Hala El Akl

Biografía: Hala El Akl is Oxford’s Vice President of Sustainable Investing and Operations.Hala is the global leader of Oxford’s ESG program, and works collaboratively across functions such as Investment, Asset Management, Operations, Development, Finance and Investment Risk to implement the company’s holistic ESG strategy. Hala also is a member of the OMERS Sustainable Investing Committee and Climate Action Plan Implementation Team. Prior to Oxford, Hala was a Director at PLP Architecture and a Founding Director of PLP Labs. As an architect and urbanist, she led teams to deliver highly sustainable and innovative commercial, life-science, residential, retail and mixed-use projects across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. At PLP Labs, she explored new ideas for future cities, with a focus on environmental and social sustainability. Hala currently serves on the Global Board of Directors of the Urban Land Institute, and on the Cambridge University Land Economy board. She received her MSc in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics, a Masters in Territorial and Urban Strategies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and both a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.