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Thursday October 1: Senate Room, Robertson Hall, Carleton University

09:15- 10:30 Session I: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Responsible Investing

Roger Urwin (Global Head of Investment Content, Watson Wyatt) and Claire Woods (Ph.D. candidate, Oxford University)

Sustainable Investing Principles: Models for Institutional Investors

James Hawley (Co-Director, Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism, Saint Mary’s College of California)

An Exploration into Corporate Governance, Risk Analysis and the Financial Crisis: What Did Universal Owners Do, and Not Do, to Contribute to the Crisis?

Cary Krosinsky (Vice President, Business Development, Trucost), Nick Robins (Head of the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence) and Stephen Viederman (former
President, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation)

After the Credit Crunch: The Future of Sustainable Investing

Respondent

Michael Musuraca (Managing Director, Blue Wolf Capital Management and former designated trustee, NYCERS and former member of the PRI Board)

11:00-12:15 Session II: Growth of RI Industry

Rob Bauer (Professor, Department of Finance, Maastricht University and Director of the European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE)) and Paul Smeets (Ph.D.
candidate, Maastricht University)

SRI for your own benefit, or to improve the world

David Wood (Director, Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment)

What do we do with the Business Case for Responsible Investment?

Benjamin J. Richardson (Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) and
Wes Cragg (Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University)

Being Virtuous and Prosperous: SRI’s Conflicting Goals

Respondent

Jane Ambachtsheer (National Partner and Global Head of Responsible Investment, Mercer)

13:30-14:45 Session III: The Next Generation – Exploring RI in new asset classes

Andreas Hoepner (Lecturer in Banking & Finance & Ph.D. candidate, School of Management,
University of St. Andrews)

Future scenarios for screened responsible investment across asset classes

Beth Sirull (Director, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV)

Measurement Matters: Maximizing TOTAL Return on Responsible Investments in Private Equity and Real Estate

Steve Lydenberg (Chief Investment Officer, Domini Social Investments)

Beyond Risk: Notes toward Responsible Alternatives for Investment Theory

Respondent

Kevin Ranney (Global Director of Responsible Investment Services, Jantzi-Sustainalytics)

15:00-16:30 Session IV: Session IV: Corporate Governance Factors in RI

Joseph Gawer (Head of Quantitative Research, Natixis Asset Management and Adjunct
Professor, University Paris Dauphine)

Does it pay to improve Corporate Governance? An empirical analysis of European equities

Kym Sheehan (Senior Lecturer in Business Law & Ph.D. Candidate, University of Sydney)

Institutional investor advocacy and executive remuneration: rethinking the rule of institutional shareholders as executive remuneration norm entrepreneurs

James Gifford (Executive Director, PRI)

Effective shareholder engagement: An analysis of the factors that contribute to shareholder salience

Respondent

Robert Walker (Vice President, Sustainability, The Ethical Funds Company)

Friday October 2: Sheraton Hotel, Albert Street, Ottawa

09:00-09:40 Keynote Address: ‘The Good Corporate Citizen’

Ken Georgetti (President, Canadian Labour Congress)

Ed Waitzer (Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University & Senior Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP.)

The Good Corporate Citizen

09:40- 10:40 Session V: Session V: Integrating E and S Factors in RI

Aaron Bernstein (Senior Research Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School)

Quantifying Labor and Human Rights Portfolio Risk

Bert Scholtens (Professor, Department of Finance, University of Groningen)

Assessing the environmental performance of bond portfolios

Respondent

Matthew Kiernan (Co-Head of Sustainability Solutions Group, Risk Metrics Group)

11:00-12:00 Session VI: Private Equity and Responsible Property Investment

Nils Kok (Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Maastricht University and ECCE) and Dirk Brounen (RSM Erasmus)

The Economics of Energy Labels

Tessa Hebb (Director, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3CI), Carleton University), Ashley Hamilton (Research Analyst, Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE)) and Heather Hachigan (Research Assistant, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3CI))

Responsible Property Investing in Canada: Factoring both Environmental and Social Impacts in the Canadian Real Estate Market

Respondent

Beth Sirull (Director, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV)

13:00-14:00 Future Research Needs: Insights from PRI Signatories

Brigid Barnett (Manager, Responsible Investing, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board)

Susan Enefer (Manager, Shareholder Engagement, BC Investment Management Corporation)

Marie-Claude Provost (Senior Advisor, Policy and proxy management, Policies and Compliance, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec)

Daniel Simard (General Coordinator, Comité syndical national de retraite Bâtirente)

Laura Shaffer (Director of Shareholder Activities, Nathan Cummings Foundation)

14:30-15:30 Session VII: Informing the design of RI strategies

Taylor Gray (Ph.D. candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Responsible Investment and the Geography of Risk

Omar Dominguez (M.A. Planning candidate, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia)

Responsible Investment Practices Among Universities

Respondent

Steve Lydenberg (Chief Investment Officer, Domini Social Investments)

15:30-16:30 Session VIII: Interpreting and Implementing RI

Ian Hamilton (Ph.D. candidate, Umeå School of Business, Umeå University)

How Do Swedish National Pension Funds Fulfill the Government Directive for Socially Responsible Investing?

Rene Swart (LLM candidate & Senior Researcher, University of South Africa), Neil Eccles
(Programme Manager and Noah Chair for Responsible Investment, Centre for Corporate Citizenship, University of South Africa) and K.E. van der Linde (Professor of Mercantile Law, University of Johannesburg)

The fiduciary responsibility of asset consultants and its influence on the practice of responsible investment in the South African pension fund industry

Respondent

Tessa Hebb (Director, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3CI), Carleton University)

Saturday 3 October: Room Carleton University

09:00-10:15 Session IX: ESG factors and shareholder value

Bastien Drut (Ph.D. candidate, Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Paris Ouest)

Sovereign Bonds and Socially Responsible Investment

Philipp Krüger (Ph.D. candidate, Toulouse School of Economics)

Stakeholder information and shareholder value

Afshin Mehrpouya (Ph.D. candidate, ESSEC Business School Paris)

Does it always PAY to be socially and environmentally responsible? Exploring the scenarios where there is a disconnect between Environmental & Social (E&S) performance and financial performance

Respondent

Andreas Hoepner (Lecturer in Banking & Finance & Ph.D. candidate, School of Management, University of St. Andrews)

10:30-11:45 Session X: RI as a driver of long-term change?

Pernille Jessen (Ph.D. candidate, Aarhus University)

Structured Products for Sustainable and Responsible Investment

Diane-Laure Arjaliès-de la Lande (Ph.D. candidate, ESSEC Business School Paris)

A Social Movement Perspective on Finance: How Socially Responsible Investment Mattered

Respondent

Bert Scholtens (Professor, Department of Finance, University of Groningen)

Submitted for consideration but unable to attend

Eric Knight (Ph.D. candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) and Adam Dixon (Lecturer in Economic Geography, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol)

The role of asset consulting in transforming investment decision-making: The integration of environmental, social and governance considerations into corporate valuation

Kenneth Amaeshi (Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University)

Rethinking the link between corporate responsibility and financial performance

Eliza Minou Zarbafi (Ph.D. European Business School, Germany)

Responsible Investment and the Claim of Corporate Change – An Overview

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