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...

Piyasvasti Amranand

Thailand

Minister of Energy, Kasikorn Asset Management Co.,ltd.

Education 1975 B.A. (First Class Honors) in Mathematics, Brasenose College, Oxford, U.K. 1977 M.Sc. (Distinction) in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1978 London School of Economics (L.S.E.), U.K. 1979 D., Economics, L.S.E., U.K. Professional Experience Deputy Secretary General, National Energy Policy Council (from 15 December 1992) Secretary General, National Energy Policy Council from 29 March 1994 (term expired 27 May, 2000) Inspector-General, Office of the Prime Minister, 20...

Melissa Brown

Hong Kong

Executive Director, Asria

Melissa Brown is the Executive Director of the Association ofSustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA), anot-for-profit membership association dedicated to promoting anddeveloping SRI in Asia. ASrIAs membership includes a cross-section ofglobal and Asia-based fund managers, financial institutions, companies,and non-profit organizations. At ASrIA, Ms. Brown is responsible fordirecting the research program and handling outreach to the groupsAsian members. Prior to joining ASrIA in 2...

Hauman Yeung

Hong Kong

Business Development Manager, LESS Ltd.

Hauman has been involved in the environmental movement in Hong Kongsince 1988. From 1991 to 1993, he managed the office of Green Power, aHong Kong environmental organisation, during a period of rapid growth.He managed several environmental projects funded by UNEP from 1993 to1995. He started an eco-village with the South China AgriculturalUniversity in 1995. In 1996, he joined the business world and startedhis own software house. He joined a multinational IT company and workedin Shanghai in the ...

Veronique Lafon-Vinais

Hong Kong

Adjunct Associate Professor, Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

Ms. Veronique Lafon-Vinais is a seasoned market professional with over20 years of banking and capital markets experience.She has worked in all the major financial markets, starting withEuropean markets (Paris, London, Madrid), moving to North America(Chicago) and most recently Asia (Hong Kong).She has extensive experience in all the major developed debt marketsincluding loan syndications and assets sales (par and distressed debt),money markets, debt capital markets (including derivatives structu...

Jonathan Schuman

Japan

Managing Director, AIG Investments Japan Co., Ltd

Jonathan Schuman is Vice President for Product and BusinessDevelopment in for AIG Global Investment Group (AIGGIG). AIGGIGis a group of international asset management companies under AmericanInternational Group (AIG). In his current role, Jonathandeveloped AIGGIGs Japan CSR Equity products and is also activelyinvolved in AIGs corporate social responsibility initiatives inJapan. Prior to his current position, Mr. Schuman was theAssistant General Counsel for Legal and Government Affairs ...

Mechai Viravaidya

Thailand

Founder and Chairman, Population And Community Development Association

Mr. Mechai Viravaidya is the Founder and Chairman of the Population andCommunity Development Association (PDA), one of Thailand's largest andmost successful private, non-profit development organizations. Since1974, PDA has initiated community-based family planning services,innovative poverty reduction programs, large-scale rural developmentand environmental programs, as well as groundbreaking HIV/AIDSprevention activities throughout Thailand.Mechais role was pivotal in the hugely successful fam...

Amber Nystrom

USA (San Francisco, Ca.)

Director Of Social Fusion, Social Fusion

Amber Nystrom, Executive DirectorMs. Nystrom is theExecutive Director of Social Fusion (www.socialfusion.org) a businessincubator that builds the resources and knowledge to scale highlyinnovative nonprofit and for-profit social enterprises in the U.S. andinternationally. Social Fusion's philosophy rests on the premise thatsustainable innovation requires an ecosystem of support that bridgesbusiness expertise, proactive investment, and a community of socialentrepreneurs advancing new solutions for...

Bernd Parting

Thailand

Director to DEG Representative Office Bangkok, DEG - Regional Advisory Service Project

Mr. Bernd Parting graduated with Master Degree of BusinessAdministration from University of Muenster in 1996 after working fortwo years with a town savings bank in Moenchengladbach,Germany. Frombeginning 1997 until present, he has been taking up his duty with DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (GermanInvestment and Development Company) in various positions. He haspublished various articles in well reputed magazines such as ProjectFinance International. His current po...

Agus Sari

Thailand

Ecosecurities Ltd

Bart Lucarelli

Thailand (Bangkok)

Energy Advisor To Governments And Companies, LP Power Consultants

Dr. Bart Lucarelli is the President of LP Power Consultants, Ltd, aBangkok based consultancy firm that assists private power producers,lenders and banks with commercial & financial assessment of privatepower projects and programs. Dr. Lucarelli also advises governmentsconcerning the design and implementation of IPP Bid Solicitationprograms and energy sector deregulation policies.Dr. Lucarelli has had over 25 years of international energy projectexperience with seventeen of those years spent in A...

