The IA Sustainability and Responsible Investment Conference 2022

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Building on the experience and success of previous events, the conference programme this year is designed for investment management professionals grappling with the complexities of sustainability and responsible investing, including shaping policy, raising client awareness through clear communication and disclosures and exploring the wider role investment managers play in a more sustainable economy, society and planet.

The last few years have been significant. We have witnessed dramatic growth in demand for responsible investment products and experienced a period of intensive policymaking to implement key pieces of new regulation, such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. This has sparked a step-change in how financial services, governments, markets and society engage with sustainability. We are now at a critical point in terms of the future of sustainable finance rules here in the UK and indeed on the path to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The ambitious policy agenda is attempting to balance multiple objectives: decisive climate action, growth of the market and innovation of products, global competitiveness, positive outcomes and protections for consumers, and a regulatory approach that captures the opportunities but also adequately addresses the risks. This has created a complex regulatory landscape which is broad in scope and rapidly changing, requiring the investment management industry to reconsider the investment process and how we make disclosures relating to sustainability and responsible investment.

Please join us at the conference to hear from policy makers, industry pioneers and practitioners, who are shaping sustainable finance and responsible investment products and policy today. We plan to cover topics which are central to investment managers, including:

• The UK Sustainable Disclosure Requirements, the UK green taxonomy and investment fund labels and classification;
• The influence of international sustainable finance policy;
• The regulatory requirements and emerging best practice around climate disclosure by investment managers; and
• Beyond climate: the definition and measurement of social, governance and other environmental factors that might be overshadowed by the intense focus on climate change, e.g. biodiversity.

09:00 Registration and Breakfast

09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chris Cummings, CEO, The Investment Association
Mark Versey, CEO, AVIVA

09:45 CEO Panel: Where are we now?
Reflections from the investment management industry on key challenges and opportunities for UK investment management in the sustainable and responsible investment space
Moderator: Chris Cummings, CEO, The Investment Association
Michelle Scrimgeour, CEO, Legal & General Investment Management
Mark Versey, CEO, AVIVA
Hanneke Smits, CEO, BNY Mellon Investment Management
Nikitas Psyllakis, COO, DWS

10:45 Keynote Presentation
Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG, FCA

11:05 Partner Presentation - Navigating global ESG labels and disclosure regimes
Raza Naeem, Partner, Linklaters

11:35 Panel: Shaping UK sustainable finance rules
Moderator: Carol Thomas, Retail Markets Specialist, The Investment Association
Fayyaz Muneer, Deputy Director of Green Finance & Prudential, HM Treasury
Kate Levick, Associate Director, Sustainable Finance, Third Generation Environmentalism
Anastasia Petraki, Investment Director, Sustainability, Schroders
Mark Manning, Sustainable Finance and Stewardship, Financial Conduct Authority

12:35 Lunch Break

13:30 ESG Data: availability, cost, comparability and using it to support ESG regulatory reporting requirements
Chris Johnson, Senior Product Manager, HSBC Securities Services

14:00 Panel: The transition to net zero and delivering positive climate impact
Moderator: Paul Scaping, Public Policy Specialist, The Investment Association
Helene Winch, Head of Responsible Investing, Premier Miton
Michael Mebane, ESG Consultant, MSCI
Dr Nicola Ranger, Deputy Director, UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Amy Jenkins, Green finance, jobs and investment for net zero, Net Zero Strategy Directorate, BEIS

15:00 Break

15:15 International Keynote: The state of ESG development in the United States, possibilities and obstacles
Tom Quaadman, Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

15:35 Presentation: Consumer Research
Dawn Hyams, Senior Consultant, The Wisdom Council
Miranda Seath, Head of Market Insight, The Investment Association

16:05 Panel: Beyond climate change: the other ESG megatrends
Moderator: Sally Springer, Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainability and Responsible Investment, The Investment Association
Katie Schmitz Eulitt, Director of Investor Relationships at the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF)
Ann Meoni, Senior Responsible Investment Analyst, abrdn
Vanessa Havard-Williams, Global Head of ESG, Linklaters
Phil Bloomer, Executive Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

