Terry A'Hearn Director, Business Development, EPA Victoria

Terry is trained in economics and, early in his career, used his professional qualifications for traditional economics roles in the Tax Office and the Victorian Treasury Department. In 1993, he joined EPA to head up its new Economics Unit. Since then, Terry has moved into management roles and for the last five years he has been a member of EPA's executive team. Terry chairs EPA's own Environment Committee and led the development of EPA's carbon neutral strategy and the roll out of carbon management support to the business community.

Christopher J. Ailman Chief Investment Officer California State Teachers’ Retirement System

Mr. Ailman is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the $120 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second largest pension fund in the nation. As CIO, Mr. Ailman leads a team of seven directors, and an investment staff of 96, which manage the following divisions: Private Equity, Global Equities, Corporate Governance, Fixed Income, Real Estate, Operations and Innovation / Risk. He joined CalSTRS in the fall of 2000. He has over 23 years of institutional investment management experience.

He currently serves on several Boards and Advisory Boards in the U.S. and U.K. He is a Governor of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) a UK non-profit promoting shareholder rights across the globe. He is also on the Board and was the past Chairman for the Pacific Pension Institute, an educational institute for the study of Pacific Rim institutional investments. He currently represents institutional investors on the Russell Index Client Advisory Board and the MSCI Barra Index Editorial Advisory Board. Mr. Ailman is also the first pension plan member of the New America Alliance a Latino business initiative. For the past ten years he has served as advisor to the Institute for Fiduciary Education (IFE) Market Makers annual investment conference.

In 2000, he received the CIO of the Year – IFE Leadership Award by IFE. In 2003, his State CIO peers awarded him the Richard Stoddard Award for service in the investment of public pensions. In 2006 he was honored to be the first Anglo to receive the Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Latino’s in business by the New America Alliance.

Prior to joining CalSTRS, Mr. Ailman had more than four years experience managing the $60 Billion Washington State Investment Board, and 11 years experience working for the Sacramento County Employees Retirement System where he served as CIO of the pension fund for the county.

Mr. Ailman has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1980. He received his Certified Financial Planner from the University of Southern California in 1984. He is married with three daughters and is a committed Promise Keeper.

Jane Ambachtsheer National Partner, Mercer Consulting Services

Jane Ambachtsheer is a National Partner of Mercer’s investment consulting business. Based in Toronto, she leads Mercer's global responsible investment business, and consults to investors and industry associations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Jane is an advisor to the Carbon Disclosure Project, sits on the finance committee of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund and is a former Director of the Canadian Social Investment Organisation. In 2005, she was recognised by Global Proxy Watch as one of the top 10 “Architects of Governance”, and in 2008 Jane was identified as one of "50 Canadian Women to Watch" by Chatelaine Magazine. Jane holds a Bachelor of Economics and English literature with honours from York University, and a Master of Social Science from the University of Amsterdam. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where she teaches a graduate course on responsible investment. Prior to joining Mercer, Jane worked for the pension benchmarking firm CEM, in Amsterdam and Toronto.

Brigid is responsible for implementing CPP Investment Board’s corporate environmental and social engagement program including approaches such as proxy voting, working through coalitions and direct engagement.

Prior to joining CPP Investment Board in 2006, she worked as a senior research analyst at Innovest in both Toronto and London, England, a money market trader at TD Asset Management, and a fixed income research analyst at TD Securities.

Brigid holds an Honours BA in Economics from Queen's University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a CFA charter.

Timothy R. Barron President and Chief Executive Officer, Rogerscasey

Tim Barron is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogerscasey, responsible for the strategic direction and management of the firm. He oversees new business development, institutional consulting, investment research and manager research as well as all operational aspects of the firm. Some of his firm committee assignments include heading the Rogerscasey Management Committee that is responsible for setting the overall business strategy and direction of the firm and membership on our Fiduciary Investment Review Committee, which provides oversight for our fully discretionary relationships.

Tim joined Rogerscasey in 2002 with over 25 years of experience in the investment industry. Most recently, he was employed at Muzinich & Co., a high yield bond investment specialist firm, where he was Director of U.S. Institutional Client Development. Prior to that, he was a principal at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Tim was a Managing Director and Senior Consultant at BARRA RogersCasey, where he led a team providing consulting services to a variety of clients. Tim was also a consultant with Wyatt Asset Services, the Chief Investment Officer for the Virginia Retirement System, and the Executive Director of the City of Richmond Retirement System.

Tim graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from Emory University. He also received a M.B.A. in Finance from Georgia State University.

Aaron Bernstein Senior Research Fellow- Labour and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

A Senior Research Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the editor of Global Proxy Watch, a corporate governance newsletter. He left BusinessWeek magazine in 2006 after a 23-year career as an editor and senior writer, where he covered workplace topics such as labor rights, social responsibility, and corporate governance. Bernstein received a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and did two years of graduate work in Political and Legal Theory at Oxford University.

Else F. Bos Chief Executive Officer, PGGM Investments

After graduating in 1983 from Rotterdam Erasmus University, where she studied Econometrics, Ms Bos joined Algemene Bank Nederland (later ABN AMRO Bank) where she held different positions at the Directorate general in financial accounting and planning and control. In 1995 she moved to ABN AMRO Netherlands division holding various senior management positions. From 1991 till 2001 she was responsible for Operations, IT and Facility Management as COO of ABN Amro Asset Management. In this capacity she also held the role of program director of the Asset Management BPR Project.

In 2001 she joined NIBC Asset Management as Co Head Investments. As Co Head Investments she was responsible for people, process and project management within the Investment Management Department. Changing the organization from a single customer focus to a multi client oriented asset manager in Fixed Income Alternatives. In 2002 she became COO/CFO at NIBC Asset Management and was responsible for Operations, IT, Finance, Risk Control, HR, Legal and Office Management.

Ms Bos started at PGGM Investments in 2003 as Director Third Parties, Operations & Staff. In March 2005 she was appointed Chief Executive Officer Investments, member of the Board of Directors of PGGM.

PGGM provides a compulsory collective pension scheme for employees in the healthcare and social work sector. It aims to provide participants with a good pension package, based on the principle of solidarity, at the lowest possible price. Employer and employee contributions are invested by PGGM such that the investments generate the highest possible return at acceptable levels of risk. PGGM invests worldwide in equities, convertibles, private equity, fixed-income, inflation-linked, real estate, commodities and a portfolio of strategies.

John Brakey Director, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR)

John Brakey (Sydney) joined KKR's Client and Partner Group in 2009. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Brakey was Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds in Macquarie Funds Group, the funds management arm of Macquarie Group. He was Chair of the Investment Committee and was responsible for the management of approximately AUD$5 billion of commitments in both domestic and international funds. Prior to that, Mr. Brakey was an Asset Consultant with Towers Perrin, advising on alternative asset classes, assessing private equity managers and developing Towers Perrin's alternative investment capabilities. He holds a B.Agr.Ec. with first class honors from the University of Sydney and holds a C.F.A. and an ASIA.

