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Amplified: the social and economic story of Wellington Place

Intrinsic to our ability to generate positive impacts through RPI is the concept of meaningful place-making: urban places where people want to work and live, in which they take great civic pride, and which they want to support through social, economic, leisure and community-based activities.

In this episode of Amplified, Tatiana Bosteels, Director of Responsibility across Hermes’ private markets teams and Chris Darroch, Director of Fund Management at Hermes Real Estate, explore the concept of meaningful place-making. They focus in particular on Wellington Place in central Leeds, one of the team’s nine place-making projects in the UK, which is the subject of a recent and independent report that measured the range of outcomes created by the development, and how they are impacting stakeholders.

Chris Darroch says: “we are delivering sustainable returns for our clients whilst also having a wider impact on the wider community, which is an important facet from our client’s perspective”.

This is the second in a series of podcasts focusing on our Impactful Intent framework, which identifies core impact investment themes and sustainable outcomes that support the delivery of the UN SDGs.

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Tatiana Bosteels
Director, Responsibility for Private Markets, and Head of Responsible Property Investment

Tatiana joined Hermes in 2008 and leads the integration of responsible investment and impact investing across private markets, including real estate, infrastructure and private equity. Since 2015, she has been developing Hermes’ carbon risk strategy across asset classes. She also has a lead role in delivering Hermes’ advocacy programme, challenging the investment industry to focus on sustainable finance, addressing a just climate transition, positive impact finance, energy efficiency and integrating “ESG” and “long-term” in fiduciary duty definitions. She is the chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative Investment Committee and Board Member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Tatiana holds an MSc in Environmental Management from Imperial College London, an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from UCL Leuven Belgium and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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