Managing Director, is the Global Head of Sustainable Core Investing and a Portfolio Manager within the Thematics & Sectors team in BlackRock’s Fundamental Equities division. Mr. Bishop leads the team's energy investment pod and co-manages both traditional energy related strategies (e.g., BGF World Energy, BGF Natural Resources) and energy transition thematic strategies (e.g., BGF Sustainable Energy, BGF Future of Transport). Alastair sits on BlackRock's Climate Infrastructure Investment Committee and the EMEA Investment Stewardship Advisory Committee. He has also represented BlackRock on several external initiatives related to the energy transition including the City of London's Green Finance Initiative (2016-17) and the UK Government's Capital Markets Climate Initiative (2013-14). Mr. Bishop joined BlackRock in 2010 from Piper Jaffray where he was a Senior Research Analyst covering Clean Technology. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2009, he covered the Renewable Energy and Industrial sectors for 8 years at the European Investment Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort. Mr. Bishop earned a BSc honours degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2001.

Mark Hume is the Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2017; Mark Hume was the Portfolio Manager at Colonial First State Global Asset Management from 2010 to 2017.