Erik Breen Head of Corporate Governance, Robeco

Erik Breen is head of the Responsible Investing department at Robeco. This department is responsible for entering into constructive dialogues with invested companies on corporate governance and sustainability and for exercising voting rights. Furthermore the team provides the portfolio managers with the sustainability ratings and issues per company. Erik began his career with Robeco in 1996 and held positions as senior Portfolio Manager at various teams at the investment department. Erik holds a Master of Econometrics from the University of Groningen, earned an EFFAS CFA and is registered with the Dutch Securities Institute. Erik is fund manager of Robeco DuurzaamAandelen. Erik chairs the Investment Committee of Eumedion and is a member of ICGN’s Shareholder Responsibilities Committee and of Eurosif’s Lobbying Advisory Sub-Group.

Melissa Brown Director, IDFC Global Alternatives (Hong Kong) Ltd

Melissa Brown is the Managing Director of IDFC Global Alternatives (HK) Ltd. where she works with a team investing in emerging market expansion capital private equity funds. In addition to sitting on the investment committee, Ms. Brown is responsible for the team’s ESG integration strategy. Ms. Brown has over 20 years of experience in Asian equity research and has published extensively on both mainstream and sustainable investment issues related to Asian markets.

Prior to IDFC, she was Executive Director of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA), which provides research to financial institutions on sustainable investment issues. Up until 2003, she was Managing Director, and Deputy Head of Asian Research at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney. Other positions held in her extensive banking career were at J.P. Morgan, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Lord, Abbett & Company.

She is currently a member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Listing Committee and Chairs the advisory panel of Responsible Research Pte. Ltd., a research venture focused on the analysis of ESG performance of Asian listed companies. She received a BA in Economics from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Ann Byrne CEO, The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors

Ann is the CEO of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI provides corporate governance advice and research on behalf if its 42 member superannuation funds that collectively manage over A$250 billion on behalf of over 5 million super fund members.

Ann joined ACSI in 2008 with a history of superannuation / pension fund management at UniSuper, the superannuation fund for staff of Australia’s 37 universities and Superannuation Trust of Australia, now Australian Super, a multi industry fund created for the manufacturing sector. In 2007 Ann was awarded the Fund Executive of the Year and was a member of the Board of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia.

Ann is a member of the Business Finance and Audit Committee of Oxfam (Australia), Monash University Department of Accounting and Finance Advisory Committee and is a National Convener and Book Review Organiser of the Australian Chapter of “Sisters in Crime”.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Monash University Accounting and Finance School.

Rafael Castro Manager, PREVI

Rafael Castro is the Strategic Planning Manager of PREVI (Brazil), the pension fund of the employees of Banco do Brasil, and the largest institutional investor in Latin America. He is also the coordinator of the national commission of sustainability of ABRAPP, the Brazilian Association of Pension Funds; and the Coordinator of the PRI Brazil Network. Prior to this position, Rafael worked as a Senior Analyst at Previ's investment and real state departments. He is a PhD candidate in Management at the University of Surrey (UK) and has a LL.B. degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Real State Management from PUC – Rio (Brazil) and a MSc in Tourism Management from University of Surrey (UK).

Cate Collins Head of Sustainability - Asia Pacific I Lend Lease

For the past 9 years, Cate has been actively involved in the design, planning and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sectors.

As the new Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease Asia Pacific, Cate is responsible for managing the implementation of sustainability across the Lend Lease APAC businesses, including Investment Management, Retail and Communities, Lend Lease Development, Lend Lease Delfin and Vivas Lend Lease, empowering and engaging her team and the businesses in demonstrating the value proposition of sustainable property development, management and investment, which in the current economic environment, has never been more critical or made more business sense.

Cate's new role builds upon her previous 12 months as the Sustainability Manager for the Investment Management business of Lend Lease, in which Cate was responsible for driving the strategic implementation of sustainability across new and existing wholesale funds globally (Aus, Asia, UK and US), contributing to the achievement of the Lend Lease vision to become a sustainable organisation.

Previously, as Associate Director ESD at Hyder Consulting, Cate was responsible for building the Melbourne Sustainable Design Group and the coordination of multi-disciplined teams across Hyder's Australian Offices, providing sustainability consultancy services for built environment projects around Australia. Her work prior to that with Victorian local and State Government resulted in the development and implementation of several key initiatives, including the Doncaster Hill Sustainability Guidelines and the Moreland STEPS and Sustainable Design Scorecard.

Cate is an active participant of the Property Council of Australia's National Sustainability Roundtable, the new Green Building Council of Australia's Asia Pacific Committee and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Property Working Group, developing resources to facilitate sustainable responsible investment.

Elizabeth Compton Program Manager - Finance Sector, Environment Protection Authority Victoria  

Elizabeth Compton is the Program Manager for the Finance Sector within EPA Vic’s Business Development Unit. She works with some of Australia’s largest financial institutions, including NAB, Westpac, ANZ and VicSuper, to move the finance sector towards a more sustainable future.  EPA Vic, is the secretariat for both the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment in Australia. Liz leads the work of both programs in Australia, working with local signatories to implement these initiatives. Prior to joining EPA, Liz ran her own retail and wholesales gourmet food business and prior to that she spent eight years in Europe and America working for Goldman Sachs within the Investment Banking Division and working in Amsterdam for Yamaha Motors Europe, heading up their corporate communications team. She has a Masters in International and European Relations from Amsterdam University, a Certificate in Journalism from New York University and a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Swinburne University, Melbourne.

David Couldridge Senior Investment Analyst, Frater Asset Management

David Couldridge is Head of Engagement at Frater Asset Management (FAM) based in Cape Town South Africa. David has been involved in a number of FAM engagements with South African companies to improve ESG issues. FAM is an active participant in the Emerging Market Disclosure Project.

Prior to Frater Asset Management, David qualified as a Chartered Accountant and was involved in the industrial and financial services industries. David has undertaken a number of roles including external audit, internal audit, financial management, taxation compliance and planning and senior management. Audit, risk and compliance assignments were undertaken in South Africa, UK and USA.

David undertook a Masters programme at the University of Cape Town engineering faculty that was based on systems thinking. His wide experience positioned him to use the thesis to develop an Inclusive Integrated Governance Framework. The framework is used to assess the governance of all potential investee companies for FAM. David attended the Henley International Governance conference each year from 2003 to 2007 and presented 3 papers covering integrated governance, remuneration and shareholder activism in South Africa.

David graduated with a B.Comm from the University of Cape Town (UCT), completed articles with Ernst & Young and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. While working for a financial services company David completed a Graduate Diploma in Tax Law with UCT and the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) qualification. Prior to joining Frater Asset Management David completed a Masters in Industrial Administration.

David G. Creighton President and CEO, Cordiant

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, he has been directly involved with the analysis and approval of over 150 of Cordiant’s private sector investments in more than 50 emerging countries. Over the course of his 25 year career, Mr. Creighton has accumulated extensive experience in the field of international capital markets, initially in Toronto, Canada, and then later in New York and London. In 1999, he returned to his native Montreal to coordinate the launch of Cordiant’s first fund.

Cordiant is an emerging market, private equity and debt fund manager with over $1 billion raised from some of Europe and North America’s largest pension funds. Through an extensive network of on-the-ground partners, the firm gains access to well structured opportunities in countries that are generally beyond the reach of most investors. Cordiant is a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investing, and ensures that all investments are screened and monitored for environmental, social and governance issues.

Mr. Creighton is an honours graduate from the University of Guelph, where he studied Agricultural Economics, and a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D, November 2007). He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and has been a contributor and fundraiser for a number of local and international causes. Mr. Creighton has travelled extensively around the world.

