Rabobank names global chief sustainability officer

Rabobank has promoted a long serving leader to the executive role of chief sustainability officer.

Dries Lagerberg assumes his new role on June 1, having served as head of group sustainability regulations and commitments for the last three years.

Lagerberg joined Rabobank in 2000 as legal counsel based in Netherlands. He then moved to London in the same role before becoming head of the primary markets team, bringing him back to the Netherlands.

Lagerberg went on to other senior legal roles covering financial markets, retail banking and litigation.

In his new role, Lagerberg will lead the group sustainability department and report directly to Rabobank chief executive Stefaan Decraene.

Over the past three years, Lagerberg has been a member of Rabobank's group sustainability management team, helping to shape and advance the bank's sustainability ambitions.

He succeeds Aafke Keizer, who served in the post since 2022. She has now taken up a new but unnamed role within Rabobank.

"Sustainability is at the heart of Rabobank's cooperative identity. I look forward to continuing to work with colleagues and partners to accelerate our impact for members, clients, society, and future generations," said Lagerberg.

Separately, Rabobank recently joined the European banking consortium Qivalis to help develop a regulated, Euro-denominated stablecoin for on-chain payments and settlements.

The Qivalis consortium now comprises 37 financial institutions across 15 European countries, aiming to progress and scale the secure and scalable digital financial infrastructure for banks operating in the region.

Qivalis wants to launch the stablecoin that is fully backed with fiat currency and designed in line with the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), under the planned supervision of De Nederlandsche Bank.

The group is currently pursuing authorisation as an Electronic Money Institution and plans a market launch in the second half of 2026.