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...

Job Cohen

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Mayor, City of Amsterdam

Job Cohen (Marius Job Cohen) was born on 18 October 1947 in the city of Haarlem. After completing high school in 1966 (Gymnasium A) he studied Public Law at Groningen University, graduating in 1971. He took his PhD at Leiden University in 1981 (Law in relation to university studies). From 1971 to 1981 he was on the academic staff of the Educational Research Bureau at Leiden University, becoming senior faculty member (1981), professor (1983) and rector magnificus at Maastricht University (1991). ...

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...

Vicky Sharpe

Canada

President & CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada

Vicky Sharpe President and CEO Sustainable Development Technology Canada Vicky Sharpe is President and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Previously, she was President of GRI Canada and Astral Group where she demonstrated leadership and vision in the use of innovative technologies in the energy sector. Dr. Sharpe has more than 15 years experience in the energy industry and, over the course of her multifaceted career, has successfully integrated sustainable development into busines...

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...

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of Sustainable Investments, Vinis GmbH

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

Arthur Docters van Leeuwen

Netherlands

Chairman, Holland Financial Centre

Docters van Leeuwen was born in The Hague. After studying law (degree 1969) and various functions for the Dutch government, he became head of the Domestic Security Service, the Dutch secret service (currently the AIVD), in 1989. In 1995, he was succeeded by Nico Buis, after Docters van Leeuwen became a member and chairman of the Board of Procurators General in The Hague (a board which supervises Dutch public prosecutors). As a member of this board, Docters van Leeuwen came in a conflict in 1998 ...

Paul Mudde

Netherlands

Reputation Manager & Sust. Dev., Sustainable Finance & Insurance

Paul Mudde has studied Dutch Law and business economics. He currently runs his consultancy company Sustainable Finance & Insurance and works for financial sector clients with a special focus on the credit insurance industry and sustainable development. He is involved in establishing a new credit insurance company in a country in the middle east, which will provide both short and medium long term credit insurance. In 2007 he was co-author of the report “from principle to action” for the Dutch...

Kirsty Jenkinson Thomas

UK

Director, Governance & Sustainable Investment, F&C Asset Management PLC

Kirsty Jenkinson Thomas currently leads ISIS Asset Management\'s Governance & Socially Responsible Investment (GSRI) Team\'s reo® engagement programmes on Human Rights and Environmental Credit Risk in the banking sector. Kirsty joined ISIS (formerly Friends, Ivory & Sime) in 2001, after six years as a research analyst at investment bank Goldman Sachs International. More recently, Kirsty conducted a research project, reviewing foreign investment in Burma, for The Burma Campaign, a U.K.-based org...

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...

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...

Alain Dromer

UK

Chief Executive, Aviva Investors Global Services Limited

Joined the investment industry in 1987Main responsibilitiesOverall responsibility for the success of Aviva Investors.Experience and qualificationsAlain joined the firm in September 2007 from HSBC where he was most recently global head of group investment businesses. Before that he worked at Credit Commercial de France (CCF) where he became sole head of asset management, developed a multi-boutique structure and founded Sinopia; CCF was bought by HSBC in 2001Alain’s varied career includes positi...

Claudia Langer

Germany (Munich)

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Utopia AG, Utopia Foundation

Claudia Langer is a Serial Entrepreneur since the age of 19. Well before she graduated from highschool she set up her first company, Avantgarde, which organized fashion shows, events and promotions and is currently ranked number two for live-communication in Germany. In 1992, Claudia and her husband founded .start advertising, which soon turned into one of the leading creative places in advertising. Looking for new challenges, she sold .start in 2004 and fully devoted herself to her family. Dur...

Gert van Maanen

Netherlands

Dutch government Advisory Council on Development Affairs

Gert van Maanen (1941) started his career as a lawyer with Nauta Dutilh and then joined the Royal Nedlloyd Group as secretary of the board, later Group Director Personnel and  Managing Director of their Fleet Division. After 17 years in shipping he joined the Executive Board of ING Bank in charge of HRM. Five years later he was asked to become Managing Director of Oikocredit, the development agency of the World Council of Churches, and the major financer of microcredit with private savings. He...

