Sustainable team and resources

Our global Sustainable Investment team is led by Chief Sustainable Investment Officer Dan Grandage, supported by Danielle Welsh-Rose, Deputy Chief Sustainable Investment Officer.

The team includes members located across the UK, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and the Americas, focusing on four key areas: delivering insight; investment frameworks and standards; active ownership; and client and commercial engagement.

We work closely with ESG and sustainable investment experts embedded across our global teams in fixed income, equities, multi-asset, real estate, and infrastructure, as well as within other functional areas.

In the Asia Pacific and Americas regions, we have established regional centres of excellence —called the Sustainability Institutes —which bring together local sustainable investment experts to deliver solutions and insights tailored to these diverse markets.

Global Sustainability Group

Dan Grandage

Chief Sustainability Officer

Dan Grandage is Chief Sustainability Officer (CIO Investments), where he leads the firm’s sustainable investment strategy and the Investments Sustainability Group. His role is pivotal in driving the company’s commitment to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into its investment processes.

Prior to this role he was Head of Sustainable Investing, supporting the company’s global investments business to protect and enhance investment performance through integrating ESG and sustainability into the investment process. This was achieved through sustainability research and insights generation, the oversight of standards and market leading frameworks. Dan represents the company on the FTSE Russell Sustainability Committee, the TISA Responsible Investing Committee, and is involved in several Investment Association sustainable finance working groups. Dan joined the company in 2013 from WSP Group where he spent over 15 years as an environmental and energy consultant.

Danielle Welsh-Rose

Deputy Chief Sustainable Investment Officer

Danielle Welsh-Rose is Deputy Chief Sustainable Investment Officer at Aberdeen. Danielle is responsible for driving ESG strategy in Asia Pacific. and supporting the integration of ESG factors into investment decision-making in Australia and across Asia-Pacific, and advocates for the importance of ESG capabilities with clients and potential clients across the region. Danielle joined in 2019 from the Victorian Funds Management Corporation where she was Head of ESG. Previously, Danielle held senior consulting. ESG and corporate sustainability roles at Sustainability Advisers and VicSuper. Danielle has over 20 years of industry experience, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from Kaplan, a Masters of Environment from The University of Melbourne, and a Masters of Laws (Juris Doctor) from Monash University.

Asset class sustainability specialists

The Sustainability Group works together with sustainable experts that are embedded in our asset class teams across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and our real asset teams.

The asset class specialists integrate thematic and regulatory insight from the Sustainability Group, as a critical part of their portfolio creation and investment process. They also base sustainable investing best practices on guidelines developed by the Sustainability Group. This includes our active engagement, proxy voting and reporting processes.

Sustainable Investment Team

Global Sustainability Group

Dan Grandage

Danielle Welsh-Rose

Asset class sustainability specialists

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