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Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

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

Although born in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Rubinstein is a longtime resident of The Netherlands. So, back in 1999, when he founded a company to introduce the then-radical concept of sustainable investing, it seemed only natural to name it after his distant former hometown: Brooklyn Bridge – Connections to the Future B.V. (BB). The concept behind this company was the introduction of TBLI – Triple Bottom Line Investing. From its early days, the aim of this small company was and is unabashed...

Anthony E. Malkin

United States of America (New York, NY)

President, Malkin Holdings

Anthony E. Malkin received a B.A. degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1985. That year, Mr. Malkin joined Chemical Venture Partners, L.P., a recently formed venture capital and leveraged buyout affiliate of Chemical Bank (now CCMP Capital). In 1989, Mr. Malkin joined Malkin Holdings. He is now president of this firm and of its affiliates, including W&H Properties. Altogether, these firms comprise the real estate acquisition, management, construction and marketing arm of the Malkin ...

David Kennedy

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change

David Kennedy is the Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change. Previously he worked on energy strategy at the World Bank, and design of infrastructure investment projects at the sale an Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.

Ylva Lindberg

Norway (Oslo)

Founder & Managing Director, SIGLA

Ylva Lindberg is the founder and managing director of SIGLA, a boutique consultancy on the role of business in society. She works with listed and state-owned companies in identifying risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental challenges, including on leadership programmes, strategy and innovation. Ylva has fifteen years with business experience, including as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, marketing manager in Orkla, and equity analyst at KLP Asset Management. Her expert...

Peter Michaelis

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Aviva Investors

In addition to managing the SRI team's overall strategy, Peter is responsible for managing the Aviva Investors UK ethical fund, sustainable future UK growth fund and sustainable future managed fund. Peter joined Aviva Investors sustainable and responsible investment team in 2000 as a fund manager, and has been head of SRI since 2005. Previously, he was an SRI fund manager at Henderson Investors. Prior to that, he was a senior environmental engineer with British Steel where he specialised in e...

Saskia van den Dool-Gietman

The Netherlands (Zeist)

Advisor Responsible Investment, PGGM Investments

Saskia van den Dool-Gietman joined PGGM’s Responsible Investment team in 2008. At PGGM she is responsible for the Human Rights engagement programme. She has a background in consultancy in the area of Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility. For PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Global Sustainability Solutions Saskia has worked in London, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires to advise multinational corporations and (non) governmental organisations, focussing on projects related to stake...

Remy Briand

Switzerland (Geneva)

Managing Director, Global Head of Index and ESG Research, MSCI

Remy Briand is responsible for research on all MSCI-branded products at MSCI Inc., a leading global provider of investment decision support tools, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics. In this capacity, Mr. Briand is in charge of the continual expansion, refinement and improvement of MSCI indices and MSCI Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating and compliance products. Mr Briand is also leading the MSCI ESG Research business. Mr Briand joined MSCI in 2001 a...

Donald Mcdonald

United Kingdom (London)

Trustee Director, BT Pension Scheme

Appointed: 1 May 1998. Donald MacDonald retired from the CWU in 2004. He had been the Union’s Telecom Recruitment Officer, and was formerly President of the Union. A Post Office and BT telecommunications technician for many years, he previously served as a Director of BT Quest Ltd (BT Qualifying Employee Shares Trust) as an employee representative. Donald is a member of the CWU and of UNITE (formerly the National Federation of Post Office and BT Pensioners), and Chairman of United Nations Prin...

Toni Symonds

United States of America (Sacramento, CA)

Chief Consultant, Committee on Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy, California State Legislature Assembly

Toni Symonds has held a variety of senior-level public policy positions in Washington, D.C. and California during her 27-year career in government. Throughout her career, she has advocated for a greater examination of the overlapping roles of the private sector and government policy in providing for a sustainable global economy. Ms. Symonds is the former California State Deputy Controller for Investments and Corporate Governance serving as representative to boards of the California Publi...

Michael Mainelli

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Z/Yen Group Limited

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Michael began his career as a research scientist in aerospace (rocket science) and computer graphics which led to him starting companies in seismology, cartography and energy information for a Swiss publishing firm. In the early 1980’s Michael created a multi-million dollar oil industry consortium which culminate...

Herta Von Stiegel

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ariya Capital LLP

Herta von Stiegel is Founder and CEO of Ariya Capital Group, a Botswana- and London-based private equity firm focusing on sustainable investments in Africa. An international executive with a consistent track record of building profitable highly regulated structured finance businesses, she held senior positions at Citibank and JP Morgan and, until 2005 was Managing Director at AIG Financial Products, the financial services division of American International Group Inc. A US tax lawyer ...

Noah Beckwith

United Kingdom (London)

Independent Adviser, TBLI Conference B.V.

Noah Beckwith is an independent adviser to emerging markets private equity fund managers on fund structuring and establishment, environmental and social management and fundraising. He also advises multilateral and bilateral development institutions on a range of issues, including SME development, bottom of the pyramid investment strategies, fund structuring, enterprise development and microfinance. Noah spent seven years at Aureos Advisers Ltd, where he was responsible for environmental and soci...

Peter Johnson

United States of America (Darien)

Partner, Developing World Markets

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

Jack Lowe

Switzerland (Nyon)

Chairman, Avenir Global Investment Advisors SA

Jack LOWE is Chairman of Avenir Global Investment Advisors S.A which he co-founded with the purpose of developing a holistic and multi-asset approach to "Sustainable Development Investing" Jack has over 40 years in business development experience acquired through his entrepreneurial activities and as a manager of businesses and a management consultant. Jack began his career in the Asia-Pacific region in the 1960s. In 1969, he opened the McKinsey & Co. office in Tokyo together with Japanese...

Tammy E. Newmark

United States of America (Arlington VA)

President, EcoEnterprises Fund

Tammy E. Newmark, a leader in impact investing for 20 years, has served as President of EcoEnterprises Fund (www.ecoenterprisesfund.com) since 1998. Newmark is currently launching EcoEnterprises Fund II, the next generation instrument. Before managing EcoEnterprises Fund for The Nature Conservancy, Newmark led Technoserve, Inc.’s environmental business advisory services in Latin America and Africa. Prior to that, she was a founding officer of Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund, the firs...

Steven Evers

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Director, Triple Jump

Steven is currently a director at Triple Jump, a Dutch investment manager focusing on microfinance and other responsible investments. As a co-founder of Triple Jump, Steven has played an important part in driving the company forward. Today, Triple Jump manages over USD 250 million of investments in 132 MFIs in 51 countries. Before entering the field of microfinance, Steven gained extensive experience in various positions in banking and strategy consulting most notably with KBC and ING. Ste...

Rodney Schwartz

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Officer, ClearlySo

Rodney is the CEO of ClearlySo (www.clearlyso.com), the global marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment. Clearlyso provides social entrepreneurs (1500+ on the site from over 40 countries) with access to capital, people, services, publicity and information - all with one purpose; to help them succeed. Begun in the UK, the company has expanded to Canada and is expanding to other developed and developing markets (starting with India). It also hosts an annual Social Busi...