Robert Bragar

Netherlands

General Counsel, Oikocredit

Currently Mr. Bragar serves as General Counsel to Oikocredit, a privately funded Dutch financial cooperative that invests in businesses that benefit the Third World’s poor.  Oikocredit is among the world’s largest investors in microfinance institutions.  Also, Head of Legal Department at Oikocredit since 1995, responsible for contracting and judicially enforcing Oikocredit’s loans and investments in microfinance and other enterprises.  Member of Oikocredit Credit Committee, approving Oi...

Dinos Constantinou

Switzerland

Founder, Global Microfinance Group SA

Dinos Constantinou has 15 years experience in commercial banking, microfinance and management consulting in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He has previously worked for organisations such as Dresdner Bank, IPC Internationale Projekt Consult and Gemini Consulting, and is the founder of Global Microfinance Group, a Swiss holding company that operates micro and small business finance institutions in emerging markets. He is also the co-founder of Housing MicroFinance, a US company seeking to ...

Sanjay Sinha

USA

Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Microcredit Enterprises, Inc.

Sanjay Sinha has been the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of MicroCredit Enterprises (MCE) since January, 2007.  As with 80% of MCE’s management team, this position is a pro-bono position.  Mr. Sinha was introduced to the world of microlending at an early age while living in India.  Micro-businesses, such as gardening services, laundry and small retail outlets were all around his community at that time; however, Mr. Sinha did not know, back then, that some of these businesses were made possi...

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...

Leopold Seiler

Austria (Vienna)

Chief Executive Officer, Seiler Asset Management Vermoegensverwaltung GmbH

Born 1969 University of Vienna (Law 1986-1989), 1989 Vienna Portfolio Management (Junior Partner) 1991 Seiler Asset Management since 1999 holding lectures at the Donau University Krems (portfolio management & business ethics since 2003): Microfinance activities since 2006: Vision Microfinance Dual Return Fund (member of the advisory board) Mission Statement: The mission of the VISION MICROFINANCE FUND is to offer exposure to investors interested in microfinance. The fund has a double bottom ...

Sorana Baciu

Romania

Director Corporate Development & Investor Relations, Petrom SA

Sorana Baciu joined Petrom SA – the largest Oil & Gas company in Romania, member of OMV Group - in December 2008, as head of Corporate Development and Investor Relations.  In this capacity, she coordinates Investor Relations activities, develops Petrom strategy in line the OMV Group strategy, and oversees the activities of OMV Future Energy Fund in Petrom.    Prior to joing Petrom, Sorana Baciu followed a long track career in both investment and commercial banking. Between 2004 -2008,...

Magnus Furugård

Sweden (Stockholm)

President and Managing Director, GES Investment Services

Magnus Furugård is President and Managing Director, as well as one of the founders and owners of the company. He has a Master's degree in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics, and is a trained marine officer from the Royal Swedish Naval Academy. Magnus has worked as a management consultant for a major consultancy firm in Stockholm, as well as a campaign leader for the environmental organisation Greenpeace. GES Investment Services was founded 1992. The business idea is...

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...

Maurits Groen

Netherlands (Haarlem)

Director, Groen Milieu & Communicatie B.V.

Maurits Groen (born 1953) founded of one of the first Dutch consultancies specialized in nature and environment in 1982. He has over 25 years of experience in the field and has worked both in the Netherlands and abroad in line as well as project management capacities, for governmental, business and non-profit organizations.        MGMC performs a wide range of activities related to communication about environmental issues. Activities include strategic policy advice regarding sustainable de...

Ariën Knibbe

Netherlands

Business Development Executive, IBM Nederland

Mr Knibbe is a graduate in economics of the University of Amsterdam. He first worked as a civil servant on public finance for the ministry of Finance before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. His specialty is strategy & finance. Now for over 15 years he is working in the field of mobility & infrastructure. He has written a book about PPP. At this moment he is the IBM lead for road user charging in the Netherlands. All cars and all roads will be charged. This multi billion project will be...

Carlo van de Weijer

Netherlands (Eindhoven)

Vice-president Road Charging, Tomtom International B.V.

