► Gwen Colin is Vauban IP's ESG Director and is in charge of overseeing the ESG methodology evolution and its alignment with Vauban IP's long term strategy. She was previously a consultant for PE and infrastructure funds looking to develop sustainable projects in Europe and Asia.

Gwen started her career as a legal advisor, then project manager, at Credit Agricole Asset Management (now Amundi) in Paris and Luxembourg.
Her involvement in sustainable finance started in 2008, where she led the product innovation and supported the distribution of a Socially Responsible Investments offering targeting Middle Eastern and South East Asian sovereign entities, institutional clients, private banks, and family offices.

► Rachel first came to IJGlobal’s attention when she was nominated for the IJGlobal ESG Awards Rising Star category and won in the Investor category.
Rachel proved to be a great help on the advisory panel that was set up to investigate how we could improve the criteria and methodology of the awards process.
An Australian national, Rachel relocated to the UK from Australia in spring 2019 having cut her teeth in the power and energy sector in Melbourne at NAB, joining the bank in its early 2012 graduate intake.
Straight out of the trap, Rachel focused on renewable energy transactions as well as more challenging elements of the job, winning her the Altitude Award for leading the overhaul of NAB’s credit rating tool for project finance borrowers. After joining IFM in Melbourne in late 2017, Rachel led the greenfield financing of an energy-from-waste plant in Western Australia.

► Amy came to IJ’s attention through winning a rising star award – this one the IJGlobal ESG Rising Star 2021 in the advisory category. This award was created on Judgment Day when the judges were so impressed by Amy and Rachel Fleming that they decided to grant 2 rising star trophies and celebrate the roles both have played.
At the time of winning the award, Amy was an associate. She is now a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, the firm she has stuck with since starting her career in law. Amy’s work focuses on advising on renewable energy projects, ESG policies, social inclusion funds, corporate governance arrangements, and how the global energy transition will affect companies. It was this sector focus combined with a passion for environmental, social and governance issues that won over the IJGlobal independent panel of judges who opted.

► Looking back over the IJGlobal archive and Patricia crops up quite a few times. One of the key appearances in these pages was when we announced her appointment to the UK’s Green Investment Bank back in 2011.
Since then, she was one of the first judges to sign up as a judge on the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards that met virtually last year (2021) – nominated by a number of industry experts.
Patricia is a real assets investment professional and non-executive board director with a breadth of experience across infrastructure, real assets and private equity. Over the past 2 decades, Patricia has been an investment manager at Macquarie, multi-manager at Townsend and LP at the UK Government and PSP, leveraging her cross-sector perspectives to carve a unique path.

► Arash is the UK Lead of Sustainable Finance at ING driving the deployment of sustainable financing solutions across all sectors, proactively engaging with clients on their sustainability and transition strategies. He also has over 10 years of infrastructure experience working across financing, consulting and advisory. He is currently Chair of the International Project Finance Association’s Future Leaders Network and was named ESG Rising Star at IJGlobal’s 2022 ESG awards.
Arash holds an MSc in Infrastructure Investment & Finance from University College London and a BSc in Mathematics with Management and Finance from King’s College London.

► Winner of the first Outstanding Contribution Award at the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards, Anne is steeped in ESG lore and is an established member of the judging committee.
Anne works day-to-day directly with portfolio companies to drive change – from designing strategies that can provide beneficial impact on vulnerable communities, water stress, to actively forcing change in supply chains, driving suppliers to reassess their transparency and activities. Her commitment to social impact, assessment and strategy was selected by the KPMG Human Rights team to be showcased in a human rights report.