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TBLI CONFERENCE™ ASIA 2010

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Location

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so*****, Tokyo, Japan

Dates

27 & 28 May 2010

Description

The largest annual global networking and learning event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing of Asia and Europe. Theme for 2010: "Values and Leadership in Finance."

May 27, 2010

07:30 - 09:00
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Registration

09:00 - 09:05
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Welcome

Robert Rubinstein
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V. - The Netherlands

09:05 - 09:30
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Opening Keynote

Mary L. Schapiro
Chairman - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - United States of America
SEC Mandates Climate Change Risk Disclosure
Read more.

09:30 - 10:00
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Keynote Speaker

Pavan Sukhdev
Study Leader – TEEB & Project Leader - Green Economy - UNEP-WCMC - United Kingdom

10:00 - 11:15
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

TBLI Roundtable Day 1 - Rebuilding Trust - Values Based Banking

_________ (Moderator)

Yuslam Fauzi (Roundtable Speaker 1)
President Director - Bank Syariah Mandiri - Republic of Indonesia

Philippe Desfossés (Roundtable Speaker 2)
Chief Executive Officer - ERAPF- Établissement de Retraite Additionnelle de la Fonction Publique - France

Gro Nystuen (Roundtable Speaker 3)
Chair of the Council on Ethics of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Norway

Doris M. Schönemann (Roundtable Speaker 4)
Director - Investor's Dialogue™ GmbH - Switzerland

11:15 - 11:45
Wisteria & Maple Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:15
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Keynote Speaker

Paul Watchman
Chief Executive Officer - Quayle Watchman Consultancy - United Kingdom

12:15 - 12:45
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Keynote Speaker

Claudia Langer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Utopia Medien AG - Germany

12:45 - 13:00
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Moderators to Introduce Their Sessions

13:00 - 14:30
Wisteria & Maple Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Lunch - 和風弁当 - Japanese o-bentō style

14:30 - 16:15
Hickory Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 1 - TBLI and Biodiversity

Luke Poliszcuk (Moderator)
Chief Executive Officer - eQualC Sustainability Communications, 合同会社eQualC - Japan

Francis Vorhies (Speaker 1)
Director - Earthmind - Switzerland

Douglas Woodring (Speaker 2)
Co-Founder and Director - Project Kaisei - People's Republic of China
Collaboration Building for a Global Environmental Cause
Read more.

Satoshi Nimura (Speaker 3)
President - Nimura Genetic Solutions Co., Ltd. - Japan
Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) in Bio Prospecting
Read more.

14:30 - 16:15
Hickory Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 2 - TBLI and Climate Change (TBC)

_________ (Moderator)

_________ (Speaker 1 - Reservation for Fortis Asset Management)

_________ (Speaker 2 - Reservation for NATIXIS)

Emily McAteer (Speaker 3)
Analyst, Climate Risk Management - RiskMetrics Group - United States of America
Integrating Climate Risk into Investment Analysis: Lessons fron US and EU Pension Funds
Read more.

14:30 - 16:15
Bamboo Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 3 - Emerging Markets Disclosure, The Asian Perspective

Workshop convened in cooperation with the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

Lauren Compere (Moderator)
Senior Vice President/Director of Shareholder Engagement - Boston Common Asset Management, LLC - United States of America

_________ (Speaker 1)

_________ (Speaker 2)

_________ (Speaker 3)

14:30 - 16:15
Bamboo Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 4 - Green Real Estate

_________ (Moderator)

_________ (Speaker 1 - Reservation for Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.)

Paulo Peneda Saraiva (Speaker 2)
PhD Candidate - Maastricht University - The Netherlands

Laurie J. Spengler (Speaker 3)
President and Chief Executive Officer - Shorebank International - United States of America
New Approaches in Capital Aggregation
Read more.

16:15 - 16:45
Workshop Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:15
Hickory Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 5 - TBLI Research

Patricia Bader-Johnston (Moderator)
Representative Director and CEO - Silverbirch Associates k.k. - Japan

Drew Tulchin (Speaker 1)
Consultant - Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) - United States of America
Measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI)
Read more.

Mariko Kawaguchi (Speaker 2)
Senior Analyst - Daiwa Institute of Research - Japan
[TBC - Findings of the Bi-Annual SIFJ SRI Report, published end of January 2010]
Read more.

_________ (Speaker 3)

16:45 - 18:15
Hickory Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 6 - Alternative Investment

_________ (Moderator)

Don Sarich (Speaker 1)
Chief Executive Officer - Permaculture Credit Union - United States of America
Putting Your Money To Work Beyond Sustainability
Read more.

