Board of Trustees

Chair of Climate Bonds Board, Doris has more than 25 years’ senior leadership experience in international financial markets, including as member of the executive board of Standard Chartered Bank. In her executive career she served in Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer roles in Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore and London.

She is now applying her expertise through Non-Executive Director and Advisory appointments with organizations focused on Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

Jon has over 20 years of experience in financial services working across international capital markets. He has held a wide range of positions including Group Treasurer of Barclays Bank PLC and qualified as an accountant with PwC. Jon is a partner at Alaris Corporate Finance and also Treasurer and Trustee of Our Time, a charity supporting children whose parents suffer from mental health illness.

Karen Kearney currently serves as Treasurer for Stanford University, California, where she is responsible for the university’s capital markets strategy, debt portfolio and working capital management, as well as its global subsidiaries. She has spent over 20 years at Stanford in various financial roles, with experience in treasury, financial reporting, systems, tax, audit, compliance, and global operations. She serves as a Director or Officer on a number of subsidiary Boards, including in China, Chile, India, South Korea, South Africa.

In 2021, she led the issuance of the first ever dual-verified ESG bond in higher education, leveraging Stanford University’s long-standing commitment to environmental and social sustainability.  The bond was second party verified for both CBI’s Climate Bond verification and ICMA Sustainability certified.

Previous Roles

Ms Kearney has spent over 30 years in mission-focused non-profit organizations, including as CFO of the iconic San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as consulting on strategic planning for various non-profits. Her professional training was with Pricewaterhouse (Coopers), where she served Chartered Accountant articles.

She holds a BA, MA from the University of Cambridge, in Geography.

She is thrilled to leverage her academic training, non-profit finance, organizational and capital markets experience for the benefit of the Climate Bonds Initiative, contributing to its foundational work in the evolution of sustainability finance.

Curently Dr. Rathin Roy serves as the Managing Director of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), in London. His policy interests and research has mainly focused on fiscal and macroeconomic issues pertinent to human development in developing and emerging economies.

He was formerly the CEO of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in New Delhi and served as a member of Prime Minister Modi's Economic Advisory Council.

He has previously worked as an Economic Diplomat and Policy Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with postings in London, New York, Kathmandu and Brasilia. He has also served as an Economic Adviser with the Thirteenth Finance Commission, Government of India.

Dr. Roy holds a PhD and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He has taught at the Universities of Manchester and London.

Kevin has 25 years of experience campaigning on issues of social justice. He founded Britain’s biggest campaign on climate change and led a campaign resulting in the world’s largest financial climate coalition. He conceived an anti-poverty coalition which ran the biggest ever lobby of the UK parliament, worked internationally on child malnutrition and led a global evidence review of the impact of violence against children. He also founded the world’s largest campaign promoting entrepreneurship. His past roles include being Chief Executive of Enterprise Insight, which catalysed training for a million people, and Chief of Staff for a $4 billion charitable foundation. He has been a member of committees advising two UK prime ministers and the Queen.

Elizabeth is a New York-based attorney.  Following a 20-year career as a litigation partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, Elizabeth began a second professional chapter in the world of nonprofit leadership, currently as an interim C-Suite executive.  Among other things, she has served as the Interim Director of Risk Management and General Counsel for Climate Bonds Initiative; led Legal Momentum, the oldest legal defense and education fund for women in the United States; run operations on an interim basis for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), which works to help underserved students and young adults succeed in high school, college and professional careers; and been the Interim Executive Director of Every Mother Counts, a maternal health advocacy organization.

From 2017 to 2024, Yulanda served as Head of Sustainability for corporate banking at DBS, a financial services group in Asia with a presence in 19 markets. She spearheaded the development of the Bank’s responsible financing and net-zero transition framework and advised on environmental and social due diligence issues of client activities. Previously, she held a similar role as Head of Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered in London.
Before joining the banking sector, she was an equity analyst for the mining and building materials sectors at RobecoSAM (previously known as Sustainable Asset Management).