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Conference Conference

TBLI CONFERENCE™ EUROPE 2009

Location

Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Entrance D & Amsterdam Okura Hotel*****, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dates

12 & 13 November 2009

Description

The largest annual global networking and learning event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing of Europe and Asia. Theme for 2009: Retooling the Economy.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

09:00 - 09:05
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Welcome

Robert Rubinstein
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V. - Netherlands

09:05 - 09:30
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conference Opening

Job Cohen
Mayor - City of Amsterdam - Netherlands

09:30 - 10:00
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynote Speaker

Wendell Potter
Senior Fellow on Health Care - Center for Media & Democracy - USA
Positioning Companies: Looking Good vs Being Good
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10:00 - 11:30
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

TBLI Roundtable Challenge 1 - Integrating ESG into Investment Portfolios

Alfred J.M. Kool (Moderator)
Partner - Kool Baas & De Quelerij, Communication and Marketing - Netherlands

David G. Creighton (Speaker 1)
President and Chief Executive Officer - Cordiant Capital Inc. - Canada

Ran Fuchs (Speaker 2)
Head of ESG Business - MSCI Inc. - USA

Wolfgang Pinner (Speaker 3)
Head of Sustainable Investments - Vinis GmbH - Austria

Michael Jantzi (Speaker 4)
Chief Executive Officer - Sustainalytics - Canada

11:30 - 12:00
Elicium 1, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynote Speaker

Karl-Henrik Robèrt
Founder and Director - Det Naturliga Steget - The Natural Step - Sweden
Strategic Sustainable Investment Is About Competence!
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12:30 - 13:00
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynote Speaker

Lewis Gordon Pugh
Environmentalist, Explorer, Swimmer - South Africa
The Polar Defence Project - Winner of the Best Use of Sport to Protect the Environment Award 2009
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13:00 - 13:05
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Short Workshop Briefing

Moderators provide quick outline of their workshops in order to help attendees choose out of 20 sessions.

13:05 - 14:30
Elicium 1, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lunch

14:30 - 16:15
Room D201, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 1 - Microfinance

Ronald Lubberts (Moderator)
Managing Director - Sustainalytics Netherlands - Netherlands

Mitchell Lench (Speaker 1)
Partner - Treetops Capital - USA
The Financial Crises and Consolidation (M&A) in the Microfinance Industry: A framework for addressing current challenges
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Peter F. Hinton (Speaker 2)
Chief Executive Officer - Summit Development Group - UK
The Next Frontier of Impact Investing: Missing Middle Finance
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Paolo Sardi (Speaker 3)
Founding Member and Chief Executive Officer - ECP International SA - Luxembourg
ECPI MICROS®: the sustainability rating of MFIs
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14:30 - 16:15
Room D202, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 2 - TBLI in Emerging Markets

Geoffrey Mazullo (Moderator)
Adjunct Professor School of American Law, Principal - Emerging Markets ESG - Poland

Cyrille Arnould (Speaker 1)
Head of GEEREF - European Investment Bank Group - Luxembourg
GEEREF - 3Ps for 3Ps
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Sarita Bartlett (Speaker 2)
Investment Manager ESG - Norfund - Norway
Insights on Integrating ESG into Private Equity in Challenging Emerging Markets
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Alka Banerjee (Speaker 3)
Vice-President Global Equities - Standard & Poor's Indices - USA
Achieving Carbon Efficiency in Emerging Markets
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Thomas Motsch (Speaker 4)
Fund Manager - Erste-Sparinvest KAG - Austria
Responsible Growth Potential At Our Next-door Neighbours
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14:30 - 16:15
Room D203, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 3 - Impact Investing

Global Impact Investing puts capital to work at scale to generate social and environmental value in addition to financial return. The emerging impact investing industry endeavors to invest substantial... Read more.