Sabrina Hae Sun Kang

Singapore

Former CNBC Anchorand Correspondant, Sabrina Hae Sun Kang

Sabrina Kang is a longtime, award-winning journalist with experience inthe U.S. and Asia.Most recently she was an anchor/correspondent at CNBC Asia based inSingapore, responsible for covering the financial and world news of 10markets.Prior to joining CNBC, her latest role was business reporter forKRON-TV in San Francisco. Sabrina has worked a dozen years intelevision news.She is now ready to help solve problems instead of just reporting onthem—seeking a career transition in Corporate Responsib...

Chou Vannak

Cambodia

Head Mgt Micro-Finance & SMEFinance, Ministry Of Economy And Finance

2001 to PresentHead of Division, Microfinance and SME financing,Financial Industry, Ministry of Economy and Finance:- Coordinate and responsible for micro finance project such as AFD,ADB, IFAD- Coordinate and responsible for SME financing project KfW (Germanfund) on lending to ACLEDA and CANADIA Bank- Coordinate the task of secretariat of Credit Committee for RuralDevelopment (CCRD) is a body policy maker in micro financesector. Chairman of Board Director (BoD) of NorthwestDevelopment Associa...

Suvarna Rani Gandham

India

Regional Manager, Oikocredit

M.Sc Bio-Chemistry, First Class with Distinction and University2nd Rank,Andhra University, IndiaM.Sc, National Development & Project PlanningUniversity of Bradford, U.K.Professional qualification -Former member of IAS, ( Indian Administrative Service 83 batch-the top Civil Service of India)-Trained as a banker in State Bank of India, in early career-Received Boulders Micro Finance Training (MFT) the worlds best training in Micro financeProfessional experience -Served two State Go...

Robert Earhart

France (Paris)

Consulting Director, TBLI GROUP™

Robert Earhart has been working in sustainability and CSR for the past fourteen years in a variety of different capacities in the private, NGO and political sector. From 1994 – 1995 he worked at the State of Oregon Legislative Assembly, where he provided policy and budget analysis, specializing in social and environmental legislation.  He has also served as the Treasurer and political finance consultant for several statewide political action committees.  In 1998 he became the founding financ...

Thawat Watanatada

Thailand

Founder And Managing Director, A.t. Tri Co., Ltd.

Dr. Thawat Watanatada has more than 30 years of experience in theinternationalinfrastructure and energy sectors, including 18 years with the WorldBank. He is currentlyFounder and Managing Director of A.T. Tri Co. Ltd., a green energy andinfrastructureproject development company based in Bangkok. A.T. Tri's mission is togenerate triple bottom linefinancial, social, and environmentalreturns in Asian emerging markets.His areas of specialization include large-scale project development,finance an...

David Hodgkinson

USA

Director, Emerald Capital Asia Ltd.

Mr. Hodgkinson is a Director of Emerald Capital Asia Ltd., a financial and investment advisory company based in Bangkok. Previously, Mr. Hodgkinson was a senior executive at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila. From 1992-1997, he was engaged in the management of ADB’s US.6 billion private sector investment portfolio, with emphasis on investments in private equity funds and financial institutions. From 1997-2004, Mr. Hodgkinson headed the ADB commercial co-financing team, mobilizing pr...

Catherine Cao

China

CEO - Asia West Environemnt Funds, Tsinghua Venture Capital

Dr Cao is currently executive director of Tsinghua Venture CapitalManagement Co. and partner of China Environment Fund. She isprincipally involved in China Environmental Fund investment andportfolio management. Prior to joining THVC, Dr. Cao has held numerouspositions in Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Sales, etc. at the leadingglobal companies including IBM, Motorola, FMC, etc. in United Statesand China, etc. She has also involved in several start-upcompanies working in both fund raising and ma...

Eric Usher

France

Head, Renewable Energy and Finance Unit, Energy Branch, UNEP

Within UNEPs Paris-based Division of Technology, Industry andEconomics, Eric Usher is responsible for renewable energy andsustainable energy finance programme activities. This work focuses onnew approaches to delivering cleaner energy services in regions withoutaccess and new means for financing cleaner energy infrastructure.Through various programmes UNEP has implemented a variety of marketsupport instruments - including seed financing and enterprisedevelopment, financing subsidies, risk guara...

Glen Armstrong

UK

Co-Founder, Sustainable Finance

Glen Armstrong is a co-founder of Sustainable Finance ltd. He worksextensively with private sector financial institutions andmulti-lateral agencies providing guidance on international bestpractice in sustainable development issues. His principle skills are inthe application of environmental and social development standards toinvestments in emerging markets and in building capacity within majorfinancial institutions through management processes, decision supportand in the training of financial p...

Osamu Odawara

Japan

Head, Sustainable DevelopmentDepartment Project Finance Division I, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.

