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.

Naina Kidwai

India

Managing Director and Vice Chairman, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets

Currently Managing Director and Vice Chairman of HSBC Securities andCapital Markets India Private Limited. Till October 2002 was ViceChairman at JM Morgan Stanley, and Head of the investment bank in Indiaand the Morgan Stanley Representative on the Board of Directors. TillApril 1999, was Head of the Investment Bank of Morgan Stanley, Indiawhere she helped start up the Investment Banking operations of the Firmin India, on joining Morgan Stanley in April, 1994. From 1989-991 washead of ANZ Grindla...

Richard Laing

Uk (London)

Chief Executive, CDC Group Plc - Capital For Development

Richard Laing is Chief Executive of CDC based in London. CDC is aleading fund of funds investor in private sector businesses in theemerging markets with a focus on Africa and South Asia. He isreponsible for the overall direction of the company, which has assetsof£ 1.6 billion, and has portfolio responsibility for powerinvestments which constitutes a third of the portfolio.Richard joined CDC in January 2000 as Finance Director. He wasresponsible for the financial affaris of the group as well as ...

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.

Jonathan Wootliff

Belgium Brussels

Director, Jonathan Wootliff Consulting

JONATHAN WOOTLIFF is an independent corporate responsibilityconsultant who specializes in helping multinational corporations tobuild productive relationships with NGOs, advocacy and activist groupsthrough effective engagement.He was formerly the Communications Director for GreenpeaceInternational, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he was a memberof the organizations Senior Management team. With overallresponsibility for a department of 40 professionals, Jonathan managedthe organization's...

Richard Burrett

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Debt Finance, Earth Capital Partners

After graduating in 1982 Richard joined the International BankingDivision of National Westminster Bank. He was working at NatWestsProject Finance Group in London prior to joining AMRO Bank in1988. Following an initial spell as a Relationship Banker, he wasasked to set up a Project Finance Group in London for the Bank where hegained wide experience of working on UK and International projectfinancing particularly in the Emerging Markets. He was appointedas Head of Structured Finance in August 1...

Seiichiro Nishida

Japan

Deputy Chairman, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd.

Seiichiro Nishida is a expert in project financing and advisoryservices, Mr.Nishida hasalmost 30 years of experience in institutional / investmentbanking. Area of expertise includes project finance, advisory services, loansyndication / origination,bond syndication / origination, derivativesand structuring. In Jun. 1997, appointed Deputy Managing Director of Tokyo-Mitsubishi International (HK) Limited, and in Sep. 2002 became General Managerof Financial Institutions Div., Mitsubishi Securities Co...

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...

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...

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.

Jack Sim

Singapore

Founder, World Toilet Organization

Mr Jack Sim is the Founder of Restroom Association (Singapore) andWorld Toilet Organization since 1999 and 2001 respectively. He isactively involved in toilet activism, public education and mediacommunications. He also organizes local and international events, setstandards, researches best practices, shares global information andhelps to set up new toilet non-government organizations. In addition,he plays an instrumental role in establishing World Toilet College aswell as developing the toilet s...

Nic Frances

Australia

Founder and Executive Chairman, Easy Being Green

Nic Frances, 45, Easy Being Green founder and executive chairman, is aworld leader in showing how social enterprise can lead the globalmarket agenda to address human societys big challenges like climatechange and poverty. Nic holds an MBE from the British Government,and is a frequent speaker at international events, including theprestigious annual World Economic Forum, on the convergence ofbusiness, personal ethics and social innovation.A former stock broker, Nic left a successful early career...

Marie So

China

Co-Founder, Ventures In Development

Marie So graduated from Harvard Kennedy Schools Masters in PublicAdministration/International Development (MPA/ID) program. Marie hasworking experiences in both public and private sectors. In publicsector, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme inSuva, Fiji on a rural banking and gender land rights project; the DubaiDevelopment and Investment Authority in the United Arab Emirates forbilateral trade and investment strategy between China and Dubai. Inprivate sector, Marie gained...

