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...

Antoine de Salins

France

Member Of The Executive Board, Fonds De Réserve Pour Les Retraites

Graduated from Institute of Political Studies (Paris) and the NationalSchool of Administration (ENA). Between 1986 and 2002 : variouspositions within The French Treasury ( privatisations department,financial markets supervision department , financial attaché inBrussels, private secretary of the Head of The Treasury, head of thedepartment responsible with monetary affairs and public debtmanagement, deputy head of the Treasury in charge of microeconomicissues, Financial counsellor at the French ...

Paul Watchman

UK (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Quayle Watchman Consultancy

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

Ylva Lindberg

Norway

Founder & Managing Director, Sigla

Ylva Lindberg is a strategy consultant specialised in advising the business sector on responsibility and global challenges. She has ten years business experience, including as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, business development in Russia, communication and brand building and corporate responsibility strategy for KLP Insurance in Norway. She speaks six languages to at least conversational level. Ylva holds three board positions in Norway.

Andreas Knörzer

Switzerland (Basel)

Head Of Sustainable Investment Group, Bank Sarasin & Cie Ag

Andreas Knörzer, 1960, Senior Vice President, is Head ofSarasinSustainable Investment and member of the board of the InstitutionalBanking Division and the investment management committee of the SarasinGroup. He is with the bank for 16 years in various functions.He graduated from the University of Applied Science, School ofEconomics, in Berne and earned in addition a diploma from the SwissBanking School. He has 18 years capital market experience thereof 10years as fund manager. He is the founder...

Wim Vermeir

Belgium

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

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

Thierry Deheuvels

France

Head Equity Inv and SRI, AGF Asset Management

Since 2003 : CIO of AGF AMFrom 2002 to 2003: Director of Equities Management for AGF AMFrom 1997 to 2002: CIO of AXA Investment Managers ParisFrom 1994 to 1997: CEO/CIO of ETOILE GESTION subsidiary of Credit duNord (Paribas Group)From 1984 to 1994 : Director in charge of equities balanced funds andinvestment strategy for Paribas AMFrom 1979 to 1984: Equities Portfolio Manager for CCFFrom 1975 to 1979: Director of a branch office for Union de Banques deParis.Thierry Deheuvels is a graduate of HE...

George Möller

Netherlands

CEO, Robeco

Robecos CEO since 1 July 2004. From 2001, he was a member of themanagement board of Euronext N.V., and from the end of 1996 waspresident-director of Amsterdam Exchanges N.V. Previously, he wasgeneral manager of MeesPierson in London and a non-executive member ofthe London Futures and Options Market (LIFFE) board. From 2000 through2003, he was non-executive chairman of the Federation of EuropeanSecurities Exchanges (FESE) and was a member of the TabaksblatCommittee in 2003, which produced recomm...

Miguel Athayde Marques

Portugal

Chairman & Ceo, Member Managing Board, Euronext N.v.

Leo Johnson

UK (London)

Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Leo Johnson is a Partner of PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team, and Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, advisors since 2004 to over 50 international financial institutions around the risks and opportunities of sustainability, and now a part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group. Leo Johnson's expertise is making sense of sustainability. He pinpoints the trends - from climate change, oil price shocks and the rewiring of regulation to income inequality and reshaped consumer prefere...

Andy Ruben

USA

Head Of Sustainability, Wal-MartStores, Inc.

Andy Ruben is vice president of Corporate Strategy/Sustainability forWal-Marts worldwide operations, a position established in Summer 2005as part of Wal-Marts drive to incorporate social and environmentalsustainability into its business strategies.Ruben began his career with Wal-Mart in 2002 as director of CorporateStrategy. He became vice president of U.S. Strategy in2003. In those roles, he gained familiarity across a wide rangeof Wal-Marts businesses and markets. Rubens office will be r...

Martin Skancke

Norway

General Director of the AssetManagement - NorwegianMinistry Of Finance (Government PensionFund), Norwegian Ministry Of Finance

Martin Skancke is Director General in the Ministry of Finance and Headof the Asset Management Department. This department is responsible forthe Ministrys work on the Government Pension Funds strategic assetallocation, performance evaluation and ethical guidelines. Mr. Skanckeholds a Master of Science in Economics from the London School ofEconomics and Political Science, as well as a Business degree from theNorwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Bryan L. Martel

France

Managing Director, Environmental Capital Group, CalPERS/pcg

Bryan L. Martel, Managing Partner of Environmental Capital Group, isthe Environmental Investment Advisor to CalPERS, in association withPacific Corporate Group LLC. In this role, he is fostering strategicworldwide efforts to promote clean-technology as an economically viablemarket opportunity. He is also the founder and former CEO of MobiusTechnologies, a material science/clean-technology company. At MobiusTechnologies, Bryan led and developed a successful plastic recyclingprocess that has grown...

Antoine de Salins

France

Member Of The Executive Board, Fonds De Réserve Pour Les Retraites

Graduated from Institute of Political Studies (Paris) and the NationalSchool of Administration (ENA). Between 1986 and 2002 : variouspositions within The French Treasury ( privatisations department,financial markets supervision department , financial attaché inBrussels, private secretary of the Head of The Treasury, head of thedepartment responsible with monetary affairs and public debtmanagement, deputy head of the Treasury in charge of microeconomicissues, Financial counsellor at the French ...

Noah Beckwith

UK

Partner – Economics and Development, Aureos

Noah Beckwith, Partner, Aureos Advisers LimitedNoah is responsible for fund raising, investor relations, business principles and development impact assessmentat Aueros. He also plays a critical role in the strategic development of the Aureos Group, undertaking extensive duediligence in prospective regions in which funds are established. Prior to joining AAL, he worked for Chemonics UKLtd, specialising in enterprise development, business development services and country analysis, focusing on Afri...

Peter C. Fusaro

USA (New York)

Director, Global Change Associates

Peter C. Fusaro is CEO of Energy and Environment Capital Management LLC and is the bestselling author of "What Went Wrong at Enron" and 11 other books on energy and environmental trading and risk management. Peter is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial trading and market issues. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 30 years. He coined the term Green Trading and convenes the Wall Street ...