Ritu Kumar

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Advisor, Environment, Social and Governance, Actis

Ritu has over 15 years of global experience working on environment and social issues, advising on value creation, management, networking, research and capacity building. Ritu is presently a Senior Advisor to the emerging markets private equity firm, Actis on environment, social and governance issues, where her work involves screening investments and advising portfolio companies according to Actis's environmental, social, health, and safety criteria. Ritu works closely with Actis's Real Estate...

Sethawat Srivirote

Thailand (Bangkok)

Director of Sustainability Development, Magnolia Quality Development Corp. Ltd.

Sethawat Srivirote, Architect based in Bangkok, is currently a Director of Sustainability Development at Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited and General Manager at d I designs Corporation limited, Thailand. Starting his architectural career as Researcher at Energy Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University in 2002, he has more than 10 years of integrated experiences in various facets of building sector and real estate business. He has a strong belief in creativity and ability o...

Jonathan F.P. Rose

United States of America (New York, NY)

President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC

Jonathan F.P. Rose's career has been dedicated to integrating positive economic, environmental, and social outcomes. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate investment, development, planning, and consulting firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm has successfully completed over $1.5 billion of real estate projects aimed at building value for its investors and clients, and the communities in which it works. Mr. Rose has been ...

Laura Jockers

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Sustainability Consultant , Jones Lang LaSalle

Laura Jockers is a Senior Consultant for Upstream Sustainability Services, part of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Professional and Advisory Group. With a relevant postgraduate degree from Oxford University, Laura is responsible for managing accounts and project delivery teams for both UK and sale an property investors and developers. Through close collaboration and provision of first class advice, Laura has supported a number of her clients in developing sustainability strategies that have gained them ...

Kelly Clark

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and Managing Director, Marmanie Consulting Ltd.

Kelly founded Marmanie Consulting Ltd as a collaborative consortium of consultants in 2006. Guided by the principle of sustainability of growth and values, Kelly works with clients to maximize their potential as individuals/ businesses. Kelly’s passion is combining great business ideas with capital and resources to implement those ideas on the ground. As the Managing Director of Marmanie, her role in the company is to identify and develop opportunities and collaborative partnerships, coor...

G. Benjamin Bingham

United States of America (Philadelphia)

Managing Director, 3Sisters Sustainable Investments, LLC

Ben Bingham officially joined Benchmark at the start of 2007 after six years of mentorship with Sam Folin while developing a unique portfolio management strategy for socially conscious investors at Legg Mason and Citigroup/Smith Barney. He began by advising a network of social entrepreneurs and philanthropists who were dissatisfied with the lack of imagination and direct positive impact found in mutual funds or screened portfolios. Changing the emphasis to positive screening, Mr. Bingham has fou...

Amanda Young

United Kingdom (London)

SRI Officer, Newton Investment Management

Amanda Young is the SRI Officer at Newton Investment Management, a London-based, global investment management subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. She is responsible for the research analysis and engagement on environmental and social issues facing the companies in which Newton invests. Amanda came to Newton from CCLA Investment Management, the specialist church and charity fund manager where she spent seven years analysing companies’ environmental, social and governance ac...

Jay Vontobel

Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City)

Associate Director, VietNam Holding Asset Management Ltd.

Since 2006 Jay has contributed to the value investment approach at Vietnam Holding Asset management Ltd. As head of the sustainable investment program he manages a range of engagement activities. He is based in Ho Chi Minh City charged with the integration of the fund’s ESG integration strategy. Before joining Vietnam Holding Jay held positions at SwissLife Asset Management and Julius Bär Investment Funds, among others. He holds a MA in economics from the University of Zurich and is a Swiss a...

Philippe Spicher

Switzerland (Fribourg)

Chief Executive Officer, Inrate

Philippe Spicher is the CEO of Inrate. As CEO of Centre Info (1999 to spring levitra ), he successfully developed the company by introducing new products and services and expanding the client base. He was instrumental in the foundation of SiRi Group in 2000, a coalition of leading local SRI rating agencies. Philippe Spicher started his career in the SRI field in 1994 when he joined Centre Info as an ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analyst. As Head of Research (1996-1999), he set up a formal ...

Patrick de Jong

The Netherlands (Rotterdam)

Senior Investment Analyst, Robeco

Patrick is a Senior Investment Analyst at Robeco. Patrick is responsible for providing the organization with support on investment analysis, portfolio management, reporting and consultancy on behalf of Robeco’s retail and wholesale clients. For the last couple of years Patrick has been focusing on integrating responsible investment into the advisory services towards retail clients. He has been responsible for the coordination of the implemented investment fund classification for Responsible In...

Paul Simpson

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Disclosure Project

Paul Simpson is the Chief Operating Officer of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent non-profit organization providing primary corporate climate change information. CDP serves as a system through which organizations and businesses disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies. CDP subsequently uses this data in order to help shape financial and policy decisions with the goal of motivating investors, corporations, and governments to prevent dangerous clima...

Marietta Smid

The Netherlands (The Hague)

Senior Advisor Sustainability , ASN Bank

Marietta Smid is Senior Advisor Sustainability at ASN Bank. In her job she advises the Board about the sustainable policies of the bank. Main focus is on sustainable investing at ASN Bank and ASN Investment Funds. Prior to joining ASN Bank she worked as an ESG Analyst at SNS Asset Management and as a portfolio manager. Marietta holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration and did the post graduate program Universalising Socio Economic Security for the Poor at the Institute of Social Studie...

Carlos Joly

France (Paris)

Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Natixis Asset Management, Natixis Asset Management

Carlos Joly is the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Natixis Asset Management. He was the founder and CEO of MiljøInvest AS, which developed a range of SRI funds; and Senior Vice-President of Storebrand, where he launched the Storebrand Environment Fund. He was a co-founder and the Chairman of UNEP-FI (UNEP-FI : United Nations Environment Program - Finance Initiative). He co-chaired the Experts Group which drew up the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Carlos Joly is a visiting P...

Tony Campos

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Executive, Responsible Investment, FTSE Group

Tony joined FTSE in 2004 and supports the management of the FTSE4Good, FTSE Environmental Markets, and FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy indices. With a particular focus on the US market his responsibilities include business and product development, research partnerships and index management. He has also coordinated FTSE's global program of engagement with companies in the FTSE4Good Index Series, which features extensive work on corporate responsibility issues with some of the world's largest public c...

Charlie Kronick

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Climate Advisor, Greenpeace UK

Currently the Senior Climate Advisor at Greenpeace UK, I have worked in the fields of environment and development for over two decades – as an activist, driver of inflatable boats, campaigner, thinker and writer on issues including the international trade in hazardous waste, incineration, ozone depletion, transport and road building, climate change – most recently focusing on the global oil industry and its relationship to financial markets, as well as genetic engineering, sustainable agricu...

James Thier

Australia (Canberra ACT)

Executive Director , Australian Ethical Investment Ltd.

