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Profile Herman Mulder
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Herman Mulder is independent advisor, NCDO board member and former Senior Executive Vice-President Group Risk Management of the ABN AMRO Bank.
Personal slogan
I am MaD (Making a Difference).
Professional background
- Since 1995, Global Head of Structured Finance
- Since 1998, Senior Executive Vice President Group Risk Management of the ABN AMRO bank, Co-chairman of the Group Risk Committee
- Since 1998, Coordination of the ABN AMRO initiatives in Sustainable Development (SD)
- In 2002, initiator of the ground-breaking voluntary financial sector-initiative `Equator Principles for project finance`
Other
- Senior Advisor UN Global Compact (New York)
- Senior Advisor World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- Member OECD Dutch National Contact Point (NCP)
- Member Board Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Member Board NCDO
- Member Board Utz Certified
- Member Board Business in Development (BiD)
- Member Board ABN AMRO Foundation India
- Non-executive Member Board Bank of Asia (2000-2004)
- Member of the World Bank Extractive Industries’ Advisory Group
- Member Advisory Board OXFAM-NOVIB
- Advisor to Council of Earth Charter International
- Advisor to TERI/DSDS (Delhi)
- Advisor to Club de Madrid (climate)
- Member Core Faculty PoW and University of Cambridge (poverty alleviation) as well as a regular lecturar at its Business & Environmental Program.
- Member Jury VBDO Supply Chain Award
- Member Board MicroSave, Lucknow, India: capacity building for microfinance sector
- Member Board Consensus Building Institute (CBI, Boston)
- Trustee of Tomorrow's Company (London)
- Trustee of Eikosphere Foundation (Los Angeles)
- Member of the judging panel of FT/IFC Sustainable Bank of the Year
- Member Advisory Board of TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) a major EU/UNEP/UCN/UFZ study: www.teebweb.org
- Member Steering Committee for UN-FfD (UN Finance for Development)
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Links
http://www.hermanmulder.nl
http://www.teebweb.org
www.equator-principles.com
www.samen.nl
www.unglobalcompact.org
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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January 15 2010 |
The 2007-2009 financial crisis was a perfect "black swan" event: unexpected, a rarity, with broad and deep impacts; and, with the benefit of hindsight, it was also retrospectively rationalised by many "experts". We got it all "sensationally" wrong: bankers (like myself), policy-makers, supervisors, auditors, research analysts, economists, civil society itself. And even as the crisis was unfolding, many initially did not consider its seriousness. We saw dangers of shocks, but underestimated the confluence and impact thereof.
Learning lessons
The crisis has illustrated that markets are not automatically efficient and self-correcting; that hubris is a danger, humility a virtue; that regulations may not be fit...
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October 14 2009 |
The combination of the recent fuel- and food-crises, the ongoing financial crisis, the climate crisis to come, the overall "trust" crisis and their broad and deep effects on almost everyone (including the very poor), is exactly the type of wake-up call, even the pain, that we needed. If we learn from these crises and more importantly act upon them, it may lead to long term gain for all. I believe enforcement of CSR standards is one of the actions to take.
Even though we still have a few more months to go, we can already say that the years 2008/2009 are very much characterised by "emergency treatment", with much emphasis being placed on stabilising the patient, applying band-aid, eliminating bad business-drivers and corporate governance. However, in 2...
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February 25 2009 |
The history of crises suggests that solution of a major crisis is often creating the conditions for the next crisis, as the focus on such solution causes less attention to other material issues. In the current situation the focus on restoration of the financial system and applying stimuli to deal with the recession in US and Europe is causing increased pressure on government finances and calls on measures to protect domestic employment, which will go at the expense of low-income countries. What has started as a financial sector crisis, subsequently becoming an economic crisis may well turn into a broad-based social crisis.
In addition, the legitimate call for a much a more inclusive international governance architecture, the need for (counter-cyclical) development assis...
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