Richard
Richard Burrett has spent over 35 years working in international banking and finance. After an initial period with NatWest he joined AMRO Bank in 1988 where he gained wide experience of working on structured and project financing in the energy and infrastructure sectors becoming Managing Director and Global Head of Project Finance in 2001. In this role he was instrumental in the development of the Equator Principles, creating a market recognised standard for the management of environmental and social risk within project financing. He started to work directly on ABN AMRO´s award winning sustainability agenda in 2004 becoming Global Head of Sustainability before leaving the Bank in May 2008. He is a Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at Earth Capital Ltd, a sustainability-focused investment group; a non-exec board director of Triodos Bank UK Ltd; a non-exec board member of Union Bank of Nigeria (nominated by FMO the Dutch Development Bank) ; a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Senior Adviser to the Earth Security Group. From 2010 until the end of 2012 he was Co-Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative. He is also a Board Member of Forest Trends, a Washington based organisation promoting market-based approaches to forest conservation. He holds a BA in German and a MBA from Durham University and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
