Luciano Diana joined Pictet Asset Management in 2009 and is a Senior Investment Manager in the Thematic Equities team. He has been co-managing the Global Environmental Opportunities strategy since its inception in 2014. Prior to that Luciano co-managed the Pictet Clean Energy Strategy from 2009-2016. Before joining Pictet, Luciano spent four years at Morgan Stanley, where he headed the London based clean energy sell-side research team. He began his career in 1998 as an IT strategy consultant at Accenture. Luciano holds a Laurea in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy, and he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Katie Self joined Pictet Asset Management in 2022 as an Investment Manager in the Thematic Equities team, working on the Global Environmental Opportunities strategy. Prior to Pictet, Katie spent several years doing equity research for Morgan Stanley on the industrials sector, with a particular focus on sub sectors such as renewable energy, rail energy efficiency, warehousing and semiconductors. She also spent a year as an R&D scientist with SDC Materials focused on nanotechnology projects around vehicle emissions. Katie has a PhD in Chemistry and a Masters in Material Chemistry, both from the University of St Andrews. She spent a year of her PhD studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.