After getting his Master degree in Mechanical Engineer at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, Carlo van de Weijer started in 1990 at TNO Automotive in Delft, where he amongst others was responsible for setting up a new research field in Electrical and Hybrid drive trains and, from 1998, was responsible for the Business Unit Power Trains. In 1997 he received his PhD from Technical University in Graz, Austria.In 2001 he moved to SiemensVDO in Eindhoven to head the local R&D lab for automoti...

Nancy Kete

USA

Director, Embarq - WRI

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...

Erol Bilecen

Switzerland (Basel)

Head Client Services Sustainable Investment, Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd

Erol Bilecen, 1971, Director, Head of Client Services, graduated in business administration and economics and also passed the final exam of an interdisciplinary course of studies called "Man-Society-Environment" at the University of Basel in 1997. Right after his graduation he joined the Sustainability Research team and worked as an analyst until April 2001. Since then is he responsible for the support of internal and external clients. Besides his work for Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd he is working on...

Boudewijn Jansen

UK

Deputy CEO - Head of Product Development, HSBC Private Bank

Thomas W. Van Dyck

USA (San Francisco)

Senior Vice President, Financial Consultant SRI Wealth Management Group , RBC Wealth Management

Yukiko Fukasaku

France (Paris)

Managing Director, Innovmond SARL

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

Toni Symonds

USA (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, ...

Mungo Park

UK

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...

Richard Youngman

UK

Managing Director, Cleantech Group - Europe

Richard Youngman joined the Cleantech Group in April 2008. As Managing Director, Cleantech Group® Europe, he is responsible for driving the growth of the group's activities in Europe.Most recently, he was Vice President of Research & Operations at Library House. As such, not only did he run the Library House Research team, which discovers and collects the information about high-growth companies that underpins the company's data, analytical, and event services, but he also oversaw the day-to-day...

Julia Balandina Jaquier

Switzerland (Zurich)

Head of Sustainable Investments Group, AIG Investments

Julia Balandina Jaquier, PhD, CFA Dr. Balandina manages AIG Sustainable Investment Group, a private equity vehicle focused on investments in clean technologies, renewable energy and healthy living. Julia joined AIG in 2002 and prior to initiating Sustainable Investment Group, she was the Co-Head of Direct Investments Europe, responsible for development of the AIG Investments' European private equity business. Previously, Mrs. Balandina spent 7 years with ABB Financial Services - as Vice Preside...

Gerard Reid

Germany (Berlin)

Ceo, Oikovest GmbH

Professional Experience - Gerard Reid has more than 10 years experience in the finance, research and education world.(2005 to date) - Partner, Oikovest Advises the Hornet Renewable Energy Fund which is focused on renewable energy companies worldwide. The Hornet fund had 19% net performance in 2006 and was up another 19% in 2007.(2001 to 2005) - Head Analyst, First Berlin·         Partner and Head Analyst at Germany's largest independent equity research house. Actively covered t...

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...

Sascha Lafeld

Germany (Bad Vilbel)

Executive Board Member, First Climate

Dr. Sascha Lafeld is member of the Executive Board of First Climate. He is responsible for the commercialization of VER projects, the development of corporate carbon neutral activities, the business development in the USA and First Climate's corporate communications. Before founding 3C, the predecessor of First Climate, Sascha was Head of Dresdner Bank’s Climate Change Strategy and worked as a consultant for international environmental politics at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP...

Ai Sachiko

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Manager, Frontier Business Development and Support, Mitsubishi Ufj Trust and Banking Co. Ltd.

Jo Confino

UK

Head Of Sustainable Development And Executive Editor, The Guardian

Jo Confino is an executive editor of the Guardian, head of sustainable development at Guardian News & Media (GNM) and corporate social responsibility advisor to parent company Guardian Media Group (GMG).As a journalist for the past 23 years, he has worked on regional and national newspapers.He was Wall Street correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and subsequently finance and business news editor for the Guardian.He is now in charge of ensuring that the values of the Scott Trust, which owns GMG, ...

Axel Hesse

Germany (Münster)

Senior Consultant, Sd-m - Sustainable Development Management

Outperformance with Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators (SD-KPIs)SD-KPIs are the three most important sustainability indicators for business development, position and anticipated development of an industry group. SD-KPIs offer institutional investors the opportunity to generate portfolios with a high long-term outperformance. This was evaluated by leading European pension funds with € 460 billions of assets under management in 2008.1) How has the copyrighted concept of SD-KPIs b...

