Carine Smith Ihenacho

Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management

Speaker

Carine Smith Ihenacho is the Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the manager of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund. She is a member of the fund’s executive management group and responsible for exercising the fund’s ownership rights and promoting good governance and responsible business conduct with the fund’s investments in almost 9 000 companies. This includes policy development, company dialogue and voting, supporting sustainability initiatives and research, and developing and implementing the fund’s climate action plan. Carine is in addition responsible for the fund’s control and operational risk activities, compliance, and legal and tax services.

Carine has an extensive career as a lawyer and executive, both in corporates and financial institutions, and has served as a non-executive director on several boards and advisory councils. Carine holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Business Administration, and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School.