Rachel Etherington Director of Fundraising, Fauna and Flora International Australia

Rachel Etherington joined FFI at the end of last year as Australian Development Director. Prior to this she had undertaken a career in the commercial sector, building and marketing some of the world’s leading brands. It was this commercial background combined with her personal interest in the world of conservation that motivated the move to Fauna and Flora, a very different kind of conservation organisation that pioneered engagement with the corporate sector some 15 years ago. Rachel strongly believes that the worlds of business and biodiversity are converging in a way never before seen and indeed that conservation has moved on from a moral imperative to a business necessity. It is within this context that she is building FFI’s Australian entity, assembling a powerful board (including representation from the finance sector – Merrill Lynch, Macquarie and GSJBW and others) and a PES specialist from ANU. In addition to harnessing and building a local constituency of support for global conservation, Rachel has devoted significant time to the development of the local partnership programme in Queensland.

Nathan Fabian Chief Executive Officer, IGCC

Nathan Fabian is the Chief Executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand. The IGCC represents institutional investors with total funds under management of approximately $500 billion and others in the investment community who are aiming to improve their readiness for the investment impacts of climate change.

Nathan previously headed ESG Research at Regnan - governance research and engagement, where he developed ESG research services for mainstream investment managers. Prior to this he was Policy advisor to Senator Penny Wong in the shadow portfolio of Corporate Governance and Responsibility. In his earlier career he was founding partner of Full Corp Partners, which provided strategic and funding advice to IT and Financial Services start-up companies. Before that he was an organisational change consultant with Arthur Andersen.

Nathan is a founding member of the International Young Professionals Foundation, a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, a founder of CowFund and a member of Finsia’s Sustainability Advisory Council. He holds degrees in Business and International Relations.

Heidi Finskas Advisor, Responsible Investments, KLP Kapitalforvaltning

As Advisor for Responsible Investments, Heidi Finskas works with the implementation and development of KLP's responsible investment policy and ownership principles. KLP is one of Norway's largest life insurance companies with total assets of NOK 202 billion. The company provides pension, financing and insurance services to the local government sector and the state health enterprises as well as to businesses both in the public and the private sectors. Heidi Finskas holds a Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences from University of Helsinki and a Master's Degree from University of Oslo.

Dr Richard Fuller Investments Analyst, Hesta

Dr Richard Fuller is the Investment Analyst (PRI) at HESTA Super Fund. His role is the implementation of the UNPRI across all asset classes. Richard has a background as a senior manager in both the private sector (agribusiness) and with government (social insurance). He holds a PhD in international relations and is currently completing a Masters in Applied Finance and Investment.

Christina Gehring Project Manager, PRI Academic and Public Policy Networks

Christina came to the PRI as part of a joint venture between the Danish Government and the PRI on promoting research on Responsible Investment. Christina will be responsible for further developing the PRI Academic Network as well as starting up the Public Policy Network. Christina holds a masters degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen. Before joining the PRI, Christina worked in the Danish Government Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CenSa) under the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs. Her main projects have been the development of the National Action Plan for CSR publicised in May 2008, the law on disclosure adopted in December 2008. Additionally, Christina has worked on projects with the financial sector on the mainstreaming of SRI. Previously Christina worked in The Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility – a Centre which undertakes research and practical studies in collaboration with external researchers, practitioners, experts and international institutions.

Shareen Shariza Abdul Ghani Senior Vice President Corporate Responsibility Khazanah Nasional Berhad

Shareen is Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility (CR) in Khazanah Nasional Berhad. She has been instrumental in shaping the CR strategy and function for Khazanah Nasional Berhad. In advancing the CR agenda for corporate Malaysia, Shareen’s work includes advocating and building capacity for Malaysian companies, in particular the Government Linked Companies (GLCs), to integrate business strategy with ESG (environmental, social and governance) principles. She is part of a team under the GLC Transformation Programme, intended to shape the next generation of world class Malaysian companies, through a programme-based approach, where CR forms one of the strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining Khazanah, she served as Chief Operations Officer for MERCY Malaysia, a humanitarian organisation working with vulnerable communities around the world. On the course of her work at MERCY Malaysia she has served in humanitarian missions to Darfur (Sudan), Sri Lanka, Iran, Aceh (Indonesia) and in remote areas in Malaysia. She was a Board Member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, an organisation based in Geneva, promoting greater beneficiary accountability for humanitarian organisations and donor agencies.

Her career footprint spans various sectors from retail, capital markets to strategic brand management with an oil and gas multinational. Shareen holds a Bachelor (Hons) in Communications, majoring in International Relations and Developmental Communications from Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Steve Gibbs Director, IGCC

Steve Gibbs is Director-Government and Industry Liaison with the investor Group on Climate Change (Australia & NZ).He is Chair of the Responsible Investment Academy and is an independent Director of Hastings Funds Management, Westpac Funds Management and related entities and also Chairman of Australian Income Protection Pty Ltd. From early 2000 he was CEO of ARIA (formerly PSS/CSS) the superannuation (pension) schemes for federal government employees. When Steve left ARIA in January 2008 it had close to $A 20 billion under management. Prior to ARIA Steve was Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees(AIST). His earlier career was in the trade union movement.

Steve was a member of the steering committee and investor group which developed the PRI.

James Gifford Executive Director, PRI

James Gifford is Executive Director of the PRI and has been guiding the initiative since its inception in November 2003. He has a PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and corporate governance performance. He was a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Working Group on environmental indicators for the finance sector. He has a background in IT and environmental protection. James has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Queensland, and a Master's of Environment Management from the University of New South Wales. He is a board member of the Melbourne-based Centre for Sustainability Leadership.

Quentin Grafton Professor, Co - Chair of ANU Water Initiative, Crawford School of Economics and Government

Dr R. Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU), Co-Chair of ANU Water Initiative and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

He has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Science from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author or editor of 10 books in environmental and resource economics including The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources (Blackwell Publishing), Economics of Water Resources (Edward Elgar), Handbook of Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management (in press, Oxford University Press) and Water Resources Planning and Management (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). He has published 20 chapters in books and over 70 papers in internationally refereed journals including in some of the world’s highest impact journals (such as Science).

He is Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, a former Associate Editor of Marine Resource Economics (1998-2001), and a former Guest Editor of the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues (Volume 7 Nos 2/3). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journal Environment and Development Economics and the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. He has been a consultant for the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Governments and several international organizations including the World Bank and the OECD.