James Thier is an executive director of Australian Ethical Investment Ltd and is a director of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Australian Ethical Superannuation Pty Ltd.   Having helped establish Australian Ethical in 1986, he has seen this pioneer in ethical/sustainable fund management grow to more than $620M in FUM. With six diverse sustainable/thematic products it continues to innovate with the recently launched Climate Advocacy Fund. In 2002 the management company listed on the Australian...

Thomas Kuh

United States of America (Boston)

Business Director MSCI ESG Indices, MSCI

Thomas Kuh SVP, Business Development KLD RESEARCH & ANALYTICS, INC. Thomas Kuh is Senior Vice President, Business Development at KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., an independent investment research and index company specializing in the analysis of the social and environmental performance of corporations. He is a member of KLD’s Management Committee.  Dr. Kuh was a Research Analyst at KLD from 1992 to 1994, evaluating the social and environmental records of companies and consulting on related is...

Alka Banerjee

United States of America (New York)

Vice-President Global Equities, Standard & Poor's Indices

Alka Banerjee is Vice-President of Global Equities within Standard & Poor’s Index Services Group. Alka is responsible for the design and methodology governing these indices. She oversees the creation and management of Standard & Poor's global indices, focusing on creating new benchmarks for international equity markets and promoting their use amongst global clients. Alka was closely involved with the transition of the premier IFC’s Emerging Market Indices to Standard and Poor’s Index G...

Claudia Wais

Switzerland (Zurich)

Regional Director, SAM Indexes GmbH

Claudia Wais is Regional Director at SAM Indexes. She is responsible for SAM’s index business in the Nordic region as well as Germany, Austria and the german-speaking part of Switzerland. Before joining SAM in July 2006, she worked in the Marketing Department of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken in Frankfurt, Germany. In this role, she was responsible for product marketing within several asset classes as well as for the development and implementation of a top customer retention program. Claudia Wa...

Mark Goldsmith

United Kingdom (London)

Director, ESG, Actis

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

Alice Chapple

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Sustainable Financial Markets , Forum for the Future

Alice Chapple heads up the financial services sector work at sustsinable development charity Forum for the Future. She works with others in the sector to develop innovative financial instruments, more effective valuation techniques and enlightened strategies so that capital can increasingly be allocated to activities that support sustainable development. Since joining Forum in 2006, she has worked in a range of areas including forest investment, cleantech investment, microfinance, insurance, the...

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...

Hang-Wah Man

The Netherlands (The Hague)

Senior Investment Officer, The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)

Hang-Wah Man is a Senior Investment Officer at FMO (the Netherlands Development Bank) since 2000. FMO's private equity team manages a portfolio of both direct and fund investments totaling more than EUR 800 mln in committed capital. The portfolio has grown significantly during recent years, notably in Africa. Since 2009, FMO places increased emphasis on investments in financial sector, renewable energy and low income housing. Hang-Wah worked is was responsible for acquisition, structuring and...

Robert S. Earhart

France (Paris)

Director, TBLI Consulting Group, Sárl

Seb Beloe

United Kingdom (London)

Head of SRI Research, Henderson Global Investors

Seb joined Henderson in 2008, as Head of SRI research. He leads on the identification and analysis of critical sustainability and responsibility issues with investment relevance for the SRI funds. In addition, Seb guides and oversees the research team’s communication and engagement with companies, the investment community, government and civil society to promote understanding of sustainability, corporate responsibility and SRI matters. Seb has expertise in helping businesses develop strateg...

Marcus Pratsch

Germany (Frankfurt a/M)

Head of Sustainable Investment Research , DZ BANK AG

Marcus has been working in the banking industry since 1996. Since March 2009 Marcus is in charge for the Sustainable Investment Research of DZ BANK AG coordinating all SRI related activities in institutional equity research. He is also a member of the DVFA Commission Non-Financials. Marcus joined DZ BANK AG in 2006 being responsible for the coverage of sale an telecom stocks. He was recognized by Starmine in 2009 as the No. 1 Earnings Estimator in the category sale an Telecommunication Serv...

Mark Bytheway

Australia (Melbourne)

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Investment Research Institute

Mark Bytheway is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS), a specialist Asian regional investment research group, providing sustainability and governance research and analytical services. Mark holds qualifications in law, economics and accounting, and post-graduate qualifications in environmental science. He has more than 25 years capital markets experience, including work in investment banking, with an international credit ratings agenc...

Charlotte Mansson

Switzerland (Zurich)

Head of Sales and Marketing , RepRisk AG

Prior to her role at RepRisk AG, Charlotte Mansson was Director Sales & Marketing at ECOFACT where she initially started as a Senior Analyst. Prior to this, she worked for Danske Bank in New York, G8 Consulting in Washington DC, Fiserv in London, and Deloitte Consulting in Brussels. She holds a Master's degree in International Economics from John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC.

Alice Chapple

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Sustainable Financial Markets , Forum for the Future

Alice Chapple heads up the financial services sector work at sustsinable development charity Forum for the Future. She works with others in the sector to develop innovative financial instruments, more effective valuation techniques and enlightened strategies so that capital can increasingly be allocated to activities that support sustainable development. Since joining Forum in 2006, she has worked in a range of areas including forest investment, cleantech investment, microfinance, insurance, the...

Rhamis Kent

United Kingdom (Torpoint, Cornwall)

Co-Founder and Consultant, Permaculture Sustainable Consultancy Pty Ltd. - Australia

Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal training in mechanical engineering (University of Delaware, B.S.M.E. '95) and permaculture-based regenerative whole systems design. He has previously worked for the renowned American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen at DEKA R & D for almost 3 years, with subsequent engineering work ranging from medical device research and development to aerospace oriented mechanical design.

 After taking an interest in the design science of Permaculture, he soug...

Jason Scott

United States of America (New York, NY)

Co-Founder and Partner, EKO Asset Management Partners

Jason Scott is a Co-Founder and Partner of EKO Asset Management Partners. Jason has more than a decade of experience developing and managing firms seeking to sustainably manage and invest capital. He was most recently an investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Jason was a founding Director of Generation and, as its first employee, helped build the firm and its first and second products. Generation's global equity an...

Cecilia Procopé Repinski

Sweden (Stockholm)

Key Account Manager, Strategic Development Manager, GES Investment Services

Cecilia Procopé Repinski is Key Account Manager and Strategic Development Manager. Cecilia works with product development and explores opportunities to engage clients and partners in sustainability projects. Before joining GES, Cecilia worked with financial institutions at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC. She has also worked in Southeast Asia and has a Master's degree in Environmental Management from the Stockholm University.

George Starcher

France (Chambéry)

Founder and President, EBBF

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

Tom Rippin

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer , On Purpose

After some years of working in cancer research, Tom wanted to work in the social sector. Dubious of the training, development and career opportunities he would be able to access there, he decided instead to go into management consulting with McKinsey & Company. After five years, he did eventually transition into the social sector, first as an advisor on private sector matters to the CEO of Comic Relief and then at (RED), the business founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver to help eliminate AIDS in Af...