James Minney

Japan

Co-founder, People Tree

James and Safia Minney founded People Tree in 1991 in Japan, and in the United Kingdom in 2001. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, James went on to a 20-year career in Investment Management, working with leading names such as Warburg Asset Management (now part of Merril Lynch), and most recently as Chief Investment Officer of a top-20 Investment Management Company in Tokyo – uniquely in this sector, an example of a joint venture between Japanese and foreign partners. Throughout this caree...

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...

Bill Hartnett

Australia (Sydney)

Managing Director Asia Pacific, RiskMetrics Group

Innovest’s Managing Director Asia Pacific, Mr Bill Hartnett, joined the company in 2005 after having gained extensive experience in sustainable investment related research and product development as part of a 15 year career in the finance and investment industry. From 1994 to 2000 Bill worked at Westpac Banking Corporation in corporate banking, strategy and funds management roles before specialising in the sustainable investment field. In 1999-2000 Bill worked on the product management and ...

Jay Shepherd

Canada (Toronto)

Senior Partner, Shibley Righton LLP

Jay Shepherd is a senior partner of Toronto law firm Shibley RightonLLP. After receiving his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, andhis LLM from University of Toronto, and receiving a long list ofscholarships and awards, Mr. Shepherd published his first law book, TheLaw of Fiduciaries, in 1981. He has subsequently published anumber of other books, monographs, and papers on subjects such astaxation, fiduciaries, renewable energy, technology financing, andsocially responsible investing. As a prac...

Jean-Pascal Tranié

France

Co-Founder & President, Aloe Private Equity

Jean-Pascal Tranié, co-founder Aloe Private EquityJean-Pascal Tranié is an experienced Venture Capitalist who hasheld senior executive positions in Veolia Energy (including CEO of theGerman division) during the early 90s.Between 1995 and 1997, he managed Vivendi's Media and Multimediadivisions, including Numericable, a leading MSO in France. Hebecame board member of Havas (Books, Game, Digital contents), UGC(European leading theatre group), and Babelsberg Studios, memberof the executive com...

Luisa Montes

Mexico

Executive director, Ecobanca A.C.

Luisa MONTES is excecutive director and founder of Ecobanca, aninstitution specialized in financing sustainable development projects.Previously, she worked in the Mexican Ministry of Environment andNatural Resources as director of biodiversity and genetic resourcesdeveloping legal, economic and finacial instruments to promote itssustainable use. She has been involved in developing new and innovativefinancial mechanisms and economic instruments both at the national andinternational level. She par...

Michael V. Galante

Germany (Offenburg)

Global Conservation Standard Administrator, biocarbon consult

Michael Victor Galante is an international forestry consultant specializing in the development and realization of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through the utilization of internationally agreed International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Principles and Criteria (P&C) primarily through production based controls involving Reduced Impact Logging (RIL), forestry certification (FSC & PEFC) and carbon forestry incentive mechanisms through the Kyoto Protocol and the Voluntary Carbon Market....

Rico Dent

Malaysia

Senior Consultant, Inter-Alliance International

A BA (Hons) graduate in Ecomonics and Statistics from LancasterUniversity Business School, Rico is a UK and Internationally qualifiedFinancial Consultant with 12 years experience. Resident inMalaysia for the last 4 years he specializes in providing investmentsolutions to HNW expatriates. Currently he is involved in sourcingsuitable Green and sustainable funds for his moreenvironmentally-aware clients. Rico is a fluent French speaker

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...

Alex Mavro

Thailand

CSR Manager, TNT Thailand

Alex Mavro has owned two companies and run three (all in the servicesector) during his 30-year business career in Thailand. When hislast company was swallowed up by a competitor in 2002, he begandevoting more time and effort to matters close to his heart  thoseconcerning socially responsible business practices. Today he is CSRguru to TNT Worldwide Express Thailand, among others, through hisspecialized business consultancy, Social Impact Ventures Asia (SIVA).SIVA's mission is to help corporates...

