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 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...

H.E. The Mayor of Yokohama, City of Yokohama

Hiroshi Nakada (中田 宏, Hiroshi Nakada born 1964 in Yokohama, Kanagawa) is the mayor of Yokohama, Kanagawa in Japan. A graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University, he served at the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management before working in the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Eric Martinot

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)

Dr. Eric Martinot resides in Tokyo as a senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP). From 2005 to early 2008 he lived in Beijing as visiting faculty at Tsinghua University. He continues to teach classes on renewable energy at Tsinghua University as an affiliate of the Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center. He also serves as senior research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute and as lead author and research director of the widely-used REN21...

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 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...

David G. Creighton

Canada (Montréal Qc)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Cordiant Capital Inc.

In his capacity as President and CEO of Cordiant, David Creighton oversees the management of the firm's private equity and loan funds. As Chairman of the Management Committee and member of the Investment Committee of Cordiant, he has been directly involved with the analysis and approval of over 160 private sector investments in more than 55 emerging countries. With $2.4 billion in subscriptions, Cordiant manages five private equity and debt funds, and was most recently mandated to manage the G20...

Masahiro Kato

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Manager, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Kato is head of SRI at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, responsible for developing new initiatives in the field of SRI. He developed SRI fund for pension fund owners with the concept of materiality, focusing on the ESG activities that may have the significant impact on corporate earnings. Prior to the SRI fund for pension fund owners, he developed SRI mutual fund for individual investors with the focus on the demographic issues in Japan. He has more than 18 years experience...

Ewoud Goudswaard

Netherlands (The Hague)

General Manager, ASN Bank

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...

Hikaru Kobayashi

Japan (Tokyo)

Vice Minister, Ministry of the Environment

Date of Birth: 17 November 1949 Education: 1973, Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Economics Job Experience: 1973 Joined the Environment Agency(EA) 1978 Dispatched to the Urban Research Institute in the Graduate School of Paris ⅩⅡ University 1993 Senior Policy Coordinator, Personnel Division, Minister’s Secretariat Dispatched to the East West Center in the United States as visiting fellow 1998 Director, Budget and Accounting Div., Minister’s Secretariat 2001 Director...

Tomoyoshi Uranishi

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Executive Officer, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc.

Takejiro Sueyoshi

Japan (Tokyo)

Special Advisor to UNEP FI and the PRI in the Asia-Pacific Region

Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi was appointed Special Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme Financial Initiative (UNEP FI) in the Asia Pacific region in July 2003, after 4 years as Deputy President at Nikko Asset Management. He spent the majority of his career with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, joining The Mitsubishi Bank Ltd. from The University of Tokyo in April 1967, where he rose to become head of US sales in 1989, based in New York, before being appointed New York Branch Manager and m...

K. Stuart Peskin CFA

Japan (Tokyo)

Vice President, State Street Global Advisors (Japan) Co., Ltd.

Stuart is a Vice President of State Street Global Advisors is responsible for directing the Product Engineering team in Asia-Pacfiic. His responsibilities include product development and research for multiple investment strategies. Previously Stuart was a Portfolio Manager for the Japan Active Quantitative Equity Team. Stuart joined SSgA in 1989 where he was responsible for managing structured portfolios. He was instrumental in the firm's joint effort with International Finance Corporation t...

Stewart Armer

Germany (Frankfurt a.M.)

Head of SRI, BNP Paribas Investment Partners

Stewart Armer is Head of SRI at BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Stewart leads a 13 person dedicated specialist SRI team based in Paris and Frankfurt. This highly international team provides in-depth proprietary environmental, social and governance analysis that are used in a wide range of sustainable investment products including equity, bonds, money markets and multi-asset portfolios. An experienced fund manager, Stewart is currently responsible for the management of a number of global and Asi...

Floris Lambrechtsen

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Director, Double Dividend B.V.

Floris Lambrechtsen MBA is owner-director of Double Dividend, an independent advisory firm. Double Dividend works with institutional investors on responsible investment strategies, implementation and reporting. Double Dividend is signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Prior to starting Double Dividend, Mr. Lambrechtsen worked for eight years as a management consultant with KPMG Global Sustainability Services in the Netherlands. In 2005 he was a member of the Expert Pane...

Pablo Kuntz

Japan (Tokyo)

President, Marchforth International Ltd.

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Kuntz has been working in Japan and Asia since 1993. He founded MarchForth in 1999, a creative consultancy that specializes in helping companies with a business presence in Japan to communicate globally. MarchForth also operates a popular lifestyle brand ‘Unique Japan’ and social enterprise, ‘We Love Daruma’. Mr. Kuntz has a Degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and currently resides in Tokyo with his wife Donna, daughter, ...

Masato Ito

Japan (Tokyo)

Deputy General Manager, Real Estate Consulting Department, The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.

After graduating from the Law Department of Waseda University, Tokyo, Mr. Ito joined The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. in 1983. He began his real estate career in the Bank as a licensed real estate appraiser, engaging in real estate trust services, as well as national property research, among others. Since 2002, he has been the leader of the Appraisal Team and engaged in evaluation for real estate securitisation. Through his work, he became interested in the valuation of sustainable...

Drummond Pike

USA (San Francisco)

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Tides Foundation

Drummond Pike founded Tides Foundation in 1976 and is the Chief Executive Officer of Tides Network. Awarded in 2005 as Outstanding Foundation Professional by the NSFRE, Drummond helped pioneer the broad use of donor advised funds in philanthropy and has supported grassroots and public interest organizations through environmental and social change philanthropy throughout his career. Drummond’s entrepreneurial inclinations have led to the creation of Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Shared ...

Reiniera van Pallandt

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Financial Sector Advisor, City of Amsterdam

Reiniera van Pallandt is the financial sector advisor to the City of Amsterdam. In that position she is amongst others responsible for positioning the city as a sustainability and finance centre. Before joining the city of Amsterdam, Reiniera worked for 20 years at ABN AMRO Bank and ABN AMRO Asset Management in various positions, starting as an investment analyst and later fulfilling commercial and management positions. She was amongst others responsible for introducing the SRI mandate for priv...

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.

Haruo Funabashi

Japan (Tokyo)

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

According to Prof. Funabashi's book titled “Timeless Ventures: 32 Companies that Imbibed 8 Principles of Longevity”, an estimated 20,000 of the 1.24 million companies in Japan have been operating for more than a hundred years. About 200 companies have a history of more than 200 years and about 600 companies, more than 300 years. About 30 companies have survived for more than 500 years and five, for more than a thousand years! Prof. Funabashi researched 32 long-lived companies in Japan and ...

Tomohiro Matsuoka

Australia (Melbourne, Victoria)

Independent SRI Research Consultant

Tomohiro Matsuoka has an extensive experience in SRI research and related product development, specializing in Asia and Oceania markets. Until recently, Tomo led a research team at Australian SRI research firm coordinating a team of over 15 research analysts working on various SRI research covering Australia, Japan and other markets in Asia and Oceania region. His work in SRI industry is inspired by his interest in social equity and welfare and his personal experience as a father of a child wit...

Mikio Yamamoto

Japan (Tokyo)

A.T. Kearney Japan

Mikio Yamamoto is a principal of A.T. Kearney with more than 10 years of management consulting experiences. Mr. Yamamoto is a leader of high tech practice and sustainability practice at Tokyo office. Mr. Yamamoto also commits to do various pro bono works such as education of social entrepreneurs.

Suneel Parasnis

Thailand (Bangkok)

Team Leader Clean Energy Finance, USAID Eco-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program

Suneel Parasnis works with International Resources Group, Bangkok as the Team Leader for USAID ECO-Asia CDCP’s “Regional clean energy Finance” initiative. USAID ECO-Asia has been engaged in addressing the climate change issues in China, India, and the ASEAN. Prior to the current assignment he served as the Country Director of New Ventures India, a “Global Development Alliance” (GDA) between WRI & CII-Sohrabjee Grren Business Centre, supported by USAID, as the Country Director sin...

