Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V.

Robert Rubinstein is Founder and CEO of TBLI. His motto is: "The World will benefit when economy supports well being." TBLI GROUP™ is a knowledge broker, specializing in Triple Bottom Line Investment and ESG (Environmental and Social Governance). TBLI GROUP™ makes connections for companies and individuals from the old to the new economy, by expanding, updating and utilizing its extensive global network. The focus is finance. Robert has been active in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fo...

Albert Appleton

USA

Former Head of New York Environmental Protection Agency

Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton) is an international consultant with interlocking expertise in water resource and water utility management, infrastructure and public finance, land use and landscape preservation, and promoting sustainable development through innovative financial strategies such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). His most recent work includes developing a new system of financing environmental infrastructure for the City of Shanghai water and sewer system, creating a program...

Alfred J.M. Kool

The Netherlands (Abcoude)

Partner, Kool Baas & De Quelerij, Communication and Marketing

Alfred Kool founded his own independent communication consultancy in 2005, specialized in reputation management, positioning and pension communication. Since March 2008 he is one of the partners of KOOL BAAS & DE QUELERIJ, communication and marketing, a new consultancy he founded together with fellow communication professionals Jac Baas and Celeste de Quelerij. This concentration of strength offers more than 50 years of experience with pension communication. The consultancy operates on strategic...

Rob Lake

Netherlands

Senior Portfolio Manager - Environment, Social And Governance Issues, APG - All Pensions Group

Rob Lake is Head of Sustainability ABP Investments.  ABP is the ca. €217 billion pension fund for public sector employees.  Rob is responsible for integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into ABP’s investment process.  From 2000 to 2006 he was Head of Corporate Engagement at Henderson Global Investors, again working on the incorporation of ESG factors into investment decision-making.  From 1990 to 2000 he was a policy analyst for various environmental and internati...

Amy Muska O’Brien

USA

Director, Social Investing , TIAA - CREF Investment Management, LLC

Amy Muska O’Brien is Director, Social & Community Investing at TIAA-CREF. Ms. O’Brien oversees the social screening of funds such as the CREF Social Choice Account, and acts as liaison to participants and other stakeholders in connection with the company’s social- and community-focused investments. She also provides leadership to the company on emerging social responsibility and community investing issues.Ms. O’Brien has over 10 years of social investment experience with a strong focus o...

Jan Willem van Gelder

Netherlands

CEO, Profundo

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

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 ...

Jan Teunen

Germany

Managing Director, Teunen Konzepte GmbH

Jan Teunen was born to serve in 1950. After his education he left his homeland, the Netherlands, in 1970 in order to start his professional career at a famous German familyrun company. He left this company in 1983 as European export manager and founded, together with his wife Mieke, Design distribution company Teunen & Teunen. Because of the innovative concept of this firm, the American ID Magazine referred to him as Europe’s’ Marketing Magician. The company was sold in 1991 and the Teunen K...

Jim Marston

USA

Senior Attorney, Director Of The Texas Regional Office, Environmental Defence

Jim Marston is the founding director of the Texas office of Environmental Defense, located in Austin, where he has served since its beginning in 1988. The office includes scientists, attorneys, economists, and policy analysts who address some of the most complex and difficult environmental issues related to climate and air, water, wildlife, oceans, and environmental health. Jim leads Environmental Defense's efforts on environmental policy in Texas, setting program and policy agenda on issues inc...

Peter J. Poot

Netherlands

Director, Chipshol Holding BV

One of Europe’s distinguished business leaders, Peter Poot is the Chief Executive Officer of The Chipshol Group, the leading land development and investment company in the Netherlands’ rapidly-growing Schiphol region. Chipshol was founded in 1986 by Peter Poot’s entrepreneurial father, Jan Poot who by 1992 had acquired 600 hectares of land in the Schiphol region.  “His vision was that the city of the future would start around airports, just as in the past cities had started around sea h...

Adrian Court

United Kingdom

MD, Delphi International Ltd

Adrian has operated at the cutting edge of TBLI for over a decade, both as MD of Delphi International and now as Senior Partner at Mahler Ventures. He managed the pioneering environmental and SRI research and advisory work at Delphi including of the design and launch of a number of investment funds. His work with the International Finance Corporation included an active role in designing the PVMTI facility and the MENA Region Environmental Fund. Adrian has 10 years experience in the Middle East w...

Juergen Habichler

Switzerland (Zurich)

Founding Partner, Mountain Cleantech AG

Juergen Habichler is the founding Partner of Mountain Cleantech AG, which manages Cleantech Invest AG (www.cleantech-invest.ch), a Cleantech growth capital fund focusing on Europe and the German speaking Cleantech market. Prior to setting up Mountain Cleantech AG in 2007, Juergen has worked for Atlas Venture's Technology / Cleantech team, where he was spearheading the establishment of Atlas' Cleantech practice. Prior to becoming a Venture Investor in 2004, Juergen Habichler worked in management ...

R. Andrew de Pass

USA

Managing Director & Head Of Sustainable Development Investments, Citi Alternative Investments

Andrew joined Citicorp in April 1996 and Citi Venture Capital International in January 1997.  In April 2007, Andrew was appointed head of Citi Alternative Investments newly created standalone investment unit called Sustainable Development Investments. SDI makes private equity investments in renewable energy, clean technology, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emission reduction markets, sustainable forestry, water resource management and waste management. SDI’s investment style includes both ...

Rene Savelsberg

Netherlands

Managing Director And CEO, SET Venture Partners

Before joining SET Venture Partners on July 23, 2007, Rene has been employed at Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in various new business and investment related capacities.Most notably Rene Savelsberg was instrumental in the € 6.4 billion divestment of the Philips Semiconductor Division, now called NXP, and, starting in 1997, he has been leading the Philips Corporate Venturing activities, initially in Silicon Valley and later expanding into Europe and Israel, managing investments in over 40 compa...