Nic Marks

UK

Founder - Nef, Centre for Well-Being

Nic Marks is Founder of the centre for well-being and has led the well-being programme at nef since 2001. Nic is a recognised expert in the field of well-being research and undertakes innovative research in the use of well-being indicators in public policy environments. Nic has expertise in relation to individual, social, economic and environmental indicators of well-being and has previously applied his work in policy fields as diverse as sustainable development, health and social care, educatio...

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal

Malaysia (Petaling Jaya)

Trustee, Taqwa Foundation

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

Raúl Pomares

USA (Santa Monica)

Vice President, Guggenheim

Raúl Pomares serves as a Portfolio Manager for clients of Guggenheim Wealth Management.  In addition, Mr. Pomares specializes in global Sustainability, Mission & Social Investment (SMSI) programs for foundations and clients seeking social impact from their portfolio. Prior to joining Guggenheim, Mr. Pomares was Co-founder and Director of Client Services for a boutique wealth management firm that specialized in comprehensive estate planning and investment advisory services for private family of...

Lisa Kleissner

USA

President and Co-Founder, KL Felicitas Foundation

Lisa Kleissner is the President of the KL Felicitas Foundation, a family foundation she co-founded with her husband, Charly, in 2000.  The Foundation is dedicated to supporting programs that:empower rural communities and families through sustainable economic and social changeenable social entrepreneurs worldwide to develop and grow economically sustainable, scalable enterprises with high measurable social impact, andadvocate their Foundation’s sustainability, mission, and social investment st...

Charly Kleissner

USA

Co - Founder, KL Felicitas Foundation

Dr. Charly Kleissner is a philanthropic entrepreneur utilizing his high technology background in his venture philanthropy.  He is co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation and the Social-Impact initiative, helping social entrepreneurs worldwide to accelerate and increase their social impact.  Dr. Kleissner serves on the Advisory Board of multiple not-for-profit companies like the Acumen Fund, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Alliance for a New Humanity, and The Global Philanthropy Forum. He is...

Asad Zafar

Qatar

CEO, Al Rayan Investment LLC

Asad ZafarZafar is the Chief Executive Officer of Al Rayan Investment LLC based in Doha, Qatar. With 20 years of experience he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Al Rayan is the captive investment banking subsidiary of Masraf Al Rayan the second largest Islamic bank on the Doha Stock Exchange by market capitalization. Al Rayan is licensed by the Qatar Financial Centre. Al Rayan is focusing on building a world class platform to link GCC with Asia. Key products being developed in 2...

Hugh Wheelan

France (Paris)

Managing Director, Responsible_Investor.com

Hugh Wheelan, Editor and co-founder, Responsible Investor (www.responsible-investor.com) Hugh has written on investment, corporate and sustainability issues for national newspapers including The Observer and The Financial Times. He won the respected Aon Consulting award for European Pensions and Investment Journalist of the Year in 2006. From 2004 to 2007 he was Paris Correspondent and prior to that Fund Management Editor at Financial News. Prior to that he was Political and Economic advi...

Narina Mnatsakanian

France

Project Manager, UNPRI

Narina Mnatsakanian, Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Project ManagerA project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and implemented in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative.Narina Mnatsakanian is the Project Manager for the PRI in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Project, and is responsible for promoting the PRI within over 30 countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Her role includes recruitment of new signatories and ...

David A. Glenister

Switzerland

International Sales Manager, Sgs International Certification Services Sa

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...

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.  

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.

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...

Chris Vincent

UK (London)

Head of Activism, Principle Capital

Chris Vincent has been the Head of Activist Investing at Principle Capital since March 2005. He is responsible for the execution of activist campaigns at all Principle Capital's investee companies and, in conjunction with Joel Marks, led the development of the ESG activist strategy for the Good Citizen Fund. He has been a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute since 2004 and was previously Head of Corporate Investments at AssetCo Group, an investment company focused on acquiring and...