Julie Hudson Managing Director, UBS

Kirsty Jenkinson Director, Governance & Sustainable Investment, F&C Management Limited

Kirsty joined one of the UK's largest fund managers, F&C, in 2001. F&C is a leading asset manager providing responsible investment strategies to retail and institutional clients. Kirsty is a Director in the Governance & Sustainable Investment team which analyses how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors impact company performance and value. She manages the team’s shareholder engagement programmes across a diverse range of ESG issues. Kirsty has specific responsibility for coverage of the banking sector, geographic coverage of Australasia and Africa and particular expertise in human rights and business. Prior to joining F&C, Kirsty was an Executive Director in the Fixed Income division at Goldman Sachs International, where she spent six years in London and New York in institutional sales and research. Kirsty is a member of the London Committee of Human Rights Watch and Chair of the Human Rights Watch London Network. Kirsty holds a MA in International History from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dr. Marcel Jeucken Head of Responsible Investment, PGGM Investments and Steering Committee Member, IIGCC

Dr Marcel Jeucken is Head of Responsible Investment and member of the Front Office Management Team at PGGM Investments. PGGM Investments is the fiduciary manager for amongst others Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn, the second largest pension fund in The Netherlands and Europe and has approximately 72 billion euro under management. The 8fte strong Responsible Investment team has a central role in the implementation of PGGM's responsible investment policy along all asset classes. These activities include integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into internal and external mandates, focussed ESG investments, voting, engagement, exclusions, and shareholder litigation. Marcel is amongst others a delegate of the PRI Board, member of the Steering Committee of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and member of the 2009 Corporate Governance Code Review Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). The ten years before joining PGGM Marcel was employed as Managing Director at Dutch Sustainability Research, Sales and Marketing Director at SiRi Company, and senior economist at Rabobank Group. Marcel holds a Ph.D. in economics on sustainability issues and the financial sector. He has written numerous papers and is author or editor of several books, including ‘Sustainable Finance and Banking' (2001) and ‘Sustainability in Finance' (2004).

Dr. Nils Kok Assistant Professor in Finance and Real Estate, Maastricht

Nils Kok currently works as an assistant professor in Finance and Real Estate at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and from August onwards as a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He wrote his PhD on ‘Corporate Governance and Sustainability in Global Property Markets’ at Maastricht University, for which he received awards from the French Social Investment Forum and the Aareal Bank/European Business School, Frankfurt. During his PhD, he stayed as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and at the National University of Singapore.

His main research focus is on sustainability issues in the real estate sector, concentrating on the economics of “green” buildings – residential as well as commercial – in the marketplace. Besides, his research includes issues such as transparency of global property markets, international property investments and demographics. Kok was the co-author of an influential report proposing a pan-European property fund structure.

Besides scientific work at Maastricht University, where he also teaches courses in Corporate Finance and Real Estate Finance, Kok works with institutional property investors, such as APG and PGGM, as well as Triodos Bank, on the implementation of sustainability policies. Kok is also an active executive teacher at the Luxembourg School of Finance and the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. He is a contributing member of various real estate and market networks, such as the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the European Real Estate Society and the American Real Estate Society, where he regularly presents his work.

Nils Kok communicates his ideas and findings in the international arena as a frequent speaker on academic and industry conferences, and actively shares his expertise through workshops with investment practitioners and policy makers. Recent events include the MIPIM 2009, the BMP 2008, ULI 2008 Annual Europe Conference, the INQUIRE 2007 Autumn seminar, workshops at MISTRA Investments, PGGM Investments and APG Investments, the AREUEA, ERES, ARES and EFM conferences, and seminars at Ecole Polytechnique, City University and Cambridge University, where he presented his work. Moreover he publishes his ideas in internationally renowned academic journals, newspapers and popular magazines.

Valborg Lie Senior Advisor, Asset Management Department, Norwegian Government Pension Fund

Valborg Lie is a senior adviser with the Asset Management Department in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance. This department is responsible for the Ministry's work on the overall framework and investment strategy for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global, including performance and risk evaluation, and adherence to a set of ethical guidelines that form the basis for the Fund's responsible investment practices. Lie is chiefly responsible for the administration and development of the ethical guidelines. She holds a law degree from the University of Oslo.

Donald MacDonald Chair, PRI

Donald has a background in the UK telecommunications industry and the trade union movement, he was a technician with British Telecommunications (BT), and a former President of the Communication Workers Union (UK). He is a Member Nominated Trustee (MNT) and a Director of the Trustee Board of the BT Pension Scheme, a defined benefit (final salary) scheme, with assets of approximately £38bn (€54bn, US$76bn). Donald is also a member and current pensioner of BTPS. BTPS is the UK’s largest occupational pension scheme, with over 350,000 members, of whom over half are current pensioners. The bulk of BTPS investments are managed by Hermes, an institutional fund manager that is wholly owned by BTPS.

Tim Macready Chief Investment Officer, Christian Super

Tim joined Christian Super in 2005 to implement the Trustee’s decision to apply ethical investment principles across its entire portfolio and in all asset classes. He managed the implementation process and now oversees the internal investment team, dedicated to continually enhancing the way that ESG and Sustainability criteria are reflected through the Fund’s investments. This has included formulating the Fund’s new engagement program for listed Australian listed companies and increasing the Fund’s allocation to clean technology, renewable energy and other directly sustainable assets, and formulating policies governing the way ESG criteria are applied. The Fund’s efforts in these areas were recognized when Christian Super was awarded Sustainable Fund of the Year by Ethical Investor in 2008. In 2009 Christian Super became the first Australian superannuation fund to invest in Microfinance, demonstrating the Fund’s commitment to finding investments that provide positive benefits to society and to the environment.

Tim is involved in a range of responsible investment initiatives, including the UN PRI Small Funds Working Group, the Christian Investors Forum and ESG Research Australia. With 8 years’ experience in the Australian Superannuation industry, Tim holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Actuarial Studies and is currently working towards a Masters with an emphasis on ethics.

Gianluca Manca Head of Sustainability and Global non-profit Business, Eurizon Capital - Intesa Sanpaolo Group & Chair, UNEP FI Asset Management Working Group

Gianluca Manca is Head of Sustainability and Global non-profit Business at Eurizon Capital, Intesa Sanpaolo group. Previously in his career he has been a fixed income derivatives broker and an international equities fund manager.

He graduated at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy with a Masterdegree major in Business Administration and Finance, then successfully passed the State Professional Exam qualifying as a Financial Agent. After four years in retail and institutional sales at Royal SunAlliance in Italy and Liberty Eurasia Ltd in London – UK, Gianluca joined Sanpaolo Asset Management, Italy, where he first focused on IPOs and small caps. He then became portfolio manager of the Europe and Azionario Internazionale Etico funds, starting his involvement in Socially Responsible Investing. In 2001 he was entitled responsible for the Scandinavia, UK, Switzerland and Germany funds. In 2002 he was appointed Head of the SRI Equities Team, meanwhile becoming a delegate member of the UNEP FI Asset Management Working Group; in 2009 he became the chairman of the Group and a member of the UNEP FI Steering Committee. Gianluca is the CSR delegate at Eurizon Capital, a member of the Sustainability Committee and the chair of the Charity Committee.

Dr. Richard Mattison Chief Operating Officer, Trucost

Richard is one of the founding directors of Trucost and is responsible for coordinating Trucost’s research and innovation programme. Richard has an in-depth understanding of corporate environmental performance and in particular the environmental impacts of the supply chain. He is also responsible for leading Trucost’s projects with the UK Government, the Environment Agency, the International Finance Corporation and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. Richard is a member of the UK Government’s Sustainable Development panel and is a regular public speaker on environmental matters.

Prior to this role, Richard was a strategy consultant at the Mitchell Madison Group and marchFIRST, where he developed the retail financial services practice in London.

Richard has a PhD in Neuroscience and a BSc (Hons) in Physiology from Edinburgh University.

Amanda McCluskey Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment

In the role of Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment, Amanda focuses on developing and delivering Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s Responsible Investment implementation plan and strategy. She is instrumental in educating and encouraging all our stakeholders through leadership on ESG issues, and the embedding of ESG principles into Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s culture and investment practices.

