Ghislaine 

NADAUD

Ghislaine Nadaud is a senior sustainable investing specialist at Robeco, leading the firm’s engagement programs on human rights, palm oil and the just transition in Asia Pacific and supporting the investment and sales teams in Asia Pacific with client engagement related to sustainable investment strategies and holdings in the Asia Pacific portfolios.

Ghislaine started her career as an attorney and practised corporate and employment law in The Hague and Amsterdam. She joined ABN AMRO as a legal counsel in 2006 and moved into her specialisation in sustainable banking policy and risk management in 2011. In 2016, she moved to Asia to set up ABN AMRO’s first ever regional sustainability department for its corporate and institutional banking business. After a short assignment at the United Nations as a sustainable financing consultant, Ghislaine joined Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in 2021 to lead and drive SMBC’s ESG ambitions in Asia-Pacific.

Since 2022, Ghislaine is a senior sustainable investing specialist at Robeco, leading the firm’s engagement programs on human rights, palm oil and the just transition in Asia Pacific and supporting the investment and sales teams in Asia Pacific with client engagement related to sustainable investment strategies and holdings in the Asia Pacific portfolios.

Presentation

• Panellist, Asia in Focus: ESG Investing and the Business and Human Rights Agenda, premiered 13 June 2024
• Panellist, Towards Net Zero Conference: Legal Aspects of Corporate Climate Action in Asia, premiered 17 Oct 2024

• Environmental Regulations & Financial Institutions
• Sustainable Finance
• Business and Human Rights (UNGP)
• Climate Change and Access to Justice
• Corporates & Sustainability

Research Projects

Environmental Standard Setting in the Corporate Sector; from Soft to Hard Law

Numerous voluntary sustainability standards have been developed in recent years to address environmental, social and governance risks of global production and trade practices. Lately, voluntary standards such as on environmental risk management and non-financial disclosure are moving towards mandatory standards in various jurisdictions. The research will address the impact of these mandatory environmental and social standards on corporates and will focus especially on the impact for the financial sector.