Steering Committee
The UNEP FI Steering Committee provides executive direction on strategic, work programme and budgetary issues on a regular basis. The Committee is composed of 3 commission representatives, 4 thematic champions and 5 regional task force representatives, UNEP DTIE Director (supported by Head of Unit) and 2 open positions. The Chair is elected to a one year term by the Members of the Steering Committee. Steering Committee Members can serve for a maximum of two consecutive years.
The Steering Committee reports to UNEP FI’s Annual General Meeting, where all Members come together to make decisions on the Initiative’s overall strategic direction, structural issues and budget decisions.
Steering Committee Members
- UNEP FI Co-Chairs
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Barbara J. Krumsiek
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Calvert Investments, Inc. and Chair of Acacia Life Insurance Company
Barbara J. Krumsiek is Chair, CEO and President of Calvert Investments, Inc., a leading investment management firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert manages approximately $13 billion in assets including a range of fixed income portfolios and a full family of sustainable and responsible equity mutual funds. Ms. Krumsiek is Director and Chair of Acacia Life Insurance Company. Calvert and Acacia Life are affiliates of UNIFI, a mutual holding company based in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Ms. Krumsiek’s career in the investment industry spans over three decades. Before becoming Calvert’s CEO in 1997, she was Managing Director at Alliance Capital Management L.P. in New York, and was responsible for the mutual fund and variable insurance product lines worth over $17 billion in assets.
At Calvert, she has presided over a period of growth and increased visibility both within the sustainable investment sector and in the financial services industry as a whole. Calvert's presence among individual investors, financial advisors and retirement plans has expanded substantially.
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Richard Burrett, Partner, Earth Capital Partners LLP (London, UK)
Richard Burrett is a Partner at Earth Capital Partners – a company specialising in providing advice on investments that address the challenges of sustainable development. Richard had previously spent over 25 years in international banking. In his 20 years with ABN AMRO he developed extensive experience of project and structured finance, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors, working internationally with a wide range of international project developers, energy companies and utilities. As Global Head of Project Finance he was responsible for ABN AMRO's award winning business franchises in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Brazil. In this role he was also instrumental in the creation of the Equator Principles, a market recognised standard for managing environmental and social risk issues in project financing. Latterly, as Global Head of Sustainability, he chaired the group’s Sustainability Council and developed the bank's strategy on climate change and the carbon markets. He is a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership; a Board Member of Forest Renewables – looking to develop the renewable energy potential of the national forest estate of Scotland; and a Board Member of Forest Trends – a Washington-based, not-for-profit organisation focused on market-based approaches to conservation. Previously, he was Chair of the UNEP Financial Initiative work stream on Biodiversity and Ecosystems.
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- UNEP Representative
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Sylvie Lemmet, Director, Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics (DTIE) (Paris, France)
In January 2007 Sylvie Lemmet has been appointed Director of the UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), based in Paris.
Ms. Lemmet is a graduate of the French Ecole Nationale d’Administration and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. She brings to UNEP a wealth of managerial and technical expertise, spanning many years working with the private sector, NGOs, including Médecins Sans Frontières.
She brings more than 10 years of expertise in the field of environment, implementing major sustainable development projects in the World Bank and evaluating environmental policies as a Senior Auditor with the French Cour des Comptes. During her tenure, she participated in the audit of the UN.
Ms Lemmet is a French national.
- UNEP FI Treasurer
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Gianluca Manca, Head of SRI, Global Head of Non-Profit Business, Eurizon Capital (Intesa Sanpaolo Group) (Milan, Italy)
Gianluca has been a member of the Asset Management Working Group since inception in 2003 and became chairman of the group in 2009, when he joined the Steering Committee. Gianluca is Head of Sustainability and Global Non-Profit Business at Eurizon Capital, an Intesa Sanpaolo company. He has been a fixed income derivatives broker and an international equities fund manager; he focussed on socially responsible investments in 1999 and became head of the SRI team in 2002. Gianluca is the CSR delegate at Eurizon Capital, a member of the Sustainability Committee and the chair of the Charity Committee.
- Open Positions
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Mizue Tsukushi, President & CEO, Good Bankers Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)
- Commissions
- Banking Commission
Dag Arne Kristensen, Executive Vice President, External Relations, DnB NOR (Oslo, Norway)
Dag Arne has been with DnB NOR for more than 20 years, and been responsible for the groups CSR-activities for the last 6 years.
