Robert Rubinstein

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 GROUPâ„¢ is a knowledge broker, specializing in Triple Bottom Line Investment and ESG (Environmental and Social Governance). TBLI GROUPâ„¢ 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...

Michael Braungart

Germany

Director, Büro Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart

Professor Dr. Michael Braungart began the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg, Germany in 1987 and collaborated with William McDonough to form Virginia-based McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) in 1995. Both EPEA and MBDC share a common set of values that embrace intelligent, aesthetic and eco-effective design, and seek to optimize the life-cycle of products by classifying the flow paths of their constituent materials through Cradle to Cradle design. Through t...

Robert Monks

USA (Cape Elizabeth, Maine)

Chief Executive Officer, Shareholder Activist and Corporate Governance Advisor, RAGM

Robert A.G. Monks is the publisher of http://ragmonks.blogspot.com and http://www.ragm.com, which are focused on the assembly and dissemination of information and opinion about global issues of corporate governance. Mr. Monks is a substantial shareholder in, and advisor to, Trucost, the environmental research company. He is also the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. His principal occupation is the d...

Peter Clarke

UK (London)

Managing Member, Affine Capital Partners LLP

Mr. Clarke is an investment banker with 20 years of experience in the U.S. public equity markets. He is an expert on the impact of Sarbanes Oxley and other U.S. extra territorial law on E.U. institutions. Former clients of Mr. Clarke include John Hancock Life Insurance, Chemical Bank, Time Warner, The Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Argentina. Mr. Clarke is a member of the TUAC corporate governance advisory committee to the OECD [and visiting lecturer at the MBA program at the Rotterdam Sch...

Joan Bavaria

USA

CEO, Trillium Asset Management

Joan Bavaria has served as Founding President and CEO of Trillium Asset Management since its incorporation in 1982. Ms. Bavaria served as founding Co-Chair of CERES from 1989 to 2001, and continues on the Board of CERES. She served as Founding President of the Social Investment Forum for four years and served on the Board for eight additional years. Ms. Bavaria is currently a Board member of LightHawk, Earthjustice, and the Center for Environment Leadership in Business. She is on the Advisory...

Jermyn P. Brooks

Germany (Berlin)

Chair, Business Advisory Board, Transparency International

Jermyn Brooks is currently Chair of the Business Advisory Board of Transparency International, an international anti-bribery and corruption NGO based in Berlin and London. He moved to this voluntary position after a career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jermyn is a qualified chartered accountant as well as a German Wirtschaftsprüfer and his career took him from work in the City of London to Frankfurt, where he had turns at auditing, corporate finance and management consultancy before becoming sen...

Prakash Sethi

USA

President - University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College

Dr. Sethi is University Distinguished Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. degree in business from Columbia University, New York. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Sethi is the founder and President of International Center for Corporate Accountability Inc., (ICCA). ICCA is an independent non-profit think tank, which undertakes cutting-edge research and public policy advocacy in the area of ...

Philippe Lespinard

France

CIO, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Philippe is the Chief Investment Officer of BNP Paribas AM, responsible for the fundamental research, quantitative research and portfolio management teams. In this role, he is responsible for €120bn in assets, covering European equities and fixed income as well as international equities and balanced portfolios. Philippe joined BNP Paribas AM in April of 2002. Prior to that date, he held the position of head of investments for Europe at Citigroup Asset Management in London, while co-heading ...

Will Oulton

UK

Head of Responsible Investment, FTSE International Limited Deputy

Will heads up FTSE’s Responsible Investment Unit. In this role, he provides a consultative role to FTSE’s Chief Executive, Mark Makepeace, in defining FTSE’s role in the responsible investment arena, including managing and developing SRI and CG index products and services. He is widely recognised as a leading thinker in the SRI world and is a regular commentator in the media. Will is also founder of a private consultancy practice advising a range of clients, companies and investors on Corp...

Simon Zadek

UK

CEO, AccountAbility

Dr Simon Zadek is Chief Executive of the AccountAbility, the pre-eminent international professional institute committed to promoting accountability for sustainable development. He sits on the Board\'s, Advisory Council\'s and Knowledge Networks of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, the State of the World\'s Commission for Globalisation, the ILO\'s World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, and the UN Commission for Social Development Expert Group on CSR.. He has un...

Barbara Krumsiek

USA

President & CEO, Calvert

Barbara J. Krumsiek is Chair, CEO and President of Calvert Group, Ltd., a leading investment management and mutual fund firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert manages over billion in assets across 42 mutual funds, including award-winning fixed income portfolios, and a full family of equities funds including nationally recognized socially responsible mutual funds. Ms. Krumsiek’s career in the investment industry spans three decades. Before joining Calvert as CEO in 1997, Ms. Krums...

Paul E. Metz

Netherlands (Velp (Gld))

Managing Consultant, INTEGeR Consult

After studies in chemistry, economics, and environmental sciences and an adventurous life in Europe and Latin America for a chemical company during 20 years, Paul started INTEGeR... Consult in 1995. It offersstrategic marketing and lobby expertise to help achieve \"integritythrough integration of sustainable development in the work and life of leaders in business and politics\". He advises directors and companies is a nonexecutive director of a technology company. Paul has chosen to work 2 days...

Jean Pogge

USA

Senior Vice President, Shorebank

Jean Pogge is a member of the management team of the .3 billion ShoreBank, the first and leading community development bank in the U.S. As Senior Vice President of the Mission Based Deposits Group, Pogge is responsible for national deposit raising for the three banks owned by Shorebank. Socially responsible Development Depositors from across the country establish bank accounts with the Shorebank banks to support their innovative community development work. Prior to joining South Shore Bank, J...