Ernesto Villanueva Tan

Philippines (Makati City)

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, ASEA One Power Cooperation

Mike Wootton

Philippines (Muntinlupa City)

Chairman, Langogan Holdings

Mike Wootton founded the UK O2 Energy Group which is in the process of developing several small hydro projects in the Philippines. Langogan Holdings is established for development of the first of these, the 6.8 MW Langogan hydroelectric project. He worked for twenty (20) years with Shell E&P (Exploration and Production) internationally, and was Director/VP of several Shell subsidiaries. Most recent positions: General Counsel China, Business Development Manager Philippines. During the last 5 year...

Frank N. Lubbock

Philippines (Metro Manila)

President, Cleansave Waste Corporation

Dip Mining Engineering, Kalgoorlie School of Mines Varied experience over a period of 45 years, including Extensive production experience in Australia and the Philippines in alluvial, open pit and underground mining for nickel sulfides and laterites, gold, tin, molybdenum and tungsten. Extensive development experience in Australia and the Philippines in exploration, feasibility studies and development of hydraulic, open pit and underground mining for nickel sulfides and laterites, gold, ti...

William Ko

Indonesia (Jakarta)

Director, PT Gikoko Kogyo Indonesia

About PT Gikoko Kogyo Indonesia: PT Gikoko Kogyo Indonesia is a Clean Energy and Air Quality Management technology company specializing in engineering design and construction of renewable energy power plants. Certified to ISO9001 and ISO18001 (OHSAS) and ASME for power boilers and pressure vessels, Gikoko invests in public private partnership working with local governments to transform the environmental liability of open dumps into cash flow utilizing financial incentives from ...

Anil Ananthakrishna

India (Bangalore)

CEO, Ekovehicles P Limited

Anil Ananthakrishna has 30+ years of experience in the development and production of electric vehicles. He has established a worldwide reputation as a gifted inventor, component integrator, and product developer. Developed and launched various models (two wheelers, three wheelers,cars,buses) of electric vehicles in various countries like India,Netherlands,Yugoslavia,Germany,USA. First person to launch electric vehicles in the Indian market way back in 1980’s,through his first company Ele...

Sai Prakash

India (Bangalore)

COO, Ekovehicles P Limited

Mr Sai Prakash is a MBA with additional qualification in law journalism, public relations, marketing and advertisement, he advices the company on various aspects of project, channel management and mass communications including promotion. His versatile personality and connectivity to business and Government are excellent assets to the Company. Mr Sai Prakash has experience of handling over 200 SME projects as Dy.Secretary (Appraised)of the State Financial Corporation and as a consultant. He was a...

Michael Jantzi

Canada (Toronto)

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainalytics

Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer Sustainalytics, has been active in the social investment field since 1990. Subsequent to founding Jantzi Research Inc. in November 1992, Michael developed theCanadian Social Investment Database TM, the country’s first database that tracks the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of Canadian corporations. In January 2000, Jantzi Research launched the Jantzi Social Index®, a market capitalization-weighted common stock index consisting ...

Akitsugu Era

Japan (Tokyo)

Corporate Governance Manager Equity Research Group Equity Fund Management Dept., Nikko Asset Management Co. Ltd.

Akitsugu Era is the Corporate Governance Manager at the Equity Fund Management Dept. of Nikko Asset Management, a leading Japan-based asset management group. He is in charge of corporate governance related operations, including exercise of voting rights and engagement with companies. Era is also an equity research analyst making use of his experience as a founder of a company, ELD net Japan, Inc _an internet web hosting service provider, at his younger age. He studied at London Busine...

Simone Balch

USA (Darien)

Vice President, Developing World Markets

Simone joined Developing World Markets in 2005 and is responsible for investor relations and relationship management with microfinance institutions in Southeast Asia. Simone began her career at Goldman Sachs Equity Sales and Trading in Chicago and later spent 4 years in Private Wealth Management in Switzerland. Simone then worked with various microfinance organizations and networks including the Women’s World Banking and Philadelphia Development Partnership. In addition, she co-led the Chi...

Noboru Yamaguchi

Japan

Senior Executive Advisor, Fiduciary Services Reseach Center, Nomura Securities Co. Ltd.

Mr. Yamaguchi worked for Japan Travel Bureau Inc (JTB) for 39 years after graduating from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1966. During his tenure at JTB, Mr. Yamaguchi was assigned in London and New York offices for more than 11years, and he served as Executive Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer of JTB Pension Fund for 8 years until his retirement from JTB in 2005. In 2006, he served as Senior Advisor at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Co., Ltd Japan. In January 2007, he join...

