Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V.

Robert Rubinstein is Founder and CEO of TBLI. His motto is: "The World will benefit when economy supports well being." TBLI GROUP™ is a knowledge broker, specializing in Triple Bottom Line Investment and ESG (Environmental and Social Governance). TBLI GROUP™ makes connections for companies and individuals from the old to the new economy, by expanding, updating and utilizing its extensive global network. The focus is finance. Robert has been active in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fo...

Mary L. Schapiro

United States of America (Washington)

Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Pavan Sukhdev

United Kingdom (Cambridge)

Study Leader – TEEB & Project Leader - Green Economy, UNEP-WCMC

Yuslam Fauzi

Republic of Indonesia (Jakarta)

President Director, Bank Syariah Mandiri

Born in Jakarta, Mr. Fauzi graduated from the University of Indonesia, Faculty of Economics in 1986 and obtained his MBA in Finance/Investment Banking from Arizona State University, USA. Mr Fauzi started his career in Banking Industry at Bank Bumi Daya in 1983 with the last position as Head of Credit Division. Later, he was the Director of Risk Management of Bank Mandiri. His last position in Bank Mandiri was the Regional Manager Area IX Banjarmasin (January–June 2005). Since June 2005 he h...

Philippe Desfossés

France (Paris)

Chief Executive Officer, ERAPF- Établissement de Retraite Additionnelle de la Fonction Publique

Gro Nystuen

Norway (Oslo)

Chair of the Council on Ethics of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, Norwegian Government Pension Fund

Gro Nystuen is Chair of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global. She is dr. juris and Associate Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. Ms. Nystuen has been in the foreign service since 1991. She chaired the Government Petroleum Fund's Advisory Commission on International Law until November 2004 when it was replaced by the Council on Ethics and was also a member of the Graver Committee which proposed the ethical guidelines fo...

Doris M. Schönemann

Switzerland (Zurich)

Director, Investor's Dialogue™ GmbH

Doris M. Schönemann, Dr.rer.pol. After studying Economics in Freiburg, Germany, and in Zürich, Switzerland, Doris M. Schönemann acquired a doctorate with Professor Dr. F. A. von Hayek, Nobel Laureate in economics. Her working experience includes financial editor, Education Programs with the University of St. Gallen. She was heading the private banking division of Bank Leu Ltd between 1991 and 1993 and director of economic research and marketing of Zürcher Kantonalbank between 1985 and 199...

Paul Watchman

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Quayle Watchman Consultancy

Paul was named in 2006, with Hank Paulson, formerly Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and now United States Treasury Secretary, as one of the five most influential world figures in the development of Sustainable Banking. He has lectured and published widely and is the author or co-author of many legal text books, the latest is on Climate Change: A Guide to Carbon Law and Practice is prefaced by HRH The Prince of Wales, collections of essays on the law, reports for government, government agencies...

Claudia Langer

Germany (Munich)

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Utopia Medien AG

Claudia Langer is a Serial Entrepreneur since the age of 19.Well before she graduated from highschool she set up her first company, Avantgarde, which organized fashion shows, events and promotions. In 1992, Claudia and her husband, Gregor Wöltje, founded .start advertising, which soon turned into one of the leading creative places in advertising. Looking for new challenges, she sold .start in 2004 and fully devoted herself to her family. During the following sabbatical the idea of utopia surfac...

Luke Poliszcuk

Japan (Tokyo)

Chief Executive Officer, eQualC Sustainability Communications, 合同会社eQualC

Luke is CEO of eQualC Sustainability Communications, a Tokyo-based firm specializing in international CSR, environment and sustainable corporate communications. He fullfils many roles in Japan’s burgeoning Green Business movement including: Co-President of Net Impact Japan; Content Director of Greenz.jp, Japan’s leading bilingual green new media site; communications consultant for eco+waza magazine; positions on the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan’s (ACCJ) CSR and Environment committ...