17:00 Closing Remarks
Galina Dimitrova, Director, Investment & Capital Markets, The Investment Association

17:05 Drinks Reception

In order of programme appearance:

Chris Cummings, Chief Executive Officer, The Investment Association
Chris Cummings is the Chief Executive of The Investment Association, a post he has held since September 2016. The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK-based investment managers.
He is a member of HM Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce, and was a founding member of its Financial Services Trade & Investment Board. He serves on the Chancellor’s Financial Services Industry Advisory Group and Department for International Trade’s Financial Services Trade Advisory Group. He is a Board member on EFAMA, the European trade association for investment management and is a member of the Regulation Committee of IIFA, the international association for investment management. He is also a Trustee of Just Finance Foundation.
He was previously a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Regulatory Decisions Committee, a Settlement Decision Maker for the Payment Services Regulator. He served on the Foreign & Commonwealth’s Diplomatic Excellence Panel.
Before joining The Investment Association he was the founding CEO of TheCityUK, held senior posts in banking, insurance and consulting with major global firms. He is a regular columnist, commentator and speaker on issues of international competitiveness and regulation in financial services.

Galina Dimitrova, Director, Investment and Capital Markets, The Investment Association
Galina is a Director of Investment & Capital Markets at the Investment Association (the “IA”) and a member of the IA Executive Committee.
In her role, she has overall responsibility for the IA work on investments and capital markets, including quality of asset classes, such as Equity, Fixed Income, FX, Infrastructure and Private Markets. She also has oversight of all IA Special Committees and ETFs, as well as all trading, market infrastructure and investment operations’ matters relevant to IA members.
Central to her portfolio is helping members with the evolving Sustainability & Responsible Investment landscape and working together towards an economy, society and planet fit for the future.
Galina has over 10 years’ experience as an investment banker focusing on financial institutions. She is a member of the UK Risk Free Rate Working Group, the ICE LIBOR Oversight Committee, the Bank of England FX Joint Standing Committee and TheCityUK Board of Directors.

Mark Versey, CEO, Aviva Investors
Mark is CEO of Aviva Investors and a Director of the Aviva Investors Global Services Limited Board.
Mark Versey joined Aviva Investors in 2014 and was appointed CEO in January 2021. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer for Aviva Investors Real Assets from its formation in May 2018, during which time the business saw material growth, with assets under management increasing from £37 billion to £47 billion.
Mark sits on the Board of the Investment Association and chairs its Sustainability and Responsible Investment Committee.
Mark began his career as a consultant Actuary and then gained a diverse experience across markets with investment banking roles in fixed income, equities and capital markets. He has extensive risk management and derivatives experience.
Prior to Aviva Investors, Mark worked at Friends Life where he was Chief Investment Officer of the Group and Managing Director of their in-house asset manager, Friends Life Investments. Previously, he was the Chief Investment Officer of AXA in the UK.
Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has a Mathematics degree from Cambridge University.

Michelle Scrimgeour, Chief Executive Officer, Legal & General Investment Management
Michelle was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in July 2019. Michelle has spent her career at major global firms and has extensive asset management experience across investments, distribution, product, operations and risk.
Before joining LGIM, Michelle was Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, at Columbia Threadneedle Investments and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Ameriprise Financial. Prior to that, she was Chief Risk Officer at M&G Investments and a Director of M&G Group Limited, whom she joined in 2012 from BlackRock.
Michelle held a number of senior leadership positions while at BlackRock and its predecessor companies Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Mercury Asset Management, including Chief Operating Officer, International Fixed Income; Global Head of Fixed Income Product and Head of Alternative Investments.
Michelle is Deputy Chair of the Investment Association and a member of the FCA’s Practitioner Panel. She is also Co-Chair of the COP26 Business Leaders Group with a continuing role in the build-up to COP27 and is a member of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) CEO Principals Group.
Michelle holds a BA (Hons) in French from the University of Sheffield.

