Will Oulton is the Vice Chair of the UK’s Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and has been a Trustee Director since 2020.  He is also the MCS board lead for ocean recovery and chairs the Fundraising & Development Committee.

He is currently the Chair of the EdenTree Investments RI Expert Panel, Chair of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments, Responsible Investment Advisory Council and a member of the Bangor University Endowment Fund Investment Committee.  He is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Investment Committee at wealth advisor, Harmonic Financial Planning, and Chair of the King Charles III’s Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) Expert Panel.

He is also the former Chair of the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif), a role he held for 8 years and spent a decade as the Global Head, Responsible Investment at First Sentier Investors where he founded the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute.

Will has also held the roles of Trustee, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (UK) Pension Scheme, Head of Responsible Investment for EMEA at Mercer Investments and the Director of Responsible Investment at FTSE leading the FTSE4Good and Environmental Markets Indices.  

He is an Honorary Professor at Nottingham University Business School, visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna and Nottingham Trent University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).