The latest senior moves in asset and wealth management from across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and certain other parts of the world.

Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered has appointed Maria Ramos as an independent non-executive director to its board of directors with effect from 1 January 2021. She will join StanChart’s audit and board risk committees and will also become an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered Bank on appointment.

Prior to this, Ramos, who is based in South Africa, served as chief executive officer of ABSA Group Limited (previously Barclays Africa Group). Before joining ABSA, Maria was the group chief executive of Transnet, the state-owned freight transport and logistics service provider.

Prior to her CEO career, Ramos served for seven years as director-general of South Africa’s National Treasury (formerly the Department of Finance).

GAM
Zurich-listed GAM Investments has appointed Debbie Dalzell as group head of human resources. Dalzell, who is joining the firm on 2 November, will report to group chief executive Peter Sanderson. She will also be a member of the senior leadership team,

Dalzell was previously at BlackRock, and formerly Merrill Lynch Investment Management, for 16 years, where she worked in a number of senior HR roles, latterly as head of employee relations. Prior to that, she worked in recruitment, including leading the graduate recruitment programme for retailer John Lewis for five years. 

Robeco
Lucian Peppelenbos has joined as climate strategist at Robeco to expand the Dutch asset manager’s SI team. The newly-created role will see Peppelenbos develop Robeco and RobecoSAM’s climate change strategy. Chairing the group’s climate change task force, he will also establish further steps for lowering the carbon footprint in the firm's investments.

Prior to Robeco, he was at APG Asset Management, where he served as senior responsible investment and governance specialist in charge of ESG portfolio integration and company engagement on climate change. He holds a PhD in social-economic sciences from Wageningen University.