Daniel Hanna

Global Head of Sustainable Finance | Standard Chartered Bank

Daniel is the Global Head of Sustainable Finance for Standard Chartered Bank. Daniel has two decades of banking experience in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing advice to companies, institutions and governments on their ESG and credit ratings, raising equity and debt, restructuring their business activities, and investing in emerging markets.

Daniel has driven a number of a market firsts including the launch of the first Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) money market and retail deposits by a major bank; the World’s first Sovereign Blue Bond for the Republic of Seychelles; the first World Bank IDA sovereign bond for the Republic of Ghana and Standard Chartered’s inaugural SDG aligned bond, which was six times oversubscribed. Standard Chartered was awarded Best Bank for Sustainable Finance by Global Finance in 2019.

Daniel has helped raise several billion dollars for health, social development and infrastructure. He set up and ran Standard Chartered’s USD 1bn fund to finance the fight against COVID19 and created the post-Ebola Reconstruction Facility for Sierra Leone. He, and his team, have led several innovative financing transactions, particularly in the use of “blended finance” working with development finance institutions to mobilize more than USD 5bn in commercial capital towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Standard Chartered was rated the leading private sector institution in blended finance by Convergence over the last 5 years. Daniel and his team have also supported more than 2.5 million of the most vulnerable households through microfinance.

Daniel is a board member of the African development finance institution, Africa Export Import Bank. Daniel is also a Steering Group member of the United Nations Development Programme’s Sustainable Development Goals Impact Group, the United Nations Global Investors Alliance for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership, and the City of London’s Sustainable Development Capital Initiative. Daniel established and provided the secretariat for the UK India CEO Forum under the sponsorship of Prime Ministers David Cameron and Manmohan Singh. Daniel was also a member of the UK China Emerging Leaders Roundtable. He has a Masters in Business Administration (Distinction) from London Business School, a Certificate d’Etudes European from Science Po Strasbourg and a BA in Economics and Politics from Exeter University.