Paul Scott

United Kingdom (London)

Director, CorporateRegister.com Ltd

Nicholas Vantreese

France

CSR Manager, La Banque Postale

Nicholas Vantreese joined the ranks of ORSE (Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises) as Project Manager. ORSE is a French think tank aimed at researching and promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development applied to the business environment Nicholas is responsible for managing the Club Finance, composed of every major player in the French finance industry, and facilitating the members’ network. He is developing tools and instruments to help ...

Mark Campanale

United Kingdom (London)

Advisor, Halloran Philanthropies

Mark is responsible for SRI business development at Henderson with a focus on product development and marketing. Mark is a founder of the original SRI business created at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989,before the team's move to NPI in 1994. Alongside Clare Brook and Tessa Tennant, Mark was responsible for the company research and engagementwithin the investment management team. At NPI, Mark launched the Henderson Global Care Income Fund in 1995 and in 1996, the Henderson Global Care Managed Fu...

Emmanuel De la Ville

France (Maisons-lafitte)

Managing Director, Ethifinance

Emmanuel de LA VILLE, Founder & Director of EthiFinanceEthiFinance is an independent CSR Research agency which specialises in theassessment of European small & midcaps. Its research methodology is adapted according to company size, activity sector as well as investors owncriteria. EthiFinance research universe is defined by each asset manager atthe beginning of each year. Its team is made up of 7 analysts covering 200 European companies. Previously, Emmanuel spent 15 years working in theEuropean...

Olaf Weber

Switzerland

Managing Partner, GOE M.B.H. - Gesellschaft Für Organisation

Dr. Olaf Weber is managing partner at the GOE m.b.H., Zurich that is active in the field of sustainable finance. Olaf Weber is developing systems that analyze the relation between CSR performance and the financial performance of companies. Those systems are used for the rating of companies, in the asset and credit management of different banks and financial insititutions. Olaf Weber has a diploma in organizational psychology and holds a PhD. in computer science. Before becoming managing partner ...

Wim van der Beek

Netherlands (Hilversum)

Partner, Goodwell Microfinance Development Company

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

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...

Geoffrey Mazullo

Poland (Warsaw)

Director, East-West Management Institute

Geoffrey Mazullo possesses global corporate governance experience.  For more than 16 years, he has analyzed governance practices of listed companies in Canada, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), several European Union (EU) member states, other non-EU Western European countries, Japan, Russia and the United States.  He has been directly engaged in corporate governance developments in a number of transition economies in CEE, South Eastern Europe (SEE) and the Newly Independent States of the forme...

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...

Pedro Bastos

Brazil

CEO, HSBC Investments

44, Pedro Bastos is graduated in Business by Hamline University (1986) and has MBA in Finance by Carlson School of Management from University of Minnesota (1991). Pedro joined HSBC in October 2006 as HSBC Investments Brasil CEO. Before joining HSBC, Pedro worked at one of the leading banks in Brazil, Unibanco, since 1995 and for the past 3 years he worked at their asset management division, with responsibility for equity, hedge fund and credit analysis. Prior to this he was head of sell-side res...

Leo Johnson

United Kingdom (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...

Daan Schoemaker

Netherlands

Amnesty International

Daan Schoemaker works for the Political and Economical Affairs unit of Amnesty International in the Netherlands. He coordinates the external work of Amnesty International, Dutch section, with regard to the arms industry, conflict regions and UN policies. He has represented Amnesty International in several international conferences and he was an Amnesty delegate to the UN-Conference on Small and Light Weapons in 2006. His regularly advises Dutch multinationals on their policies with regard to the...

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 ...

Bill Ferns

Usa

Professor, Baruch College/cuny

Olga Emelianova

United States

Director of Project Services, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc

Ms. Emelianova has been working in the field of corporate social responsibility and corporate compliance for the last 7 years. Areas of her research include consumer manufacturing, mining industry, healthcare, and socially responsible investing. She has also participated in a number of studies of industry-based initiatives. She has a managerial background working with several media organizations including Vedomosti, the daily business newspaper in Moscow published as a joint venture with The Wal...

Ronald Lubberts

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Managing Director, Sustainalytics Netherlands

Ronald Lubberts is Managing Director of Sustainalytics Netherlands, an international and independent sustainability research provider to the financial sector. Ronald joined in 2006 and was appointed Managing Director in early 2007. Prior to joining the company he held research and managerial positions in the field of socially responsible investing at SNS Asset Management, which he joined in 1999. Ronald graduated in Geology (University of Utrecht) and he held several research positions at the De...

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...

Stephan Voisin

France (Courbevoie)

Head Of Social Responsible Investments, Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux

Stéphane Voisin Head of Sustainable & Responsible InvestmentCrédit Agricole Cheuvreux France Stéphane Voisin is headof SRI Research at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, theEuropean equity broker, which is recognised throughout Europe for thequality and independence of its research. Stéphane Voisin holdsan MBA in law and finance and has 18 years experience in equitymarkets. Prior to joining CA Cheuvreux, Stéphane Voisin was anexecutive director at JP Morgan and at Paribas in London, and also heldp...

Toni Symonds

United States (Sacramento, CA)

Senior Policy Advisor, California State Legislature

Ms. Symonds has held a variety of senior-level public policy positions in Washington, D.C. and California during her 23-year career in government, including appointments during the administrations of President Bill Clinton and California Governor Gray Davis.  Throughout her public service, she has advocated for a greater examination of the overlapping roles of the private sector and government public policy and strived to link investment strategies to long- term sustainability issues, such as, ...

Pierre Trevet

United States

Managing Director, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors

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

Paul Simpson

UK

COO, Carbon Disclose Project

Paul has been the Chief Operating Officer of the Carbon Disclosure Project since its inception over six years ago. Paul is a board member of the Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS). Prior to CDP Paul worked in Mergers and acquisitions. He has an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath and a BSc in Business and Finance from City University, London.