Andrew Musters

Netherlands

Senior Investment Manager, Robeco Alternative Investments/private Equity

Andrew Musters Senior Investment Manager Robeco Alternative Investments/Private ?c Andrew Musters is dedicated to managing Robeco'ss global private equity funds-of-funds activities, including Robeco Sustainable Private Equity, the sustainable private equity initiative of Rabobank and Robeco. He is also the Fund Manager of Robeco Private Equity, a private equity fund-of-funds for retail investors listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Andrew is member of the investment committee of Robeco'ss private equit...

John D. Goldstein

USA

Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Medley Global Advisors

John Goldstein is a General Partner of Medley Partners. Prior toforming Medley Partners, he served as Senior Managing Director ofMedley Global Advisors, the leading policy intelligence firm for theworld's largest financial institutions. Mr. Goldstein shepherded MGAthrough its development into a global firm with 60+ individuals and itssale to private equity investors in 2005. During this time, Mr.Goldstein was also co-founder and Executive Director of the MedleyInstitute, an organization focused ...

Robert S. Earhart

France (Paris)

Director, TBLI Consulting Group, Sárl

Geoffrey Mazullo

Poland (Gdansk/Wroclaw)

Adjunct Professor School of American Law, Principal, Emerging Markets ESG

Geoffrey Mazullo is Principal of Emerging Markets ESG (www.emergingmarketsesg.net) and Adjunct Professor of the School of American Law (SAL) in Gdansk and in Wroclaw, Poland. He is a Member of the International Advisory Council of TBLI Conferences and Chair of the Baltic Market Awards Committee, an initiative of the Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius NASDAQ OMX Stock Exchanges to promote excellence in investor relations. From 2001-2009 he directed the PFS Program (www.pfsprogram.org), a regional financi...

Stephen Hine

UK (London)

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

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

Matthew J. Kiernan

Canada (Toronto)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inflection Point Capital Management

Dr Kiernan is founder and Chief Executive of Inflection Point Capital Management. In 1992, he had founded Innovest Strategic Value Advisors (“Innovest”), the #1-rated firm in the world in sustainable investment research, where he also served as Chief Executive. While leading Innovest, Dr Kiernan was instrumental in both the design and implementation of a number of innovative, “sustainability-enhanced” investment products – across a number of different asset classes and geographies. ...

Bjørn Tore Urdal

Norway

Analyst, Sam Group

Born 30th January, 1973Nationality: NorwegianBjørn Tore Urdal joined SAM Group in December 2004 where heholds aposition as Senior Equity Analyst. At SAM Mr. Urdal covers the energysector, spanning from oil and gas related equities to renewable energy,alternative fuels and clean/efficient energy technologies. He is alsothe responsible analyst for the SAM Smart Energy Fund. Prior to joiningSAM Group Mr. Urdal worked as an oil equity analyst in HandelsbankenCapital Markets for 5 years where he cov...

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...

Peter F. Hinton

UK (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Summit Development Group

Peter Hinton, CEO of Summit Development Group (SDG), a Botswana based vehicle, which looks to make strategic investments in banks and financial institutions in Africa. SDG looks to add value to its investments and in particular transform them to focus on the missing middle - SMEs, the un-banked and affordable mortgage finance. SDG looks to provide an attractive return to investors (currently raising US$125m) and create 4m jobs over 7 years through successfully serving the missing middle. Pete...

Mark Goldsmith

UK (London)

Director, ESG, Actis

Mark is the Director responsible for leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues at Actis and has over 15 years of experience of advising on ESG issues. Mark joined Actis in 2002 and has specialist experience in the areas of climate change, safety & environmental management systems, contaminated land, air emissions and ethical issues. Mark is currently leading a Governance training initiative within Actis. Before joining Actis, Mark worked for Shell International and Arthur D Littl...

Dang Le Nguyen Vu

Vietnam

CEO & President, Trung Nguyen

Dang Le Nguyen Vu is one of the most successful young entrepreneurs ofhis generation. At the age of 27 and after completing his medicalstudies at the Tay Nguyen University in 1996, he started building thelargest coffee plantation in Vietnam, in Daklak province and opened hisfirst coffee outlet in 1998 in Ho Chi Minh City. Within less than 10years, he operates 1.000 coffee shops, 7.000 outlets and 59,000 retailshops all over the country. His franchises are also present inThailand, Singapore, Mala...

Thai Quang Trung

Vietnam

Regional Prgramme Coordinator, Hanns Seidel Foundation

Thai Quang Trung is affiliated with the Hanns Seidel Foundation for thelast 20 years. As the coordinator of its Regional Capacity BuildingProgram for ASEAN Integration, he has developed various human resourcestraining projects in conjunction with international, regional andnational organizations and think-tanks, including the ASEANSecretariat, UNEP/ROAP, World Bank Institute, The Asia-EuropeFoundation, the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute. His fields ofinterest include management of trans...

Ralf Frank

Germany (Dreieich )

Managing Director Conferences, DVFA - Society OfInvestment Professional

Ralf Frank is Managing Director with DVFA, Society of InvestmentProfessionals in Germany. He is responsible for the division ofFinancial Communications. Currently, Ralf works on severalinterdisciplinary projects in the wider area of CSR and sustainabilitysuch as developing Key Performance Indicators for Non-Financials,researching how trustworthiness and credibility of corporate CSR reportsensues within the financial community.His working experience prior to DVFA includes Business Consultancy inI...

Stéphane Quéré

France (Paris)

Sustainable Develpment, Gdf Suez

Stéphane Quéré has graduated from EcoleSupérieure de Commenrce deParis. He began his career as as an financial auditor (PriceWaterhouse), before entering SUEZ Group in 1989 as a financialcontroller for Lyonnaise des Eaux. Then, he has been CEO of oneofSUEZ subsidiaries for 10 years. He became Senior Vice Presidentincharge of Sustainable Development in 2005

Hans-Peter Meurer

Germany

CR Manager, RWE AG

Born in 1946 Hans-Peter Meurer was trained in physics andmaterial science. He received a Diploma and a PhD from the TechnicalUniversity of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany. After nearly 16 yearsbeing engaged in materials development and quality management foradvanced nuclear reactors, space and other high technology componentshe joined RWE group in 1994.At RWE Hans-Peter Meurer built up the coordination of a Group wideenvironmental management which recently has been expanded to a Groupwide Cor...

Luc Demoulin

France (Paris)

chargé de mission, gdf suez

Doug Cogan

USA

Director of Climate Change Research, RiskMetrics Group Inc.