Neil Dunn

UK

Kempen Capital Management (uk) Ltd

After graduating with a degree in economics Mr Dunn’s initial investment experience was gained at the Standard Life Assurance Company. This was followed by a period as the Group Economist of Christian Salvesen during which he gained a wide industrial experience covering many sectors of economic activity. In 1977 he moved to Ivory & Sime plc of which he became a director with responsibility for the company’s business in Japan and South East Asia. During this period he was instrumental in the ...

Jacob de Wit

Netherlands

Head Fixed Income Team , SNS Asset Management

Jacob has 9 years experience in asset management. He joined SNS Asset Management in 2001. Previous he worked for AXA Investment Managers where he spent 3 year as head fixed income and and 2 years as team leader global fixed income. Prior to this, he worked for UAP as fixed income portfolio manager. Jacob has a degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and is a certified EFFAS Financial Analyst

Barbara Krumsiek

USA

President & CEO, Calvert

Barbara J. Krumsiek is Chair, CEO and President of Calvert Group, Ltd., a leading investment management and mutual fund firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert manages over billion in assets across 42 mutual funds, including award-winning fixed income portfolios, and a full family of equities funds including nationally recognized socially responsible mutual funds. Ms. Krumsiek’s career in the investment industry spans three decades. Before joining Calvert as CEO in 1997, Ms. Krums...

Anne Simpson

USA (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...

Paul Frentrop

Netherlands

Director, Deminor (shareholder Advisory)

Paul Frentrop (1954) Published \"A history of Corporate Governance\" describing the interactions between managers and shareholders in the four centuries since the Dutch East India Company was founded in Amsterdam in 1602. Paul runs the Amsterdam office of Deminor International, a European advisor of minority shareholders in listed and private companies and has been involved in corporate governance practice since 1987.

Peter Wilson

UK

Director, WSP Environmental, Inc. North America office

Peter is a Director of WSP Environmental and has over 10 years experience in corporate management systems and sustainability. He has worked closely with the European Commission developing the Eco-management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). Since joining WSP, Peter has co-authored a bespoke Sustainability Management Systems Standard (SMS) that has been applied to a number of organisations and verified by a 3rd party certification body. Peter is a leader in WSPE\'s Global Development Team (GDT) which i...

Ivo Knoepfel

Switzerland (Zurich)

Managing Director, onValues Ltd.

Ivo Knoepfel, Dr.Sc.Techn., CIIA Founder and Managing Partner, onValues (www.onValues.ch) Ivo Knoepfel is the founder and managing director of onValues Ltd., a leading independent investment consulting firm with a focus on responsible and sustainable investment strategies. With approximately 10 billion euro assets under advice, onValues supports a wide range of international clients including pension funds, family offices, foundations and HNWIs. Ivo is a member of the Swiss Financial ...

Anne-Maree O’Connor

New Zealand (Auckland)

Head of SRI, New Zealand Superannuation Fund

Before joining the Guardians in November 2006, Anne-Maree O'Connor was the Managing Director of CoreRatings, a leading European rating agency for independent investment analyses of corporate responsibility risks. She moved back to New Zealand after 20 years in Europe. Anne-Maree held various positions in the field of corporate responsibility and governance including Associate Director, SRI at Morley Fund Management, Head of SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors and Head of Corporate Respons...

Stephen Hine

UK (London)

Head of Responsible Investment Development, Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) Ltd

Stephen Hine is the Head of International Relations at EIRIS,Ethical Investment Research Services, responsible for the promotion ofEIRIS Ethical Portfolio Manager (EPM) in Europe and beyond throughpartners and directly. This software platform allows fund managers todevelop and implement their own SRI strategies on integrating corporatesocial, environmental, governance and ethical policy and performanceinto their investments. He has worked closely with EIRIS overseasresearch partners for the ac...

Johan Piet

Netherlands

Accountant Corp. Responsibility, Transparability B.V.

Johan Piet holds an academic degree in both economics and environmental sciences. As a Chartered Accountant he applies himself to advice and to verification of environmental and sustainability reports of companies and governments and other services in sustainability control and corporate social responsibility. He is director of TranspaRAbility, a small but fully independent body supporting sustainability communication between interested parties by improving information quality and adding cred...

Olivier Razemon

France (Paris)

Journalist, O. Razemon

Olivier Razemon, 36, is a free-lance journalist based in Paris. He writes reports for Le Monde Initiatives, a monthly subsidiary of daily Le Monde on economic and social questions, Novethic.fr, a Website dedicated to corporate social responsibility, Environnement et strategies, a newsletter aimed to the environment directors in the corporations, as well as many other publications. He also produces La Lettre de l\'ORSE, the newsletter published by the Observatoire sur la responsabilite societale ...

Rieki Rubinstein-Crins

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Researcher, TBLI Conference B.V.

Rieki was born in Limburg, South Netherlands in 1958. When she was 20 years old she moved to Amsterdam where she studied Cultural Anthropology. She ended the study by spending 6 months in Bhutan doing research there. This experience was integral in shaping the rest of her life. In 1994 Rieki married Robert Rubinstein, founder of Brooklyn Bridge-TBLI Group. Sustainability and Triple Bottom Line are concepts that touch her world and interests as well. Rieki loves India, Bhutan and other countr...

Henk de Jong

Netherlands

Coordinator - Sustainable Development, Bhutan & Partners Foundation

Coordinator of the Bhutan & Partners Foundation, The Netherlands, was director of the Netherlands development organisation in Bhutan where he stayed 3,5 years. Earlier he was trainer and education specialist at an international trainings institute in the field of international management and cross cultural communication.

