Eleanor Fraser-Smith

Head of Sustainability at Victory Hill Capital Management

Speaker

Eleanor joined Victory Hill Capital Advisors as the Head of Sustainability and is responsible for developing and implementing the firm’s sustainability strategy as well as environmental, social and governance reporting and engagement.

Prior to Victory Hill, Eleanor led on corporate responsibility and sustainability (CRS) at British Aerospace & Defence firm Cobham Plc, where she was responsible for developing corporate policy and strategy on issues such as carbon reduction, environmental impact management, anti-slavery, diversity & inclusion, and gender pay gap reduction. She was secretary of the Executive CRS committee, chaired by the CFO and was responsible for CRS non-financial disclosures. She was awarded the CEO prize for her successful work on CDP reporting and was mentioned in Assent Compliance’s Top 100 Human Trafficking & Slavery Influence Leaders list in 2017 for her contribution to the Social Responsibility Alliance’s Anti-Slavery and Trafficking risk template development team.

Prior to Cobham, she worked at US oil and gas company, Marathon Oil, as a risk advisor in the corporate responsibility team with responsibility for identification and mitigation of environmental and social risk for new and established assets as well as implementing strategy on the voluntary principles on security and human rights across the business.

Prior to this Eleanor project managed the social responsibility working group at IPIECA, the global oil and gas industry’s association for advancing social and environmental performance.

Eleanor holds an MSc in Sustainable Development (Environmental Management) jointly awarded by Imperial College London and SOAS University of London (UK) and holds a BSc in Biological Sciences (Genetics) from the University of Edinburgh.

Eleanor is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability (ICRS).