Lender-grade ESG and Environmental & Social Risk Management Advisory
Serving Africa and Emerging Markets
PARTNER-LED – TECHNICALLY RIGOROUS – COMMERCIALLY PRAGMATIC
Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
Lender-grade ESG and Environmental & Social Risk Management Advisory
Serving Africa and Emerging Markets
PARTNER-LED – TECHNICALLY RIGOROUS – COMMERCIALLY PRAGMATIC
Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA
Trusted Partners believe in investing in long-term partnerships with our clients. We support our clients to achieve their strategic goals, rapidly respond to their needs and develop intimate knowledge of their businesses. Our low-overheads and flexible resourcing model allows us to deliver a high-quality service at a much more affordable rate than our competitors.
Our Partners bring deep regional and international experience, with collective project exposure across more than 35 African countries and island states, as well as assignments in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. As a result, Trusted Partners is able to mobilise a credible and experienced team of professionals who are actively engaged in the African, Middle Eastern, and European Environmental and Social Risk Management landscape, with practical familiarity across varied regulatory, institutional, and stakeholder environments.
Trusted Partners provides hands-on, specialist Environmental and Social Risk Management advisory services across Africa. Our Partners have extensive experience in assessing and managing ESG and E&S risks and impacts across major sectors on behalf of investors, development finance institutions, lenders, and corporates. This includes support across the investment and project lifecycle, from early-stage screening and due diligence through to implementation support, monitoring, corrective action planning, and performance improvement.
The Partners actively lead assignments and provide bespoke E&S Risk Management and Impact Investing Advisory services to corporate, financial, and industrial clients. Our approach is grounded in senior-level engagement, practical judgement, and substantial sector experience. Trusted Partners is focused on helping clients unlock and embed effective sustainability and risk management outcomes within their projects and portfolios, while maintaining commercial pragmatism and delivery efficiency. We place particular emphasis on being responsive, technically rigorous, and competitive in our support.
Malcolme Logie is a leading strategic thinking and performance-focused Environmental and Social Risk Management Advisor with over 34 years of experience in consulting across Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. As a proven Advisor, Malcolme has guided public listed companies on their Environmental & Social Risk Management Strategies, Impacts and Liabilities.
He is a motivational leader known for clearly defining mission and goals, aligning people and resources, and consistently delivering results that exceed expectations.
As a recognised authority in Environmental & Social Risk Management he has led multi-disciplinary teams on projects in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote de Ivoire, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Hungary/Magyar, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
Malcolme has consulted in the following industrial sectors: Aerospace; Agriculture; Forestry; Automotive; Beverage & Foodstuff; Chemical; Construction & Engineering; Utility Services (Electricity & Water); Explosive & Munitions; Health Care Service & Pharmaceutical; Leather; Petroleum Products; Mining & Metals; Oil & Gas (Onshore/Offshore: Upstream, Midstream & Downstream); Pulp & Paper; and Renewable Energy (Wind, Solar, RoR Hydro, Biomass, & BESS).
Nishal Sewruttan is an expert Environmental and Social Risk Management Advisor with over 20 years of international experience. Nishal works primarily within the domain of the IFC Performance Standards, related World Bank/IFC Guidelines, Equator Principles and other best practice standards. Country experience includes South Africa, Cote de Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mozambique, Zambia and Turkey.
He has extensive experience in the Industrial & Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Mining & Metals Processing, Waste Management, Public Infrastructure, Housing, Agriculture, Food & Beverage, Forestry, Retail, Commercial and Tourism sectors. Nishal has also completed several Strategic Environmental Assessments for spatial planning and urban renewal projects.
Nishal works primarily in the arena of Environmental & Social Risk Management, Due Diligence, ESIAs and Climate Change Risk Assessment. He has completed several Environmental and Social Due Diligence for major investment transactions for Private Equity, Lenders and multinational companies under the IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles, World Bank Guidelines and EDFI frameworks. Nishal is also experienced in Climate Change Risk Assessments, Climate Change Impact Assessments and Climate Change Adaption Plans. He also has extensive expertise in Environmental, Health & Safety Management Systems and ESG Reporting. Nishal has also completed numerous projects in contaminated land assessment and remediation for various pollutants and toxins.
Throughout his career, Nishal has developed excellent working relationships with the relevant authorities and various stakeholders. Nishal is known to provide a holistic analysis of a project’s environmental and social impacts. He has exceptional project management and administration skills. Nishal has also managed several internationally recognised environmental specialists and is well respected by his peers and stakeholders within the environmental field.
Jan Rasmussen is an environmental professional with over 34 years of consulting experience in hydrogeology, contaminated site management and environmental auditing and due diligence. He has worked on numerous African, Eastern European and Australasian projects that have included contaminated site investigations, Environmental auditing (due diligence, compliance and performance assurance) and specialist groundwater studies. He has worked in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Food & Beverage and Manufacturing/Pharma/Chemicals (MCP) sector and has managed global key clients in South Africa and Australia.
Jan’s auditing experience includes ESG, compliance, due diligence and performance assurance across a wide range of industrial and mining sectors in Africa, Australia and Eastern Europe. Jan has been involved in numerous contaminated site investigations in Australia, Africa and Eastern Europe. These studies have included site characterisation, risk assessments and the screening, development and implementation of appropriate remediation strategies in a range of hydrogeological environments.
