Managing Director of Green Finance Institute | UK

James Hooton is Managing Director of the Green Finance Institute Europe, an independent, commercially focused organisation and subsidiary of the Green Finance Institute UK. He oversees European strategy and leads government and private sector relations. In a career that spans more than 20 years in financial services across Asia, Europe, and the UK, James’s experience includes 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where he managed a range of financial products from commodities to equity derivatives. Now James specialises in scaling and creating investment-ready, pan-jurisdictional climate change solutions and bringing these to market across Europe.