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OUR TEAM

FaithInvest has a core team of staff supported by consultants and advisors around the world. The team brings together people with significant experience in engaging faith groups, alongside those with extensive backgrounds in socially responsible investing, asset management and shareholder advocacy. 

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DAVE ZELLNER

Executive Chair

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Dave brings unparalleled experience and credibility in faith-consistent investing to the Executive Chair role, having spent more than 27 years at Wespath Benefits and Investments until his retirement in August 2024. There he steered the management of more than US$25B in assets (as of 31 December 2023) on behalf of more than 100,000 participants and 150 United Methodist institutions.

 

As CIO, Dave was also responsible for executing Wespath's investment programme as directed by its Investment Strategy Statement and Statement of Administrative Investment Policy. Before joining Wespath, he managed equity portfolios for Shell Oil's retirement plans, and Investment Research Company, where he was a portfolio manager and responsible for managing the firm's investment operations.

 

In September 2024 he assumed the role of Executive Chair at FaithInvest, where he has been Chair of Trustees since 2019. He is based in the United States.

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MARTIN PALMER

FaithInvest co-founder, Founding President and
Advisor to the Board

Martin Palmer is the Founding President of FaithInvest, having established the organisation in 2019 and been its inaugural Chief Executive. Previously, he was the Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), founded with HRH Prince Philip in 1995 to help faiths develop environmental and conservation projects based on their own beliefs and practices.

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Martin has been working with the faiths on their investment programmes since 2001. He was one of the first observers to consider the faiths' role as stakeholders – not just moral leaders but organisations that own or manage large amounts of land, buildings, and finance. 

 

He is an international specialist on all major faiths and religious traditions and cultures and the author and editor of more than 20 books on religious and environmental topics. He has translated many ancient Chinese texts, and is a lay preacher in the Church of England. Read his full biography here. He is based in the UK.

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MIKE EVEN

FaithInvest co-founder and Trustee 

Mike Even is an investment professional with more than 35 years of experience. In 2019, he founded FaithInvest alongside Martin Palmer and was FaithInvest's Director of Investment Research and Strategy for four years. He now serves as Trustee on the Board. He is a director, board member and advisor to several organisations, including Geode Capital Management, Rockefeller Capital Management, KingsCrowd, Osmosis Investment Management and the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Management Board.

 

Previously, he was Chairman of Man Numeric Investors in Boston, US, a member of the Man Group Executive Committee and worked for Citigroup for nine years, building a global asset management organisation. After Citi merged with Travelers, he became global CIO of the Private Bank and then global CIO for, and co-head of, Citigroup Asset Management, overseeing investment teams running more than $500B in client assets. He is based in the United States, and is a CFA charterholder.

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AMY-ELIZABETH HAGEN

Trustee and Treasurer to the Board

Amy-Elizabeth Hagen is a strategic finance leader who serves as Treasurer on FaithInvest's Board. She is currently Vice President of Accounting for media group ProPublica, and sits on several other boards. Previously, she was the Chief Financial Officer of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a global mission-based congregation of Catholic women founded in 1880. Her experience includes Chief Financial Officer at international NGO Equality Now; Director of Sponsored Research Finance at Colgate University, US; and senior director roles at NGOs Teach for All and the Rainforest Alliance, as well ten years as an analyst in the United Nation's Peacekeeping Financing Division. She is based in the United States.​

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CATHERINE
ARNOLD

Advisor

Catherine Arnold is a diplomat with the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). She was Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK, for five years until October 2024 – the first woman to hold the post. Her previous roles include FCO  posts in Oman, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, including three years as the UK's Ambassador to Mongolia. She was then appointed Head of the FCO's Illegal Wildlife Trade Unit, delivering the high profile 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference. In 2019, she led the Cabinet Office's successful campaign to secure the UK as host for COP26. She is also a theologian and a scholar of Islam. She is based in the UK.

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CATHERINE DEVITT

Programme Manager

Catherine Devitt leads FaithInvest's programme on faith beliefs, teachings and values, and co-authored our ground-breaking study of 275 faith-based investment policies, Good Intentions 2026, alongside Dave Zellner. With a background in environmental policy and faith-based engagement, she brings expertise in the intersection of spirituality, ecology and social justice. She previously worked with the Irish Jesuit Province on faith and environmental justice, has lectured at University College Dublin, Ireland, on environmental issues and has published in leading international journals on environmental sustainability. She is based in Ireland.

