Dan is the Social Themes lead at the Church Commissioners for England, an ethical endowment fund committed to leading responsible investment practices and grounded in a principle of ‘respect for people’.

He previously worked at the World Benchmarking Alliance’s ‘social transformation’ work, integrating social considerations into benchmarks of the world’s most influential 2,000 companies to ensure the SDG transformations are just and leave no one behind. From 2017 to 2019, Dan was the Director of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB). The CHRB creates annual rankings of the largest companies (from high-risk sectors) on their approaches to human rights and engages with investors, corporations, civil society and governments to push for improvements in disclosure, alignment with the UNGPs and human rights performance. The CHRB is now integrated into the World Benchmarking Alliance and is a spotlight benchmark under the social transformation.  

Prior to CHRB he was a social performance consultant, working in extractives and renewables projects in Africa, the Middle East and Europe between 2012 and 2017, focusing on social and human rights risk and impact management, team and sytems development, and responsible security practices. Prior to 2012, Daniel spent the best part of a decade with the British military and several years working in civil-military coordination and conflict stabilisation roles, including in Afghanistan with the DfID-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in Helmand Province. 

Dan’s first degree was in Physics from the University of Oxford, followed by a MSc in Security, Conflict and International Development from the University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability.