Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda: Emerging Economies

• Finance and the emerging markets, including measuring the sustainability of investments and the Equator principles.
• Building sustainable banking institutions in emerging markets.

Speakers

Mr. Sean de Cleene - Director, AICC (African Institute of Corporate Citizenship)
Presentation (PDF: 493 KB)

Mr. Richard Burrett - Managing Director, Global Head of Project Finance, ABN Amro
Presentation (PDF: 283 KB)

Mr. Octavio B. Peralta - Deputy Secretary General, Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia & the Pacific (ADFIAP)
Presentation (PDF: 921 KB)

Chair
Mr. Glen Armstrong - Adviser, Sustainable Development, International Finance Corporation
Presentation (PDF: 580 KB)

Speaker Biographies

Mr. Sean de Cleene - Director, AICC (African Institute of Corporate Citizenship)

Sean is the Director of the Centre for Sustainability Investing under the AICC. He has worked in over 15 countries internationally in a range of management and consultancy roles, spanning a number of sectors. Sean's main work is in the strategy, design and management implications for companies looking to mainstream corporate citizenship in line with current business thinking. In this capacity he has developed several overall company CSR strategies, given a number of executive briefings to company boards and senior management of large companies and been a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Over recent years he has worked extensively with the finance sector and was the project manager on the recent 'Socially Responsible Investment in South Africa' report and is the current project manager for the joint AICC/ UNEP FI 'Sustainable Banking in Africa" report.

Sean is currently the co-chair of the UNEP Finance Initiatives African Task Force on finance and sustainability. He is on the advisory committee to the FTSE JSE SRI Index and on the management committee of the University of South Africa Centre for Corporate Citizenship. He is a Director of Sustainability Research and Intelligence Pty Ltd and Imprint Sustainability Global Pty Ltd.

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Mr. Richard Burrett, Managing Director, Global Head of Project Finance, ABN Amro

After graduating in 1982 Richard joined the International Banking Division of National Westminster Bank where he held a number of appointments, including a three year assignment in the Netherlands. He was working at NatWest's Project Finance Group in London prior to joining AMRO Bank in 1988. Following an initial spell as a Relationship Manager, he was asked to set up the then Project Finance Group in London where he gained wide experience of working on UK and International project financing paricularly in the Emerging Markets.

He was appointed as Head of Structured Finance in August 1996 and in February 1998 became Head of Corporate Banking for the UK. In January 2001, he assumed the role of Global Head of Project Finance. In this role he has been instrumental in the recent development of the Equator Principles, creating a market recognised standard for the management of environmental and social risk within project financing.

He holds a BA in German and a MBA from Durham University; is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and holds the Marketing Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

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Mr. Octavio B. Peralta, Deputy Secretary General, Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP)

Mr. Peralta's career covers areas in development banking, manufacturing, project management, human resource development and consulting. He is presently the Deputy Secretary General of ADFIAP, the focal point of 60 development finance institutions in 33 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

At ADFIAP, he is involved in many development initiatives, working on projects that relate to sustainable finance covering economic, environmental and social dimensions. Current themes of the Association also include small and mediumText enterprise development, microfinance, poverty reduction, corporate governance, SRI and PPP.

He is an accredited consultant of the Geneva-based International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC). He is also an Associate Consultant of the Manila-based Asia Business Consultants and of the International Development Specialists based in Washington, D.C., U.S.A..

Prior to his present appointment with ADFIAP, he worked for 15 years in the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) in various capacities, i.e., in project appraisal, supervision, remedial management and HRD, with his last assignment as Head of the Training Program Design and Implementation Unit of the Human Resource Center of the bank.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, studied Masters in Business Administration in the Philippines, is an EDI-World Bank Fellow, having completed its Trainers Course for Development Bankers in Washington, D.C. and an alumnus of the Japanese Association of Overseas Technical Scholarships having attended its Program for Top Management in Tokyo.

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Mr. Glen Armstrong, Adviser, Sustainable Development , International Finance Corporation

Glen works extensively with the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank and private sector financial institutions providing guidance on international best practice in sustainable development issues, their application to investment and management processes in emerging markets and in training financial professionals.

From 2000 to early 2003 he was Senior Advisor: Sustainable Development to the IFC , the largest provider of funding to the private sector in developing countries in the World. In 2000 and again in 2003 he received IFC corporate awards for his work in this area.

From 1997 to 2000 He was head of the IFC unit in Washington D.C. responsible for the environmental and social analysis of all IFC investments worldwide. In that role he was engaged in the leadership of teams reviewing some of the largest and most contentious private sector investments in the World and has worked throughout Latin America, Africa , Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

His background is in Public Health and prior to joining IFC he was Managing Director of Aspinwall and Company (now part of the Enviros group) one of the UK's leading environmental management consultancies.

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