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Jane Ambachtsheer

Partner and Chair of Mercer's Global Responsible Investment Business.

Date: 18/11/16

Jane Ambachtsheer
Jane Ambachtsheer

Jane Ambachtsheer is a Partner and Chair of Mercer's Global Responsible Investment Business. She is responsible for overseeing the group's strategy, developing intellectual capital across a range of responsible investment topics, and advising investors in Europe and North America.

Jane was consultant to the United Nations through the development of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which are now been supported by more than 1000 signatories. Jane is a Trustee of CDP, a member of the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and a member of the PRI Academic Working Group.

Jane continues to produce new research and has been the author or co-author on a number of important papers and reports, including Mercer's Investing in a Time of Climate Change (2015). In 2011, Jane received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Social Investment Organisation. In 2014, she was named one of Canada's 'Clean 50' leaders in the field of sustainable capitalism.

Jane is an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where she taught a graduate course on responsible investment from 2007 to 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Economics and English literature with honours from York University and a Master of Social Science from the University of Amsterdam. Currently, Jane lives in Paris with her husband and two daughters.

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