Karen Degouve is currently Head of Sustainable Finance at the French Banking Federation (FBF).

Karen Degouve is currently Head of Sustainable Finance at the French Banking Federation (FBF). Her role is to coordinate sustainable finance development across French banking groups, including climate action, onboarding of biodiversity issues, ESG risks, sustainability reporting and cover all sustainable finance regulation. Since 2021, she has also been co-leading the implementation work of the industry-led and UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which brings together over 100 banks worldwide committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. 
 
She was previously head of Sustainable Business Development at Natixis, the international corporate and investment banking and asset management arm of Groupe BPCE.