Olivier de Guerre

France (Paris)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Phitrust

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

Tera Terpstra

The Netherlands (Veessen)

Partner Wire Group, Wire Group

Tera has nearly 20 years experience in organizational transformations in the tourism, insurance and development sector. She was member of the board at Achmea Direct, a large Dutch insurance company, with Brand & Organization as her focus area. As former managing director of d.o.b foundation (2005-levitra ), Tera initiated and was responsible for the transformation and professionalization process within d.o.b from a grant giving organization to a impact focussed organization. D.o.b foundation is a fa...

Catherine Howarth

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Director, FairPensions

Catherine Howarth is CEO of FairPensions, a UK charity promoting responsible and sustainable investment strategies by pension funds and the fund managers who serve them. The charity publishes rankings of the largest occupational pension funds and, separately, fund managers showing their relative performance on responsible investment policy and practice. FairPensions promotes transparency and accountability to members on pension fund investment strategy. Catherine is a member-nominated truste...

Patrick Yves Berger

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Equity Research, UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking

Patrick Yves Berger is Head of UniCredit’s Environmental, Social & Governance Equity Research team. He joined UniCredit in April 2005 as an Equity Research & Strategy Analyst. Prior to joining UniCredit, Patrick worked for JP Morgan's Asset Management and Private Banking divisions in London and Geneva. He is a CFA charterholder.

Matthias Boenning

Germany (Munich)

Head of Research , oekom research AG

Matthias Boenning was born in 1972. Two year training as a banker at Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Cologne. University degree in business administration after studies at Western State College of Colorado, U.S.A. and University in Cologne. Work experience at former Bayer subsidiary EC Erdölchemie, Cologne. From 1998 to 2000 analyst at oekom research AG, Munich. Since 2001 Head of Research. Member of the Executive Board of oekom research AG since 2003. Since 2004, Matthias Bönning is a visitin...

Mark Tulay

United States of America (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...

Steve Waygood

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Sustainability Research and Engagement, Aviva Investors Global Services Limited

Steve Waygood leads Aviva Investors’ Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) analysis, engagement and voting. Steve is also Chairman of the SRI Advisory Committee for Aviva Investors. He previously worked for Insight Investment where he was a Director in the Investor Responsibility team. Prior to that, he was a Senior Analyst in the Governance and SRI team of F&C. He was on the board of the UK Sustainable Investment Forum (UKSIF) from 2003 to levitra , serving as its Chairman from 2006. Steve...

Anne-Kathrin Kuhlemann

Germany (Ahlen/Berlin)

Chief Executive Officer, NExT SSE

Anne-Kathrin Kuhlemann is Managing Director of Konvergenta InterZero, a communication agency for ethical and ecological change. As founder of NExT Social Stock Exchange she offers a platform for growth capital for sustainable businesses and as Executive Chair of Social Stock Exchange Association e.V. networks similar initiatives. She is a visiting lecturer at Fachhochschule Münster. After her studies of "sale an Business" the doctoral candidate gathered experience both in the private as wel...

Michael Van Patten

United States of America (New York, NY)

Founder and President, Mission Markets Inc.

Michael is the Founder, President and Executive Chairman of Mission Markets Inc. and leads strategic and business development efforts. He is considered an impact and sustainability capital markets innovator and is responsible for guiding Mission Markets’ financial and technological innovation and applying it to the impact and sustainability sectors. Michael has over 20 years of experience on Wall Street and has been integrally involved in the design and implementation of private placement a...

Tames Rietdijk

United Kingdom (Woking, Surrey)

Chief Executive Officer, Comdaq Limited

Tames Rietdijk is the Chief Executive Officer of Comdaq Ltd. and will be responsible for daily operations of GSDEX. He is well-reputed for his track record as a Business Developer for sustainable banking and climate exchanges. Tames founded and launched Climex in 2003, an exchange in environmental commodities for which he developed the core elements: trading software, the rule book, settlement operations and the distribution channel (indirect sales). Climex established itself from a new entrant ...

Tamzin Ractliffe

South Africa (Cape Town)

Chief Executive Officer, NeXii South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Tamzin is widely regarded as creating the first social investment exchange in the world and has been a visionary leader for GreaterGood South Africa - an African online social development networking platform - and its related social businesses, CSR Systems and Greater Capital. Tamzin has worked in private equity and investment banking in South Africa and internationally for more than twenty years and has continually sought to use the markets for greater social good. She established the South Afr...

Steven A. Falci

Ireland (Dublin)

Head of Strategy Development Sustainable Investment, Kleinwort Benson Investors

Steven Falci oversees the development of Kleinwort Benson Investors sustainable investment products and strategic priorities. He joined Kleinwort Benson Investor’s predecessor firm KBC Asset Management in 2008 in the newly created position of Vice President – Sustainable Investment. He is a senior investment professional with over 20 years of broad experience overseeing investment teams and managing assets at a large pension fund, an institutional asset manager and a mutual fund company. ...

Neil Brown

United Kingdom (London)

Senior Partner, Earth Capital Partners LLP

Neil Brown is Senior Partner. Neil has 28 years City experience as a trader, broker, management consultant and risk manager. He has worked at such leading firms as James Capel & Co, Hoare Govett, Lloyds Bank, HSBC and Credit Suisse. Previously he was Global Head of Risk Management for Credit Suisse Asset Management and HSBC Asset Management.

Matthew J. Kiernan

Canada (Toronto)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inflection Point Capital Management

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

Sabine Doebeli

Switzerland (Zurich)

Vice President, Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen

Sabine Doebeli is Vice President of Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen (FNG), the Sustainable Investment Forum for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and affiliate of Eurosif, coordinating Swiss activities, and is a Board Member of the Swiss Climate Foundation. Sabine is also Executive Director and Head of Corporate Sustainability Management at Bank Vontobel. In her role, she is responsible for the coordination of the theme "Sustainability“" at group level as well as for the integration of sustainabi...

Rein Ojavere

Estonia (Tallinn)

Head of Research , Limestone Investment Management

Rein Ojavere is responsible for heading the research process at Limestone Investment Management.Rein started as an equity analyst in Suprema Securities in 1997 and moved later to corporate finance, where he worked as a Director until 2006, participating in a number of landmark M&A transactions, privatization deals and public offerings in the Baltic region. In 2006 Rein joined Hansa Investment Funds to overhaul equity research process and took over the management of Hansa Central Asia Equity Fund...

Joanne Sawicki

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and Director, Ceres Communications

Joanne is a media entrepreneur with over twenty years experience at the top of international media. An award-winning journalist and television producer, Joanne has held senior management positions in News International, Channel 9 Australia, BBC, and at Sky TV (as Head of News Features and Head of Programme Development). Joanne has worked with leading presenters including David Frost, Nick Ross, Selina Scott, Adam Boulton, and Gloria Huniford, producing interviews with world leaders in their fie...

Michael V. Galante

Germany (Offenburg)

Global Conservation Standard Administrator, Global Conservation Standard Oversight Organization

Michael V. Galante is an international forestry professional specializing in the development and implementation of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through the utilization of internationally agreed International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) Principles and Criteria (P&C) primarily through production based controls involving Reduced Impact Logging (RIL), forestry certification and ecosystem service incentive mechanisms (including carbon). Michael is the Administrator to the Oversigh...

