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The Board are pleased to announce that Emma Howard Boyd CBE is to be the new Chair when Sir Tim Laurence stands down at the end of 2022
Emma has had an extensive career in financial services at the forefront of the climate change, environmental and sustainable finance agenda.
She was Chair of the Environment Agency and an ex-officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2016-22. She is currently Chair of the Green Finance Institute, an Adviser to the Board of Trade, and a UN Global Ambassador for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience.
Emma was the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation from 2018 until its sunset in January 2021. Emma serves on several boards and advisory committees which include:
• Liontrust Asset Management
• The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (Co-Chair)
• The European Climate Foundation
• Accounting for Sustainability
Before becoming Chair of the Environment Agency in September 2016, she had served as a Board member since 2009, was Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee until 2016, and also served as Deputy Chair.
Her other previous roles include being the Chair of Trustees at ShareAction from 2015-18, Vice-Chair of the Future Cities Capital from 2013-18, and acting as a Non-Executive Director at the Aldersgate Group from 2012 – 2018 and Thrive Renewables (previously Triodos Renewables) from 2004-12. Before that, she held various executive roles at Jupiter Asset Management. She was also Chair of UKSIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association), a member of the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, and the Green Finance Taskforce.