Role of the Banking Board

The UNEP FI Banking Board is the governance body for the Principles for Responsible Banking and UNEP FI Banking Membership.

Under the overall direction of the UNEP FI Global Steering Committee, the Banking Board oversees the effective implementation of the Principles for Responsible Banking. For details on its mandate, please refer to section 1 of the UNEP FI Banking Governance Framework.

Meet the Board

Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Head of ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings & Co-chair, UNEP FI Banking Board

Boitumelo Sethlatswe
Head, Sustainability, Standard Bank Group & Co-chair, UNEP FI Banking Board

Jorge Alvarado
Vice President of Legal, Compliance and Corporate Affairs, Banco de la Producción S.A. Produbanco

Shargiil Bashir
Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Anne-Sophie Castelnau
Global Head of Sustainability, ING

Shanning Dong
General Manager, Green Finance Department, Bank of Jiangsu

Anja Hannerz
Group Head of Sustainability, Nordea

Chikako Matsumoto
Managing Executive Officer & Chief Sustainability Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.

José Luis Muñoz
Executive Director Investor Relations & ESG, Banorte

Laurence Pessez
Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BNP Paribas

Gildas Poissonnier
Chief Sustainability Officer, Desjardins Group

Fiona Wild
Chief Sustainability Officer, Westpac

Steven Stone
Deputy Director of the Economy Division, UN Environment Programme

Regional Representation
  • North America Representative | Gildas Poissonnier, Chief Sustainability Officer, Desjardins Group, Canada
  • Central America Representative | José Luiz Muñoz, Executive Director Investor Relations & ESG, Banorte, Mexico
  • South America Representative | Jorge Alvarado, Vice President of Legal, Compliance and Corporate Affairs, Banco de la Producción S.A. Produbanco, Ecuador
  • Scandinavia Representative | Anja Hannerz, Group Head of Sustainability, Nordea, Sweden
  • Western Europe Representative 1 | Laurence Pessez , Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BNP Paribas, France
  • Western Europe Representative 2 | Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING, Netherlands
  • South-Eastern Europe Representative | Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Director ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings, Greece
  • Middle East & North Africa Representative | Shargiil Bashir, Chief Sustainability Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank, UAE
  • Sub-Saharan Africa Representative | Boitumelo Sethlatswe, Head of Societal Impact, Standard Bank Group, South Africa
  • South Asia & Pacific Representative | Fiona Wild, Chief Sustainability Officer, Westpac, Australia
  • East Asia Representative 1 | Dr. Shanning Dong, General Manager, Green Finance Department, Bank of Jiangsu, China
  • East Asia Representative 2 | Chikako Matsumoto, Managing Executive Officer & Chief Sustainability Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., Japan
  • UN Environment Programme | Steven Stone, Deputy Director of the Economy Division, UN Environment Programme