James Barringer

USA

Regional Sales Director, Dow Jones Islamic Market Index

James Barringer is Regional Sales Director for both the Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX Indexes. His responsibilities include representing the Dow Jones and STOXX indexes in the Asia Pacific region, as well as serving the pension community in the US and Asia. Jim joined Dow Jones Indexes in 2001 from UK Index specialist, FTSE, where he was based in the United States. Prior to FTSE, Jim had worked at Dow Jones Telerate, managing major financial data accounts in Tokyo and was also Korea Country Mana...

Francis G. Coleman

USA

Vice President SRI, Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc.

Mr. Coleman oversees the Information Technology, Marketing & Communications and Socially Responsible Investing departments at CBIS. Since joining the firm in 1987, he has held executive positions in Marketing, Operations and Participant Services. As Vice President & Director of SRI he was responsible for developing an investment policy that reflects the Church\'s broad concerns in an effort to impact corporate America. He is on the board of the Social Investment Forum and Chair of the Board of...

Franz Knecht

Switzerland

Managing Partner, Connexis Strategy Consultants

Who is ConNexiS Strategy Consultants? Founded in 1999, ConNexiS developed since to a network of international experts with corporate and consulting experience. The added value we provide is in analysing the economic relevance of environmental and corporate social responsibility aspects and developing and implementing strategic, operational and management solutions for companies and organisations. The corporate basis is located in Basel, Switzerland. The members of the network are based in ...

Ben Simmes

Netherlands

Director Membership and Investments, Oikocredit

Ben Simmes (born 1948) is director members and investments of Oikocredit. Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative society that promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. Oikocredit currently has 175 million Euro in share capital, an investor base of 23,000 individual or institutional investors, and finances some 350 projects worldwide (micro finance insti...

Flavio Weizenmann

Brazil

Head of Micro-Credit, Banco ABN AMRO Real - Brasil

Flavio José Weizenmann, born in Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil, has been a director of Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A.for seven years; his backgound is in Risk Management being a member of Credit Committees in his bank. Flavio is presently the Head and General Manager of his bank\'s initiative in Microcredit, having led it since the planning and implementation phase. Graduated in Accounting from the State University of Rio Grande do Sul he also holds a degree in Finance from IBMEC.. His career in banking...

Chris Moon

UK

Director, CSR Global

Chris Moon is Director of CSR Global based in the United Kingdom providing business advisory services in corporate responsibility www.csrglobal.com. CSR Global is proud to be a sponsor for the TBLI Conference 2003 and to have supplied additional bags for delegates made from fully biodegradable and compostable cornstarch. He will be moderating three workshops: IT and telecoms analysts\' meetings and TBLI research. Chris has consulted to FORTUNE globally most admired and FTSE 100 companies and is ...

David Stangis

USA

Corporate Responsibility, INTEL Corporation Manager

Dave Stangis is Intel Corporation\'s Director of Corporate Responsibility. In this role, Dave manages Intel\'s relationships with socially responsible investors and other stakeholders in the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility. He is responsible for monitoring and responding to emerging issues that may affect Intel\'s reputation and works directly with other Intel organizations (EHS, Legal, govt. affairs, HR, etc) to help coordinate strategy. Dave also manages the production of Intel\'s Glo...

Kiyoto Furuta

Japan

General Manager, Canon Global Environment Promotion Headquarters

Bio: 1958 Born in Tokyo 1982 Graduated from Yokohama National Graduate School 1982 Joined Canon Has been engaged in environmental matters since then 1995 Manager of Environment Facility Planning Dept. 1999 Manger of Environment Planning Dept. 002 General Manager of Environment Planning Div.

Henk de Bruin

Netherlands

Manager of Corporate Environmental, Philips International BV

In December 2002 Henk de Bruin was appointed head of the newly formed Corporate Sustainability Office of Royal Philips Electronics, a staff function focussing on all sustainability issues for the company. Prior to that he was heading Philips Corporate Environmental Office and he joined Philips as senior environmental consultant in 1988. Reporting to the Board of Management of Royal Philips Electronics, Mr. De Bruin focuses on policy preparation, strategy development and implementation progra...

Takao Sato

Japan

Assistant General Manager, Ricoh Co. Ltd.

Entered Ricoh Co., Ltd. in 1972. Assigned in Ricoh Corporation in USA from 1978 to 1985 as a product marketing manager. Assigned in copier product planning from 1986 to 1995 in Ricoh Co.,Ltd. as a product planning manager. Assigned in Corporate Environment Division in Ricoh Co.,Ltd. as an assistant general manager Japan representative in the work group of Environmentally Conscious Design (ECD) study work group (WG3) of Advisory Council of Environmental Aspects (ACEA) in International E...

Nigel Roome

Netherlands

Professor Sustainable Development , EUR - Erasmus Center for Environmental Management

Nigel Roome holds the chair in Sustainable Enterprise and Transformation and is head of the Erasmus Center for Sustainable Development and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He previously held chairs in The Netherlands and Canada, and academic positions in Britain. He is widely published on topics that relate business to the issues of environmental management, sustainable development and global change, including books on management education for sustainability and corporate environmental ...

Robert Montgomery

USA

Head of the Environmental and Social Unit in the Private Sector Department, IADB - Inter-American Development Bank

Dr. Robert Montgomery is the Head of the Environmental and Social Unit in the Private Sector Department at the Inter-American Development Bank. Manages, where he manages all departmental activities related to environmental, social, health and safety, and labor aspects. Dr. Montgomery has over 25 years of technical and management experience having performed projects in over 30 countries located throughout Latin and North America, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. His diverse experience ...

