
Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative
eric.usher@un.org | unepfi.org | www.unep.org
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Eric Usher Heads the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, UNEP FI, a global partnership bringing together the UN with a global group of banks, insurers and investors working to develop the sustainable finance and responsible investment agendas. Eric oversees governance, strategy and day-to-day management of UNEP FI’s work programme and global network development. Over the years UNEP FI has established some of the most important sustainability oriented frameworks within the finance industry, including the Principles for Responsible Investment (2006), the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (2012) and the Principles for Responsible Banking (2019). Since joining in 2015, Mr. Usher has focused on accelerating the deep integration of sustainability risks into financial practice, including addressing climate change, natural capital loss and human rights abuses, as well as building out the frameworks for positive impact finance needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Eric sits on several industry bodies including as UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment, and as a member of the governing boards of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the Investor Agenda and the impact fund REPP Africa. Prior to leading UNEP FI, Mr. Usher has over twenty years of experience in the low carbon sectors, spanning technology commercialisation in Canada, solar rural electrification in Morocco and financial sector development across emerging markets. During 2011, Mr. Usher worked on the establishment of the Green Climate Fund and led efforts to create its Private Sector Facility. Eric has been an editor of the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report published annually with Bloomberg and was lead author for finance of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources. Earlier in his career, Eric was General Manager of a solar rural electrification company based in Morocco.
Management

Liesel van Ast
Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager
Industries

Jesica Andrews
Investment Lead

Butch Bacani
Insurance Lead

Simone Dettling
Head of Banking
Thematics

Careen Abb
SDGs and Impact Lead

Elodie Feller
Global Policy Lead

Remco Fischer
Climate Lead

Peggy Lefort
Pollution & Circular Economy Lead

Jessica Smith
Co-Head, Nature, UNEP FI

Joana Pedro
Social Lead
Regions

Nuran Atef
Regional Coordinator, Africa & Middle East

Daniel Bouzas
Regional Coordinator, Europe

Nirnita Talukdar
Regional Coordinator, Asia Pacific

Maria Eugenia Sosa Taborda
Regional Coordinator, LAC and Governance and Membership Team Lead

Liesel van Ast
Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager
Admin, Communications, Events & Training

Mustafa Chaudhry
Events and Digital Lead

Ken Maguire
Admin Lead

Rob Wilson
Design Lead

Sally Wootton
Communications Lead

Carolina Yazmín López
Training Lead