Allison Ashcroft, CPA

Every municipal bond issued in BC rests on a promise that the money funds essential civic infrastructure, and for two decades, Allison has worked to make local governments more climate resilient and to accelerate community-scale decarbonization. As Director of Sustainability at the Municipal Finance Authority of BC, she partners with local governments to track how shifting disaster assistance and insurance market policies could offload catastrophic climate and seismic costs onto municipalities and their communities. The disclosure practices she’s built let bondholders see how the Authority manages climate-related financial risk and which sustainable development goals its bonds are actually achieving. Her work underpins the Authority’s AAA credit rating, triple-A performance that stays rock solid no matter how the ground shakes.