BII appoints Daniel Hanna as new Non-Executive Director
Hanna has two decades of banking experience with a particular focus on climate and sustainable finance.
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British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has appointed Daniel Hanna to its board as a Non-Executive Director.
Hanna has two decades of banking experience with a particular focus on climate and sustainable finance. He is currently the Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Barclays which has a commitment to mobilise a trillion dollars of sustainable and transition finance. Hanna also sits on the investment committee of Barclays’ Sustainable Impact Capital programme, which is investing £500 million in climate technology companies.
He previously set up a sustainable finance team at Standard Chartered Bank growing it to 100 people, which mobilised more than $22 billion in green and transition finance in 2021, principally in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
BII’s chair, Diana Layfield, welcomed the appointment, “I am delighted that Daniel is joining BII’s board. He brings impressive, and hugely valuable, experience in climate and sustainable finance to our Board. He will play a key role in helping BII build upon our progress as a leader in development and climate finance.”
Hanna said, “BII’s work is critical, particularly at a time when the countries where it invests are facing economic and social challenges as well the growing impact from climate change. I am excited to join the Board to help contribute to the company’s goal to make at least 30 percent of investments in climate finance, which will make it one of the world’s largest such investors in Africa. BII’s ambition is supporting emerging economies in their transition to a net-zero, just and climate-resilient future.”
Hanna’s three-year term will start immediately. He will also sit on BII’s Development Impact Committee.
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