Brigitte Monsou Tantawy

Switzerland

Director, Focus Area Business Role, WBCSD

Johan Frijns

Netherlands

Coordinator, Banktrack

Johan Frijns Coordinator Banktrack Johan Frijns (Netherlands, 1965) coordinates BankTrack, a network of non governmental organisations monitoring the private financial sector. Prior to BankTrack, Johan Frijns was the coordinator of the International Financial Institutions programme of Friends of the Earth International. Johan Frijns holds a MA degree in political science / development studies at Nijmegen University, Netherlands.  

Rebecca Masisak

USA

Co-CEO, Techsoup

Rebecca Masisak launched in 2001 TechSoup’s award-winning technology product philanthropy service for social benefit organizations. In 2007, the service helped corporations, like Microsoft, Cisco and Symantec, distribute donated and discounted technology products valued at 1M to 40,000 nonprofits and NGOs in 14 countries.Rebecca was a founder and the Senior VP of Strategy and Operations for a venture-backed internet startup and also a strategy consultant. She holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Uni...

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:...

Mordechai Liebling

USA

Executive Vice-President, Jewish Funds for Justice

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is currently on the Board of Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility. He is a member of the faculty at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and also serves there as a Spiritual Director. He is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, has an M.A.from Brandeis University and a B. A. from Cornell University. He served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation for twelve years and later as Senior Consultant. He was a membe...

Tapan Datta

India

Hewitt Associates

Dr. Tapan Datta, who has a PhD from Cambridge University, recently joined Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services company. Tapan was deputy chief economist at the American Express Bank for 10 years and director for Investment Strategy of the Schroders firm for nine years. During these years, Tapan developed a country allocation framework for international equities and managed advisory relationships with some of the largest North American pension funds. Tapan will represent the Hindu...

John Reynolds

UK

Chairman, Church Of England

John Reynolds is Chairman of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group.  He is also Chief Executive of Reynolds Partners, a specialist investment bank based in London, and a Vice President of Save the Children UK.  He has a MA in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Abbas Mirakhor

Iran

Executive Director, IMF - International Monetary Fund

Abbas Mirakhor is an International Monetary Fund Executive Director. Abbas Mirakhor has served as an economist in the Research Department of the IMF and was formerly Professor of Economics at the Florida Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Kansas State University, and has published in a variety of areas, including microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and Islamic economics. He is the co-author of a book called Theoretical Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance published by ...

Brigitte Monsou Tantawy

Switzerland

Director, Focus Area Business Role, WBCSD

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...

Lisa Galley

United States of America (San Francisco)

Founder and Managing Principal, Galley Eco Capital, LLC

Lisa Galley structures, arranges and executes commercial real estate debt transactions for domestic and international institutional real estate investors on behalf of HSH Nordbank's San Francisco Representative Office. She is a founding member of the bank's international real estate finance team and represents some of the banks largest global client relationships.  In her work as a lender, Lisa has helped build real estate finance platforms out Germany, New York and now San Francisco. Prior to ...

Perrine Dutronc

France (Paris)

Business Development, RiskMetrics Group

Ms. Dutronc is a Director with Innovest, based in Paris. She is in charge of business development in France and continental Europe. Prior to joining Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc, Ms. Dutronc has worked during 8 years for J.P. Morgan Chase in Paris as an auditor, corporate finance analyst and Director of external communication. In the last few years, Ms. Dutronc redirected her career to the field of socially responsible finance and sustainability. She joined Terra Nova Conseil, a pioneer...

Blaise Desbordes

France

Caisse Des DÈpÙts Et Consignations***

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...

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of SRI, Erste-Sparinvest KAG

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 ...

William C. Crerend

United States of America (Norwalk, Connecticut)

President and Chief Executive Officer, EACM Advisors LLC

As Chief Executive Officer, Bill has overall management responsibility for EACM and is a member of the Investment Committee.  Bill joined EACM in 1994, initially as senior analyst responsible for the event driven and short selling areas, and internal counsel for nontraditional business matters.  Previously, he was a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions and securities law at Hughes Hubbard & Reed (’88-’93).  Bill received a BA from Princeton University and a JD from ...

Erik Eidolf

Sweden (Stockholm)

Executive Director, Harcourt Investment Consulting

Erik Eidolf has been engaged in the hedge fund industry the past 10 years. Apart from working with hedge funds for a Swiss asset manager during his studies at Zurich University in 1997/98, Erik's academic research in hedge funds has been acknowledged in media on several occasions. Prior to Harcourt, Erik attended the Global Management Program of ING Group N.V., where he during 1999-2001 held various positions within ING's banking and insurance operations. Erik holds a Master's Degree in Finance ...

Francisco G. Blanch

UK

Head of Commodity Research, Merrill Lynch

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...

Jerr Boschee

USA

Founder And Executive Director, The Institute For Social Entrepreneurs

Jerr Boschee, 62, has been an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for nearly 30 years. To date he has been a keynoter or conducted master classes in 42 states and 15 countries, and has long been recognized as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement worldwide.He has also been a senior marketing executive for a Fortune 100 company, managing editor for a chain of regional newspapers, a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and a guest lecturer at numerous acad...

Anastasia A. Kellermann

Netherlands

Sustainability Unlimited

Anastasia A. Kellermann LLM, is the author of The S-Factor. A Personal Guide to Sustainable Leadership (Business Contact 2006) (in English) and ‘Sustainable Government? Time for Sustainable Leadership (Programme for Learning for Sustainable Development 2006)’ (in Dutch). As the creative combination of an American banker and Dutch artist, she grew up in Switzerland and studied international (environmental) law in Leiden, Paris, London, New York and sustainable business in Nijmegen. Before fou...

Jennifer Morgan

United Kingdom

Capital Accountability Policy, WWF-UK

Jen Morgan is a Sustainable Business Manager in the Sustainable Business and Markets team of WWF-UK.  Jen leads WWF’s work on catalysing transformational change within the banking and finance system so that it has a positive impact on the world around us.Before joining WWF, Jen worked in commercial roles for British Airways and The Body Shop both in the US and the UK.  Jen holds a BBA in International Business and an MSC in Responsibility and Business Practice.   Jen is interested in syste...

