Piet Klop appointed as head of PGGM Responsible Investment

He succeeds Hans Op ’t Veld, who will be focusing on the further expansion of the Sustainable Development Investment Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP), of which PGGM is one of the founders.

Klop (56), who has already served in this position as an interim manager recently, has worked at PGGM since 2011 and was previously affiliated to the World Resources Institute in Washington. He heads a team of 15 members who advise Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn in the field of responsible investment, support PGGM investment teams in environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters and conduct shareholder dialogues with portfolio companies.

Klop sees the main challenge for PGGM Investment Management in the coming years as defining the social impact of investments and incorporating this into the investment process.

About PGGM
PGGM is a not-for-profit cooperative pension fund service provider. As a pensions administrator, asset manager and advisor to pension fund boards, it executes its social mandate: to provide for good old-age incomes for 4.4 million participants in the Netherlands. On June 30, 2021 PGGM managed long-term pension capital of EUR 274 billion worldwide. Rooted firmly in the Dutch healthcare sector, PGGM develops innovative provisions for labour market issues in this sector, alone or with strategic partners. Our member organisation PGGM&CO supports 764,000 workers and pensioners with a background in healthcare.
www.pggm.nl.