Head of Sustainable Solutions, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Kristina Church is Head of Sustainable Solutions at Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) and Client Portfolio Manager for Sustainability. She joined LOIM in 2019 as a senior investment strategist in the sustainable investment research team. She focuses on the integration of sustainability cross-asset and client engagement on sustainability. Her research covers topics including the Climate Transition, Circular Economy, Natural Capital and Biodiversity, Digitalisation, Smart Cities and Sustainable Mobility. She is LOIM’s representative on the Observers Group of the TNFD and also a representative on the Global Responsible Investor Committee for AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association).
She joined Lombard Odier in November 2019 from Barclays where she was Head of the European automotive equity research from 2009 to 2018 and Global Head of future mobility & industrials thematic research from 2018, focusing on electrification of transport, micromobility, Smart Cities, autonomous driving, mobility-as-a-service, industry 4.0 and the electric vehicle supply chain.
Prior to Barclays, Kristina worked at Citigroup as equity analyst in the European automotive division and started her career in 2006 at Deloitte, in the private equity transaction services department.
Kristina holds the ICAEW chartered accountant qualification (ACA) and earned a master of arts in classics and classical languages from Oxford University.