Samantha Beinhacker

UK

President & CEO, New Capital Consulting

Samantha L. Beinhacker is a management consultant specializing in new business development, economic development, strategic planning, market research, and organizational capacity-building for social entrepreneurs and change-makers in the private and social sectors.  Currently, she is involved in the following projects:•    Programme Lead, 2008 Skoll World Forum, Skoll Centre, Said Business School, University of Oxford.  Ms. Beinhacker is responsible for developing the programmatic content...

Hugh Wheelan

France

Journalist, Financial News

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

Melchior De Muralt

Suisse

Managing Partner, De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co. Ltd.

Since April 2001, Melchior de Muralt is a Managing Partner of de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co. Ltd (www.ppt.ch), an independent asset management firm based in Geneva. He is a member of the Investor Committee at Zurmont Madison Management AG (www.zurmontmadison.ch), a Zurich private equity firm. He is Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of Blue Orchard Finance S.A. (www.blueorchard.org), a company specialized in investments in the microfinance industry. He is president of Cadmos F...

Michael Hopkins

UK

CEO, MHC International Ltd.

Michael is CEO and Chairman of MHC International Ltd.  (London & Geneva), a research and service company that specialises in social development issues for the public and private sector alike (see www.mhcinternational.com).  The company works in two main areas: Labour markets and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).  The company has worked on development and labour related issues with inter alia, the World Bank, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Inter-American Development Bank (IADB),...

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”...

Michèle Jardin

France

CEO, Credit Agricole Asset Management, IDEAM

Michèle Jardin is Head of “STARS”, an investment services department, which centralises all of CAAM’s Research teams, Trading and the central functions of the Investment Management Department. Michèle Jardin joined CAAM in 1999 as Head of Balanced Fund Management and Strategy, before moving on to manage the Equity Research Department and central investment management functions in 2004, following the merger of Crédit Agricole Asset Management and Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management. On 3rd...

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...

Edward Apsey

United States (New York, NY)

Manager, Social Advisory Services, RiskMetrics Group

Edward Apsey manages Social Advisory Services, a division of RiskMetrics Group. Social Advisory Services works with leading mutual funds, investment management firms, pension funds, foundations and religious groups to develop and implement proxy voting guidelines that areconsistent with the underlying values and objectives of the SRI community.

Peter D. Kinder

Usa

Director, Kld Research & Analytics, Inc.

David Zellner

USA

Chief Investment Officer, General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church

David Zellner is the Chief Investment Officer for the United Methodist Board of Pension and Health Benefits

Stephen Ross

UK

Executive Director, Leo Baeck College

Stephen is Executive Director of Leo Baeck College, the Progressive Jewish seminary for students from the UK, Europe and FSU that has a strong tradition of interfaith activity. Stephen is the author of a research project that examined the impact of religious values on Socially Responsible Investment strategy in UK Jewish, Christian and Muslim charities.  He is a Chartered Insurance Broker and accountant and worked in the City of London as Operations Director for a firm of Lloyd’s brokers. Bef...

Tom Cummings

Belgium

Founder And Director, Executive Learning Partnership

Over the past 25 years, Tom Cummings has designed and implemented strategy, change and co-operation assignments for a broad range of international companies and institutions. Prior to founding Executive Learning Partnership (www.elpnetwork.com), Tom has held roles both in-company and as an external consultant thereby providing him with unique insight into the leadership and strategy issues facing large organisations. He is an expert in the design and delivery of global, top class executive devel...

Seamus Finn

Usa

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...

Roderick Munsters

Netherlands (Heerlen)

CIO, ABP

Roderick Munsters (Chief Investment Officer)As of 1 March 2005, Roderick Munsters is Chief Investment Officer ofABP and Chairman of the board of ABP Investments. Roderick M.S.M.Munsters MFE was an Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer atpension fund PGGM since 1997. He previously worked for insurancecompany Interpolis in various portfolio management positions, mostrecently as Deputy Director Capital Market Investments. He graduated inBusiness Economics at Tilburg University and took hi...

William C. Crerend

United States of America (Norwalk, Connecticut)

President and Chief Executive Officer, EACM Advisors LLC

As Chief Executive Officer, Bill has overall management responsibility for EACM and is a member of the Investment Committee.  Bill joined EACM in 1994, initially as senior analyst responsible for the event driven and short selling areas, and internal counsel for nontraditional business matters.  Previously, he was a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions and securities law at Hughes Hubbard & Reed (’88-’93).  Bill received a BA from Princeton University and a JD from ...

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...

Jeffrey Dekro

USA

Senior Vice President, Jewish Funds for Justice

Jeffrey Dekro is Senior Vice President of Jewish FundS for Justice, which was formed in 2006 from the merger of The Shefa Fund and the Jewish Fund for Justice. As the founder and president of Shefa from 1988 to 2006, Jeffrey conceived and leads the TZEDEC community investing program. Prior to founding Shefa, he was Associate Director of The Shalom Center, the national resource and organizing center for Jewish perspectives on the nuclear arms race. In 1980, Jeffrey helped found New Jewish Agenda,...

Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V.

Robert Rubinstein is Founder and CEO of TBLI. His motto is: "The World will benefit when economy supports well being." TBLI GROUP™ is a knowledge broker, specializing in Triple Bottom Line Investment and ESG (Environmental and Social Governance). TBLI GROUP™ makes connections for companies and individuals from the old to the new economy, by expanding, updating and utilizing its extensive global network. The focus is finance. Robert has been active in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fo...

Mattias Lindgren

Sweden

Export Director, Swebo Flis & Energi

Philip Kithil

USA

Founder & CEO, Atmocean, Inc.

