RT HON. HELEN CLARK
CHAIRPERSON OF THE &GREEN ADVISORY BOARD
FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND
FORMER ADMINISTRATOR OF UNDP

Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand for three successive terms from 1999 to 2008. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister following a General Election in New Zealand and the second woman to serve as Prime Minister.

Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament over 27 years, Ms. Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international affairs, economic, social, environmental, and cultural spheres. She advocated strongly for a comprehensive programme on sustainability for New Zealand and for tackling the challenges of climate change. She was an active leader of her country’s foreign relations, engaging in a wide range of international issues.

In April 2009, Ms. Clark became Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. She was the first woman to lead the organisation, and served two terms there. At the same time, she was Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of all UN funds, programmes, agencies, and departments working on development issues. As Administrator, she led UNDP to be ranked the most transparent global development organisation. She completed her tenure in April 2017.

Prior to entering the New Zealand Parliament, Ms. Clark taught in the Political Studies Department of the University of Auckland, from which she earlier graduated with her BA and MA (Hons) degrees.

Ms. Clark continues to speak widely and be a strong voice on sustainable development, climate action, gender equality and women’s leadership, peace and justice, and action on non-communicable diseases and HIV. She serves on a number of advisory boards and commissions, including as Chair of the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and Chair of the Board of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. From July 2020 to May 2021, Ms. Clark was a Co-Chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response which was set up by the World Health Organisation’s Director General at the request of the World Health Assembly (WHA).

Eloy Lindeijer is a pension industry veteran and former Dutch central banker. He was Chief Investment Management and member of the Executive Committee of PGGM from 2011-2020.

Since leaving PGGM, Eloy has taken on a variety of roles. He chairs the supervisory board of Ahlström Invest and is a independent non-executive board member of the Wisayah Investment Company. He is a member of the board investment and risk committees of Hassana Investment Company and an advisor to AustralianSuper and Hillhouse Investment Management. In the non-profit field Eloy chairs the board of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and is a trustee of the Van Leer Group Foundation.

Eloy was a member of TCFD, the Bloomberg Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and member of the High Level Forum on Capital Markets Union, an advisory body to the European Commission. More recently he acted as temporary special advisor to the Netherlands Council for the Environment and Infrastructure, an advisory body to the Dutch Government and Parliament.

He studied business administration at Nyenrode University and international relations at SAIS Europe, the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.

Mari Pangestu was the World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, March 2020-2023. Prior to joining the Bank Mari Pangestu served as Indonesia’s Minister of Trade from 2004 to 2011 and as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy from 2011 to 2014.

She has had vast experience of over 30 years in academia, second track processes, international organizations and government working in areas related to international trade, investment and development in multilateral, regional and national setting.

Most recently, Ms Pangestu was a Senior Fellow at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, as well as Professor of International Economics at the University of Indonesia, honorary professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and a Board Member of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta.

Ms Pangestu is highly regarded as an international expert on a range of global issues and has served on a number of boards and task forces such as, the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington D.C and commissioner for the Low Carbon Development Initiative of Indonesia as well as an executive board member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). She has also served on the board of a number of private sector companies.

She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics from the Australian National University, and her doctorate in economics from the University of California at Davis.

Rosine Sori-Coulibaly is a Seasoned development and experienced player with more than 35 years of professional dedication to sustainable development, humanitarian coordination, political dialogue, good governance, gender equality and women’s empowerment. She has demonstrated result-oriented leadership with sustainable achievements in organizational effectiveness, efficiency and impact.

She is currently the President of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC), a platform hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to promote regional policies and provide solutions to food security and long-term economic growth.

From 2016 to 2019, Rosine served as Minister of Economy, Finance and Development for Burkina Faso and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2022. In that capacity, she led the design and implementation of innovative economic, financial, budgetary, procurement and tax policies, as well as the planning of public investments. She provided strategic oversight to the coordination of development work in line with the SDGs, and promoted constructive dialogue with the donor community including the private sector.

She was ranked top performer Minister of Finance in West and Central Africa in 2017.

Prior to joining Government, she served for two (2 ) decades the United Nations in various senior-level positions in Burundi, Togo, Benin, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau where she was Assistant Secretary General and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In that respect, she facilitated political transitions and national reconciliations, supported electoral processes, and led humanitarian assistance and recovery programmes.

In both Government and in the UN, Mrs Sori- Coulibaly worked closely with bilateral and multilateral organizations, notably the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank. She is a board member of several philanthropic organisations and think tanks, and active on Human and Women Rights matters. In 2022, she founded “Burkinabe Unis pour la Transformation Sociale”, a Movement that raises awareness on political and economic governance for social transformation.

Mrs Sori -Coulibaly holds a post graduate degree (Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie) in Planning and Macroeconomics from the United Nations Institute of Development Economy , as well as a Master degree (Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées) in Development Economics from the University of Dakar, Senegal.

PER FREDRIK ILSAAS PHARO
MEMBER OF THE &GREEN ADVISORY BOARD
DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS AND SHARED PROSPERITY AT NORAD

Per Pharo is Director of Partnerships and Shared Prosperity at Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation. Prior to this role, Mr. Pharo served as Deputy Director of the Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), under the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, from its inception in 2008 until October 2011 when he was appointed as Director. NICFI was set up to deliver on the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg’s Bali promise to annually spend up to 3 billion Norwegian kroner to contribute towards reducing the greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.

Before joining NICFI, Mr. Pharo worked at McKinsey & Company’s Oslo office; at the Norwegian Ministry of Defense (on security policy, defense policy and defense transformation), and as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Defense Studies. He has a Candidatus Philologiae degree in history from the University of Oslo, Norway, and a BA in International and US politics and history from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.

SABINE MILTNER
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CONSERVATION AND MARKETS INITIATIVE
GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION

Sabine Miltner joined the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a $9 billion private foundation in the United States, in 2016. She oversees the foundation’s work on decoupling food production from ecosystem degradation. Approved through 2026 with a total budget of $400 million, the Conservation and Markets Initiative targets ending deforestation, conversion and overfishing in the production, sourcing, and financing of the most important food commodities, by aligning market incentives with conservation outcomes.

Since joining Moore, Ms. Miltner has been on the board of several organizations, including IUCN-US. She is currently co-chairing the Sustainability Council of Bayer AG, a global life sciences company.

Prior to philanthropy, Ms. Miltner’s career as a finance professional spanned the public and private sectors with a focus on sustainability/climate change and developing countries.

Ms. Miltner was a Managing Director and the Group Sustainability Officer of Germany-based Deutsche Bank AG and worked with senior management on the step-wise integration of sustainability and financial goals. She also co-chaired the bank’s steering committee on climate change.

Previously, Sabine was a director at the Institute of International Finance, leading the work to improve conditions for private investment in developing countries. She started her career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund working in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.

Sabine earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a M.A. in economics from the University of Mannheim, Germany.