Guro Elgheim Sivertsen
SpareBank 1 SR-Bank
Director Sustainability
Guro Elgheim Sivertsen, Sustainability Director at SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, provides insights into their comprehensive approach to sustainability, ESG integration and climate related matters in the following interview.
How would you best describe your bank’s organizational structure for addressing sustainability, ESG and climate related matters? How many people are dedicated to sustainability matters in your organization?
There is a central group sustainability team of five persons, and there is a commercial advisory team on sustainability consisting of five persons. There are also a couple of dedicated ESG-roles across the organizations.
The central sustainability team reports to the Group executive vice president of People, Sustainability and Communication, who reports to the CEO and sits in the top management team.
There is also a Group strategic sustainability committee which consists of representatives from all staff units and business units. This group is led by the sustainability director.
It might be easier to understand the organizational structure by looking at this model:
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