Arthur Wood

United States

Alternative Financial Services Director, Ashoka: Innovators For The Public

Arthur is an Englishman educated in the UK [LSE], France [HEC] andItaly [Bocconi], married to a Norwegian, trained by the Americans, whowas last to be found working for the Germans - but who is nowspearheading the Business Entry initiative as part of the SocialFinancial Services program at Ashoka. The objective being to engageglobal financial services firms to enter the business of socialinvesting and ultimately change the way investors view and approachsocial investing, as well as increasing th...

Hamidul Huq

Netherlands

Stichting Steun Door Rabobanken

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...

Collin Timms

India

Chairman, Guardian Bank

1. Civil Engineer with Specialization in Fiber Reinforced Concrete.- Guardian Souharda Sahakari Bank Niyamita Founder & Chairman of Guardian Sahakari Bank Niyamita. First UrbanCo-operative Bank of Bangalore serving the minoritycommunity of Christians & Anglo-Indians.- Bridge Foundation.Trustee of The Bridge Foundation, one of the largest Micro EnterpriseDevelopment organization of India which has promoted over 1,00,000 small businesses among rural women below the poverty line inKarnataka, Ta...

David Brunell

Vietnam

Economic Growth Program Manager, USAID Vietnam - Economic Growth Program

David Brunell's 45 year career has included incarnations in international development, economic reform and restructuring, privatization, management consulting, investment banking, business and social entrepreneurship, government and politics, and business education. He has lived the last 14 years in Vietnam and Africa, with previous consulting assignments in Eastern Europe, Africa, Philippines, and former Soviet states. Currently he is managing all of the US Agency for International Developmen...

Hugh Wheelan

France

Journalist, Financial News

Hugh was Paris Correspondent and Fund Management Editor at Financial News. Formerly he was Deputy Editor of Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine and Editor of IPE Real Estate. He won the respected Aon Consulting award for European Pensions and Investment Journalist of the Year in 2006. Hugh was also a political and economic advisor to Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International.

Akihiro Tokuno

Japan

Research Centre for FinancialEngineering - NomuraSecurities Co., Ltd

Akihiro Tokuno is Senior Researcher at Financial and Economic ResearchCentre, Nomura Securities. In addition, he teaches finance atChuo Graduate School of Accounting, Chuo University as a visitingprofessor. His present research focus is on equity indices, stockselection models, investment style analysis, behavioural finance,socially responsible investments (SRI) and corporate governance.Mr. Tokuno holds BA in Law from University of Tokyo, and Diploma inEconomics as well as MPhil degree from Un...

Xavier Desmadryl

UK

SRI Financial Analyst, HSBC Asset Management

Xavier was appointed Global Head of SRI Research on 1st March 2007,after 4 years as an SRI Financial Analyst. He joined the HSBCGroup in April 1999 and performed several marketing functions for 4years  firstly, as a Product Manager, then as Head of MarketingAnalysis and, finally, as Head of Investment Marketing. Prior toHSBC, he was affiliated for 4 years with the asset management firm,Ecureuil Gestion (part of the CDC Group), as Sales and MarketingSupport Manager. From 1993 to 1995, he was ...

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...

Miles Ashton

China

Head of Sales, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Miles Ashton is currently the Head of Sales of Private Investor Products for ABN AMRO Bank in Asia. The sales team has a multi-asset mandate for developing and marketing structured products targeted at private investors. Covering markets in Hong Kong, China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia - private and retail banks are their clients. Prior to running the Asia sales team for Private Investor Products, Miles was based in London where he was responsible for International ...

Jonathan Wootliff

Belgium Brussels

Director, Jonathan Wootliff Consulting

JONATHAN WOOTLIFF is an independent corporate responsibilityconsultant who specializes in helping multinational corporations tobuild productive relationships with NGOs, advocacy and activist groupsthrough effective engagement.He was formerly the Communications Director for GreenpeaceInternational, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands where he was a memberof the organizations Senior Management team. With overallresponsibility for a department of 40 professionals, Jonathan managedthe organization's...