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

Daniele Cesano

Italy

Director, Co2nnect

Daniele is currently running his own consulting service with CO2nnect,developing projects related to the carbon market, energy efficiency andrenewable energy. He is also Capacity Building Coordinator forSouthSouthNorth, an NGO that builds capacity on CDM and voluntarycarbon market project as well as adaptation projects to climate change.In the past he has been a renewbale energy specialist at AmbienteItalia, a Milan based consultancy (Italy). Previosuly Daniele wasstrategic partnerships and exte...

Ranjan Moulik

France

Director Energy, Dexia Crédit Local

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:January 2000: MSc. in Petroleum Economics & Management and Degreeof advanced studies in Energy Management and Policy from the InstitutFrançais du Pétrole School, (Ecole du Pétrole etdes Moteurs) Rueil Malmaison, FranceMarch 1995: Masters in Economics at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USAJuly 1989: B.A. (Honors) in Economics, St. Stephens College, DelhiUniversity, IndiaPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Since Feb.2006: Director, Energy  Structured Finance,Dexia Crédit Local;...

Stephane VOISIN

France

Head Sustainable & Responsible Investment, Crv©dit Agricole Cheuvreux

Marie Luchet

France (Paris)

SRI Analyst, CM CIC Securities

Marie Luchet is in charge of environmental questions within the Socially Responsible Investment department of CM-CIC Securities since 2006.At PSA Peugeot Citroen, she worked as a legal expert in environment before moving on to work as a sustainable development officer.She has an MSc in Environmental Law and Biology Conservation from the University of Kent and a Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Law (DEA)from the University of La Sorbonne.

Michiel Hardon

Switzerland

Member Executive Committee, International Interfaith Investment Group

Naam: Michiel HardonGeboren: 23 april1943 in AmersfoortOnderwijs: Lagere en middelbare school in Amersfoort metonderbreking van 1 jaar high school in de VS.Universiteit: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1961 - 1968 " Hoofdvakken:Bedrijfsorganisatie, Openbare Financien en Macro economie " Bijvakken: Int. Ec.Betrekkingen, Spaans, Philosophie en Informatica " Stage 1967 in Argentinië(Banco Holandes Unido) " en in Chili (UN, EconomicCommission for Latin America) Huidige functie:...

Alberto Rossetti

Vatican City

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...

Syed Nazim Ali

Unknown

Directory, Harvard University

Meir Tamari

Israel (Jerusalem)

Founder, Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem

Dr. Meir Tamari is the founder and was the first Director of theBusiness Ethics Center of Jerusalem. Despite retiring in 1999, hecontinues to actively serve as its senior consultant and President ofthe Board.Dr.Tamari served in the Bank of Israel for 30 years, eventually risingto the position of Chief Economist in the office of the Governor. Healso served as a specialist consultant in the fields or riskevaluation,small firms and entrepreneurship for the British, Japanese, Frenchand US government...

Takayuki Ashizu

Japan (Tokyo)

Association of Shintō Shrines

Katsuji Iwahashi

Japan

International Sect, JINJA-HONCHO

Pierre Bollon

France

Secretary General, AFG

Pierre BOLLON, 51, is the chief executive of AFG (Association Française de la Gestion financière), the French investment funds and asset managers trade association. AFG members manage around 2200 Billions euros on behalf of institutional and private investors, both through mandates and through investment (mutual) funds, including SRI funds and regulated hedge and private equity funds, making the French asset management industry one of the world leaders.AFG is very active in the field of corpor...

Frédéric Lorenzini

France

Rédacteur en chef & Directeur de la recherche, Morningstar France

Frédéric Lorenzini is the Director of Research at Morningstar France. Before joining Morningstar in 2001, Frédéric was the General Manager of the French subsidiary of Globalnet Financial, a financial news provider listed on Nasdaq. With over 15 years of journalism experience, Frédéric has written for daily and weekly publications such La Tribune, Le Nouvel Economiste, and Le Monde. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sorbonne University and is the author of “ABC de la Gestion Collective”...

Joos Grapperhaus

Netherlands

Marketing, SNS Asset Management

Joos Grapperhaus (1958) joined SNS Asset Management in November 2001,as Director Marketing & Sales, to market investment managementproducts to the institutional professional market, with a strong emphasis on social responsible asset management and research.Tailor-made SRI is the core product of SNS Asset Management.Prior to SNS Asset Management, Joos was member of the Equity Sales teamof the Japanese broker Nomura Securities in Amsterdam since 1996, alsoservicing the institutional market. From 1...

Louise O’Halloran

Australia

Executive Director, Ethical Investment Association

Louise was appointed Executive Director of RIAA in 2002. She has worked in senior management roles in the not for profit sector in Australia, the United States and Britain assisting corporations to build brand equity through the establishment of community business partnerships. She has also spent considerable time in senior roles in the arts including General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, and General Manager of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. She has an MBA from Macquarie...

George Starcher

France (Chambéry)

Founder and President, EBBF

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

Peter Johnson

USA (Darien)

Partner, Developing World Markets

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

Mercedes Benavides

USA

Head Of Global Network For Banking Innovation, Women's World Banking

Ms. Benavides,is the Manager of the Global Network for Banking Innovation in Microfinance of Women´s World Banking.  The GNBI is a network for 24 commercial banks and regulated microfinance institutions that are leaders in innovation in microfinance, as wholesalers, retailers or specialized institutions.  Ms. Benavides is an international banker, with a specialty in the emerging markets, having worked in country debt restructuring, corporate finance and private banking for over 15 year...

Somak Ghosh

India (Mumbai)

President - Corporate Finance, Yes Bank Ltd.

Somak Ghosh is the President, Corporate Finance and DevelopmentBanking at YES BANK. As the spearhead of the Corporate Financepractice, he is responsible for four distinct Product Groups –Infrastructure Banking, Structured and Project Finance, Realty Bankingand Financial Restructurings. As the head of Development and KnowledgeBanking he provides leadership to Food and Agri Strategic Advisory andResearch (FASAR), Agri, Micro & Rural Banking, Corporate and SocialResponsibility (Responsible Bankin...

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...

Bob Pattillo

USA (Atlanta, GA)

CEO & President, Gray Ghost Fund

In 2003, Bob established and funded Gray Ghost, a millionsocialinvestment portfolio focused in the field of microfinance. Bob's roleis as a "partner" to the enterprises he invests in and those who workwithin them, helping to emphasize the enterprise as a living, breathingprofessional community. Bob's role is also to invite others to coinvestin these enterprises, to find the personal fulfillment that comes withinvesting for both financial and social return.Bob also chairs The Rockdale Foundation...

