Laetitia Hamon
Head of Sustainable Finance, Luxembourg Stock Exchange
Profile
Laetitia Hamon has been Head of Sustainable Finance at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) since July 2020. She is responsible for the exchange’s sustainable finance strategy and leads the expert team at LuxSE’s UN-awarded platform for sustainable securities, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX), created back in 2016.
As a pioneer in sustainable finance, Laetitia started her career as an ESG analyst for an extra-financial rating agency back in 2008 in London.
Passionate about this topic from early days, Laetitia decided to dedicate her career to sustainable finance and has built in-depth expertise on the matter for the past 14 years.
After gaining experience from the investment fund industry at Thomson Reuters in London, she moved to Luxembourg to work with the ALFI – the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, and LuxFLAG – the Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency, where she actively promoted and developed Responsible Investment and Microfinance in Luxembourg and abroad.
Before joining LuxSE, Laetitia spent 8 years managing and then leading the Sustainable Finance audit and advisory practice at KPMG in Luxembourg. She served major European entities, asset managers, banks and corporates in integrating ESG in their policies, processes and disclosures.
More recently, Laetitia was named as one of the World Federation of Exchange (WFE) Women Leaders for 2022, which aims to shine the spotlight on some of the talented and gifted women in the capital markets’ industry globally.
Laetitia is a member of the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Scaling up Sustainable Finance for Low and Middle Income Countries from the European Commission.
Laetitia has a Master’s degree in International Management from the Institut Supérieur Européen de Gestion (ISEG) and a Master’s degree in Corporate Social Responsibility from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires, Paris XII.