Ian de Stains OBE

Japan (Tokyo)

Executive Director, British Chamber of Commerce

Ian de Stains has been a Japan-watcher and commentator for over 30 years. Arriving initially in 1976 as a BBC producer and presenter, he worked with NHK on radio and TV programmes about Japanese culture and society for international audiences. For a number of years he was also a bi-lingual newsreader on the NHK TV 7.00pm news. Most recently he has been a regular presenter of the “Market Access” programme on ITV Japan. Since 1987 he has focused on the Anglo-Japanese commercial relationship...

Shizuo Fukada

Japan (Tokyo)

Corporate Advisor, Board of Directors Office, Tokyo Headquarters, Omron Corporation

After graduation from Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 1960, joined Sumitomo Corporation, a Japanese integrated trading firms;　total of 34 years experience in business and corporate planning & strategy, including 23 years of overseas assignments to the United States. Joined Omron Corporation in 1994 as associate director of the Corporate Communications Headquarters. Currently corporate adviser of Board of Directors Office at Omron Corporation. Current position on Corporate...

Jeremy Prepscius

People's Republic of China (Hong Kong)

Managing Director, BSR

Jeremy is in charge of serving and expanding the member base in Asia and integrating the work there into the BSR global approach, focusing on issues such as water, the next generation of social compliance work in the supply chain, the evolution of CSR with Chinese characteristics and the framing of CSR issues in Asia. Jeremy has extensive experience in supply chain management, business integration, external communications, government relations and compliance operations. Prior to joining BSR in...

Huong Thi Thu Vu

Vietnam (Hanoi)

SE Asia and Corporate Responsibility Advisor, Vectra International

Vectra International is an independent organization and we work through a network of CSR experts in over 20 countries. Vectra International provides innovative implementation of social responsibility strategies to both the public and private sectors to achieve a responsible competitive advantage. Huong's regional expertise focuses on Asia, specifically Southeast Asia. Huong brings in Vectra team her experience and expertise in management change, promote corporate culture; helping factories’...

Patricia Bader-Johnston

Japan (Tokyo)

Representative Director and Chief Executive Officer, Silverbirch Associates k.k.

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

Ton Runneboom

Japan (Tokyo)

Group Corporate Officer and Deputy CMO, Teijin Ltd.

Ton Runneboom is a chemical engineer by background and a global business executive and industrialist by experience. He is a world citizen, a rational speaker with a quick grasp of understanding the interdependencies. His professional career spans about 40 years in the chemical industry covering a wide range of process, operations, energy, logistics, business and executive positions.

Kevin Aschim

Canada (Alberta)

Market Development Manager, Alberta Research Council Inc.

Kevin Aschim was raised in western Canada and studied forestry and earned an MBA from the University of Alberta. He worked in the pulp and paper and chemical industry for 18 years in sales and management before joining the Alberta Research Council in 2006 where he works in partnering with industry in accelerating development and commercialization of life sciences technologies. He is co-founder and interim Chairman of the Canadian Biochar Initiative, a trade association of industry, invest...

Yoshimi Ichishima

Japan (Tokyo)

Deputy General Manager, Structured Finance Division I, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Co., Ltd.

Yoshimi Ichishima is a Deputy General Manager, Structured Finance Division I at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, which started emission business in October 2005, and started to sell “Emission Credit Trust” in December 2007. He is currently responsible for formation of emissions credits trust and marketing, i.e., leading a team to provide a stable supply of credits to meet all different types of needs, and best solutions for corporate customers. He joined the firm in 1986, an...

Mariko Kawaguchi

Japan (Tokyo)

Head of CSR, Director of Social Investment Forum Japan, Daiwa Securities Group

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

Andy Gebhardt

South Korea (Seoul)

Director, Solability Ltd.

Andy is founder & director of SolAbility Ltd, a consultancy specialising in sustainable management advice and sustainable investment research provision for the Korean market, founded in 2005. Prior to moving to Korea, he worked as analyst for the DJSI at SAM Research in Zurich and held several assignments as researcher on energy technology and energy market developments. In his earlier career, Mr. Gebhardt was involved in humanitarian relief projects in the Balkans and Central America and served...

