Chaoni Huang

Director, Green and Sustainable Solutions, Investment Banking, Asia Pacific
Natixis

Chaoni Huang joined Natixis in September 2017 as Director, Green and Sustainable Solutions, Investment Banking, Asia-Pacific. She is part of the CIB’s Green and Sustainable Hub whose mainmission is to offer a wide range of services, from financing to investment solutions, through Green & Sustainable research and advisory services, to clients in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Prior to joining Natixis, Chaoni was the Head of Business Development, Asia at S&P Trucost from 2012to 2017 and was responsible for Trucost’s business development, product development, accountmanagement and partnerships in Asia.

Between 2008 and 2012, Chaoni was a senior ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) investmentanalyst at MSCI in London and Beijing, and was instrumental in building the company’s researchproduct in China and India. Before joining the private sector, Chaoni worked as a project manager at the UNEP Finance Initiative in Geneva with a focus to engage with the Chinese financial community on sustainable finance and investment.

Chaoni is also an executive board member of Shanghai Lujiazui Green Finance Centre and China Carbon Forum, a guest researcher for the China Economy and Sustainable Development Centre at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and a regular public speaker on environmental matters in Asia. Chaoni has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Warwick (UK) and is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.