- Insurance Commission
Astrid Zwick, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Munich Re (Munich, Germany)
Since 2010, Dr Zwick has been the Head of Strategy and Corporate Responsibility Department of the Munich Re Group. She chairs the UNEP FI Insurance Commission leading the global development of Principles for Sustainable Insurance. From 2005 to 2008, she was the Chair of the Steering Committee on Sustainability Research of the German Ministry of Education and Research. From 2000 to 2010, she was the Head of the Allianz Group Sustainability Office, responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s strategy for sustainable development. From 1994 to 2000, she worked at the Institute for Technological Prospective Studies of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Spain, in charge of policy advice on the analysis of political, technological and economic options for the reduction of greenhouse gases based on the mandate of the European Parliament and European Commission.
- Investment Commission
Paul McNamara, OBE BSc (Hons) PhD ASIP FRSA – Head of Property Research, Prudential plc (London, UK)
Paul joined Prudential Property Investment Managers Ltd in 1987 becoming Head of Property Research in 1990. He is responsible for the overall direction of property research and is also a Board Director.
Paul has a first class honours degree from the University of St Andrews and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh – both in Geography.
Paul was Chairman of the Investment Property Forum (IPF) 2005/2006 and was honoured by being made a Life Member of the IPF in January 2007. He is also a Fellow, a past President and a past Chairman of the UK Society of Property Researchers.
Amongst other activities, Paul is a Visiting Professor with the Department of Real Estate Management at Oxford Brookes University.
He is a non-executive director of international property investment performance measurers, IPD Holdings Limited.
Paul chairs the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change – Property Workstream and is Co-chair of the UNEP FI Property Working group.
Paul was awarded the OBE for services to the property industry in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in Summer 2003 and was awarded a lifetime achievement award by IPE in 2008.
Paul has published widely across a range of property-related topics, most recently specialising in property derivatives and the impact of sustainability on property investment.
- Working Group Representatives
- Climate Change Working Group
Mark Fulton, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank AG (New York, USA)
In his role as global head of climate change investment research based in New York, Mark Fulton co-ordinates a team of analysts who publish white papers on key industry, policy and strategic topics. The research team uses this to advise investment managers on climate change based strategies across the asset management platform.
Mark joined the Company in 2006 after 29 years of investment experience in senior roles in research and management at Citigroup in the US, Salomon Smith Barney and NatWest in Sydney and James Capel in London.
Mark has a BA in Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University.
- Climate Change Working Group
Nick Robins, Head, Climate Change Centre of Excellence, HSBC Holdings plc (London, UK)
Nick Robins is Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London. The goal of the Centre is to analyse the strategic implications of climate change for investors and the Group as a whole. Since joining HSBC, Nick has co-authored research on long-term energy prospects (Energy in 2050, March 2011), the investment opportunities in low-carbon growth through to 2020 (Sizing the climate economy, September 2010), and the links between climate change and fiscal stimulus (Building a green recovery, May 2009). In the 2010 and 2011 Thomson Extel awards for Pan-European investment research, HSBC was rated the #1 firm for integrated climate change and renewable energy, and in 2011, Nick was ranked #1 analyst for climate change.
Nick has more than 20 years experience in the policy, business and investment implications of sustainable development and corporate responsibility. In 1990, he authored Managing the Environment: the Greening of European Business (translated as L’imperatif ecologique, Calmann-Levy, 1992). Nick is also author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (2006) as well as co-editor of Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance (2008). He co-chairs the UNEP Finance Initiative’s Climate Change Working Group, and is a member of BT’s CSR Leadership Panel as well as GE’s Corporate Citizenship Panel.
Before joining HSBC, Nick was head of SRI funds at Henderson Global Investors, where he launched the world’s first carbon audit of an investment fund and co-designed the Industries of the Future investment strategy. He has also worked for the International Institute for Environment and Development, the Business Council for Sustainable Development, the European Commission and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has a BA in History (First Class) from Cambridge University and an MSc in International Relations (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics.
- Emerging Issues
Philippa Birtwell, Head of Public Issues Barclays Group plc (London, UK)
- Natural Values
Vicky Beukes, Sustainability Manager, Nedbank Ltd (Sandton, South Africa)
Vicky Beukes joined Nedbank Group Ltd in 2009 as Sustainability Officer. His current responsibilities include Social and Environmental Risk management, local and international indices and awards, internal training and sustainability awareness, Sustainability reporting, external presentation of the Nedbank experience, coordination and facilitation of various internal fora and committees. Previous experience in the Public Sector related to litigation and law reform in the fields of mining, energy, arts, culture, heritage, science, technology, environment and tourism.
- Natural Values
Sasja Beslik, Director of ESG Analysis, Nordea AB (Stockholm, Sweden)
Sasja Beslik works as Director of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) analysis at Nordea Investments since 2009. Previously Sasja worked as deputy CEO for leading SRI provider on the Nordic market, Banco Funds as well as Global Head of Engagement for ABN AMRO Asset Management, He is recognized as one of Nordic foremost experts in ESG analysis. He has a master's degree in economy and is also a trained journalist who worked as a war correspondent in Kosovo. He was named "Newcomer of the Year 2007" - the most influential person under 40 years' in Sweden by several business career magazines in Sweden.