Michael Dutschke

Germany (Offenburg)

Chairman, Global Conservation Standard Oversight Organization

Dr. Michael Dutschke has been a policy advisor on the design and implementation of flexible compliance mechanisms in international climate policy since 1997, being observer at all relevant meetings of the Climate Convention. Before founding his company biocarbon consult in 2007 at Offenburg/Germany, he worked at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, for GFA Envest, and at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is co-author of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard, a...

David K. Boren

United Kingdom (London)

Managing Director, Sustainable Growth Funds Asset Management, Carbon Credit Farming PLC

David joined the sale an Bank for Reconstruction and Development shortly after it was formed to analyse country risks in East sale and the former Soviet Union. He subsequently joined Salomon Brothers International in London to focus on the emerging debt markets in the same region and gradually expanded his focus to include parts of Africa and the Middle East. As Executive Director of Daiwa sale in London he assumed responsibility for global emerging markets, supported by a research team ...

Agus P. Sari

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Officer Conservation, Carbon Credit Farming PLC

Agus Sari is CEO of CCF Conservation and Non-Executive Director of PEACE. Prior, he was Country Director, Indonesia, and Strategic Policy Director, Southeast Asia, of Ecosecurities, one of the world's largest carbon asset developers. He was also Executive Director of Pelangi, one of the world's most prominent environmental think tanks. He sat on various environmental NGOs, businesses, and scientific boards, including a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch...

Christian Schoen

Austria (Vienna)

Member of Executive Board, Erste Asset Management GmbH

Christian Schön is member of the executive board of Erste Asset Management GmbH and responsible for the institutional fund business in Austria, Central/Southeastern sale and international markets. Before joining EAM, Christian Schön was the managing director and CEO of DWS (Austria) Investmentgesellschaft mbH and co-head of sale an Institutional Distribution at Deutsche Asset Management. Before this, he worked in various management positions at Pioneer Investments Austria, Schoellerbank ...

Andrea Ferch

Switzerland (Zurich)

Senior Fund Analyst, LGT Capital Management Ltd.

Andrea Ferch is Senior Fund Analyst at LGT Capital Management, focusing on sustainable investments. Her role involves selecting the universe of eligible funds for LGT’s sustainable multi asset class funds. Apart from that she carries out research and makes recommendations to LGT’s private banking business. Before joining LGT, Andrea was Head of Product Management of SEB Asset Management in Germany and in charge of the development, life-cycle-management and marketing of SEB’s mutual fun...

Till Jung

Germany (Munich)

Director International Relations, oekom research AG

Till Jung joined the independent Munich-based rating agency oekom research as an analyst in 2004 where he was responsible for the corporate research in sectors including automobile and machinery. Since levitra , he is Director International Relations at oekom research and mainly responsible for international client relations and business development. Till graduated in political and social sciences from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and the Free University of Berlin, where he wrote his ma...

Wolfgang Pinner

Austria (Vienna)

Head of Sustainable Investments, Erste Asset Management 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 ...

Kristina Rueter

Germany (Munich)

Research Director, oekom research AG

Born in 1975. University degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) in environmental engineering. Studies at the Technical Universities of Hamburg-Harburg and Berlin, Germany, and the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Worked in research projects at the Institute of Environmental Technology of the Technical University Berlin, the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin and at a state-run water and waste water company in Recife, Brazil. Since 2003 with independent Munich-based...

Michal Pelzig

United States of America (Woodbridge, NJ)

Manager, Reporting, Hess Corporation

Ms. Pelzig has more than 25 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry. She joined Hess in 2008, with responsibility for Hess Corporation's sustainability reporting and verification, including the annual corporate sustainability report, Carbon Disclosure Project information requests, and investor ESG surveys. Ms. Pelzig also provides support for Hess' corporate climate change strategy and programs. Prior to joining Hess, Ms. Pelzig was a Partner at ERM, specializing in corporate env...

Anupama Mohan

Norway (Oslo)

Lead Advisor CSR, Statoil ASA

Doctor Anupama Mohan has more than 20 years experience of working on sustainability and corporate social responsibility across many industry sectors, and in many countries. She joined Statoil in 2008, in the corporate team responsible for policy, standards and processes for managing corporate social responsibility globally across the company and monitoring its performance, as well as promoting disclosure, sustainability reporting and investor ESG surveys. Anupama has been working on policy and s...

Allard Castelein

The Netherlands (The Hague)

Vice-President Environment, Royal Dutch Shell plc

Allard Castelein joined Shell in the Netherlands in 1987. For the first couple of years he held roles in trading, sales and marketing. From 1992 he lived and worked in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom in various roles in marketing, planning, consultancy, business development and general management. Allard returned to The Netherlands in 2002 to join the executive board of the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij, a Shell-Exxon JV. In 2003 he became Commercial Manager for S...

Laurie J. Spengler

United States of America (Chicago, IL)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Shorebank International

Laurie J. Spengler is President and CEO of ShoreBank International Ltd. (SBI), a company that delivers a broad range of services to financial institutions and their funders globally within core sectors of small business finance, microfinance and housing finance. Having founded and managed a business solutions and legal services firm in Central sale for 15 years, Ms. Spengler brings an entrepreneurial perspective and an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of working in transit...

Steve Friedman

United States of America (New York)

Founder and Managing Partner , Eos Partners L.P.

Steven M. Friedman has served as a director of Eos since its formation. Steve is a Manager of the General Partner of the Onshore Partnership. Prior to co-founding Eos Partners in 1994, he was a general partner and co-head of the private investment business of Odyssey Partners. Before joining Odyssey, he was a vice-president at Citibank in leveraged finance. Steve has a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago (1976, 1977) and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (1983).

Mariana Bozesan

Germany (Munich)

Founder and President, AQAL Investing

Dr. Bozesan is the world's leading authority on integral investing, the most advanced paradigm in investing to date. She a global investor, an evolutionary economist and researcher, a serial entrepreneur and consciousness leader, a philosopher and futurist, as well as a philanthropist and published author. As the inventor of Integral Investing, she provides the means and metrics to implement the parity between profit people and planet in investing. Integral investing unifies financial, ecologica...

Steve Beck

United States of America (Malvern PA)

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer , SpringHill Equity Management, LLC

Steve Beck is co-founder & CEO of SpringHill Equity Management, a private equity fund manager investing in small growing enterprises in Africa. Steve is also Senior Advisor to the John Templeton Foundation, supporting the foundation’s enterprise-based solutions to poverty grant programs. Steve was previously CEO of Geneva Global – an international philanthropic advisory firm – and Managing Director of two strategy consulting firms: Monitor Company (sale , Middle East, Africa) and Gemini C...

Klaus Tischhauser

Switzerland (Zurich)

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, responsAbility Social Investments AG

Klaus Tischhauser is Co-Founder and CEO of responsAbility, one of the world’s leading asset managers for social investments. He has 25 years of professional experience in the financial sector, and since 2003 has been instrumental in leading responsAbility to become the internationally recognized investment company it is today. Prior to founding responsAbility Klaus worked for Credit Suisse and SAM Sustainable Asset Management, where he was involved in building up the company, executing the fi...