Amanda was appointed to this role in March 2008.

Previously Amanda was at Portfolio Partners as an Investment Manager and also worked at BT Financial Group as Manager Investment Governance.

Amanda has worked extensively in the development and implementation of sustainability and governance strategies, frameworks and reporting, and the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

Amanda has a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in International Relations and was one of the first Australians to participate in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Program.

Kylee McGee Policy Program Manager, CERES

Kylee McGee joined Ceres in September 2007 to organize its Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations Headquarters. She now manages the Investor Network on Climate Risk's policy work, organizing investors to call for strong climate and energy policy in the United States and internationally. Prior to Ceres, Kylee led the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program at the University of California San Diego, educating the campus community about environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. Kylee has studied in Brazil and Australia and speaks three languages. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in Environmental Policy and International Studies-Political Science.

Dr. Ben McNeil Senior Fellow Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Ben McNeil is an Australian academic who is an expert in a range of areas relating to climate change science, policy and energy economics. A version of his CV can be found here.

Completing his PhD in 2001 he worked as a research fellow at Princeton University, USA and returned to Australia in 2004, where he is now a senior research fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. In 2007, he was chosen as an expert reviewer for the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment report and was invited to present his research to the Prime Minister and cabinet at Parliament House in Canberra. He was also recently elected to represent young scientists in the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies. Dr McNeil also has a Masters of Economics in Political Economy from the University of Sydney.

His writing on climate change and energy policy has been widely published in Australia’s newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Canberra Times. He has also made numerous radio and television appearances including ABC Radio National, CNN, BBC and Sky News Australia.

Ben has just published his first book in May called 'The Clean Industrial Revolution'

Colin Melvin Chief Executive Officer, Hermes Pensions Management

As CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services, Colin Melvin provides advice and assistance to pension funds and other institutional investors in the areas of responsible investment, corporate governance, voting and engagement on assets managed by third party fund managers. Colin is currently an active member of various industry steering groups and committees including those of the United Nations Project on Principles for Responsible Investment, the Work Foundation Panel of Inquiry into Work and Enterprise, the Global Institutional Governance Network, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative. Colin joined Hermes in 2002 and became CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services in 2005. Previously, Colin was Corporate Governance Manager and Secretary to the Ethics Committee at Standard Life Investments and Head of Corporate Governance at Baillie Gifford. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the UK Society of Investment Professionals. He holds an MA from Aberdeen University and an MPhil from Cambridge University, both in History, and a Diploma in Investment Analysis from Stirling University. He is an Associate of the Centre for Corporate Governance Research of the University of Birmingham

Vidette Bullock Mixon Director, Corporate Relations, General Board of Pension and Health Benefits

Vidette Bullock Mixon is Director of Corporate Relations for the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church. The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits is the largest faith-based pension fund in the U.S. and administers retirement and health benefits for 74,000 persons employed by the Church. The fund's investment portfolio is screened consistent with Church approved guidelines and shareholder actions are taken to promote corporate responsibility.

Ms. Mixon oversees the research and monitoring of corporate policies and practices to ensure adherence to the General Board's socially responsible investment program, monitors proxy voting, files shareholder resolutions and communicates with corporate management on corporate governance, environmental and social issues. During her twenty-year tenure, the General Board has engaged organizations on corporate social responsibility issues and has challenged multinational corporations like Nike, Walt Disney, McDonalds and Wal-Mart to be more open and transparent about their supplier practices. In response to shareholder actions, a number of companies now publicly disclose more information about corporate environmental and social compliance. The General Board's shareholder endeavors have been featured in a number of publications, including Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago Tribune, Plan Sponsor Magazine, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Information about the General Board's socially responsible investment program can be found on the organization's Web site www.gbophb.org.

Ms. Mixon received a Bachelor of Science degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University and pursued graduate studies at the University of Nebraska Medical School. She serves on the boards of the Coalition for Environmental Responsible Economies (CERES), the Investment Committee of the United Methodist Foundation of the Northern Illinois Conference and Steering Committee for Leadership Evanston a project of the Evanston Community Foundation.

Michael Musuraca Managing Director, BlueWolf Capital Management

Michael Musuraca is Managing Director of Blue Wolf Capital Management, a private equity firm based in New York City, and Blue Wolf Capital Fund II, L.P, a private equity fund that specializes in control investments in middle-market companies in which managing relationships with government or labor, or resolving financial or operational distress, are critical to creating value.

Prior to joining Blue Wolf in February 2009, Michael served as an Assistant Director in the Department of Research and Negotiations, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO. District Council 37 is one of the largest public sector unions in New York City, representing 125,000 members who work for the City of New York, its covered organizations, and certain agencies of the State of New York. He worked for District Council 37 from 1988 to 2009.

From 1996-2009, Michael served as the designated trustee to the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), a 300,000 plus member pension fund with assets of approximately $40 billion. He also served, from 1997 until 2009, as a trustee to the Cultural Institutions Retirement System (CIRS), a $1 billion fund with members from the major cultural institutions and day care facilities in the New York City metropolitan area. Michael was also a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Board and was the labor representative to the Advisory Board of the New York City Independent Budget Office. He is currently serving on the board of the Shareholders Education Network (SEN) and Verite.

Michael received a B.A., in Political Science from New York University in 1979, and a M.A. in American History from the University of Massachusetts/Boston in 1982. He received a Master's of Philosophy from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) in 1992. Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College (CUNY). He has also taught at City College (CUNY), Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University.

Michael has published a number of papers on labor affairs and urban history and politics in academic journals.

Katrina Myers ESG Analyst, Monash Sustainability Enterprises

Katrina is a Research Fellow at Monash Sustainability Enterprises (MSE), a research unit within Monash University. MSE provides ESG research for institutional investors across the S&P ASX200 for both engagement and investment decision-making purposes. Katrina is responsible for the development of MSE’s Water Scarcity Risk Assessment Framework, the results of which are distributed through ESG research and engagement provider, Regnan, and Goldman Sachs JB Were’s PortfolioWise.

Before joining MSE in September 2007, Katrina worked at EPA Victoria on UNEP FI. Prior to making her career change, Katrina worked as a corporate banker for The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in London for five years. After completing its graduate program, she specialised in corporate real estate finance providing both balance sheet and non-recourse lending to real estate investment and development companies.

Katrina holds a Bachelor of Commerce and is currently completing a Masters of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Management at Monash University.

Anne-Maree O’Connor Head of Responsible Investment, New Zealand Superannuation Fund

Anne-Maree O’Connor is the Head of Responsible Investment for the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (Guardians) and plays a key role in the development and implementation of the Guardians responsible investment and corporate governance policies.

Prior to joining the Fund, Anne-Maree was the Managing Director of CoreRatings, a leading European rating agency for independent investment analyses of corporate responsibility and governance risks. She moved back to New Zealand after 20 years in Europe. Anne-Maree held various positions in the field of corporate responsibility and responsible investment including Associate Director, SRI at Morley Fund Management, Head of SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors and Head of Corporate Responsibility Ratings at Det Norske Veritas.

She holds an MSc from the University College of Wales (UK), a BSc from Massey University (NZ) and the Investment Management Certificate (UK).

