About UNEP FI

Steering Committee

The UNEP FI Steering Committee is composed of thirteen signatory, working group, and regional task force representatives, and one UNEP representative. Signatory representatives are elected for two year terms by the UNEP FI membership in an open election process. Working Group and Regional Task Force representatives are selected for one year terms by their respective groups.

The Chair is elected to a one year term by the Steering Committee. Steering Committee members can serve for a maximum of two consecutive years.

Steering Committee Members

• UNEP FI Chair
• Standard Chartered plc
  Robert Tacon, Senior Advisor, Sustainability
• UNEP Representative
• Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics (DTIE)
  Sylvie Lemmet, Director
• Open Positions
• Lloyds TSB Group plc
  Paul Turner, Head of Sustainable Development
• ANZ
  Sean Silvey, Head of Environmental Sustainability
• PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI)
  Bien Subiantoro, Director of Small, Medium & Shariah Business
• Working Group Representatives
• Calvert Group
  Paul A. Hilton, Treasurer, Director, Advanced Equities Research (Asset Management Working Group)
  Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  Paul serves as co-chair of the Asset Management Working Group and has been a member of the UNEP FI Steering Committee since August 2007. He is the Director, Advanced Equities Research at Calvert, a Bethesda, Maryland based investment company focusing on sustainable and responsible investment. In this position, Paul examines the relationship of social, environmental, and governance factors to financial performance in order to provide insight to Calvert investment portfolios. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Hilton was Portfolio Manager, Socially Responsible Investing at The Dreyfus Corporation. Mr. Hilton has also served as a research analyst in the Social Awareness Investment (SAI) program at Smith Barney Asset Management. He is co-founder of SIRAN, the Social Investment Research Analyst Network, a group of U.S. analysts working to promote dialogue with companies about corporate responsibility. He has been with Calvert since August 2005 and has held his current position since May 2007.
• HSBC Investments
  Xavier Desmadryl, Global Head of SRI Research (Asset Management Working Group)
  
• Allianz Dresdner Bank
  Armin Sandhoevel, CEO Allianz Climate Solutions (Climate Change Working Group)
  Munich, Germany
  Armin is on the Climate Change Working Group since its start in 2001 and became chairman of the group in 2005. Since 2008 he is co-chairing the Working Group. Armin is CEO of Allianz Climate Solutions, a 100% subsidiary of the private equity division of Allianz SE. Allianz Climate Solutions is the competence center for climate change and investment manager as well as service provider regarding risk analysis and insurance solutions for renewable energy investments. From 2001 until 2007 he worked for Dresdner Bank AG as Head of Carbon Risk / Center of Competence Renewable Energies.
• Caisse des Dépôts
  Claire Boasson, Sustainability Project Manager (Climate Change Working Group)
  
• AXA
  Catherine Boiteux-Pelletier, Group Head-Sustainable Development (Insurance Working Group)
  
• Insurance Australia Group
  Pauline Gregg, Senior Manager, Sustainable Business Practices (Insurance Working Group)
  Sydney, Australia
  Pauline is an inaugural Co-Chair of the Insurance Working Group, established in 2006. She has been a member of the UNEP FI Steering Committee since 2004, having been initially elected as a Signatory Representative, and was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of a separate Working Group to address environmental issues specific to insurance. Pauline is also active in Australian working groups operating under the UNEP FI banner and has been a strong advocate for the business case for sustainability in the insurance sector. She is responsible for coordinating IAG’s sustainability reporting activity and for ensuring IAG meets it commitment to become Carbon Neutral by 2012. She has held her current position since 2001.
• Caisse des Dépôts
  Blaise Desbordes, Project Director, Sustainable Development Department (Property Working Group)
  Blaise was on the Responsible Property Investment Working Group for the last 2 years, and become its co-chair in October 2007.
  He is in charge of sustainable real estate and sustainable urban policies among the Caisse des Dépôts Group, which is a main public long term investor in France, especially involved in social housing and sustainable neighborhoods issue. Blaise has been in the Company for 5 years, and professionally dealing for 15 years with sustainability issues.
• Prudential Plc
  Paul McNamara, Director of Research OBE (Property Working Group)
  
• Regional Task Force Representatives
• Banking Council of South Africa
  Cas Coovadia, Managing Director (Africa Task Force)
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  Cas is also the Co Chair of the UNEP FI ATF as well as the Chair of the National Business Initiative (NBI), which is the African Representative of World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
• mecu Limited
  Damien Walsh, General Manager Corporate Services (Asia Pacific Task Force)
  Melbourne Australia
  Damien has participated in the UNEP FI Asia Pacific Task Force, the Australasian Group and Asia Pacific Task Force Outreach Group since 2004. He joined the UNEP FI Finance and Water work stream in 2006. Damien is the General Manager for mecu Limited and is responsible for Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Property, Administration and is the Company Secretary. His role includes oversight of mecu’s Sustainability Covenant with EPA Victoria and as mecu’s signatory representative with UNEP FI. Damien has worked in the Australian Credit Union industry for twenty years. Highlights have included attendance at the UNEP FI 2006 AGM in Geneva, moderating a session at the 2007 UNEP FI Global Roundtable in Melbourne on "Sustainable Retail Banking - Push or Pull" and in particular attending and presenting at the 2005 UNEP FI Global Roundtable, United Nations New York.
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  Mark King, Head FI and Implementation support (Central and Eastern Europe Task Force)
  
• Empori Bank
  Stella Kovlaka, Senior Advisor (Central and Eastern Europe Task Force)
  
• ABN AMRO
  Chris Wells, Environmental Risk Manager (Latin America Task Force)
  
• HSBC
  Ruben Chavez, Director Administración de Cartera de Crédito (Latin America Task Force)
  
• Royal Bank of Canada
  Sandra Odendahl, Director, Corporate Environmental Affairs (North America Task Force)
  
• State Street Corporation
  Richard Pearl, Vice President and Corporate Social Responsibility Manager (North America Task Force)
  Richard is the co-chair of the North American Task Force and has been a member of the UNEP FI Steering Committee since January 2008. From 2006-08, he served on the UNEP FI/ Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Working Group, which developed the Financial Service Sector Supplement to the GRI.
  Richard is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Officer for State Street Corporation and a Vice President in its Community Affairs department. Among his responsibilities are managing State Street’s CSR Working Group, overseeing the production of the company’s annual CSR report, and working with internal and external stakeholder groups on CSR issues. He is the primary advisor to State Street’s Environmental Sustainability Committee.