The following members of the B4NZ team are experienced public speakers. If you are interested in having them speak at your event, please get in touch with francesca.oneill@b4nz.co.uk.

Heather Buchanan

Heather is the Chief Executive Officer of B4NZ and has extensive experience advising Government, trade bodies and civil society on the commercial relationship between banks and their customers. Since COP26, Heather has been tireless in her efforts to focus on the role of finance and banking in supporting the real economy in a just transition. She was thrilled to see this work culminate with B4NZ taking to a global stage as a core partner of the UK Pavilion at COP28. In 2024 Heather was recognised as one of the twenty Trailblazing Women in Climate (Reuters) and shortlisted as Sustainability Leader of the Year (Business Green).

Speaking Topics Include: Sustainable Finance, Blended Finance, Policy Engagement, Retrofitting, Decarbonising SMEs, Supply Chain Decarbonisation, Transition Planning, Transition Finance and Green Finance.

Hannah Cool

Hannah is Chief Operating Officer at B4NZ and has over a decade of experience with the Big4 leading major transformation programmes and for the last 5 years has worked with executive leadership teams and boards, advising on ESG and sustainability strategy. Hannah has worked with major cross sector organisations, focussing on climate change and risk management. In doing this Hannah has been compelled to work with market coalitions and initiatives which define the future ecosystem where finance can flow with ease and organisations demonstrating the right sustainable behaviours are financially rewarded. The challenges of facilitating the flow of capital to the real economy and working across innovative market solutions is what lead Hannah to join B4NZ.

Speaking Topics Include: Decarbonising SMEs, Supply Chain Decarbonisation, Data Infrastructure, Data Quality, Data Sharing, ESG data, ESG reporting

Elena Pérez Celis

Elena is B4NZ’s Head of Policy & Public Affairs. She is responsible for crafting our policy positions, leading our government consultation responses, and working alongside civil society, academia, and industry to support the development of policies that enable the flows of capital towards net zero.

Speaking Topics Include: Policy engagement, Policy Priorities, Transition Finance, Decarbonising SMEs, Retrofitting, EPC Reform