Global Investors Making Transparency Possible

Carine Smith Ihenacho was appointed Chief Corporate Governance Officer on 1 January 2018. She joined Norges Bank Investment Management in August 2017 as Global Head of Ownership Strategies.

Prior to joining Norges Bank Investment Management, Ms Ihenacho was Vice President Legal and Global Chief Compliance Officer in Statoil ASA. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, working in both financials and the oil and gas industry, as well as in law firms. She also has extensive board experience.

Ms Ihenacho holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, a Master of Law from Harvard Law School and a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Grace Perez-Navarro is the Deputy Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.  As such, she plays a key role in all of the OECD’s tax work including the tax challenges of digitalisation, the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, improving international tax cooperation, tackling illicit financial flows, promoting better tax policies and engaging developing countries in OECD tax work.  Since joining the OECD in 1997, she has held several key positions, including having led the OECD’s tax work on bank secrecy, e-commerce, harmful tax practices, money laundering and tax crimes, countering bribery of foreign officials, and strengthening all forms of administrative cooperation between tax authorities.

Prior to joining the OECD, she was a Special Counsel at the IRS Office of the Associate Chief Counsel (International) where she coordinated guidance to field offices on international tax issues, oversaw litigation of international tax issues, negotiated TIEAs and treaties, and reviewed regulations, rulings and other policy advice.  In 1993, she was seconded to the OECD to launch the revision of the OECD’s Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

Idar Kreutzer is CEO of Finance Norway. From 2000 to 2012 he was the CEO of Storebrand ASA. Mr. Kreutzer has been a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and has Co-Chaired their Vision 2050. He holds several key board positions, and in 2015 he was appointed member of The Norwegian Commission for Green Competitiveness by the Prime Minister of Norway. In 2017 Mr. Kreutzer was appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers to evaluate the access to risk capital for companies in the Nordic region.

Kiran Aziz has a background as a lawyer with specialty of International tax from EY. In addition she has been a lecturer and a contributor to the four year research project on cooperative compliance, FairTax, under The European Union’s Horizon 2020 program.

She is currently working at KLP Asset Management with responsible Investments where she is responsible for tax engagement.

David Frazer is a Caribbean born engagement manager at Sustainalytics, covering the financial services sector and the lead for the taxation related engagements. He leads research on racial diversity and works on LGBT inclusion and is also a published author of an economics textbook, as an on-going economics educator.

David achieved his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and currently pursuing a Bachelor of Laws at the University of London

Lakshmi Kumar is the Policy Director at Global Financial Integrity with several years of experience working on issues of financial policy, securities investigation, regulatory governance, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering/terrorist financing.

Prior to joining GFI, Ms. Kumar was a lawyer and policy professional in India, working with governments and regulatory agencies across South Asia, East Africa, and Eurasia to investigate money laundering and terrorist financing risks to their financial systems.

Her prior work includes drafting legislation to identify beneficial ownership for the financial sector in India, assessing and evaluating the robustness of the securities market in the Eurasian region for the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering (EAG), and conducting investigations on sovereign wealth funds, procurement procedures, and other off-shore investment entities for fraud and terrorist financing risks. 

Andreas has worked in Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning's team for sustainable investments since 2018. His focus area is anti-corruption and SDG 16 Peace and justice. Before joining Storebrand, he worked with aid work and anti-corruption in Norad, as an advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Foreign Service Control Unit and in UNDP.

Andreas holds an MSc in Economics and Administration from NHH and the International University of Japan.

Mona Thowsen is Secretary General at Publish What You Pay Norway, the Norwegian chapter of the global Publish What You Pay network which organizes and mobilizes over 650 civil society organisations from over 70 countries in campaigning for transparency and accountability in the payment, receipt and management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries.

Zahira Quattrocchi has been Group Head of Tax at Anglo American since April 2019. Zahira joined Anglo American in from CNH Industrial, one of the world's largest capital goods companies. Prior to that, she was Global Head of Tax at Italian food processing company, Barilla.

A trained lawyer, Zahira has practised in Italy where she started her career in EY and then moved to Industry working for Bayer and Shell. 