Hanneke Smits, CEO, BNY Mellon Investment Management
With nearly 30 years of investment experience, Hanneke was previously CEO of Newton Investment Management, a BNY Mellon Investment Management firm, from 2016 to 2020. Prior to Newton, she served on the Executive Committee at private equity firm Adams Street Partners from 2001 to 2014, having been Chief Investment Officer from 2008 to 2014. She joined Adams Street in 1997 to build out its global investment capabilities, and successfully launched its presence in Europe and Asia. Before joining Adams Street, she was an investment manager at Pantheon Ventures, and worked for Philips China Hong Kong Group.
Hanneke is a member of The Investment Association’s board, the trade body that represents UK investment managers, and serves as Chair of Impetus, a venture philanthropy organization which backs charities to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people. As part of her role with Impetus, she is Trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), founded in 2011 by The Sutton Trust in partnership with Impetus. Hanneke was also a Non-Executive Director to the Court of the Bank of England, and a co-founder and first Chair of Level 20, a not-for-profit organization set up in 2015 to inspire women to join and succeed in the private equity industry.
Originally from the Netherlands, Hanneke has a BBA from Nijenrode University and an MBA from the London Business School.

Nikitas Psyllakis, COO, DWS
DWS UK Country Officer and COO for the EMEA region, as well as Global COO for the areas of Technology, Operations, Information Security, Compliance, Anti-financial Crime and Legal. Prior to his current role, Nikitas led the separation of the Asset Management business from Deutsche Bank and the creation of DWS which was listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in March 2018. Before that, he held senior Strategy and COO roles at Deutsche Bank.

Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG, FCA
Sacha Sadan is the Director of ESG at the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority). Facilitating the UK financial regulator to embed ESG across the wide spectrum of regulatory activities and reporting to the CEO. Previously Sacha was Director of Investment Stewardship (10 years) and on the board at LGIM, one of the world’s largest asset managers. Sacha had responsibility for investment stewardship, including environmental, social and governance (ESG). He was recognised in the Financial Times as one of ‘the 30 most influential people in the City of London’. Sacha was previously a UK equity portfolio manager at Gartmore. He was voted the top-rated Pan European fund manager in the Thomson Reuters Extel awards. He started his career at Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension fund. Sacha is a Fellow of ICSA and a founding member of the UK Investor Forum and was a member of their board for 6 years. In 2022, he was named one of the 25 biggest names as a City Influencer by Financial News as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations looking back on a group of people who have been instrumental in shaping the UK's financial services industry.

Raza Naeem, Partner, Linklaters
Raza has considerable experience in advising trading venues, sell-side and buy-side clients on a variety of regulatory topics including ESG, governance, wholesale and retail conduct, Fintech and market structures, and is considered to be an expert in his field. He also works closely with the broader Linklaters practice areas providing regulatory coverage on derivatives, structured products and corporate matters. Most recently, he has been advising clients on the new ESG reforms as well as the technical FCA/PRA Brexit onshoring rules and the impact on their business in areas such as MiFID II, MAR, PRIIPs and the short selling regulation. He is also the chair of the Linklaters global ESG working group.

Carol Thomas, Retail Markets Specialist, The Investment Association
Carol is Retail Markets Specialist at the IA since 2018 and Carol’s role covers all issues related to the regulation and distribution of retail funds in the UK and across the EU. Key projects have included enhanced customer communication and more recently covering SFDR and sustainable fund disclosure rules at UK level. Carol started her career in EU regulatory affairs in Brussels before joining the FSA in 2010. Carol’s work at the FSA/FCA spanned pension policy, financial disclosure and leading on life insurance thematic reviews. She also spent a year working for the Irish Department of Finance in Brussels covering financial services files in the European Council.

Fayyaz Muneer, Deputy Director of Green Finance & Prudential, HM Treasury
Fayyaz is the Deputy Director for Green Finance and Prudential Policy in the Financial Services Group of the Treasury. His team is responsible for the regulatory framework for green finance, including sustainability-related disclosures, the UK Green Taxonomy and the Transition Plan Taskforce. The team also covers the prudential regime for banks and investment firms. Fayyaz has been at the Treasury since 2012, and as previously been responsible for digital infrastructure, business lending and climate change policy.

