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Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments 2025
27 February 2025
8:00 – 16:00
Lansdowne Club, London
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025
What is the International Women’s Day 2025 theme?
The theme of International Women’s Day 2025 is #AccelerateAction. Around the world, the path to gender inclusion is getting smoother, particularly thanks to the effort put in to talk about gender inclusion more. But now, the challenge is about transmitting the message into visible and concerted action.
The roundtables at TFG’s WITTP will focus on sustainability, harnessing and spotlighting the expertise of industry-leading women. This aligns with WITTP’s wider purpose, of encouraging the principle of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) when it comes to business conduct in trade, treasury, and payments.
Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments 2025
Thursday 27th February
The Lansdowne Club, Mayfair, London
For general enquiries, please contact us at wittp@tradefinanceglobal.com.
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Agenda
8:00am – Arrival, registration, networking breakfast
8:30am – Opening remarks and Keynote speech 1 – Dr Gaynor Jeffery OBE, Director for Core Policy Delivery and European Region, Department for Business and Trade (DBT) UK
9:20am – Panel 1: Enhancing financial inclusion and bridging gender gaps in trade amidst global challenges
- Neha Noronha, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Trade and Supply Chain Finance Programme (TSCFP)
- Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, Sullivan
- Nathalie Louat, Global Director, Trade and Supply Chain Finance, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Moderator: Pamela Mar, Editorial Board Member, Trade Finance Global (TFG), Managing Director, ICC Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI)
10:00am – Panel 2: Managing the fickle energy transition: An action plan for 2025
- Gayatri Desai, Managing Director & Head, Energy Transition & Natural Resources, CIBC
- Josephine Pletts, Senior Vice President, Energy, DNB
- Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man
- Alexia Boutin-Somnolet, Senior Vice President, Lenders Solutions Group Leader – Europe, Marsh
- Moderator: Louise Shaw, Partner, Energy & Infrastructure Corporate Finance, EY
10:40am – Break
11:00am – Keynote speech 2: Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary General, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
11:15am – Panel 3: Accelerating a sustainable and digital trade revolution in trade, treasury, and payments
- Shona Tatchell, Director of the EBRD Trade Facilitation Program
- Rona Nisar, Deputy General Counsel, STX
- Emmanuelle Ganne, Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies, World Trade Organisation
- Moderator: Catherine Lang-Anderson, Editorial Board Member, Trade Finance Global (TFG) and Partner, A&O Shearman
11:55am – Keynote speech 3: Sarah Murrow, Head of Women in Credit Insurance, ICISA; CEO, Allianz Trade UK & Ireland
12:10am – Roundtable discussions
- Greening the commodities chain and supporting the renewables transition – Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man & Catherine Lang-Anderson, Partner, A&O Shearman
- Outlook for digital trade at the WTO – Emmanuelle Ganne, Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies, World Trade Organization (WTO) & Noreen Cesareo, Executive Vice-President, OWIT International, OWIT UK
- Tailored approaches to gender inclusion in emerging markets – Ankita Pandey, Relationship Manager, Asian Development Bank (ADB) & Neha Noronha, Relationship Manager, ADB
- Shipping, commodities, and trading. How do we futureproof the industry for the next generation? – Clara Segret, Marketing and Event Manager, Commodity Thursdays & Eleanor Hill, Editorial Board Member, TFG
- Launching initiatives that work: Public-private partnerships that drive trade and supply chain finance in emerging and developing markets – Shona Tatchell, Head of Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD
12:55pm – Charity partner presentation: Sebby’s Corner
1:00pm – Working lunch and networking / extended roundtables
2:00pm – Roundtable discussions
- Financing sustainability in emerging markets – Clarine Christina Johanna Stenfert, Global Trade Finance Head and Head UK, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency & Harsha Mehta, EMEA Trade Risk Distribution, Citi
- Accelerating public-private partnership: Are we making trade, treasury, and payments accessible and open to all? – Makiko Toyoda, Head of Global Trade and Supply Chain Finance, IFC & Nathalie Louat, Director Global Trade and Supply Chain Finance, IFC
- Corporate treasury in 2030 – Eleanor Hill, Editorial Board Member, Trade Finance Global (TFG)
- Payments track: How to approach DE&I for payments – Carleen Hadley, Executive Liaison Europe Council, BAFT & Joy MacKnight, Independent
- Frank conversations around the digitalisation of trade documents – Sarah Green, D2 Legal
3:00pm – Closing session and networking drinks
4:00pm – Close
4:30pm – Commodity Thursdays drinks
Sebby’s Corner is the official charity partner of Women In Trade Treasury and Payments 2025. Visit Sebby’s Corner for more info.
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“Thanks to Trade Finance Global for inviting me to their Women in Trade, Treasury & Payments event, celebrating International Women’s Day. It was a fantastic day, meeting successful female leaders from diverse backgrounds, debating key topics to further enhance the representation of women in the industry and sharing best practices.”
– Jaya Vohra,
Managing Director, Global Head of Trade & Working Capital Product and Client Management, Barclays
“The WITTP event was an inspiring convening of women in the industry, who so rarely get the chance to connect, learn from each other, and be celebrated. More events like these are crucial to building greater gender diversity and inclusion in trade overtime.”
– Katherine Tengtio,
Manager, Gender and Diversity Finance, British International Investment
What does #AccelerateAction mean to TFG?
To us, #AccelerateAction is about visibility. It’s an open secret that the financial services sector has been hitherto dominated by men. It feels that women haven’t taken their due place on the stage in trade, treasury, and payments. But it’s far beyond tokenism: while quotas were a necessary initial step, women should be spotlighted for the work they’ve done while in leadership positions.
In this respect, #AccelerateActions highlights that progress isn’t possible without allies. Allies have proven that the moral justification of gender equality goes hand in hand with the advancement of the industry.
Wider visibility will inspire young professionals to join the industry, knowing there’s the potential for career progression right to the top. #AccelerateAction is a concept which looks to and defines the future of trade, treasury, and payments.
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