Sean Kidney

Sean has been central to the growth of what is now a USD2 trillion global green bond market. He has served as CEO since setting up the organisation in 2009.

Sean focuses on promoting investment priorities for climate and green bonds, how governments can take advantage of the green bonds market and the development of international collaborations.

Sean is a member of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance, as well as the:

Sean’s current roles:

• Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Sustainable Finance Advisory Panel
• International Energy Agency’s Finance Industry Advisory Board
• UNCTAD Sustainable Investment Advisory Council
• French government’s Green Sovereign Bond Evaluation Council
• UK Government’s green gilt advisory committee
• Steering Committee of the Asia-Pacific Financial Forum’s Sustainable Finance Development Network (APFF SFDN).
• Finance Advisory Board, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet 
• European Advisory Board of the SMARTER Finance for Families (energy efficiency) initiative
• Astana International Finance Centre’s Green Advisory Committee
• Executive Consultation Group, Blue Dot Network, a certification scheme to attract investment into infrastructure, hosted by the OECD Trust in Business initiative, in co-operation with the US,  Australian and Japanese Governments.
• Advisory Group of the Latin American green bond fund, LAGreen, seeded by KfW
• Advisory Board of the International Sustainable Financial Centre, Prague

He has previously been a:

-       Consultant on green bonds to the United Nations Secretary General

-       Member of the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance

-       Member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance

-       Member of the Peoples Bank of China Green Finance Task Force

-       Member of the Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance.

-       Member of the Blended Finance Task Force.

He is a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London. 

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Sean's background is in stakeholder communications, social change strategy and issues marketing. He was previously a marketing advisor to a number of the largest Australian pension funds, and an owner of a group of social marketing, website development and current affairs publishing firms.