{"id":21728,"date":"2020-06-22T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:17:47","slug":"dws-appoints-a-group-sustainability-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/dws-appoints-a-group-sustainability-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"DWS appoints a Group Sustainability Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DWS has appointed Desiree Fixler as Group Sustainability Officer (GSO), marking another significant milestone in our path towards sustainability <span class=\"tlid-translation translation\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/newsletter\" class=\"broken_link\">Sign up to our free newsletters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Asoka Woehrmann, CEO of DWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Desiree will be based in London and will report to CEO, Asoka Woehrmann. She joins from US alternative investment specialist ZAIS, where she served as Portfolio Manager and Managing Director for Impact Investing; she has also previously held senior positions at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GSO role \u2013 which has been newly created \u2013 will come into effect in August 2020, and is designed to ensure we implement an ESG strategy that is consistent across all regions, and fully aligns with our duties both as a fiduciary and as a corporate. Key responsibilities include orchestrating all of DWS\u2019s sustainability efforts globally across the entire value chain, linking all of the teams working on sustainability topics across the firm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Asoka Woehrmann, CEO of DWS<\/strong> said: \u201cThe appointment of our GSO is a huge step for us in creating a holistic approach to ESG at DWS. We are delighted to have Desiree on board to drive our sustainability strategy forward. She has a fantastic track record in responsible investing, as well as valuable experience in global capital markets and product innovation. Her proven ability to develop ESG risk management, policy and reporting frameworks also makes her the perfect fit to elevate DWS\u2019s status to become a leading ESG asset manager globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Desiree\u2019s role also complements recent organizational changes, as she will work closely with all business areas to embed sustainability into everything we do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Desiree<\/strong> explained: \u201cI look forward to joining DWS as Group Sustainability Officer, a firm that already has over 20 years of heritage in sustainable investing. I am excited to apply and share my knowledge and experience in responsible investing, which I have been building since as far back as 2005. Becoming GSO also allows me to advance a common goal that I have with DWS: to mainstream ESG integration and impact investing across the entire value chain of asset management.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ETFWorld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWS has appointed Desiree Fixler as Group Sustainability Officer (GSO), marking another significant milestone in our path towards sustainability &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[38],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-21728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nominations","tag-dws"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21729,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions\/21729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}