Jan Olaf Willums

Norway

President, Inspire Management As

Dr. Willums is founding chairman of the InSpire Group, which includessocial venture capital investments and financial advisory services ofsocial responsible investments. Dr. Willums has been a private equityinvestor since the 1980s and has been cofounder of several high-techcompanies including what is today the worlds largest solar company.His latest investment is in THINK GLOBAL, the electric car makerheadquartered in Norway, where he is President.His not-for-profit work is channeled through ...

Titus A. M. Brenninkmeijer

Netherlands

President, Solgenix

Titus Brenninkmeijer is a social entrepreneur whose work has focusedon assisting global entrepreneurs to grow sustainable businessesthrough the development of commercially viable applications. Titusdecades long experience in international retail allows him to leveragedeep knowledge of consumer behavior and trends to help his partnerssuccessfully target current and future consumer needs.In2005, Titus founded Solgenix, LLC, to support solar energyentrepreneurs in emerging and developed markets ar...

Peter Kinder

USA

President, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.

Peter Kinder President & CEO KLD Peter Kinder co-founded KLD in 1988.  He has served as KLD’s President since then.  Peter, Steve Lydenberg and Amy Domini are authors of The Social Investment Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992) and Investing for Good (HarperBusiness, 1993). He collaborated with Amy Domini on Ethical Investing (Addison-Wesley, 1984), and co-authored Law and Business (McGraw-Hill, 1982/94).  His articles have appeared in numerous publications in the US, the UK and Canada. Peter has se...

Wilco van Heteren

Netherlands

Specialist Corporate Governance & Sustainability, Robeco Group

Wilco van Heteren is specialist Corporate Governance &Sustainability with Robeco. The competence centre he is part of isresponsible for entering into constructive dialogues with investedcompanies on corporate governance and sustainability and for exercisingvoting rights. Furthermore the team provides the portfolio managerswith the sustainability ratings and issues per company.In a previous position, Mr. Van Heteren was quantitative researcher.Before that, he held a position as Junior Portfolio M...

Dominique Habegger

Switzerland (Geneva)

Senior Relationship Manager, Ethos

Dominique Habegger is a recognized expert in the field of extra-financial research in which he has been active for more than tenyears. During his studies at theUniversity of St. Gallen, he developed a passion tounderstand the processing ofinformation in the financial markets - the subject of his masterthesis. Mr. Habegger later pioneered social and environmental analysisat SAM Sustainable Asset Management, contributing to what would becomethe first global sustainability index. In 1998, he founde...

Laurent Poinsot

France

Head Of Research, Calyon Cheuvreux

Laurent Poinsot Head of French Equity ResearchCrédit Agricole Cheuvreux France Laurent Poinsot, 45 years old,is Head of French Equity Research (a team of 30 analysts) at CACheuvreux, the European equity broker, since January 2006. A graduateof Ecole Centrale Paris, he joined CA Cheuvreux in 1995, where he hassuccessively been European coordinator of the buildingmaterials and construction sector and the utilities sector.

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 ...

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...

Leanne Tobias

USA (Bethesda)

Principle, Malachite LLC

Leanne Tobias is founder and principal of Malachite LLC, an advisory company that specializes in the selection, development, financing, leasing and management of green real estate investments. She is exploring the creation of a green real estate fund and is a member of the advisory board of the Green Building Finance Consortium. In addition to her work with private clients, Ms. Tobias is an internationally recognized speaker and author on sustainable real estate who has spoken on green real es...

Mujahid M. Abdullah

United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)

Funding Specialist, Department of Transport

Andre Heinz

USA

Member General Partner, Sustainable Technology Capital

Andre Heinz has been active in the field of Sustainable Developmentsince 1993,when he began working for William McDonough, the noted green architectand designer, on sustainable design issues and projects. At thesame time, Mr. Heinz joined the board of the Vira. I Heinz Endowment,where he oversaw the creation of an environmental grant making programfor both the Vira I. and Howard Heinz Endowments through a series of 14topical environmental colloquia that convened leaders from around theworld. H...

Seamus Finn

Unknown

Director, Missionary Oblates

Rev Séamus P. Finn OMI is Director of the Justice/Peace andIntegrity of Creation Ministry, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate,in Washington DC. The office seeks to implement the commitment of thecongregation “to be present where decisions affecting the lives of thepoor are made” and to respond to specific requests for solidarity fromOblates and their collaborators in different parts of the world. Theoffice is also responsible for implementing the Faith ConsistentInvesting/Socially Respon...

Jeremy Crocker

Unknown

Church Of England

Harald Glomdal

Norway

Assistent Director, Oppysningsvesenets Fond

Mark Campanale

UK (London)

Advisor, Four Elements Capital

Mark Campanale worked overseas as a development economist in the not-for-profit sector and entered the sustainable investment management sector in the late 80's. Mark’s area of interest is in the finance of clean tech companies, sustainable asset management and ecosystems services, principally forests. Recruited as one of the Europe’s first specialist, sustainable investment analysts in 1989, Mark is a co-founder of the sustainable investment businesses firstly at Jupiter Asset Management wi...

Xavier de Bayser

France

President, IDEAM

PrimeTool KitXavier de Bayser is a graduate from the ESCP business school. He thenjoined Crédit Chimique  part of Pechiney Group (1972-1988)where he was in charge of the Financial Department of Corifrance(insurance company), of the General Management of Treilhard Gestion(securities company) and where he held the Chairmanship of FranceInstruments Financiers (FIF, securities company).In 1988, he created Finindice, the leading company in the field ofquantitative management in France, which became...

John Wilson

USA

Director of Socially Responsible Investing, Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc.

Mr. Wilson has been Director of Socially Responsible Investing forChristian Brothers Investment Services, Inc. since January 2004. He isresponsible for managing all aspects of the CBIS socially responsibleinvesting program, including policy development, active ownership,proxy voting and social screening. He serves as Vice Chair of theGoverning Board of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility(ICCR) and also serves on the boards of the Leviticus Fund and theCoalition for Justice in the M...