Louise O'Halloran Executive Director, Responsible Investment Association Australasia

Louise was appointed Executive Director of RIAA in 2002. She has worked in senior management roles in the not for profit sector in Australia, the United States and Britain including General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, and General Manager of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. She has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, a BA in journalism from Charles Sturt University and spent three years in postgraduate studies at UNSW in business ethics. Louise is a Governor of WWF and in November 2006 she was chosen to be trained by Al Gore to deliver his slide show on climate change. 

John R Oliphant Head of Actuary and Investment, Government Employees Pension Fund, South Africa

John holds a BSc (Actuarial Science) and a BSc(Hons) Advance Mathematics of finance both from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He was previously the Head of Quant Investing at STANLIB, were he managed long only funds as well as hedge funds.

John is currently the Head of Investments and Actuarial of the Government Employees Pension Fund – the largest Pension Fund in Africa, he is the main driver behind the investment strategies of the fund. Currently the fund invest in different asset classes, from Conventional Bonds to sophisticated Private Equity investments, it is John’s responsibility to ensure that the fund achieves maximum returns with minimum risk in each and every investment it makes. He has been the key driver behind GEPF’s responsible investment policies and the setting up of the UN PRI South African Network. John is also member of the following committees and councils: Investment Committee of the GEPF, Investment Committee of the Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund (“PAIDF”), Advisory Council of the Southern Africa Pension Fund Investment Forum (“SAPFIF”) and Johannesburg Stock Exchange SRI Index Advisory Committee.

J. Harald Orneberg Founder and CEO of Timber Capital and Director of The Forest Company

Mr. Orneberg founded Timber Capital in June 2007, and was the founding shareholder of The Forest Company which invests in and establishes Brazilian forest plantations. The Forest Company is backed by Nordic insurance companies and pension funds. Prior to forming Timber Capital, Mr. Orneberg was the founder and CEO of ORN Capital, a London based multi-fund, hedge fund business. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Orneberg was the manager of the ORN Event Fund and from 2002 to 2007 the manager of the ORN Multi-Strategy Fund. From December 1999 to June 2007, Mr. Orneberg generated an investor return of 100 per cent. In June 2006, Mr. Orneberg sold ORN Capital to Aviva. Prior to forming ORN Capital, Mr. Orneberg served as Vice President in the Merger Arbitrage group of Salomon Smith Barney and from 1992 to 1997 he was an investment manager at Industri Kapital. From 1986 – 1988, Mr. Orneberg was a financial analyst in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers. Mr. Orneberg received an MBA from The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1990 and a B.Sc. in Monetary Economics from The London School of Economics in 1986. Mr. Orneberg has extensive experience in the Swedish forest industry, where he has owned and managed forest assets for the past 20 years. In addition, he has made significant investments in Brazilian land since 2005.

Dr. François Perrin Senior Portfolio Manager, Sustainable and Responsible Investment, Fortis Investments.

François Perrin (French) is Senior Portfolio Manager within the SRI Unit of Fortis Investments in Frankfurt (Germany). François focuses on environmental strategies and is the portfolio manager of FLF Green Future, FLF Green Tigers and Oekoworld Water for Life funds. Prior to taking his current role, Francois was Fund manager and Head of Sustainability Research at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch in Geneva.

François Perrin studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris), and holds a master degree in economics from the Paris Sorbonne University and a PhD in Finance from the Grenoble University. Since 2004, Francois is Senior lecturer at the Paris University. In 2005, he published with his co-authors Socially Responsible Investing, Economica Publishing, Preface signed by Antoine de Salins from the FRR.

Gavin Power Deputy Director, UN Global Compact

Gavin Power is Deputy Director of the UN Global Compact. Since 2002, Mr. Power has played a key role in the evolution and growth of the UN Global Compact, which is today the word’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with over 6000 business participants and stakeholders in more than 130 countries.

Mr. Power has led the development of a range of strategic initiatives on behalf of the UN Global Compact – including the CEO Water Mandate, a water stewardship initiative backed the UN Secretary-General; and the Principles for Responsible Investment, the world’s largest responsible investment initiative.

Mr. Power also led the development of the UN Global Compact’s Who Cares Wins program, a global policy initiative focused on the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into investment analysis and asset management. As well, Mr Power has responsibility for the UN Global Compact in the United States.

A frequent speaker and contributor at international events, Mr. Power has extensive experience in the public and corporate sectors, including holding a senior management position at Levi Strauss & Co.

Lucas Rooney Institutional Business Executive, Colonial First State Global Asset Management

Lucas works in Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s Australian institutional business team. He is responsible for institutional client relationships across a number of asset classes and has a particular focus on the Colonial First State Wholesale Australian Emerging Markets Sustainability Fund. Lucas championed the development of this fund and it was launched in Australia in February 2009. This all-countries emerging markets sustainability fund followed the model of the First State Asia-Pacific Sustainability Fund launched three years earlier.

Lucas is also a member of Colonial First State Global Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Steering Committee.

Lucas has 23 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Lucas worked at BT Funds Management. Lucas previously spent 10 years consulting to institutional investors with Mercer and Watson Wyatt.

Lucas holds a Bachelor degree in Climatology and Pure Mathematics from Monash University, Melbourne.

Carl Rosén Head of Corporate Governance, AP2

Carl Rosén is the new executive director of ICGN, officially starting in September 2009. He serves as the head of corporate governance and communications at Andra AP-Fonden, the Second Swedish National Pension Fund(AP2). He is a former chairman of the AP-funds Ethical Council and board member of ICGN. Mr. Rosén joined AP2 in 2004. Prior to AP2, Mr. Rosén co-founded Nordic Investor Services, the Nordic proxy advisory firm. He is a former CFO of the state holding company Fortia and former editor-in-chief at Affärsvärlden. He has investment banking experience from Europe and US Carl Rosén was educated at Stockholm School of Economics and he is an enthusiastic triathlete.

Tom Rotherham Special Advisor on Private Equity, PRI

Tom Rotherham has been running the PRI's Private Equity workstream since March 2008. In this capacity he has Chaired the PE Steering Committee and led the drafting of "Responsible Investment in Private Equity: a Guide for LPs". Tom is also Head of Corporate Responsibility at Radley Yeldar, a UK-based corporate communications consultancy. Prior to joining RY Tom spent 10 years advising on sustainability policy for governments, multinationals and NGOs, including with IUCN (The World Conservation Union), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the UN Environment Programme, the OECD and INSEAD, the leading international business school. Tom also lectures on Sustainability at Imperial College, London.

Craig Roussac, General Manager, Sustainability, Safety & Environment, Investa Property Group

Craig has had group-wide responsibility for Investa's sustainability, safety and environmental management platforms since joining the company in 2004. Investa is one of Australia's largest commercial office building owners with AUD $9 billion assets under management. It also undertakes commercial, industrial and residential development.

Up until its delisting upon being acquired by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in September 2007, Investa was the leading real estate company on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) and it also led the DJSI's financial services ‘super-sector'. Investa was included in the Global 100 (G100) list of sustainable public corporations announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2007 and has received an array of awards and recognition in the field of corporate social responsibility, including the 2008 Banksia Award for "addressing climate change".

The Group has an impressive record for reducing environmental impacts. The intensity of CO2 emissions from its office portfolio is now 25 percent below its 2003/04 benchmark, water is down 39 percent, natural gas is down 42 percent and electricity down 21 percent. The group has also pioneered the development of Green Leases and a variety of other initiatives aimed at improving collaboration between tenants and landlords.

