Willis Towers Watson has appointed Matt Scott as a senior director in its Climate and Resilience Hub.

Scott played an integral role in the Bank of England’s climate team under governor Mark Carney from 2014 and led delivery of UK government’s landmark Green Finance Strategy in 2019. He has more than two decades of experience at the intersection of climate, finance and sustainable business. At the Bank of England, he created the formative physical, transition and liability framework for climate related financial risks and led the Bank’s Climate Hub under executive director Sarah Breeden.

Scott also supported the international agenda through the Anglo-Chinese chaired G20 Green Finance Study Group and Central Bank and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System. In 2018 he was seconded to Government, where he led the development and launch of the UK's Green Finance Strategy which set expectations for mainstream TCFD disclosure by 2022.

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