Simone Utermarck 2026 speakers

“Simone Utermarck is a Senior Director, Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) based in London. She is part of the Secretariat of the Principles for sustainable bonds (the global standard for green, social, sustainability-linked and climate transition bonds), Secretary to the Advisory Council which focusses on Emerging Markets and ICMA’s voluntary Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Products Providers.
She is a member of various global working groups currently including the ASEAN Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) and Singapore SSFA’s working groups on Transition Finance, Taxonomies and Adaptation & Resilience. Simone is also part of the UK Transition Finance Council’s WG on Credibility & Integrity and the LSE’s Just Transition Community of Practice. In the past she has been a member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance and the UK Stakeholder Discussion Forum on the Green Gilt.
Simone was the ICMA lead on Guidance developed for “Bonds to finance the Sustainable Blue Economy” (2023), the “Green, Social and Sustainability Sukuk” (2024) and “Sustainable Bonds for Nature” (2025) which won Green Bond Initiative of the Year 2026. She is also co-leading a taskforce on Sustainable Finance and FinTech & Digitalisation.
Simone joined ICMA in January 2020. After initially having trained as a banker in Germany, in 20+ years she gained international experience working and living in Europe, the United States, Asia and the GCC in various roles with Thomson Reuters, S&P Global Ratings, Bloomberg, PwC, Ernst & Young, DaimlerChrysler Global Capital Services. She holds a double degree in International Business from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland and the ESB Business School, Reutlingen Germany. She also completed the International Certificate in Investor Relations and the CFA Level 1.”