Richard Mattison

UK

Managing Director, Trucost Plc

Richard joined Trucost in July 2001 and is currently responsible for leading Trucost's corporate client engagement team. Richard has dealt with over 70 corporate engagements to date and has an in-depth understanding of the problems facing companies when reporting their environmental performance, in particular the difficulties companies face when analysing the environmental impacts of their supply chain. Richard is also responsible for leading Trucost's projects with the UK Government. Prior to t...

Max Keiser

France

Chairman, Karmabanque

Max Keiser is an inventor, a podcaster, broadcaster and financial journalist.  He is a regular presenter for Al Jazeera English and is host of the popular podcast, Karmabanque Radio, a daily look at what today's market prices are telling us tomorrow's political news will be.  Max also hosts the weekly The Truth About Markets on Resonance FM in London every Saturday night.

Bob Gordon

Australia

Executive Director, Renewable Fuels Australia

The Executive Director of the Association, Bob Gordon, is a graduate of Stanford University (US) with extensive experience in government as a diplomat in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with postings to Asia and the United States, and as Private Secretary and Chief of Staff respectively to two Foreign Ministers - the Hon Andrew Peacock MP and the Hon Tony Street MP. Bob also served briefly as Chief of Staff for former Prime Minister, the Hon John Howard MP, when he was Leader of the ...

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...

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal

Malaysia (Petaling Jaya)

Trustee, Taqwa Foundation

Dato’ Mohamed Iqbal, aged 63, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London. He obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree with Honours in 1971 and a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1973, both from the University of Malaya. In addition, he holds a Certificate in Education from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, obtained in 1964; the International Management Teacher’s Programme (ITP) certificate from the joint programme organized by the Harvard Graduate Scho...

Mohummad Khaleequzaman

Department of Islamic Banking and Finance (SOIBAF) / Member Shariah Advisory, Cell for Islamic banks & Financial Institutions, Incharge

Alex Mavro

Thailand

CSR Manager, TNT Thailand

Alex Mavro has owned two companies and run three (all in the servicesector) during his 30-year business career in Thailand. When hislast company was swallowed up by a competitor in 2002, he begandevoting more time and effort to matters close to his heart  thoseconcerning socially responsible business practices. Today he is CSRguru to TNT Worldwide Express Thailand, among others, through hisspecialized business consultancy, Social Impact Ventures Asia (SIVA).SIVA's mission is to help corporates...

Chris Deri

United States of America (New York)

Executive Vice President, Edelman

Chris Deri advises Fortune 500 companies across various sectors on issues and strategies related to the environmental and social impact of their activities. He also works with NGOs that focus on sustainability, ethical conduct and global public health. Chris provides counsel and support around communications strategy &programming, issues management, public affairs, CSR reporting,management training, public-private partnerships and stakeholder engagement. Select key clients include: Starbucks, Av...

Darren Lee

Australia

Finance Lecturer / Researcher, University of Queensland (Australia)

Darren Lee is a finance lecturer at the University of Queensland'sBusiness School in Australia and has worked in academia for the pastsix years. His research interests are in the area of financialmanagement, funds management, contrarian investing, behaviouralfinance, socially responsible investing (SRI) and corporatesustainability. He recently finished his PHD, which seeks toanalyse the characteristics and performances of the best of sectorsustainability investment style employing the DJSI dat...

Marlys Appleton

USA

Head of Sustainability Initiatives, AIG Global Investment Group

Marlys Appleton is a Vice President with AIGs Global Investment Group(AIGGIG) where she oversees the performance measurement andbenchmarking function for Alternative and Derivative asset classes, andthe calculation of all option-adjusted risk measures for global fixedincome holdings. Ms Appleton has been with AIGGIG since 2001.In August of 2006, Ms Appleton was appointed to lead the effort toembed principles of sustainable finance, in the form of ES&Gcriteria, across the major asset classes of ...

Yoshio Ogino

Japan

General Manager, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Yoshio joined former Mitsui Bank in 1985, and has been activelyinvolved in project finance and international finance in New York andTokyo since 1995. As Head of Oil & Gas in New York project financegroup, his focus was oil & gas E&P companies in the US and hehas succeeded to develop new businesses with new clients. In Tokyo, hecovered such sectors as power generation, oil & gas, telecom,infrastructure and pulp and paper and others.In addition to the activity in the bank, he was seconded to twoag...

