Who We Are
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is guided by our Co-Chairs and consists of 25 leaders from financial institutions, business, civil society, and labour.Members of the Steering Committee are selected for their individual subject-matter expertise in the relationship between financial systems, markets, and inequality and social-related issues, as well as their sectoral and regional expertise. They represent 15 countries from 6 continents.
Co-Chair, TISFD
Arunma Oteh
Arunma Oteh served at the World Bank as Vice President andTreasurer from September 30th, 2015 to November 30th 2018. AsTreasurer, she led a team that manages assets totalling USD200 billion for theWorld Bank Group, 60 central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other officialinstitutions. She and her team also maintained the World Bank’s globalreputation as a prudent and innovative borrower in over 50 currencies byexecuting well–prepared transactions and carefully coordinating credit rating andcapital market relationships for the International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). She wasalso responsible for an extensive financial advisory business for World Bankclients and cashflows of over $7 trillion.
Prior to joining the Bank, she served as Director General of the Securities andExchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. During this period, sherebuilt the Nigerian capital markets after the global financial crisis andserved on Nigeria’s Economic Management team. Prior to joining SEC Nigeria, sheworked at the Africa Development Bank for 17 years, including as Group VicePresident, Corporate Services (2006 to 2009) and as Group Treasurer (2001 to2006). She started her career at Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria in1985. She has served on several Boards during her 33-year career, notably,the International Organization of Securities Commissions (2010 to 2015), whichregulates 95% of the World’s securities markets and the pioneer Board of theInternational Financing Facility for Immunization(2006 to 2011). She has alsopreviously served on the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on InstitutionalGovernance, and the Africa Advisory Council for World Women’s Banking.
Co-Chair, TISFD
Peter Bakker
PeterBakker is a distinguished business leader, who since 2012, has led the WorldBusiness Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as the President &CEO. WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 230 of the world’sleading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the systemtransformations needed for a net zero, nature-positive, and equitable future. Priorto WBCSD, Peter was the CEO of TNT NV, the global transport, postal andlogistics company.
TIMEMagazine recently named Peter as one of the Top 100 Climate Leaders inBusiness. He was also a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009),the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010) and the Prix Voltaire International(2023). He received the royal order Officer of the Order ofOrange-Nassau in 2018 in recognition of his long-lasting commitment to engagingbusiness in tackling global sustainability issues.
Peter holdsseveral corporate sustainability advisory board positions, including asDirector of GenZero, Commissioner of the Business Commission to TackleInequality and Member of the Energy Transition AcceleratorHigh-Level Consultative Group..
Co-Chair, TISFD
Sharan Burrow
Sharan Burrow is a global advocate for human rights, climate action and Just Transition. She is the Former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (2010-2022). Previously she was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (2000–2010).
Sharan is well known for her international advocacy on employment, human rights, industrial relations, corporate responsibility and climate action with just transition solutions. She has represented workers and civil society groups in global policy discussions in United Nations bodies, on the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation as well as at the tables of the G7, G20, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. She has twice been a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.
Sharan is currently a Visiting Professor in Practice to the LSE-Grantham Institute, a board member of the European Climate foundation, a board member of the Green Hydrogen Association, Co-Chair of the IEA Labour Council, a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Climate Governance and leader with the B Team.
Co-Chair, TISFD
Gabriela Ramos
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, where she oversees the institution's contributions to building inclusive societies. Her mandate includes tackling inequalities of income and opportunity and promoting social inclusion and gender equality. She also oversees the youth support agenda, the promotion of values through sport, the fight against racism and discrimination, and the ethics of science and technology. She oversaw the development and adoption of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the first global instrument of its kind, adopted by acclamation in 2021 by UNESCO's General Conference.
Previously, Gabriela Ramos worked as Cabinet Director and Sherpa for G20, G7, and APEC at the OECD, contributing to increasing the OECD's global impact and leading initiatives such as "Inclusive Growth" and "New Approaches to Economic Challenges". She is a board member of the Paris Peace Forum, the Lancet Commissions on COVID-19 and on Men's Violence against Women, and the Danone “Entreprise à Mission” Committee.
