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GRI Sector Standard Project for
Financial Services
Insurance Technical Committee member
biographies
August 2023, updated March 2024

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Contents
Technical committee members ................................................................................................................ 3
Shaun Tarbuck ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Kate Lyons ............................................................................................................................................... 3
Carrie Gannetta ....................................................................................................................................... 3
Yingzhen Chuang .................................................................................................................................... 4
Mathieu Filippo..........................................................................................................................................4

Mia Thom ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Ariel Le Bourdonnec ................................................................................................................................ 4
Jesús Palacios ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Vera Sokulsky .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Butch Bacani ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Caroline Delérable ................................................................................................................................... 6
Christiaan Henning .................................................................................................................................. 6
Anna Marie Romano ................................................................................................................................ 6

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Technical committee members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing members to participate in the GRI Insurance Technical Committee. The members represent
diverse, multi-stakeholder backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge andexperience in the insurance sector and its role in sustainable development.

Shaun Tarbuck
CEO, International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance
Federation (ICMIF)
Constituency: Business EnterpriseShaun Tarbuck has worked for 28 years at ICMIF, the insurance
sector’s leading industry body for mutual and cooperative insurers.
He led the creation of the world’s first SDG measurement benchmark
for insurers, the ‘ICMIF calibrated SDG Calculator’, together with
Swiss Re and in collaboration with UNEP PSI. He built the world’s
first resiliency benchmark in partnership with the UNDRR titled the‘ICMIF/UNDRR Resiliency Benchmark’.
Shaun Tarbuck sits on the B20 taskforce for ‘Financing for Global
Economic Recovery’, on the Climate Bond Initiative Advisory Board,and is a founding member of the Insurance Development Fund (IDF)
as well as Co-Chair of its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) taskforce.

Kate Lyons

Chief Information Officer, Insurance Council Australia
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Kate Lyons is an insurance and reinsurance executive with over 20
years of experience in the sector. She has held a variety of roles in
the insurance and reinsurance sector across actuarial, capital,
reinsurance, and sustainability areas.
Kate Lyons plays leading roles in industry groups, including the
Climate Change Action Committee of the Insurance Council ofAustralia and the Australian Actuaries Institute Climate andSustainability working group.

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Carrie Gannetta
Director Sustainability Research and Measurement,
Liberty Mutual
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Carrie Gannetta has worked for over 15 years at Liberty Mutual andmanages the company’s annual sustainability reporting, including
their GRI, SASB, and TCFD reporting. She supports research onindustry trends informing sustainability strategy.
Her tenure with Liberty Mutual has included roles in analytics,
process improvement and customer service. Carrie Gannetta holds
an MPA focused on Emergency Management and is nearly completewith an MS in Environmental Policy and Climate.

Yingzhen Chuang
Global Head of Sustainability Risk, Gallagher Re
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Yingzhen Chuang has over 15 years experience in the (re)insurance
industry. Leads the climate and ESG client proposition for Gallagher
Re. She played an instrumental role in establishing the new climate
and ESG function for the business, setting direction for developing
and delivering advisory, analytics, and transactional offering.
She previously managed the International Catastrophe Analytics
team at Willis Re, including the model evaluation and model
development teams.
Yingzhen Chuang has served on various industry technical forums
ranging from flood risk management to open model implementation.

Mathieu Filippo

Senior Manager Prudential Supervision, Achmea
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Mathieu Filippo has over two decades working in financial services
and insurance sectors. Currently, he is responsible for theinterpretation and implementation of EUT and CSRD for Achmea.
He possesses extensive experience in prudential legislation andinterpretation for insurance, banking and asset management
activities, and has extensive experience in various reporting andcompliance projects including: the implementation of IFRS, special
accounting projects, and quantitative impact studies solvency II.
Mathieu holds various positions on external working groups:
Solvency working group of Dutch association of insurers (Chairman),
Solvency II working group of Insurance Europe (member), Prudential
regulation working Group Amice (Co-chair), Sustainability working
group AMICE (member), and Dutch sustainability reporting working
group (member).

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Mia Thom
Technical Director, Center of Financial Regulation andInclusion (Cenfri)
Constituency: Civil Society Organization (nongovernmental organization)
Mia Thom has 20 years of experience within the financial sector. She
currently explores how to develop systems that foster inclusion,
focusing on vulnerable groups such as women, migrants, and rural
people in developing countries, particularly across Africa.
Mia Thom leads Cenfri’s sustainability portfolio, including as amember of the UNEP PSI’s Africa chapter, the Microinsurance
Network, the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), and the steeringcommittee of the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance(mandated to build awareness and capability with African insurers to
adopt and implement ESG strategies).
She has worked with public and private sector decision-makers toadapt business and governance models to deliver inclusive,
sustainable financial services to low-income people and develop
financial inclusion strategies with a range of development partners
such as the World Bank, ILO, UNCDF, GIZ, and FCDO.
Previously worked at Deloitte and qualified as a Chartered
Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst. She holds a master’s
degree in development finance from the University of Stellenbosch.

