April 10, 2016
Mark is a Senior Advisor to Consilium Capital, an FCA regulated corporate finance boutique focused on sustainable investment opportunities and impact investing. Mark has twenty seven years experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies, where is a co-founder of the Ecology funds business at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989, the £1 billion Global Care Fund range at Henderson Global Investors, and the $2 billion fund Sustainable Future fund range at AMP Capital. Mark now specialises in advising private equity funds in frontier markets, focused on agro-forestry, agriculture and renewable energy.
Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, is a member of the Advisory Council of ImpactBase.org; a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’; a member of UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchange’s Green Finance Advisory Group; and is the Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. Mark is also Founder of the Social Stock Exchange, funded by Rockefeller Foundation. He is Executive Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Chairs the Fish Tracker Initiative, funded by Mava Foundation.
Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.
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