JEAN LAVILLE

Jean Laville has been active in the financial sector for 30 years, including 25 in the field of Responsible Investment. At SSF he drives the workstream on capacity building and education. Jean Laville is also a partner at Conser Invest since 2012, an independent advisory and asset management firm dedicated to sustainable investment solutions for private and institutional clients. He develops and runs quantitative tools enabling the systematic screening of the fund universe and the compliance of underlying holdings with ESG objectives. As Deputy Director he managed Ethos Foundation’s and Ethos Services’ from 2002 to 2012. Previously he held the position of ESG quantitative asset manager with Banque Pictet & Cie in Geneva, since 1998. In 1980, Jean Laville graduated in economics, majoring in political economy, from the Higher Business School (HEC) in Lausanne. He then followed the doctorate program from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.