David Russell Co-Head of Responsible Investment  David Russell joined USS in 2001. He is Co-Head of Responsible Investment sharing responsibility for managing the RI team and implementing the fund’s RI strategy. This includes integrating extra financial factors into the investment processes across asset classes and engaging with companies and other assets where RI issues pose a risk to the fund’s investments. With a background in environmental management, David leads the funds activities in this area, including climate change.
In keeping with USS’s commitment to improving market wide practice in RI, David is a Steering Committee member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a member of the Management Oversight Committee of the UN endorsed Principles for Responsible Investment, and also supports a USS Trustee Director on the PRI’s Board.
Amongst other things, David also sits on the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Sustainability Committee, and the BVCA Responsible Investment Committee. He takes a lead role in the fund's membership of the International Centre for Pensions Management.
David is a Board Observer for Climate Change Capital, and is on the Advisory Boards of HG Capital’s Renewable Power fund, Bridges Community Venture Capital fund, Impax New Energy Investors and the FTSE Environmental Markets Advisory Committee.
David has previously worked as an Environmental Manager for a UK retail company, was for five years a University lecturer in Environmental Management, and holds an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment. Dr Daniel Summerfield, Co-Head of Responsible Investment  Daniel joined USS in 2002. He is responsible for leading USS’s work to improve corporate governance performance of companies and markets in which USS invests through the development and implementation of its engagement policy in the UK and overseas. As the key focus of USS’s responsible investment strategy is to integrate extra financial factors into the fund's investment processes, many of the engagements are undertaken in conjunction with the portfolio managers and focus on key operational, strategic and governance issues.
Daniel serves as a member of a number of committees in the UK and overseas including the NAPF’s Shareholder Affairs Committee and the working group on ‘say on pay’ in the US. He is a founding member of the International Roundtable on Executive Remuneration and Director Engagement. Daniel also serves as a director of the recently-created non-profit US organisation, Shareowners.org
Previously, he was the head of corporate governance at the Institute of Directors. Daniel also currently serves as a trustee and governor of a local school and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Cass Business School of the City University London. In 2008, he was named 'a Rising Star of Corporate Governance' by the Yale School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance.
Jeannette Andrews, Analyst Jeannette joined USS in 2008. She previously worked for Manifest, a corporate governance and proxy voting agency, for over five years in conjunction with her studies. Jeannette recently graduated with a First in Corporate Management from Anglia Ruskin University. Jeannette holds the IMC and is a candidate in the CFA programme.
Helen Hopkins, Project CoordinatorHelen joined USS in 2007 with eight years experience in RI. She previously worked at the UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF) in a range of roles, including secretariat for institutional investor collaborative initiatives such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the Pharmaceutical Shareowners Group (PSG), a forerunner to Pharma Futures. Prior to UKSIF, Helen worked at a financial adviser’s and at Prudential. She has a BSc in Geography from Newcastle and holds the CII’s Certificate in Financial Planning (2006).
Natasha Landell-Mills, Senior Analyst Natasha joined USS in 2007. Previously, she worked for OTP Fund Management (Budapest) for 3 years where she led the Fund’s efforts to launch the first responsible investment fund for Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to her work at OTP, Natasha worked in the Economics team at the International Institute for Environment and Development for 6 years. At IIED Natasha provided sustainable development policy advice to emerging market governments in a wide range of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In the two years before joining IIED, Natasha was Chief Economist in the Guyana Forestry Commission. Natasha has a BA and MA in Economics from Cambridge, an MSc in Natural Resource Economics from UCL, and has passed CFA Level 3 (2009).
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