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MARK
CAMPANALE

Advisor

Mark Campanale is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, an independent financial think tank carrying out in-depth analysis on the impact of energy transition on capital markets. He has been a leading figure in ethical investments for over 30 years, co-founding reponsible investment funds at Jupiter Asset Management, NPI, AMP Capital and Henderson Global Investor. He is a founding director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum and has served on many global bodies from UNEP's Financial Sector Initiative to the steering group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on finance. He is based in the UK.

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MICHAEL
SHACKLETON

Advisor on Asian faith communities

Michael Shackleton is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Osaka Gakuin University in Japan, and a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has a special interest in religion and the environment. He was involved in the work of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) from its earliest days. He acts as FaithInvest's advisor, providing key liaison and support on Asian faith groups.

 

He is based in Japan.

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PIPPA
ARNOLD

Events Manager

Pippa Arnold (no relation to Catherine!) has been organising international, multi-faith, environmental events and building relationships with a wide range of partners for more than a decade. She worked for the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), organising events in partnership with the UN, Norwegian Government and Buckingham Palace, among others, and in locations ranging from Ise, Japan, to Nairobi, Kenya. She is a Trustee of the UK-based charity Faith in Water, has a degree in Geography from Sussex University, UK., and combines huge efficiency with an ability to remain calm and cheerful under pressure. She is based in the UK.

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SHAUNAKA 
RISHI DAS

Trustee

Shaunaka Rishi Das has been Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies since 1997 and Hindu Chaplain to Oxford University since 2009. In 2013 he was appointed by the Government of India to be a member of the International Advisory Council of the Auroville Foundation, and was a Member of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, from 2013 to 2015. He has served as Founder Trustee of Bhaktivedanta College, Belgium, Chair of the Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum, Trustee of the Interfaith Network UK, Editor of ISKCON Communications Journal and Convenor of the ISKCON Interfaith Commission. He is based in the UK.

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STEVEN
OWEN

Advisor, Strategic Marketing

Steven Owen is a financial product marketing and distribution professional with more than 25 years' experience. With strategic communications, writing and editing skills, he has led the development, implementation, and measurement of successful marketing programmes for a range of investment products and financial services at several asset management firms including Liberty Cove Investors, Janus Henderson, Wellington Management, and Putnam Investments. Steven received a Master in Business Administration degree from Boston University. US. He is based in the United States. ​

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SUSIE
WELDON

Director of Communications

Susie Weldon was an award-winning journalist for two decades, working in the UK and Hong Kong, before moving into international development where she specialised in working with faith groups on environmental issues. She headed the Alliance of Religions and Conservation's Faith in Food programme, helping to train hundreds of Christian and Muslim farmers in East Africa in sustainable farming methods. She later co-founded the UK charity Faith in Water which worked with Ugandan faith-managed schools on water and sanitation. She is co-author of Faith in Food: Changing the world one meal at a time. and a trustee of Sustainable Food Somerset. She is based in the UK.

OUR FUNDING

FaithInvest has received grant funding from a range of charitable foundations, such as Porticus, GHR Foundation, Rufford Foundation and the Golden Bottle Trust, as well as by organisations for joint projects, such as the Laudato Si' Movement, the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and WWF UK.

© 2025 by FAITHINVEST

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FaithInvest is a registered charity in England and Wales 1187015 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales 11862410. Although registered in the UK, FaithInvest has been deemed equivalent to a 501(c)(3) public charity in the United Sstates by NGOsource. Click the badge (right) for more information.

Disclaimer

FaithInvest is an international nonprofit organisation that empowers faith groups to invest in line with their beliefs and values. FaithInvest is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and does not provide financial or investment advice. Information provided on FaithInvest’s website or its other communication channels does not constitute financial or investment advice. If you wish to receive any form of financial or investment advice, please consult a qualified and independent financial advisor. You should conduct your own due diligence in relation to any investment opportunities or strategies you choose to pursue. FaithInvest does not promote any specific investments or opportunities and cannot therefore accept responsibility for any specific financial or investment decisions you make following participation on its website platform.

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