DBS Group Holdings announced that Dr. Ben Caldecott has been appointed to its Board Sustainability Committee (BSC) as Non- Director member. The BSC is chaired by DBS CEO Piyush Gupta and its members comprise current DBS board members Chng Kai Fong, Judy Lee and Tham Sai Choy. An internationally-recognised sustainable finance expert, Dr. Caldecott is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

At the University of Oxford, he is the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, the first ever endowed professorship of sustainable finance, and a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. Additionally, he is the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment, established as the UK's national research and innovation centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally. He is also a member of the advisory board of Climate Impact X, a joint venture between DBS, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered Bank and Temasek Holdings.