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Caroline Ramscar
ESG Investment Specialist & Vice President of T. Rowe Price InternationalCaroline Ramscar is an investment specialist focused on environmental, social, and governance capabilities for the APAC region. With over 20 years of experience in financial markets, Caroline plays a key role in representing T. Rowe Price's Responsible Investment and Corporate Governance teams with clients, prospects, and consultants.
Based in Sydney, Caroline engages with clients on ESG considerations across asset classes and work in partnership with clients as they adopt more responsible investing strategies. She also supports the firm's Impact suite of products, which includes investment strategies across equities and fixed income that seek to deliver positive societal and environmental impact alongside financial returns.
Before joining T. Rowe Price, Caroline spent 10 years at Legal & General Investment Management in London, including 5 years as Head of Sustainability Solutions. In that role, she was responsible for engaging with clients on sustainability considerations and also sat on several internal and external ESG committees and industry working groups.
Prior to that, she had worked at several global financial firms during her long tenure in the industry. Caroline earned a B.Sc. in International Management and French from the University of Bath.
Kristina Hermanson
Head of APAC & Africa at Nuveen Natural CapitalKristina Hermanson is the Head of APAC and Africa at Nuveen Natural Capital. She targets growth in the region in farmland, timber and nature-based investments in collaboration with the expertise across Nuveen. The Australian Farmland core business is a key component within the APAC region with growth potential into nature-based solutions with regenerative agriculture at the core.
With proud roots on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, Kristina has more than 25 years of international leadership experience, most recently serving as Managing Director of ANZ & ASEAN at FMC Corporation. Kristina started her career as a mechanical engineer based in Europe and worked in commercial, strategy, and M&A roles in EMEA and APAC over a decade with global agribusiness firm, Archer Daniels Midland. She also served as Director of Growth and Collaboration, at Coca Cola Amatil in Australia before joining FMC. Kristina is a Non-Executive Board member at the Australian Farm Institute and has recently served as a Director of AgSafe, CropLife Australia, and non-profit, Business for Development.
Kristina holds an M.S.M.E. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from the University of California-Los Angeles. She is a passionate thought leader for Inclusion in Agriculture and a strong believer that a truly inclusive industry drives innovation and profitability.
Estelle Parker
Co-CEO of RIAAEstelle Parker leads RIAA’s research, certification, policy, standards and working group programs. She brings 20 years’ experience leading strategic initiatives as a diplomat, policy analyst, stakeholder manager and strategic planner with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Estelle served, inter alia, as Acting Ambassador and Deputy Ambassador to Mexico, Central America and Cuba; Deputy State Director (Victoria); Policy Adviser to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands; and as Director overseeing the development and management of bilateral relationships.
Estelle also worked for five years at the University of Melbourne, where she lectured in the Master of Public Policy and Management and Master of International Relations, and has experience on boards and committees. She is currently a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Global Policy Reference Group and the Australian Government’s Natural Capital Working Group, as well as Convenor of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures official Consultation Group for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Estelle holds a Master of Public Policy and Management (First Class Honours), Master of Communications (With Distinction), Bachelor of Arts (av. First Class Honours) and Certificate in Business Sustainability Strategy.
Nayanisha Samarakoon
Head of Policy & Advocacy at RIAANayanisha is a senior lawyer with extensive federal public sector experience in governance, corporate compliance and regulation.
She arrives at RIAA after a long history at the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). She was the project lead on ASIC’s thematic review into greenwashing by ‘green’ or ‘ethical’ managed funds and superannuation funds. This consisted of a review of the market, close engagement with international regulators and International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and developing a deep understanding of both the existing Australian regulatory framework and government priorities as well as international development in this space. Through this review, she led a group across ASIC’s Corporations, Superannuation and Investment Managers teams to deliver industry and consumer guidance.
Outside of work, she volunteers as a board member and secretary at Juno Services Inc., a not-for-profit family violence and homelessness service provider based in Melbourne. She is also on the board of Fitted for Work, a charity focused on helping women experiencing disadvantage get work, keep work and navigate through working life.