BIO:
Mark Campanale has some twenty years experience in sustainable financial markets. Mark’s areas of knowledge is in the finance of clean tech companies, sustainable asset management and ecosystems services, principally forests. Recruited as one of London’s first sustainable investment analysts in 1989, Mark is a co-founder of the sustainable investment businesses firstly at Jupiter Asset Management with the Ecology Funds (1989-1994); NPI with Global Care Funds (1994-1999); AMP Capital with the Sustainable Future Funds (2000-2001) and Henderson Global Investors with the Industries of the Future Fund (1999-2006).
Mark is a co-founder Director of the UKSIF –the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (1990-2008), he 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), serves as Hon Treasurer, The Rainforest Foundation (UK) (2004-present), Advisory Board member of 3iG, the International Interfaith Investment Group; Advisor to Halloran Philanthropies; and is founder Director of The Social Stock Exchange, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Mark is a Non Executive Director of The Carbon Assets Fund, for Carbon Capital Markets (2006-present) and a Director of the Timber Opportunities Fund, which is a Luxembourg registered SICAV-CIF; and a senior advisor to Four Elements Capital. Mark’s recent assignments include raising capital for forestry, ecosystems services and clean tech private equity funds. Mark holds an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics from Wye College.
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e-mail: mark@campanale.co.uk
