United Kingdom - Penny Shepherd

Penny Shepherd MBE

Penny Shepherd has been Chief Executive of the UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF), the UK’s membership network for socially responsible investment, since May 2005.

Since 2002, she has been a member of the Mayor of London’s London Sustainable Development Commission. She is also a trustee of London 21, the capital’s community-based network for sustainable development.

From 2001-2005, she was the first Chief Executive of the London Sustainability Exchange, the cross-sectoral sustainable development organisation initiated by the Corporation of London’s Bridge House Trust to help make London the most sustainable world city. While there, she was a member of the Environmental Advisory Group for London’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

As UKSIF Executive Director from 1997-2001, Penny played a leading role in championing the government’s SRI disclosure regulation for occupational pension funds and tripled UKSIF’s membership. Her leadership in socially responsible investment was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2000 with an MBE for “services to sustainable economic development and socially responsible investment”.

Prior to that, she was responsible for new business development at Business in the Community, the corporate social responsibility charity. Penny started her career in IT and business consultancy at IBM.