As well as a wealth of experience in multinational transfer pricing, restructuring and tax compliance, Zahira is a leading authority on tax audits. 

A regular speaker at events, Zahira has contributed to the debate around Cooperative Compliance, Transparency and Good Tax Governance. Under Zahira’s leadership, Barilla was admitted between the 9 MNEs piloting the OECD International Compliance Assurance Program.

Mia is a Senior Manager in the Standards Division of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in Amsterdam and currently leads the Sector Program. 

In this position Mia is responsible for a new program of work in which Standards will be developed that describe impacts and stakeholder concerns from a sustainable development perspective for up to 40 different sectors. Prior to this, Mia was the Project Manager for the development of GRI’s new tax Standard, GRI 207: Tax 2019.

Mia has 10 years of experience in stakeholder engagement and social performance in the oil and gas sector and has worked across exploration and development projects in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. Before GRI, she worked at Woodside Energy, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company.

Mia holds Bachelors of Commerce and Arts, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact from the University of Western Australia.

A lawyer by profession, Alfredo joined Repsol’s tax team in 2006 after an extensive career in several law Firms.

Ever since that moment, he has undertaken different cross-disciplinary functions within  Repsol Group  (namely, tax advisory in strategic Group investments projects, corporate restructuring and M&A tax related matters) as well tax responsibilities at regional level (supervision and control of the Group’s tax function in The Netherlands and Luxembourg).

At present, one of the most exciting and challenging responsibilities that he has assumed is that related to the monitoring and compliance with the best practices in the field of corporate tax governance.  In this sense, Alfredo coordinates the tax division within Repsol in charge of pursuing a deeper knowledge of cooperative compliance initiatives. He has been an active member of the team that led the successful experience of Repsol in the first ICAP pilot, as well as part of the workgroup  that collaborated in the drafting of  the “B-Team Responsible Tax Principles”.  His team’s contributions to the “Spanish Code of Best Tax practices” initiatives are also worth mentioning.    

In his current position Alfredo firmly believes that the promotion of tax transparency  is key to  facilitating a better understanding of Repsol reality as a company that acknowledges the importance of a responsible approach towards tax matters.

Vaishnavi has worked in responsible investment over the last ten years. She currently works as a senior analyst within the ESG team at the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), managing corporate governance focused workstreams, including leading work on corporate tax responsibility.

Prior to joining the PRI, Vaishnavi worked for CAER, an Australian based ESG research service provider. In this role, she assessed corporate ESG performance, developed ESG position papers and thematic research papers for institutional investors. She has a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Finance from the Australian National University (ANU) and is working towards a Graduate Certificate of Law at the ANU.

Based in Stockholm, Henrik focuses on raising capital for companies across the capital structure. His day to day responsibilities include IPO processes, private placements, acquisition financings and accelerated bookbuilt offerings.

Prior to his current role, Mr Sandström was based in New York focusing on leveraged finance for the energy and transportation sectors. Mr Sandström has 15 years of experience working in the investment banking industry, and holds an MSc in Business Administration and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Andy focusses on extractives and the UK, US and Spanish markets where he engages with company boards, investor groups, industry associations and policy makers on material environmental, social and governance issues.

Prior to joining EOS, Andy spent 10 years as a consultant on sustainable business and finance at PwC, in London and Madrid. In this role he worked closely with over 50 companies, across sectors and 15 countries, on risk and opportunity.

Andy was the lead author for the City of London’s position paper on globalising green finance, the BVCA’s responsible investment training, ASCRI’s responsible investment guide, the CDP annual reports on the Global 500, FTSE All-Share and IBEX35 and other publications, including integrated reporting in the IBEX35. He has also worked in strategy and risk consulting and banking, and holds a degree in physics.

Monica has 16 years’ experience from Wealth management in Nordea and has been engaged with sustainability in different ways since Nordea signed the UN PRI in 2007. She has also been engaged in the field through sector organisations such as Norsif, where she had three different roles, and Finans Norge to drive sustainable development and impact on a higher level.

Her knowledge and interest for sustainability covers governance, environment, climate, society, human rights as well as global economy and mega trends. She is also engaged in EU driven financial activities and was recently involved in a global project regarding shareholders stewardship code.