Arnaud Cohen Stuart

Head of Business Ethics, ING Bank

Arnaud advises ING senior management on dilemmas associated with Sustainability and the bank’s global business conduct.
Driving ING’s sustainability strategy and balancing internal and external stakeholder views, Business Ethics issues advice on clients and financial transactions prone to reputation risk. Insights obtained in the process get translated to the bank’s sustainability strategy, communications, and policy framework.

Arnaud has been a key contributor to the development of multiple policies, including some industry firsts. Examples are targets set to triple renewable energy financing and restrictions set on financing new oil & gas field development (industry first), LNG export terminals (industry first), controversial weapons, private prisons, and tobacco.

Arnaud is a guest lecturer at VU University Amsterdam (Institutional Identity & Reputation) and Utrecht University (Economic Ethics). He holds a master’s degree in Law, a master’s degree in Marketing and a master’s degree in Applied Ethics.