FIDUCIARY DUTY - Key Persons

Elodie Feller

Job Titles:
  • Investment Commission Coordinator, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative ( UNEP FI )

Eric Usher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Head of the UNEP Finance Initiative
Eric Usher is Head of the UNEP Finance Initiative. Eric Usher brings twenty five years experience in the sustainable energy and finance sectors, including an entrepreneurial venture in Morocco, financial sector development across emerging markets and responsible investment uptake globally. Prior to heading the UNEP FI Secretariat in Geneva, Mr. Usher was responsible for a programme portfolio advancing new public/private instruments for financing cleaner energy infrastructure and improving energy access. He was seconded to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for development of the Green Climate Fund, specifically the fund's Private Sector Facility. Eric is co-editor and co-author of various studies examining the role of public and private finance in climate mitigation and was lead author for finance of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources. Before joining UNEP, Eric was General Manager of a solar rural electrification company based in Marrakech. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, Canada

Fiona Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
Fiona Reynolds joined the PRI in 2013. She has overall responsibility for the PRI's operations globally. Fiona has more than 20 years' experience in the pension sector, working in particular with the Australian government, and has played a key role in advocating pension policy change on behalf of working Australians. Fiona has a particular interest in retirement outcomes for women. Prior to joining the PRI, Fiona spent seven years as Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Fiona has formerly been a director of AUSfund, Industry Funds Credit Control, Australia for UNHCR and the National Network of Women in Super. In September 2012, she was named by the Australian Financial Review as one of Australia's top 100 women of influence for her work in public policy. Fiona also serves on the Councils of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), Tomorrow's Company, the Global Advisory Council on Stranded Assets at Oxford University and the Business for Peace Steering Committee.

Nick Robins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Co - Director of the UNEP Inquiry
Nick Robins is co-director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, a two-year initiative to advance financial policy options that more effectively mobilise capital for an inclusive, green economy. Nick Robins has over 20 years' experience in the policy, research and financial dimensions of sustainable development. Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London from 2007 to 2014, where he produced investment research on issues such as clean technology growth, climate vulnerability, green stimulus and stranded assets.

Peter Knight

Job Titles:
  • Founding Partner
  • Member of the Steering Committee
Peter Knight is a Founding Partner and the President of Generation's US business, and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. Prior to joining Generation, Peter was a Managing Director of MetWest Financial, a Los Angeles-based financial services company from 2001 to 2003. Peter started his career with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1989, he served as Chief of Staff to former VP Al Gore when Mr. Gore was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later the U.S. Senate. Peter served as the General Counsel of Medicis Pharmaceutical from 1989 to 1991, and then established his law practice representing numerous Fortune 500 companies as named partner in a Washington D.C. law firm. Peter has held senior positions on four presidential campaigns, including serving as the campaign manager for the successful 1996 re-election of President Clinton.

Will Martindale

Job Titles:
  • Head of Policy, Principles for Responsible Investment ( PRI )