Mr. Odawara was appointed as officer in charge of implementing theEquatorPrinciples (EPs) in Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.(MHCB) in December 2003,soon after MHCB adopted the EPs. Since then, he hasattended almost allof the EPs banks meetings. He authored the Implementation Manual,andoversaw its introduction in October 2004. The Manual comprisesEnvironmental Checklists covering 38 sectors based on the World Bank/IFCGuidelines. MHCB, as a Japanese bank, has also referred to theEnvironmental Gui...

Georgina Baker

USA

Senior Manager, IFC - international Finance Corporation

Georgina Baker is a Senior Manager at the IFC  the InternationalFinance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She has been with the IFC for 14 years during which time she has workedon IFCs investments in many areas including manufacturing investmentsin Eastern Europe and financial sector investments in South Asia.Currently she is managing the Corporations new global program tosupport trade finance, as well as the Financial Markets Sustainabilitygroup. Georgina is responsible...

Eisuke Suzuki

Japan

Director, Global Accountability Consultancy

I left my professional career with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) atmy 60th birthday, 19 October 2004, as it was the compulsory retirementage. I had worked as a lawyer in the Office of the General Counsel(OGC), until January 2003 since I joined ADB in January 1978,, handlingan entire spectrum of legal matters ranging from the organization,structure, administration of ADB through its policies and operations tothe preparation or review of documents affecting the rights andobligations of ADB. I g...

Giulio Franzinetti

Italy (Milano)

Member of the Advisory Board, TBLI GROUP™

Director of two charitable foundations and actively involved in Fair Trade projects in Africa. Giulio was formerly in banking and fund management and is now focussed on the activities of not for profit institutions and in particular religious institutions. He is a member of the Advisory Board of 3iG (The International Interfaith Investment Group) and a Director of a European Executive Search Company specializing in the financial field.

Wong Kai Tung

China

China’s Children & Teenagers Fund (cctf

Alberto Rossetti

Vatican

Professor of Economics/History of Economic Thought, Pontifical Gregorian University

"PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITAS GREGORIANA, Faculty of Social Science,Rome www.unigre.itProfessor of Economics/History of Economic Thought (since 1991). Memberof the Faculty Board.Pontifical Gregorian University is an old established Roman Catholicinstitution of higher learning in Rome, (originally founded as the"Roman College" by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1551 and expanded byPope Gregory XIII in 1567) which hosts students from a very largevariety of cultures and vocations from all over the world.My...

Graham Davies

United Kingdom (London)

Trustee, The Global Exchange for Social Investment

Dr. Graham Davies FRSA, is a Trustee of Chinas Children Charity, andDirector of The Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI) and aFellow Commoner of Sidney Sussex Cambridge.Graham is a civil society economist specialised in international socialinvestment and cross border philanthropy. He has 25 years ofinternational management experience, much of it in Asia, mainly China,Africa and Australia in public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Heholds a doctorate in Economics from Cambridge Univ...

Filippo Addarii

United Kingdom

head of the itnerantional programme, acevo

Latest Work Experience    Title: Head of the International                            Programme Dates: October 2004 – ongoing    Organisation: ACEVO, London, UK       Projects: - Pour une nuovelle entente cordiale: exploring common language, values and goals across the Channel, in partnership with La Ligue de L’enseignement and Social Economy Council, Paris, 10 – 11 July 2006 - Creative Communication: Looking for new languages for the third sector communica...

Clare Pearson

China

CSR Manager, Asia, DLA Piper Rudnick Asia LLP

Date of Birth: 03.10.71 Place of Birth - Kafue, ZambiaThe role involves originating and managing business developmentprojects in Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore andBangkok. This includes:" Development and management of key strategicpartnerships with community partnerships" Creating a Global Social Forum in conjunction withother 55 offices to facilitate firm wide integration" Communication and marketing (clients and pressagencies)" Setting up and supervis...

Richard Newell

New Zealand (Auckland)

Managing Editor, Investment & Pensions Asia

Richard is a professional writer and researcher, a specialist in investment funds having spent much of his career covering emerging markets. He is a former director of the UK fund of funds manager, Forsyth Partners.

Bruce Jenkyn-Jones

United Kingdom (London)

Managing Director, Impax Asset Management Limited

Bruce is Managing Director and Head of Listed Equities for Impax Asset Management, the specialist asset manager in the environmental sector. He joined Impax in 1999 where he worked initially on venture capital investments before developing the listed equity business. His principal responsibility at Impax is to co-manage Impax Environmental Markets plc, Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, the IFSL Impax Environmental Leaders Fund, and funds sponsored by ASN Bank (in the Netherlands), ABI...

Wu Jun

China

Boc International Investment

Mark Bytheway

Australia (Melbourne)

CEO, SIRIS

Mark Bytheway is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of SIRIS, a specialist investment research group providing sustainability and governance research and analytical services. Mark holds qualifications in law, economics and accounting, and post-graduate qualifications in environmental science. He has more than 15 years capital markets experience, including work with an international credit ratings agency, and eight years in funds management, two of which as Director of Research, Asia Pacif...