Amit Bouri (Moderator)
Director of Strategy & Development - Global Impact Investing Network - USA

Harry Hummels (Speaker 1)
Director - SNS Asset Management N.V. - Netherlands
The Promise of Impact Investing
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Roger Frank (Speaker 2)
Managing Partner - I3 Advisors LLC (Head Office) - USA
Impact Investing – History, Challenges & Trends
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Hamid Tawfiki (Speaker 3)
Chief Executive Officer - Avenir Global Investment Advisory SA - Switzerland
Focus on Exercising an Impact on Sustainable Development: Avenir's Way
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James Vaccaro (Speaker 4)
Head of Investment Banking - Triodos Bank - UK
Investing Where It Matters:
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14:30 - 16:15
Room D204, Elicium RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 4 - Investment Performance Standards

How to measure the investment performance of fund managers? Which standards are currently a hot issue?

William Russell-Smith (Speaker 1)
Managing Director - AQ Research Ltd - UK
ESG Investment Performance Standards and Attitudes
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Claudia Kruse (Speaker 2)
Senior Governance & Sustainability Specialist - APG All Pensions Group - Netherlands
Meeting Clients’ ESG Expectations - Integration And Engagement
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Raymond Van Ermen (Speaker 3)
Director - EPE-European Partners for the Environment - Belgium
Financing the Green New Deal: A Performative Evaluation of the State, Banks, and Civil Society Investments
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Stanislas Dupré (Speaker 4)
General Director - UTOPIES© - France
New Methodology of Global Carbon Footprint Measurement for Financial Institutions & The Association for Transparency and Labelling of Financial Products (2009)
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14:30 - 16:15
Room D503, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 5 - Fund Performance and Strategy

Using active ownership as a means of improving corporate ESG performance and financial returns.

Giulio Franzinetti (Moderator)
Member of the Advisory Board - TBLI GROUP™ - Italy

O. Sam Folin (Speaker 1)
Managing Director - Benchmark Asset Managers LLC - USA
Maximizing TBLI Outcomes
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Chris Vincent (Speaker 2)
Head of Activism - Principle Capital - UK
Active Ownership During The Financial Crisis
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Paavo Pöld (Speaker 3)
Partner - Limestone Investment Management - Estonia
Sustainable Investing In New Europe: Ahead Of The Crowd
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César De Brito (Speaker 4)
Partner - Eco Responsible Capital Partners - France
Active Ownership On Publicly Listed Green SMEs : Delivering Social, Environmental And Financial Returns
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16:15 - 16:45
Elicium 1, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:15
Room D201, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 6 - TBLI and High Net Worth Wealth Management

Angela de Wolff (Moderator)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - ConSer Invest SA - Switzerland

Thomas W. Van Dyck (Speaker 1)
Senior Vice President, Financial Consultant SRI Wealth Management Group - RBC Wealth Management - USA

Erol Bilecen (Speaker 2)
Head Client Services Sustainable Investment - Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd - Switzerland
"Yes, you can!" Experiences From Bank Sarasin’s Next Step To Sustainable Private Banking
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Anders Faijersson Ferguson (Speaker 3)
Partner, Chief Strategist - Veris Wealth Partners - USA
Bringing Sustainable WM to Traditional Hi-Net Advisors
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16:45 - 18:15
Room D202, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 7 - Social Entrepreneurs

Is Peer-to-Peer Lending an answer to the lack of credit in the market?

Maritta R.v.B. Koch-Weser (Moderator)
Chair, Board of Trustees - The Global Exchange for Social Investment - GEXSI - Germany

Mel Young (Speaker 1)
President - Homeless World Cup - UK
Homeless People – Potential for a Huge Return on Investment
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Mark Campanale (Speaker 2)
Advisor - Four Elements Capital - UK
Social Stock Exchange
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Thierry Sanders (Speaker 3)
Founder and Director - BiD Network - Netherlands
Measuring the Social + Economic Impact of Investing in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
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16:45 - 18:15
Room D203, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 8 - TBLI and the Copenhagen Climate Council

One of the aims of "Copenhagen" is to demonstrate and promote that tackling climate change has the potential to create huge opportunities for innovation and economic growth. Can and will the financial... Read more.

