Tony Rooke

Tony has over 25 years global experience in strategy advisory, risk management, disclosure and programme delivery, with over 17 years as a leader and expert in climate change, environment and sustainability issues affecting businesses and financial institutions.  

He joined Howden from the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) where he was Executive Director and Head of Transition Finance. He was responsible for delivering practitioner guidance on how financial institutions can achieve their Net Zero in their emissions reduction's targets. This included defining transition finance, transition planning and use of sectoral pathways and scenarios to work with counterparties on assessing and achieving their own emissions targets. He was also part of the delivery group for the UK’s gold standard on transition planning, and a reviewer of the World Energy Outlook 2022.   
Prior to GFANZ, Tony was Senior Director at WTW in the Climate Resilience Hub responsible for working with clients on their transition risk and decarbonisation strategy, including the creation of the corporate accreditation of Paris accord alignment, Climate Transition Pathways.   

Tony’s other experience includes 5 years as Global Technical Director at CDP (formerly known as Climate Disclosure Project), Director of Sustainability Consulting (EMEA and APAC) at Infosys, Consulting Director Sustainability and Head of Environment for Logica. 
Tony also is on the Global Association of Risk Professional’s (GARP) Sustainability and Climate Risk Certification advisory committee, a fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacture (RSA).