1. PROFILE MR HERMAN MULDER (1946; Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Major achievements:
- Director Global Structured Finance, ABN AMRO (1995-1998)
- Director General Group Risk, ABN AMRO (1998-2006)
- (Co-)Initiator of the Equator Principles (2002/3)
- Board member (2007-2014) and Chairman Global Reporting Initiative
(2011-2013: G4)
- (Co-)Founder and Chairman True Price Foundation (2013)
- Independent Member of NCP-NL (2007-2016)
- (Co-)Initiator SDG Investing initiative “Building Highways for SDG
financing” (2016)
- Fellow Nyenrode Business Universiteit: “Making Markets fit for
Responsible and Sustainable Purpose” (since 2016)
- (Co-)Founder & Chair of SDG Charter Coalition(since 2016)
Overview (past)
A former Director-General, Head of Group Risk Management at ABN AMRO Bank
(1998-2006) and Head of Global Structured Finance (1995-1998). He was the
initiator of the Equator Principles (2002/2003: the first voluntary, global sector
code on environmental and social issues for the financial sector), initiator and
first Chairman of the ABN AMRO Foundation and vice-Chairman of the ABN
AMRO India Foundation. He was a non-executive Director of Bank of Asia
(Bangkok)
After his retirement from ABN AMRO Bank in 2006, he was, inter alia, Board
Member (2007-2014) and Chairman (2011-2013) of the Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI), Board member of Utz Certified (certification coffee, cocoa, tea),
BiD Network (entrepreneurial development in emerging markets), Consensus
Building Institute (CBI, Cambridge, Mass, USA), Tomorrow’s Company (London).
He was Senior Advisor on climate issues to WBCSD, UN Global Compact; also
business advisor to OXFAM NL, Club de Madrid, Taellberg Foundation, Earth
Charter International, a member of the judging panel of the FT/IFC Sustainable
Finance Award (2008-2012) and of the VBDO Dutch Supply Chain Award (2007-
2015); he was a Fellow at the Duisenberg School of Finance (2014-2015); he was
co-initiator/-facilitator/-author of the SDGI Paper “Building Highways for SDG
Investing” (December 2016: www.sdgi-nl.org); ambassador of the IIRC
(Integrated Reporting Council); advisor to the Natural Capital Coalition (NCC).
In the period 2007 – 2016(December) he was an Independent Member of the
Dutch National Contact Point, from which he resigned per 1 November 2016. In
this capacity he has been actively involved in the WPRBC at the OECD, a member
of the CSR Committee of the Social Economic Council in the Netherlands. The
specific instances he has been involved in as mediator include: Shell Pandacan,
Arcelor Mittal, APG/POSCO, Mylan, SUAPE; he is frequently invited as moderator
in dialogues between business and civil society organizations (including recently
FMO issues in Panama, Honduras). He is a well-known within the global NCP-
community and a widely respected expert on the concepts behind and practice of
the OECD MNE Guidelines.

2. Overview (current)
He is currently a Fellow at Nyenrode Business Universiteit (focusing on “Making
Markets fit for Responsible and Sustainable Purpose”), co-founder and Chairman
of the True Price ; Chairman of the (multi-stakeholder) SDG Charter Coalition;
board member of the Human Cities Coalition; member Steering Committee
Worldconnectors; member of the TEEB Advisory Board (The Economics of
Ecosystems and Biodiversity); expert advisor to the Conservation and Markets
Initiative (CFMI: lead by Moore Foundation, Ceres, WBCSD, WWF).
Other relevant:
He is a frequent speaker, lecturer and author on CSR/ESG/RBC issues (including
various times at the OECD Global Forum), impact financing. He was mentioned
among “the 100 most influential people in finance” by the US Treasury and Risk
Magazine (July 2007). He is mentioned in Wikipedia (English)
He is (since 2005) a Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
Further references: www.trueprice.org; www.worldconnectors.nl; Linkedin,
Twitter.
Contact: mrhermanmulder@gmail.com, h.mulder@nyenrode.nl,
herman.mulder@sdgcharter.nl
Amsterdam 3 January 2017