Hannah Picknett

Hannah joined Downing in March 2020. She is Downing's Sustainability Lead, driving the implementation and evolution of our sustainability strategy across both the corporate business and each of our products’ investments and operations, to support long-term value and manage risk.

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Previously Hannah was Head of the Asset Management Operations and ESG team, responsible for streamlining a number of central business operations and risk management processes for Downing’s global portfolio of energy assets. When Downing opened its operations in the Nordics, Hannah temporarily relocated to Downing’s Stockholm office where she oversaw the scaling of business operations into new technologies, geographies and project stages.

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Before joining Downing she worked at Ofgem where she was a Policy Development Manager, handling several significant changes to the UK Government’s Renewables Obligations and Feed in Tariff subsidy legislations.

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Hannah holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Southampton and a certification in The Regulation of Energy Utilities from the Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute.