Your Guide to ESG Reporting

Appointed to the Board in June 2010. In addition to his role as Director of Capital Markets, Raffaele was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Borsa Italiana S.p.A. in April 2010. He is also Institore of the LSEGH (Italy) group of companies. Prior to joining Borsa Italiana in 1998, he was head of trading for Italian fixed income at Credit Suisse First Boston from 1993 to 1998. From 1996 he was member of the proprietary trading group in London. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Board Member of MTS S.p.A., representing Credit Suisse First Boston and from 1989 to 1993 was head of trading for the fixed income and derivatives divisions at Cimo S.p.A. in Milan.

Mark is Group Director of Information Services of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Chief Executive of FTSE Russell, the global index provider. He is a member of LSEG’s Executive Committee. Mark started his career in financial services in 1985, when he joined London Stock Exchange to coordinate “Big Bang” (the deregulation of securities trading in the City of London). In 1995 he founded FTSE International and grew the index business from a small UK start up with nine staff to become one of the largest and most successful global index providers today. He has over 20 years’ experience of developing successful joint ventures. He has successfully forged alliances with stock exchanges, academics and leading industry groups around the world. He was a founding member of the Index Industry Association and its first chairman. Mark has been a long‐time supporter of the children’s charity UNICEF.

Martin Skancke was appointed PRI Association Board director Chair in April 2014. He developed and headed the Asset Management Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, which is responsible for the management of the Government Pension Fund, with assets of over US$800 billion. In 2014 Martin chaired the Expert Group appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance to assess the Government Pension Fund Global’s (GPFG) use of exclusion and ownership strategies in coal and petroleum companies. He served as Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Public & Institutional Investors Industry Agenda Council throughout 2010 and 2011 and was the Norwegian representative in the drafting of the Santiago Principles for Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and in the International Forum of SWFs. Martin served as Director General to the Norwegian Prime Minister and head of the Domestic Policy Department between 2002 and 2006. In this role, he was chief advisor to the Prime Minister of Norway on economic policy issues. Prior to this he worked for more than a decade on macroeconomic policy issues, including serving as Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Finance and head of the Section for Monetary Policy and Public Finances. Martin has also worked at the Oslo office of McKinsey&Co, advising Norwegian and international companies on business strategy issues.

David is responsible for sustainability and green finance integration into services across London Stock Exchange Group. As part of this role David also leads ESG at FTSE Russell where he is responsible for ESG Ratings, FTSE4Good, Environmental Markets and Green Revenues. ‎ He has held industry positions, including Vice-Chair of UKSIF, serving on Advisory Committees for the PRI, EuroSIF and the City of London’s Green Finance Initiative. Last year he chaired the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange's Working Group developing Model ESG Reporting Guidance. He is also a member of the new European Commission High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. David has worked in sustainable investment for over 15 years. His career started with ADL’s Environment & Risk Practice, and with PwC's climate change consulting business. He has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, an IMC from the CFA Society, and has a first class degree in Biological Sciences from Oxford University.

James Bevan is Chief Investment Officer at CCLA Investment Management Ltd, having joined the company in that role in 2006. As CIO, James is responsible for all of the company's investment activities, which involve providing a broad range of products and services to more charities in the UK than any other fund manager. James has had stints as Head of Asset Management and CIO at Abbey, and CIO for Barclays Asset Management Group and BZW Portfolio Management. James joined the City in 1988 following postgraduate research in applied economics and asset allocation at Cambridge University. He is a director of Witan Investment Trust, a Chartered Fellow of the CISI, serves on the advisory group of the CFA Institute, and is a trustee of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. James is a frequent commentator on finance, economics and investing for the BBC, Sky, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg and a number of journals.

Russell is the Board Chair of the HSBC Bank UK Pension Scheme trustees and a director of LifeSight, WillisTowersWatson’s UK DC MasterTrust. He is also a Special Advisor to the FSB Task Force on Climate Risk Financial Disclosure. He is a chartered accountant by profession and for over 20 years was HSBC’s Group Chief Accounting Officer. Russell has a strong personal interest in Sustainable Investing and the quality and transparency of reporting. He is an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council and a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.

