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Saturday, January 9, 2010

HERMAN MULDER:

Independent Advisor on “the business case for environmental, social, ethical, governance issues”

PAST ACTIVITIES

HERMAN MULDER (1946) retired in July2006 from ABN AMRO Bank after 27 years holding leading positions in relationship management (notably energy), defaulted loan restructuring & recovery, project finance, syndicated loans. Since 1995 he was Global Head of Structured Finance and since 1998 Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP), Head of Group Risk Management, Co-chairman of the Group Risk Committee. Since 1998 he lead the ABN AMRO’s global initiatives in Sustainable Development (SD), in which the bank is recognized a sector leader (i.a. Winner of the WEC Gold Medal in 2006 and the FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year in 2007). He was the creator and first chairman of ABN AMRO Group Foundation. In 2002 he was the initiator of the ground-breaking voluntary financial sector-initiative “the Equator Principles for project finance” (now adopted by more than 50 major financial institutions ). He was actively involved in the creation of NFX ( a joint platform between the Dutch government and Dutch banks focused on finance for development) .

In November 2005, he was made a knight in the Royal Order of Oranje-Nassau for his initiatives on sustainable development, the Equator Principles in particular.

In the period 2000-2004 he was a non-executive Board Member of the Bank of Asia (Thailand). He is a frequent speaker/panelist (i.a. at the Clinton Global Initiative, TERI-DSDS/Delhi, Taellberg Forum, universities), author and independent advisor on a broad range of issues: risk management, finance for trade & development, public-private cooperation, sustainability (including : clean energy; climate challenge & opportunity; inclusive finance for development; microfinance, notably in India; environmental , social and ethical standards; supply chains; human rights; social venture capital mobilization, etc).

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

In mid 2006 he chose to retire from ABN AMRO to become an independent advisor and board member to promote the role of the (large and SME) business sector in sustainable development worldwide in many different capacities, ranging from climate issues to social entrepreneurship, from advising & mediation to business development & finance.

He is a member of i.a. the Boards of: GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), Utz Certified/Good Inside, NCDO (Dutch National Committee for Development Cooperation), Steering Committee of the Worldconnectors, BiD (Business in Development, supporting start-up companies in developing countries), ABN AMRO/RBS Foundation India (Mumbai: sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity), Social MicroFinance Foundation, MicroSave (Lucknow, India: capacity-building for microfinance sector), the Consensus Building Institute (CBI, Boston), Trustee of Tomorrow’s Company (London), Eikosphere Foundation(Los Angeles), member of project team for Rework the World/YES. He is an advisor to the Council of the Earth Charter International , Steering Group member of Global Compact Netherlands, Senior Advisor to the Club de Madrid/UN Foundation on climate issues. He is a member of the Board of NL-NCP (National Contact Point) to deal with grievance process for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, member of the Advisory Committee of the annual DSDS/TERI conference (Delhi), member of the judging panel of FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year, member of the VBDO (society for sustainable investors) judging panel on supply chains, member of the Advisory Board of TEEB (“The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity”, a major EU/UNEP/IUCN/UFZ study: www.teebweb.org), member of the 2008 Business Steering Committee for UN-FfD (UN Finance for Development), member of the core-faculty of the Business Leaders Program on Poverty Reduction, organized by the Prince of Wales’ Foundation and the University of Cambridge, as well as a regular lecturer at its Business & Environmental Program. He served as a senior advisor on climate issues to Global Compact (New York) and WBCSD(Geneva). He is a member of the World Bank Extractive Industries’ Advisory Group. He is active in numerous national and international civil society organizations, incl. with NGO’s, such as a (business-) member of the Advisory Board of OXFAM-NOVIB. In July 2007 the US magazine Treasury & Risk Management named him among the top 100 most influential people in global finance.

Email address: mrhermanmulder@gmail.com. Also www.hermanmulder.nl

Other references: www.worldconnectors.nl www.globalreporting.org www.teebweb.org www.tomorrowscompany.com wwwbidnetwork.org www.utzcertified.org www.oesorichtlijnen.nl/english/ncp-national-contact-point

phone: +31207997662; mobile +3120653369879;

adress: Regus B Tower, Strawinskylaan 337, Suite 3.02, 1077XX Amsterdam NL

Amsterdam 1 January, 2010

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