Ariel Le Bourdonnec

Insurance Campaigner, Reclaim FinanceConstituency: Civil Society Organization (nongovernmental organization)
Ariel Le Bourdonnec analyzes the climate commitments of majorinternational non-life (re)insurers and engages the industry in a realtransition at Reclaim Finance.
He works on the design of the methodology to analyze and rate thefossil fuel policies of the 30 (re)insurers rated in the Annual Insurance
Scorecard report, both on the underwriting and investment side, aspart of the Insure Our Future coalition.
He previously worked as an ESG analyst in the investment team ofNatixis Assurances, a leading French life insurer, and developed
tools for monitoring green investments, analyzed investment files
from an ESG perspective, and monitored the compliance ofinvestments with the Natixis group's coal and oil and gas policy.
Ariel holds a master’s degree in finance and risk management.

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Jesús Palacios
Director and Lead Analyst, S&P Global
Constituency: Investment Institution
Jesús Palacios has over 20 years of financial industry experienceand served as Chief of Staff at Mexico’s social security agency forgovernment employees, ISSSTE, overseeing social and economic
benefits programs. He leads a team of analysts to deliver sustainablefinance opinions and assessments to corporate and financial sector
clients across the Americas and is the Financial Services sector
expert for the global practice.
He has also led regional teams and operations in EMEA (Paris) and
Latin America (Mexico City), supporting the organization’s rapid
global expansion. Previously Director in S&P’s Financial Institutions
ratings group in Latin America, covering banks and insurancecompanies’ ratings.
Jesús Palacios holds an Economic degree, a graduate degree in
Risk Management, and an MBA.

Vera Sokulsky

Head of Issuer Relations, SIX Swiss Exchange
Constituency: Investment Institution
Vera Sokulsky has over 15 years in various positions in listedcompanies' investor relations and sustainability teams. Previously
worked as Senior Manager of sustainability at the insurancecompany Swiss Life.
Vera Sokulsky holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business and a Master inBusiness Administration and Business Psychology from Ferdinand
Porsche FernFh Vienna.

Butch Bacani
Program Leader, UN Environment Program’s Principles
for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
In addition to leading PSI, Butch Bacani also leads the work of the
V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility and Net-Zero Insurance Alliance,
which are convened through the PSI.
He leads activities supporting global policy frameworks such as the
UN Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement on Climate
Change, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, anddisclosure frameworks such as the Financial Stability Board’s climate
risk disclosure recommendations.
Butch Bacani previously worked with leading insurers and reinsurers
worldwide for over a decade.

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Caroline Delérable
Partner Head of Sustainable Finance Services, EY
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Caroline Delérable has over 20 years of experience acrossassurance and consulting within the finance and insurance sectors.
She oversees the insurance and banking sectors at EY’s Cleantech
and Sustainability Services to provide solutions and services toclients regarding sustainable topics.
She is primarily involved in assignments related to environmental andsocial issues for the financial industry, ESG reporting, Net Zero
Strategies, climate risks, stranded assets, and the development of
new products and services with ESG impacts.
Caroline Delérable possesses a deep knowledge of the European
regulatory framework and ongoing changes for banking andinsurance activities (taxonomy regulation, disclosure regulation
SFDR, MIFID-IDD ESG, CSRD, and ESRS) and the different
ongoing consultations and provisions of European Supervisory
Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA).

Christiaan Henning

Senior Insurance Analyst, South Africa Reserve Bank
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Christiaan Henning has worked for 15 years in insurance, both in theprivate and public (regulatory) sectors. He worked in the short-term
insurance industry for five years, involved in pricing, reserving, andcapital.
He joined South Africa Reserve Bank in 2012, first in the Actuarialrisk team and thereafter on finalizing the legislation that now forms
part of the Insurance Act 2007. He represents the Reserve Bank on
the Sustainable Insurance Forum, Climate Risk Steering Group, andMacroprudential Monitoring Working Group of the International
Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
Christiaan Henning holds an Honours degree in Actuarial Scienceand higher certificates in Big Data and Leadership.

Anna Marie Romano

International Policy Coordinator, Italian General
Confederation of Labor
Constituency: Labor Union
Anna Marie Romano has 15 years of experience as a trade unionist
in the finance sector, with different leading roles in the labor
movement. She recently acted as Vice President of UNI Finance, theglobal sector union representing bank and insurance workers.
She represents UNI Finance in the European Sectoral Social
Dialogue Committees for the European Central Bank and thebanking sector and is the financial expert in European Projects,
EWCs (European Work Councils), and trainings.
Anna Marie Romano has 20 years of experience in responsible andPage 7 of 8

sustainable finance, with close involvement in innovative projects
with positive social impacts and a focus on gender equality. She
holds a master's degree in Economics and Banking.

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