Jan is an expert in Environmental & Social Due Diligence; Environmental Auditing; Contaminated Site Assessment; Specialist Groundwater Studies; Solid and Liquid Waste Management
Paula Gonzalez is a leading strategic thinking and performance-focused Environmental and Social Risk Management Adviser specialising in helping private organisations embed sustainability across their strategy, key investments, and operations. With over two decades of international experience, she has built a career at the intersection of business strategy, environmental management, and sustainable development. Paula has served as Country Managing Partner, Director, and Project Manager in leading global sustainability and environmental consulting firms, as well as within the national Oil & Natural Gas company of Portugal. She is also leading the development of a SaaS platform that enables SMEs to compile and report ESG information efficiently.
She is a leader known for training company leaders to understand ESG impact, risks, and opportunities, and for supporting them in defining value-creation-driven mission and goals, aligning people and resources, and consistently delivering results that exceed expectations.
Paula has extensive experience in applying the IFC – Environmental & Social Performance Standards and other Lenders’ standards, having advised European Development Finance Institutions as well as Global Finance Institutions.
She currently works primarily in the arena of ESG Auditing, Risk assessment and management, Strategy definition and implementation and Reporting for the finance sector (Private Equities). Additionally, she has extensive experience in ESIA, Contaminated site investigation and remediation, Climate Change Risk Assessment, and as a Lender’s Technical Expert.
She has led multi-disciplinary teams on projects in Africa (Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe, Namibia), Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom) and in Latin America (, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina), working for for leading international organizations including Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Exxon, ENI, Repsol, Anadarko, Vale, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Solvay, Siemens, GE, Honeywell, IBM, EDP, AIG and Syngenta, as well as major institutions such as Norwegian Trust Fund, the IsDB, OFID, the AfDB, the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) and the World Bank.
Paula has extensive experience including the following: Agriculture; Automotive; Beverage & Foodstuff; Chemical; Construction & Engineering; Utility Services (Electricity); Health Care Service & Pharmaceutical; Hospitality; Mining & Metals; Oil & Gas (Onshore/Offshore: Upstream, Midstream & Downstream); Pulp & Paper; and Renewable Energy (Wind, Solar, Biomass).
Fraser has over 15 years’ of consultancy experience in environmental and social due diligence assessment and contaminated site management. He has a wide range of experience on projects for clients across most sectors and industries throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Fraser has previously worked for reputable environmental consultancies based in Durban, Johannesburg, Glasgow, and Cape Town. During this period, he has completed numerous Phase I environmental site assessments (ESA) and due diligence assessmentd as well as managing various contaminated land projects, which includes high resolution site characterisation, fate and transport modelling, risk assessments and the development and implementation of appropriate remediation strategies in a range of hydrogeological environments.
As a recognised consultant in environmental due diligence and contaminated site management he has managed projects in South Africa, Cote de Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Romania, Russia, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Zambia.
Hilde Van Vlaenderen is a social scientist with over 30 years of consulting experience in social and human rights impact assessment and related studies. She has led multi-disciplinary teams and conducted projects in Africa ( Burkina Faso, Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Guinea Conakry, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Niger, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar and Zambia), Eastern Europe and FSU countries (Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey), Jordan, USA, Indonesia and Suriname. She has supported clients across a broad range of industry sectors, including mining, oil and gas, renewable energy and infrastructure.
Hilde’s auditing experience includes compliance and due diligence. She is an expert in social management measures with significant exposure in corporate and industrial settings. She has undertaken Social studies and Due Diligences under the IFC Performances Standards, World Bank Guidelines, EBRD and IRMA standards.
Hilde has worked in academic, corporate and not-for-profit milieus and has lectured on social and participatory research methods and cross-cultural communication at Rhodes University.
Hilde has been instrumental in developing the IRMA standards for resettlement and Indigenous People
Glenn has more than 30 years experience mostly across South Africa as well as across Southern and Eastern Africa. He has extensive experience in the field of stakeholder engagement, social justice, gender equity and governance. He has worked with both the private and non-government sector in advising and supporting public, private and non-profit organisations. Whist his main areas of expertise are in advancing transparency and equality through local governance and community health and safety, he has experience in land acquisition and resettlement, compensation and livelihoods restoration especially in the rural/traditional areas regions.
He has served on the national governing structures of networks like the Urban Sector Network and the Good Governance Learning Network. He co-edited a book entitled “Winds of Small Change: Civil Society Interaction with the African State” in October 1998. He was the editor of the Local Government Transformer (a journal on municipal governance) from 1996 – 2005 and has published several articles on local governance, gender and related topics. He has presented papers on topics related to governance and public engagement strategies at international conferences in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2001.
He has also developed specialised knowledge in integrated development planning and community development. He has designed and facilitated a broad spectrum of projects based on principles of social justice and the mainstreaming of marginalised groups such as women, youth, disabled people and persons suffering discrimination due to their sexual orientation. Across these areas he has competencies in research, training, strategic planning, policy formulation and review and monitoring and evaluation.
He has worked with a diverse array of partners and stakeholders, ranging from major international donor partners and national departments to village-based organisations. Glenn has expertise in municipal policy, legislation and stakeholder engagement systems and processes. He has undertaken ground-breaking work in local governance and service delivery monitoring tools, decentralised planning methodologies and community health safety / violence prevention strategies.
