Mr. John Howchin

John Howchin is currently the Global Ambassador for the UN convened Global Tailings Management Institute. He is the co-convener of the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, setup post the tragic Brumadhino accident in Brazil. John has been working for the responsible investment community for the last 20 years and has held roles such as Secretary-General of the Council on Ethics for the First, Second, Third and Fourth Swedish national pension funds. Before that, at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in Oslo, Norway he wrote the initial Climate Change expectations document and spent three years focused on corporate lobbying on climate change legislation in the US. In 2000, he co-founded the company Green Index, who together with the insurance company Folksam produced the first climate change index in the world, covering the companies at the Stockholm stock exchange. Green Index together with Etikanalytikerna (today ISS-Ethix) also performed the first norm-based screening for the AP-funds in 2001. John started his career at ABB where he worked with corporate sustainability. John holds a BSc in environmental science and human ecology at Goteborg University.