People
Meet the people behind the Transition Plan Taskforce
Steering Group
Oversight of the TPT with high-level representatives from companies, financial institutions, regulators, policymakers, and civil society. The Steering Group has two co-chairs: a private sector CEO and a UK Government Minister.
Co-Chair: Amanda Blanc
Group Chief Executive Officer
Aviva
Co-Chair: Baroness Penn
Treasury Lords Minister
HM Treasury
Sarah Breeden (Observer)
Executive Director for Financial Stability
Bank of England
Duncan Clark
Head of UK Region
Ørsted
Mark Fawcett
Chief Investment Officer
National Employment Savings Trust
Michael Izza
Chief Executive Officer
ICAEW
Mardi McBrien
Director of Strategic Affairs
IFRS Foundation
Graeme Pitkethly
Chief Financial Officer
Unilever
Alison Rose
Chief Executive Officer
Nat West
Sacha Sadan
ESG Director
FCA
Mary Schapiro
Vice Chair
GFANZ
David Schwimmer
Chief Executive Officer
LSEG
Michelle Scrimgeour
Chief Executive Officer
LGIM
Tanya Steele
Chief Executive Officer
WWF UK
Delivery Group
A group of experts who are leading and contributing to TPT workstreams. They include representatives from companies, financial institutions, regulators, policymakers, civil society, and academia.
Nitika Agarwal
Head of Sustainable Finance Policy
WWF UK
Patrick Arber
Head of International Government Engagement
Aviva
Mark Babington (Observer)
Executive Director, Regulatory Standards
Financial Reporting Council
Julie Baddeley
Chair
Chapter Zero
Clara Barby
Senior Partner
Just Climate
Nicolette Bartlett
Chief Impact Officer
CDP
Caroline Clark-Maxwell
Project lead – IFRS S2
IFRS/ISSB
James Close
Head of Climate Change
NatWest
Richard Crossick
Head of Public Affairs
Ørsted UK
Andrew Death (Observer)
Deputy Director
Department of Business and Trade
Helen Edmundson (Observer)
Deputy Director, Green Finance
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chandra Gopinathan
Senior Investment Manager
Railpen
David Harris
Group Head of Sustainable Business
LSEG
Vanessa Havard-Williams
Global Head of Environment and Climate Change
Linklaters
Des Healy (Observer)
ESG Lead
Department for Work and Pensions
Mark Hill (Observer)
Head Climate and Sustainability – Business Lead
The Pensions Regulator
Catherine Howarth
Chief Executive Officer
ShareAction
Ingrid Holmes
Executive Director
Green Finance Institute
Harriet Cullum
Global ESG Insights Lead
Diageo
Amy Jenkins (Observer)
Deputy Director, Net Zero Strategy Directorate
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Bella Landymore
Policy Director
Impact Investing Institute
Katharina Lindmeier
Senior Responsible Investment Manager
National Employment Savings Trust
Thomas Lingard
Global Sustainability Director
Unilever
Toby MacKean
Global ESG Analyst
LGIM
Richard Manley
Chief Sustainability Officer
CPP Investments
Mark Manning
Technical Specialist
FCA
Adam Matthews
Chief Responsible Investment Officer
Church of England Pensions Board
Rachel McEwen
Chief Sustainability Officer
SSE
Alexander Nick
Director, Climate Action
WBCSD
Tim Rawlings
Co-Head of the Climate Hub
Bank of England
Nick Robins
Professor of Practice
London School of Economics
Tony Rooke
Executive Director for Real Economy Transition Planning and Sectoral Pathways
GFANZ
Paul Scaping
Public Policy Specialist
Investment Association
Matt Scott
Executive Director
UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment
Richard Spencer
Director of Sustainability
ICAEW
Rachel Solomon Williams
Executive Director
Aldersgate Group
Hannah Summers
Director | Executive Compensation and Board Advisory / Climate & Resilience Hub
Willis Towers Watson
Chris Stark
Chief Executive Officer
Climate Change Committee
James Vaccaro
Executive Director
Climate Safe Lending Network
Faith Ward
Chair
IIGCC
Helen Wildsmith
Stewardship Director, Climate Change
CCLA
Secretariat
The Secretariat to the TPT is provided by the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) and E3G, with funding from philanthropy.
Dr Ben Caldecott
Secretariat Co-Head
Director and Principal Investigator, CGFI
Kate Levick
Secretariat Co-Head
Associate Director – Sustainable Finance, E3G
Jacques Morris
Secretariat Team Leader
Head of Policy, CGFI
Dr Gireesh Shrimali
Technical Advisor
CGFI
Nina Pimblett
Sector Guidance Lead
E3G
Ben Gilbey
Policy Lead and Sector Guidance Deputy Lead
E3G
Kate Ryan
International Engagement Lead
E3G
Ira Poensgen
Secretariat Technical Lead
Deputy Head of Policy, CGFI
José Luis Reséndiz
Technical Advisor
CGFI
Sophie English
Focus Topics Lead
E3G
Saad Moazam
Sandbox Coalition Lead
E3G
Alexander Schlatter
Sector Summary Lead
E3G
Helen Asquith Civil
Director of Communications
Transition Plan Taskforce Secretariat
Nathan Chan
Sector Guidance
Transition Plan Taskforce Secretariat
Max Rose
Technical Guidance
Transition Plan Taskforce Secretariat
