Nomination for Board of Governors Election 17th General Assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) 25th November 2020 MEMBERSHIP SECTOR: Banks and Investors
PRINCIPAL BOARD MEMBER Name of organisation: Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A. Membership number: 5-0001-04-000-00 Name of nominee: Geraldine Lim Position in the organisation: Managing Director Email address: [email protected] Tel (Office): 65-62306739 Tel (Mobile): 65-97322462
SUMMARY
Nominee Profile Managing Director, Asset Based Finance, South East Asia at Rabobank As a product specialist, she works closely with Relationship Managers in the bank to cross sell working capital financing solutions to corporate clients. In addition to her product duties, Geraldine represents the Bank on the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil as a board member and is actively involved in the sustainability concerns on palm for the Bank.
Geraldine joined Rabobank in Singapore in 2010, having spent eleven years with ABN AMRO Bank/Royal Bank of Scotland and ten years with First National Bank of Boston in Singapore, where she was a Relationship Manager, managing relationship development with large corporates.
Organisation Profile Founded in 1898 in the Netherlands, Rabobank is an international financial services provider operating on the basis of cooperative principles. Today, Rabobank Group is a global financial services leader operating in 39 countries worldwide, recognised for its dedicated focus on Food & Agri and Trade & Commodity Finance expertise in agriculture, metals and energy. Enabling the change to a more sustainable food supply chain by working together is core to our mission of ‘growing a better world together’. We do this by providing access to our knowledge, networks in 39 countries and financing solutions. Our efforts are focused on addressing the four most pressing food issues: increasing the availability of food, improving access to food, promoting a balanced nutrition and increasing stability of food supply chains. Measured by Tier 1 capital, Rabobank Group is one of the world's largest financial institutions with high credit ratings by all rating agencies and is ranked by Sustainalytics as the most sustainable bank in ESG Risk Rating. Read more about Rabobank at www.rabobank.com.
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ALTERNATE (to be designated by the principal nominee) Name of Alternate: Martin van Vaals Position in the organisation: Senior Sustainability Expert Name of organisation: Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A. Membership number: 5-0001-04-000-00 Email address: [email protected] Tel (Office): +31 30 7123407 Tel (Mobile): +31 6 10211587
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Alternate Profile Martin van Vaals from the Netherlands is Senior Sustainability Expert at Rabobank. Responsible for the analysis of clients in high risk sectors as well as client engagement. Prior to that he worked at the bank’s Credit Approvals department as Senior Credit Risk Officer. He held management positions at the Project Finance department (Team Lead Credit Analysis) and the Food & Agribusiness Research department (Deputy Head, Team Lead Commodities). Before joining Rabobank Martin was employed by the ILO, where he held positions in Sierra Leone (project economist in a rural infrastructure project) and Peru (associate expert, multidisciplinary team for the Andean region, focusing on employment policies and small enterprise development). He also worked for the Netherlands Economics Institute, engaged in contract research in many different countries. He started his career at the Maastricht School of Management as a lecturer. Martin is an economist by trade with a degree from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and is fluent in English and Spanish, with a working knowledge of Portuguese. In his free time, he enjoys sports, music and reading. Martin is married with one son.
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