Angela de Wolff

Switzerland (Geneva)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ConSer Invest SA

Angela de Wolff is founder and managing partner of ConSer Invest, an advisory firm dedicated to sustainable and responsible investment. It provides financial professionals and asset managers with solutions integrating sustainable development aspects. Since 2008, she is President of “Sustainable Finance Geneva” A non-profit association which aims to promote responsibility and sustainability in Finance. From 2002 to 2006, she was Head of the SRI team at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch. She...

Jacqueline van Voorthuizen

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

relationship manager, Schretlen&Co.

Jacqueline van VoorthuizenBorn the 5th of August, 1961 in Woudenberg, Netherlands.Mother of 2 sons, Kyllian and Zino.Education: Gymansium B with diploma received in 1979 and continued onto Nijenrode for 3 year A level studies.Jacqueline finalized her studies and began working in 1982. Until 1984she worked as a sales executive for a cosmetic importer. From 1984 until 2002 she worked for FortisMeesPierson, starting out asa junior investment advisor and becoming Director of MeesPiersonPrivate Wealt...

Leo Johnson

UK (London)

Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Leo Johnson is a Partner of PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team, and Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, advisors since 2004 to over 50 international financial institutions around the risks and opportunities of sustainability, and now a part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group. Leo Johnson's expertise is making sense of sustainability. He pinpoints the trends - from climate change, oil price shocks and the rewiring of regulation to income inequality and reshaped consumer prefere...

Peter Kinder

USA

President, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.

Peter Kinder President & CEO KLD Peter Kinder co-founded KLD in 1988.  He has served as KLD’s President since then.  Peter, Steve Lydenberg and Amy Domini are authors of The Social Investment Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992) and Investing for Good (HarperBusiness, 1993). He collaborated with Amy Domini on Ethical Investing (Addison-Wesley, 1984), and co-authored Law and Business (McGraw-Hill, 1982/94).  His articles have appeared in numerous publications in the US, the UK and Canada. Peter has se...

Jean-Philippe Desmartin

France

Equity Analyst, Sri Research Manager / Decision Maker, Oddo Securities

Jean-Philippe Desmartin is responsible for SRI research at Oddo Securities'research departmentJean-Philippe Desmartin, 38, graduated in Economics and Finance from IEPParis (1992) and holds a degree in Business Law (French Institute ofBusiness Law, 1991) and Management (BA, 1990) from Paris II university.He started his career at the Crédit du Nord's financial engineeringdepartment in 1994 and then held various positions at the AReSE (France)and Innovest (US) social and environmental ratings agen...

Bennett Freeman

USA

SVP, Social Research and Policy, Calvert

Bennett Freeman joined the Calvert Group in April 2006 as Senior VicePresident, Social Research and Policy, based in BethesdaMD. He leads the social, environmental and governanceresearch, analysis, policy and advocacy work of the largest family ofsocially responsible mutual funds in the U.S. In addition todirecting the Social Research Department of twenty analysts and otherstaff, he serves on the Management Committee of this private assetmanagement firm with billion in assets.From May 2003-M...

Prakash Sethi

USA

President - University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College

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

Nicholas Vantreese

France (Paris)

Sustainable Development Manager, La Banque Postale S.A.

Matt Christensen

France (Paris)

Executive Director, Eurosif - European Sustainable Investment Forum

Matt Christensen is the Executive Director for Eurosif (the European Sustainable Investment Forum) since 2002. Since Matt was recruited as Executive Director, Eurosif has grown into the premier European think tank and industry association for sustainable investment with more than 80 Member Affiliates that together represent assets totaling over €1 trillion. Recent activities of Eurosif include its EU Market Study, High Net Worth Individual Sustainability Report, and successful submissions t...

Christine Tørklep Meisingset

Norway

Head of SRI, Storebrand

Christine Tørklep Meisingset is head of SRI at StorebrandInvestments, part of the Norwegian Life Insurance Group. Storebrand hasbeen a pioneer within SRI in Europe, and has a leading position withincorporate responsibility and responsible investments in its industry.Mrs. Meisingset has been with Storebrand since 2001, starting out as ananalyst within oil and gas, utilities, chemicals and the pharmaceuticalsector. Her current position includes strategic decisions,communication, negative screenin...

Mark Sinsheimer

France (Boulogne)

Director, MS Conseil

Mark is a Paris based independent consultant providing advice to assetmanagement firms and governments on international best practices.Mark had board level responsibilities with global asset managementcompanies since 1996. He was Head of Marketing and Sales for CreditLyonnais Asset Management, Head of Business Development for CDC IxisAsset Management and Product specialist for Paribas Asset Management.Mark holds a Masters in International Relations, a Graduate Degree inlaw from Paris V Universit...

Cyril Lin

UK

Founder and Managing Director, IFG Development Initiatives LTD

Cyril Lin is Founder and Managing Director of IFG DevelopmentInitiatives (IFGDI), an economics and corporate advisory consultancyspecialising in transition and emerging market economies in Asia. From1981 to 2001, he taught at the University of Oxford where he was aFellow of St. Antonys College, University Lecturer in Economics andDirector of the Centre for Modern Chinese Studies. His areas ofteaching and research included the Chinese economy, macroeconomics,transition economics, institutional e...

Olivier de Guerre

France (Paris)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Phitrust

Chairman of PhiTrust Partenaires social investment company, investing in social businesses run by social entrepreneurs. Olivier is founder of PhiTrust asset management company in France, developing responsible investment through ESG shareholder engagement and social investments.

Emma Howard Boyd

UK

Head Of Socially Responsible Investment Director, Jupiter Asset Management Ltd.

Emma Howard Boyd has been actively involved in socially responsibleinvestment since joining Jupiter Asset Management in 1994. As Head ofSRI, Emma has overall responsibility for the management and futuredevelopment of Jupiter's Socially Responsible Investment business. Emma continues to head up Jupiter's Environmental Research Unit, whichanalyses the environmental and social performance of companies forJupiter's SRI funds. She is also responsible for building up Jupiter'sengagement services for i...

Howard Pearce

UK (Almondsbury)

Head of Environmental Finance and Pension Fund Management, The Environment Agency

Howard has been Head of Environmental Finance and Pension Fund Management for the UK's Environment Agency since 2003. Prior to this he was Head of Corporate Planning. He has B.Sc in Zoology. He is responsible for the Agency's influencing work with the finance and business sectors, and the governance, administration and investment management of the Agency's £1.3bn (2bn Euro) Active Pension Fund,the 20th largest in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), one of the most solvent (94%) in the L...

