James Macpherson

James Macpherson is the former Deputy Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock’s Active Equity business managing assets of $280bn worldwide and was for many years a senior fund manager and head of their market leading UK Equity Team. He was the senior investor on BlackRock’s Global Environmental Social and Governance ‘’ESG’’ Policy Group and was Chairman of the ESG Policy Group in Europe. His experience of holding companies to account for their actions in the application of ESG standards will be invaluable to River Action’s work.