Global Advisory Council

The Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme's Global Advisory Council has been created to guide our work. It also provides an important high-level forum for work on sustainable finance and stranded assets to be co-ordinated internationally.

Current Members

  • Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management
  • Amal-Lee Amin, Chief, Climate Change Division, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Alexander Barkawi, Founder and Director, Council on Economic Policies
  • Professor Morgan Bazilian, Inaugural Executive Director and Research Professor of Public Policy, Payne Institute for Earth Resources, Colorado School of Mines
  • David Blood, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation IM
  • James Cameron, Chairman, Overseas Development Institute
  • Diana Fox Carney, Pi Capital
  • Mike Clark, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
  • Rowan Douglas, Head, Capital Science and Policy Practice, Willis Towers Watson
  • Professor Robert Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  • Emily Farnworth, Head of Climate Initiatives, World Economic Forum
  • Jessica Fries, Executive Chairman, The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S)
  • Ben Goldsmith, CEO, Menhaden Capital
  • Eva Halvarsson, CEO, AP2
  • Kristin Halvorsen, Director, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) and former Norwegian Minister of Finance
  • David Harris, Head of Sustainable Business, London Stock Exchange Group and Head of Sustainable Investment, FTSE Russell
  • Connie Hedegaard, Chair, KR Foundation, and former European Commissioner for Climate Action
  • Thomas Heller, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Climate Policy Initiative
  • Catherine Howarth, CEO, ShareAction
  • Zoe Knight, Managing Director, Group Head, HSBC Centre of Sustainable Finance, HSBC
  • Piet Klop, Senior Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM Investments
  • Margaret Kuhlow, Finance Practice Leader, WWF International
  • Bernice Lee, Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre for the Sustainable Resource Economy, Chatham House
  • Bob Litterman, Senior Partner and Chairman of Risk Committee, Kepos Capital
  • Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres
  • Nick Mabey, CEO, E3G
  • Richard Mattison, CEO, Trucost
  • Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
  • Fiona Reynolds, Managing Director, UN Principles for Responsible Investment
  • Professor Nick Robins, Professor in Practice (Sustainable Finance), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Paul Simpson, CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project
  • Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute
  • Rhian-Mari Thomas, Managing Director, Chair Barclays Green Banking
  • James Thornton, CEO, ClientEarth
  • Lord Adair Turner, Chairman, Institute for New Economic Thinking
  • Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
  • Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors
  • Peter Wheeler, Executive Vice President, The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
  • Michael Wilkins, Managing Director, Infrastructure Finance Ratings, Standard & Poor's
  • Professor Wang Yao, Director General, International Institute of Green Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics
  • Simon Zadek, Senior Advisor on Finance to the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations
  • Dimitri Zenghelis, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Institute, London School of Economics