Frank Figge

United Kingdom

Professor, ADVANCE c/o University of St Andrews & SDRC

Professor Frank Figge holds the Chair of Corporate SocialResponsibility at the University of St Andrews and UHI MillenniumInstitute (both United Kingdom). Before joining academia full timeFrank has worked for asset managers in the field of SRI. He sits onseveral editorial and industry advisory boards.Sustainable Finance is one of his main research interests. Togetherwith Dr Tobias Hahn of the Institute for Futures Studies and TechnologyAssessment Frank has developed the Sustainable Value approac...

Tobias Hahn

Germany (Berlin)

Senior Researcher, Institute for Future Studies And Technology Assessment (IZT)

Dr Tobias Hahn is a senior researcher at the Institute for FuturesStudies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin (Germany). Beforejoining IZT in 2003 he worked as a junior university researcher. Hismain research interests are corporate sustainability management,value-based measurement of corporate sustainability, sustainableinformation management and environmental management and accounting.Together with Prof Frank Figge Tobias is involved in various projectson the further development and appl...

Erin Lyon

Singapore

Director, CSR Asia

Erin Lyon heads the CSR Asia office in Singapore. Erin is a qualifiedsolicitor in England and Wales, previously training with and workingfor theinternational law firm in Europe and Asia, Freshfields BruckhausDeringer.Erin has an understanding of international business as well asexperience inadvising clients on CSR. Erin has previously worked in Asia in avariety ofroles, including as a teacher and journalist. In the UK she was anationalexecutive representative in one of the largest unions represe...

Jeffrey Castellas

Australia

Chief Executive Officer, Clean Technology Australasia Pty Ltd

Jeffrey is the Chief Executive Officer of Clean Technology AustralasiaPty Ltd. He has worked at the leading edge of finance andsustainability for 15 years and has developed a global network ofleading Cleantech investors and companies.He introduced Cleantech to Australia and is leading the growth ofCleantech investing across the full range of asset classes and industrysectors. He is presently organising the 2nd AustralAsian CleantechFinance and Investment Forum scheduled for 22 August 2006 in Mel...

Diyanto Imam

Indonesia

Country Director, New Ventures Indonesia

Diyanto Imam is the Country Director of New Ventures Indonesia, anon-profit program of World Resources Institute (WRI) and Yayasan BinaUsaha Lingkungan (YBUL) focusing on supporting the development ofsustainable enterprises in Indonesia, particularly in linking equityinvestors and potential business partners to environmentallysustainable and socially responsible small and medium enterprises.Prior to joining New Ventures, Diyanto worked for the Office ofAgriculture, Nature and Food Quality at the...

James Gifford

Australia (Toowoomba)

Executive Director, UNPRI

James Gifford is lead project manager for the Principles forResponsible Investment, a joint project of UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact. He was a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Working Group on Environmental Indicators for the Finance Sector. He has worked in law, information technology and environmentalprotection and has degrees in commerce and law and a master's degree inenvironmental management. He is currently completing a PhD in Economics at the University of Sy...

Anton Van Elteren

Netherlands (The Hague)

Senior Environmental Specialist, FMO - The Netherlands Development Finance Company

Anton van Elteren is a senior environmental specialist with theNetherlands Development Finance Company (FMO). As a member of theInvestment and Mission Review department, he is to ensure that FMO'senvironmental and social standards are adhered to in all FMO'sfinancial products. His worldwide focus sectors are oil & gas andinfrastructure. Next that, he supports FMO's financial institutionclients in Asia with the development and implementation of environmentaland social management systems.Being a b...

Robert Jamieson

Thailand

CSR Consultant, Pajasalmi, Ruangkittikul & Associates

Robert Jamieson is a New Zealand native who has resided in Thailand since 1994. In that time, he has taught at the Faculties of ManagementScience at the University of Khon Kaen and at Mahidol University(Bangkok). In 1998, with Senior Consultant Dennis Grub, he participatedin and helped write the first review of the Thai capital markets afterthe 1997 Asian economic crisis for the Asian Development Bank. From2002-2003, he worked as a consultant at the Stock Exchange of Thailand.In 2003, he prepare...

Mizue Tsukushi

Japan (Tokyo)

President & CEO, The Good Bankers

Mizue Tsukushi, President and CEO, The Good Bankers Co., Ltd. Pioneering launching/implementing SRI product onto the Japanese market. Former Deputy General Manager of Institution Marketing Dept., UBS Trustand Banking Co., Ltd. in Tokyo.After received the language certificate of the French Civilization Course at the University of Paris in 1979, Ms Tsukushi started her career at Technip, French engineering company and then went on to join TOTAL CFP, French oil major. In 1988, she moved to the fin...