- Regional Task Force Representatives
- Africa Task Force
Madeleine Ronquest, Head of environmental and social risk management, FirstRand Group Ltd.
Madeleine Ronquest is the Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management and her portfolio includes Energy Management, Climate Change and Environmental Management.
Her background and qualifications include environmental science, environmental management and environmental law. Her role is to ensure that FirstRand complies with legal and international regulatory requirements, but also strategically that FirstRand is positioned as one of the business leaders in climate change in South Africa and plays a pertinent role in leading South Africa into a low carbon economy.
- Asia Pacific Task Force
Amanda McCluskey, Head of Responsible Investment and Sustainability, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Sydney, Australia)
In the role of Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment, Amanda focuses on developing and delivering Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s strategy on sustainability and climate change issues. Amanda works closely with the investment teams across all asset classes to build in a consideration of ESG issues and identify new investment opportunities. Amanda also engages the investment community more broadly to increase the awareness of the risks and opportunities for long term investors.
Amanda is the founding Deputy Chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change a non-executive director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and a non-executive director of the Climate Change and Business Centre
In recognition of her leadership on climate change issues in particular, Amanda was named one of Sydney’s most influential people in 2009.
Previously Amanda was at Portfolio Partners as Investment Manager Sustainability and has also worked at BT Financial Group as Manager Investment Governance.
Amanda has worked extensively in the development and implementation of sustainability and governance strategies, frameworks and reporting, and the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
Amanda has a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in International Relations and is undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Finance Markets and Investments. Amanda was also one of the first Australians to participate in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Program.
- European Task Force
Harry Papageorgiou, Head, Environment Office, EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA (Athens, Greece)
Harry Papageorgiou is the Head of the Environment Office of Eurobank EFG, being responsible for the coordination of the Bank’s environment related activities and procedures, as well as for the implementation of Eurobank’s Environmental Policy. He also oversees the smooth running and continuous improvement of the Bank’s ISO14001/EMAS certified Environmental Management System.
Before joining Eurobank EFG, Harry worked for more than 10 years in local and international projects as an environmental consultant, with a focus in Environmental & CSR Management, Sustainability Research, Environmental Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Environmental Management Systems, Agri-environmental Research and Farm Management Systems, Auditing, Training/Capacity Building, and NGO Policy Campaigning. He has participated in a great number of National and International R&D Projects and he has been involved in advanced training activities, including practical training of environmental managers and NGO volunteers.
Harry holds an MSc degree in Environmental Impact Assessment, Auditing and Environmental Management Systems from the University of East Anglia (UK) and an MSc degree in Agricultural Sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens. He also holds an Environmental Auditors Registration Association Certificate for Environmental Management Systems’ Implementation.
- Latin America Task Force
Christopher Wells, Head of Social & Environmental Risk Unit, Banco Santander, S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil)
Chris Wells has headed the São Paulo-based sustainability risk unit for Banco Real, part of the Santander Group, since joining the bank in 2002. He is Chair of the Latin American Task Force, which has been training banks in the region about sustainability since 2005. Prior to joining Banco Real, he set up an environmental and social research service at Unibanco. Prior to joining Unibanco in 1998, he was executive director of Cempre, an association that promotes waste recycling in Brazil. He is President of the Round Table on Responsible Soy Association.
- Latin America Task Force
Laura Celia Méndez Herrera, Asesora del Director General, FIRA-Banco de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
Laura Mendez, BSc in Economics by ITAM in México City, is currently Technical Assistant to the General Director of FIRA Banco de México.
Laura Mendez is chair of the LATF and joined FIRA in 2006 and since then she has been coordinating and monitoring for the General Director of FIRA Banco de México the issues of social responsibility, non discrimination, sustainability and climate change and, more recently, she has been appointed as Head of Fira’s Sustainable Banking Unit
In that position she has been Fira´s representative to the Working Groups and Committees established about those topics by The Mexico’s Bankers Association. At the same time she has been developing with other colleges in the bank methodologies to rise up the issue of carbon finance as part of Fira’s core business. Fira Banco de México is a second tier bank which provides funding and partial guarantees, along with training, market research and qualified economic information for the implementation of projects in the rural sector, food industry, forestry, fishery and related industries in Mexico.
Ms. Mendez is a Mexican national who has been living in Washington USA and Exeter, England
- North America Task Force
Richard Pearl, Vice President and Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, State Street Corporation (Boston, USA)
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.
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