GRI Boards
GRI has a two-tier board structure to ensure the effective governance of the organization, comprising a Management Board and a Supervisory Board. The updated governance structure was announced in October 2021.
Management Board
GRI is led by a Management Board, responsible for policy and management of the organisation, which consists of:
- Eelco van der Enden, Chief Executive Officer
- Bastian Buck, Chief Standards Officer
- Lars Wagemans, Interim Chief Financial Officer
- Cristina Gil White, Chief Operational Officer
- Olivia Swartz, Chief People Officer
Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board provides oversight and advice to the Management Board. Appointments to the Supervisory Board reflect multi-stakeholder membership and are on a voluntary basis.
Members serve a term of three years. The membership is refreshed on a regular basis with a global public call for applications.
The Supervisory Board wishes to thank departing members Jack Ehnes, Girish Ramachandran and Meredith Miller for their expertise and support during their tenures.
Members of the Supervisory Board
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Ms. Awe is a lawyer, admitted in Nigeria and New York. She is the CEO of NGX Regulation Limited, the independent regulatory subsidiary of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc. She was on the Board of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of Nigeria for two terms. She is a member of the FRC’s Adoption Readiness Working Group for the Adoption of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 in Nigeria. She attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Harvard Law School, and The London School of Economics and Political Science. She enjoys art and travelling. |
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Bruno is the global corporate governance lead and sustainability research director at S&P Global Ratings. He also sits on the ICGN’s Natural Capital Committee. Previously, he founded Quetzal Strategy, an emerging markets-focused sustainability consultancy and was the head of Latin America at Morrow Sodali where he advised boards and C-suites on governance. He previously worked in responsible investing at Hermes Investment Management, and in ESG research. He graduated from Durham University in Middle Eastern Studies, has a Masters in International Political Economy from Warwick University, and holds certificates in governance, sustainability and investor relations. |
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Aaron Brenner is Senior Analyst in the Capital Stewardship Program at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which has 1.3 million members in the US and Canada. He helps the CSP spearhead efforts to protect retirement security, promote responsible investment, and ensure corporate accountability. He serves on the board of directors of Homeland Stores, an 80-store grocery chain based in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. |
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Helena Broadbridge has spent 20+ years working worldwide with companies in the interface of sustainability impacts, risk management, and reporting. She brings extensive practical understanding of sustainability and integrated reporting as well as assurance, combined with long-term governance experience. She has chaired several governance bodies of the GRI (2014-2023) and is a former member of the Standards Board of AccountAbility. Helena is a Partner in Deloitte. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Stellenbosch. |
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For more than 20 years, Christie has worked to promote a wide range of social justice and environmental issues across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. She was most recently the Global Director of Sustainability at the law firm of Baker McKenzie. Prior to that, she was the Creative Director for Virgin Unite, Sir Richard Branson’s charitable foundation in London. She has also worked as a refugee advocate with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
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Jane has extensive governance experience, having chaired or served on boards of listed, unlisted, private and not for profit entities globally.Since retiring as Chairman of IOSCO and the New Zealand Securities Commission in 2011, her portfolio focus has been on global finance and regulation, audit, ethics and sustainability standard setting and reporting, and digitisation including AI.Her current roles include; Ambassador World Benchmarking Alliance, Director Singapore Regulation Pte Ltd, Vice President Abu Dhabi Appeals Board, Member Advisory Board A4S, Member Sustainability Advisory Board Persefoni AI Inc. and Trustee Wellington Zoo Trust.
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Mr. Ijjasz is a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and advisor to several international organizations in the areas of sustainability, ESG, finance, and climate change adaptation. He retired from the World Bank after a 23-year career where he was part of the senior leadership team for sustainable development, infrastructure, and environmental and social safeguards policies. Mr. Ijjasz has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He serves on several private and not-for-profit boards. He is a Colombian and Hungarian national. |
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Dr. Daniel Klier joined ESG Book as Chief Executive in June 2021. ESG Book is a leading ESG data and technology company with offices in Boston, London, Frankfurt, Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo.Prior to this, Daniel was Global Head of Sustainable Finance for HSBC, where he developed the global climate strategy for the bank and led the sustainable finance business across the bank. Daniel chaired the Bank of England Climate Risk Working Group and the Sustainable Finance Working Group at the Institute of International Finance. He is a member of the Board of Sustainable Energy for All.Daniel joined HSBC in 2013 as Group Head of Strategy in London, following a successful career at McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner. In 2016, Daniel was selected as Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. |
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Dr Lu is a pioneer of sustainable business strategy and a respected industry thought leader. He has performed in senior executive roles for more than 20 years in a variety of international organizations and multi-national companies including President General Affairs of Greater China of Essilor, President of The Weir Group (China), Global Partner of Brunswick Group, Executive Vice President of Singapore RGE Group, and Acting President China of BHP Billiton.Dr Lu is currently deputy director of the Sustainability Committee of China Management Science Society, Deputy Director General of China CSR Think Tank, Chairman of the Decision Board of the Shanghai Foreign Invested Association, a panel expert of the China Federation of Industries and Economics, Member of Chinese Environment Protection Federation, and member of UN Responsible Education Committee (China), Leader of ESG Disclosure Standard Expert Committee (Shanghai). He was the former co-chair of the Sustainable Business Committee of the Shanghai American Chamber and the Shanghai British Chamber, and Chairman of the China ESG Award of British Chamber 2022-23.Dr. Lu is a guest professor at the Nankai University, Zhejiang University, Hong Kong University, Shenzhen Institute of International Philanthropy Management and an alumnus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Ecole Central de Paris, and Zhejiang University. Dr. Lu is a columnist for the national media including China Business News and the Economy Observer. Recently Dr. Lu joined the INNIO Group in his snr role of Chief Strategic Partnership assisting in developing the company’s growth in the clean and renewable energy application field. |
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