Kate Levick, Associate Director, Sustainable Finance, Third Generation Environmentalism
Kate Levick leads E3G’s activities on Sustainable Finance, working with a wide range of public and private finance sector stakeholders to support ambitions finance and climate policy outcomes.
Prior to joining E3G Kate spent a decade as Global Director for Policy Engagement at CDP. Before this she worked for the UK government’s Office of Climate Change and spent several years working for BP Plc in a variety of commercial and environmental roles.
Kate is a member of the Climate Champions’ Financial Sector Expert Group and chairs the Policy workstream of the UK’s Green Technical Advisory Group. She co-leads E3G’s provision, with UK CGFI, of the Secretariat to the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce.
Outside work Kate enjoys open water swimming, cinema and cocktails.

Anastasia Petraki, Investment Director, Sustainability, Schroders
Anastasia Petraki is an Investment Director supporting the Schroders Sustainable Investment capability and responsible for ESG regulation monitoring and implementation, content and thought leadership research, and client communications. She is a subject matter expert on global sustainability regulations and public policy. Anastasia joined Schroders in February 2019 as Head of Policy Research in the Strategic Research Unit. Prior to joining Schroders, she was Head of Research and Statistics at the Investment Association. Anastasia holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK.

Mark Manning, Sustainable Finance and Stewardship, Financial Conduct Authority
Mark Manning leads the FCA’s policy work on sustainable finance and investor stewardship. In this role, he is responsible for several initiatives, including the FCA’s implementation of the TCFD’s recommendations and the FCA’s work with IOSCO on corporate reporting standards on sustainability. Prior to joining the FCA in 2018, Mark spent fifteen years as a central banker with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). He held a number of senior roles, with a particular focus on policy, research and supervision in the field of financial market infrastructures (FMIs). Before joining the official sector, Mark spent several years as a fixed income and currency fund manager with Kleinwort Benson Investment Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Mark holds Master’s degrees in Economics and Finance, from University College London and London Business School, respectively.

Chris Johnson, Senior Product Manager, HSBC Securities Services
Chris has led ESG product initiatives for Securities Services, Markets and Securities Services, since 2017. This has included extensive analysis in order to devise products that are meaningful and cost-effective. He joined Securities Services in 2006 and is a Senior Product Manager with responsibility for Market Data. Chris was previously at Threadneedle Investments where he was Head of Investment Information Services. Before then he was a Director at UBS, and Vice President at Chase Manhattan and Bankers Trust

Paul Scaping, Public Policy Specialist, The Investment Association
Paul Scaping is a Public Policy Specialist at the Investment Association. He leads the IA’s advocacy work on climate change and the transition to net zero. In this role he is responsible for the IA Net Zero Forum which seeks to enable peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and provide a platform for all IA members to raise questions and find solutions in their journey to net zero. He is also responsible for the IA’s advocacy work on the transition to net zero in the wider economy. Paul has been at the IA for five years and was previously interim Head of Government Affairs before focusing on the IA’s engagement at Cop26. He previously worked in government relations consultancy after starting his career as a parliamentary researcher in the House of Commons.

Helene Winch, Head of Responsible Investing, Premier Miton
Helene winch joined Premier Miton in September 2019 and is responsible for overseeing Premier Miton’s overall responsible investing strategy and development, including co-ordinating the integration of ESG factors into Premier Miton’s general investment philosophy, process and oversight as well as reporting on stewardship activities. Helene joined the group from HSBC Global Asset Management where she was a Senior Responsible Investment Adviser. Her previous roles include, Head of Policy and Research at the Principles for Responsible Investment, Portfolio Director at Low Carbon Ltd and Head of Policy at BT Pension Scheme Management. Helene has over twenty years of investment industry experience, including considerable experience in responsible investing, including co-ordinating the integration of ESG into investment processes, as well as working as an investment manager. Helene holds an MSc in Mathematics & Finance from Imperial College, London. Helene also holds the CFA certificate of ESG Investing and is on the IA Sustainable and Responsible investment committee.

