Richard Burrett has spent over 40 years working in international banking and finance. After an initial period with NatWest he joined AMRO Bank in 1988 where he gained wide experience of working on structured and project financing in the energy and infrastructure sectors becoming Managing Director and Global Head of Project Finance in 2001. In this role he was instrumental in the development of the Equator Principles, creating a market recognised standard for the management of environmental and social risk within project financing. He started to work directly on ABN AMRO´s award winning sustainability agenda in 2004 becoming Global Head of Sustainability before leaving the Bank in May 2008. He is a Director at Earth Capital a sustainability-focused investment group; a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Senior Associate at the Earth Security Group. He is also a Board Member of Forest Trends, a Washington based organisation promoting market-based approaches to forest conservation. From 2010 until the end of 2012 he was Co-Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative and led their Biodiversity and Ecosystems workstream. He holds a BA in German and a MBA from Durham University and recently completed a Masters in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge.