Neha Coulon

Neha Coulon is a Managing Director and Head of ESG for the International Private Bank based in London. In this role, she leads the ESG efforts in the region, setting the business strategy and helping its clients achieve their sustainability objectives.

Neha spent over a decade at the J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment bank where she provided investment strategies to some of the largest pension funds and asset managers across Americas and Europe. From 2017 to 2020, she served as the EMEA head of Sustainable Finance in J.P. Morgan’s corporate office where she led corporate sustainability initiatives, including engagement with EU policy makers, industry leaders as well as key clients focused on sustainability. She was instrumental in the Firm’s announcement of a comprehensive sustainability platform including a $200 billion SDG-linked financing commitment and a plan to be 100% reliant on renewables for the firm’s operational footprint by 2020.

In 2020, Neha founded and served as the first global head of the ESG Solutions group at the Corporate and Investment Bank, advising the firm’s clients on strategic decisions and corporate financing linked to the energy transition and evolving sustainable consumer preferences, creating ESG -themed financial products and providing ESG data analytics. She has pioneered a number of innovative ESG products across equities, debt, derivatives, structured notes and supply chain financing.

Neha is a member of the Advisory Board for the Climate Risk certification for the Global Association of Risk Professionals. She was previously a member of the UK Green Finance Initiative and the UK-China Green Belt and Road Investor Alliance.

Neha is a guest lecturer at the MBA program at the University of Sussex and was previously a guest lecturer at the Operational Research and Financial Engineering program at Princeton University.

Neha holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master in Finance from Princeton University and an MBA from Oxford University. She lives in London, with her husband and two children.