Dr Nicola Ranger, Deputy Director, UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Nicola Ranger is Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and a Senior Researcher in the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. She is also the Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally.

Amy Jenkins, Deputy Director, Green Jobs, Finance and Private Investment for Net Zero, Net Zero Strategy Directorate, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Amy leads BEIS’ work on green jobs, green finance and private investment for net zero, including leading the development of the Green Jobs, Skills and Industries as well as Green Investment chapters of the Net Zero Strategy, and before this BEIS’ work on the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution in 2020. Since joining the civil service in 2010, following several years working on the regulatory response to the financial crisis in the Financial Services Authority and HMT, she has worked in a variety of business, energy and climate policy roles, including as private secretary to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Sir Vince Cable, on the UK’s international climate strategy in the run up to the 2015 Paris COP21 negotiations where she supported Amber Rudd, and leading the development of the 2017 Clean Growth Strategy (the predecessor to the Net Zero Strategy).

Michael Mebane, ESG Consultant, MSCI
Michael Mebane is an ESG Consultant at MSCI. He has been with MSCI both in the Analytics and ESG business and in New York and now in London. As a consultant, he helps clients across the industry use MSCI’s ESG and Climate Change Metrics to analyse their portfolios and strategies. Michael has a Ph.D. in Economics.

Thomas Quaadman, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), the Chamber Technology Engagement Center (C_TEC), and the Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC).
Quaadman headed the Chamber’s efforts on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Jumpstart Our Business Start-Ups Act (JOBS Act). In addition, he formed and managed several coalitions, including the Corporate Governance Coalition for Investor Value and the FIRCA coalition on the convergence of domestic and international accounting rules. In directing the Chamber’s work on corporate governance, Quaadman led successful efforts to overturn the SEC’s proxy access rules and have a portion of the Conflict Minerals Rule declared unconstitutional.
He has testified on a number of occasions before congressional committees on issues covering capital formation, financial reporting, and corporate governance. He also led the business outreach efforts for the Working Group on U.S. RMB Clearing and Trading. In 2012, Treasury & Risk magazine named Quaadman as one of the top 100 influential people in finance. Quaadman graduated cum laude from New York Law School and is a graduate of the College of Staten Island. He is a member of the New York and Connecticut state bars. Quaadman and his wife, Tara, and their children, Creighton and Alexandra, reside in Alexandria, Virginia

Miranda Seath, Head of Market Insight, The Investment Association
Miranda joined the IA in May 2019 as Head of Market Insight and oversees the Research, Statistics and Sectors teams. As part of her role, she works with the Research and Statistics team to provide analysis of data and trends in UK investment management to IA Members and external stakeholders. She is also actively involved in IA Sectors, the fund classification scheme designed to help investors navigate the retail fund universe.
Miranda was Research Director successively at Platforum and NextWealth, both of which are research and consulting firms focused on analysing the distribution of retail investments. Her areas of expertise included: UK fund distribution, the advice and discretionary investment management markets, UK investment platforms and the post-retirement market. She has been a regular press commentator and speaker on retail investment distribution trends.

Dawn Hyams, Senior Consultant, The Wisdom Council
Dawn is a senior consultant to The Wisdom Council, leading their work on investor and fund governance – challenging the industry to ‘think customer’ in the design, delivery and marketing of investment and long-term savings products and services. Dawn currently sits on the FCA’s Disclosures and Labelling Advisory Group, and is working with the IA on an insight programme to give customers a voice in the debate on how to talk about sustainable investing.
With over 30 years’ experience in asset management – as a senior practitioner and consultant – Dawn has hands-on experience of the commercial and regulatory challenges facing the industry as well as deep investment industry expertise. Dawn brings all of this to bear whether driving B2B research projects with professional investors, talking to end investors or leading TWC’s work with the Investment Association.