Craig is a member of the Property Council of Australia's National Sustainability Roundtable, is chair of the PCA's New South Wales Sustainable Development Committee and currently serves as a member of the NSW Government's Green Skills Taskforce. He has degrees in commerce, construction management (honours, environmental design) and a graduate diploma in finance and investment.

David Russell Co-Head of Responsible Investment, USS

David Russell is Co-Head of Responsible Investment for the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Ltd. USS is the second largest pension fund in the UK, with assets of over £24 billion and approximately 250,000 members. USS has an RI team of five and an RI strategy which focuses on integrating extra financial factors into its investment processes across asset classes, and on engaging with companies and other assets were these issues pose a risk to the fund's investments. David is a Steering Committee member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), and USS also provides a Board member for the PRI. David has previously worked as an Environmental Manager for a retail company, was for five years a University lecturer in Environmental Management, and holds an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment.

Lorenzo Saa Reporting and Assessment Manager, PRI

Lorenzo is in charge of managing the annual assessment of the signatories’ progress towards responsible investing. He is also responsible for identifying and providing solutions for the signatories’ training needs. Prior to joining the PRI, between 2004-2009, as a project manager in UniCredit Group, he oversaw microfinance initiatives and advised on responsible investments. Before this Lorenzo specialized in assessments and evaluations both as an independent consultant for development organizations such as the World Bank and IFAD as well as a senior financial analyst at MicroRate, a dedicated rating agency for microfinance institutions. Lorenzo started his career in 1996 as an economic analyst at Arthur Andersen. He obtained his BA in Business and Economics in Università Cattolica, Milan and his joint MBA and Master in International Public Policy at SDA Bocconi, Milan and at SAIS - Johns Hopkins, Washington DC.

Antoine de Salins Membre du Directoire, Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR)

Since 2003, Executive Director and Chairman of the asset managers selection Committee of the “Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (French Pension Reserve Fund) which net asset value is 28 billion Euros.

Between 1986 and 2002: various positions within The French Treasury (privatisations department, financial markets supervision department, financial attaché in Brussels, private secretary of the Head of The Treasury, head of the department responsible with monetary affairs and public debt management, deputy head of the Treasury in charge of microeconomic issues, Financial counsellor at the French Permanent Representation to the European Union…).

Graduated from Institute of Political Studies (Paris) and the National School of Administration (ENA).

Rosemary Sainty Focal Point, UN Global Compact Network Australia and Head, Responsible Business Project, St James Ethics Centre

Rosemary Sainty is Head, Responsible Business Practice, St James Ethics Centre and the Focal Point for the United Nations Global Compact in Australia.

Funded by the Australian Federal Government (through Treasury) to expand the number of Australian companies adopting more responsible business practices Rosemary is currently building a hub of international initiatives and local resources including the UN Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative and a series of national resources for small to medium enterprises.

She is currently working with leading corporations including ANZ, Energy Australia, Toyota and Westpac (CRI Leaders Network) to achieve the goals of this national project.

Prior to this Rosemary worked extensively in higher education (University of Sydney), corporate-community partnerships, service establishment in the community services sector and private practice. She has post-graduate qualifications in professional ethics and is a registered psychologist.  

Rosemary has published and presented research on ‘CSR’ as an employer–of–choice issue and has written and published a range of national and international CSR and business ethics resources.

Preston R. Sargent Principal, Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management, Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel LP

Preston Sargent joined Kennedy in 2000 as Executive Vice President and Director of Asset Management. In his role as Director of Asset Management, Mr. Sargent oversaw the Asset Management team as assets under management grew from $3.5 Billion to approximately $9 Billion by 2007. In mid-2007, Mr. Sargent transitioned to a new role as Portfolio Manager for Kennedy's $6.2 Billion (GAV) Multi-Employer Property Trust, an open-end commingled fund. Preston has been in real estate investment management and pension advisory for 26 years. Immediately before joining Kennedy, he was a Vice President at GE Asset Management (GEAM) where he worked for approximately ten years. At the time of his departure from GEAM, Mr. Sargent was a portfolio leader responsible for all new investment activity and asset and portfolio management in the central third of the United States. Prior to GEAM, he held positions in acquisitions, debt-workout, and asset management at Aetna Realty Investors in Hartford and William Blair Realty in Chicago. Mr. Sargent began his real estate career in 1983 as an Associate at LaSalle Partners in Chicago. Mr. Sargent has a Juris Doctorate degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He also holds a BA degree in political science/economics from Colorado College. He is, on behalf of Kennedy and MEPT, a signatory to the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Investing and is active in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

Glen Saunders Director, New Zealand Superannuation Fund and Treasurer, PRI

A consultant, investment banker, and qualified accountant, Glen has extensive experience in socially responsible investment. From 1995 to 2001, he was UK Managing Director of Netherlands-based bank, Triodos. Glen was previously Managing Director of Mercury Provident, before it was taken over by Triodos in 1995.

During his time with Triodos, Glen served as a Director of the Wind Fund plc, launched in 1995 as the UK's first investment fund wholly targeted to renewable energy. He was also a Director of the Local Investment Fund from 1997-2001, a public-private partnership funding community-based initiatives in the UK.

Glen has acted as Non-Executive Director for a number of organisations, including the Western Partnership for Sustainable Development (1999-2001) and the Earth Centre Advisory Board (1997-2000). In 2000, Glen was a Trustee of the New Economics Foundation, an independent UK think-tank on economic, environment and social issues. He was a fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and served on its environmental committee from 1998 to 2000.

Glen is a Board Member of the Principles for Responsible Investment, and a Director of Prometheus Finance Ltd. Glen holds a BSc (Hons), Logic with Mathematics, from the University of Sussex, England. He is a Chartered Accountant and Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand. Glen has been a self-employed consultant since 2001.

Dan Siddy Director, Delsus Limited

Dan Siddy is the founding director of Delsus Limited, a UK-based consulting and advisory firm specialising in sustainable investment strategies for the emerging markets. He is an acknowledged international authority on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects of emerging market investment and has been closely involved in most of the major developments in this field over the last ten years. His experience and networks span portfolio investment, private equity, banking and international development, from Asia to Latin America. Prior to forming Delsus in 2006, Dan spent seven years at IFC where he created and led a $15 million technical assistance fund to strengthen the sustainable investment climate in developing countries. In this role, he conceived and implemented a comprehensive portfolio of projects including new sustainability indices, equity research initiatives and disclosure standards projects.

Damon Silver Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO and Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP

Damon A. Silvers is an Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO. Mr. Silvers’ responsibilities include capital markets, corporate governance and general business law issues.

Mr. Silvers is the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP. He was appointed jointly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. Mr. Silvers also was the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and is the Chair. Mr. Silvers is also a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group.

Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers was a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.

Mr. Silvers received his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School. He received his M.B.A. with high honors from Harvard Business School and is a Baker Scholar. Mr. Silvers is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude, and has studied history at Kings College, Cambridge University.

Mr. Silvers is the primary author of “A Response to Vice-Chancellor Leo Strine Jr.’s, Toward Common Sense and Common Ground? Reflections on the Shared Interests of Managers and Labor in a More Rational System of Corporate Governance,” published in The Journal of Corporation Law (2007) and “The Current State of Auditing as a Profession: A View from Worker-Owners,” published in Accounting Horizons (2007). He is also the author of “Securities and Exchange Commission: Restoring the Capital Markets Regulator and Responding to Crisis,” published in Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President.