Paul E. Metz (Moderator)
Managing Consultant - INTEGeR Consult - Netherlands

Jurgen Rigterink (Speaker 1)
Chief Investment Officer / Member of the Management Board - Netherlands Development Finance Bank - Netherlands
Walking the Talk on Climate Change – Banks as Agents of Change
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Christophe Churet (Speaker 2)
Analyst - SAM - Switzerland
Framing Possible Outcomes Of The Copenhagen Climate Council And Links To Concrete Investment Opportunities
Read more.

Gudrun Timm (Speaker 3)
Vice President for Product Innovation - DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft - Germany
PPP In Financing Climate Change Projects
Read more.

16:45 - 18:15
Room D204, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 9 - TBLI and Health Care as a Human Right

Ivan Wolffers (Moderator)
Professor in 'Health Care in Developing Countries' - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Netherlands

Femke Markus (Co-Speaker 1)
Managing Director - Access to Medicine Index - Netherlands
Engaging the Pharmaceutical Industry to Leverage SROI
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My-Linh Ngo (Co-Speaker 1)
Associate Director SRI Research - Henderson Global Investors Limited - UK

Wendell Potter (Speaker 2)
Senior Fellow on Health Care - Center for Media & Democracy - USA
Is Commercialization of Health Insurance and Health Care Compatible With TBLI?
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William C. Osborn (Speaker 3)
Managing Partner - Commons Capital LP - USA
Commons Global Health Fund
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Lisa Conte (Speaker 4)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - USA
Social Change in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Read more.

16:45 - 18:15
Room D503, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 10 - Water

Ronald Lubberts (Moderator)
Managing Director - Sustainalytics Netherlands - Netherlands

Steven A. Falci (Speaker 1)
Vice President Sustainable Investment - KBC Asset Management Limited - Ireland
Global Investment Opportunities in Water
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Kajetan Hetzer (Speaker 2)
Sustainability analyst, SR Investment consultant - SNS Asset Management / SNS REAAL Water Fund - Netherlands
Investing in Liquidity: Merging Sustainability and Bankability for Financing Water and Sanitation
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Amanda J. Sauer (Speaker 3)
Senior Associate - World Resources Institute - USA
Thirsty Plants: The Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Food and Beverage and Power Sectors in Asia
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18:30 - 19:30
Foyer I+II, Amsterdam Okura Hotel*****, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dinner Cocktail

19:30 - 21:30
Grand Ballroom, Amsterdam Okura Hotel*****, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Grand Dinner (Invitation Only)

20:15 - 20:45
Grand Ballroom, Amsterdam Okura Hotel*****, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ESG Leaders Awards Ceremony

Awarded by Investments & Pensions Europe (IPE) in cooperation with TBLI CONFERENCE™ Best Reseach house/Consultant in ESG Most Innovative Development Related to ESG Outstanding Contributor to De... Read more.

21.30
Grand Ballroom, Amsterdam Okura Hotel*****, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Closure of First Conference Day

22:00
Jimmy Woo, Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18, 1017 RC Amsterdam Tel +31 20 626 31 50

After Dinner Party - Sponsored by SAM, STOXX and Dow Jones Indexes

Please note: There is a regular taxi stand in front of the Okura Hotel or call +31 20 777 77 77 -------------------------------------------------- Luxurious nightclub and lounge Jimmy Woo wel... Read more.

Friday, 13 November 2009

09:00 - 10:45
Room D201, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 11 - Rating Methodology

Lisa Hayles (Speaker 1)
Senior Client Relationship Manager - Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) Ltd. - UK
Ratings And The Long-Term Investor - The Case Of Climate Change
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Christopher Greenwald (Speaker 2)
Director of Data Content, Asset4 - ASSET4 - Thomson Reuters - Switzerland
Beyond the Materiality Debate to Applications
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Estelle Mironesco (Speaker 3)
SRI Department Director - Vigeo Group - France
Social Ratings in a Financial Perspective: A Case Study on Corporate Restructurings
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09:00 - 10:45
Room D202, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 12 - Alternative Investments