Tami Zilberg

Israel

Senior SR Consultant and Consultant, ICSR - Israel Center For Social Responsibility

Tami Zilberg, Senior SR Consultant, worked for many years as journalist and editor in leading Israeli newspapers. Writing and commenting on business and social issues, the way to SR was very short.Since 2001 Tami has taken active part in the developing of SR concepts in the Israeli market, and became the Co-chair of the Israeli Expert Committee with SII (the Standards Institution of Israel) which developed the Israel Standard 10000 for Social Responsibility.As a keen supporter of TBL perspective...

Ronald Lubberts

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...

Rolf D. Häßler

Germany (München)

Director Business Development, Oekom Research

Rolf D. Häßler was born in 1964. He is a fully trained banker and holds a university degree in economics. He has ten years of professional experience in business consulting and research with a focus on environmental and sustainable management and reporting, issues management and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). His professional activities included work ...

Mairead Hancock

UK (London)

Head of Client Services, Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) Ltd

Mairead Hancock, Head of Client Services (Mairead joined EIRIS in 2001 and heads the client team which is responsible for looking after the needs of existing clients and developing new business. She works closely with FTSE and the JSE on their responsible investment indices as well as assisting a range of other clients implement their socially responsible investment policies. Prior to EIRIS Mairead worked in tax accountancy, teaching and managed a research programme at the London Business School...

Mark Tulay

USA (Vienna)

Vice President, IW Financial

Mark Tulay has over 15 years experience in the sustainability movement. He was the first employee of CERES, the non-profit that launched the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the de facto sustainability reporting standard used by over 1,500 companies worldwide. Mark served as the head of the ESG business for IRRC, ISS and RiskMetrics before leaving to start Sustainability Risk Advisors. Mark has written extensively on the investor response to the BP spill. He advises asset owners, asset manager...

Davide Dal Maso

Italy

SRI Research Manager, Vigeo Italia

Davide Dal Maso has worked for years as a business consultant, specialising in environmental management and innovation.He is Head of SRI Department at Vigeo Italia (formerly Avanzi SRI Research), Italian branch of Vigeo, the leading European suppliers of extra-financial analysis. He is in charge of business development as well as ESG indexes.Among the founders of the Milan-based Avanzi - a think tank for sustainability, in the last few years he has focused his studies on the relationship between...

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.

Peter van der Linde

Netherlands

Director, Partner Relations, Akvo

Peter van der Linde has directed partner relations for Akvo since autumn 2006. A project manager at the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), he combines technical knowledge of water management with the ability to mobilise an extensive, high level network of water and sanitation changemakers across the world. Akvo's internet-based tools and working practices help water and sanitation development partners expand their project activities while reducing costs and simplifying reporting. Peter lead...

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...

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...

Veronika Juchnewitsch

Estonia

Head of SRI, Limestone SRI

Veronika Juchnewitsch is responsible for implemeting Limestone’s SRI strategy and managing the New Europe Socially Responsible Fund.  Prior to Limestone, Ms. Juchnewitsch was an equity analyst for Hansa Investment Funds, covering energy and materials sectors in CEE/CIS region. Ms. Juchnewitsch holds a BA degree from Estonian Business School and MBA degree from Bentley College.

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of Sustainable Investments, Vinis GmbH

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

Cristina Loghin

Romania

Head Of Capital Market And Investor Relations Department, National Power Grid Company - Transelectrica

 ((Education:1983-1988 – Power Engineering Faculty – Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest 1999-2004 – Internal and International Financial Banking and Commercial Relations Faculty – Romanian-American University, Bucharest2004-present (in progress) - Doctor degree thesis – Polytechnic Institute, BucharestProfessional experience:1988-1999 – Design engineer for power substations - various organizations related to the Romanian power grid1999-2001 – Software engineer for power distribution...

Magnus Furugård

Sweden (Stockholm)

President and Managing Director, GES Investment Services

Magnus Furugård is President and Managing Director, as well as one of the founders and owners of the company. He has a Master's degree in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics, and is a trained marine officer from the Royal Swedish Naval Academy. Magnus has worked as a management consultant for a major consultancy firm in Stockholm, as well as a campaign leader for the environmental organisation Greenpeace. GES Investment Services was founded 1992. The business idea is...

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...

Mungo Park

UK

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...