Rosali Pretorius

United Kingdom (London)

Partner, SNR Denton UK LLP

Rosali Pretorius is a SNR Denton partner in London and member of SNR Denton’s international investment funds team. She specialises in funds, financial regulation and derivatives. She is currently working on several funds focussing on investing in emerging markets. Rosali read law in South Africa and England (University of the Witwatersrand BA LLB cum laude, 1991; King's College London LLM, merit, 1993). After short stints as a precious metals analyst in Johannesburg and law lecturer at King's...

Russell Pullan

United Kingdom (London)

Director New Energy & Clean Technology Ventures, Nomura International plc

Russell Pullan joined Nomura, Japan’s leading investment bank, in 2006 to start-up New Energy & Clean Technology Ventures. Previously, he was Head of Venture Capital at the Carbon Trust; the UK’s first cleantech focused venture fund. Russell has twenty years of international experience in clean technologies and alternative energy as a venture capitalist, limited partner, serial entrepreneur and developer of technology and environment-related businesses. Russell is a member of the...

Marie Rosencrantz

United Kingdom (London)

Founder, Rosencrantz & Co.

Marie Rosencrantz founded the consulting firm Rosencrantz & Co www.rosencrantzandco.com in 2009 and currently serves as senior advisor, ESG, for the UK development finance institution CDC Group plc www.cdcgroup.com. Other current clients on ESG include the Swedish and Swiss development finance institutions Swedfund www.swedfund.se and Sifem www.sifem.ch. Before establishing Rosencrantz & Co, Marie Rosencrantz worked for CDC Group plc as Socially Responsible Investment Manager. Marie Rosenc...

James Vaccaro

United Kingdom (Bristol)

Head of Investment Banking, Triodos Bank

James Vaccaro is Managing Director of Investment Banking (UK) at Triodos Bank, which specialises in ethical investment and was awarded the FT Sustainable Bank of the Year in 2009. He has worked for Triodos since 1998 and is a specialist in environmental and social finance. He is the Managing Director of Triodos Renewables plc (which invests in renewable energy projects), has worked on microfinance projects in Africa & Asia and has been lead advisor to a number of ethical PLCs for public share is...

Aled Jones

United Kingdom (London)

Investment Manager - ESG, London Pensions Fund Authority

Aled Jones joined the LPFA's investment team in 2009. The LPFA is one of England’s largest local authority pension schemes with over 73,000 members and assets of £3.8 billion. As Investment Manager - ESG his role is to develop the Fund’s responsible investment strategy, ensuring that environmental, social and governance issues are integrated into the LPFA’s overall investment strategy. Aled has worked in the investment industry since 2001 on both the fund management and asset owner ...

Frank Curtiss

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Corporate Governance, Railpen Investments

Frank Curtiss is Head of Corporate Governance at rpmi RAILPEN Investments, the investment management and monitoring arm of the Railways Pension Trustee Company, the trustee of railway industry pension funds in Great Britain. He joined the company in 1990 and has been responsible for corporate governance since 1997. His main focus is on corporate governance and shareholder engagement with investee companies and others. During his career, he has worked in both the private and public sectors. ...

Paul Lee

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Hermes Equity Ownership Services

Paul Lee is a Director at Hermes Equity Ownership Services, with overall responsibility for the operational performance of EOS's international activities in the areas of voting, engagement and public policy. This involves discussing issues of concern with board members of companies in client portfolios, with the aim of helping the companies to change and develop in ways which will add long-term value for shareholders. Paul chaired the working group which rewrote the overarching Principles of ...

Kris Douma

The Netherlands (Rijswijk)

Head of Responsible Investment & Active Ownership, Mn Services

Mr. Kris Douma (1961) joined Mn Services as Head of Responsible Investment & Active Ownership in April 2007. Before that he worked 15 years at Dutch FNV trade unions, lastly as head of strategy and consultancy at FNV Bondgenoten, the largest Dutch trade union. Between January 2003 and November 2006 he was a Member of Parliament for the Dutch Social Democratic Party (PvdA) and was actively involved in discussions on globalisation, world trade, the Doha round of the WTO, ILO, the sale an Lisbon S...

James Gifford

United Kingdom (London)

Executive Director, UN PRI

Dr James Gifford is the Executive Director of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative, which now has over 800 investor signatories, representing 15% of global capital markets. With a decade-long involvement in sustainable finance, he has published academic and industry papers on the topic as well as a number of book chapters. He has a PhD on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and corporate governance performance a...

Craig Mackenzie

United Kingdom (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Director, Centre for Business and Climate Change, University of Edinburgh/ENDS Carbon

Dr. Craig Mackenzie led the ESG teams at Insight Investment and Friends Ivory & Sime (now F&C), where he created the groundbreaking reo engagement service. He played a key role in designing the FTSE4Good Index and the new FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy Index. He has served on advisory boards for Accountability, UKSIF, Business in the Community and the GRI. He is author of the UN PRI report, Investor Leadership on Climate Change; and with Rory Sullivan, editor of Responsible Investment. More recentl...

Toni Symonds

United States of America (Sacramento, CA)

Chief Consultant, Committee on Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy, California State Legislature Assembly

Toni Symonds has held a variety of senior-level public policy positions in Washington, D.C. and California during her 27-year career in government. Throughout her career, she has advocated for a greater examination of the overlapping roles of the private sector and government policy in providing for a sustainable global economy. Ms. Symonds is the former California State Deputy Controller for Investments and Corporate Governance serving as representative to boards of the California Publi...

Richard Mattison

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive , Trucost Plc

Richard is Chief Executive of Trucost Plc, the leading provider of information and research on corporate environmental efficiency. Trucost data and analytics enables organisations to identify, measure and monetise the environmental risks and opportunities associated with their operations, supply chains and investment portfolios. Richard has advised various UN bodies and governments on environmental reporting and ecosystem services and has led groundbreaking projects including developing the w...

Martin Rich

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Social Finance

Martin is a Director of Social Finance where he focuses primarily on financial structuring and developing the investor base for social impact investments. Social Finance was formed with an overriding purpose – to connect investment with need in a way that supports social progress. The aim is to make more non-governmental money available reliably and quickly to those that can drive social change. Prior to joining Social Finance, Martin spent 13 years in international investment banking w...

Christophe Person

France (Paris)

Social Business Funds Development Officer, IDEAM

Christophe Person is in charge of the development Social Business Funds at IDEAM, Amundi's skill center for Socially Responsible Investment, assisting companies and institutions that are willing to lever up their engagement to Sustainable Development by creating innovative investment vehicles. Christophe also supports the retail banking networks of Crédit Agricole in the Promotion of their SRI offer. Pior to joining IDEAM, Christophe was working at the Corporate Governance branch of Riskmetric...

Harry Hummels

The Netherlands (S-hertogenbosch)

Director, SNS Asset Management N.V.

Harry Hummels is a professor of Ethics, Organizations and Society at Maastricht University, and joined ECCE in 2007. His teaching and research mandate focuses on the search for responsibilities in trade and industry, a significant development in the world of business. Professor Hummels combines his educational tasks with a job in a leading sustainable asset management company. His intention is to benefit from this combination and to use his practical experience when he transfers knowledge to sch...

