Speakers

Florence Devevey is the head of the EMEA Sustainable Finance team at S&P Global Ratings. In her current role, Florence heads a growing team of now 18 analysts across Europe, ensuring analytical, service and operations excellence on sustainable finance products - namely Second Party Opinions (SPOs).  Prior to this role, Florence was the global Head of Steering for Sustainable Finance, where she was responsible for setting and monitoring the consistency and quality of analysis in the delivery of SPOs and any subsequent analytical opinions developed by the Sustainable Finance team. Prior to joining the Sustainable Finance team in 2019, Florence spent 15 years in the Corporate Ratings practice at S&P Global Ratings, working across different sectors and in various offices, namely Madrid, London, New York and Paris. Her last position was Lead Analyst for the Media sector in EMEA, being responsible for the oversight of around 40 credits, both investment-grades and high-yields, and a team of 4 credit analysts. Prior to that, Florence was the sector coordinator for EMEA Consumer Goods and was responsible for a portfolio of Consumer Goods companies, mainly investment-grade companies, such as Unilever, Anheuser-Bush Inbev or Danone. Before joining the Consumer Goods team, she spent 4 years in the Leveraged Finance team, working on high-yield transactions and debt instrument ratings (recovery ratings) across various sectors of the Corporate Ratings practice. Florence holds a Master in Management from French business school Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris), with a major in Finance and Accounting. She completed a certificate program in Corporate Sustainability from NYU Stern (2020) and passed her CFA ESG Investing (2022).