Abigail Herron
Head of Responsible Investment Engagement, Aviva Investors
Abigail leads responsible investment and corporate governance engagement across all asset classes and markets at Aviva Investors. She compliments this work with public policy advocacy in the UK and Europe on a spectrum of issues from sustainable capital markets through to fiduciary duty and green bonds.
She previously headed up the corporate governance team of The Co-operative Asset Management (TCAM), now Royal London Asset Management, leading on issues such as executive pay, gender & diversity, corporate responsibility, environmental sustainability and ensuring a cutting edge approach to ESG integration and engagement across all asset classes.
During her tenure TCAM received ‘Best Steward of the Year’ in the Financial News Asset Management Awards and Best Users of SRI and Corporate Governance Research – Thomson Reuters Extel SRI-Connect survey (IRRI 2012) as well as providing national pension fund NEST with bespoke responsible investment consultation. In addition, TCAM became the first investor to ascribe to the Stewardship Code and the first to factor in gender into their corporate governance voting policy.