Sally Springer, Senior Policy Adviser, The Investment Association
Sally Springer joined the IA as the Senior Policy Advisor responsible for Sustainability and Responsible Investment.
Prior to joining the IA, Sally has had a variety of roles within financial services including over 10 years as a buy side analyst at Newton Investment Management and Insight Investment. Sally has extensive experience of working for a member organisation having worked as the Senior Policy Director in Capital Markets and Infrastructure team where she led their response to the MIFID II proposals at the BBA (now UK Finance). More recently she worked as the Research and Engagement Manager at SRI-CONNECT, whose aim is to support sustainability considerations into mainstream investment decision making through better investor communications and investment research. The experience and knowledge gained throughout her career will support Sally in advising and presenting membership views on all aspects of Sustainability and Responsible Investment to shape future and current legislation.
Sally’s role at the IA will focus on responding to policy proposals both domestically and internationally to ensure that the UK maintains its global competitiveness in ESG investing and ensures a consistency of regulatory strategy that supports both the IA’s members and their clients.
Sally holds an honours degree in Economics (BSc) from the University of Warwick and gained the CFA charter in 2003.

Katie Schmitz Eulitt, Director of Investor Relationships at the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF)
Katie Schmitz Eulitt has worked with the Value Reporting Foundation [formerly Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)] since its inception. She now leads the SASB Standards Investor Advisory Group, comprising 61 leading international asset owners and managers – with >$52 Trillion in assets – supporting the VRF as a market standard for the communication of corporate performance on financially-material ESG issues to investors. She also developed and curates ESG Integration Insights, the VRF’s ongoing series of investor-written case studies examining the use of SASB Standards across asset classes, markets, and investment strategies.
Katie worked with investment bank Salomon Brothers for over a decade in the US, Japan, and Hong Kong. Her experience in project development and finance spans the energy sector (both fossil fuels and renewables), the protection of forested lands, and water disinfection in developing markets.

Ann Meoni, Senior Responsible Investment Analyst, abrdn
Ann Meoni is a Senior Responsible Investment Analyst within the Central ESG Investment Function. She is responsible for environmental research and developing our investment approach to environmental issues. This includes thematic and sector research, engaging with companies, and collaborating with peers and industry associations. Ann also supports the research and oversight of our impactful investing strategies, which aim to allocate capital in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Ann joined the firm’s Sustainability Team as Environmental Manager in 2013 and moved to the Responsible Investment Team in October 2021. Before this she had a number of environmentally focused roles across a range of sectors, including food and drink, industrial symbiosis and waste management. Her academic qualifications include an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, in Environmental Protection and Management and a BSc in Geology.

Vanessa Havard-Williams, Global Head of ESG, Linklaters
Vanessa is a founding partner and leader of the firm's global ESG practice. She has extensive experience advising on governance, policies and management plans, compliance systems, human rights and sustainability issues, environmental and product safety, transactional and contentious environmental and safety advice. She is also an expert on international soft law sustainability standards.
Vanessa is recognised internationally in legal directories as an expert in the areas of environmental law and governance, and human rights, for her intellect and gravitas, her breadth of experience in compliance and crisis management and the ability to help clients deal with complex issues. Clients praise her breadth of knowledge, experience and level of engagement in difficult situations.
She is also a member of the UK Government’s Export Credit Advisory Group in relation to environmental, social and climate issues applicable to UK Export Finance.

Phil Bloomer, Executive Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Phil became Executive Director of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in September 2013. Phil is responsible for leading the global organisation, delivering the mission and strategic priorities: labour rights in supply chains; just transition to net zero carbon; rights in technology.
Phil sits on a number of external groups including Climate Outreach’s Board, the European Citizen’s Initiative for a Living Wage, and the Civil Society Advisory Group for Principles for Responsible Banking.
Prior to joining the Resource Centre Phil was Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, delivering campaigns on climate justice, trade, access to medicines, and humanitarian protection.
Prior to joining Oxfam, Phil spent 11 years in Latin America and worked on human rights dimensions of business, including in food security, resource extraction, and mega-projects in repressive environments

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