Ariane West

Co-Founder & General Counsel, Re2 Capital

Session: Climate Risk, Business Resilience & Captive Solutions

As the head of Structured Finance and COO at Re2 Capital, a climate risk platform dedicated to bringing to market innovative risk transfer and climate finance products, Ariane focuses on platform development, product and transaction structuring as well as capital markets strategies, and is responsible for commercial execution, operations, reporting and oversight as General Counsel. Previously, she was the Director of Structured Finance at Nephila Climate. Ariane trained as a lawyer and began her career at Clifford Chance, where she specialized in structured products and capital markets with a focus on new and innovative financial products, including the first ETFs, multi-asset structured funds, and large securitization vehicles, prior to joining a desk in the Structured Products Trading group (FICC) at Goldman Sachs in New York as a trader. Prior to joining Nephila Climate, she was a partner at a leading offshore law firm where she leads the Insurance, ILS and Asset Management practice in Bermuda. Ariane earned an Honors BA from the University of Toronto and a LLB (JD) and BCL from McGill University.