Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi
Finance correspondent, Reuters

Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi is a reporter interested in the intersection between climate and finance. She is on sabbatical from Reuters, where she has spent the past seven years as a correspondent in Zurich, Switzerland. She has reported on rising inequality amid the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for greener finance, turmoil at one of Switzerland's biggest banks, mining practices confounding sustainable efforts in the gold industry and risks in cryptocurrency. Her work has been recognized by the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and Reuters' Story of the Year awards. As a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder, Hughes Neghaiwi is exploring tensions between shareholder capitalism and efforts to close multitrillion-dollar climate and sustainable development financing gaps. Examining the financial industry’s efforts at reform during a decade deemed critical to mitigate climate change and tackle inequality, she is addressing the question: Can the most disastrous effects of climate change be avoided, and social prosperity rebalanced, without sacrificing financial returns?