Role of the Banking Board
The UNEP FI Banking Board is the governance body for the Principles for Responsible Banking and UNEP FI Banking Membership.
Under the overall direction of the UNEP FI Global Steering Committee, the Banking Board oversees the effective implementation of the Principles for Responsible Banking. For details on its mandate, please refer to section 1 of the UNEP FI Banking Governance Framework.
Meet the Board
Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Head of ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings & Co-chair, UNEP FI Banking Board
Siobhan Toohill
Chief Sustainability Officer, Westpac Group & Co-chair, UNEP FI Banking Board
Dr. Dalia Abdel Kader
Chief Sustainability Officer, Commercial International Bank (CIB)
Sheila Aggarwal-Khan
UN Environment Director, Economy Division
Laura Barlow
Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays
Ricardo Cuesta
CEO, Produbanco Grupo Promerica
Shanning Dong
General Manager, Green Finance Department, Bank of Jiangsu
Jonathan Fowlie
Chief External Relations Officer and Head of Impact Strategy, Vancity
Anders Langworth
Group Head of Sustainable Finance, Nordea
Laurence Pessez
Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BNP Paribas
Boitumelo Sethlatswe
Head of Societal Impact, Group Corporate Citizenship at Standard Bank Group
Regional Representation
- North America Representative | Jonathan Fowlie, Chief External Relations Officer and Head of Impact Strategy, Vancity, Canada
- South America Representative | Ricardo Cuesta, CEO, Produbanco Grupo Promerica, Ecuador
- Scandinavia Representative | Anders Langworth, Group Head of Sustainable Finance, Nordea, Sweden
- Western Europe Representative (joint) | Laura Barlow, Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays, UK
- Western Europe Representative (joint) | Laurence Pessez , Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BNP Paribas, France
- South-Eastern Europe Representative | Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Director ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings, Greece
- Middle East & North Africa Representative | Dr. Dalia AbdelKader, Chief Sustainability Officer, Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt
- Sub-Saharan Africa Representative | Boitumelo Sethlatswe, Head of Societal Impact, Standard Bank Group, South Africa
- Asia Pacific Representative | Siobhan Toohill, Group Head of Sustainability, Westpac, Australia
- Central & East Asia Representative | Dr. Shanning Dong, General Manager, Green Finance Department, Bank of Jiangsu, China
- UN Environmental Programme | Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Director of the Economy Division of UN Environment Programme