Author: RI Careers Team
Wim Van Hyfte reflects on his career in ESG Wim Van Hyfte reflects on his career in ESG Wim Van Hyfte reflects on his career in ESG
Jun 19th, 2020
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Tell us a bit about your current role and the company you work at.
I am Global Head of ESG Investments and Research at Candriam, and I have a broad range of responsibilities. One of my roles is to lead our sustainability projects and to make sure that we, as a team, engage with all other stakeholders. My other responsibility is to lead the company strategically to align with the interests of our clients and engage with them on a variety of ESG topics.
I also participate in various roundtables engaging with external stakeholders across the whole industry: this might be media, regulators or other governmental bodies. For example, I had quite a bit of engagement with different stakeholders at regulators and the European Commission, given the critical debate on the Green Deal and the taxonomy. It's a very diverse and bro…