Eiichiro Adachi

Japan (Tokyo)

Head of ESG Research, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.

He is the head of ESG research center, The Japan research Institute, Limited.He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University in Japan in 1986. He worked for Mitsubishi Research Institute during 1986-1989 as an industrial analyst. Mr. Adachi is now engaged in CSR screening of listed Japanese companies for Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd, STB Asset Management Co., Ltd and Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd. He is also a project manager of research works regarding env...

Taejun Shin

Japan (Tokyo)

Chairperson, Living in Peace (LIP)

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

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 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...

Paolo Sardi

Luxembourg (Luxemburg)

Founding Member and Chief Executive Officer, ECP International SA

Paolo Sardi is a founding member and the chief executive officer of ECPI, a leading European provider of rating and indexing solutions. From 2000 until its sale to Mittel S.p.A. (MIT.IT) in 2008, Paolo developed and managed, as board member and chief executive officer, the corporate finance and sustainability investment advisory business of E. Capital Partners S.p.A., of which ECPI is a member firm. Paolo began his financial career in mergers & acquisitions at Merrill Lynch International in ...

Michael Liebreich

UK (London)

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, New Energy Finance

Michael Liebreich is Chairman and Chief Executive of New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets. New Energy Finance has over 120 staff working out of 11 offices around the world, providing a range of newsletters, data, economic, policy and technology analysis and carbon price forecasting to senior decision makers. Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Alte...

Yukiko Fukasaku

France (Paris)

Managing Director, Innovmond SARL

Yukiko Fukasaku is the founder and Managing Director of INNOVMOND s.a.r.l., an independent research and consulting company, based in France, undertaking work in governance of research, innovation and higher education including innovation for sustainable development as well as studies on the impacts of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology. Through work for clients and with partners, INNOVMOND aims to make research and innovation contribute more to making the world socially, environmentall...

César De Brito

France (Paris)

Partner, Eco Responsible Capital Partners

César de Brito is founding partner of Eco Responsible Capital Partners, a fund management and advisory company dedicated to sustainable and green investments. He was one of the first dedicated socially responsible investment (SRI) Portfolio Managers in Europe, integrating sustainability into core investment decision processes. From 2000 to 2007, he was a SRI Portfolio Manager at AXA Investment Managers in Paris where he co-developed their SRI expertise and funds. From 2007 to 2009 he was Head o...

Katinka C. van Cranenburgh

Spain (Barcelona)

Secretary-General, 3iG

Katinka C. van Cranenburgh is Secretary General of 3iG, the International Interfaith Investment Group. In this position she builds a network of ‘active capitalists’ from faith institutions willing invest socially responsible. Also, she is visiting scholar at ESADE business school in Barcelona, Spain, lecturing and researching corporate social responsibility and social responsible investments. For over 8 years, Ms. van Cranenburgh has contributed to Heineken’s policy development and healthc...

Michael T. Seigel SVD

Japan (Nagoya)

Professor, Nanzan University

Michael Seigel is an Australian and is currently permanent research fellow at the Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics. Born in 1947, he grew up in Barooga, New South Wales. He is an ordained Catholic priest and was assigned to Japan in 1973. After a number of years working first in parishes and subsequently in organizing an overseas volunteer organization, he undertook a doctoral course at Birmingham University in the United Kingdom, which he completed in 1993. His doctoral dissertatio...

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...

Hironobu Katori

Japan (Tokyo)

Head Public Relations Center - International Section, The Association of Shintō Shrines

Hironobu was born in 1967. After graduating from Kokugakuin University, he joined in the Prince Hotels, Inc. in 1990. He gained his career as chief of Banquet Reservation Unit, and joined in Jinja Honcho in 1997. Currently he is chief of International Section.

Waichi Hoshina

Japan (Tokyo)

General Secretary Donate-a-Meal Fund for Peace, Rissho Kosei-kai

He was born in 1960. He after graduating Law School of Meiji-Gakuin University in Tokyo, completed 3 years course of Rissho Kosei-kai Seminary in 1987, that is a Japanese lay Buddhist organization. Then he became a headquarters' staff of Rissho Kosei-kai and was dispatched to Switzerland as representative of Geneva office from 1995 to 1997, worked for promotion and coordination of interfaith dialogue and international peace activities. After returning to Japan he worked for interfaith dialogue a...

