CRREM appoints nine senior leaders to its Foundation Board

The Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) Foundation has appointed nine senior leaders to its Foundation Board, expanding from four founding members to a more representative thirteen members.

The Foundation Board oversees strategy, guides technical resourcing, and ensures operational excellence as CRREM continues rapid international growth and adoption.

“This marks an exciting new era for CRREM”, said Andrea Palmer, CEO, CRREM Foundation. “Our board combines deep investment expertise, operational know-how, and a broad regional reach— exactly what’s needed as we move from intent to execution. We’re thankful for their commitment and are confident that their collective insight will help scale science-based decarbonization across the real estate industry.”

The new board members were selected from a deep pool of applicants representing 24 countries, and the new expanded board offers a balanced mix of investor and manager perspectives, expertise areas, regional views, and gender and ethnic diversity.

The new appointments to the CRREM Foundation Board are:

• Dan Ahmed, Investment Manager, Sustainable Investments / Head of Private Markets ESG Integration, CalPERS, (US)

• Abigail Dean, Head of Strategic Insights, Real Assets, Nuveen (UK)

• Hala El Akl, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and Operations, Oxford Properties, OMERS (UK)

• Adalberto Cabrera, EDGE Global Technical Lead – Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (US)

• Sunita Mahant, Managing Director, Risk, Sustainability, and Managing Director, Toronto, La Caisse (Canada)

• Uma Moriarity, Senior Investment Strategist and Global ESG Lead, CenterSquare Investment Management (US)

• Adam Slakman, Managing Director, Head of Sustainability, Real Estate, J.P.Morgan Asset Management (US)

• Vinamra Srivastava, Chief Sustainability and Sustainable Investments Officer, CapitaLand Investment (Singapore)

• Rick Walters, Senior Manager, Responsible Ownership, Aware Super (Australia)

The CRREM Foundation is a global non-profit organization that develops science-based decarbonization pathways for the real estate sector. Real estate owners, investors, and lenders across the world are using CRREM Pathways to identify and manage transition risk for their portfolios and steer investment toward climate-aligned buildings.

Founding members of the CRREM Foundation Board, who will stay on, include Nina Galbiati, Head of Sustainability for Non-Listed Real Estate, Norges Bank Investment Management (US);  Maarten Jennen, Senior Director – Global Strategist, Private Real Estate, PGGM (Netherlands); Peter Templeton, President & CEO, U.S. Green Building Council (US), and  Derk Welling, Senior Portfolio Manager Responsible Investments Real Estate, APG Asset Management (Netherlands).

The CRREM Foundation is a global non-profit organization that develops science-based decarbonization pathways for the real estate sector. Real estate owners, investors, and lenders across the world are using the over 1,000 CRREM Pathways to identify and manage transition risk for their portfolios and steer investment toward climate-aligned buildings.