Giulio Franzinetti (Moderator)
Member of the Advisory Board - TBLI GROUP™ - Italy

Juergen Habichler (Speaker 1)
Founding Partner - Mountain Cleantech AG - Switzerland
Investing Growth Capital in the European / German Cleantech Sector
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William C. Crerend (Speaker 3)
President and Chief Executive Officer - EACM Advisors LLC - USA
How Can Faith Based Investors Access Hedge Funds?
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Erik Eidolf (Speaker 4)
Executive Director - Harcourt Investment Consulting - Sweden
Hedge Funds In The SRI Context – Steps Taken And The Potential Leaps Ahead
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09:00 - 10:45
Room D203, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 13 - Voluntary Guidelines: Greenwashing or Genuine TBLI Mobilization?

Leo Johnson (Moderator)
Partner - PriceWaterhouseCoopers - UK

Oliver Jaeggi (Speaker 1)
Managing Partner/ Chairman - ECOFACT AG - Switzerland
How To Transtlate The PRI Framework Into Practice: Norm-based Exclusion
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Viktor Andersson (Speaker 2)
Manager-Investor CDP Europe & Asia - Carbon Disclosure Project - UK
CDP 2009 – A Voluntary Initiative Evolved
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Lorenzo Saà (Speaker 3)
Assessment and Training Manager - Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative - UK
The PRI Reporting and Assessment
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09:00 - 10:45
Room D204, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 14 - Mudharabah, Wadiah, Musharakah, Iljarah - Islamic Finance

Robert Rubinstein (Moderator)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V. - Netherlands

Michael Gassner (Speaker 1)
Vice-President - Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd - Switzerland
Islamic Finance vs. Sustainability - Commonalities and Difference
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Hans Visser (Speaker 2)
Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Money and Banking - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Netherlands
Islamic Finance – Does It Make A Difference?
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Niels Muller (Co-Speaker 3)
Tax Lawyer - Loyens & Loeff - Netherlands
Islamic Finance Opportunities in The Netherlands
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Kees Hooft (Co-Speaker 3)
Banking and Finance Lawyer - Loyens & Loeff - Netherlands

09:00 - 10:45
Room D503, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 15 - Carbon Finance

Paul E. Metz (Moderator)
Managing Consultant - INTEGeR Consult - Netherlands

Yoshimi Ichishima (Speaker 1)
Deputy General Manager, Structured Finance Division I - Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Co., Ltd. - Japan
Recent Movement Towards Low Carbon Society In Japan, After The Change Of the Ruling Party.
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Laurent Milliat (Speaker 2)
Sustainability Analyst - Dexia Asset Management - Belgium
Research Paper May 2009 - Pricing Carbon in Hydrocarbon Portfolios: Climate Change Risks and Opportunities for Upstream Assets
Read more.

10:45 - 11:15
Elicium 1, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00
Room D201, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 16 - Biodiversity Investment

Maurits Groen (Moderator)
Director - Groen Milieu & Communicatie B.V. - Netherlands

Francis Vorhies (Speaker 1)
Director - Earthmind - Switzerland
Bio-tools and Bio-mechanisms for Investing in Biodiversity Business
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Neil McIndoe (Speaker 2)
Head of Environmental Finance - Trucost Plc - UK
Biodiversity, Externatlities and Universal Ownership
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Annelisa Grigg (Speaker 3)
Project Director, Natural Value Initiative - Fauna & Flora International (FFI) - UK
The Ecosystem Services Benchmark
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11:15 - 13:00
Room D202, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 17 - TBLI INVESTOR SALON™ - convened by USAID ECO-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program

This session will witness the business plan presentation by the clean energy businesses/ projects selected and mentored by USAID ECO-Asia. USAID ECO-Asia has two clean energy finance initiatives, name... Read more.

