Seb Henbest is Group Head of Climate Transition at HSBC, working to help shape and execute HSBC’s net zero commercial strategy, mobilize capital to support the bank’s clients to transition, and manage enterprise-wide climate-related risk.
Before joining HSBC, Seb spent 14 years at BloombergNEF, including as Chief Economist. In that role he oversaw the firm’s energy economics group and energy transition scenario analysis and was lead author of BNEF’s flagship publication, the New Energy Outlook. Before that he was Director of BNEF’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division responsible for sales and business development, and Head of Research for BNEF in Australia, establishing the firm’s Sydney offices in 2009.
Seb studied physics and theoretical astrophysics at Adelaide University and atmospheric science at Monash University in Australia, before moving to the UK where he read International Relations at Clare Hall, Cambridge, specializing in emissions trading and environmental markets.