Benjamin Towell

Benjamin is a Registered Architect (Singapore), a Chartered Surveyor, and a Chartered Environmentalist. He is the Executive Director for the Global Wholesale Banking Sustainability Office and subject matter expert at OCBC, leading the bank’s global net zero ambition for the Built Environment sector. Benjamin develops innovative financial solutions, thought leadership and technical sustainability advisory services for OCBC and its customers.

He is Singapore’s representative for the World Green Building Council’s Sustainable Finance Taskforce and ESG working group, providing deep technical diligence and comment to key initiatives intersecting the worlds of finance, climate action and the built environment. He chairs the Singapore Green Building Council sustainable finance working group.

In addition, he is part of the CRREM Global Scientific and Investor Committee, involved in challenging, and shaping credible 1.5C aligned pathways for the built environment. Prior to joining OCBC he played a leading role in the development of Singapore’s environmental policy landscape, most notably the development of BCA Green Mark scheme.

Benjamin is the author of the Singapore Institute of Architects Green Book, which frames the Architectural professions direct response to the deep socio-ecological crisis of the Anthropocene age as well as a co-author of the recently launched ‘Financing Transformation: A Guide to Green Building for Green Bonds and Green Loans’, written in collaboration with the Green Building Council of Australia, BRE (UK), the USGBC and Alliance HQE (France).