Chief executive, Lawyers for Net Zero Adam Woodhall is the founder and chief executive of Lawyers for Net Zero. Adam has built Lawyers for Net Zero from an idea in 2020, piloting it in spring 2021, launching formally in summer 2021 and now is a rapidly growing non-profit.

Head, legal, client coverage, corporate and institutional banking, Standard Chartered Bank Andrew Dixon-Smith is head, legal, client coverage at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) based in Singapore. Andrew has over 20 years in financial services legal coverage and is currently responsible for transactional legal coverage and governance of the global and commercial banking client segments across SCB’s regions covering lending, corporate finance, transaction banking and sustainable finance as well as central SCB legal governance for these client segments. Andrew joined SCB in July 2010. Prior to joining SCB, Andrew spent 13 years in legal roles in financial services including 11 years at Deutsche Bank in London covering legal support for Deutsche Bank’s global markets and strategic financing businesses. Andrew is dual qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and a South African qualified attorney.

Head of Legal Santander Corporate & Investment Banking Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Nordics, Banco Santander Internationally experienced and commercially-minded GC. Worked at three major banks and three leading international law firms. Dually qualified as rechtsanwalt (Germany) and solicitor (England and Wales) with a first class honours LLM in international economic law. Native German, fluent in English, French, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish. Board member and adjunct professor at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt in a global top-ten Master programme for banking, finance and securities law as recognised by LLM Guide 2019 and 2020. Chairman of The Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlist Germany advisory board as well as advisory board member of the German Institute for Legal Departments and Corporate Lawyers (diruj) and Business Law Magazine (F.A.Z. Business Media). Author of The Importance of Human Leadership with Integrity in a Highly Regulated and Tech-Reliant Corporate Environment as published by Harvard Business Law Review (February 2020). Speaker at reputable conferences (eg, at Harvard Law School). Featured on The Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlists Germany 2017, 2019 and GC Powerlist Germany Teams 2018. Winner of the 2018 Santander Group Global WiseLegalSpeakers’ Award and the 2019 European and Global Counsel Award by Lexology and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Editor, The Legal 500 Global Green Guide Anna joined The Legal 500 in 2012 as a researcher/writer for The Legal 500 Deutschland and acted as Deputy Deutschland Editor for a year before being promoted to Editor of the German-language guide in 2015. She has spent a considerable amount of her time visiting firms and gaining extensive market knowledge across all major cities in Germany but has in the past also researched various practice areas in the US, EMEA and Latin American legal markets, making use of her bilingual German and English as well as advanced Spanish language skills. More recently, Anna has been involved in the development of The Legal 500’s Global Green Guide which will launch shortly and put a spotlight on the legal sector’s contribution to a green transition.

MD, associate general counsel, commodities trading and structured products and ESG, Citi Belinda joined Citi to lead the commodities legal team eight years ago. Since 2019 Belinda has also been providing legal support regarding the ESG impact and initiatives across Citi. Belinda is now focussing on delivering legal support for ESG in global markets. For both roles, commodities and ESG, the carbon market is a core focus area. Before Citi, Belinda qualified into the energy and infrastructure department at Lovells; and joined DB as legal counsel for commodities after a short recess at Merrill Lynch Commodities. Belinda was the global lead for commodities legal at DB for nine years. DB was active in the carbon market, participating in the first World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund and primary and secondary emissions markets. Before becoming a lawyer, Belinda ran an IT consultancy for ten years, facilitating corporates transition to the world of computers.