Governance

Robin Edme serves as president of the French board of 2DII, where he sits in an individual capacity. He is a highly recognized promoter and influencer in the fields of CSR, SRI, long-term, green and climate finance at a European and international level.

He was a key contributor to the launch of 1) the 'Energy and Ecology Transition For Climate', the French SRI and Greenfin public labels for investment funds as well as the first edition the international climate reporting award for institutional investors; and 2) the European Commission Sustainable Finance Action Plan.

Olivier Irisson is COO & Head of Financial Operations at Groupe BPCE.

Stéphane Voisin is the Head of Sustainability, Environmental, Social and Governance Research at Kepler Cheuvreux’s Research Division. He covers sustainability, as well as the environmental, social and governance sectors within transversal research.

Prior to that, Stéphane was the Head of SRI Research at Cheuvreux’s Research Division. He was an Executive Director at JP Morgan and at BNP Paribas and also held positions at BZW and Natwest. Stéphane has authored a number of reports on environmental, social and governance issues, environmental liabilities, carbon focus and carbon impacts. He has 18 years experience in equity markets and holds an MBA in Law and Finance.

Tricia Jamison is an analyst in Cloud Economics at Amazon and former Deputy Director of 2° Investing Initiative (US). Tricia Jamison brings her experience as a former employee and her knowledge of the data industry to the board. An understanding of the data industry is increasingly critical for 2° Investing Initiative’s future work on fintech.

Dave Jones is currently Senior Director at the Nature Conservancy and previously served as Insurance Commissioner of California from 2011 to 2019. He is also Distinguished Fellow, ClimateWorks Foundation and Director of Climate Risk Initiative, UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy & Environment. As Commissioner, Dave Jones notably initiated the Department of Insurance’s work on climate risk analysis, including a collaboration with the 2° Investing Initiative. He is recognized globally as a pioneer among financial supervisors on the topic.

Sue Reid leads Mission2020’s work to move the global finance sector into alignment with the Paris Agreement’s objectives. Previously, she served as Vice President of Climate & Energy at Ceres, where she helped lead the development and implementation of Ceres’ Commit to Climate initiative and Climate Action 100+ – all geared toward mobilizing private sector action consistent with limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5C. Sue also worked to advance the Ceres Clean Trillion, a clean energy investment target intended to avoid the worst effects of climate change, requiring more than (US)$1 trillion additional investment in climate solutions each year while ratcheting down investment in fossil fuels.

Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM, Director of Financial Markets, Planet Tracker, has 15+ years’ experience as a research manager and analyst in debt and equity markets with a focus on integrating scientific and ESG data into financial models to determine pricing signals and asset allocation strategies. For a variety of clients and in a variety of roles across developed, emerging, and frontier markets, he has led investment research on corporate governance, oil & gas, nuclear, water, agriculture supply chains, the transition to a low-carbon economy, biodiversity and fisheries, deforestation, labor, financial accounting, and other topics.

He holds an MBA and MSc from the University of Michigan and currently is a finance lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He is a regional environment, energy, and climate commissioner in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Clara Vondrich is the Director of Divest Invest, an investor movement which aims to accelerate the clean energy transition. Members commit to divesting their portfolios from fossil fuels and reinvesting at least 5% of their portfolios into climate solutions, such as renewable energy, cleantech, sustainable food and water systems, energy access and more. Today institutional investors managing assets of over $7 trillion have made some form of divestment commitment. The movement spans universities, sovereign wealth funds, cities, pension funds, insurance companies, health organisations, faith groups and individuals.

Clara previously served as Account Director for Climate & Energy at Fenton Communications, where she led client efforts on anti-fracking, defending climate science and the clean energy transition. She sits on the US Board of Directors of the 2° Investing Initiative. An attorney by training, Clara served as Counsel to the President’s Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, focusing on ecological restoration and environmental justice. Clara clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 2006.

José Delgado serves as alternate board member to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and member of the GCF’s Budget Committee. As a climate change and climate finance expert of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance he has been involved in all major international climate negotiations over the past decade. José was one of the initiators of the Austrian climate finance strategy and contributed to several workstreams in the field of climate change and climate finance. He holds a doctorate in economics from the WU Wien where he also taught microeconomics.

Nicole Röttmer is Founder of the CO-Firm, which is located in Hamburg, Germany. Before that she was Co-Managing Director of diodide laser manufacturer Lumics and spent several years at McKinsey & Company, primarily in Germany and the US. Nicole earned a doctoral degree in Strategic Management from the University Leiden and a diploma in Economics from the University of Bamberg.

Raphael has always been interested in the impact technology has on financial markets. He started his career as a banker at Sal. Oppenheim. After brief spells at Rocket Internet and the German Finance Ministry, he co-founded and exited his own company, Covee. A PhD-level economist, he now works for Deutsche Bank. Raphael has been a member of the German board of 2DII since 2016.