Katherine Garrett-Cox (Chair)
Katherine is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd. GIB UK, operating between London and New York, was established in 1975 and focuses on client-related activities in asset management and treasury. GIB UK's asset management strategy is focused on scaling and mobilizing capital in support of sustainable investment strategies, across equities, fixed income and trade finance. Katherine was formerly Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of Alliance Trust PLC, one of Europe’s largest providers of sustainable and responsible investment funds. She served as a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group from 2012-2015 and the Scottish Business Board during the same period. Katherine is a former UK Trade and Industry Business Ambassador for Financial Services.
Katherine was a Member of the Commission for the Green Investment Bank reporting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Steering Group Member of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative reporting to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. She was nominated a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2006, appointed to the Foundation Board of Young Global Leaders in January 2014 and also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum 2015-16. She was a member of the Executive Committee for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development from 2014-2016 and a Founder Member of the Advisory Council of The CityUK. Katherine has been an Ambassador and Speaker at the World Forum on Natural Capital which has taken place in Edinburgh in 2013 and 2015 and a Patron of City Week UK. She won the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award in 2015 and was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours List for her services to the asset management industry and her charitable work as a trustee of the Baring Foundation.
Katherine has worked in the asset management sector for over 30 years. Prior to her role at Alliance Trust she was Chief Investment Officer and Executive Director of Morley Fund Management, now Aviva Investors, where she was responsible for more than £160bn invested in equities, socially responsible funds, fixed income, private equity and alternatives. Before that, Katherine was Chief Investment Officer and Executive Director of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC. She began her career as a portfolio manager at Hill Samuel Asset Management, where she was Investment Director, Head of American Equities and manager of the Hill Samuel American Growth Fund 1993-2000, which was consistently in the top quartile of the peer group.
Stephen T. Chow
Stephen is an energy business leader with 30 years of multinational experience. He started his career with Mobil at its New York headquarters, and moved to Singapore and Hong Kong for a wide variety of managerial positions including supply, trading, strategic planning, business development and wholesale marketing. In 2000, Stephen joined BP as Vice President – China LPG. He was instrumental in establishing joint ventures with Sinopec and led several major downstream M&A projects.
In 2008, Stephen joined AEI, an international energy infrastructure company to establish ‘Huatong Energy Group’ in Shanghai. As CEO, he successfully integrated businesses from several Sino-foreign JVs to build a pan-China holding group with 30 downstream natural gas distribution companies across 12 provinces. Throughout 2012-2013, Stephen served as Managing Director for SES, an US-listed clean energy company to turnaround its China operations.
Stephen received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from National Taiwan University and his MBA from Columbia Business School in New York. He has extensive industry and government networks in China and has attended senior executive education programs at Harvard and Cambridge. Stephen taught at universities in China and Taiwan and has been a special advisor for CDP since 2014.
Jeremy Burke
Jeremy Burke has extensive experience around green finance and investment. He is the Head of Product and Strategy at Impact Investment Group, a leading Australian impact investment fund manager. He was involved in the setup, running and privatisation of the UK Green Investment Bank, where he was the inaugural Finance Director, and then Director, Strategy. Prior to that he led strategic financial planning for the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Jeremy is an honorary research associate at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, a fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and previously supported Sandbag Climate Campaign on Emissions Trading research. Jeremy has worked in the private and public sectors in Melbourne, New York and London.
Mike Hugman
Mike Hugman is Director, Climate Finance at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic funders of climate action. Previously, he worked across the investment industry, most recently as a Portfolio Manager on EM Blended Debt and Multi-asset for NinetyOne (Investec), where he also developed ESG and Data Science initiatives, including collaboration with WWF and the LSE.
Before that, he worked as an economist and strategist for the hedge fund Amiya Capital, and for Standard Bank London. From 2005-7 he was a technical advisor to the Budget Office of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance, developing fiscal policy and public expenditure management strategies. He holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Economics and an MA (1st class) in PPE, both from the University of Oxford.
