Dr. Barnabas Acs, Global Director, Strategy & Execution, Sustainable Finance & Investing, LSEG Refinitiv

Barnabas advocates that sustainability is the defining success factor in the 21st Century. He is constantly exploring how the combination of data and technology can help to build a more sustainable and circular economy. He built the framework for an ESG Fund Manager of the Year Award Hungary and developed the Corporate Emissions Index. He co-designed the MarketPsych ESG Sentiment Indices that measure the public view of ESG performance near real-time. He is a permanent contributor to the Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast, is a lecturer on the Sustainable Finance Certification Course at the Budapest Institute of Banking and is a committee member of the Green Frog Corporate Reporting Awards.

Barnabas holds a Bachelors in Marketing & Market Research, a Masters in Financial Accounting and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Econometrics.