Katherine Garrett-Cox CBE (Chair)
Katherine Garrett-Cox is CEO of GIB Asset Management, a sustainability focused investment firm. Prior to joining GIB AM, Katherine was Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of Alliance Trust PLC and served as a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group and the Scottish Business Board. Outside of her work at CDP and GIB AM, Katherine is the Chair of the Clean Air Fund, Chair of Gousto, and sits on the Advisory Board of The Valuable 500. Katherine is a Member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals, CFA Institute. Katherine was nominated a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2006 and was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours List for her services to charity and to the asset management industry.
Jeremy Burke (Chair, Finance, Audit and Risk Committee)
Jeremy Burke has extensive experience around green finance and investment. He is a co-founder at Ecotone Partners, a leading Australian climate action group that supports positive investing in climate solutions. Jeremy has financial services experience in Melbourne, London and New York including extensive experience in developing solutions to deliver responsible and green investments. Most notably Jeremy was part of the establishment and operations of the UK Green Investment Bank as the inaugural Finance Director and then Director, Strategy. Prior to Ecotone Partners Jeremy was Head of Product & Strategy at Impact Investment Group, where he developed a number of positive investment funds. Jeremy has extensive governance experience within for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. 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.
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.
Michael Hugman
Mike is the Global Director, Climate at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). He is responsible for overseeing CIFF’s work on ending fossil fuel finance and accelerating the climate transition through the development and financing of climate action plans for corporates, banks and countries. CIFF funds a wide range of climate finance organisations including CDP Worldwide, Transition Pathway Initiative, Carbon Tracker and also regulatory initiatives such as the ISSB and TNFD.
Previously, Mike worked across the investment industry, most recently as a Portfolio Manager for NinetyOne (Investec), where he also led 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. He holds an MPhil in Economics and an MA 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. Loh was the Under Secretary for the Environment in the Hong Kong special administrative region (HKSAR) Government (2012-17). She had served as a legislator and was chair of the legislature’s environmental affairs panel. She is the co-founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank (2000-12), which has a strong focus on environmental and sustainability issues. Loh currently sits on the board of Global Maritime Forum, New Forests Pty Limited, and Towngas Smart Energy Company Limited. She is a published author of many academic and popular works.
Loh holds an English law degree from the University of Hull, England, and a Master of Laws 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.
David A. Lubin
Dr. David A. Lubin has more than 25 years of experience successfully founding and managing media, technology and consulting firms that have become world leaders in the field of corporate performance management, business analytics and interactive media. He previously served as Co-Chairman, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Renaissance Solutions, and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the Palladium Group, firms that developed and advanced the use of several leading business analytic tools, including the Balanced Scorecard. David also was Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Spectrum Interactive, a pioneering firm in multimedia technology and on-line learning. David was Chairman of the Sustainability Innovators Working Group, a research consortium he established with Professor Daniel C. Esty of Yale University. David most recently served as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Constellation Research and Technology, Inc., and Signal Climate Analytics, Inc.
David received his doctorate in Human Development from Harvard University and has served on the faculty at Harvard and Tufts, and as a lecturer at the Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum. David’s work on sustainability has been published in the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Review, Reuters, and by Morgan Stanley, the UN Global Compact, IFC/ World Bank, and others. He holds a U.S. patent on interactive multi-media.
David is a member of the Board of Directors of CDP North America, Inc.
Amy Metcalfe
Amy is an experienced director, having held executive and non-executive roles in not for profit and corporate organisations. Amy has experience and expertise in strategy, financial reporting, processes and controls, operations, project management, monitoring and impact evaluation and leading people.
Amy started her career at KPMG - working predominantly in financial systems audit for large multinationals. She has since worked as a Chief Operating Officer at a tech start up, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Programmes at ShareAction, and Director in Climate Change and Sustainability at EY. Amy is the cofounder of Tend Consulting, where she currently works to advise purpose-led organisations on their strategy and operations.
Amy is a Chartered Accountant and has a mathematics degree from the University of Oxford.
Ramakrishnan Mukundan
Mukundan is the Managing Director and CEO of Tata Chemicals Limited. He joined Tata Administrative Service in 1990, after completion of MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He is a distinguished alumnus of IIT, Roorkee, Fellow of Indian Chemical Society and an alumnus of Harvard Business School. During his over 30 year career with Tata Group, he has held various responsibilities across the Chemical, Automotive and Hospitality sectors. He serves on industry forums and impact organizations. Mukundan is also a director of Carbon Disclosure Project India.
David J. Wolfson
David is the Executive Director of Milbank LLP, an international law firm. 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 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. David represents a number of animal protection groups on a pro bono basis and 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 is the Chair of the Board of Directors of CDP North America, Inc.
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