Kirsty Jenkinson Thomas

UK

Director, Governance & Sustainable Investment, F&C Asset Management PLC

Kirsty Jenkinson Thomas currently leads ISIS Asset Management\'s Governance & Socially Responsible Investment (GSRI) Team\'s reo® engagement programmes on Human Rights and Environmental Credit Risk in the banking sector. Kirsty joined ISIS (formerly Friends, Ivory & Sime) in 2001, after six years as a research analyst at investment bank Goldman Sachs International. More recently, Kirsty conducted a research project, reviewing foreign investment in Burma, for The Burma Campaign, a U.K.-based org...

George Starcher

France (Chambéry)

Founder and President, EBBF

George Starcher received a bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Mathematics from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, with Distinction (Baker scholar). After twenty years with McKinsey & Company, a leading international management consulting firm where he was a Senior Partner in the Paris and Milan offices, he founded his own management consulting practice. He is a member of the Board of Directors of, and consultant to, the Eu...

G. Benjamin Bingham

USA (Philadelphia)

Managing Director, Benchmark Asset Managers, LLC

Ben Bingham officially joined Benchmark at the start of 2007 after six years of mentorship with Sam Folin while developing a unique portfolio management strategy for socially conscious investors at Legg Mason and Citigroup/Smith Barney. He began by advising a network of social entrepreneurs and philanthropists who were dissatisfied with the lack of imagination and direct positive impact found in mutual funds or screened portfolios. Changing the emphasis to positive screening, Mr. Bingham has fou...

Peter Koenig

Germany

Dvfa-german Society Of Investment

John Hill

UK

John Hill Associates UK

John Hill is an independent adviser on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), business sustainability and stakeholder accountability. His main areas activities are stakeholder dialogues, training, and devising strategic approaches and commitment to business sustainability, as well as lecturing at conferences worldwide. He is a member of the Institute of Management, The Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers, and a member of the Environmental Management and Assessme...

Volker Deibert

Germany

Assoc. Of Institutional Shareholders

Doug Cogan

USA

Director of Climate Change Research, RiskMetrics Group Inc.

Doug Cogan is Director of Climate Change Research for RiskMetrics Group, a firm that specializes in analysis of portfolio, governance and accounting risk.   Mr. Cogan has 25 years of experience as a researcher and advisor to institutional investors, corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  He is the author of several books and many articles on energy and environmental topics, and serves a spokesman for RiskMetrics on environmental, soci...

Peter Chapman

Canada

Executive Director, Shareholder Assoc For Research & Education

Peter Chapman is Executive Director of the Shareholder Association for Research and Education, a national non-profit organization that provides research and education to pension trustees. SHARE works closely with union-appointed trustees who represent plan members and beneficiaries. Prior to joining SHARE, Peter served as the co-ordinator of the Canadian Friends Service Committee and as a Research Associate at the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility. He is a member of the Glob...

Timo Brink

Netherlands

Timo V.d. Brink

Diana Propper De Callejon

USA

General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners

Diana Propper de Callejon General Partner Expansion Capital Partners Diana Propper de Callejon has been working in private equity and sustainability for more than ten years. Most of her work has focused on identifying investment opportunities that deliver financial returns and environmental benefits. She has written and spoken extensively on finance and sustainability. Diana is a General Partner at Expansion Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in expansion stage, Clean Technolo...

Jean Pierre Sweerts

Unknown

Head Sustainable Developments, Rabobank Nederland Duurzame Ontwikkelingen

Jean-Pierre Sweerts (42), Head Sustainable Developments. Mr. Sweerts joined Rabobank in 1998 and is responsible for sustainable development of the Rabobank Group. Prior to joining Rabobank Mr. Sweerts had marketing and management functions at Delft Hydraulics, where he started in 1990 as an environmental consultant. At Delft Hydraulics he was also active as projectmanager of environmental management and organisational advice projects world wide. He enjoys to deliver services and worked i...

Adam de Sola Pool

Poland

Chief Investment Officer , Environmental Investment Partners

Adam Pool is the Chief Investment Officer of Environmental Investment Partners (EIP). EIP I has Euro 25 mm and invests in environmental infrastructure companies in central Europe. EIP I has made 8 investments and the Fund is now fully invested. EIP II is a new venture capital and mezzanine debt fund for companies involved with green energy (wind, biomass, geothermal, or energy efficiency) or biodiversity protection (eco-tourism, organic agriculture, and natural products). Prior to EIP he was the...

Pierre Trevet

USA

Managing Director, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors

Mr. Trevet is Managing Director with Innovest in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is leading Innovest's business development on the US West Coast. Pierre totals more than12 years experience in sustainable finance and socially responsible investments. Mr. Trevet is also the Head of Innovest Carbon Finance and Cleantech practice. Between 2002 and 2005, Mr. Trevet was European Managing Director for Innovest based in Paris, where he successfully implemented Innovest's activities in continental E...

Edward Bickham

UK

Executive Vice President - External Affairs, Anglo American PLC

Edward Bickham joined Anglo American plc as Executive Vice President, External Affairs, in April 2000. Prior to this he had been Deputy Chairman and Director of Strategy (Dec.1998-April 2000) and Managing Director, Corporate and Public Affairs (1993-2000) at Hill and Knowlton. He served as Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary (1990-93) during the Gulf War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Maastricht Treaty negotiations. From 1985 until 1988 he was Special Adviser to the Home Secr...

Ian Wood

Australia

Vice President, Sustainable Development , BHP

Ian Wood has responsibility for the development of BHP Billiton\'s strategic response to global environmental and community relations issues including the sustainable development agenda, corporate social responsibility, and public reporting on the company\'s environmental and community performance. Prior to taking on his current role in the Company\'s Corporate Centre he was responsible for the provision of technical support to BHP\'s Minerals Businesses with particular emphasis on the Asia Pac...

