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Meet the Responsible Investment Advisory Council

Meet the council
Our Responsible Investment Advisory Council is an external group of responsible investment
experts who meet quarterly to provide advice on our approach to responsible investment,
including on material ESG themes, stewardship activity, ESG-related fund design and market
positioning, and with particular focus on the Responsible range of funds.

Will Oulton, Chair
In addition to his role as Chair of the RIAC,
Will is Chair of EdenTree Investments’ RI
Expert Panel, a Non-Executive Directorand Board Champion for Ocean Recovery
at the UK Marine Conservation Society,
Chair of King Charles III’s Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
Expert Panel and a Non-Executive Director and Chair of theInvestment Committee at wealth advisor, Harmonic Financial
Planning. Will previously spent eight years as Chair of theEuropean Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif), and adecade as the Global Head of Responsible Investment at First
Sentier Investors where he founded the FSI MUFG Sustainable
Investment Institute. Will began his career in RI as RI Directorat FTSE in 2009, before joining Mercer as Head of RI, EMEA
prior to joining First Sentier Investors.

Simon Bond
Simon Bond brings extensive experience incorporate credit and the social investment
space, specifically the social bond market,
which seeks to raise funds for new andexisting projects addressing or mitigatinga specific social issue and/or seeking to achieve positivesocial outcomes. Simon retired from Columbia Threadneedle
Investments in March 2023 after 20 years at the firm. He wasa Senior Fund Manager specialising in institutional Investment
Grade Credit Funds and conceived of, launched and managed
the CT UK Social Bond Fund (launched in 2013) and theThreadneedle (Lux) European Social Bond Fund (launched in2017); he also supported the development of other responsible
investment strategies across the firm. Prior to joining Columbia
Threadneedle Investments, Simon was a Fund Manager at
AXA and GE Insurance, and worked at Provident Mutual as aFixed Income Analyst and Hambros Bank as an Investment
Accountant and Pension Fund Investment Administrator.
Besides his role in the Responsible Investment Advisory
Council, Simon sits as an independent member on the Advisory
Committees for each of the Columbia Threadneedle Social
Bond Funds. He is also a board member and Lead Expert atthe Impact Investing Institute and continues to partner withBig Issue Invest as an advisor on Impact. He has also agreed
to become a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham ResearchInstitute (London School of Economics).

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Meet the Responsible Investment Advisory Council

Elizabeth McGeveran
Elizabeth McGeveran is Director ofInvestments at the McKnight Foundation.
She is responsible for the long-term healthand growth of the Foundation’s $2.2
billion endowment. McGeveran led a new
board-initiated impact investing programme that reshapedendowment priorities. McKnight has since invested 10
percent of its endowment in businesses and funds that arebuilding the low-carbon economy, improving water quality, andcontributing to a thriving, sustainable Minnesota.
Prior to McKnight, McGeveran was senior vice president
for Governance and Sustainable Investment at F&C AssetManagement, a London-based commercial asset manager(now Columbia Threadneedle Investments). From 1999,
McGeveran built F&C’s market-leading socially responsible
investment business and served as a senior manager to oneof the industry’s largest teams. She was previously managing
director of Green America, a national non-profit consumer andinvestor education organisation.
McGeveran is an independent trustee of the Boston
Trust & Walden Funds, a longtime leader in incorporating
environmental, social, and governance priorities into its
investment approach. She has also served on advisorycommittees for companies such as ExxonMobil and General
Electric and was an original member of the US Advisory
Committee for the FTSE4Good indexes. McGeveran grew up
outside Boston and graduated from Carleton College.

Rosey Hurst
Rosey brings deep expertise in labour
standards and supply chains to theCouncil. She has driven some of the mostsignificant innovations in this area as afounding director of Impactt, a leading
consultancy specialising in improving labour practices in the
supply chain, and ‘Sedex’, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange,
dedicated to driving improvements in responsible and ethicalbusiness practices in global supply chains.
Rosey has wide on the ground experience, particularly inAsia, travelling regularly to meet Impactt clients as wellas supporting teams in the field to implement changes inworkplaces and engage with workers and employers locally.
Impactt operates in the UK, India, China and Bangladeshwith a global network of associates, and Rosey has built
the organisation from its inception. The firm was named

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Consultancy of the Year at the 2014 Guardian Sustainable
Business Awards.
Rosey has wide executive, researcher and board level
experience in organisations that sit at the nexus of businessand sustainable development.

Dr Ben Caldecott
Dr Ben Caldecott is the founding
Director of the Oxford Sustainable
Finance Programme at the Universityof Oxford Smith School of Enterpriseand the Environment. He is theinaugural holder of the Lombard Odier
Associate Professorship and Senior Research Fellowshipof Sustainable Finance; a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel
College, Oxford; and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Ben is also the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance basedout of the UK Cabinet Office.
Ben founded and co-chairs the Global Research Alliance for
Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), an allianceof global research universities promoting rigorous andimpactful academic research on sustainable finance. Heestablished and leads the Sustainable Finance Theme at
The Alan Turing Institute and initiated the Spatial FinanceInitiative, which aims to mainstream geospatial capabilities
enabled by space technology and data science into
financial decision-making globally. He also co-founded theCommonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), whichis examining the legal basis for directors and trustees toconsider, manage, and report on climate change-related risk.
Ben currently serves on the US Commodity Futures Trading
Commission’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee
and the UK Department for International Trade’s Export
Guarantees Advisory Council. In his capacity as a Member of
the UK Green Finance Taskforce, he chaired its Workstream
on Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD)
Implementation.

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