Nicole Yazbek-Martin

Nicole is an executive at ASFI leading the development of sustainable finance standards to increase capital flows to the climate transition and embed them into market practice. Notably, Nicole led the development of the Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy working closely with government and regulators to develop common definitions for investible economic activities that substantially contribute to a Paris-aligned net zero transition. Drawing on this work she leads our international harmonisation agenda to shape a credible global standard for taxonomies and transition finance. Nicole has a background in climate and sustainability in government, banking, private equity, and law. She has deep knowledge and experience working across the finance value chain on structuring sustainable lending, assessing sustainable investment credentials and applying key sustainability frameworks. In the public sector, she led major climate and nature policies including representing the Australian Government on the steering committee of the Taskforce on Nature-related Finance Disclosures and has led a statutory review of the Australian Government’s carbon credit market (the Emissions Reduction Fund). Nicole holds a BA(LLB) law degree from the University of Cape Town and a Master of Laws (LLM) in international trade from the University of Melbourne. She also holds post-graduate qualifications in finance and economics from the Australian National University.