Julie McDowell

UK

Head of SRI Research, Standard Life Investments

Julie McDowell SRI Research manager Standard Life Investments Julie McDowell is SRI Research Manager at Standard Life Investments. A US lawyer, she started her career on Wall Street as a litigation attorney with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts She has served in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, specialising in international trade, and at IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust in New York, practicing corporate and banking law. She joined Standard Life Investments in September ...

Marinus Sikkel

Netherlands

Chair OECD Comm.on Int. Investment and MNEs, EZ Ministerie van Economische Zaken

Marinus Sikkel (1950) is head of the International Investment Policy unit of the Netherlands ministry of Economic Affairs. He studied at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, which awarded him a Masters\' Degree in Economic Science. After his study he joined the Government service, where he first worked for the ministry of Housing and the ministry of Finance. From 1983 he held various management positions in the ministry of Economic Affairs, all in the field of international economic relations...

Joris Oldenziel

Netherlands

Researcher CSR/ Coordinator CSR Platform, SOMO

Joris Oldenziel is researcher at the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the activities on MNEs in developing countries, as well as on the instruments that are developed to influence corporate behaviour, such as codes of conduct, the OECD Guidelines, and ethical investment funds. He is also coordinator of the CSR Platform, a network of 35 civil society organisations in the Netherlands, that work together to promote CSR. Recentl...

Rory Sullivan

UK (London)

Head of Investor Responsibility, Insight Investment

Dr Rory Sullivan is Head of Investor Responsibility with Insight Investment (the asset management arm of HBOS plc), where he is responsible for leading the team's research and engagement activities on social, ethical and environmental issues. He has specific responsibility for investment research and engagement relating to climate change. Rory has written over 200 articles, book chapter sand papers on environmental and energy policy and related issues. He is the author/editor of five books on ...

John Hill

UK

John Hill Associates UK

John Hill is an independent adviser on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), business sustainability and stakeholder accountability. His main areas activities are stakeholder dialogues, training, and devising strategic approaches and commitment to business sustainability, as well as lecturing at conferences worldwide. He is a member of the Institute of Management, The Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers, and a member of the Environmental Management and Assessme...

Markus Noethiger

Switzerland

Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd Sustainable Business Solutions

Markus Nöthiger is a Senior Manager within PricewaterhouseCoopers\' Sustainable Busines Solutions Practice in Zürich, Switzerland. He has 9 years of professional experience in the field of corporate sustainability,responsibility and governance for the financial services sector as well as for other industry sectors. The main focus of his work is to bring the perspective of the capital markets into the world of sustainability and vice versa. His areas of professional activity include corporate s...

Andreas Kicherer

Germany

Central Department Communications Head of Ecoefficiency Unit, BASF AG

Dr. Andreas Kicherer Date of birth: Apr. 25, 1964 Place of birth: Knittlingen 06/83 School leaving examination at Bretten 10/83 • 10/84 Military service 10/84 • 09/86 Study of Chemical Engineering at Karlsruhe University 10/86 • 03/90 Study of Process Engineering at Stuttgart University 04/90 • 07/95 Scientifical employee Institute of Process Engineering and Steam Boiler Engineering, Stuttgart University 08/95 Doctorate Thesis: \"Combustion of Biomass in Pulverized Coal Firing\"...

Simon Thomas

UK

Chairman, Trucost PLC

Simon has 21 years senior business experience in the publishing, finance and self-storage sectors. Simon is Chairman of Trucost Plc, a London-based company that was established in early 2000. Trucost has developed two unique products: The Trucost Environmental System provides an objective, quantitative measure of an organisation\'s overall environmental performance, including those of its supply chain; the Trucost Environmental Cost Calculator allows fund managers, environmental consultants and ...

Chris Moon

UK

Director, CSR Global

Chris Moon is Director of CSR Global based in the United Kingdom providing business advisory services in corporate responsibility www.csrglobal.com. CSR Global is proud to be a sponsor for the TBLI Conference 2003 and to have supplied additional bags for delegates made from fully biodegradable and compostable cornstarch. He will be moderating three workshops: IT and telecoms analysts\' meetings and TBLI research. Chris has consulted to FORTUNE globally most admired and FTSE 100 companies and is ...

Chris Coulter

Unknown

Director CSR, Environics International Ltd.

Chris Coulter has been with Environics International since 1998 and directs the Corporate Social Responsibility Monitor Research Program. He is also engaged on issues relating to globalization, the environment and sustainable development. Chris is a specialist in international relations, holding an MA in International Political Economy. He has substantive ...

Jan Willem van Gelder

Netherlands

CEO, Profundo

With a background in development economics, Jan Willem van Gelder has gained a broad expertise in economic and business research for environmental, development and human rights NGOs throughout the world. Profundo, the economic consultancy he founded in 1995, specializes in analysing finance and commodity flows in various economic sectors. Besides having an in-depth knowledge of company and project financing, Jan Willem van Gelder specializes in retrieving and analysing business and statistical i...

Brenda Plant

Canada

Consultant, Brenda Plant Consulting

Brenda currently works as an independent consultant in shareholder social responsibility and corporate accountability. She is co-chair of the Ethical Investors Group of Montreal, an increasingly recognized socially responsible investment club model. She is a board member of the Canadian Social Investment Organization, a loan committee member of the Montreal Community Loan Association and has worked and published internationally on socially responsible investing. She has two Bachelors degr...