Francis Vorhies

Switzerland (Geneva)

Director, Earthmind

Dr Francis Vorhies is the Director of Earthmind. He has over 20 years of international experience as a sustainability economist. In Johannesburg, he set up Eco Plus, an innovative consultancy focused on business, economics and the environment. In Nairobi, he worked for the African Wildlife Foundation under a UNDP/GEF grant to build biodiversity economics capacity in the forestry sector in East Africa. In Geneva, Dr Vorhies established new global programmes on economics and business for IUCN - Th...

Douglas Woodring

People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)

Co-Founder and Director , Project Kaisei

Doug has worked in Asia for the past 18 years in a number of industries which have been at the forefront of technology within their sectors. Doug is the Co-Founder and Director of Project Kaisei, a recently established (2008) non-profit organization based in San Francisco and Hong Kong. The goal is to increase the understanding of the scale of marine debris, its impact on our ocean environment, how best to prevent future waste, and how to accelerate efforts to clean-up this vast and growing chal...

Satoshi Nimura

Japan (Tokyo)

President, Nimura Genetic Solutions Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Nimura was born in 1963 and graduated from the Agricultural Department at Meiji University. Mr Nimura relocated to Malaysia in 1989 and founded a traditional knowledge database company there in 1994. In 2000, Mr Nimura established Nimura Genetic Solutions Co., Ltd., Tokyo Japan and a wholly owned subsidiary, Nimura Genetic Solutions (M) SDN. BHD., to develop biological prospecting business. At present he lives in Malaysia and visits Japan every month.

Emily McAteer

United States of America (New York, NY)

Analyst, Climate Risk Management , RiskMetrics Group

Emily McAteer is a Climate Risk Management analyst at RiskMetrics Group. She is the co-author the January 2008 report, “Corporate Governance and Climate Change: The Banking Sector,” the December 2008 report, “Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Consumer and Technology Companies,” the March 2009 electric utilities sector report for the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the September 2009 Ceres/DEG report “Addressing Climate Risk: Financial Institutions in Emerging Markets.” RiskMet...

Lauren Compere

United States of America (Boston, MA)

Senior Vice President/Director of Shareholder Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management, LLC

Lauren is primarily responsible for working with clients invested in Boston Common subadvisory strategies and has day-to-day oversight of Boston Common’s sub-advisory relationships. Lauren also coordinates Boston Common’s international shareholder engagement initiatives has over 20 years of experience in the SRI field. Lauren received her BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont, Cum Laude, and her MS in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University...

Paulo Peneda Saraiva

The Netherlands (Maastricht)

PhD Candidate, Maastricht University

Laurie J. Spengler

United States of America (Chicago, IL)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Shorebank International

Laurie serves as the President and CEO of ShoreBank international, a company that focuses on small business finance, microfinance and housing finance by working with the financial institutions (and their funders) that are growing their institutions with partial or total focus on financing entrepreneurial and housing investments in underbanked markets around the world, including Africa. Before joining ShoreBank, Laurie founded, and is the former CEO of the Prague-based Central European Advisor...

Patricia Bader-Johnston

Japan (Tokyo)

Representative Director and CEO, Silverbirch Associates k.k.

Patricia Bader-Johnston is President of Silverbirch Associates and a Ministry of Education and Science-approved Professor with the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business MBA in Globalization - where her course is currently the most popular on offer. With extensive Fortune 50 corporate experience as Director of Communications for IBM Japan, Head of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs BAT, Head of Corporate Affairs AP for Standard Chartered Bank and global experience as a VP and Head of People D...

Drew Tulchin

United States of America (Wilmington, DE)

Consultant, Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS)

Drew Tulchin is working with Nemours Health and Prevention Services, the largest pediatric hospital in Delaware, to measure the impact of their public health efforts to reduce obesity. They have a multi-year project to measure the social value of their ROI.

Mariko Kawaguchi

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Analyst, Daiwa Institute of Research

Received bachelors degree in public finance from HitotsubashiUniversity in Japan in1983. Received Masters degree in applied economics from Hitotsubashi University Graduate School in 1986. Joined Daiwa Securities in 1986, worked as researcher and securities analyst. Transferred to Daiwa Institute of Research in 1994 and have worked as securities analyst, consultant of environmental management, now engaging in research and study of CSR and SRI environmental and reporting sustainability reporting. ...

