M&G appoints Kathy Ryan as Chief Sustainability Officer

M&G plc, the leading international saving and investment business, announces the appointment of Kathy Ryan as Chief Sustainability Officer. ​

She will lead M&G’s Group Sustainability Strategy, embedding sustainability across the business and helping to drive real-world positive change by acting as a responsible long-term investor.

Kathy joins M&G from Irish Life Investment Management (ILIM) where she was Head of Responsible Investment. At ILIM, Kathy built and led a team of ESG specialists to advance ESG integration and stewardship across asset classes. In addition, she improved sustainable best practice across industry and chaired the CDP Ireland Network, launched the 30% Investor Initiative Ireland on Diversity and contributed to Ireland’s Climate Action Plan.

Kathy has extensive experience in sustainable investing, having founded an ESG investment research and analytics firm, Global Green Investments which advised clients such as the World Bank, ​ the European Commission and the UK Government.

She will join on 13th November and report to Chief Financial Officer, Kathryn McLeland.

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About M&G plc

About M&G plc

M&G plc is a leading international savings and investments business, managing money for around 4.6 million individual clients and more than 900 institutional clients in 38 office s worldwide . As at 31 December 2023, we had £343.5 billion of assets under man agement and administration.

With a heritage dating back more than 170 years, M&G plc has a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. We serve our life and wealth clients under the M&G Wealth and Prudential brands in the UK and Europe, and under the M&G Investments brand for asset management clients globally.

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M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, is the ultimate parent company of The Prudential Assurance Company Limited. The Prudential Assurance Company Limited is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or Prudential plc, an international group incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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