Seiichero Nishida

Japan

Mitsubishi Securities Co.

Jun Yamaguchi

Japan

Senior Engineering Manager, Fuji Photo Film

I am a Environmental Engineering Manager in Fuji Photo Film Japan.As a Environmental Engineer, I belong to IEC TC111 "Procedures for theDetermination of Levels of Regulated Substances in Electro technicalProducts" and ISO TC207/SC3 Environmental Management-- EnvironmentalLabel as a member of domestic committee, domestic WG to makeGHS(Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling ofChemicals) WG to make guideline of GHS Label and MSDS in JapanChemical Industry Association, etc.An...

Sabrina Hae Sun Kang

Singapore

Former CNBC Anchorand Correspondant, Sabrina Hae Sun Kang

Sabrina Kang is a longtime, award-winning journalist with experience inthe U.S. and Asia.Most recently she was an anchor/correspondent at CNBC Asia based inSingapore, responsible for covering the financial and world news of 10markets.Prior to joining CNBC, her latest role was business reporter forKRON-TV in San Francisco. Sabrina has worked a dozen years intelevision news.She is now ready to help solve problems instead of just reporting onthem—seeking a career transition in Corporate Responsib...

Chanchai Supasagee

Thailand

Head Of Corporate Governance, Government Pension Fund Thailand

Mr. Chanchai Supasagee has worked in financial industry for nineteenyears. His experience includes his works at The Industrial FinanceCorporation of Thailand, Thai Rating & Information Services ( acreditrating agency, now called TRIS Ratings), and Government Pension Fund.He is now in charge of corporate governance at the fund. During the Thai financial crisis, he was seconded to the FinancialRestructuring Authority for two years. Mr. Chanchai Supasagee also sits on several committees regarding g...

James Pearson

Hong Kong (Hong Kong )

CEO, Pacific Risk Advisors Ltd

James Pearson is a Non Financial Risk specialist providing risk andasset management services to the financial and real estate communitythroughout the Asia Pacific region. He is a Non Financial RiskAdvisor to an ASEAN based investment fund. Mr Pearson has over 18years of experience in the internationalenvironmental health safety social and risk consultancy industry andhas been located in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Hehas extensive experience in management consultancy, project man...

Richard Eyre

Thailand

Principal, UOB Capital Partners LLC

Mr. Eyre is a Principal of UOB Capital Partners LLC, the GeneralPartner of the ASEAN China Investment Fund, L.P and his presentfunctions include management and oversight of the funds non financialassessment program. Mr. Eyre was formerly Assistant General Counsel atthe Asian Development (ADB) and has been involved in numerous privatesector investment projects, with experience in structuring andmonitoring private equity funds since the late 1980s. For a number ofyears he was Vice Chairman of th...

Tony Zola

Thailand

Chief Technical Officer, Mae Fah Luang Foundation

Toshiro Nishizawa

Japan

Deputy Director General, Japan Bank For International Coorperation (JBIC)

Toshiro Nishizawa is Deputy Director General of International FinanceDepartment I (Asia and Oceania) at Japan Bank for InternationalCooperation (JBIC) since July 2004 and serves as Chair of the UNEP FIAsia Pacific Task Force Outreach Group. Immediately prior to hiscurrent position, he was a Director and Senior Economist in JBIC'sCountry Economic Analysis Department (1999-2004). He has held variouspositions including: a loan officer in charge of lending operations inAfrica, the Middle East and Ce...

Rajesh Srivastava

India

Regional Head Food and Agribusiness & StrategicAdvisory, Rabobank Group

Mr. Rajesh Srivastava joined Rabobank India in August 1998 afterspending about one and a half years in The GIC Group, an Americanconsulting company specialising in the food andagribusiness sector. Graduating from Lucknow University in Economicsand Laws, he spent over 10 years in credit divisionsof Bank of Baroda and subsequently set up the Merchant Banking Divisionin Uttar Pradesh.In 1992, Rajesh left the Bank for Kenya on an assignment and returnedin 1994 to join Lazard Brothers sponsored vent...

Ahmad Mubariq

Indonesia

Executive Director, Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute

Education:Mr. AHMAD holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Resources and EnvironmentalEconomics from Michigan State University (1997), a Master of Art degreein International Trade and Finance from Economics Department, ColumbiaUniversity, New York (1990), and a BA in Economics and DevelopmentStudies from Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia (1985).Work Experience:Since 1984, Dr. Ahmad has been working as macroeconomic analyst andnatural resources/environmental economist in a number of domestic...

David Plattner

United States

C.E.O., RainTrust Foundation

Since 2004 David Plattner has served as Founder and Chief VisionaryOfficer of RainTrust, an international company that is dedicated to thepreservation and conservation of ranforests worldwide. As such, he hasdevised numerous financial instruments and businesses that areassisting the rainforest towards becoming "sustainable." To accomplishthis goal, over the past year, he has actively been buying large tractsof rainforest properties in the Brazilian Amazon as well as workingwith international NGO...

