Herman Mulder

Herman Mulder retired in July 2006 from ABN AMRO Bank after 27 years holding leading positions in relationship management (notably energy), defaulted loan restructuring and recovery, project finance, syndicated loans. He works now as an independent advisor and board member to promote the role of the business sector in sustainable development worldwide in many different capacities, ranging from climate issues to social entrepreneurship, from advising and mediation to business development and finance.

He is a member of the Boards of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Utz Certified, NCDO (Dutch National Committee for Development Cooperation), BiD (Business in Development, supporting start-up companies in developing countries), ABN AMRO/RBS Foundation India (Mumbai: sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity), MicroSave (Lucknow, India: capacity-building for microfinance sector), the Consensus Building Institute (CBI, Boston) and Trustee of Tomorrow’s Company (London), Eikosphere Foundation(Los Angeles). He served as a Senior Advisor on climate issues to both the UN Global Compact (New York) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD, Geneva). He is an advisor to the Council of the Earth Charter International , Steering Group member of Global Compact Netherlands, Senior Advisor to the Club de Madrid/UN Foundation on climate issues. He is a member of the Board of NL-NCP (National Contact Point) to deal with grievance process for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, member of the Advisory Committee of the annual DSDS/TERI conference (Delhi), member of the judging panel of FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year, member of the VBDO judging panel on value chains, member of the Advisory Board of TEEB (“The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (a major EU/UNEP/UFZ study), member of the Business Steering Committee for UN-FfD (UN Finance for Development), member of the core-faculty of the Business Leaders Program on Poverty Reduction, organized by the Prince of Wales’ Foundation and the University of Cambridge, as well as a regular lecturer at its Business & Environmental Program. He is a member of the World Bank Extractive Industries’ Advisory Group. He is active in numerous national and international civil society organizations, incl. with NGO’s, such as member of the Advisory Board of OXFAM-NOVIB. In July 2007 the US magazine Treasury & Risk Management named him among the top 100 most influential people in global finance. He is a Steering Committee member of Worldconnectors (www. Worldconnectors.nl).