Simone Utermarck

Simone Utermarck is a Senior Director, Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) based in London. She is part of the Secretariat that supports the Principles, Secretary to the Advisory Council and the Global Sustainable Finance Council (GSFC) and also the voluntary Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Products Providers. Some of her other roles include(d) being a member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, the UK Stakeholder Discussion Forum on the Green Gilt, the ASEAN Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) and various transition finance working groups such as the UK Transition Finance Council WG and the Singapore SSFA. Simone was the ICMA lead on Guidance developed for “Bonds to finance the Sustainable Blue Economy” (2023) and “Green, Social and Sustainability Sukuk” (2024). She is currently also coordinating a taskforce on Nature & Biodiversity and co-coordinating a taskforce on Sustainable Finance and FinTech & Digitalisation.

Simone joined ICMA in January 2020. After initially having trained as a banker in Germany, in 20+ years she gained international experience living and working in Europe, the United States, Asia and the GCC in various roles with Thomson Reuters, S&P Global Ratings, Bloomberg, PwC, Ernst & Young, DaimlerChrysler Global Capital Services.

Simone holds a double degree in International Business from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland and the ESB Business School, Reutlingen Germany. She also completed the International Certificate in Investor Relations and the CFA Level 1.

She frequently gets invited as a public speaker and is also involved in ICMA’s education offering.