Sarah Kemmitt

Sarah Kemmitt works with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative where she helped to establish and leads the Secretariat for the Net Zero Banking Alliance. With an earlier career in ecological conservation, agroforestry and soil science, after the financial crisis Sarah took the opportunity move into financial services regulation, including roles within the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England. In recent years she brought her environmental expertise to bear on her supervisory work at the Bank, contributing to the UK regulation and supervision of the risks from climate change on the banking and insurance sectors.