River and Mercantile names Lewis group head of ESG

Joins from Carbon Intelligence

River and Mercantile has appointed Roger Lewis as group head of ESG, responsible for implementing the firm's ESG philosophy company wide.

In his new role, Lewis will oversee the integration of this philosophy across the group's investment processes and asset management activities both vertically and horizontally. River & Mercantile taps Aviva to establish infrastructure business Lewis joins the firm from Carbon Intelligence, where he has held the role of ESG associate director, real assets, since March 2020. Prior to this, Lewis worked in the real assets ESG team at Aviva Investors, and has also held roles with Legal & General Investment Management and JP Morgan. James Barham, group chief executive, said: "We welc...