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, ...

Clive Mason

United States

Program Manager, IFC

Clive Mason is an independent consultant and former Head of theInternational Finance Corporations (IFC) Sustainable Financial MarketsFacility in Washington DC. Prior to joining IFC, Clive was based in SEAsia and China where he ran a number of organizations in theenvironment industry, involving cleaner production, renewable energyand energy efficiency, and environmental technology transfer. Hiscareer record includes working in over fifty countries with long-termresidency in five. He established,...

Liam Cully

Manila

Partner Economics and Development, Aureos - S.e. Asia

Liam Cully is the Regional Managing Partner of Aureos South East Asia Managers Limited, and is based in Manila, Philippines.  Aureos South East Asia Fund LLC, a private equity fund with committed capital of US million and co-investors of US million investing in the SME sector in Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.  He has overall responsibility for marketing and identifying investment opportunities for the Fund in South East Asia.

Paulo Bellotti

Brazil

CFO, Axialpar

Paulo Bellotti, CFO of Axialpar. Before Axialpar, Paulo wasexecutive director of Rabobank International in Brasil, a businessmanager at DuPont South America and a process engineer at PoliolefinasS.A. Paulo has a chemical engineering degree from the University ofSão Paulo (USP), a MSc degree in engineering also from USP and aMSc degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT-USA).

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...

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...

George Sorenson

USA

Founder and Chairman, Fe Clean Energy Group Inc.

George is the founder and Chairman of FE Clean Energy Group and hasspent the past ten years originating and closing direct equityinvestments in electric, gas, water and telecommunications utilities inemerging markets throughout the world. He has formed investment partnerships that successfully invested in electricdistribution companies in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Hehas also been instrumental in the formation and funding of partnershipsinvesting in Gazprom, the large Russian gas distribut...

Andreas Schroeter

Germany

Director, Sunlabob

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...

Sophie Punte

Thailand

Project Coordinator, UNEP

Sophie Punte was a project coordinator with UNEP of an energy efficiency project in Asian industry and currently works with the UN in Bangkok as evaluation consultant. She previously worked with audit firm KPMG's sustainability practice, the New Zealand Ministry for Environment and an engineering firm. Sophie holds and MSc in Biologyand a Master's of Environmental Management from The Netherlands, andhas over ten years experience in environmental management and corporatesocial responsibility.

Seiichiro Nishida

Japan

Deputy Chairman, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd.

Seiichiro Nishida is a expert in project financing and advisoryservices, Mr.Nishida hasalmost 30 years of experience in institutional / investmentbanking. Area of expertise includes project finance, advisory services, loansyndication / origination,bond syndication / origination, derivativesand structuring. In Jun. 1997, appointed Deputy Managing Director of Tokyo-Mitsubishi International (HK) Limited, and in Sep. 2002 became General Managerof Financial Institutions Div., Mitsubishi Securities Co...

Pheerasut Gerardo

Thailand

Gerardo Pheerasut

Jean-Pascal Tranié

France

Co-Founder & President, Aloe Private Equity

Jean-Pascal Tranié, co-founder Aloe Private EquityJean-Pascal Tranié is an experienced Venture Capitalist who hasheld senior executive positions in Veolia Energy (including CEO of theGerman division) during the early 90s.Between 1995 and 1997, he managed Vivendi's Media and Multimediadivisions, including Numericable, a leading MSO in France. Hebecame board member of Havas (Books, Game, Digital contents), UGC(European leading theatre group), and Babelsberg Studios, memberof the executive com...

Molly Riley

China

Principal, Roband Consulting Limited

Recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” in M&R, PRC Law and and Corporate Law, by Asia Law & Practice (a Division of Euromoney) 1997-2005 Molly Riley is an experienced China Practice and corporate lawyer, bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) as well as English. Molly has spent the last 16 years working in Hong Kong and China and has more than 20 years of broad experience in the international financial legal sector.  Her extensive experience in the Chinese market includes advising on cor...

