Hope Matsila ESG Portfolio Management Zürich

Hope is a South African attorney with experience in Commercial Litigation and advising real estate clients, which she gained while working at Milton Matsemela Inc., a Real Estate law firm in Cape Town, South Africa. She also worked in the Compliance department of Barclays Africa Group which has since been renamed ABSA Group. After spending two years in Asia, she studied Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania, which sparked her interest in Sustainable Finance. She went on to work as a
Junior Venture Analyst at Serval Ventures, a small Sustainability-focused and emerging tech Venture Capital Firm in New York. She recently graduated with an LL.M in International Business Law from the University of Zürich, where she specialized in banking, finance and insurance Law. Her thesis which focused on climate-related financial disclosures in the Swiss banking
and (re)insurance industries will soon be published through Schulthess Juristische Medien AG. Hope currently works as an Investment Analyst for ESG Portfolio Management in Frankfurt. In addition to the implementation of regulatory requirements, her duties include analysis and selection of securities with a special focus on sustainability indicators; independent monitoring
and risk management; engagement with portfolio companies; as well as designing an engagement framework based on impact measurements.