Ivo Knoepfel

Switzerland (Zurich)

Managing Director, onValues Ltd.

Ivo Knoepfel, Dr.Sc.Techn., CIIA Founder and Managing Partner, onValues (www.onValues.ch) Ivo Knoepfel is the founder and managing director of onValues Ltd., a leading independent investment consulting firm with a focus on responsible and sustainable investment strategies. With approximately 10 billion euro assets under advice, onValues supports a wide range of international clients including pension funds, family offices, foundations and HNWIs. Ivo is a member of the Swiss Financial ...

Matthew Arnold

USA

Director, Business Development, Global Environment Fund

Matt Arnold is Director of Business Development for the Global Environment Fund. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the World Resources Institute. In this capacity, he was responsible for the organization’s operational effectiveness and financial and programmatic success. Matt was also a principal in WRI’s engagement of business and the capital markets. In 1990, Matt founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) to help business sc...

Chris West

UK

Foundation Deputy Director, Shell Foundation

Having gained a DPhil from the University of Oxford, Chris started his own business to provide environmental advice to both corporations and public sector organizations. He then worked for 10 years in the UK Department for International Development, where in his position as Senior Environmental Adviser he worked with a wide variety of donors, corporations and NGO\'s in over 60 developing countries and middle-income countries. He joined the Shell Foundation in 2001, and was appointed Deputy D...

Jacqueline Novogratz

USA

CEO, Acumen Fund

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund seed funded by Rockefeller and Cisco Foundations and several individuals. Acumen Fund invests charitable contributions in breakthrough technologies, products and services that promise to improve the lives of the poor around the world. Acumen Fund currently \"invests\" through three funds: bringing affordable health technologies to the poor; sustainable innovations in water technologies; and building eco...

Klaus Tischhauser

Switzerland

Managing Director, responsAbility Social Investment Services AG

Can the private financial sector support development and poverty alleviation? Case-study on a microfinance investment fundinitiative of the Swiss financial market. Biography: Swiss citizen, born 1964, married, no children Co-founder and Managing Director of responsAbility Social Investment Services AG. Economist with more than 10 years experience with Credit Suisse Asset Management and SAM Sustainable Asset Management in the Swiss financial services sector, with a particular focus ...

Chris Moon

UK

Director, CSR Global

Chris Moon is Director of CSR Global based in the United Kingdom providing business advisory services in corporate responsibility www.csrglobal.com. CSR Global is proud to be a sponsor for the TBLI Conference 2003 and to have supplied additional bags for delegates made from fully biodegradable and compostable cornstarch. He will be moderating three workshops: IT and telecoms analysts\' meetings and TBLI research. Chris has consulted to FORTUNE globally most admired and FTSE 100 companies and is ...

Luc Perrouin

France

Vice President Environment and Sustainability, France Télécom SG/DENV

Solveig Lothe

Norway

Director, Telenor ASA

Solveig Lothe has been the Compensation and Benefits Director in Telenor ASA since September 2001. She also holds a 20% position as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Economics at Norwegian School of Management, where she worked full time from 1997-September 2001. Solveig Lothe is an alternate member of the Board of the Norwegian Central Bank. Solveig Lothe has a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Agricultural University of Norway (1998), a MSc. in Agricultural Economics from University...

Charlotte Grezo

UK

Director of Corporate Responsibility, Vodafone Group Services

Charlotte joined Vodafone in January 2001 with a remit to establish a Group Corporate Responsibility function. This includes working with the Subsidiaries and Associates to establish the policies and processes to manage Corporate Responsibility at the Group level. Corporate Responsibility encompasses both environmental and social issues. Specific responsibilities include working to ensure that the value \"Passionate about the World Around Us\" value and Corporate Responsibility are aligned, ensu...

Dunstan Hope

UK

Social Policy Development Manager, BT Group

Dunstan Hope is Social Policy Development Manager for the BT Group. His main activities include the publication of BT\'s on-line sustainability report, communications with socially responsible investors and ongoing development of corporate social responsibility strategy. Dunstan was industry co-chair during the development of the Global Reporting Initiative telecommunications supplement and takes a lead on CSR issues in the European telecommunications trade association (ETNO). Previou...

Ignacio Campino

Germany (Frankfurt)

Vice President CSC, Deutsche Telekom AG

Dr. agr. habil. Ignacio Campino was born in Santiago de Chile in 1947. He studied Agriculture at the Catholic University, specializing in ecology. After obtaining his doctorate and qualifying as a University professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, he moved to the private sector. Following several positions involving activities within Germany and abroad, he was appointed Head of the Central Environmental Affairs Office of Deutsche Telekom AG in 1995. Today Dr. Campino is...

Alberto Andreu

Spain

Managing Director Cororate Reputation, Telefonica

Alberto Andreu obtained his Degree in Law and Economic Sciences at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI-ICADE and his MBA at the Instituto de Empresa. His professional career started in CEPSA (Compañía Española de Petróleos) as Internal Communication Development Manager. Then he worked for Banco Español de Crédito, as a Manager of Internal Communications, Corporate Identity and Technical Secretary. He later held a similar position at the Santander Central Hispano, the major Spanish ...

Paul E. Metz

Netherlands (Velp (Gld))

Managing Consultant, INTEGeR Consult

After studies in chemistry, economics, and environmental sciences and an adventurous life in Europe and Latin America for a chemical company during 20 years, Paul started INTEGeR... Consult in 1995. It offersstrategic marketing and lobby expertise to help achieve \"integritythrough integration of sustainable development in the work and life of leaders in business and politics\". He advises directors and companies is a nonexecutive director of a technology company. Paul has chosen to work 2 days...

