Biography
Bertrand Millot
Head of Sustainability, CDPQ; Board Member, Ceres, Inc.
Bertrand Millot leads the Stewardship Investing team, which is responsible for defining and implementing CDPQ’s strategic directions, including integrating ESG factors into all activities and deploying the climate strategy. His responsibilities have three aspects: helping investment teams structure impactful investment opportunities (particularly with regard to social, climate and energy transition investments); managing risks related to ESG, climate change and reputation and contributing to the organization’s outreach in collaboration with the CDPQ Global team.
Mr. Millot is one of the architects of CDPQ’s climate change strategy and a seasoned investor in infrastructure and emerging markets companies, fields where ESG considerations have historically been at the forefront.
At CDPQ since 2015, he recently led the Stewardship Investing team, reaffirming the organization’s leadership in this area on the world stage. Previously, as Vice-President in risk management he was responsible for identifying cross-sectoral risk and was business unit risk manager for the Infrastructure portfolio.
Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Millot was CEO and CIO at Cordiant Capital, an emerging market corporate debt fund manager. Earlier in his career, he was active in infrastructure project finance with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, U.K. and with BNP Paribas in Paris, France.
Mr Millot is a member of the Council (Board) of the Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation (www.sif-source.org)
Mr. Millot holds an MBA from McGill University, a MSc in Engineering from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D designation).