Arnaud Berger

France

Head Of Sustainability, Banque Fédérale Des Banques Populaires

Arnaud BERGER, 38 ans, completed doctoral coursework in Biology (DEA)at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine / Institut Pasteur Paris, followedby an Engineeringdegree in Environmental Sciences (INSA, Strasbourg).He began his professional career at Steelcase Europe Inc working onenvironmental and security issues.Arnaud joined Banque Populaire d'Alsace in 1999 in order to manage thethe bank's policy on sustainable development and more specifically thefinancing of sustainability. His most important developme...

Michel Lemonnier

France

Head Of Sri, Groupama Asset Management

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...

Jonathan Wootliff

Belgium

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...

Jean-Pierre Sicard

France

Président, Novethic

Jean-Pierre Sicard (50) held a number of corporate managementpositions at Caisse des dépôts, particularly in the areasof human resources, before creating the strategic watch function withinthe corporate strategy and finance department in 1998.Mr. Sicard exercised this role until 2001, the year in which he foundedNovethic. Today hes Head of Sustainable Development at Caisse desdépôts and Chairman of Novethic.Prior to joining Caisse des dépôts, Mr. Sicard had avaried career. He founded and ...

Paul McNamara

UK

Director And Head Of Property Research, PRUPIM - Prudential Property Investment Managers Limited

Paul joined Prudential Property Investment Managers Ltd in 1987becoming Head of Property Research in 1990. He is responsible for theoverall direction of property research and is also a Board Director.Paul has a first class honours degree from the University of St Andrewsand a PhD from the University of Edinburgh  both in Geography.Paul was Chairman of the UK Investment Property Forum (IPF) 2005/2006and is the President, Fellow and a past Chairman of the UK Society ofProperty Researchers. .Among...

Jacqueline Côté

Switzerland

Senior Advisor Advocacy & Partnerships, WBCSD - World Business Council For Sustainable Development

Jacqueline Coté is Senior Advisor Advocacy & Partnerships atthe World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a coalition of190 international companies united by a shared commitment tosustainable development and whose secretariat is located inConches-Geneva. International commercial lawyer for a large partof her career, Jacqueline - who is Canadian borne - spent 15 years withthe SGS Group in Geneva, first as corporate counsel and then as head ofa new corporate unit created to develop pro...

Kirein Franck

Germany

Head Of Research, Imug Investment Research

Kirein Franck (born 1962, economist by profession) is heading researchactivities at imug (Hanover, Germany). imug research is focusing oncorporate research and market research projects in the field ofsocially responsible investments in Germany. imug is also doingresearch on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for consumerorganisations. Recent projects include an evaluation of CSR researchpublished by Stiftung Warentest, the leading German consumer testingassociation. In 2006 Kirein did Europea...

Vincent Jacob

France (Paris)

SRI Analyst, AGF Asset Management

Vincent Jacob, 42 years old, is partner at Crystal Consulting, anadvisoryfirm in sustainable development strategy. Crystal Consulting set-updedicated team related to the expertises required in its differentmandates:- Advice on building innovative social responsible investment productforfinancial institutions.- Advice on sustainable development strategy for industrial or financialgroups.Amongst others, Crystal Consulting has advised :- Crédit Municipal de Paris in the launching of« Crédit Muni...

Peter Johnston

Belgium

Responsible for Information Societypolicy and strategy evaluation, European Commission

Dr Peter Johnston is responsible for Information Society policy andstrategy evaluation in the European Commission. He has worked with theEuropean Commission since 1988, and has been responsible for researchand development of technologies related to new methods of work in theInformation Society; for the strategic planning of Europeantelecommunications research; for actions in the area of teleworkstimulation and electronic commerce. He is also involved inimplementation of EU policies for sustainab...

Philippe Caïla

France

Director, ERAFP - Etablissement De Retraite Additionnelle De La Fonction Publique

Philippe Caïla, is Director of the ERAFP - the French PublicService Additional Pension Scheme, Director in charge of strategy atthe Retirement Division and Deputy to the Director of the RetirementDivision of Caisse des Dépôts. After graduating from theNational School of Administration (ENA) he started his career in thecorps préfectoral (State representatives in the Régionsand Départements). He then worked in the Budget department ofthe Ministry of the Economy and Finances before becoming b...

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.

Patrick Kanters

Netherlands

Managing Director Real Estate, ABP Investments

Patrick Kanters is Managing Director Real Estate of ABP Investments,the investmentarm of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP. Based in the Amsterdam office he isresponsiblefor all real estate activities in Europe and Asia Pacific.Prior to joining ABP, Mr. Kanters worked for ING Real Estate for 11years. Most formerly he was Managing Director of the InvestmentManagement department covering the European markets.Mr. Kanters holds a MSc in Real Estate, Project Management &Housing from the Delft University of...

Kevin Nowlan

Ireland

Principal, Wk Nowlan & Associates

Yahya Pallavicini

Italy

Chairman Of The Education Committee, Isesco - The Islamic Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization

Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini is an Italian citizen who was born aMuslim, to a Japanese mother and an Italian father, in 1965.2006• Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior in theCouncil for Italian Islam.• President of the Higher Council of ISESCO (IslamicOrganization for Education, Science and Culture) for Education andCulture in the West.• Vice-President and Imam of the CO.RE.IS(Comunità Religiosa Islamica) Italiana.In 1997 he was made a member of the National Committee forInte...

Luiz Ros

USA

Global Mgr, Markets And Sust. Enterprises, New Ventures

As Global Manager for the Markets and Sustainable Enterprise Goal atthe World Resources Institute (WRI), Luiz Ros directs the SustainableEnterprise Program and also participates as a member of the ExecutiveManagement Team. Luiz also leads WRIs Sustainable Growth inEmerging Economies objective, which engages the private sector in keyeconomies such as Brazil, China, Mexico, Indonesia and India. Hehas built strong partnerships with venture capitalists, largecorporations, business schools, and en...

Michael Feldner

South Africa (Johannesburg)

Managing Director, Inspire South Africa (pty) Ltd

Michael has recently formed InSpire South Africa, a fund management andadvisory company principally aimed at investing in sustainable Cleantechventures in Southern Africa and a member of the InSpire Group ofcompanies, based in Norway. He is currently also working on a broadbased empowerment project in the taxi industry and assisting atrade-union owned Micro-finance institution with strategic planning andfundraising.Prior to his involvement with InSpire, Michael was responsible for themanagement ...