Steve leads Aviva Investors' Global Responsible Investment team, which is responsible for integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues across all asset classes and regions of c£320bn of assets under management. The team has achieved an A+ ranking in governance and strategy from the UN Principles for Responsible Investment; and a Tier 1 assessment for Stewardship from the UK Financial Reporting Council (the UK's independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting).

Claire Dorrian is a senior manager within the Primary Markets team focusing on providing support to private companies and their investors in their initial and on-going assessment of a potential IPO strategy. Claire works with key stakeholders such as companies and the corporate advisory, Private Equity and VC communities - including nominated advisers, sponsors, lawyers and accountants. Claire has held a variety of roles at the Exchange including managing a portfolio of small and mid cap companies in the Mining and Oil and Gas sectors, promoting the London markets in Continental Europe and product management and policy work on AIM. Prior to joining the Exchange Claire worked in the fund management industry, firstly with AIB Govett Asset Management and then for ANZ Funds Management in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a BA Honours degree in International Relations from Keele University.

Born in 1967 and graduated at the School for Interpreters, Donatella Izzo has covered several positions within the IR department of the Enel Group since 2004, after starting as a junior IR at Wind Telecomunicazioni (the telecommunications business of the Group). Initially, she covered the equity sell-side relationship at the holding level with the brokers covering the Enel stock and in 2004 and 2005 she participated in the third, fourth and private placement of Enel shares by the then majority shareholder, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in the disposal of the telecommunication asset in 2005, in the acquisition of Endesa in 2007 and in the capital increase in 2009. She also set up the fixed income unit within the IR department to take care of the relationship with such institutional investors once the Group started issuing corporate bonds to diversify the sources of capital, mainly bank loans, raised to finance the Endesa acquisition. This also included the management of the relationship with rating agencies. In 2010, she took the helm of the Investor Relations department of Enel Green Power, the renewable subsidiary, which was listed in November that year. She covered the position until its de-listing when she moved back to the Holding IR department to set up a specific unit in charge of ESG engagement with institutional investors and sell-side analysts, both on the equity and fixed income side, and coordination of the listed subsidiaries.

Graeme Pitkethly is the Chief Financial Officer of Unilever and an Executive Director to the Boards of Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. Graeme joined Unilever in 2002 and has held various finance and commercial roles around the world. These include CFO of Unilever Indonesia, Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Group Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Global Markets. Most recently Graeme was the General Manager of Unilever UK and Ireland. Prior to joining Unilever, Graeme worked in the US, Bermuda and London with FLAG Telecom and before this with PWC in a variety of audit and corporate finance roles. Graeme is a Chartered Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry from Strathclyde University. Graeme is a member of the IGD’s Policy Issues Council (PIC) and a member of the Food and Drink Federation’s Executive Committee. Graeme is married with two children with whom he enjoys skiing and golf. He also has a passion for blues music and is an enthusiastic guitarist.

Toby began his career at Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a chartered accountant before becoming Finance Director of Medicom International Ltd, a medical publishing company, in 1992. He joined Johnson Matthey plc as Corporate Development Manager in 1997, going on to become Divisional Finance Director and then Managing Director of one of Johnson Matthey’s global speciality chemicals business units. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Acta SpA, a renewable energy company, before joining Consort Medical plc as Group Finance Director.

Alessandra at the London Stock Exchange Group, Capital Markets, has the responsibility for the relationship with Pension Funds and Asset Owners. In her role she promotes Capital Markets and LSEG brand among Asset Owners at global level and she develops strategic intelligence to capture changing trends and new business opportunities. Alessandra has an Economic Research background. She joined Borsa Italiana in 2000 where she has been Head of Economic Research Department for almost ten years. She graduated at Bocconi University and had her MSc degree in Econometrics at Southampton University. Since 2007 Alessandra is Professor of International Financial Markets at Bocconi University. She is author of publications about international flows of funds, institutional and retail investors asset allocation and behavior and more recently responsible investments.