Tauni Lanier

BDO

She is a recognised expert in the fields of sustainable finance and sustainable development in the finance sector. Subject matter expert – sustainability strategy and sustainability risk/op-portunities, materiality and sustainable finance – deriving business value and intelligence from sustainability knowledge and data.

Deep knowledge in identifying overlaps and harmonizing sustainability across the business strategy.

Tauni is an investment banker and has worked in Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, the USA and France for organisations such as JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson on the debt side and in structured finance. She became the first managing director of the DJSGI. She has worked with such organisations as WBCSD, the Global Reporting Initiative, and corporate re-sponsibility and corporate governance ratings. During her time as Executive Director of IM-PACT2030, she worked with the UN on the successful delivery of the SDGs, deloying re-sources via corporate human capital and with City projects. She founded EcoCapital partner-ship, combining experience in environmental and corporate finance to create a unique solu-tion based business in non-traditional risk assessment and investment impact in investment decisions on the forefront in investment advisement, structuring, and due diligence in climate change, impact investing, social justice and environmental asset project development. She recently served as the Chief Sustainability Officer at World Wide Generation (WWG). WWG a fintech company founded to facilitate the successful achievement to fulfil the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In her role at WWG she constructed the building blocks of the ESGenome part of the listing requirements of the Singapore Stock Exchange, which went live in October 2022.

She is currently heading up the Sustainability & ESG HUB at BDO UK.

She currently is serving as the Non-Executive Director at Carbon Tracker, and has served as Senior Advisor for ITU and advisory Board Member for the International Sustainable Finance Centre (ISFC).