Doha, Qatar, 25 October 2026 — Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of MSCI, delivered a keynote address to an international audience at the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Executive Dialogue in Doha, Qatar, highlighting how the world has entered a new epoch of non-traditional risk. He emphasized that what has traditionally been understood as sustainability or ESG information has evolved into a more complex array of data, which he described as “structural intelligence”—critical for investors and corporate leaders seeking to understand the true risks and opportunities facing companies and industries today.
The Executive Dialogue, convened by the UN SSE during the 9th UNCTAD World Investment Forum on 25 October 2026, brought together stock exchange leaders and capital-market experts to exchange practical experiences and explore how financial markets can advance sustainable finance and sustainable development.
Left to right: Abdulla Mohammed Al Ansari, CEO, Qatar Stock Exchange; Anthony Miller, Chief Coordinator, UN SSE; Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of MSCI
Abdulla Mohammed Al Ansari, CEO of the Qatar Stock Exchange, delivered the welcome remarks, and the moderated discussion featured contributions from Abena Amoah, Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange and Hassan Dudde, CEO of the Somali Stock Exchange. The exchange leaders emphasized the critical role exchanges can play in facilitating development finance for critical sustainable development goals including access to clean water and energy.
Additional expert contributions came from Prof. Melsa Ararat, Chair of the Board of 30% Club Türkiye; Ashraf Gamaleldin, Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN); and Marcel Fukayama, Chief Impact & Movement Officer of B Lab. The discussions emphasised the critical role of corporate governance, purpose and transparency in modern companies.
Moderated by Anthony Miller, Chief Coordinator of the UN SSE, the dialogue provided an opportunity for participants to exchange experiences from their respective markets, discuss common challenges and identify opportunities for collaboration. Particular attention was given to the practical role of exchanges and market institutions in strengthening sustainability-related corporate governance and transparency as well as building issuer and investor capacity.
The session concluded with remarks from Nan Li Collins, Chair of the UN SSE Governing Board, reinforcing the importance of continued cooperation among market institutions and stakeholders in advancing sustainable finance and putting the dialogue into the broader context of the ministerial meetings taking place at the World Investment Forum.
Through its global network of over 130 partner exchanges, the UN SSE works to accelerate sustainable finance and business in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Its award winning market education programme, the SSE Academy, trains over ten thousand market participants per year. The SSE also provides evidence-based action plans and bespoke technical advice to its partner exchanges alongside multi-stakeholder consensus building and data centric market monitors and databases.