Cedric Lombard

Switzerland (Geneva)

Founder and General Manager, Impact Finance Management S.A.

Cedric Lombard is a founder and manager of Impact Finance Management S.A., a fund management company focused on creating social, environmental and economic value with a particular focus on the BoP. He is a co-founder of BlueOrchard Finance S.A. and of Symbiotics S.A., two leading microfinance investments specialists. In both he was responsible for analysis and investments. He developed their assessment methodologies, including a social responsibility rating for Symbiotics. Over the last decade h...

Serge LeVert-Chiasson

Canada (Waterloo, ON)

Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer, Sarona Asset Management Inc

Serge LeVert-Chiasson is the Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer of Sarona Asset Management and is responsible for investments of the Sarona group of Funds. Serge has over ten years of experience in the field of finance in private banking, international commercial lending, international accounts receivable insurance and international investment management. Serge also holds a Masters in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics, is a CFA charterholder and has completed an...

Peter Sweatman

Spain (Madrid)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Climate Strategy & Partners

Climate Strategy’s founder Peter Sweatman brings together a rare combination of energy, financial, entrepreneurial, climate and low carbon technology experience. He is an engineer from Cambridge University (UK) and in the last 18 years has held senior positions at JPMorgan and Climate Change Capital managing Iberian and Latin American business units and founded and ran a successful technology venture. For the last 5 years, Peter has maintained an active programme of public address and media co...

Jonathan Maxwell

United Kingdom (London)

Founding Partner, SDCL-Sustainable Development Capital Ltd.

Jonathan Maxwell co-founded Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) in 2007. Through the process of developing sustainable investment projects, Jonathan has worked with a broad range of key stakeholders such as central and local Government departments in the UK and China, universities and institutes, NGOs, engineers, architects and specialist consultants as well as financial institutions. Jonathan has completed over 40 investment vehicle transactions over the last 14 years involving investmen...

Tobias Reichmuth

Switzerland (Zurich)

Chief Executive Officer, Fund Manager SUSI Sustainable Euro Fund I, SUSI Partners AG

Professional background: Co-Founder SUSI Partners AG, SUSI Sustainable Euro Fund Manager; Strategy Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group; Director at the Foundation for Global Sustainability and Initiator of the ‘Enabling Finance for Renewable Energy’ practice; repetitive entrepreneur.

Mark Woodall

United Kingdom (London)

Member of the Advisory Board, sale an Climate Foundation

As a serial entrepreneur, Mark Woodall has founded and led two of the leading independent investment management and advisory companies for energy and the environment in the UK. He has initiated, completed or overseen the establishment of multiple funds and the structuring and financing of dozens of new energy and environmental transactions, with a value of over $4 billion. Mark has been actively engaged in the development and implementation of public policy and finance, in the UK and beyond, to ...

Julia Balandina Jaquier

Switzerland (Zurich)

Founder and Managing Director, JBJ Consult

A seasoned impact investor and a recognized expert in this area, Dr. Balandina advises institutional investors, Swiss Government as well as leading global families and private foundations on the development and management of impact investment programs. Dr. Balandina is the author of the Guide To Impact Investing for Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals. She teaches impact investing and social entrepreneurship at the University of St. Gallen, is a gest lecturer at Yale and a frequent spe...

Katie Gordon

United Kingdom (London)

Manager of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), Cazenove Capital Management

Katie Gordon joined Cazenove in 2000. She is the Manager of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), focussing on the Social, Environmental and Ethical research process across Pan sale , ethical restriction implementation and SRI marketing. Katie joined from the marketing company Swordfish where she was the founding account director. Katie graduated from Bristol University with a 2:1 in Geography, has a Diploma in Spanish from Madrid University, is a Board Director of (UKSIF), the UK Sustainable ...

Christoph Ladanyi

United Kingdom (London)

Managing Director till April levitra , Barclays Wealth

October 2008 – Present (resigned April levitra , currently on Gardening Leave) Barclays Wealth, London, Managing Director, UHNW Initiative • In charge of overall client coverage responsibility • Managing own book and pipeline • Setting-up of all strategic intra-group co-operations and JVs • Responsible for all high margin projects such as IB-, Capital Markets- and Hedging transactions • On-boarding and mentoring of joining bankers • In charge of developing business strat...

Guillaume Taylor

Switzerland (Geneva)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, 4B Ltd

Prior to founding 4B Ltd, Guillaume Taylor was a partner from 2002 to levitra at de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co. Ltd (PPT) (www.ppt.ch) where he was in charge of sustainable finance for private clients. Guillaume previously worked from 1995 to 2002 as a private portfolio manager at Darier Hentsch & Cie Private Bankers (www.lombardodier.com). From 1989 to 1995, Guillaume was a credit analyst and treasury specialist at Intel Corporation (www.intel.com) in London and Paris. In 2007, he co-founded and...

Herta Von Stiegel

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ariya Capital LLP

Herta von Stiegel is Founder and CEO of Ariya Capital Group, a Botswana- and London-based private equity firm focusing on sustainable investments in Africa. An international executive with a consistent track record of building profitable highly regulated structured finance businesses, she held senior positions at Citibank and JP Morgan and, until 2005 was Managing Director at AIG Financial Products, the financial services division of American International Group Inc. A US tax lawyer ...

Tatjana Greil Castro

United Kingdom (London)

Managing Director, Muzinich & Co. Ltd.

Tatjana has more than eleven years experience in managing corporate bonds portfolios. She came to Muzinich from Metlife Investments, where she served as an Associate Director of the High Return Unit. Earlier, Tatjana worked as Senior Portfolio Manager in sale an High Yield for Fortis Investments and as a portfolio manager and credit analyst at Legal & General Investment Management. She started her career as a high yield telecom analyst with Merrill Lynch. She has a PhD from the London School of...

Christopher Greenwald

Switzerland (Zurich)

Head of Sustainability Application and Operations, SAM Sustainability Asset Management

Christopher Greenwald is Head of Sustainability Application and Operations at SAM, where he manages the research process underlying the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Previously, he served as Director of ESG Data Content as ASSET4 - Thomson Reuters, where he headed the research department and the overall integration strategy of ESG content at Thomson Reuters. Christopher has an MBA from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland as well as the FAME Certificate from the Swiss Finance Institute. He holds a Ph.D. ...

Willem Appel

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Chief Executive Officer, Roodhals Capital B.V.

Willem Appel is co-founder of Roodhals Capital, an investment manager with offices in Amsterdam and London and manager of the Branta Solutions Fund. His career of 22 years included roles in commodity finance and investment management of credit, equity and distressed portfolios in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Willem holds a degree in business and economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Diederik Timmer

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Managing Director, Sustainalytics

Diederik is the Managing Director and Global Director, Sales and Marketing at Sustainalytics. In these roles he is responsible for managing operations of the Amsterdam office in addition to client relations, business development and marketing. Diederik joined Sustainalytics as a responsible investment specialist in September 2006. He became Head of Client Services in May 2008. After the merger with Jantzi-Sustainalytics, Diederik assumed the role of Global Director, Client Services. Diederik has...

