Governance and bank board

Responsible for transversal sustainability intelligence at the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), co-chairs the Working Group of Tokenization of ESG assets (part of the Real Digital Project/Drex - Brazilian CBDB), leads the BCB participation for the development of the Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy. Isabela also leads the Bank relationship with international portfolio investors and with rating agencies for Brazil's sovereign rating assessment. With more than 25 years of experience in strategic asset allocation (SAA), advising the Board on the international reserves’ investment and on enterprise-wide risk management (RM), was responsible for the development and implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) model at the BCB and for the Brazilian international reserves’ risk management framework. Compliance and business continuity functions at the Bank were implemented under her leadership. Technical articles on SAA and RM were published in books and journals over time. Isabela holds a BA in Statistics and an MBA in Finance.

Prof. Hans Genberg is a Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business and the Senior Director of Central Banking and Finance Programs. He has a distinguished academic career as a Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he was also Head of the International Economics Department, responsible for the Diploma program, and a member of the Institute’s Executive Committee. He has also had teaching positions at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester campus in Switzerland.

During his position as Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, he supervised or co-supervised over thirty doctoral dissertations of students who have since held positions as Central Bank Governors and Deputy Governors, senior officials at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Norwegian Oil Fund, and academic positions at universities such as HEC Montreal, Boston College, New York University, and Wharton.

Professor Genberg has also held positions as Executive Director at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and at the SEACEN Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Assistant Director at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, as well as Director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies and Director of Executive Education at the International Center FAME (Financial Asset Management and Engineering) in Geneva, Switzerland.

He has published over fifty scholarly papers and edited several books on issues related to central bank policy, international monetary relations, exchange rate regimes, reserve management, capital markets development, and monetary and financial issues in Asia.

Professor Genberg holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.