Philip Kithil is founder & CEO of Atmocean, Inc., and inventor of its wave-driven ocean upwelling technology. Mr. Kithil previously gained 12 patents on automotive safety in his former startup, ASCI, which he licensed and sold to US auto suppliers. Following Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Kithil came up with the idea to use wave energy to bring up cold deep water to reduce hurricane intensity. By November 2005 he had built and ocean-tested prototypes and met with scientists to assess if biological ocean...

Gideon Ziegelman

Israel

Founder & CEO, Iqwind Ltd.

Self-starter entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in the high-tech and alternative energy industries. Among his activities, Gideon co-founded a $ 75 million alternative energy mutual fund and a technology startup focusing on electricity storage solutions for the wind energy market. Gideon holds an MBA degree from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Ruud van Eck

Netherlands

CEO, Diligent Energy Systems BV

Ruud van Eck, entrepreneur, is the founder of Diligent Energy Systems. He built from scratch a company producing alternative fuels.Diligent Energy Systems is an innovative company that produces biofuels from tropical plants: biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas, and bio-ethanol from waste from coffee production in Colombia. Diligent is based on the campus of the Technical University of Eindhoven, and collaborates closely with renowned research centres.Corporate social responsibilityEntrepreneur and fo...

Alois M. Flatz

Switzerland

President, Vantage Point Global

In his professional carrier, Alois Flatz has focused exclusively on the interface of investing and sustainable development including the establishment of private equity and financial advisory businesses.  Alois Flatz is a managing partner of zouk ventures www.zouk.com an independent London-based private equity firm focused on cleantechnology investing. Zouk manages Cleantech Europe Fund investing in cleantechnology companies and zouk solar fund, investing in solar projects.He was a managing par...

Rene Savelsberg

Netherlands

Managing Director And CEO, SET Venture Partners

Before joining SET Venture Partners on July 23, 2007, Rene has been employed at Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in various new business and investment related capacities.Most notably Rene Savelsberg was instrumental in the € 6.4 billion divestment of the Philips Semiconductor Division, now called NXP, and, starting in 1997, he has been leading the Philips Corporate Venturing activities, initially in Silicon Valley and later expanding into Europe and Israel, managing investments in over 40 compa...

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...

Charlie O'Malley

UK

Managing Director, P3 Capital

Charlie O’Malley is director of P3 Capital, an advisory firm that introduces early stages companies in the green business market to private investors and funds. P3 Capital works with companies across the green business market – from consumer products businesses through to cleantech companies.Prior to founding P3 Capital, Charlie worked in corporate finance at HSBC, PwC and Deloitte & Touche, and in a family office venture capital fund. In 2003 he completed an MSc in Responsibility an...

Hugh Wheelan

France

Journalist, Financial News

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

Lysanne Van der Made

Netherlands

Account Manager, SNS Asst Management

Lysanne van der Made (1970) is Senior Relationship Manager for Institutional Clients at SNS Asset Management, an asset manager with a long time focus on SRI. She joined SNS AM in February 2000. Lysanne is Secretary Chairperson of SRG pensionfund. She is also a lecturer at SPO (Stichting Pensioen Opleidingen), an organisation specialised in providing courses for boardmembers of pensionfunds. Previous to her employment at SNS, Lysanne was a Bond portfolio manager at Van Spaendonck investment manag...

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of SRI, Erste-Sparinvest KAG

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 ...

Gaëtan Herinckx

Belgium

Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Dexia Asset Management

Gaëtan Herinckx - Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment Born 18 November 1977 Professional background 2007 Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Dexia Asset Management, BrusselsDec 2006 Head of Sustainability Analysis, Dexia Asset Management, BrusselsSenior Asset Manager Sustainable & Responsible Investments, Dexia Asset Management, BrusselsFeb 2007- Freelance Consultant, Madagascar20052001- 2005 Asset Manager, Dexia Asset Management,...

Robert Earhart

France (Paris)

Consulting Director, TBLI GROUP™

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

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...

Mungo Park

United Kingdom

Chairman, Innovator Capital Limited

Mungo Park: Chairman and Founder of Innovator Capital Limited. Mungo has over 30 years experience of international investment banking. During this time he has focused on emerging and disruptive technologies in industries such as IT, Media, Telecomms, Industrial, Environmental and all areas related to Medicine.He began his career at Prudential Bache before moving to America in the late seventies to join Alex. Brown & Sons, now part of Deutsche Bank. Following this, he was with Dillon Reid, Werthe...

Silvio Mattanza

Switzerland

Managing Director, Zegora Investment Management Ltd.

Silvio Mattanza has been managing Zegora since the company's launch in 2005.Prior to joining Zegora, he spent 4 years at Accenture, a US based providerof consulting and outsourcing services. He initially participated intechnology consulting projects at various financial institutions and laterspecialized in the management of outsourcing contracts with particular focus on offshore outsourcing of finance and administration processes. Mr.Mattanza studied law at the University of Zurich and the Unive...

Fabrizio Donini Ferretti

France

Direction des Financements de Projets, Dexia Credit Local

Fabrizio Donini Feretti15 years experience in project and acquisition finance, both as a financial adviser and arranger of structured finance transactions. Global Head of Energy in the Project Finance Department of Dexia Crédit Local since March 2001, in charge of structured finance for the Power, Renewable Energies, and Oil & Gas sectors. Initiated both the Oil & Gas and Renewable Energies financing activities within Dexia. From 1996 to 2001, Principal Banker in the Power and Energy Utilities ...

Albert Appleton

USA

Former Head of New York Environmental Protection Agency

Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton) is an international consultant with interlocking expertise in water resource and water utility management, infrastructure and public finance, land use and landscape preservation, and promoting sustainable development through innovative financial strategies such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). His most recent work includes developing a new system of financing environmental infrastructure for the City of Shanghai water and sewer system, creating a program...

