Dr. Benz is the CEO and Founder of Intensel Limited, a global award-winning AI-powered climate science for predicting financial risk related to weather extremes and climate change. Besides, since 2008 she serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Finance, HKUST Business School, teaching a variety of courses such as Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives, Investment Analysis, ESG/Sustainable Investing (since 2014) mainly for Master level. Dr. Benz has been acting as consultant/advisor/executive trainer on ESG Investing for various Citibank, JP Morgan, DBS, CLSA, Robecco, San Paolo Intensa, Morgan Stanley, Tencent etc. She has held executive seminars for IMD Institute, Switzerland, NY Stern, Kellog University and is a frequent speaker in large scale conferences such as The Economist, and the like. Previously, she worked for UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong, and a Fund of Hedge Funds in Geneva, Switzerland etc.