Suneel Parasnis (Moderator)
Team Leader Clean Energy Finance - USAID Eco-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program - Thailand

Suwardi (Speaker 1)
Director - PT Selo Kencana Energi - Indonesia
Mini Hydro Power Plant, Lubuk Gadang, West Sumatra, Indonesia
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Yuan Xiulan (Speaker 2)
General Manager 总经理 - Beijing CXTD Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (内蒙古泰达新能源项目管理有限公司) - Unknown
Changxintaida New Energy Technology (长信泰达新能源科技), Biogas Power Generation (沼气发电项目)
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Zhao Xu 赵旭 (Speaker 3)
General Manager 总经理 - Nanjing Longterm Environmental Technology Development Co., Ltd. (南京朗顿环境技术开发有限公司) - Unknown
Landfill Gas to Electricity (填埋气发电)
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11:15 - 13:00
Room D203, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 18 - Green Real Estate

Bob Mann (Moderator)
Managing Director, North America - Jantzi-Sustainalytics - Canada

Kees Noorman (Speaker 1)
Director Business Development and General Affairs - William McDonough + Partners EU - Netherlands
Cradle to Cradle, From Efficiency To Effectiveness
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Magnus Furugård (Speaker 2)
President and Managing Director - GES Investment Services - Sweden
Promising Outcomes of Responsible Real Estate Investments
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Oliver Schneider (Speaker 3)
Director - Facility:Innovate - UK
Charging Up The Stairs - Sustainability In The Built Environment
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Wendy Rowden (Speaker 4)
Managing Director, Investments - Jonathan Rose Companies - USA
Greening the Urban Landscape: Existing Building Retrofits in the U.S
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11:15 - 13:00
Room D204, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 19 - The Financial Sector's Role on Ethics in Finance

Bernd Jan Sikken (Moderator)
Associate Director, Financial Institutions Industries, Head of Project Mgmt, Centre for Global Industries - World Economic Forum - Switzerland

Raj Thamotheram (Speaker 1)
Senior Advisor - AXA Investment Managers Ltd - UK
Can We Be Pure In An Impure World?
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Kasper Jacobsen (Speaker 2)
Chief Portfolio Manager - Sparinvest - Denmark
Ethical by Surprise
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Giuseppe van der Helm (Speaker 3)
Executive Director - Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO) - Netherlands
ESG-Criteria and Institutional Investors in The Netherlands - From Theory to Practice
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11:15 - 13:00
Room D503, Elicium, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Workshop 20 - TBLI ACADEMY™ on Integrating ESG into Portfolios

Roger Frank (Moderator)
Managing Partner - I3 Advisors LLC (Head Office) - USA

Floris Lambrechtsen (Co-Speaker 1)
Director - Double Dividend B.V. - Netherlands
From Policy to Portfolio - What is ESG integration?
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Masja Zandbergen (Co-Speaker 1)
Double Dividend B.V. - Netherlands

Ivo Knoepfel (Speaker 2)
Managing Director - onValues Ltd. - Switzerland
100% ESG: Is it possible to integrate ESG across the entire portfolio for all asset classes?
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Amanda Young (Speaker 3)
SRI Officer - Newton Investment Management Ltd. - UK
Understanding Investment Risk and Enhancing Portfolio Value
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13:00 - 14:30
Elicium 1, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lunch

14:30 - 16:30
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

TBLI Roundtable Challenge 2 - Financial Integrity

Paul Clements-Hunt (Moderator)
Coordinator Finance Initiative - UNEP FI - Switzerland

Laura Berry (Speaker 1)
Executive Director - ICCR-Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility - USA

Jermyn P. Brooks (Speaker 2)
Chair, Business Advisory Board - Transparency International - Germany

George Muzinich (Speaker 3)
Chief Executive Officer - Muzinich & Co., Inc. - USA

Boudewijn de Blij (Speaker 4)
Director - Fonds 1818 - Netherlands

Annemieke Roobeek (Speaker 5)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - MeetingMoreMinds - Netherlands

16:30 - 16:35
Elicium 2, RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Official Closing

Robert Rubinstein
Founder and Chief Executive Officer - TBLI Conference B.V./TBLI Consulting B.V. - Netherlands

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