Francis Vorhies

Switzerland (Geneva)

Director, Earthmind

Dr Francis Vorhies is the Director of Earthmind. He has over 20 years of international experience as a sustainability economist. In Johannesburg, he set up Eco Plus, an innovative consultancy focused on business, economics and the environment. In Nairobi, he worked for the African Wildlife Foundation under a UNDP/GEF grant to build biodiversity economics capacity in the forestry sector in East Africa. In Geneva, Dr Vorhies established new global programmes on economics and business for IUCN - Th...

Christo Marais

South Africa

Head: Operations Support, Working For Water

Christo Marais grew up on a wine, deciduous fruit and dairy farm in the Breede River (Wide River) valley north east of Cape Town in South Africa.  In 1983 he obtained a diploma in forestry from the Saasveld School of Forestry, and in 1986 graduated with forestry, majoring in nature conservation from the University of Stellenbosch.  In 1988 he obtained an honours and in 1998 a Ph.D. in Nature Conservation.  The title of his dissertation, “An economic evaluation of the invasive alien plant co...

Martha 'Pati' Ruiz Corzo

Mexico

Federal Director, Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve

Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo is Federal Director of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, of the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas, Mexico, the largest natural protected area with community-based management in the world.  Known locally as Maestra Pati, her career began as a musician and music teacher with a successful modern lifestyle when she and her husband decided to leave the urban world for a sustainable, nature-based way of life to raise their children in a rural ranch community in...

Guillaume Sainteny

France

Director-Direction des Etudes et de L'Evaluation Env., Ministere de l'Ecologie

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.

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...

Jean Laville

Switzerland (Geneva)

Director, Ethos

Jean Laville (1958) is Ethos Foundation's and Ethos Services' Director. He is responsible for asset management and environmental ans social research. In 1980, Jean Laville graduated in economics, majoring in political economy, from the Higher Business School (HEC) in Lausanne. After collaborating with several research programmes for the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research, Jean Laville followed the doctorate programme of the University Institute of Higher International Studies (Institut ...

Felix Schnella

Germany

Vice President, Allianz Global Investors

Name  Felix Schnella Designation/Division  Portfolio Manager European Large Caps  Portfolio Manager Socially Responsible Investments  Portfolio Management StrategyAsset Management Unit Allianz Global InvestorsYear of joining company/group  2001Number of years with company/group 6Years of experience in securities business/portfolio management 6    Employment History   06/2001 - today Allianz Global Investors  Portfolio Management Strategy01/2006 - today Portfolio Manager Europ...

Pascal Bello

France (Nanterre)

Director, BMJ Ratings

Pascal Bello, PhD Management, is the scientific director of the Master’s degree in sustainable development management in the CERAM Sophia Antipolis business school.He conducts research & development activities in the fields of corporate strategy and the evaluation of organisations. He is the author of several books and articles on these subjects.Pascal Bello is also the CEO of BMJ Ratings, a leading European CSR rating agency which he founded in 1993. Conceptualizer of the evaluation tools DEE...

Tom Cummings

Belgium

Founder And Director, Executive Learning Partnership

Over the past 25 years, Tom Cummings has designed and implemented strategy, change and co-operation assignments for a broad range of international companies and institutions. Prior to founding Executive Learning Partnership (www.elpnetwork.com), Tom has held roles both in-company and as an external consultant thereby providing him with unique insight into the leadership and strategy issues facing large organisations. He is an expert in the design and delivery of global, top class executive devel...

Mark Goldsmith

Uk

Investment Principal, Actis

Patricia Daly

United States

Executive Director, Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment

Sister Patricia Daly is currently director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment. In 2002 she received the Enviromentalist of the Year award from the association of environmental advocates of New York for the work she has done in relation to the GE’s PCB pollution in the Hudson. Sister Patricia is also active within ICCR.

Miles Litvinoff

UK

Coordinator, ECCR - Ecunemical Council for Corporate Responsibility

Miles Litvinoff is Coordinator of the UK-based Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility. ECCR, a membership organisation serving the British and Irish churches, works for corporate and investor responsibility in companies and the Church. ECCR researches and publishes reports on corporate responsibility issues, listens to communities affected by impacts of company operations, dialogues with companies and institutional investors, and seeks a transformed relationship between companies and co...

François Meloche

Canada

GIR - Groupe Investissement Responsable

François Meloche was a researcher at Michael Jantzi Research Associates (MJRA) before joining Groupe Investissement Responsable (GIR). François specializes in environmental and international human rights issues and corporations. François has worked with a number of organizations including the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (the leading US shareholder activist network), the Council on Economic Priorities and environmental groups located in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Amsterd...

Virginia Barreiro

United States

Director New Ventures, World Resources Institute

Virginia has worked with sustainable enterprise development for seven years. She is currently the Global Director of the New Ventures project that supports sustainable small and medium enterprises in developing countries by providing them with management training and access to capital and markets. She has been with New Ventures since its inception in 1999 and has helped the project grow from a regional Latin America initiative to a global program operating in five major economies.  Ms. Barreiro...

Emmanuelle Staub

South Africa

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer, E+co Africa

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, is responsible for monitoring and assessing the impact of over 35+ investments in the E+Co Africa portfolio according to E+Co triple bottom line.  This includes regular visits within the region to collect the most accurate information on enterprises and to evaluate the real impact of E+Co investments.   Before joining E+Co, she worked for Ernst and Young and BDO Spencer Steward (KZN) Inc., two well recognized accounting firms, as a trainee accountant where s...

Eluma Obibuaku

USA

Measurement Specialist, IFC - International Finance Corporation

Eluma Obibuaku is a Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the Social and Environmental Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IFC is a member of the World Bank Group. Eluma has broad private and public sector experience having worked in various capacities at a leading energy company, a major “best practice” consulting firm and the U.S. Government.In his current capacity, Eluma is responsible for developing the Environmental and Social Department’s approach to moni...

Ben Ripple

Indonesia

Founder, Big Tree Farms

Ben Ripple first came to Bali Indonesia in 1997 as an organic farmer seeking inspiration from one of the true great hearths of agricultural domestication. Unfortunately, what he fond was a dying tradition of sustainable production, rapidly being replaced by ill-suited models of high input farming.In the 10 years that have followed, Ben has founded Big Tree Farms, a company focused on aiding traditional producers attain the much needed balance between economy and ecology that is true sustainabili...

