Rebecca Zentner-Barrett
Director
ESG Global Advisors
Rebecca has over 6 years of experience working in ESG with a focus on the investor perspective on ESG and climate change. She helps her clients identify and prioritize ESG and climate change factors with the greatest potential to impact value, compare performance to peers and best practice, understand investors’ approaches to ESG and climate change, develop ESG and climate change strategies that align with strategic priorities and report to investors and stakeholders on ESG. She has deep knowledge of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) reporting framework and the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Prior to joining ESG Global Advisors, Rebecca was a Proxy Voting Analyst with the Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment team at RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM). In this role, she was responsible for making proxy voting recommendations for all of RBC GAM’s global funds, supporting the investment teams with the integration of ESG factors into investment decision making, and engaging with portfolio companies on ESG. Prior to joining RBC GAM, Rebecca worked as a project manager at a social impact research centre. Rebecca has a Bachelor of Commerce from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.