The new committee will support the board in executing oversight of ESG-related problems relevant to the FCA in its capacity as a regulatory body.
It will also provide guidance on relevant emerging ESG topics or issues and views on how the FCA should develop its ESG strategy in keeping with the organisation’s statutory objectives and regulatory principles.
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The ESG advisory committee will include:
- Tom Gosling, executive fellow in the department of finance at London Business School and executive fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute
- Catherine Howarth OBE, CEO at ShareAction
- Tim Mohin, former chief sustainability officer at Persefoni AI and former CEO at the Global Reporting Initiative
- Desiree Fixler, founder of RYSN Consulting and chair of VentureESG
- Sonali Siriwardena, partner and global head of ESG at Simmons and Simmons
- Harald Walkate, senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance & Private Wealth (CSP) at the University of Zurich
The committee will also include the FCA’s chair, other NEDs and the director of ESG.
Members have been appointed by the board in a personal capacity and will abide by a conflict of interest policy.
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