Frederic Scheer

Unknown

Chairman and CEO, BPI

Frederic Scheer, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Scheer became involved in the biodegradable plastics industry in 1994 through Montedison SpA, a large chemical conglomerate operating Novamont SpA, an Italian resin manufacturer and research company. Foreseeing that the demand for biodegradable products in North America would expand rapidly by the end of the decade, Scheer secured the exclusive distribution rights in North America for Mater-Bi™ resins.  Soon thereafter, he began North Am...

Steve Anderson

USA

CEO, Surfect Technologies Holdings, Inc.

Steve joined Surfect in 2004 and became CEO, President, and a director of Surfect Holdings in September 2006. A 28 year packaging industry veteran, his marketing and technical development activities have focused on electronics manufacturing and bringing innovative interconnect technology to the semiconductor industry. He was formerly CEO of Silicon Bandwidth and SVP of Corporate Marketing and Business Development at Amkor Technology, Inc. and also spent several years at Texas Instruments.  Stev...

Barry Clive

UK

Chief Technology Officer, SolarEmpower Ltd.

Barry is a physicist who spent 10 years in research at Imperial College. He is recognised as an authority on building Integrated Solar Concentration, having published leading papers on the subject, and worked on funded projects with prominent institutions, notably The Fraunhofer Institute and Barcelona University in continental Europe, and Imperial College and Reading University in the UK. Barry has extensive experience of cost effective volume manufacturing techniques from having owned and mana...

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...

Paul Hohnen

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Strategy Director, Paul Hohnen Consulting

Amsterdam-based, Paul Hohnen is an independent consultant on sustainabledevelopment and CSR issues. A former diplomat, he has worked as aninternational civil servant, Policy Director of Greenpeace International,Strategic Director of the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI), and now asconsultant to the government, business and non-profit sectors.Paul consults, writes and speaks on a range of global sustainabledevelopment issues, with a focus on how companies can integrate these intotheir core busines...

Mark Heintz

USA (Houston, TX)

Stakeholder Relations Manager, HP

Mark is responsible for leading HP’s development of a comprehensive stakeholder engagement program.  This involves working with nongovernmental organizations, socially responsible investors and other social and environmental organizations.  Mark is the architect of HP Beyond Engagement Stakeholder strategy which includes major initiatives of developing HP’s Stakeholder Advisory Council and HP’s partner-relationship with World Wildlife Fund (WWF).  Mark also represents HP on the boards o...

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...

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.

Annemarie van Doorn

Netherlands

VP Special Projects, ABN AMRO NV

Annemarie van DoornVice President Special Projects ABN AMRO N.V.Annemarie has a background in organisational change and SustainableDevelopment. Annemarie has worked on several projects within ABN AMRO e.g.ABN AMRO foundation and Group Sustainable Development Strategy andReporting. Before she started at ABN AMRO she has worked as a clinicalpsychologist in medical centers and as trainer/coach in profit and nonprofit sector.Annemarie currently works as an advisor in several real estate projects. In...

Michael Barry Nates

USA

Senior General Manager Ehs & Sustainability, Nakheel - Sustainability, Health & Safety and Environment (SSHE)

Michael Nates is Nakheel’s Senior General Manager for Sustainability, Health & Safety and Environment (SSHE). Michael is a sustainability specialist with over 15 years experience covering CSR and sustainability strategy, change management, carbon footprinting and sustainable living. He uses his engineering training to bring a structured project management approach to sustainability that focuses on delivering viable, practicable and affordable strategies and solutions. Michael is a multi-disci...

Charles Abel Smith

UK

Head of PPP Advisory, Arup

Maurits Groen

Netherlands (Haarlem)

Director, Groen Milieu & Communicatie B.V.

Maurits Groen (born 1953) founded of one of the first Dutch consultancies specialized in nature and environment in 1982. He has over 25 years of experience in the field and has worked both in the Netherlands and abroad in line as well as project management capacities, for governmental, business and non-profit organizations.        MGMC performs a wide range of activities related to communication about environmental issues. Activities include strategic policy advice regarding sustainable de...

Ivo Mulder

Switzerland

Market Development Advisor, Triple E

Mr. Mulder is Market Development Advisor at Triple E. In this position he aims to expand the international activities of the company’s Swiss office in the field of biodiversity investment, including advisory, brokerage and assistance in fund initiation. Prior to joining Triple E, he worked as an Officer Market Development and Strategic Advice for the Dutch National Fund for Rural Areas (Nationaal Groenfonds), an organisation which advocates optimum use of government funds for investment in nat...