Mildred Callear

USA

Executive Vice President And Chief Operating Officer, SEAF - Small Enterprise Assistance Fund

Ms. Callear is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a manager of 15 emerging market private equity funds investing in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although SEAF is a not-for-profit organization, its equity funds are managed on a for-profit basis on behalf of each fund's investors. Ms. Callear is responsible for the day-to-day operations of SEAF worldwide as well as oversight of corporate policy in a wide variety of areas. SEAF...

Matt Christensen

France (Paris)

Executive Director, Eurosif

Matt Christensen Executive Director Eurosif Matt Christensen is the Executive Director for Eurosif, the European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum. Eurosif (The European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum) is a pan-European group whose mission is to encourage and develop sustainable and responsible investment and better corporate governance. Current members of Eurosif include pension funds, financial service providers, NGOs, academic institutes and research associations. The...

Nigel Meir

UK

Director, Ludgate Investments Limited

Nigel, aged 50, joined Ludgate in May 2005 as a Director, bringing with him extensive investment management experience. He qualified in medicine from Oxford University in 1981 but left his medical career in 1988 to become a diplomat. He subsequently worked for MEC International as a director and strategy consultant to a client base of City firms. From 1998 to 2003 he was the CEO of Alpha Investment Management UK, the London subsidiary of a substantial hedge fund group. From Alpha he moved to be ...

Michele Giddens

UK

Executive director, Bridges Community Ventures Ltd.

Michele Giddens has 10 years of international development and community finance experience ranging from large equity and debt instruments to micro-finance and small business lending. She was previously at Shorebank Corporation, one of the leading community development banks in the USA. She was Chair of the Community Development Finance Association (cdfa) 2003-2005.

Even Bakke

Denmark

Managing Director, Bankinvest Group

1) S. Mechanical Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado2) 25 years of US industrial and power plants working experience.3) 16 years with ABB latest 6 years in Europe. Business Area Manager for ABB's global environmental business. Annual sales of 500 to 1,000 MUSD with 2000 people in 24 countries.4) Last 4 years at ABB: Large R&D project funding and execution and corporate venturing in ABB New Ventures5) 2002 - 2007 (June) Managing Direct...

Hans Dellenbach

Switzerland

Emerald Technology Ventures Ag

Geoffrey Mazullo

Poland (Warsaw)

Director, East-West Management Institute

Geoffrey Mazullo possesses global corporate governance experience.  For more than 16 years, he has analyzed governance practices of listed companies in Canada, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), several European Union (EU) member states, other non-EU Western European countries, Japan, Russia and the United States.  He has been directly engaged in corporate governance developments in a number of transition economies in CEE, South Eastern Europe (SEE) and the Newly Independent States of the forme...

Odilon Audouin

Monaco

Co-founder and CEO, Intelleval Monaco

In his professional carrier, Odilon Audouin has focused exclusively on compliancerisks (anti-money laudering and terrorism financing). Odilon Audouin is the co-founder and the CEO of IntellEval www.intelleval.com anindependent Monaco-based firm focused on anti-money laundering and corruption.IntellEval has a strong list of clients across many geographies (Monaco, France,Luxembourg and Swizterland...).He was a manager with CapGemini in the private banking / asset management division.Before workin...

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...

Pierre Dinon

France (Paris)

Sustainable Developpment Manager, AGF ASSET MANAGEMENT

Pierre Dinon possess a unique experience on the European listed real estate market. Combining firsthand knowledge in both financial analysis and fund management, Pierre Dinon has built up considerable experience in the real estate market for over 20 years.Pierre DINON joined the AGF Group in August 1972 within the Operations and Back Office department in AGF’s financial department.From June 1972 to 1985: Head of Operations and Back Office department in AGF (Financial Department) From 1985 to...

Jonathan Wootliff

Belgium Brussels

Director, Jonathan Wootliff Consulting

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

Xavier Desmadryl

UK

SRI Financial Analyst, HSBC Asset Management

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

Pierre Weiss

Switzerland

Director, Synchrony Asset Management

HEI and AZEK graduate, aged 45 with 2 children, Mr. Weiss has been active in analysing Swiss equities since 1986. Starting 1994, he developed a method for analysing companies by using an integrated triple bottom line, which he then implemented to manage Swiss smaller companies. At the same time, he progressively reoriented his career towards institutional asset management and SRI. He joined Synchrony Asset Management, a subsidiary of Banque Cantonale de Genève, in 2003, where he manages the SRI...

Paul Herman

USA

CEO + Founder, HIP Investor Inc

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

John Cusack

USA (New York, NY)

President, Gifford Park Associates

Mr. Cusack teaches a Sustainable Finance course as a professor in the Finance Department at the Iona College Hagan School of Business, and is Executive Director of the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS), a consortium of 45 colleges  & universities encouraging and facilitating the practice of sustainability concepts.He is also the President of Gifford Park Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the relationships between corporate environmental and financia...

Michael Hopkins

UK

CEO, MHC International Ltd.

Michael is CEO and Chairman of MHC International Ltd.  (London & Geneva), a research and service company that specialises in social development issues for the public and private sector alike (see www.mhcinternational.com).  The company works in two main areas: Labour markets and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).  The company has worked on development and labour related issues with inter alia, the World Bank, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Inter-American Development Bank (IADB),...

Wim van der Beek

Netherlands (Hilversum)

Partner, Goodwell Microfinance Development Company

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

Roger Frank

United States of America (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...

Shawn Murphy

UK

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Shawn Murphy is leading the equity and advisory related efforts within the Microfinance Institutions Group, including private equity funds, principal investments in MFIs, M&A, IPO and capital structure advice to players within the industry.  She spent over 8 years in Private Wealth Management, where she held various roles in New York, Boston and London.  In 2000, she helped launch the private wealth division in New England.  In 2004, Shawn relocated to London to take on a role as a risk manag...