Don Sarich

United States of America (Santa Fe, NM)

Chief Executive Officer, Permaculture Credit Union

Don Sarich is the CEO of the Permaculture Credit Union, a nation-wide financial institution based in New Mexico, USA, dedicated to provided affordable financial services for customers to undertake permanent agriculture and other triple bottom line initiatives, like off-grid housing, and meaningful returns for investors as a cooperatively owned entity.

David Creighton

Canada (Montréal Qc)

Chief Executive Officer, Cordiant Capital

David has accumulated over 20 years experience in the fields of international capital markets, fund management, financial engineering and securitization. His career has taken him to New York and London where, as Vice President and Director, he developed and managed the international fixed income sales team for BMO Nesbitt Burns. During his 13 years at the helm, offices were opened in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing. In 1999, he returned to his native Montreal to found Cordiant, a unique emergin...

Marie Rosencrantz

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Advisor, ESG and Monitoring & Evaluations , CDC Group plc

Marie Rosencrantz is the senior advisor on ESG for CDC Group plc, the UK development finance institution. She has previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey and been the Swedish Trade Commissioner to Italy, Albania, Malta and Libya. Marie worked for two years on the start-up of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria. She has also been employed at the World Bank, at CDC and as a diplomat within the Swedish foreign service. Marie has an economics degree from Stanford University, a Mast...

Thomas Jakobsen

Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Ho Chi Minh City)

Head of Sustainability, Anpha Capital

Thomas Jakobsen is Head of Sustainability for Anpha Capital. Prior to his role at Anpha Capital, Mr. Jakobsen founded Gate to Asia, a Viet Nam focused consulting company specializing in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance issues. Prior to that, Mr. Jakobsen was Director at Tropicdane, a group of 3 factories in the furniture and home decorations industry in the Binh Duong, Viet Nam. Before moving to Viet Nam in 2006, Mr Jakobsen led the loudspeaker manufacturer Bowers and Wilkins in De...

Tomohiro Matsuoka

Australia (Melbourne, Victoria)

Executive Director, Research, SIRIS

Tomohiro Matsuoka is Executive Director and Head of Research at SIRIS. Tomo coordinates a team of over 15 research analysts working on various SRI research covering Australia, Japan and other markets in Asia and Oceania region. He is also involved in SRI database and product developments in collaboration with SIRIS’ global business partners. His work at SIRIS is inspired by his interest in social equity and welfare and his personal experience as a father of a child with a disability. Outside h...

Damayanti Ratunanda

Republic of Indonesia (Jakarta)

Head of Environmental Fund Division, Ministry of Environment

James Hawrylak

Japan (Tokyo)

Head of Asian Marketing and Operations, Glass, Lewis & Co.

Residing mostly in East Asia since 1986, James Hawrylak has extensive experience in investment banking and investor relations in Japan, Greater China, and Korea gained while working for firms such as Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette subsidiary DLJdirect; Mizuho Securities; and Taylor Rafferty Associates. In 2008, James moved to Glass Lewis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he is currently their Head of Asian Marketing and Operations. James began studying East Asia...

Anne Simpson

United States of America (Sacramento)

Head of Global Corporate Governance, CalPERS Investment Office

Anne Simpson is the incoming Head of Global Corporate Governance at California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). She has been the Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network whose members are drawn from over 45 countries worldwide, and include investors responsible for US$13 trillion in global assets. Prior to this she was Head of the Secretariat at the Global Corporate Governance Forum. She was primarily joint Managing Director of Pensions & Investment Rese...

Humbert Garreau de Labarre

People's Republic of China (Shanghai)

Senior Vice-President, La Compagnie Financière Edmond De Rothschild

Aged 52, Humbert Garreau de Labarre holds a master’s degree in management from Paris-Dauphine University (1983). Officer in the French Cavalry Reserves, he first started his banking career in 1983 at Neuflize OBC (ABN Amro Group) managing portfolios for high networth individuals. He joined La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild in 1988. As Senior Vice-President of the Private Banking department he develops “estate” consultancy (global strategies to achieve the right balance be...

