Speakers

Nicolas Firzli is founder of the World Pensions® Conference, the retirement ＆ savings industry group and think-tank, co-chair of the G7 Pensions Roundtable held on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, cofounder and member of the Advisory Council of the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), the World Bank and G20–led global development finance initiative, and co-chair of the Singapore Economic Forum (SEF)

He has developed notions such as ‘Pension Superpowers’, the ‘Age of Geoeconomics’, ‘Employee Capitalism’, ‘SDG–Driven Investment’..., and chaired the Pensions and Asset Owners Roundtable at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (Paris COP21 Summit/Paris Agreement)

Nicolas is a graduate of Canada’s McGill University (Statistics ＆ Financial Economics), an alumnus of the HEC Paris School of Management (MBA Corporate Strategy ＆ Marketing) and the University of Paris Law School (LL.M. Corporate Law) and has conducted research at the University of Louvain (UCL) Doctoral School of Economics and Management in Waals Brabant (Belgium)

He is a regular contributor to BBC News (Asia), Asharq News with Bloomberg, RTÉ Ireland, and Cairo TV (Qahera News). He is also active in ecumenical, intercultural dialogue, nonalignment, ＆ the promotion of peaceful, inclusive sustainable development endeavours in North America, Britain, the European Union (EU) and the Greater MENA–APAC continuum

World Pensions®

World Pensions® is the collaborative, non-partisan retirement & savings industry think-tank and advocacy platform, focusing on the crossroads where modern financial research, institutional asset ownership and pension policy meet. Our work is multidisciplinary by nature: covering all aspects of retirement, retirement savings and social protection in the broadest sense, including actuarial science, asset management, investment governance, workers’ participation, trusteeship and fiduciary law . . . We believe that only well informed, solid pension systems can “open up the way to higher standards of social welfare and economic security”.

World Pensions experts have developed notions such as ‘SDG–Driven Investment’, ‘Pension Superpowers’, the ‘Age of Geoeconomics’, ‘Modern Employee Capitalism’, the ‘Australian Model’ etc., helping mainstream the notion of ‘infrastructure as a new asset class’ alongside supranational and national institutions etc., and chaired the Asset Owners Roundtable at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (Paris COP21)

Learn more: worldpensions.org