Virginia Sonntag-O´Brien

France

REN21 Secretariat, SEFI, UNEP Division of Technology - UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative, UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative - Sefi

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien is co-cordinator of UNEP’s Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI – http://sefi.unep.org) and is a member of the REN21 Secretariat (Renewable Energy Global Policy Network for the 21st Century – http://www.ren21.net).  SEFI a platform providing financiers with the tools, support, and global network needed to conceive and manage investments in clean energy technologies. REN21 is a global policy network that provides a forum for international leadership on ren...

David Harris

United Kingdom

Senior Executive, Responsible Investment, FTSE Group

David joined FTSE Group in 2002, and is responsible for the operational management of the FTSE4Good Index Series.  His main responsibilities include managing the engagement process with FTSE4Good constituent companies, direction and management of the research providers EIRIS, and the development of new responsible investment products.  David also manages FTSE’s internal corporate responsibility program, and FTSE Group’s GoodCorporation membership and verification.Previously, David worked f...

Yuzo Konishiike

Japan

Chief Manager, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation

Yuzo Konishiike is in charge of proxy voting for trust account assets at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, responsible for the research of the corporate governance in Japanese market.He has 17 years experience in asset management business, including industry analyst, and fund manager mainly for Japanese equity. Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation is a member of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and has total assets under management of US1 billion as of end Jun 2007.

Reginald Stanley

United States

Chief Marketing Officer, Calvert

Mr. Stanley has led Calvert's marketing and product development initiatives for the past six years. Mr. Stanley has twenty-five years of experience in investment, economic development and entrepreneurial businesses. Prior to Calvert he served as President of Boston Community Managed Assets and Chief Operating Officer of its CDFI holding company, Boston Community Capital (BCC). He joined BCC after spending seven years and holding several leadership positions at Fidelity Investments, including Vic...

Adam Seitchik

United States of America (Greenwich)

Managing Director, Auriel Capital

Adam Seitchik, Ph.D., CFA Managing Director Auriel Capital Adam Seitchik is Managing Director at Auriel Capital, a London-based institutional asset management firm specializing in absolute return strategies. He is responsible for developing tailored Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment strategies for institutional investors in Europe and North America. Previously Adam was Chief Investment Officer at Trillium Asset Management in Boston, where he oversaw $1 billion in invest...

Paul Hewitt

UK

European Business Development Manager, Manifest Voting Agency Ltd.

Paul Hewitt is European Business Development Manager at Manifest, the European provider of global governance research and proxy voting services. He holds an MA in Contemporary European Studies from the Sussex European Institute with a grounding in European comparative politics and French. Since Paul joined the company in 2004, Manifest has developed and expanded coverage into the global research and voting services they offer today. Now with clients both in the UK and continental Europe as well ...

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...

Roxanne Decyk

Netherlands

Corporate Affairs Director, Royal Dutch Shell Plc

Roxanne Decyk is the Corporate Affairs Director for Royal Dutch Shell plc. In this capacity, she oversees regional business coordination, global government affairs, communications, policy, security and HSE for the 270 $ Billion energy company. Effective October 1, 2007, Roxanne was appointed a member of the Shell Group Executive Committee. Prior to this position, she led strategy for RD/Shell and served as SVP for corporate affairs and human resources for Shell Oil Company. Earlier in her career...

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.

Ivan Zelenko

USA

Head of Derivatives and Structured Finance, World Bank

Prior to joining the World Bank in 2000, Ivan was head of Asset-Liability Management (ALM) at the Credit Agricole. He spent most of his career with the French financial institution Caisse des Depots, holding various positions related to risk management, portfolio management and ALM. He started his career in 1990 at the Banque Nationale de Paris in the Strategy Department. Ivan Zelenko graduated from the French leading engineering school Ecole des Ponts and from the Institute for Political Studie...

Peter Michaelis

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Aviva Investors Global Services Limited

Morley’s SRI approach and team is widely recognised as industry-leading, as evidenced by the range of awards that the team has won, including:-    Thomson Extel Survey 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2003 – Best Fund Manager in terms of understanding SRI Issues;-    Global Pensions Awards 2006 – Best SRI Provider;-    Standard & Poor's Fund Awards 2005 - Morley Sustainable Future Corporate Bond Fund - awarded first place over one year in       the UK Marketed Funds class, Fixed Income G...

Vicki Bakhshi

UK

Associate Director, F&C Asset Management PLC

Vicki is an Associate Director in the Governance and Sustainable Investment (GSI) team at F&C Asset Management, a London-based global asset management company with £101 billion under management. Vicki leads F&C’s engagement programme on climate change, and covers environmental, social and governance issues in the oil and gas and insurance sectors. She is on the Steering Group of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, as well as the working group for the Corporate Leaders Group o...

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...

Philippe Spicher

Switzerland (Fribourg)

CEO, CENTRE INFO

Mr. Spicher, 37, holds a degree in economics from the School ofHEC, University of Lausanne and a master degree in environmentalmanagement from EAEME (FUL, Arlon and EPFL, Lausanne). In 1994, MrSpicher joined Centre Info SA, the leading Swiss SRI rating agency. AsHead of Research, he set up a formal system to assess corporateenvironmental and social performance and developped the Centre InfoCorporate Governance Service. He is actually the Managing Director ofSiRi Company Ltd of which Centre Info ...

Ian Clark

Belgium

European Commission

Martin Jenkins

UK

CEO, Oxford Place

Martin founded Oxford Place in 1999 and is an internationally recognised authority on performance coaching. A former investment banker with J.P.Morgan, Martin has considerable experience working with Chairmen, CEOs and senior Board members of Fortune 500 firms, financial services companies, privately-held multinationals and international partnerships. Martin lectures on Business Performance Coaching at Cambridge University and London Business School. Having trained in a wide range of cognitive c...