Mark GOLDSMITH

Mr. Mark Goldsmith, formerly Chair of the World Bank Inspection Panel, brings over 25 years of leadership across financial services, development, consulting and energy, with deep experience managing complex environmental, social, governance, sustainability, safety and risk issues in both emerging and developed markets. Before founding his sustainability consultancy FiveOak in 2015, he spent more than a decade as Director of Responsible Investment at Actis, where he helped shape ESG standards in emerging markets, and later served as a non-executive director of Cameroon’s power utility ENEO, chairing its ESG board subcommittee. His work has included developing IFC Performance Standards training for British International Investment and advising East African private equity funds on ESG integration.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering from the University of Nottingham and a distinction-level master in environmental pollution control from the University of Leeds.