Gwen Yu is Head of Emerging Sustainability Issues at JPMorganChase, where she coordinates across the Firm to provide market and policy intelligence on key issues, including nature and biodiversity, climate adaptation and resilience and other sustainability topics. Gwen was previously Head of Nature and Biodiversity and helped set the Firm’s global approach to nature and biodiversity finance.
Before joining JPMorganChase’s Corporate Sustainability team, Gwen was Structurer in J.P. Morgan’s Global Markets Sustainability Center and Head of Sustainable Business Strategy and Innovation at BNP Paribas. She has held multiple advisory positions helping to shape international frameworks, including as workstream lead and member of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance.
Gwen is also a guest lecturer on sustainable finance, and her writing on sustainability and derivatives has been published internationally. She has worked globally across Europe, North America and Asia, speaks five languages, and is a University of California Berkeley alumna.