Faith Ward MBE is Chief Responsible Investment Officer, at Brunel Pension Partnership and Chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). These roles enable her to advocate for better appreciation of systemic risk as well as design solutions that embed such risks, like climate change, into the operations of finance and investment, an industry she has served for over 25 years. As Chair of The Working Group for Scaling Finance on behalf of the Transition Finance Council, on which she also sits, she is focusing on advancing the Council’s objectives in transforming the economy, through effective and efficient climate transition, particularly in hard to abate sectors. Ward is an Ambassador the Transition Pathway Initiative, having founded, co-chaired and subsequently acted as an NED for this critical initiative supporting investors action for the climate transition. Ward’s other roles include member of the Ethics Investment Advisory Group for the Church of England National Investing Bodies; member of Investor Advisory Group for ISSB; Member of the former Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) Delivery Group and UK Green Taxonomy Advisory Group, as well as Co-Chairing the TPT working group focusing Adaption. She is also a Climate Ambassador for the National Federation of Women's Institutes.