Sean Kidney

Sean Kidney, FRSA, is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize global capital for climate action.  He oversees green bond development programs on six continents, now with an estimate US$3tn outstanding. Projects include market definition (taxonomies; data provision to green bond indices and investors; green bond certification); and public institution support projects. Sean is a member of the EU’s Platform on Sustainable Finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Sustainable Finance Advisory Panel, sovereign green bond advisory committees in France and the UK, the Finance Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency, the FAO’s Finance Advisory Committee and Japan’s GX Accelerator Advisory Committee.

A regular speaker on climate change and finance, Sean has over the past year spoken at conferences and seminars on six continents. In 2016 he was named Environmental Finance magazine’s “Personality of the Year” and in 2017 to 2019 was voted GlobalCapital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market. He was previously an award-winning marketing advisor to a number of the largest Australian pension funds and a social marketer and publisher. Sean is an Irish national. He has four daughters and lives in London with his partner.