James Burrow is Director, Sustainable Finance, BMO North American Commercial Bank. Prior to his appointment, James was part of the Capital Markets Sustainable Finance team, where he identified opportunities to grow sustainable finance products across BMO Financial Group as a whole. His work there included launching BMO’s high-profile retrofits partnership with the Canada Infrastructure Bank; supporting the acquisition of Radicle Group and it’s post-merger integration into BMO; scoping early-stage real-estate decarbonization opportunities with the U.S. Department of Energy; and publicly advocating for BMO’s climate ambition via thought leadership spanning national media, conferences and podcasts.

James started at BMO in 2019, joining the Office of Strategic Management where he supported the bank’s Executive Committee by developing an updated enterprise climate strategy, announced in March ’21. He also played a key role drafting the bank’s Ambition 2025 strategy. Prior to joining BMO, James lived in the UK, where he was a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, and a military intelligence officer.