Timothy Adamson

About Timothy Adamson

I am the Chief Administrative Officer for Sustainability and ESG at Citi, hold a Columbia MBA (Dean\'s List), who has broad experience as a Finance professional. Before moving into sustainability, I worked for the prior 13 years in Risk Management (heading Regulatory and Audit Risk Management functions across large international banks) including 5 years\' experience as a Risk Management Consultant to the Senior Manager level at Ernst and Young, and prior to that in Financial Control, Middle and Front Office roles.While working, I have taken the following professional qualifications:Climate Risk, Valuation and Investing Certificate - CFA Institute - candidateChief Sustainability Officer program - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySustainability and Climate Risk Certificate - Global Association of Risk ProfessionalsFintech Diploma - Oxford University Business SchoolFinancial Risk Manager - Global Association of Risk ProfessionalsCorporate Treasurer - Association of Corporate TreasurersManagement Accountant - Chartered Institute of Management AccountantsI have experience leading teams of varying sizes, and facing off with senior stakeholders (internal and external including regulators and clients), and have excellent Microsoft Office skills including experience programming VBA and SQL.

Experience

1. Chief Administrative Officer Sustainability & Esg

   Citi

   Dec 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Chief Administrative Officer for Sustainability & ESG• Manage day to day and strategic operations of Sustainability and ESG function • Led firm level comment letter to proposed SEC Climate Disclosure rule• Leading firm efforts to develop global reporting capabilities for CSRD, ISSB, SEC etc• Lead regulatory interaction and regulation assimilation and implementation• Contracted with WSN consulting at Citi from Nov ‘21 – Mar ‘22

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  CSO Professional Certificate, Sustainability Studies

• University of Surrey

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology

  1992 — 1996

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Professional Certificate, Chief Sustainability Officer

• Columbia Business School

  MBA, Finance, Banking, Capital Markets

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Capital Markets
• Trading
• Investment Banking
• Liquidity Risk
• Valuation
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Finance
• Due Diligence
• Risk Management
• Financial Services
• Financial Modeling
• Counterparty Risk
• Fx Options
• Equities
• Financial Risk
• Private Equity
• Corporate Finance