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GRI Sector Standard Project for
Financial Services
Banking Technical Committee member biographies
August 2023

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Contents
Technical committee members................................................................................................................ 3
Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan ..................................................................................................................... 3
Helge Muenkel ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Alexandra Lahaise ................................................................................................................................... 3
Chris Reid ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Marite Chavira ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Julia Robbins ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Wendy Engel ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Angela Flaemrich ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Lauren Compere ...................................................................................................................................... 5
Ruben Zandvliet....................................................................................................................................... 5
Johanna Dichtl ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Salome Tvalodze ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Ben Richards ........................................................................................................................................... 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 Banking Technical Committee. The members represent
diverse, multi-stakeholder backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge andexperience in the banking sector and its role in sustainable development.

Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan
Head of Sustainability, Access Bank
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan is the Head of Sustainability at AccessBank, with 25 years of experience across various industries,
including manufacturing, media, development, and the financial
sector. She led the establishment of the Nigerian Sustainable
Banking Principles, now adopted by all Nigerian operating banks,
including the Central Bank of Nigeria. She is the appointed expert tothe S&P Global Sustainable Finance Scientific Council. She served
on several global business, finance, and sustainability councils like
United Nations Women Empowerment Principles Leader Group.

Helge Muenkel
Chief Sustainability Officer, DBS Bank
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Helge Muenkel is the Chief Sustainability Officer at DBS, aSingapore-headquartered Asia-Pacific focused bank. He isresponsible for developing DBS’ overarching sustainability
framework and driving sustainability initiatives across the bank. Heacts as Secretary to the bank’s Board Sustainability Committee, andchairs the Group Sustainability Council. Helge represents DBS in
various global and regional working groups and bodies like theWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Prior to joining DBS, Helge was Head of Asia Pacific, Sustainable
Finance and Global Capital Markets at ING, where he worked for 10years. Previously he worked for 12 years at Deutsche Bank AG andUniCredit Group in various roles across Europe, the US, and Asia
Pacific. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and a
postgraduate degree in sustainability from Cambridge University,and is a CFA charter holder.

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Alexandra Lahaise
Sustainability Publication Manager, UBS
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Alexandra Lahaise is the Sustainability Publication Manager at UBS
and has 20 years of experience in the finance sectors at DeutscheBank, Societe Generale, and UBS. She joined the HR and Financedepartments at UBS in 2015, before her current role in the Group
Sustainability and Impact Team in 2022.
Alexandra Lahaise is currently involved in supporting thecoordination of sustainability disclosures, limited assurance, andrunning the GRI-based materiality assessment for UBS. She
regularly liaises with internal and external stakeholders.

Chris Reid
Climate & Policy Advisory Manager, Natwest Group
Constituency: Business Enterprise

Chris Reid is the Climate & Policy Advisory Manager at Natwest
Group. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services,
starting in consumer and SME banking. He has a dedicated career inmanaging critical and high-profile prudential regulatory documents –requiring interpretation of complex legislation into practical actions,effective collaboration, and communication between technicalspecialists, regulatory bodies, and business leaders to reach aconsensus on regulatory developments that can be practicallyapplied.
His current role involves representing NatWest Group bank inindustry groups and consultations, providing the bank with a voice inthe development of sustainability disclosure regulations andstandards

Marite Chavira
ESG Head, Citibanamex
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Marite Chavira has 15 years of experience in the banking sector.
Currently responsible for ensuring ESG Corporate Citizenship
Strategy aligns with the SDGs; corporate transparency including GRI,SASB, and TCFD; environmental and climate risk management;sustainable financial strategies and employee engagement withcommunities across the country through corporate volunteering.
Marite Chavira previously worked with Comportamos Banco in theFinance department across different roles, including Investor
Relations, Financing, and International Finance Strategy. Holds a
master's degree in Development Planning and Management and abachelor's degree in Financial Management.

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Julia Robbins
Manager Accountability Reporting, Vancity
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Julia Robbins has over 20 years of experience with sustainability
reporting, currently responsible for reporting at Vancity. She
supported the development of GRI standards as a member of theGRI’s G4 Disclosure on Management Approach working group andparticipated in the group that developed the Financial Services
Sector Supplement.
Julia Robbins is a member of the 2022 UNEP-FI Principles for
Responsible Banking Reporting working group in charge of revising
the PRB reporting template. She was part of the Global Alliance for
Banking on Values’ Impact Metrics Community of Practice for severalyears and was also involved in developing the Integrated Reporting
Framework. She previously consulted in corporate social
responsibility and served in Canada’s diplomatic corps.

