Oxford/25 Congress Final Report
Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability
#Impact #Engagement #Megatrends #Data powered by AI
This comprehensive report defends that sustainability can no longer rest on labels or narratives alone. It must be anchored in credible transition plans, robust data, coherent regulation and real-world outcomes.. Dive into the findings and help shape a sustainable future.
Introduction
This Conclusions Document brings together the key insights from the 2025 Oxford Congress panels and keynotes, all aligned with the overarching theme “Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability: #Impact #Engagement #Megatrends #Data powered by AI”. Its purpose is not to offer a grand theory, but to distil what leading practitioners, regulators and academics are already doing to reconcile profitability, resilience and responsibility – and to provide a practical reference for the next chapter of sustainable finance.
Contents
- One Health and Biodiversity: Scientific insights into economic impact
- Decarbonizing Balances in Industrialized economies: Transition plans and strategies for a sustainable energy future
- Sustainable Investment in the US: A Deep Dive for an International Audience
- Industrial sectors in the face of decarbonization and taxonomy
- Mind the Energy Gap: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of the Energy Transition
- Sustainability and Freedom: Impact via AI and Financial Data Science
- From Theory to Reality: The Evolution of AI
- Unlocking the Power of AI: From Theory to Implementation
- EU Competitiveness Compass: Regulatory Reforms and Conclusions from the Sustainable Finance Council
- Regulatory Crossroads: What LATAM Embraces (and Rejects) from the US & EU
- From Pushback to Progress: Turning Sustainability Challenges into Engagement Success
- Impact investing: mainstream momentum or niche pursuit?
- Biodiversity in Sustainable Finance
- 5 Key Questions for the Future of Sustainable Investment
Report
Title: GET-2 Annual Oxford Congress 2025 Final Report – Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability
Author: GET-2 Think Tank by the Fide Foundation
Suggested Citation: GET-2 Think Tank by the Fide Foundation. GET-2 Annual Oxford Congress 2025 Final Report – Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability. 2025.
Subject: This Conclusions Document brings together the key insights from the 2025 Oxford Congress panels and keynotes
Keywords: sustainable finance, pragmatic sustainability, impact investing, ESG integration, transition finance, energy transition, industrial decarbonisation, One Health, biodiversity, sustainable taxonomies, regulatory frameworks, ESG backlash, stewardship, engagement, just transition, capital flows, private markets, institutional investors, LATAM regulation, U.S. sustainable investing, data transparency, AI in finance, AI in legal services, generative AI, workflow automation, financial data science, biodiversity risk, systemic risks, long-term value creation
GET-2 ESG Think-Tank participants
This document has been prepared by professionals who are part of the Fide’s 2025 Annual Oxford Congress: Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability: #Impact #Engagement #Megatrends #Data powered by AI. In this section, we wish to highlight them all, acknowledging their vast contributions to the project.
Below, we share the complete list of professionals who have participated in this document, either by being part of one of the panels, presentations or keynotes, or by having attended the 2025 Oxford Congress and shared their views with the rest of the congress’ attendees.
We wish to thank them all for their invaluable insights, with a special acknowledgement to the members of the Scientific Committee:
Directors
- Juan Ramón Caridad, Member of Fide´s Board.
- Cristina Jimenez Savurido, President and Founder of Fide Foundation
Scientific Committee
- Ana Rivero, Operating Partner ESG, Alantra.
- Marisa Aguilar, Managing Director | Country Head Iberia, Allianz Global Investors.
- Ángel Pérez, Founder and Managing Partner, Transcendent.
- Marta Olavarría, Financial Markets Regulation & Sustainable Finance, Consultant, Lecturer. Independent Advisor, Mediolanum Bank Gestión Independent Board Member.
- Ramón Esteruelas Berlinguer, Senior Investment Specialist – Discretionary Portfolio Management at CaixaBank Asset Management.
- María Folqué, Head of Marketing for Spain and Portugal, Allianz Global Investors. Member of Green Finance Institute Advisory Board in Spain.
- Gonzalo Yebes, Senior Financial Risk Expert, Banco de España.
- Rebeca Cordero, Sustainability Advisor.
Attendees:
- Cristina Aldamiz-Echevarría, Head of Associates, Operations & Sustainability, Grupo ACS
- Pablo Alonso Aja, General Director – Partner, Eurocapital Wealth Management EAF S.L.