Peter Johnson

United States of America (Darien, Connecticut)

Partner, Developing World Markets

Since 2003 Peter and his DWM colleagues have raised or advised some US$800 million of debt and equity capital for microfinance institutions in developing countries and now manage over $600 million in debt and equity investments in microfinance institutions. Prior to DWM, Peter spent 14 years with Bankers Trust, focused exclusively on emerging markets. As an investment banker in London with Middle Eastern institutional clients, he helped restructure their direct investments in Asia, Latin Amer...

Taejun Shin

Japan (Tokyo)

Chairperson, Living in Peace (LIP)

Taejun Shin is the founder of Living in Peace ("LIP"), an NPO for economic development, composed of more than one hundred members with expertise in finance, accounting, law, IT, PR, etc. Mr Shin was born in 1981 in Japan, as a third generation Korean living in Japan. Having graduated from Korea University and Waseda Graduate School, he now works for Morgan Stanley Capital. Mr Shin established LIP inspired by "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs and is the author of "Finance for 15 Year-olds...

Xin Zhuo 卓昕

People's Republic of China (Beijing)

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

Xin Zhuo manages BSR China's work with the financial sector and joined BSR in 2008 with extensive public and private consulting experience, including law/regulatory reform, institutional capacity building, industry-focused diagnostics, and energy efficiency financing programs. Prior to joining BSR in 2008, Xin spent four years at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the World Bank Group. She holds a M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Aberdeen, and a B.A. in Econom...

Seiji Kawazoe

Japan (Tokyo)

Associate General Manager, Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd

Mr Kawazoe has ten years of professional experience as a fund manager and as senior fund manager for Global Equities for institutional accounts. He has been based in various locations (Tokyo, New York, London and Luxembourg) where he gained deeper insights into the global financial industry. He has recently taken on global business development, with a strong interest in ESG issues. Mr Kawazoe is a CFA charter holder and has obtained an MBA at London Business School.

David St. Maur Sheil

People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)

Joint Executive Director, ASrIA - Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia

Megumu Murakami

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Consultant, Climate Change Strategy Cluster, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.

Tomohiro Matsuoka

Australia (Melbourne, Victoria)

Executive Director, Research, SIRIS

Tomohiro Matsuoka is Executive Director and Head of Research at SIRIS. Tomo coordinates a team of over 15 research analysts working on various SRI research covering Australia, Japan and other markets in Asia and Oceania region. He is also involved in SRI database and product developments in collaboration with SIRIS’ global business partners. His work at SIRIS is inspired by his interest in social equity and welfare and his personal experience as a father of a child with a disability. Outside h...

Paolo Sardi

Luxemburg (Luxemburg)

Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner, ECPI

Paolo Sardi, CEO ECPI SA, Founding Partner ECPI, previous experience in Merril Lynch International London and Real Estate financial advisory. Investment advisory solutions for institutional investors, set up of investment vehicles. Hybrid structured transactions: equity, fixed income and hedge funds. Lecturer at Corporate Finance and Real Estate Department, SDA - Bocconi School of Management.

Kathelijne Marritt-Alers

Switzerland (Zürich)

Relationship Manager, SAM Indexes

Paul Hoff

Japan (Tokyo)

Managing Director Asia Pacific, FTSE

Jamie Allen

People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)

Secretary General, Asian Corporate Governance Association Ltd.

Mr. Allen is the founding Secretary General of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). He is a published author and has more than 20 years experience as a writer, editor and analyst covering Asian business, finance and economics from Hong Kong. Prior to the establishment of ACGA in mid-1999, Mr. Allen acted as a consultant for multinational companies, carrying out customised research on mainly finance-related topics, including corporate governance. From 1992-95 he worked for the...

Erik Breen

The Netherlands (Rotterdam)

Head of Responsible Investing, Robeco Group

Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V.

Robert Rubinstein is Founder and CEO of TBLI. His motto is: "The World will benefit when economy supports well being." TBLI GROUP™ is a knowledge broker, specializing in Triple Bottom Line Investment and ESG (Environmental and Social Governance). TBLI GROUP™ makes connections for companies and individuals from the old to the new economy, by expanding, updating and utilizing its extensive global network. The focus is finance. Robert has been active in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fo...