Profile Summary
Sina Bassam Hbous is a sustainable development and ESG governance expert with nearly two decades of experience across public policy, financial regulation, private sector advisory, and international climate finance. She supports financial institutions, regulators, and corporations in translating sustainability priorities into governance structures, operational frameworks, and credible reporting systems.
She served as Advisor to the Chairman of Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), where she advanced responsible investment practices, sustainability disclosure frameworks, climate finance integration, and ESG reporting mechanisms. She played a key role in strengthening green bond frameworks, sustainable finance taxonomies, and ESG compliance systems, while fostering partnerships with international institutions including UNEP FI, PRI, IFC, EBRD, and IOSCO.
Her advisory work includes supporting the Egyptian Stock Exchange on sustainability governance and voluntary carbon market development, as well as establishing ESG and sustainability units within insurance federations and financial institutions. She also works closely with banks under the EBRD Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF), strengthening green lending pipelines, ESG risk management systems, and climate governance structures.
Beyond finance, she has delivered sustainable development advisory with CEDARE and international partners on green economy, sustainable consumption and production, entrepreneurship ecosystems, and blue economy initiatives.
Sina combines policy depth, regulatory insight, and private sector pragmatism to design sustainability strategies that are institutionally embedded, operationally viable, and aligned with international standards.