- Pablo Alonso Montes, Director in the Legal and Regulatory Services to the Financial Sector (FS Legal) team, KPMG Abogados
- Lara Altable, Head of SRI Stewardship and SRI Policy, Santander Asset Management
- Charlie Anniss, Fund manager of the Nature & Biodiversity Solutions fund, M&G
- Aratangy Rosenberg, Head of the Financial Division, Superintendence of Pensions of Chile
- Caroline Berthod, Director of ESG Development, GovenArt
- Catherine Bohill, ESG Development and Impact Director, Telefonica
- Augusto Caro Herrera, Global Head of ESG, Santander Asset Management
- Matt Christensen, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors
- Ben Constable-Maxwell, Head of Impact Strategy, M&G Investments
- David de Miguel Rato, Deputy Director of Policy and Sustainable Finance, CNMV
- Juan Carlos Delrieu, Head of the ESG Office, Banco de España
- Maria Dolores Domenech, Sustainability Director, ACCIONA Energía
- Florian Faust, Software Engineer, Sociovestix Labs
- Roberto Fernández Albendea, Head of corporate sustainability, Iberdrola
- Laura Fernández González, SRI Client Solutions, Market Intelligence Manager & IDD, Santander Asset Management. CESGA, EFA.
- Miriam Fernández Jiménez, Portfolio manager, Ibercaja
- David Fernández Tavares, Founder, Disruptive Innovations
- Pilar Galán Gavilá, Head of Financial Services Legal, KPMG España
- Carlos Garay Gómez-Arroyo, Responsible for ESG investments, Sabadell Urquijo Gestión
- Eduardo García Hidalgo, Global Chief Investment Officer, BBVA Asset Management
- Pierre Garrault, Senior Policy Adviser, Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum
- Guadalupe Gómez, CRPC™ Senior Investment Consultant, Fiducient Advisors
- Alberto Gómez Reino, Head of Sustainable Investments, BBVA AM
- Luis González González, Sustainability Leadership – Equity Fund Selector | Funds and ETFs Selection
- Eva M. Gutierrez García, Expert in Finance
- Rita Hamden Villalobos, Director of Promotion and Financial Capacity Development, General Directorate of Financial Education, CONDUSEF
- Andreas Hoepner, Professor of Operational Risk, Banking & Finance at University College Dublin (UCD). Co-Inventor EU Paris-Aligned Benchmarks & EU Taxonomy-Aligning Benchmarks
- Emma Huertas Cabilla, Doctor of Marine Sciences. Scientific Researcher, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Vice-Rector of ICMAN-CSIC. Manager of Marine Science and Technology Projects
- Rocío Jaureguízar Redondo, Senior Sales Manager & ESG Specialist, Pictet Asset Management
- Phillipe Le Gall, Head of Responible Investment, Pictet Asset Management
- Álvaro Lobato, Cofounder, Tailored
- Florencia López André, Part of the Compliance and Risk Control Department, Amchor Investment Strategies SGIIC
- Manuel Losa, Senior Investment Manager, Thematic Equities Team, Pictet Asset Management
- Natalia Luna, Senior Thematic Investment Analyst, Global Research, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
- Diane Mak, Head of Impact Strategy, Allianz Global Investors
- Jaime Martínez Gómez, Global head of asset allocation, BBVA Asset Management and Global Wealth
- Elena Mataix Pérez, Legal Adviser on Transparency, Private Banking and Sustainability, CaixaBank S.A.
- Paloma Mele, Vice-President of Strategy and leads the UK market, Clarity AI
- Jorge Meléndez Barrón, Chief Economist, Afore XXI Banorte
- Pedro Mora Peris, Head of the industrial department, OFICEMEN
- Carlos Moreno, Sales Director Iberia, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
- Joseba Mota Gago, Head of fixed income and ESG, Iberdrola
- Luis Miguel Ortega Mora, Professor of Animal Health at the Complutense University of Madrid, director of the SALUVET group, and promoter of ETCU-UCM SALUVET-Innova S.L.
- Ángela Pérez, President, Cofides
- Alexander Félix Rayón Jerez, CEO y fundador de Brain & Code. Co-director AcademIA Generativa
- Cristina Rivero Fernández, Director of Industry, Energy, Environment and Climate, CEOE
- Ignacio Rodríguez Añino, Chief Distribution Officer Americas, M&G
- María Cristina Romero Medina, Head of Sustainable Finance for Spain & Portugal, EthiFinance
- Lorenzo Saa, Chief Sustainability Officer, Clarity AI
- Juan Salazar, Senior Engagement Specialist, Pictet Asset Management
- Sonsoles Santamaría Vicent, General Manager of Business, Tressis
- Agustín Sheppard Gelsi, Chief Risk Officer, AFAP Itaú
- Yi Shi, Client Portfolio Manager & Engagement Specialist, Pictet Asset Management
- Jorge Urriza Arpal, Strategy and Sustainability Office, Ibercaja
- Irene Valdelomar, ESG & Sustainability Reporting Specialist
- Guillermo Zamarripa Escamilla, President, International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP). President, Amafore
Furthermore, this document is signed in a personal capacity and does not represent the official position of the institutions or entities to which the members of the group belong.
