Private Finance for Sustainable Development Conference-2020

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Aaron Vermeulen

Global Lead Finance & Freshwater
WWF

Presentation

Aaron Vermeulen currently holds the position of Lead Green Finance Solutions for The Netherlands office and concurrently the Global lead on Finance and Freshwater for WWF. He supports the WWF teams worldwide in their engagement with financial institutions to mainstream ESG considerations in their investment decisions. Before this Aaron has been the partnership manager at the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila. In this position he leveraged conservation impact for the 28 WWF offices in Asia by contributing to ADB's policies, strategies, standards and investments. Before joining WWF Aaron was the director of a business group for Royal HaskoningDHV in Amsterdam. Prior to this position Aaron worked as a senior consultant for the same company in Egypt, Vietnam and Yemen and as the resident project manager in Egypt for the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Aaron received his BSc. Geology at the State University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and his MSc in Hydrology with a Minor in development economics at the Free University of Amsterdam.
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