ASrIA benefits from a highly experienced Board of Directors who meet formally four times a year and regularly advise on ASrIA's strategy and development. We thank our Non-Executive Directors for the time and support they give.

ASrIA Directors

RAJESH SRIVASTAVA (Chair)
Rajesh is Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking at Rabo India Finance Limited (a 100% subsidiary of Rabobank International) based in Mumbai. He has 25 years experience in financial services in India, Singapore and other countries and considerable expertise in the corporate and investment banking arena. Sustainable Energy is a key focus at Rabobank International .Rajesh has played a significant role in Rabobank’s efforts to deliver financial products to the renewable energy sector in line with its global commitment to further efforts towards a greener world and to combat environmental degradation and global warming.

TESSA TENNANT (Founding Chair)
Tessa Tennant is Executive Chair of The ICE Organisation, a personal carbon management and loyalty programme. Tessa co-founded the UK's first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. She was Chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum and of the Carbon Disclosure Project. In 2001 she co-founded and was first Chair of ASrIA, and remains on the Board. She is a Board member of the Calvert Social Funds, Washington DC and an adviser to the Robeco Sustainable Private Equity Fund in the Netherlands. She is an Ambassador for WWF-UK. In 2003 she received the Sustainability Leadership Award by SAM/SPG of Switzerland and in 2004 was joint winner of the City of Goteborg International Environmental Leadership Prize.
tessatennant@gmail.com

MELISSA BROWN (Executive Director)
Before joining ASrIA, she spent 15 years in Asia working for international investment banks in equity research and research management. In addition to building an equity research operation in South Korea for BZW, she covered regional utility stocks for JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney. Before moving to Asia in 1988, she worked as an analyst covering emerging growth stocks for the investment managers Lord, Abbett & Co. in New York and for a speciality tax policy magazine in Washington, D.C. She has an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Economics from Williams College.
melissa@asria.org

DAVID ST. MAUR SHEIL (Executive Director)
David started his career in Standard Chartered Bank. Subsequently, David developed an interest in environmental issues and left the Bank to help found an environmental consultancy based in Hong Kong. For the past fifteen years he has been consistently involved in sustainable development related initiatives in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region and has extensive ecological and community business experience. He has been a director/partner of several successful ecologically and community oriented businesses. He has had a long-term interest in SRI. He was a founding member of the UK Social Investment Forum and a member of the New Economics Forum. He was originally responsible for setting-up and managing the ASrIA website and is presently completing a Masters of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University.
david@asria.org

SWEETA MOTWANI (Administrative Director)
Sweeta has lived in Hong Kong all her life. She has been actively involved in alternative health and environmental issues chairing the Complementary Medicine Society of Hong Kong for 5 years. She has considerable experience as a co-ordinator and in market/company research, publishing, recruitment and events organisation.
sweeta@asria.org

CHRISTINE LOH (Non-Executive Director)
Civic Exchange, Hong Kong
Christine Loh is the founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank. Loh has an English law degree and a Masters of Law degree in Chinese and Comparative Law. She has been awarded the degree of Doctors of Law, honoris causa, by her alma mater, the University of Hull.
cloh@civic-exchange.org

ROBERT SHERRIFF (Vice Chair)
Item Industries, Hong Kong
robert.sherriff@item.com.hk

DUNCAN PATERSON (Non-Executive Director)
Centre for Australian Ethical Research, Australia
Duncan is Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER), the not-for-profit SRI research organisation based in Canberra. He has worked for over 5 years in the field of socially responsible investment, both in Australia and in the UK with EIRIS Ltd. Duncan values the opportunity his work offers to combine research into company activities with direct dialogue through company representatives.
duncanp@caer.org.au

JULIE CRADDOCK (Treasurer)
United Kingdom
Julie Craddock is a former investment banker who was based in Hong Kong from 1993-2002 as Head of Equity Capital Markets for non Japan Asia for BZW and later CSFB.   She has extensive knowledge of the Asian corporate market and has had substantial corporate finance experience working with companies in the region.
julieacraddock@yahoo.co.uk

For information on advisors and previous directors, please go to Past-Directors & Advisors. These Advisors continue to provide guidance and input on an informal basis for which we are very grateful.

ASrIA Accountant

S. Liu & Co.

ASrIA Memorandum and Articles of Association