Teresa Mary "Tessa" Tennant OBE (née Cormack; 29 May 1959 – 7 July 2018)[1] was a British advocate of sustainable investment.
[1][5] During her career, Tennant helped lead and found several influential organisations for green and responsible investors including UKSIF, AsRIA and the Carbon Disclosure Project.
She led the creation and was first Chair of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia based in Hong Kong (ASrIA), and The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which works with over 18,700 of the largest corporations and 1,100 local governments in the world to reduce their environmental impact.
[8][11] The couple's son, Euan (born 1983),[10] now manages The Glen, the Tennant family estate in the Scottish borders.
[8][9][10] A testimonial in The Economist paid tribute to her networking skills and ability to work with and influence diverse groups by describing her as "A rainmaker who cajoled the religious and made them greener.