Board of Directors

• Chair

  Martin Clarke

  Martin Clarke is Executive Director of Financial Risk at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) where his responsibilities include oversight of its investments.

  A Cambridge-educated mathematician, actuary and Harvard Business School alumnus, Martin’s previous career was spent in retail financial services with the Co-operative Insurance Society, which he joined in 1977.

  As marketing director at Co-operative Insurance in the 1990s, he launched ethical investment products and introduced voting disclosure, an engagement overlay, and an award-winning social accountability programme. He was also a non-executive director at Congregational & General Insurance plc, a leading provider of church and home insurance.

  Martin has a special interest in corporate social responsibility and the development of sustainable and responsible investment.

  In 2011, Martin was awarded ‘Pension Fund Risk Manager of the Year’ by Risk Magazine.

• Vice Chair

  David Harris

  David is Director of ESG and is responsible for FTSE’s ESG services, including FTSE4Good, ESG Ratings, FTSE Environmental Markets, and FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Series.  He has worked in responsible investment and sustainability for over a decade.  David started his career with Arthur D. Little’s Environment & Risk Practice, and has also worked for PwC’s climate change team. He has an MSc in Environmental Technology, an IMC from the UK Society of Investment Professionals, and a first class degree in Biological Sciences from Oxford University. David serves as an advisory committee member for EUROSIF, LuxFlag and the UN backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and as a judge for the Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards.

  David was elected to the UKSIF Board in 2009 and serves as Vice Chair.

• Geoff Burnand

  Geoff is Director of Funds at Social Investment Business, a specialist fund manager, and since 2004 has been the CEO of Investing for Good, a FSA social finance intermediary to private banks, foundations, charities and social enterprises.

  He is passionate about changing the way people think about investment capital and has in-depth knowledge and extensive contacts across the sector both UK and internationally, including philanthropic consultants, social financiers, investment managers, regulators and Government. He is a regular speaker at conferences and in the media on social investing. Prior to this, Geoff spent over twenty years in private and institutional investment management working with a wide variety of clients.

• Sagarika Chatterjee

  Sagarika Chatterjee is an Associate Director in the Governance and Sustainable Investment (GSI) Team at F&C Management Ltd, a London-based global asset management company.

  Sagarika joined F&C in 2002. Sagarika leads the team’s investor engagement programme on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity, and specialises in Emerging Markets.  She also oversees research for F&C’s specialist funds, including the Stewardship Funds, Global Climate Opportunities Fund and Emerging Markets Equity ESG Strategy.

  Prior to joining F&C, Sagarika worked for the buying team of home improvement retailer Kingfisher, sourcing timber products from sustainably-managed forests.  Before this, she worked in higher education in China for two years.  Sagarika is also a Trustee of Earthwatch, an international environment charity involved in scientific research and outreach to companies.

• Barry Clavin

  Barry Clavin is Ethical Policies and Sustainability Reporting Manager at The Co-operative Group. With a background in finance and marketing, Barry is responsible for the oversight of ethical finance at Co-operative Financial Services, the development of ethical policies for co-operative businesses, including The Co-operative Bank, and for the production of the Group’s award winning Sustainability Report. Barry is the author of the Ethical Consumerism Report.

• John Ditchfield

  John Ditchfield is one of the UK’s leading advisers on environmental investment funds and a Managing Partner at Barchester Green Investment, a leading firm of independent financial advisers specialising in sustainable and responsible investment.

  In 2008, he was part of the group which purchased Barchester through a limited liability partnership, and over the last two years he has been closely involved in preparing the business for the Retail Distribution Review. He works for clients in central London and the South-East, developing investment planning strategies for private and corporate clients with SRI concerns.

  John was elected to the UKSIF Board in September 2012.

• Adam Frost

  Adam Frost is Head of Governance, and Social and Environmental Research at Sarasin & Partners, a global thematic investment manager.

  Since joining Sarasin & Partners in 2010, Adam has led the successful launch of the firm’s socially responsible global equities fund. For the previous five years he worked for BP, where he was responsible for investments across the alternative energy industries. Prior to BP, he worked at McKinsey and at the private equity firm, Apax Partners, where he helped to launch the pioneering Bridges Community Ventures Fund. Adam was a Fulbright Scholar in corporate social responsibility at Harvard Business School.

• Roseanne Newbould

  Roseanne Newbould is a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. She currently works in the financial modelling advisory team at KPMG, designing and reviewing operational decision making models for clients across all sectors.
  
  She began her career in the investment management and funds audit team of KPMG. Roseanne’s audit clients included investment managers, pension funds, hedge funds and other funds. In 2010 Roseanne undertook a secondment to KPMG’s Climate Change and Sustainability team, delivering assurance on public and private sustainability reports.
  
  Roseanne has a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford University. As part of her degree she specialised in environmental economics.

• My-Linh Ngo

  My-Linh Ngo was, until December 2011, Associate Director SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors. Her responsibilities were for sustainability and corporate responsibility (CR) analysis and engagement for Henderson’s SRI funds as well as some communications, client and business development functions.

  My-Linh has been active in the SRI industry since 2000. She has extensive committee level experience, having been a participant on the GSK sustainability related advisory boards, the Access to Medicines Foundation Advisory Committee and various UKSIF sub-committees. As well as a BSc Hons degree in Environmental Sciences, My-Linh has two masters, one in Environmental Management and the other on Leadership for Sustainable Development. She has also attained her Investment Management Certificate (IMC).

• Will Oulton

  Will Oulton is the Global Head of Responsible Investment at First State Investments based in the UK.  He has more than ten years’ experience in sustainable and responsible and responsible investment, having been Head of Responsible Investment at Mercer Investments, advising institutional investors on environmental, social and corporate governance matters, and previously Director of Responsible Investment at FTSE Group.

  In February 2012, he was appointed vice president of the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) and, in the same year, was appointed to the board of UKSIF.  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Lecturer at Nottingham University Business School’s International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility and sits on a number of investment industry advisory committees.

• Amanda Young

  Amanda Young is the SRI Officer at Newton Investment Management, heading up SRI research and engagement on behalf of Newton’s institutional, retail, charity and private clients. Amanda joined Newton in 2008 and focuses on integrating environmental, social and governance matters into the investment process.

  Amanda started her career at Rabobank International in economic research after graduating from Lancaster University in 1997 with a BSc in Psychology. Prior to working at Newton, Amanda was the Senior SRI Analyst at CCLA Investment Management, the specialist church and charity fund manager.

  Amanda was elected to the UKSIF Board in 2009 and is also a member of UKSIF’s Market Committee.