Our board

Faith’s roles include Co-chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), Chair of the Reporting and Assessment Advisory Committee for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), Member of the Ethics Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England National Investing Bodies, Vice-chair of the Investment Innovation Benchmark Assessment Committee and member of the Future-Fit Expert Council.

PKA Ltd is one of the largest occupational pension funds in Denmark. The PKA Group is owned by four occupational pension funds with more than 325,000 members, mainly employees in the public social and health sectors. At the end of 2019 the market value of the assets managed by PKA Ltd. was approximately DKK 300 billion (€42 bn.).

Impax currently manages ca. £15.0 billion in listed equity, private equity and fixed income strategies, primarily for institutional owners. Prior to Impax, Ian was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company advising clients on environmental strategy. Between 2013 and 2018 Ian was also a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s leading funding agency for environmental science; he is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the UK’s Green Finance Institute. Ian has a first-class honours degree in physics from Cambridge University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Adam founded and now Co-Chairs the TPI, an asset owner-led and asset manager-supported global initiative, which identifies companies’ preparedness for the transition to the low carbon economy. Adam is also the lead for the Church of England on the Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI) a forum that convenes mining company CEO’s.

Adam also serves as a member of the Royal College of Physicians Investment Advisory Board and on the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Stewardship Advisory Group.

Prior to joining EOS, he was head of sustainability at the UK Green Investment Bank, where he spent four years working on the project to establish the bank. This followed a variety of corporate strategy roles, including a management consultant position at the Boston Consulting Group.

Before that, she was director of investment at FRR Fonds de Réserves des Retraites from 2011 to 2014. She was formerly fund manager at BNPPAM, managing Small and Mid-Caps European equities and has been head of quantitative analysis for European equities. Caroline began her career at Paribas Asset Management. She is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and is a graduate of Paris IX Dauphine University.

Before joining APG in 2009, she worked on the buy and sell-side in London for almost a decade. She is an experienced non-profit board member and serves on the Board of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). Since 2016 she has been appointed to the German Corporate Governance Code Commission, and she was a member of the EU Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2017) whose recommendations inspired the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance. In 2016 she was voted CIO Europe’s Next Generation CIO Award winner.

In July 2020, APG together with PGGM, AustralianSuper and British Columbia Investment Management launched the Asset Owner Platform, setting a global standard for investing into the Sustainable Development Goals. Claudia co-chairs the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Advisory Committee on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and APG is also a member of the UN initiative Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) which seeks to advance investment into the SDGs.

Graham has been involved with the local educational activities of his professional body since 2013, previously chairing the IMC Panel and Exams and Education Committee, and was instrumental in the development, launch, and subsequent globalisation (through CFA Institute) of the Certificate in ESG Investment. He was a board member of CFA UK from 2015-2021, serving as Vice-Chairman for the final three years of his term, and now chairs the Sustainability Steering Committee.

Graham is also a member of the Responsible Investment Advisory Group to the LGPS Scheme Advisory Board.

Graham has qualified as chartered Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He graduated from Coventry University with a B.A. (Hons) in Financial Economics and from Durham with an MSc in Corporate and International Finance.

Jelle initiated environmental, social and governance (ESG) awareness and responsible investing (RI) at NN Investor Partners, and has advocated to integrate ESG and RI to the general insurance investment discussions. This work resulted in his nomination as CIO of the Year 2018 for Insurance Asset Risk.

Jelle has previously held international positions in banking and investment management including a senior leadership role at ING Direct out of Madrid. He started his career at NMB, a former retail bank in the Netherlands. He holds a Master’s in Geology and Geophyiscs from the University of Utrecht Netherlands.

Kelly is also the Co-Chair of the Adaptation and Resilience Working Group (IIGCC), member on the Task Force on Valuing Water (Ceres), member on the Steering Committee and Research Committee (Sustainable Development Investments – Asset Owner Platform) and Alternate Director on the Climate Action 100+.

From May 2020 through January 2023, Sandy was Global Head of Investment Stewardship for BlackRock. In that role, she was a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and was responsible for leading BlackRock Investment Stewardship in all its activities, including launching the firm’s pioneering Voting Choice program.

Prior to BlackRock, Sandy served at the Bank of England as an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee and the senior independent member and risk committee chair of the Board that oversees the system used to make high-value payments and implementation of monetary policy.

Sandy is a former senior partner at McKinsey & Co. She joined McKinsey in 1994 and was elected Partner in 2000 and Senior Partner in 2004.

Sandy has held several other advisory and non-executive roles. Sandy is currently a member of the Board of Trustees at The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Sandy also served on Impact Taskforce created in July 2021 under the UK’s G7 2021 presidency.

Sandy received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994 and a BA from Stanford University in 1989, majoring in American Studies and Economics. Prior to joining McKinsey, she worked for Merrill Lynch and Company and Trammell Crow Company.

AIM SE represents the asset owner responsibilities of Allianz SE’s 800bn proprietary asset portfolio. Udo oversees the functions of portfolio risk management, performance measurement, reporting, monitoring and ESG integration. Udo was instrumental in defining and integrating Allianz SE’s ESG approach into the steering of all asset classes in its global portfolio.

Udo joined the Allianz Group in 2003, first at Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG in Stuttgart, where he was an expert advisor on derivatives and risk topics before moving to AIM in 2007.

Udo graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen. Prior to his private sector career in finance, Udo was a University lecturer and published researcher in pure mathematics.