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