Sarah Durham

UK

Senior Analyst, Jupiter Asset Management

Gained broad experience of financial services industry before joining Jupiter in 1998. Sector specialisations include housebuilders, banks and general retailers. Responsible for implementation of Jupiter\'s in-house environmental programme. Registered associate environmental auditor.

Colin Le Duc

UK

Director, Generation Investment Management

Colin is Head of Research Operations for SAM Research Inc., a member of the SAM Group based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is responsible for the research process covering large cap companies for both the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes as well as SAM\'s actively managed funds. He started his career with Total in Paris and London, working in corporate strategy and natural gas marketing functions. Subsequently, he moved into corporate strategy consulting with Arthur D. Little Ltd. in London, wit...

Duncan Austin

USA

Senior Associate, WRI - World Resources Institute

Duncan Austin is a Senior Economist in the World Resources Institute\'s Sustainable Enterprise Program. His principal research areas are the integration of environmental issues into the capital markets, the economic aspects of mitigating climate change and renewable energy. He has authored, or co-authored, numerous publications at WRI on these issues, including, most recently \"Changing Oil: Emerging Environmental Risks and Shareholder Value.\" Before joining WRI he was employed as an Econ...

Justin Mundy

UK

Senior Adviser - Global Markets, Deutsche Bank

Justin Mundy - Senior Adviser Deutsche Bank Emerging Commodities Unit with responsibility for Climate Change issues and Senior Adviser, European Centre for Nature Conservation. During COP6 (bis) and COP7 he was appointed adviser to the European Commissions on EU - Russia co-ordination. Previously Director of Aon Carbon, before which he worked at the World Bank where he ran the Bank\'s forestry and biodiversity programmes in Russia and Central Asia, was the environment adviser for the region\'s o...

Christine Zumkeller

Germany

Acting Coordinator - Cooperative Mechanisms Programme, UNFCC - United Nations Framework

Secretary to the Executive Board of the CDM UNFCCC Secretariat Bonn, GermanyChristine Zumkeller joined the UNFCCC secretariat in 1997 and has since then mainly worked on the design, development and operation of the mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. Since the conclusion of the Marrakesh Accords, her team is supporting the implementation of the decisions on the CDM, JI, emissions trading and registries. As Secretary to the Executive Board, her main focus is to facilitate the prompt start of t...

Olivier Razemon

France (Paris)

Journalist, O. Razemon

Olivier Razemon, 36, is a free-lance journalist based in Paris. He writes reports for Le Monde Initiatives, a monthly subsidiary of daily Le Monde on economic and social questions, Novethic.fr, a Website dedicated to corporate social responsibility, Environnement et strategies, a newsletter aimed to the environment directors in the corporations, as well as many other publications. He also produces La Lettre de l\'ORSE, the newsletter published by the Observatoire sur la responsabilite societale ...

Deon Binneman

South Africa

President and CEO, Repucom

Deon Binneman, President and CEO of REPUCOMM, is an international public speaker, workshop facilitator and management consultant that advises companies on how to build, sustain and protect their reputation. He has more than 25 years experience in the areas of public relations and strategic communications, training and development, public affairs, organisational development and entrepreneurial development consulting and marketing with particular expertise in the areas of what is commonly called â...

Birgitta De Vos

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Soul Searching, Birgitta de Vos

Born in the Netherlands. Worked and lived in Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, India, USA, Belgium, England and the Netherlands. After years of experience in leading Interantional Companies she founded her own company in Identity Consultancy and Developments in 1990. Her personal mission is to inspire and create awareness of everyone\'s and everything\'s unique talent. She identifies core values within organizations, products and people and develops new communication strategies. Her ...

Wim Vermeir

Belgium

Global Head Of Equity And Sustainable Management, Member Of The E, Dexia Asset Management Executive Committee

Wim VERMEIR is a civil engineer and started his professional life as aResearch Assistant at the Vlerick School in Ghent. He began his careerin the asset management industry by joining Bacob in 1995 as an assetmanager. At Dexia AM, Wim VERMEIR occupied the position of Global Headof Global Balanced and Sustainable Management between 2000 and 2002,then taking responsibility for the Equity business unit as Global Headof Equity Management in January 2003.

Shami Nissan

UK

Manager, Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Ms. Nissan is Director in Innovest\'s London office. Prior to joining Innovest, she had worked for three years as a strategy consultant for Edgar, Dunn & Co., a part of the Commerce One Group. Her work focused on profitability and market entry strategies for Europe and Scandinavia. Prior to that, she had worked on community development projects as an advisor to the UN Development Program in Guatemala and Mexico. Ms. Nissan had previously worked as a research associate at Imperial College London,...

Max Deml

Austria

ÖKO - Invest

Paschen Von Flotow

Germany (Oestrich-Winkel)

Managing Director, Sustainable Business Institute

Paschen von Flotow is executive director of the SustainableBusinessInstitute at the EUROPEAN BUSINESS SCHOOL since 1998. Before he joinedthe institute he served as manager in a major automotive group(1992-98). He managed cross-functional and international teams as headof strategic planing "Environment and Traffic" and as product manager.Since he joined the institute he has worked on international projectsrelated to sustainable business, social responsible investment, foreigndirect investment, su...

Eckhard Plinke

Switzerland

Head of Research, Bank Sarasin & Cie AG

Dr. Eckhard Plinke, 1959, Head of Sustainability Research, sustainability analyst with Bank Sarasin since 1999. Lead analyst for the machinery and electrical engineering/electronics industries. Eckhard holds an MSc in business engineering and a PhD in economics, where his thesis had an environmental theme. Before joining the Sarasin research team he gained experience as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe in energy planning and air pollution control. This was followed by a se...