Marina Martin Curran

Singapore

Director, Villardi Consulting

Dr Marina Martin Curran gained her PhD in economics from the Universityof Edinburgh researching the link between CSR and financialperformance, using a variety of econometric approaches as well asdiscussing the intangible benefits of CSR. Marina has worked on anumber of CSR initiatives in the UK, USA and Singapore, for a CSR NGOin Scotland, in the social research department of Calvert in Washingtonand carrying out consultancy work in Singapore. She recently completeda survey of environmental repo...

Kyoko Sakuma

Belgium

Stock at Stake Senior Analyst, Sustainable Analysis & Consulting (SA&C)

Kyoko Sakuma (Stock at Stake Senior Analyst) Sustainability Analysis & Consulting Kyoko Sakuma is Founder and Executive Director of SA&C, Sustainable Analysis & Consulting sprl. The company was set up in Brussels in September 2003 to raise inter alia awareness of inter-cultural evaluation and research validity issues among the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) communities. SA&C provides organisations and companies with advice on CSR in Europe, socia...

Wu Jun

China

Boc International Investment

Paul Wedel

Thailand

Executive Director And Acting President, Kenan Institute Asia

Mr. Paul Wedel is Executive Director of the Kenan Institute Asia basedin Bangkok. He has spent more than 32 years in Asia as a businessconsultant, manager, educator, and journalist. Mr. Wedel heads all operations of the Kenan Institute of PrivateEnterprise in Asia and serves as the executive director of the KenanInstitute Asia which he helped found. He led the design and developmentof the Institute’s activities under USAID’s “Accelerating EconomicRecovery in Asia” program that began in...

Deunden Nikomboriruk

Thailand

Head, Renewable Energy and Finance Unit, Energy Branch, Thailand Development Research

Dr. Deunden Nikomborirak is Research Director at the ThailandDevelopment Research Institute, an independent economic policythink-tank based in Bangkok. She graduated with a PhD inEconomics from McGill University, Canada. Her areas ofspecialization include corporate governance, corruption, competitionlaw and policy, regulation and privatization. Some of her recentwork on corporate governance includes (1) Building Good CorporateGovernance after the Crisis: The case of Thailand (2005), in Refo...

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...

Wim Wienk

Netherlands

Fmo

Dana Smirin

Netherlands

Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley

Dana Smirin is a native of South Africa and has managed a consultingpractice in the United States, Europe, and South Africa working withingovernment, private sector, academia and NGO communities for 17 years.She is currently the Special Assistant to the Dean of the College ofNatural Resources for Sustainability and New Initiatives at theUniversity of Berkeley, California. Some of her work there includesidentifying and initiating sustainability opportunities, working onspecific projects oriented ...

Bart Lucarelli

Thailand (Bangkok)

Energy Advisor To Governments And Companies, LP Power Consultants

Dr. Bart Lucarelli is the President of LP Power Consultants, Ltd, aBangkok based consultancy firm that assists private power producers,lenders and banks with commercial & financial assessment of privatepower projects and programs. Dr. Lucarelli also advises governmentsconcerning the design and implementation of IPP Bid Solicitationprograms and energy sector deregulation policies.Dr. Lucarelli has had over 25 years of international energy projectexperience with seventeen of those years spent in A...

Anat Prapasawad

Thailand

Managing Director, Advance Energy Plus Co., Ltd.

Currently: Managing Director, Advanced Energy Plus Co.,Ltd.Experience- Cleaner Production Committee- Management of The Ozone Project Trust Fund (OTF),The World Bank- Management of Thailand Building Chiller ReplacementProject, The world Bank- Management of Energy Conservation Loan, Ministry ofEnergy- Management of FE Clean Fund- Development of Energy Efficiency and RenewableEnergy projects- Development of CDM projectsTraining- Renewable Energy Finance Asia & Carbon Mar...

Seiichero Nishida

Japan

Mitsubishi Securities Co.

Amber Nystrom

USA (San Francisco, Ca.)

Director Of Social Fusion, Social Fusion

Amber Nystrom, Executive DirectorMs. Nystrom is theExecutive Director of Social Fusion (www.socialfusion.org) a businessincubator that builds the resources and knowledge to scale highlyinnovative nonprofit and for-profit social enterprises in the U.S. andinternationally. Social Fusion's philosophy rests on the premise thatsustainable innovation requires an ecosystem of support that bridgesbusiness expertise, proactive investment, and a community of socialentrepreneurs advancing new solutions for...

