Stockholm (NordSIP) – P+, the €21.5 billion Danish pension fund for academics, has appointed Christina Gordon Christiansen as its new head of responsible investments. She takes on the role as an internal promotion, having joined P+ in July 2022 from Industriens Pension where she had been Head of ESG. Her predecessor Kirstine Lund Christiansen has left P+ to join SEB Denmark as its new Head of Sustainable Banking.
Commenting on the changes, P+ Chief Investment Officer Jasper Riis said: “I am pleased that Christina Gordon Christiansen has agreed to become our new head of responsible investments, and I am very pleased that we have been able to fill the position with a competence from our own ranks. Christina has already had a great influence on the work with responsible investments in P+, where she has, among other things, been responsible for our ambitious climate efforts, and I look forward to continuing the collaboration. I am sure that Christina’s professionalism, experience and insight into P+ will continue to benefit the pension fund in the future.”
Gordon Christiansen paid tribute to the departing Lund Christiansen, whose near 8-year tenure at P+ saw the fund implementing an active ownership approach to responsible investing: “I would like to thank the organisation for the trust. Kirstine Lund Christiansen has been a great inspiration, and I am taking over a team in absolute top form. I look forward to continuing our ambitious work so that we can also deliver responsible pensions to the members of P+ in the future.”
Earlier this month P+ signalled its firm commitment to the goals of the Paris climate agreement with a decision to remove all fossil fuel companies with upstream expansion plans from its investment portfolio.