Timo van den Brink

Netherlands

Director - Triple P Performance Centre, Timo V.d. Brink

Timo van den Brink (MSc) is co-founder and executive director of the Triple P Performance Centre. The Triple P Performance Centre supports sustainable development and the use of the triple-bottom-line approach in sustainable investment and corporate decision-making. He manages research and networking activities on issues as quality improvement of social responsible investments, and the design of sustainability products for financial markets. He advises on environmental and social performances...

Peter Tropper

USA

Senior Investment Officer - Private Equity Department, IFC - International Finance Corporation

Peter Tropper is a Senior Investment Officer in IFC\'s Private Equity Department, where he supervises work on the portfolio in Europe and parts of Asia, focusing on problems facing funds nearing the end of their lives. Prior to joining the department at its creation in 2001, he was the HQ \"anchor\" for the decentralized supervision work of IFC\'s South Asia Department, with a portfolio of 100 companies. Until September 1999, Mr. Tropper served in IFC\'s Latin America and Caribbean Department...

Jeffrey Leonard

USA

President, GEF - Global Environment Fund

Jeffrey Leonard President Global Environment Fund Dr. Leonard is the President and a founding shareholder of Global Environment Fund. He is also the Chairman for the Investment Committees of GEF's key private equity funds. With extensive experience in economic policy, private equity and project finance, and energy and environmental infrastructure, both domestically and in emerging markets, Dr. Leonard assumes primary oversight of GEF's investment management function. Under his direction, GEF's e...

Sara Olsen

USA

Consulting Founding Partner, SVT Consulting

Sara Olsen is the founding partner of SVT Consulting (www.svtconsulting.com). SVT specializes in social returns analysis, the measurement of social and environmental impacts. The firm serves venture funds, startups, corporations, and foundations seeking quantifiable metrics of the full measure of success. In 1999, Ms. Olsen co-founded the National Social Venture Competition (NSVC, www.socialvc.net), for which she and a colleague developed the SROI guidelines used by teams and judges to articu...

Nigel Roome

Netherlands

Professor Sustainable Development , EUR - Erasmus Center for Environmental Management

Nigel Roome holds the chair in Sustainable Enterprise and Transformation and is head of the Erasmus Center for Sustainable Development and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He previously held chairs in The Netherlands and Canada, and academic positions in Britain. He is widely published on topics that relate business to the issues of environmental management, sustainable development and global change, including books on management education for sustainability and corporate environmental ...

Andrew Dlugolecki

UK

Director, Andlug Consulting

After graduating, Andrew worked for 27 years in Aviva (formerly General Accident), the global financial services group, and retired from the position of Director of General Insurance Development in the group world HQ in December 2000. During his career, he became known internationally for his research on climate change and financial services. He was the lead author of that chapter in the Second IPCC Assessment Report, and the review editor for it in the Third Assessment Report. He performed simi...

Justin Mundy

UK

Senior Adviser - Global Markets, Deutsche Bank

Justin Mundy - Senior Adviser Deutsche Bank Emerging Commodities Unit with responsibility for Climate Change issues and Senior Adviser, European Centre for Nature Conservation. During COP6 (bis) and COP7 he was appointed adviser to the European Commissions on EU - Russia co-ordination. Previously Director of Aon Carbon, before which he worked at the World Bank where he ran the Bank\'s forestry and biodiversity programmes in Russia and Central Asia, was the environment adviser for the region\'s o...

Peter Vis

Belgium

Commissioner for the Environment, Deputy Head of Climate Change & Energy Unit, European Commission

Atiq Rahman

Bangladesh

Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre For Advanced Studies

Dr. Atiq Rahman is the Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies and in charge of Programme and Policies of BCAS. As Bangladesh\'s lead think tank BCAS works on issues of (a) Environment-Development Integration (b) Good Governance and Peoples Participation (c) Sustainable Economic Growth of poor societies and works at local national, regional and global levels of decision making. He also coordinates Global Forum on Environment and Poverty (GFEP), which is an initiative emergin...

Christine Zumkeller

Germany

Acting Coordinator - Cooperative Mechanisms Programme, UNFCC - United Nations Framework

Secretary to the Executive Board of the CDM UNFCCC Secretariat Bonn, GermanyChristine Zumkeller joined the UNFCCC secretariat in 1997 and has since then mainly worked on the design, development and operation of the mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. Since the conclusion of the Marrakesh Accords, her team is supporting the implementation of the decisions on the CDM, JI, emissions trading and registries. As Secretary to the Executive Board, her main focus is to facilitate the prompt start of t...

Hirotoshi Kunitomo

Japan

Trade and Ind. Science and Techn. Policy and Env. Bureau Director, METI - Ministry Of The Economy, Trade And Industry

1962 born in Japan, Sendai City, Miyagi-Pref. 1986 graduated from Tokyo University, B-Eng for Natural Resource Development 1986 entered METI in Japan, Mining Safety Div. Housing Industry Div. Nuclear Industry Div. Office of Future Industrial R&D 1993-94 University of London, Imperial College, MSc for Environmental Technology 1994-96 Deputy Director of petroluem exploration and production Div.of MITI 1996-98 Deputy Director of Coal Industry Div. of MITI. 1998?99 Depty Director of P...

Bruno Vanderborght

Switzerland

Vice President, Holcim Group Support (zurich) Ltd.

- Vice president at Holcim Group, responsible for Holcim\'s climate protection policy - Chairman of the WBCSD cement industry working group on climate protection - Member of the editorial committee of the WBCSD/WRI GHG protocol Title: Doctor of chemistry and postgraduate in business economics