Eva Cairns

Eva is Head of Responsible Investments & Stewardship at Scottish Widows, responsible for embedding responsible investing into the investments proposition and leading our efforts to engage and shape best practice across the industry. She joined Scottish Widows from abrdn where she was the Head of Sustainability Insights and Climate Strategy. She led abrdn’s climate strategy for Investments and has published a number of climate related papers including on net zero investing, climate scenario analysis, the credibility of net zero targets and the just transition.

Eva graduated with an MSc in Economics with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh where her dissertation focused on the social cost of carbon. She also obtained the Professional Risk Management (PRM) certification in 2014.