Nigel Asquith

Ecuador

Executive Director, EcoFund Foundation Ecuador

Nigel Asquith, Ph.D.Director of Strategy, Fundación Natura BoliviaExecutive Director, EcoFund Foundation EcuadorAssociate Director, PERC Enviropreneur InstituteResearch Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityNigel Asquith has over 15 years experience designing and implementing biodiversity conservation projects. After working at the World Bank and the Smithsonian Institution, Nigel led the design of Conservation International’s .5 million 2004-7 Mesoamerica strategy. Nigel th...

Zoltan Kun

Hungary

Executive Director, PANParks Foundation

Attained a forestry technician diploma at the Secondary school in Sopron, Hungary in 1990. Although the diploma was not specifically focused on conservation, it did display his interest in nature. He graduated with an MSc in landscape architecture in Hungary at University of Horticulture and Food Industry in 1996. His final thesis was on flood-plain restoration written in the Netherlands at the Wageningen Agriculture University in the framework of TEMPUS ICER programme.Since childhood Zoltan's d...

Gemma Crijns

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Director, CSR Dialogue

Since 2007 Gemma Crijns is a self-employed researcher and adviser on sustainability and development cooperation. Until 1 October 2008 she also was the coordinator of the Dutch CSR Platform (an alliance of 32 NGOs and trade unions) Gemma Crijns has been Managing Director of the EIBE/Institute for Responsible Business at Nyenrode Business Universiteit from May 2001 until 1 October 2006. Prior to her position at Nyenrode, she was a staff member of the Dutch section of Amnesty International for...

Wim Leereveld

Netherlands

CEO & Founder, Access To Medicine Index

Before founding the Access to Medicine Index, Wim Leereveld was more than 15 years active in the Pharmaceutical Industry, as CEO of Walsh Netherlands and  one of the founders of Pharmaceutical Marketing Services Inc. One out of three people lacks access to essential, affordable drugs or vaccins. Published yearly, the Access to Medicine Index highlights efforts by drugcompanies to help close the gap and ranks the 20 top Pharmaceutical Multinationals on this part of their CSR-policy. The first 20...

Eve Morelli

Switzerland (Zug)

ESG Specialist - Client Services Executive, ASSET4

Eve Morelli has been in the SRI industry for over 5 years. Prior to joining ASSET4, she worked as an analyst with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors where her work focused on the automotive, IT, financials and homebuilding sectors. She also developed a Sovereign Screening tool assessing countries’ ESG performance. Previously to that Ms. Morelli worked as a support research analyst of the SRI team of Credit Lyonnais Asset Management. She holds a master’s degree from Audencia Nantes, a French b...

Jermyn P. Brooks

Germany (Berlin)

Chair, Business Advisory Board, Transparency International

Jermyn Brooks is currently Chair of the Business Advisory Board of Transparency International, an international anti-bribery and corruption NGO based in Berlin and London. He moved to this voluntary position after a career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jermyn is a qualified chartered accountant as well as a German Wirtschaftsprüfer and his career took him from work in the City of London to Frankfurt, where he had turns at auditing, corporate finance and management consultancy before becoming sen...

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.

Afshin Mehrpouya

France

Senior Analyst, Innovest

Afshin is a senior analyst at the Paris office of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. He is in charge of analyzing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices of asset management and healthcare services sectors. Before joining Innovest, Afshin was the vice president of business strategy at a medium-sized consulting firm in Dubai. He holds a medical doctorate degree from Tehran University and an MBA from York University in Canada. In parallel to his professional activities, Afs...

Eli Ane Lund

Norway

Norwegian Ministry Of Finance

Tami Zilberg

Israel

Senior SR Consultant and Consultant, ICSR - Israel Center For Social Responsibility

Tami Zilberg, Senior SR Consultant, worked for many years as journalist and editor in leading Israeli newspapers. Writing and commenting on business and social issues, the way to SR was very short.Since 2001 Tami has taken active part in the developing of SR concepts in the Israeli market, and became the Co-chair of the Israeli Expert Committee with SII (the Standards Institution of Israel) which developed the Israel Standard 10000 for Social Responsibility.As a keen supporter of TBL perspective...

Ronald Lubberts

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...

Rolf D. Häßler

Germany (München)

Director Business Development, Oekom Research

Rolf D. Häßler was born in 1964. He is a fully trained banker and holds a university degree in economics. He has ten years of professional experience in business consulting and research with a focus on environmental and sustainable management and reporting, issues management and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). His professional activities included work ...

Mairead Hancock

UK (London)

Head of Client Services, Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) Ltd

Mairead Hancock, Head of Client Services (Mairead joined EIRIS in 2001 and heads the client team which is responsible for looking after the needs of existing clients and developing new business. She works closely with FTSE and the JSE on their responsible investment indices as well as assisting a range of other clients implement their socially responsible investment policies. Prior to EIRIS Mairead worked in tax accountancy, teaching and managed a research programme at the London Business School...

Mark Tulay

USA (Vienna)

Vice President, IW Financial

Mark Tulay has over 15 years experience in the sustainability movement. He was the first employee of CERES, the non-profit that launched the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the de facto sustainability reporting standard used by over 1,500 companies worldwide. Mark served as the head of the ESG business for IRRC, ISS and RiskMetrics before leaving to start Sustainability Risk Advisors. Mark has written extensively on the investor response to the BP spill. He advises asset owners, asset manager...

Davide Dal Maso

Italy

SRI Research Manager, Vigeo Italia

Davide Dal Maso has worked for years as a business consultant, specialising in environmental management and innovation.He is Head of SRI Department at Vigeo Italia (formerly Avanzi SRI Research), Italian branch of Vigeo, the leading European suppliers of extra-financial analysis. He is in charge of business development as well as ESG indexes.Among the founders of the Milan-based Avanzi - a think tank for sustainability, in the last few years he has focused his studies on the relationship between...

Paul Hohnen

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Strategy Director, Paul Hohnen Consulting

Amsterdam-based, Paul Hohnen is an independent consultant on sustainabledevelopment and CSR issues. A former diplomat, he has worked as aninternational civil servant, Policy Director of Greenpeace International,Strategic Director of the Global Reporting Initiative(GRI), and now asconsultant to the government, business and non-profit sectors.Paul consults, writes and speaks on a range of global sustainabledevelopment issues, with a focus on how companies can integrate these intotheir core busines...

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...

Tessa Tennant

UK (Bolder)

Director, ASrIA

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

Amy Domini

USA (Boston)

Finance, Domini Social Investments

Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.  Also in 2005, President Clinton honored her at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative helping protect children and the environment. In 2006, she was awarded a Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa degree from Northeastern University ...

Bart Jan Krouwel

Netherlands

Managing Director Corporate Social Responsibility, Rabobank Nederland

Bart Jan Krouwel has been with Rabobank Nederland since August 1st, 1996. His present function is Managing Director Corporate Social Responsibility of the Rabobank Group. He is also Deputy General Manager. He started his career in the banking world (1964) and was among others co-founder and first managing director of the Triodos Bank (1980-1986).Between 1986 and 1996 he worked seven years as general manager of a multi-functional (mainstream, anthroposophical, alternative) medical centre and for ...

Mizue Tsukushi

Japan (Tokyo)

CEO, Good Bankers Co., Ltd.

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

Alois Flatz

Unknown

Managing Partner, Zouk Ventures Limited

Jeremy Leggett

UK (Waterloo London)

Executive Chairman, Solar Century Holdings Ltd.

Jeremy Leggett, 51, is chief executive of solarcentury, the UK'slargest independent solar electric solutions company. After a D.Phil inearth sciences at Oxford, Jeremy began his career at Imperial Collegeconsulting for the oil industry and researching earth history. He wontwo major international awards for his research on the history ofoceans. In a second career as an environmental campaigner forGreenpeace International, he won the US Climate Institute's Award forAdvancing Understanding, at whic...

Robert Swan

USA

Founder, W5 The Innovation Centre, 2041

2041 was founded by polar explorer, environmental leader and public speaker Robert Swan, OBE; the first person in history to walk to both the North and South poles. Swan has dedicated his life to the preservation of Antarctica by the promotion of recycling, renewable energy and sustainability to combat the effects of climate change.

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...