David Creighton (Speaker 2)
Chief Executive Officer - Cordiant Capital - Canada

_________ (Speaker 3)

16:45 - 18:15
Bamboo Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 7 - Integrating ESG into Portfolios

_________ (Moderator)

Marie Rosencrantz (Speaker 1)
Senior Advisor, ESG and Monitoring & Evaluations - CDC Group plc - United Kingdom
CDC's New Toolkit On ESG For Fund Managers
Read more.

Thomas Jakobsen (Speaker 2)
Head of Sustainability - Anpha Capital - Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Integration of ESG into Private Equity in Viet Nam
Read more.

_________ (Speaker 3)

16:45 - 18:15
Bamboo Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 8 - Corporate Governance in Asia

Raising the standards of Corporate Governance of (Asian) listed companies.

Tomohiro Matsuoka (Moderator)
Executive Director, Research - SIRIS - Australia

Damayanti Ratunanda (Speaker 1)
Head of Environmental Fund Division - Ministry of Environment - Republic of Indonesia
[TBC - In cooperation with PT. Bank Negara Indonesia, the second largest conventional bank of Indonesia.]
Read more.

James Hawrylak (Speaker 2)
Head of Asian Marketing and Operations - Glass, Lewis & Co. - Japan
Change is Finally Here: What New Developments in Japanese Governance Mean for Global Investors in 2010 and Beyond
Read more.

Anne Simpson (Speaker 3)
Head of Global Corporate Governance - CalPERS Investment Office - United States of America

18:15 - 19:30
Ballroom Foyer, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Pre-Dinner Cocktail Drink

19:30 - 21:30
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Grand Dinner

The attendance of this speaker is not yet confirmed.

May 28, 2010

09:00 - 10:45
Hickory Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 9 - Microfinance

_________ (Moderator)

Humbert Garreau de Labarre (Speaker 1)
Senior Vice-President - La Compagnie Financière Edmond De Rothschild - People's Republic of China
For Another Microfinance
Read more.

Peter Johnson (Speaker 2)
Partner - Developing World Markets - United States of America
Adjacent Spaces: Developing Innovative Investment Opportunities at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Read more.

Taejun Shin (Speaker 3)
Chairperson - Living in Peace (LIP) - Japan

09:00 - 10:45
Hickory Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 10 - TBLI in China

_________ (Moderator)

Xin Zhuo 卓昕 (Speaker 1)
Manager, Advisory Services 顾问咨询部主管 - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) 商务社会责任国际协会 - People's Republic of China
Sustainable Investment in China
Read more.

Seiji Kawazoe (Speaker 2)
Associate General Manager - Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd - Japan
Sumitomo Trust's SRI China Funds for Japanese Retail Investors
Read more.

_________ (Speaker 3)

09:00 - 10:45
Bamboo Room 1, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 11 - Carbon Disclosure and Water Disclosure, Platforms For Change

Workshop convened in cooperation with the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

David St. Maur Sheil (Moderator)
Joint Executive Director - ASrIA - Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia - People's Republic of China

Megumu Murakami (Speaker 1)
Senior Consultant, Climate Change Strategy Cluster - The Japan Research Institute, Ltd. - Japan

_________ (Speaker 2)

_________ (Speaker 3)

_________ (Speaker 4)

09:00 - 10:45
Bamboo Room 2, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Workshop 12 - Sustainability Indexes

Tomohiro Matsuoka (Moderator)
Executive Director, Research - SIRIS - Australia

Paolo Sardi (Speaker 1)
Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner - ECPI - Luxemburg
[Launch of New Carbon Index, TBC]
Read more.

Kathelijne Marritt-Alers (Speaker 2)
Relationship Manager - SAM Indexes - Switzerland

Paul Hoff (Speaker 3)
Managing Director Asia Pacific - FTSE - Japan

10:45 - 11:15
Workshop Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:50
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

TBLI Roundtable Day 2 - Corporate Governance: Essential For Future Japanese Economic Growth

In cooperation with ACGA - Asian Corporate Governance Association

Jamie Allen (Moderator)
Secretary General - Asian Corporate Governance Association Ltd. - People's Republic of China

Erik Breen (Roundtable Speaker 1)
Head of Responsible Investing - Robeco Group - The Netherlands

_________ (Roundtable Speaker 2)

_________ (Roundtable Speaker 3)

_________ (Roundtable Speaker 4)

12:50 - 13:00
Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Closing Address

Robert Rubinstein
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V. - The Netherlands

13:00 - 14:00
Wisteria & Maple Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan

Buffet Lunch

The attendance of this speaker is not yet confirmed.

This overview was last changed: 2010-02-08 11:25:39 CET

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