Nina is a Director in the Responsible Investment team and Head of Active Ownership. She joined Columbia Threadneedle through the acquisition of BMO GAM (EMEA) in 2021, having previously been with BMO since 2019. Nina oversees all reo® engagement and focuses on ESG analysis and engagement for financials and cross-sector social engagement. Before joining the group, Nina worked at Germany’s development agency (GIZ), engaging emerging markets financial institutions and their regulators on sustainable finance. Nina also worked for UBS’s environmental and social risk team in Hong Kong, Zurich, and New York, as well as for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where she established the bank’s ESR framework. In 2014, Nina founded the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's financial institutions task force. Nina holds a master’s degree in political science.