The document reflects not only the work done but also the analysis carried out, providing conclusions and justifications, considering the personal experience of the members of the group.
Members of Fide’s team that have participated in this initiative:
- Alvaro Arribas, Marketing and Digital Development at the Fide Foundation
- Cristina Arribas, Academic Coordinator at the Fide Foundation
- Victoria Dal Lago, Academic Director at the Fide Foundation
- Carmen Hermida, Managing Director at the Fide Foundation
- Lucía Hernández, Academic Coordinator at the Fide Foundation
- José Luis Bonet, Marketing Assistant at the Fide Foundation
GET-2 ESG Think-Tank collaborating entities
This initiative has had the support of key financial industry players committed to propelling the financial industry into a sustainable future.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset management group that provides a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions for individual, institutional, and corporate clients around the world. Our focus is on meeting our client’s expectations through a team-based, risk-aware, and profit-oriented approach.
With a workforce of more than 2,000 employees, including more than 450 investment professionals based in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, we manage assets in equities, fixed income, asset allocation solutions, and products—alternatives from emerging and developed markets.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is the global asset manager of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP), a leading U.S.-based financial services company. Being part of Ameriprise, we are supported by a large financial services company widely diversified and capitalized.
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Pictet Asset Management
Pictet Asset Management is an independent asset manager, overseeing investments across a range of equity, fixed income, alternative, and multi-asset products on behalf of our clients, whose purpose is to build responsible partnerships with our clients, colleagues, communities, and the companies in which we invest.
They are part of the Pictet Group, an investment-led services group founded in Geneva in 1805 whose unique partnership structure has provided the stable foundation for long-term thinking.
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Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors offers a diversified range of active investment strategies across four main pillars – Equities, Fixed Income, Multi Asset and Private Markets – in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas. We began our sustainable investing journey 25 years ago and during this period, sustainability has become an integral part of the AllianzGI investment philosophy. We have more than 600 investment professionals and 500 relationship managers working across 20+ locations worldwide. We manage EUR 533 billion of assets for institutions and individuals across the globe.
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M&G Investments
M&G Investments is a global asset manager, serving customers and clients for more than 90 years since launching Europe’s first-ever mutual fund back in 1931. We’re part of M&G plc, a family of brands, all aligned behind the same ambition: to manage our customers’ investments so that they can live the life they want while aiming to make the world a little better along the way. Through long-term active investment management, we build solutions around what matters most to our customers and clients, looking for the best opportunities to invest in, across a wide range of asset classes.
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FIAP
The International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP) brings together the associations and entities that manage pension funds from 10 countries (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chile, El Salvador, Spain, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay). Its objective is to collaborate in the improvement and consolidation of pension systems based on individual savings, to offer the best possible pension to workers, within a financially sustainable system and contributing to the economic growth and development of the countries.
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Instituto BME
Instituto BME is BME’s training center and a close collaborator of the National Financial Education Plan in Spain. It focuses on training services relating to finance and financial markets. The training programs promoted by Instituto BME are aimed at professionals in the financial sector and its regulatory bodies, individual investors, students, and anyone interested in entering or deepening their knowledge of the world of finance. Instituto BME further expanded its course platform Braindex, which offers an online educational environment. Braindex offers 85 courses with different levels. Around 25% of the courses on Braindex are accessible free of charge. All the courses both in Instituto BME and Braindex have the following thematic axes: markets and products, technology applied to financial markets, and financial regulation. In this way, BME facilitates the development of society’s financial skills, promoting a better understanding of financial products, concepts, and risks through training, instruction, and advice.
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Transparency International-España (TI-Spain)
Transparency International-Spain (TI-Spain) is the Spanish chapter of Transparency International, the leading global non-governmental organization dedicated to preventing and combating corruption. Since its legal constitution in 2006, TI-Spain was born with the purpose of informing and training citizens, public officials and professionals from companies to promote the prevention and reduction of corruption, and thus build a culture of integrity, transparency, sustainability and compliance in all sectors of the society.
The Transparency International Spain Business Integrity Forum is an initiative that was born in 2019 and brings together Spanish large companies committed to promoting and developing a business culture of compliance and integrity, positioning themselves as national and international references in transparency, compliance, sustainability, integrity good governance through the adoption of best practices in all these areas.
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