William McDonnell is Chief Operating Officer for the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, the new global governance body to set and enforce threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market. Prior to that, he had a 25-year career in financial services. Most recently, he was the Group Chief Risk Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee for RSA Insurance Group, responsible for Risk, Assurance and Compliance groupwide. At RSA William previously served as Group Financial Controller and Head of Corporate Finance. He has also held roles at HSBC Investment Bank, Aviva, the UK Financial Services Authority and Deloitte. He was a leading voice on climate risk in the financial sector, as a member of the ClimateWise Council and of the Bank of England’s Climate Financial Risk Forum, and as Chair of the Emerging Risks Initiative of leading global insurers, publishing a major climate study ‘The Heat is on – Insurability and Resilience in a Changing Climate’.