Top financiers due to attend UK green investor summit

Top financiers due to attend UK green investor summit

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The bosses of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BlackRock and Blackstone will be among the world’s top financiers attending a green summit that UK ministers want to generate billions of pounds of investment for Britain.

More than 200 investors are expected to attend the event this month, which will be hosted by prime minister Boris Johnson and precede the UK convening the UN COP26 climate summit in November.

The investor event will involve a reception at Windsor Castle attended by members of the royal family, and a conference and dinner in London.

The majority of those invited are overseas financiers, including Goldman Sachs’s chief executive David Solomon, JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Blackstone’s co-founder Stephen Schwarzman. There will also be representatives from leading sovereign wealth funds such as GIC and Mubadala.

Others expected to attend include Barclays’ boss Jes Staley, Santander chair Ana Botín, Charlie Nunn, new chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, Schroders’ head Peter Harrison and Clare Woodman, European leader at Morgan Stanley.

David Livingstone, Citi’s head of Europe, NatWest’s chief executive Alison Rose and Amanda Blanc, boss of Aviva, are also