Rating Commitee
Ian Johnson (Chair) joined IDEAcarbon following a distinguished career at the World Bank. For eight years he was the Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development overseeing its work on climate change and carbon finance.
Christiana Figueres has been an official negotiator of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol since 1995 and former member of the CDM Executive Board. She is also founder of the the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA), which she directed until 2003.
Amul Gogna has over nineteen years of experience in credit ratings and business analysis. In 2006 he joined IDEAcarbon from ICRA, an associate of Moody’s Investors Service in India. Highlights of his experience include pioneering work in the risk analysis and ratings field in the areas of infrastructure, healthcare and education.
Dora Vardis has 17 years of progressive executive level business experience in corporate finance and strategic planning. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, a hedge fund based in New York.
Jaquelin Ligot was formerly Head of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
David Hanrahan has worked for almost thirty years on water and urban issues worldwide, with a strong emphasis on environmental and sustainability aspects. For the past decade, he was at the World Bank dealing with policy issues and projects across all of the Bank’s operational regions.