Robert Rubinstein

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...

Pavan Sukhdev

United Kingdom (London)

Founder and CEO, GIST Advisory UK Pvt Ltd.

Pavan Sukhdev is the Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, an environmental consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, value and manage their impacts on natural and human capital. He has been awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship by Yale University. Earlier, he was Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, & lead author of their “Green Economy Report”, & also Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (�...

Toni Symonds

United States of America (Sacramento, CA)

Chief Consultant, California State Legislature

Ms. Toni Symonds has held a variety of senior-level public policy positions in Washington, D.C. and California during her 25-year career in government, serving during the administrations of President Bill Clinton and California Governor Gray Davis. During her time as State of California's Deputy Controller for Investments and Corporate Governance she served as representative to CalPERS and CalSTRS boards. She currently is a senior policy advisor on issues related to economic development and the ...

Sarbjit Nahal

United Kingdom (London)

Director SRI & Sustainability, Bank of America Merill Lynch

Barbara Krumsiek

United States of America (Bethesda, MA)

Chair, CEO & President, Calvert Group, Ltd.

Barbara J. Krumsiek is Chair, CEO and President of Calvert Group, Ltd., a leading investment management and mutual fund firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert manages over billion in assets across 42 mutual funds, including award-winning fixed income portfolios, and a full family of equities funds including nationally recognized socially responsible mutual funds. Ms. Krumsiek’s career in the investment industry spans three decades. Before joining Calvert as CEO in 1997, Ms. Krums...

Sarah McPhee

Norway (Oslo)

Chief Executive Officer, Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning AS

Anne-Maree O’Connor

New Zealand (Auckland)

Head of SRI, New Zealand Superannuation Fund

Before joining the Guardians in November 2006, Anne-Maree O'Connor was the Managing Director of CoreRatings, a leading European rating agency for independent investment analyses of corporate responsibility risks. She moved back to New Zealand after 20 years in Europe. Anne-Maree held various positions in the field of corporate responsibility and governance including Associate Director, SRI at Morley Fund Management, Head of SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors and Head of Corporate Respons...

Gloria Nelund

United States of America (Manhattan Beach, CA)

Chairman and CEO, TriLinc Global, LLC

Gloria spent 30 years on Wall Street as one of the most successful and visible executives in the international investment management industry. After retiring from Deutsche Bank as CEO of their $50 billion North America Private Wealth Management division, she co-founded TriLinc Global; a private investment company dedicated to creating impact investment products that will attract significant private capital to help solve some of the world’s most critical issues. TriLinc is currently launching...

Mariko Kawaguchi

Japan (Tokyo)

Head of CSR Department, Director Social Investment Forum Japan, