MANAGEMENT BOARD

REPP’s four-member Management Board is responsible for the overall direction and strategy of the programme, and promoting its success.
Peter Coveliers is on REPP's Management Board

Peter Coveliers

Peter is Head of Group Corporate Programmes and Institutional Business Development, at the European Investment Fund. He joined REPP as a Founding Director in December 2015, while he was working as Deputy Head of at the European Investment Bank’s Climate Change and Energy Division, with responsibility for innovative climate action funds and structured finance transactions.

Peter has co-chaired various internal and external environmental mandates, including secondment to the preparatory working group for the Green Climate Fund, and as Chairman of both the Green for Growth fund’s Investment Committee and the European Energy Efficiency Fund’s Management Board.

Born in Belgium, he is a Harvard Institute for International Development alumni (1998) and a graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Flanders.

Andrew Lucas

Andrew is Regional Energy, Climate and Environment Lead for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Andrew‘s background combines expertise in finance and development. He spent six years on the capital markets at Deutsche Bank in London primarily working with clients across the Middle East and Africa. He began working for the British Government on international development in 2017 following a period in consultancy at Oliver Wyman. He has experience working on development issues across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Andrew holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago, a Masters in Corporate Finance and Strategy from SciencesPo Paris, and a Masters of Public Administration in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics.

Eric Usher is on REPP's Management Board

Eric Usher

Eric is currently Head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Finance Initiative, a global partnership with 230 banks, insurers and fund managers working to promote the sustainable finance and responsible investment agendas.

Eric has over 20 years’ experience in the low carbon sectors and is co-editor of the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report, published annually by Frankfurt School UNEP Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

He was also lead author for finance of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources. Eric is a permanent UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment.