Currently Chief Operating Officer and Trustee of the Board at Climate Arc, a non-profit organization working to unlock private capital to meet global climate goals, Beate is a seasoned executive with two decades of international experience in financial services, strategy consulting, data and sustainability. Fully impact-driven, she focuses on long-term operational and strategic impact creation and leads climate transition efforts in organizations like UBS (as Head of Strategic Programs), SIX Financial Information (as COO) and now Climate Arc. Having obtained a Master’s Degree from Cambridge University in Sustainability Leadership (CISL) while implementing ESG regulatory regimes in Capital Markets, Beate is an ESG thought leader with particular expertise in Climate Finance and carbon disclosure. In addition to her role at Climate Arc, Beate sits on the Board of Directors at FirstLight, a domestic abuse response organization, leads the European Chapter of Women Data Professionals and chairs the global EDMC (Enterprise Data Management Council) ESG Working Group. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp researching systemic levers to expedite the climate transition and holds additional Master’s degrees from the Sorbonne in Paris, Clark University in Massachusetts and the Swiss Finance Institute in Zürich. Beate is a published author and sought-after keynote speaker on sustainability, systems change, Climate Finance and data.
