Stefan Flueckiger is a former Swiss senior diplomat with special expertise in international finance, sustainable finance and green fintech. He advises on various start-ups and is the Honorary President of the Swiss Green Fintech Network. He entered the Swiss diplomatic service in 1989 and served at the Swiss Embassy in Harare, worked as World Bank Staff in Washington and Haiti, headed the Economic and Finance Team at the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, and was the Swiss Ambassador to the OECD in Paris. Stefan Flückiger served as member of the board of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and headed the Special Foreign Economic Services, directing negotiation teams for bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements. From 2020-2023 he was the Deputy State Secretary for International Finance (SIF) and acted as Switzerland’s G20 Finance Deputy, leading bilateral financial dialogues with China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Russia and the UK. During his time at SIF he oversaw the government’s strategy on financial markets, with a focus on digital finance and sustainable finance. Stefan Flueckiger holds degrees from Zurich University and Yale University.
Roundtable 1
Invite-Only
Financial institutions, supervisors, and academia around the world recognize that extreme climate events, as well as a disorderly transition to a low-carbon economy, could have destabilizing effects on the financial system. Climate-related financial risks, stemming from physical and transition risks, pose new challenges to financial authorities and institutions because they are subject to substantial uncertainty, long time horizons and tail-risk. The possible simultaneous occurrence of climate-risks across multiple jurisdictions and sectors also has implications for financial soundness.
To better understand how these climate-related physical and transition risks affect financial soundness, the BIS Innovation Hub Singapore Centre is hosting a roundtable at the Singapore FinTech Festival. The roundtable brings together central bankers, industry experts, and thought leaders from academia and the private sector to advance the discourse on how to bolster the financial sector’s resilience to environmental risks.
The roundtable discussion is split into two parts. In the first, participants will provide insights on both private and public sector programs/projects and use cases to bolster the resilience of financial institutions to environmental risks. In the second, participants will look ahead and share their views on how we can further develop our efforts to prepare financial institutions for the climate-related challenges to come.
The Festival
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