Rik Vyverman

Switzerland

Founding Principal, Emerging Markets Opportunity Fund

Since January 2005 and is in charge of the design and creation of the SEAF Blue Ocean Finance Growth Fund. With well over 0 MMinvested, and 0 MM under management, SEAF is a global leader inproviding equity financing to SMEs in emerging markets in EasternEurope, Latin America and Asia. Prior to SEAF, Mr. Vyverman was COO for the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries/(BIO),where he was also a member of the Executive Committee. BIO, theBelgianDevelopment Finance Institution, was cre...

Consuelo Dantes

Philippines

Senior Vice President, Planters Development Bank

Paul Herman

USA

CEO + Founder, HIP Investor Inc

The world's $ 140 trillion in investments are under-performing until all currencies (e.g. rupee, real, rand, euro, yen, dollar) generate both Human Impact + Profit (HIP) simultaneously. Paul founded HIP Investor to spread and implement this vision of a world that is socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. HIP Investor advises corporations and CEOs, entrepreneurs, and individual and institutional investors to realize their potential to be HIP.Previously, Paul was Director of Strate...

Ambreen Waheed

Pakistan (Lahore)

Executive Director, RBI-Responsible Business Initiative Pakistan

Ambreen is among the pioneers of corporate responsibility andworkplace process integrity in Pakistan. Graduating from UETLahore as a National Merit Scholar, and attending graduate courses atthe Institute of Administrative Sciences, Punjab University and theSpeed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, she proceeded tothe Judge Business School, Cambridge University as a Chevening andCambridge Commonwealth Scholar where her dissertation examined supplychain integrity of five global brand...

Razi-ur-Rahman Khan

Pakistan

Chairman - Securities, Exchange Commission Of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan appointed Razi-ur-Rahman Khan as Chairman ofthe Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SEC), the apexregulatory body for the capital market, and corporate sector, includingnon-bank financial institutions, on 13 January 2006.Razi Khan has rich background, including experience in finance, bankingcorporate sector, mutual fund, brokerage investment advisors privateequity investment.Khan is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of England andWales. He star...

Zaffar Ahmad Khan

Pakistan

Chairman, Stock Exchange

Mr. Zaffar Khan has had the opportunity to serve on a number of diverseBoards some of which he has also Chaired. These include, aside fromEngro Chemical, Engro Vopak, Engro Asahi, United Bank, PTML(Ufone), SuiSouthern Gas, PTCL, Pakistan Steel, Unilever Pakistan, Pakistan Centrefor Philanthropy, Aga Khan-Education Board and more recently theKarachi Stock Exchange. Mr. Zaffar Khan, was elected President of the OverseasChamber of Commerce & Industry and has served on several advisorycommittees o...

Faiz Shah

Pakistan

First chair Standing Committee on Child Labour, CLC

Dr. Shah completed his professional studies at the Punjab Universityand his post-graduate degree with a focus on organizational planningand management from the School of Urban Policy, and the College ofBusiness & Public Administration, University of Louisville, USA. Dr. Shahs top-management assignments have typically involvedstewarding change through building strategic vision and teamconfidence. He as contributed to strategic change programmes fora wide array of institutions in government, cor...

Robert Earhart

France (Paris)

Consulting Director, TBLI GROUP™

Robert Earhart has been working in sustainability and CSR for the past fourteen years in a variety of different capacities in the private, NGO and political sector. From 1994 – 1995 he worked at the State of Oregon Legislative Assembly, where he provided policy and budget analysis, specializing in social and environmental legislation.  He has also served as the Treasurer and political finance consultant for several statewide political action committees.  In 1998 he became the founding financ...

Jeffery Dickinson

Thailand (Bangkok)

Asia Regional Manager, E+Co

Mr. Dickinson is an expert in the area of renewable energy finance.His experience combines project development and management (includingtechnology application analysis) as well as investment due diligenceand deal structuring. In this context he has also gained considerableexperience in providing capacity building for small companies andpublic purpose entities.Jeffery Dickinson has 19 years of experience that includes (1)structuring and management of loans and investments in renewable energyand e...

Wim van der Beek

Netherlands (Hilversum)

Partner, Goodwell Microfinance Development Company

Wim van der Beek is the founding partner of Goodwell, amicrofinance private equity firm which aims to maximize social andfinancial value simultaneously. The Goodwell fund provides commerciallong-term capital and active support to entrepreneurial microfinanceinstitutions to accelerate their growth, build value and integrate theminto the mainstream financial sector, whilst maintaining their socialfocus. The objective is to maximize value through superiorrisk-adjusted social and financial returns, ...

Els Boerhof

Netherlands

Manager Micro and Small EnterpriseFund(MASSIF), FMO

Els Boerhof is the Manager of FMO's Micro and Small Enterprise Fund(MASSIF). Before joining FMO in 2002, she worked 6 years forMeesPierson in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Johannesburg in Trade &Commodity Finance (the Americas) and Correspondent Banking (Africa& The Middle East). She graduated from Tilburg University in 1995with a thesis on "The monitoring and evaluation of credit for the ruralpoor". She concluded the research for this during a 10 month stay inThe Philippines, working for the Visayas...

