Monica Bae
Director, Investor Practice
Monica Bae is Director, Investor Practice at AIGCC. She manages collaborative engagement with investors in Asia to build capacity and integrate climate-related issues in investment processes, and to increase capital flow towards sustainable economic activities, and away from unsustainable ones, as a means of achieving a climate positive and resilient Asian economies.
Monica oversees work across several thematic focus areas relating to asset owners, Paris-aligned investments, energy transition, and forest & land use. She is passionate in facilitating the development of sustainable investments in Asia and is part of global and regional coalitions of leading financial institutions that spearheads sustainable finance initiatives.
In July 2024, Monica was appointed as an Industry Advisory Panel member to the Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group (JSFWG), for a two-year term. The JSFWG is jointly organised by The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum and the ASEAN Working Committee on Capital Market Development.
Monica has over 16 years of experience in financial services and economic research, especially in managing private debt funds for Asian institutional investors and structuring investment products. Most recently, she was the regional lead in leading nature-positive engagement with Asian capital markets stakeholders at CDP.