• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ana Carolina Oliveira

ING

Americas Head of Sustainable Finance

Ana Carolina Oliveira heads ING’s Sustainable Finance Americas since 2020, growing the platform to a key contributor of sustainable transactions and strategic differentiator in the region and globally. She engages with ING's clients in providing structuring and advisory of sustainable solutions across sectors, private and public markets, contributing to the acceleration of clients’ transitions and alignment of the banks’ portfolios with net-zero goals. She also represents ING at industry associations, such as the ICMA and LSTA, events and working groups, building on ING’s thought leadership in this space. Ana Carolina has extensive experience in advising clients and has also served as a director in ING’s Healthcare group and as a senior credit officer in New York. Prior to that, she acted as an Environmental and Social Risk advisor in Amsterdam, when ING steered the Equator Principles review, liaising with a multitude of stakeholders for setting of industry standards. Before joining ING, she worked in The Netherlands and in Brazil as a risk specialist at ABN AMRO, where she had the opportunity to support agriculture and manufacturing corporates get broader access to capital within emerging markets. She holds an Executive MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, a post-graduate certificate in Economic Diplomacy and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

Sessions With Ana Carolina Oliveira

Thursday, 21 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:10pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 08:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 09:10 pm

    Capital Choices in Clean Energy: Thinking long, thinking short
    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    A few years ago, capital was crowding into cleantech on the theory that the energy transition was accelerating on every vector. The picture has since become more nuanced, with fund managers and institutional investors revolving back to a return’s orientation balanced with investment horizon realism. Clean energy project developers are being asked to show cash flow potential, and new technologies need a demonstrable path to market. Short-cycle investors are focused on margins, while long-cycle investors are still attuned to growth opportunities. How do companies, investors and developers craft their strategies in this new multiple choice capital markets environment?