Jeffery Dickinson

Thailand (Bangkok)

Asia Regional Manager, E+Co

Mr. Dickinson is an expert in the area of renewable energy finance.His experience combines project development and management (includingtechnology application analysis) as well as investment due diligenceand deal structuring. In this context he has also gained considerableexperience in providing capacity building for small companies andpublic purpose entities.Jeffery Dickinson has 19 years of experience that includes (1)structuring and management of loans and investments in renewable energyand e...

Ingo Puhl

Germany (Karlsruhe)

Managing Director, 500 PPM GmbH

Ingo has been involved with the carbon market since 1995 and movedalong hiscareer as the market developed. Starting out with a consultancyposition atthe World Bank and followed by a staff position at the InternationalEnergyAgency, he contributed to making the CDM operational. He moved to theprivate sector in 1999 and has been involved in the development ofJI/CDMprojects/project portfolios representing a combined carbon asset valueof400 million EUR.Ingo is also a pioneer in the voluntary carbon m...

Rey Amaury Guarin

Philippines

Senior Assistant Vice Preident & Head ofClimate Change Unit, Development Bank Of The Philippines

Country of Origin: PhilippinesWorkplace: Development Bank of the PhilippinesCurrent Position:Senior Assistant Vice President for Climate Change Investments andSpecial ProjectsMobile phone #: 0917-6274631, emailEmail : rey.guarin@gmail.comExpertiseHas 16 years of experience in the field of Philippine capital marketsdevelopment whereby the latest of which is in the area of developingPhilippine CDM / carbon finance markets where he is introducing a newservice called CARBON INVESTMENT BANKING.Other ...

Georgina Baker

USA

Senior Manager, IFC - international Finance Corporation

Georgina Baker is a Senior Manager at the IFC  the InternationalFinance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She has been with the IFC for 14 years during which time she has workedon IFCs investments in many areas including manufacturing investmentsin Eastern Europe and financial sector investments in South Asia.Currently she is managing the Corporations new global program tosupport trade finance, as well as the Financial Markets Sustainabilitygroup. Georgina is responsible...

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...

Yoshitaka Akamatsu

Japan

Chief Operating Officer, Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshitaka Akamatsu is Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer(COO) of Nikko Asset Management Company, Limited in Japan. In hisposition as COO, Mr. Akamatsu supports Chairman and CEO Tim McCarthyand President and CIO Bill Wilder in implementing corporate reform andproduct performance strategies.Mr. Akamatsu joined Nikko Asset Management in 2002 as Chief ComplianceOfficer (CCO) and assumed his new role as COO in 2004. He is anexpert in corporate governance, having served both posts through...

Robert Tacon

UK

Head, Risk Reporting, Standard Chartered Bank

Rob Tacon is Head of Risk Reporting at Standard Chartered Bank, basedin the Group Headquarters, London. He has over 35 years of bankingexperience.An accountant by background, Robs interest in social, environmentaland ethical risk evaluation was aroused when asked to develop internalpolicy and procedures some 10 years ago. He has been activelyengaged in promoting and managing this within the organization sincethen, including promoting the adoption of the Equator Principles forproject finance. ...

Paul Herman

USA

CEO + Founder, HIP Investor Inc

The world's $ 140 trillion in investments are under-performing until all currencies (e.g. rupee, real, rand, euro, yen, dollar) generate both Human Impact + Profit (HIP) simultaneously. Paul founded HIP Investor to spread and implement this vision of a world that is socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. HIP Investor advises corporations and CEOs, entrepreneurs, and individual and institutional investors to realize their potential to be HIP.Previously, Paul was Director of Strate...

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...

Shivakumar Natrajan

Singapore

Chief Representative, ICICI Bank Limited

Name: Shivakumar NatarajanDate of Birth: October 9, 1968Designation: Chief Representative - ThailandFrom: Sep 21, 2005 Till DateLocation: SingaporeRole Description: As the Chief Representative of the ICICI Bank officein Thailand, my responsibilities lie in the exploration of businessopportunities, acting as a liaison with correspondent bankinginstitutions in Thailand and facilitating cross border exposures andtrade services.Designation: Chief ManagerFrom: April 2002 to Aug 2004Role Desc...

Els Boerhof

Netherlands

Manager Micro and Small EnterpriseFund(MASSIF), FMO

Els Boerhof is the Manager of FMO's Micro and Small Enterprise Fund(MASSIF). Before joining FMO in 2002, she worked 6 years forMeesPierson in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Johannesburg in Trade &Commodity Finance (the Americas) and Correspondent Banking (Africa& The Middle East). She graduated from Tilburg University in 1995with a thesis on "The monitoring and evaluation of credit for the ruralpoor". She concluded the research for this during a 10 month stay inThe Philippines, working for the Visayas...