Invesco has hired Molly Betournay as director of ESG as a replacement for Sudip Hazra, who left the asset management firm earlier 2023. Betournay joins Invesco from Clean Yield Asset Management and will report to the firm?s global ESG head, Glen Yelton. She will lead a team of seven ESG research analysts in supporting Invesco?s investment teams. In her previous role with Clean Yield AM, Betournay served as director of social research & advocacy.

She led the firm?s ESG research and analysis of public equities, oversaw its proxy voting programme, and designed and implemented long-term shareholder engagement strategies across a range of ESG issues. Sudip Hazra, who was among a raft of hires made to Invesco?s ESG team in 2021, recently joined First Sentier.