Vice President, Asia Sustainable Finance

Position title: Vice President, Asia Sustainable Finance
Reports to: Head, Asia Sustainable Finance

**About WWF-Singapore**
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organisations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. As one of WWF’s international hubs, WWF-Singapore supports a global network spanning over 100 countries. WWF Singapore works closely with local stakeholders towards a greener and more sustainable Singapore and the region around us. We work to address key conservation areas, such as climate change, sustainable finance, deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, marine conservation, and sustainable production and consumption, through collaboration, education and outreach efforts involving the community, businesses, and governments. For more information, please visit wwf.sg.

**Mission of the WWF Asia Sustainable Finance Team**:
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world’s largest and most experienced conservation organisations with a global network of 6000 experts working across the areas most critical to global sustainable development, including food systems, climate and energy, and freshwater, forests and oceans, active in more than 100 countries. Our approach is deeply rooted in science and our mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which people and nature thrive. WWF has identified the finance sector as a key driver of global economic activity with which we must engage to successfully deliver on our long-term conservation mission.

Positioned at the cutting-edge of sustainable finance internationally, our global sustainable finance team of 80 experts - including 30 in Asia - is dedicated to supporting the finance sector to transition to sustainable and resilient economy via working key finance sector players including banks, investors, regulators, and stock exchanges, across six focus areas:
**Regulations and Guidelines**:We provide recommendations and facilitate dialogue between regulatory authorities and financial institutions (FIs) to issue harmonised regulations and guidelines that raise the bar for sustainable finance at the national and regional level.

**Standards**:We help FIs understand what makes certain standards and certification schemes credible to help them ensure that their due diligence and verification processes assure robust sustainability practices.

**Capacity Building**:We empower FIs through capacity building on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues through industry-wide workshops and bilateral training sessions. Our training covers a range of sectors and thematic focus areas and helps FIs to better assess and price risk, value companies, and develop new products.

**Research & Tools**:We conduct research, develop best practice guides, and benchmark FIs’ progress on ESG integration to ensure timely progress towards a resilient and sustainable financial system. We also help FIs to understand and implement cutting-edge tools so they can better understand, measure, and manage evolving ESG risks and opportunities.

**Engagement**:We help investors exert their influence and facilitate large scale, meaningful change by providing research and analysis that supports their engagement with portfolio companies over key ESG issues.

**Green Financial Solutions**:We work with FIs to support the development of innovative green financial solutions based on science-based criteria that create measurable environmental and social impacts alongside competitive financial returns.

In Asia, we work across seven (6) ASEAN countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam - as well as in Japan, South Korea and India. We focus on sustainability issues related to soft commodities finance (e.g. agriculture, forestry, and seafood), in addition to cross-cutting issues such as climate and energy, water and biodiversity within the energy and infrastructure sectors.

In this role, the Vice President will have a specific focus on strategy development and stakeholder engagement in major Asian financial centres. He/she will also oversee the sustainable banking assessment (SUSBA) analysis and collaborate with the regulation, investment and technical content development teams to amplify the banking team’s work.

**Major Duties and Responsibilities**:
Stakeholder engagement and relationship management (internal and external)
- Seek out, establish and nurture strategic relationships with senior representatives of key finance sector stakeholders in the region and where relevant, globally, to secure future opportunities for collaboration and capacity building
- Understand the varying interests and priorities of different finance sector stakeholders, including banks, stock exchanges, regulators, investors (asset owners,