Daniel Simard General Coordinator, Comité syndical national de retraite Bâtirente

Daniel Simard is the General Co-ordinator of Bâtirente, a retirement system intended for affiliated Unions and members of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), the second largest central labour union in Canada. He had been a Board member of Bâtirente since its launch in 1987 when he became its managing director in 2000. Bâtirente Funds’ assets reach over 750 million dollars and now benefit to more than 25000 individual unionized workers.

Under his leadership, Bâtirente developed and implemented an extrafinancial risk management strategy for its portfolios and got involved into various innovations in the field of responsible investing, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Enhanced Analytics Initiative, the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Principles for Responsible Investment where he also is a Board member.

Prior to undertaking management functions in financial institutions related to the Québec labour movement, Daniel Simard worked for close to twenty years in the areas of collective bargaining, pension benefits and labour court representation within the CSN. A Université de Montréal graduate in Industrial Relations, he is a Representative registered with Québec’s Financial Market Authority. He has been involved in pension fund administration for more than 20 years and he presently chairs the audit committee of a large public corporation’s pension fund. He sits on the Board of the Mouvement pour l’éducation et la défense des actionnaires (MÉDAC), a local association promoting minority shareholders interests’ in the Canadian financial market and has been representing the CSN on the Global Unions’ Committee on Workers’ Capital for the last eight years.

Anita Skipper, Corporate Governance Director, Aviva Investors

Anita Skipper joined Aviva Investors (ex Morley Fund Management) as Head of Corporate Governance in 1993 working within the Equities Department where she forms part of Aviva Investors' core engagement team. Her role is to develop the strategic direction of the governance function within Aviva Investors including the formulation and development of its governance and voting policies and processes across Aviva Investors' global offices. Anita is on the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and, as a member of a number of corporate governance committees, including the Association of British Insurer's Investment Committee, Share Schemes Panel and the Corporate Governance Forum, she has played an important role in the development of governance practice in the UK. Anita has also participated on a number of global governance committees including the International Corporate Governance Network's committee on global governance principles and is a founding member and current chair of the Global Institutional Governance Network, an informal network of global investors who meet regularly to consider current global governance issues.

She has a Law degree from Nottingham University.

Henrik Steffensen Vice President Marketing & Business Development, Asset4

Henrik Steffensen is a co-founder of ASSET4 responsibility for for the overall marketing strategy and global business development. He has spoken internationally on the importance of integrating ESG (environmental, social, governance) in mainstream investing at a wide range of conferences. Prior to founding ASSET4 with Peter Ohnemus, Mr. Steffensen was a partner at The e-Firm, the private equity boutique of Mr. Ohnemus, where he advised a number of companies on business development and capital increases. He has also served as Vice President Marketing with wireless start-up Remote-i. Before that, Mr. Steffensen was responsible for marketing and large-scale partnerships for Hewlett-Packard EMEA, where he successfully established new business opportunities on a pan-European basis. Mr. Steffensen also helped to establish Sybase and Logic Works in Europe, which both went public on the Nasdaq. He has also worked for environmental protection company Geodur and holds a BA in Economics from the Copenhagen Business School.

Judy Stewart Chief Executive Officer, Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Judy Stewart, a lawyer, became the Managing Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in 2004 after working as a director in a number of Australian performing arts companies. It was from these early roles that she amassed valuable experience of the not-for-profit sector which she has been able to use to good effect at the Foundation. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation raises money from the private sector for coral reef research. Established in 1999, its mission is to protect and preserve the Great Barrier Reef. Over the last five years, Judy has re-engineered the Foundation to bring together Australian business, philanthropy and science as partners in strategic research projects on the Reef. Most recently, she has used the ZooX Fund to gear the Foundation’s fundraising program towards climate change as a principal focus. This has prompted the development of a new research framework to govern ZooX Fund investments and resulted in much closer engagement with leading members of Australia’s science and business communities.

Jerome Tagger Chief Operating Officer, PRI

As Chief Operating Officer for the PRI, since 2006, Jerome Tagger is in charge of overseeing operations and signatory relations and recruitment. Previously, Jerome was Head of Research at Eurosif, the European Social Investment Forum, where he led the first comprehensive European surveys of SRI markets, supervised the publication of investor toolkits on Responsible Investment and Active Ownership, and piloted work on transparency guidelines. Jerome has prior experience in the life insurance sector at BNP Paribas Group. He was also on board one of the first CSR supply chain assessments in the non-food retail sector in France at Promodes in 1999-2000. Jerome is a graduate of ESSEC Graduate School of Business, France.

Jessica van der Meer Project Assistant, PRI

Jessica joined the PRI London to serve as a Project Assistant on the Emerging Markets Project.  She holds a BA hons. in Political Science and Cultural Anthropology from Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands and has just completed her M.Phil in International Development at the University of Oxford, where she specialised in development economics and Latin America.  She previously worked as an Investor Relations representative for a Low-Income Housing Equity Fund (Homestead Capital) in the United States. 

Peter Webster Executive Director, EIRIS

Peter Webster has been Executive Director of EIRIS since its Foundation in the 1980s, and has been involved in the promotion and development of responsible investment in its various forms throughout the last 25 years. Peter is a regular conference speaker as well as advising clients on the creation or development of new approaches to responsible investment.

His current interests in this field include how PRI signatories can implement the commitments they sign up to in ways that make a significant difference to corporate performance and reporting across all the Global Compact issues (Environment, Human Rights, Labour Standards and Combating Bribery); the most effective role investors can play in advancing the Climate Change agenda; and what can be learnt from the experience of responsible investors and the models of corporate responsibility that they have encouraged that is of relevance to the re-structuring of the present international financial system in ways the re-build trust and confidence and reduce the prospect of future "crunches".

Peter is Treasurer of the UK Social Investment and Finance (UKSIF)

Danielle Welsh Senior Analyst Sustainability Investments, VicSuper

Danielle has worked for VicSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, for over seven years. In that time she has worked on a number of leading sustainability initiatives on both the corporate and investment sides ranging from implementing the recycling program through to staff sustainability training, developing and writing sustainability reports, active membership of various UNEP FI and UN PRI committees, developing sustainability strategy and policy, and more recently integrating sustainability throughout VicSuper’s investment portfolio including investments in sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services. Danielle has a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Environment and is in the last stages of a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance.

Vanessa Zimmerman, Legal Advisor to the Special Representative of the United Nations' Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights; Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative

Since 2006, Vanessa Zimmerman has been a Legal Advisor to John Ruggie in his capacity as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights. She leads Professor Ruggie's work on the state duty to protect - in simple terms, his elaboration and guidance on the role of states in protecting against corporate-related human rights harm. In this work, Vanessa focuses in particular on ways in which to increase domestic and international policy coherence with respect to business and human rights, including in policy domains such as corporate and securities law and the international trade regime, which have traditionally been kept institutionally separate from human rights concerns. Vanessa is an Australian lawyer, based in Melbourne, with experience in both domestic and international legal issues, having worked with the Australian Delegation to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as having worked as a competition lawyer at the Australian law firm of Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications provider. Vanessa holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a BA in Japanese and History and LLB (Hons) from Monash University in Melbourne.