Pramod Shedde

India

Managing Partner, BTS Investment Advisors Private Ltd.

Mr. Shedde is currently Managing Partner of BTS Investment AdvisorsPvt. Ltd. Mumbai which is the advisor to Swiss Technology VentureCapital Fund (Swiss Tec). The fund is a Mauritius based offshore fundwith a corpus of USD 22 million. The fund has been promoted by theState Secretariat For Economic Affairs (seco) of the Swiss governmentin 1997. Mr. Shedde is associated with Swiss Tec since its inception.Swiss Tec has invested about 80% of its corpus in diversified sectorsand has achieved 7 exits o...

Luiz Eduardo Passos Maia

Brazil

CEO, Rio Bravo Investimentos

Luiz joined Rio Bravo Investmentos in January 2006 to develop privateequity businesses and whealth management activities. From August 97 to December 2005 Luiz was responsible for all assetmanagement activities of ABN AMRO Asset Management in Latin America. Hewas member of the Executive Committee of the BU Asset Managememnt inAmsterdam, member of ABN AMRO's top executve group for 5 years, andacted as Executive Director of Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A and BancoSudameris in Brazil.Since 2002 Luiz is Vic...

Ylva Lindberg

Norway

Founder & Managing Director, Sigla

Ylva Lindberg is a strategy consultant specialised in advising the business sector on responsibility and global challenges. She has ten years business experience, including as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, business development in Russia, communication and brand building and corporate responsibility strategy for KLP Insurance in Norway. She speaks six languages to at least conversational level. Ylva holds three board positions in Norway.

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...

Simon Thomas

UK

Chairman, Trucost PLC

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

Grégory Schneider-Maunoury

France (Head of SRI Research Committe)

CM - CICSecurities

Grégory Schneider-Maunoury joined CM CIC Securities as Head ofSRI and Extra-Financial Research in June 2006. The aim of the team isto provide extra financial research and news that may impact onfinancial performance and to embed it systematically in the mainstreamresearch.Before joining CM CIC Securities, Gregory Schneider-Maunoury achieved aPhD on environmental regulation and corporate strategies in Europe atthe University of Aix en Provence in France. He joined the French CSRrating agency ARE...

Sylvain Guyoton

France

Head of SRI Business Development - Vigeo Group, Vigeo

Based in Paris, Sylvain GUYOTON is currently Business DevelopmentManager for the VIGEO Group. The VIGEO Group was established in 2002 bysome 50+ corporations, institutional investors, NGOs and trade unionsfrom across Europe with a goal of furthering Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR) research and rating. The VIGEO Group shareholdersprovided ¬16m in capital and VIGEO currently has a 65-strong team basedin Paris, Brussels, Milan and Casablanca. The VIGEO group newgeneration of CSR research and ...

Graham Davies

UK (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...

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...

Rory Sullivan

UK (London)

Head of Investor Responsibility, Insight Investment

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

Matthias Bönning

Germany

Head of Research and Member of Executive Board, oekom research AG

-Born in 1972; two year training as a banker at Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr.& Cie., Cologne; -University degree in business administration after studies at Western State College of Colorado, U.S.A. and University of Cologne; -Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation; from 1998to 2000 analyst at oekom research AG, Munich; -Since 2001 Head of Research. Member of the Executive Board of oekom research AG since 2003; -Assistant lecturer at Technical University of Munich and University of A...

Jean-Philippe Desmartin

France

Equity Analyst, Sri Research Manager / Decision Maker, Oddo Securities

Jean-Philippe Desmartin is responsible for SRI research at Oddo Securities'research departmentJean-Philippe Desmartin, 38, graduated in Economics and Finance from IEPParis (1992) and holds a degree in Business Law (French Institute ofBusiness Law, 1991) and Management (BA, 1990) from Paris II university.He started his career at the Crédit du Nord's financial engineeringdepartment in 1994 and then held various positions at the AReSE (France)and Innovest (US) social and environmental ratings agen...

Sally Britton

UK

Director, Twentyfifty Limited

Sally is an Organisational Change consultant. She is a member ofAmnesty Internationals UK Business Group, committee member of theBusiness and Human Rights Seminar and co-designed and delivers courseson Business and Human Rights in Practice and Business and CSR inPractice.She has a particular interest in working to develop change agents inorganisations, enabling them to develop skills of leadership and visionand to implement realistic solutions.Sally holds an Honours Degree in Economics (Univers...

Alastair Camp

UK

Corporate Responsibility Director, Barclays Bank PLC

Alastair Camp is Corporate Responsibility Director for Barclays plc,with a global brief. His career with Barclays has spanned 30years, both in the UK and Overseas. Prior to taking up hiscurrent appointment in January 2006, he ran a number of Barclaysbusinesses as Managing Director, Caribbean and Bahamas, followed by asimilar appointment in UK Small Business Banking and, most recently, asManaging Director, UK Medium Business Banking.Married with two children, Alastair holds an MBA degree and is...

Philippa Birtwell

UK

Head of Public Issues, Barclays PLC

Gro Nystuen

Norway (Oslo)

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

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

Marina d'Engelbronner-Kolff

Netherlands

Senior Manager Human Rights & Business, Humanist Committee On Human Rights

Marina dEngelbronner has been working with HOM, a Dutch NGO, since2003. She has set up the Human Rights & Business project. As apartner of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the projectcontributes to the development and promotion of several corporate toolsincluding the Human Rights Compliance Assessment and Country RiskAssessments. These tools can be used by financial institutions andother companies to check the (potential) impact of their policies andpractices on human rights (see www.hom....

Mark Goldsmith

UK (London)

Director, ESG, Actis

Mark is the Director responsible for leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues at Actis and has over 15 years of experience of advising on ESG issues. Mark joined Actis in 2002 and has specialist experience in the areas of climate change, safety & environmental management systems, contaminated land, air emissions and ethical issues. Mark is currently leading a Governance training initiative within Actis. Before joining Actis, Mark worked for Shell International and Arthur D Littl...