Christine Loh SBS, JP, OBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
Christine Loh is Chief Development Strategist at the Institute for the Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as Adjunct Professor at the Division of Environment and Sustainability. She is also teaching a course at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2018. She is also a Director of the Robert HN Ho Family Foundation. Loh was the Under Secretary for the Environment in the Hong Kong special administrative region (HKSAR) Government (2012-17), and has a long record in environmental policies, having been a legislator and co-founder of Civic Exchange, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank.
Prior to joining the HKSAR Government, she was its former Chief Executive Officer (2000-12). Civic Exchange became a nationally and internationally recognized think tank, especially in the environmental area. Loh holds an English law degree from the University of Hull, England, and a Masters of Law degree in Chinese and Comparative Law from the City University of Hong Kong. She has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Law, honoris causa, by the University of Hull and Doctor of Science, honoris causa by the University of Exeter.
Amy Metcalfe
Amy Metcalfe is a Director in Climate Change and Sustainability Services at EY where she advises corporates on how to build long term value for their stakeholders.
Amy started her career as a graduate at KPMG, where she trained as an accountant and focussed on IT risk and assurance. She led the IT and data analysis aspects of financial audits for major global corporates. She left KPMG in search of a more purposeful direction and, via a brief detour at a venture capital-backed tech start up, found a passion for sustainable finance at responsible investment charity, ShareAction.
Amy was Director of Finance and Programmes at ShareAction, a role comprising CFO responsibility and leading on programmes pushing investors to engage with corporates around their response to the climate crisis, business human rights and public health issues. Here, alongside the CEO and senior management team, she helped develop a bold ten-year vision for the charity, learned about the world of sustainable finance, the nuances of charity finance, and how to manage a small but ambitious and rapidly growing organisation.
Amy is a Chartered Accountant and has a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University.
Ramakrishnan Mukundan
Mr. R. Mukundan, Managing Director & CEO of Tata Chemicals Limited, joined Tata Administrative Service in 1990, after completion of MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He is an Engineer from IIT, Roorkee and an Alumnus of Havard Business School.
During his 27 year career with Tata Group, he has held various responsibilities across the Chemical, Automotive and Hospitality sectors of the Tata Group. He serves on Executive Committees of various industry forums viz. Confederation of Indian Industry, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Employers’ Federation of India, All India Management Association etc.
David J. Wolfson
David J. Wolfson is the Executive Director of Milbank LLP, an international law firm, and a partner in the firm’s Corporate Group. As Executive Director, David works with the Chairman and the firm’s Executive Committee to manage the firm globally. He joined Milbank in 1993 and has been a partner since 2003.
David received the 2013 International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award for M&A in New York and for the USA overall. He has been recognized in The Legal 500 United States and The Legal 500 Latin America for his M&A work.
He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU as part of the Animal Studies Initiative within the Environmental Studies Department, where he teaches Animal Protection and Public Policy, and has previously taught Animal Law at Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law and Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Columbia School of Law where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and Duke University.
Mr. Wolfson represents a number of animal protection groups on a pro bono basis, including The Humane Society of the United States and Mercy for Animals. He has published extensively in the animal protection area and worked on numerous policy initiatives in this space, with a focus on issues around animal agriculture. He has recently focused on the interaction between animal agriculture and climate and environmental issues.
David A. Lubin
David A. Lubin has more than 30 years of experience successfully founding world-leading firms in the fields of corporate performance management, business analytics and interactive media.
David Lubin serves as Chairman of Signal Climate Analytics, who through their partnership with Reuters, are bringing innovative analytics and insights on how businesses, investors and society are responding to the new sustainability imperatives. David Lubin’s sustainability research has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the MIT Sloan Review, in numerous edited volumes, as well as in special reports by the UN Global Compact, IFC/ World Bank and Reuters.
He previously served as Co-Chairman and Managing Director of Renaissance Solutions, Executive Chairman of the Palladium Group, and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Spectrum Interactive, and several others venture backed start-ups that he co-founded.
He received his doctorate in Human Development from Harvard University, and has served on the faculty at Harvard and Tufts University, and numerous charitable boards.