Michael Jantzi

Canada (Toronto)

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainalytics

Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer Sustainalytics, has been active in the social investment field since 1990. Subsequent to founding Jantzi Research Inc. in November 1992, Michael developed theCanadian Social Investment Database TM, the country’s first database that tracks the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of Canadian corporations. In January 2000, Jantzi Research launched the Jantzi Social Index®, a market capitalization-weighted common stock index consisting ...

Robert Haßler

Germany (München )

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, oekom research AG

Robert Haßler has been working since 1993 in the fields of Sustainability Rating. He is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of oekom research AG, a Munich-based Sustainability Rating agency providing research to a wide range of institutional investors and asset managers. He graduated in business administration at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich after a two year vocational training in an auditing company. After a six months engagement in the department of Environmental Economics at...

Roger Frank

USA (Philadelphia)

Managing Partner, I3 Advisors LLC (Head Office)

Roger Frank is one of the pioneers in using the capital markets for social change.  Prior to joining Benchmark Asset Managers,  as a Partner at Developing World Markets, he was instrumental in both raising & deploying over $500 million of debt and equity  which provided investors market-rate returns and provided capital to microfinance institutions in the developing world. Before DWM, as an emerging markets veteran who has traveled to and worked in over 50 countries worldwide,  he introdu...

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of Sustainable Investments, Vinis GmbH

Education: 1983 Graduation (from Austrian ‚gynasium‘, comparable to UK ‚A-levels‘), 1989 Degree of Mag.rer.soc.oec. from Vienna University of Economics and BA (comparable to ‚master‘ degree in UK) ongoing: Executive MBA University of Nottingham  Professional Background: 1988 Analyst at Erste Bank 1992 Head of Research Erste Bank 1996 Chief Strategist Investment Bank Austria (1997 merged with CAIB)1999 Head of Investor Relations Bank Austria2001 Chief Investment Officer VBV pension ...

Mizue Unno

Japan (Tokyo)

Managing Director, So-tech Consulting Inc.

After graduating from Chiba University Graduate School, she worked at a management consulting company until she founded So-Tech Consulting, Inc. in 1996. External Director of Brother Industries, guest lecturer at the graduate schools of the University of Tokyo and Hosei University

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 ...

Henrik Steffensen

Switzerland (Zug)

Co-Founder, VP Marketing & Business Development, ASSET4

Henrik Steffensen is Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ASSET4. He has spoken internationally on ESG integration at a wide range of conferences. Henrik Steffensen has many years of marketing and business development experience in the high-tech and waste management sectors. Prior to founding ASSET4 with Peter Ohnemus, Mr. Steffensen was a partner at The e-Firm, the private equity boutique of Mr. Ohnemus, where he advised a number of companies on business deve...

Mizue Tsukushi

Japan (Tokyo)

CEO, Good Bankers Co., Ltd.

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...

Pablo Kuntz

Japan (Tokyo)

President, Marchforth International Ltd.

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Kuntz has been working in Japan and Asia since 1993. He founded MarchForth in 1999, a creative consultancy that specializes in helping companies with a business presence in Japan to communicate globally. MarchForth also operates a popular lifestyle brand ‘Unique Japan’ and social enterprise, ‘We Love Daruma’. Mr. Kuntz has a Degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and currently resides in Tokyo with his wife Donna, daughter, ...

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...

T. David Hodgkinson

Thailand

Director, Emerald Capital Asia Ltd.

Mizue Tsukushi

Japan (Tokyo)

CEO, Good Bankers Co., Ltd.

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...

Tessa Tennant

UK (Bolder)

Director, ASrIA

Having studied environmental sciences at Kings College, London University and worked as Special Projects Director for the Green Alliance, Tessa Tennant co-founded the UK's first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. As an early champion of integrating sustainability criteria into investment management, she worked as Head of SRI Policy and Research at Jupiter Asset Management, NPI and Henderson Investors. During this time she also co-founded the UK Social Investment Forum an...

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 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...

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 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...