Sustainable Finance Awards 2022

Andrew W. Mitchell is an international thought leader on sustainable finance and natural capital. Through his consultancy, Equilibrium Futures, he provides strategic advice to the finance sector on environmental risks and opportunities. He is Senior Adviser to Oxford think tank, Global Canopy, which he founded in 2001, and is now a leading provider of data on supply chain risk and deforestation. As Founder and Senior Adviser to the Natural Capital Finance Alliance, he has helped to design screening tools for central banks, investors and insurers and is Senior Adviser to several impact investment funds. Andrew helped to create the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) and is currently the Vice Chair of the TNFD Stewardship Council.

Amy is Acorn Capital Advisors' Philanthropy, Impact Strategy and multi-generational wealth expert. She works with families to design philanthropic strategies and incorporate impact investing in their portfolios. She specialises in helping families work across generations to define the purpose of their wealth and align that to their values. She worked for a number of years with Merrill Lynch Private Executive Services and has been engaged with impact and purpose strategies since the early 1990’s. Amy sits on the Advisory Board of Open Briefing and is a member of the Development Board for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a member of the LSE Civic Ecosystem Initiative. Amy has a degree in History from Northwestern University, Illinois, and a Masters degree in International Development-Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simon Boas is the Executive Director of Jersey Overseas Aid, Jersey’s government-funded international aid and development agency. Simon has spent most of his career designing, implementing and measuring the impact of aid projects in developing countries. He has managed UN and NGO offices and programmes in the Middle East and South Asia, and has worked for the Palestinian, British and Jersey governments. His experience runs from long-term development policy-making to humanitarian programming and immediate post-disaster relief.