- Incorporating climate and ESG into day-to-day risk management practices
- Understanding how physical and transition risk integrate into existing risk silos
- Determining reporting lines and the ownership of risk
Carlotta Franchin
Carlotta Franchin is a Managing Director in the ESG & Climate Risk Advisory practice at FORVIS. Leveraging her extensive experience in financial services across advisory and corporate roles, she helps organizations define and execute their ESG framework. She currently supports Financed Emissions and Net Zero Programs management, as well as ESG Risk and regulatory compliance programs, physical and transition risk assessments, DEI risk assessments, and solutioning at large financial institutions. Carlotta is an Associate Board Member at IDiF, a non-profit organization focused on increasing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Asset Management. She holds a Sustainable Finance Certificate of Professional Achievement from Columbia University and a Sustainability & Climate Risk GARP Certificate.
Emily Westendorf
Emily Westendorf serves as vice president and ERM program manager. She is responsible for establishment of the climate risk program including execution of climate scenario analysis, design of a data strategy, and climate-related communications.
Emily previously served in multiple operational risk roles including Scenario Analysis Program Manager, KRI Program Manager, Operational Risk Governance Manager. In these roles, Emily managed integration of key risk indicators from the MB Financial merger, enhanced governance protocols in alignment with Heightened Standards, and executed large scale scenarios on topics ranging from cyber to LIBOR to climate. Emily also provided second line operational risk oversight of Consumer Bank and centralized functions. Emily began her career at Fifth Third as a Learning Facilitator supporting Retail.