Guo Peiyan

China

Co-founder & General Manager - , SynTao.com

Dr. Guo Peiyuan focuses on research about sustainable finance in China.During the last three years, he had spent significant amount of timeinvestigating SRI cases in the Chinese market and published severalpapers and reports on this topic. Due to his broad understanding of SRIdevelopment in China, he has been invited to attend and speak atseveral international CSR and SRI conferences including the WhartonGlobal Compact Academic Conference in 2004 where he delivered apresentation entitled Sustai...

Tom Chang

China

General Manager, China Credit Information Services (CCIS)

Tom Chang currently works as General Manager of China CreditInformation Services (CCIS) China Operation, Research Fellow of FudanUniversity, China Advisor for Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance,and Director of CCIS Property Appraiser Associate. Tom is a licensedproperty appraiser in Taiwan; hosts CCIS Property Appraiser Associate.As the Chief Representative for CCIS in Beijing in 1992; Tomcoordinated training courses such as Equipment Evaluation for ChinaMachinery and Equipment Import and Ex...

Laura Colbert

China

Information and Communication Officer, E+Co

Information and Communication Officer, is working with the China office to increase dissemination of E+Co's enterprise development materials and raise awareness among partners and clients of the activities being undertaken as part of the China Rural Energy Enterprise Development (CREED) program. Ms. Colbert also works with the Bangkok-based team to develop appropriate communications materials for the markets across the region. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Ms. Colbert has been t...

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, ...

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...

Helianti Hilman

Indonesia

Khaula Karya

Ms. Helianti Hilman is Chairman of Khaula Karya Foundation (Khaula), anIndonesia-based social venture-capital organization working to fosterthe growth of competitive and sustainable businesses for economicallyactive poor. Khaula is also one of the principal operating institutionsfor RAMP Indonesia (www.ramp-indonesia.org), an impact-driventechnology-and-business incubation program for grassroots inventor andtechnopreneurs, which provide technical solutions in the area of water,energy, health, ag...

Vineet Rai

India (Mumbai)

CEO, Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund

Key Skills* Rural Finance, Micro Finance and Micro Equity* Design and management of Micro finance programs* Micro Enterprises Development and Management* Training and Capacity Building* Development Co-operation and Institutional Management* Policy Action Research and Policy Advocacy* Business Development and ManagementSelect ClientsGovernment Agencies NGOs and Research Institutions Donors and CorporateHouses* Government of Gujarat* Depart of Rural Development* Ministry of Science and Technology*...

Wim Wienk

Netherlands

Fmo

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...

Dwight Crabtree

Thailand

Investment Officer, Capital Verde

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY EUROPE BV Bangkok, ThailandPrincipalConsultant November 2005 - Presentª Directed and conducted investment feasibility studies to determinethe financial, economic, market, technical, operational, legal, socialand environmental feasibility of implementing sustainable developmentprojects in the areas of renewable energy electrification,biodiversity conservation ,water supply & sanitation, ruraltransportation, and health. ª Designed project specific f...

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...

George Sorenson

USA

Founder and Chairman, Fe Clean Energy Group Inc.

George is the founder and Chairman of FE Clean Energy Group and hasspent the past ten years originating and closing direct equityinvestments in electric, gas, water and telecommunications utilities inemerging markets throughout the world. He has formed investment partnerships that successfully invested in electricdistribution companies in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Hehas also been instrumental in the formation and funding of partnershipsinvesting in Gazprom, the large Russian gas distribut...

Andrew Coogan

France

Consulting Partner, TBLI Consulting

Andrew Coogan is a consulting partner with TBLI Consulting Group, in Amsterdam.  His core practice areas are media, campaigns and communication; stakeholder engagement; sustainable investment and development; and corporate responsibility.  Andrew combines a range of communications, strategy development, project management, research and consulting skills with broad experience from the private, public and civil society sectors. Media and communication strategies and campaign work at the heart...

