Erik Engstrom | Chief Executive Officer |
Nick Luff | Chief Financial Officer |
Adam Berlin | UBS |
Nick Dempsey | Barclays |
Sam Kassab | Exane |
Matthew Walker | Crédit Suisse |
Tom Singlehurst | Citi |
Matti Littunen | Bernstein |
Patrick Wellington | Morgan Stanley |
Rajesh Kumar | HSBC |
Good morning, everybody. Thank you taking time to join us on our call today.
As you may have seen from our press release this morning, we delivered a strong first half with underlying growth trends across all market segments returning to the improving trajectory that we saw in the early part of 2020. We made good operational and strategic progress, investing behind our strategic priorities to drive organic growth through the development of analytics and decision tools across segments with recent acquisitions performing well.
We also continued to build on our strong ESG performance, making good progress on many of our internal metrics and maintaining or improving our key external ratings.