commissioner Spanish Financial Markets Authority. She also co-chairs the COP28 established Taskforce on Net Zero Policy, created as a follow-up to the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net Zero Pledges, of which she was a member. She also sits on the Climate and Environment Advisory Council of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Prior to her appointment at the CNMV, she was Senior Policy Adviser on Sustainable Finance at BNP Paribas and served as Global Head of Stewardship and Policy at BNP Paribas Asset Management. She played a key part in shaping and implementing the firm’s Global Sustainability Strategy and led the Sustainability Research team. Vines was a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and represented BNPP AM on the EFAMA Stewardship and ESG Committee. She also served on the AMF’s Comité Climat et Finance Durable and continues to contribute to several international initiatives, including the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Green Finance Advisory Group, the PRI Policy Reference Group, and the Technical Advisory Group of the LSE-led Transition Pathway Initiative. From 2020 to 2022, she served as rapporteur for the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, having previously been a member of the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, which contributed to the development of the EU taxonomy and the implementation of the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan. She has over two decades of experience in sustainable finance and responsible business.