Margaret Rainey

Sweden

Vice President, Global Solidarity Forest Fund Ab

Global Solidarity Forest Fund is a private equity, ethical investment fund focused on the forest sector in sub-Saharan Africa. GSFF develops forest-based investments with high potential returns and a strong ethical, environmental and socio-economical profile, including community development and FSC-certification. Before joining GSFF, Margaret Rainey spent 15 years working in the forest industry sector, providing environment intelligence for businesses and fund management services. She has manage...

Andrew Musters

Netherlands

Senior Investment Manager, Robeco Alternative Investments/private Equity

Andrew Musters Senior Investment Manager Robeco Alternative Investments/Private ?c Andrew Musters is dedicated to managing Robeco'ss global private equity funds-of-funds activities, including Robeco Sustainable Private Equity, the sustainable private equity initiative of Rabobank and Robeco. He is also the Fund Manager of Robeco Private Equity, a private equity fund-of-funds for retail investors listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Andrew is member of the investment committee of Robeco'ss private equit...

Birgit Weinbrenner

Netherlands

Program Manager, Oikocredit

Fran M. Coopersmith

USA

Senior Consultant, Asset Strategy Consultants

Fran M. Coopersmith provides her Endowment, Foundation, RetirementPlan, and High Net Worth clients with a unique consulting perspectiveof the investment arena. In addition to her Juris Doctor, MBA,and BS in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Francame to Asset Strategy Consultants with over 25 years of Financial,Administrative, and Consulting experience, in both the for andnot-for-profit sectors. Fran has hands-on experience in two key areas -- Investment Managementand Endowmen...

Erik van Praag

Netherlands

Director, The Edge

Born 1940, psychologist (graduated university of Amsterdam, 1965),father of three children, grandfather of four. Worked as a teacher anddepartment head at the university of Amsterdam, as manager in apsychiatric hospital and as a psychotherapist. As a business consultanthis core acitivity has been facilitating and cocreating communities fororganisational and personal development. Worked with public andprivate organizations: building companies, police, municipalities,chemical and metallurgical pl...

Oliver Karius

Switzerland (Zurich)

Partner, LGT Bank (Switzerland) Limited

Throughout his career, Oliver has focused on sustainable development, science, business and finance. He has strong connections to the for-profit and non-profit sustainable investment market in the US, EU, South-Africa and Japan. He is a partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy (www.lgt.com). He was Head of Research for Forma Futura, an independent asset management company focusing on contributing to a sustainable quality of life (www.formafutura.com). Before setting-up VPG, Oliver served as Manage...

Steven Godeke

USA (New York)

Principal, Godeke Consulting

Steven Godeke works with foundations, non-profit organizations, andcorporations to integrate their investment and social goals. Hisclients include The Rockefeller Foundation, The Conference Board, TheF.B. Heron Foundation, The Robin Hood Foundation, The AltmanFoundation, Common Ground, Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel,The World Economic Forum and corporate clients in the financialservices and pharmaceutical industries.Prior to establishing his own firm in 2001, Steven worked for 12 y...

Philippe Bergeron

France

Director, Artemis

Dr. Bergeron's is an environmental expert whose experience spans thirtyyears as director and manager of environmental policy, management andtechnology capacity building projects and programmes covering a widerange of "brown", "blue" and "green" environmental issues. Withprofessional experience in 45 countries including 18 industrialisingcountries in Asia, his expertise is environmental policing, programmingand financing, triple bottom line management and investing for businessand environmental p...

Leif Edvinsson

Sweden

Adjunct Professor Of Intelectual Capital, IIIEE Lund University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professor Leif Edvinsson holds an MBA from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley USA. He is the author of numerous articleson the service industry and on Intellectual Capital. He is a speaker at such organisations as the Conference Board, OECD, HarvardBusiness School, Sorbonne, KM Forum in Japan, Learntec inGermany, the American Productivity Centre etc. He is listed inWho’s Who in the world. Also associate member of The Club of Rome.Cofounder of and chairman of the New Club of Paris, focus...

Tensie Whelan

USA (New York, NY)

Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

BIOGRAPHYTENSIE WHELANExecutive DirectorTensie Whelan serves as Executive Director of the Rainforest Alliance.She has been involved with the Rainforest Alliance since 1990, first asa board member, and then later as a consultant, becoming the executivedirector in 2000.Whelan served as the executive director of the New York League ofConservation Voters from 1992 until 1997, prior to which she was VicePresident of Conservation Information at the National Audubon Society.Whelan also worked as a jour...

Mike Tyrrell

UK

Director Socially Responsible Investing, Citigroup Smith Barney

Mike Tyrrell joined Citigroup's European Equity Research Department inApril 2005 as part of the 'Socially Responsible Investment' team. Theobjective of this team is to integrate the analysis of social andenvironmental issues into Citigroup's existing research processes andthereby to help investment clients understand how companies areresponding to the challenges of sustainable development and to helpcompanies communicate their environmental and social performance to theinvestment community.Befor...

Chanda Gibson

USA

Vice President in Corporate Services and Real Estate , Goldman Sachs & Co.

Chanda is currently a Vice President in Corporate Services and RealEstate for Goldman Sachs where she manages the divisions socialresponsibility commitments, which include the implementation of GoldmanSachs Environmental Policy, as it relates to its own environmentalfootprint. During her tenure at the firm, Chanda also worked for the CommunityCapital Group at Goldman Sachs, which was established to promote publicawareness and understanding of the integral role the modern marketsystem plays in ...

Amy Hayes Davidsen

USA

Director Of Environmental Affairs, JP Morgan Chase

Amy Davidsen is the Director of the Office of Environmental Affairsresponsible for establishing global policies and procedures regardingenvironmental issues. Ms. Davidsen has over 18 years of bankingexperience and, most recently, was in Global Philanthropic Services forJPMorgan's Private Bank. Her particular areas of expertise includedadvising global clients on philanthropic efforts directed toward theenvironment, micro-credit, human rights, and venture philanthropy. Ms.Davidsen has held positio...

Jon Williams

UK (London)

Head of Group Sustainable Development, HSBC Holdings plc

Jon has worked for HSBC for 18 years, with a variety of banking rolesin Europe and Asia.Prior to his current role, Jon developed and implemented HSBCsenvironmental risk strategy, working with the business units, creditfunctions and corporate affairs departments to mainstreamsustainability risk management techniques across the Group. He isnow additionally responsible for a new initiative to developsustainable business opportunities, with a focus on lending andinvestments related to climate chan...