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...

Greg Barker

Mauritius (Port Louis)

Director - Investment Research, Sustainable Capital

Sustainable Capital is an independent, owner-managed, responsible investment asset manager that specialises in the research and management of listed African equity securities. Greg heads up Sustainable Capital’s investment team. He is responsible for managing the Africa Sustainability Fund. Greg has led the development of Sustainable Capital’s investment process, which relies on proprietary, in-house research with an emphasis on detailed industry- and company-specific analysis and valuation....

Holger Rothenbusch

Germany (Cologne)

Senior Vice President, DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

Biography of Holger Rothenbusch Holger Rothenbusch is head of structured finance at DEG, one of the biggest sale an development finance institutes, based in Germany. He is responsible for risk capital investments in private companies and commitments to private equity and mezzanine funds, financial sector projects, sustainable development/environment as well as DEG's technical assistance program. Before joining DEG in June 2004, Holger was working with Actis (which emerged out of CDC), a pri...

Andreas Holzer

Switzerland (Zurich)

Analyst, Sustainability Research, Bank Sarasin & Cie AG

Degree in geography with the minor subjects chemistry and economics, University of Basel Professional career: 1997–1998 Environmental management department of UBS 1998–2004 Environmental and social analyst, Zurich Cantonal Bank Since 2004 Senior Analyst Sarasin Sustainable Investment

Aldo Bonati

Italy (Milan)

Head of Research Department, ECPI Milan

Aldo joined ECPI in 2007 and combines deep knowledge of systematic screening methods and international ESG standards with a long experience in integrating non-financial indicators in investment processes and structuring innovative, investable solutions and indices for ECPI's asset management and investment banking clients. Before joining ECPI, Aldo was product development manager at BNL Gestioni SGR (now BNP Paribas Asset Management) in charge of domestic and international mutual funds, market...

Ylva Lindberg

Norway (Oslo)

Founder & Managing Director, SIGLA

Ylva Lindberg is the founder and managing director of SIGLA, a boutique consultancy on the role of business in society. She works with listed and state-owned companies in identifying risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental challenges, including on leadership programmes, strategy and innovation. Ylva has fifteen years with business experience, including as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, marketing manager in Orkla, and equity analyst at KLP Asset Management. Her expert...

Estelle Mironesco

France (Bagnolet)

Director of Vigeo Rating , Vigeo Group

Estelle Mironesco has been managing the ESG research services of Vigeo since 2008. She was previously Director of SRI Research with Natixis Asset Management. Estelle graduated from ESCP sale and spent the first 10 years of her career in commercial banking, primarily in London, holding positions in corporate analysis as well as client relationship. She then worked for 10 years in asset management firms in Paris where she successively created and managed three buy-side analysis teams on the cre...

Masahiro Kato

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Manager, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co.

Masahiro Kato is head of SRI at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, responsible for internal ESG research for SRI fund and 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 Japa...

Adam Seitchik

United States of America (Greenwich)

Managing Director, Auriel Capital

Adam Seitchik, Ph.D., CFA is Managing Director at Auriel Capital, a London-based institutional asset management firm. He is responsible for integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) signals into Auriel Equity's systematic investment platform. Previously Dr. Seitchik was Chief Investment Officer at Trillium Asset Management in Boston, where he oversaw $1 billion in investment portfolios integrating ESG and financial factors into a value-added stock selection process. Prior to special...

André Havas

Sweden (Stockholm)

Head of Investor Relations, Optimized Portfolio Management Stockholm AB

André Havas is head of investor relations at Optimized Portfolio Management (OPM). OPM is Scandinavia’s leading fund of hedge fund manager and hedge fund selection team. It manages approximately $500 million through fund of hedge funds and advisory mandates for institutional investors. OPM has launched Scandinavia's first SRI fund of hedge funds. OPM’s selection process is focused on correlation, risk and performance of the underlying funds. André has 14 years experience of alternative inv...

Filippo Addarii

United Kingdom (London)

Executive Director, Euclid Network – the sale an network of civil society professionals

Christine Chardennes

United Kingdom (London)

Vice President, MSCI

Iqbal Asaria

United Kingdom (London)

Associate, Afkar Consulting Ltd.

Associate, Afkar Consulting Ltd Head of sale an Operations, Yasaar Ltd Non-Executive Director, Amiri Capital Services Ltd Mr Iqbal is a trained Economist and Accountant. He has worked as an Investment Analyst in the City of London for several years. For the last several years he has been involved in consultancy on financial product structuring and niche marketing services to faith and ethnic communities in the UK. As part of these services Mr Iqbal has advised many banks and insurance c...

Usman Hayat

United Kingdom (London)

Director of Islamic Finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing, CFA Institute

Usman Hayat is the Director of Islamic Finance and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing at the sale , Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) office of CFA Institute, a global association for investment professionals. He was previously with the Asia Pacific office of CFA Institute in Hong Kong and has also worked as an independent consultant in the capital markets of Pakistan and as Joint Director at Pakistan's Securities and Exchange Commission.

Howard Pearce

United Kingdom (Almondsbury)

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

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

Mark Mansley

United Kingdom (Bristol)

Investment Director, Rathbone Greenbank Investments

Mark Mansley is an investment director at Rathbone Greenbank Investments, responsible for advisory services, strategy and specialist investments, including mission related investing. He started working in investment in 1983 but snce 1993 he has focused on socially responsible investment, providing independent analysis on integrating social and environmental factors into investment policy, and conducting research into issues such as climate change and health and safety. From 1999 to 2004 he ran C...

Philippe Desfossés

France (Paris)

Chief Executive Officer, ERAPF- Établissement de Retraite Additionnelle de la Fonction Publique

Genevieve Ferone

France (Paris)

VP Sustainable Development, Veolia Environnement

PhD in Law and graduated from Business School, Genevieve FERONE worked in various international institutions such as IEA, OECD and UNHCR. From 1992 to 1996, she worked in California in a firm specialized in pension funds and socially responsible investment. In 1997, she created the 1st French extra-financial rating agency, ARESE. From 2006 to 2008, she was Director Sustainable Development for the Group Eiffage and she is currently working in Veolia Environment as Senior Vice-President Sustainabl...

Catherine Howarth

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Director, FairPensions

Catherine Howarth is CEO of FairPensions, a UK charity promoting responsible and sustainable investment strategies by pension funds and the fund managers who serve them. The charity publishes rankings of the largest occupational pension funds and, separately, fund managers showing their relative performance on responsible investment policy and practice. FairPensions promotes transparency and accountability to members on pension fund investment strategy. Catherine is a member-nominated truste...

Robert Rubinstein

The Netherlands (Amsterdam)

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

Although born in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Rubinstein is a longtime resident of The Netherlands. So, back in 1999, when he founded a company to introduce the then-radical concept of sustainable investing, it seemed only natural to name it after his distant former hometown: Brooklyn Bridge – Connections to the Future B.V. (BB). The concept behind this company was the introduction of TBLI – Triple Bottom Line Investing. From its early days, the aim of this small company was and is unabashed...