Steve Waygood

Dr. Stephen P.
Waygood is a Chief Responsible Investment Officer at Aviva Investors Global Services Ltd.
He leads Aviva Investors' Global Responsible Investment team, which is responsible for integrating environmental social and corporate governance issues across all asset classes and regions of c£350bn of assets under management.
He has recently been appointed to the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on sustainable finance, and the UK Green Finance Taskforce , and is also a member of the Financial Stability Board Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure.
He is also an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council.
He was a member of the UK Government delegation to the UN Rio+20 meeting in 2012, and a member of the European Commission's expert groups on corporate governance and corporate responsibility.
Dr. Waygood co-founded and now Chairs the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and the World Benchmarking Alliance.
He also co-founded the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative as well as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition, which is aiming to catalyze a UN Convention promoting enhanced corporate transparency and integrated reporting.
He has received the Leadership in Sustainability award from the Corporation of London and the British Chamber of Commerce.
In 2011 he received the Yale Rising Star in Corporate Governance Award, and he was among the Financial News Top 100 Rising Stars in 2009.
Dr. Waygood was on the board of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance association (UKSIF) from 2003 to 2010, serving as its Chairman from 2006.
He was also part of the expert group that wrote the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
Dr. Waygood has a degree in Economics and a PhD in sustainable finance.
He is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst institute.