Hugh Garnett

Hugh Garnett is Investor Strategies, Senior Specialist Real Assets at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change. He joined IIGCC in 2022 and has responsibility for IIGCC real estate and infrastructure work – supporting IIGCC’s members on decarbonising their real asset portfolios, developing investor frameworks and guidance for real assets and policy engagement. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Policy Specialist at the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors leading on a range of policy and regulatory issues in the built environment. Hugh holds a Masters in Public Policy from King’s College London. He sits on a number of industry groups, including on the advisory board of the Global Property Linked Finance Initiative, Aligning Real Estate Sustainability Indicators (ARESI), and the OECD Blue Dot Network – Private Capital group.

IIGCC

IIGCC is an investor-led membership organisation. We bring the investment community together to navigate the risks and opportunities of the transition and support progress towards a net zero and climate resilient future. We work with our members to create guidance, tools, frameworks and resources that can help them, in their individual contexts, to manage climate-related financial risk within their individual portfolios. Our work also supports investors to make the most of opportunities presented by the transition towards a decarbonised global economy and the realities of a changing climate. We have c.400 members across 20+ countries. More information at www.iigcc.org