Nigel Beck

Head of Sustainable Finance Standard Bank

Nigel is the Chair of the Equator Principles steering committee and a working group lead at the International Chamber of Commerce on Sustainable Trade Finance. Within Standard Bank, his team provides an advisory role to clients and deal teams on transactions and projects, around environmental and social risk mitigations and opportunities. His responsibilities include the development, implementation and management of the Equator Principles and leads on E&S matters within the Standard Bank Group, as well as the development of green/social/climate products and services within business (Corporate & Investment Banking, Personal and Business Banking and Wealth).
 
Prior to working in banking, he was a consultant on large and small infrastructure/resource transactions and worked within the British Public sector.

He is a Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (MIEMA) and is a Chartered Environmentalists. Nigel has a BSc from the University of Cape Town, BSc (Hons) from Pretoria University, MSc & DIC (Environmental Technology) from Imperial College, University of London, and an MBA (Finance) from Wits Business School and Executive Leadership Programme from Duke Fuqua School of Business.