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Tessa Tennant

Tessa Tennant

Tessa Tennant is Executive Chair of The ICE Organisation, a personal carbon management and loyalty programme. Tessa co-founded the UK's first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. She was Chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum and of the Carbon Disclosure Project. In 2001 she co-founded and was first Chair of ASrIA, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia, based in Hong Kong. She remains on the Board. She is a Board Member of the Calvert Social Funds, Washington DC. She serves on the jury panel of the FT-IFC Sustainable Banking Awards. In 2003 she received the Sustainability Leadership Award from SAM/SPG of Switzerland, and in 2004 was joint winner of the City of Goteborg International Environmental Leadership Prize. She is a Schumacher Fellow and winner of a Media Natura Environmental Awareness Award.