Wendy Engel

Senior Manager of Sustainable Finance, WWF
Constituency: Civil society (non-governmentalorganization)
Wendy Engel has over 10 years of experience in sustainability andfinance in the banking sector. She leads the WWF SA 2025 Strategy
with a sustainable finance team that works with various financesector partners on Research and Green Financial Solutions.
Wendy Engel has six years of experience as an Agricultural
Economist focused on commercial and small-scale agriculture, andhas authored various WWF publications.

Angela Flaemrich
Associate Director, Stewardship Services, Sustainalytics
Constituency: Investment Institution
Angela Flaemrich’s current role involves managing and leading aStewardship Services team at Sustainalytics. She is the subjectmatter expert on business ethics issues (anti-money laundering,bribery & corruption prevention, whistleblower mechanisms, antitrust,fraud, and consumer rights), product governance, and ESG
integration. She also engages with major beef, soy, and palm oil
producers on deforestation, community land rights, and humanrights.
Angela Flaemrich previously led the Financial Services Researchteam at Sustainalytics, responsible for issuing ESG Risk Ratings on
public companies. She is involved in developing the ESG Risk Rating
methodology for the finance sectors and possesses extensive
experience in equity research and covered several sectors.

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Lauren Compere
Managing Director & Head of Stewardship andEngagement, Boston Common Asset
Constituency: Investment institution
Lauren Compere has over 30 years of experience working in theresponsible investment industry and 20 years of experience in globalresponsible investing. Serves/has served on various boards andinitiatives: Global Network Initiative (GNI), Interfaith Center on
Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the Access to Nutrition Foundation,
Advisory Council for the Investor Alliance for Human Rights,
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) Natural CapitalCommittee.
She is a member of the PCAF Core Team, which in 2020 developed
a global standard for carbon accounting for six asset classes. She
led a multi-year global investor engagement between 2014-2020,‘Banking on a low Carbon Future’ that benchmarked the performanceof 60 banks on climate risk, strategy, and funding climate adaption
and mitigation.
Lauren Compere oversees Boston Common Asset’s commitments tothe Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, Finance Sector Deforestation
Action, and the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge and is involved incollaborative forums to improve the financial sector’s human rights
and climate actions, such as CDP, Ceres, ICCR, and ShareAction.

Ruben Zandvliet

Deputy Director for Standards, Shift Project
Constituency: Mediating institution
Ruben Zandvliet, Deputy Director for Standards at Shift Project,focuses on mandatory due diligence and reporting regulations whilesupporting wider engagements with companies and financial
institutions concerning regulatory developments.
Previously at the Dutch bank ABN AMBRO and was responsible forthe coordination of the bank’s human rights program, including
representing ABN AMBRO in the Dutch Banking Sector Agreementon Human Rights and co-authoring ABN AMRO’s Human Rights
Report, following the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework.
Ruben Zandvliet also worked as a Policy Advisor in the Dutch
parliament, advising on corporate responsibility for human rights, andas a Public Affairs Advisor to the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

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Johanna Dichtl
Implementation Guidance Lead, Principles ofResponsible Banking
Constituency: Mediating institution
Johanna Dichtl leads a team of experts developing target-setting
guidance materials under the Principles of Responsible Banking(PRB) umbrella framework. Joined UNEP FI in 2020 and led theprocess to publish the first Collective Progress Report of the PRB
signatories (including the development of indicators to measureprogress). She previously worked in sustainability management inboth the banking and insurance sectors.

Salome Tvalodze
Head of Sustainable Finance Division, National Bank ofGeorgia
Constituency: Mediating institution
Salome Tvalodze has 12 years of experience working at the National
Bank of Georgia, holding various positions during this time, including
leading the development of the bank’s sustainable Finance
Framework since 2017. A member of various working groups,including the Climate Finance Working Group under Georgia's
Climate Change Council. Currently, a Ph.D. candidate, working on
incorporating ESG considerations into the macro-financial analysis.

Ben Richards
Senior Policy Advisor, UNI Global Union
Constituency: Labor Union
Ben Richards is the Senior Policy Advisor for UNI Global Union, theGlobal Union Federation for the services industries with affiliates
representing 20 million workers in 150 countries. Prior to joining
UNI, he worked for over twenty years in the British trade union
movement across a range of sectors, including the finance sector, inresearch, international affairs, and politics.
Based in UNI’s head office in Nyon, Switzerland, his responsibilities
within UNI include representing 140 trade unions and 3 million
workers in the finance sector. He works on several cross sectoralissues including health and safety, human rights due diligence,climate issues, and wider policy support for the organization. He has
represented UNI Global Union in several multinational fora focusing
on sustainability issues, including the Trade Union Advisory
Committee to the OECD, the Global Deal, and International Accord.

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