Sachiko Ai

Japan

Deputy General Manager, Frontier Strategy Planning and Support Division, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation

Sachiko Ai is a Senior Manager, Frontier Business Development at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation. She is currently responsible for developing new initiatives in the emission credit business.  She has developed “Emission Trust” instrument for Japanese companies interested in purchasing CERs to supplement their voluntary CO2 emission reduction efforts and in outsourcing administrative elements.   She joined the firm in 1989 and has named as the Senior Manager of its R & D specia...

Tanja Van der Knoop

The Netherlands (Amersfoort)

Founder, Base Fund

Having started working in advertising, Tanja switched tomarketing when she joined Sony in the Netherlands, becoming productgroup manager for Personal Audio. She moved to Tokyo, where she becameresponsible for the product planning of Walkman for the North Americanmarket.She later joined Philips, where she became worldwide Business UnitManager of Personal Audio (and later “standard TV”), with astrong accent on product planning .When she started her own company (1995, publisher of in...

Florian Sommer

Germany (Frankfurt)

Senior SRI Analyst, Fortis Investments

Florian Sommer (German) is a Senior Analyst in Fortis Investments'Sustainable & Responsible Investment Centre in Frankfurt. He isresponsible for implementing the SRI research process and played aleading role in developing Fortis Investments' Sustainability Radar andEnvironmental Footprint Calculator (www.footprint.fortis.com). Florianhas 10 years of professional experience in sustainable development andidentifying related risks and opportunities. Before joining FortisInvestments in 2005, Florian...

Hugh Wheelan

France

Journalist, Financial News

Hugh was Paris Correspondent and Fund Management Editor at Financial News. Formerly he was Deputy Editor of Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine and Editor of IPE Real Estate. He won the respected Aon Consulting award for European Pensions and Investment Journalist of the Year in 2006. Hugh was also a political and economic advisor to Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International.

Christophe Bongars

Hong Kong

Executive Director, Sustainasia

Founder and Executive Director of SustainAsia Ltd, Hong Kong,Christophe Bongars has 22 years of experience in the field of businessdevelopment, large-scale industrial and infrastructure projectdevelopment and management. He has successfully created, developed andmanaged projects and businesses in diverse countries in Asia, Europeand Africa.Based in Asia since 1995, Christophe was Project Director for AirLiquide group until the end of 2001, developing and managing industrialprojects. He then join...

Hendrik Gartz

Germany (Düsseldorf)

Director SRI Research, WestLB

Dr. Hendrik Garz, Director, joined WestLB Research on 1st March1997 as aStrategist. Together with Claudia Vokl he has been building up theSustainability research. Hendrik and Claudia were ranked 3rd in Extel'srankings for the best broker for SRI research in 2002 and 2003.Hendrik studied economics at the University of Bielefeld (undergraduatedegree) and financial economics at the University of Georgia at Athens,USA(graduate degree).He received a PhD in economics at the University ofErlangen-Nürn...

Gianluca Manca

Italy

Head of global SRI Equities, Eurizon Capital SGR S.p.A.

Gianluca Manca is a fund manager, Head of the Global SRIEquities Team atEurizon Capital in Milan, Italy.Eurizon Capital is one of the major assetmanagers in Europe with 180bneuro aum. In 1997 it has been the first Italian assetmanager to offer arange of SRI Mutual Funds to retail investors throughits mother companyIntesa Sanpaolo Bank.He has been working at Eurizon for nearly a decade, dealingwith SociallyResponsible Investing for 7 years. While been responsible for theteam forfiv...

Alexandra Tracy

China

Hoi Ping Ventures

Ashok Khosla

India

Chairman, Development Alternatives

Ashok Khosla is Chairman of the Development Alternatives Group, a consortium of social enterprises based in India whose mission is to create technologies, businesses and markets for large scale generation of sustainable livelihoods.   Earlier, he was Director of the Office of Environment, Government of India, and then Director, Infoterra in the United Nations Environment Programme. He is currently President a.i. of the Club of Rome and has been a Member of the Governing Bodies of the World ...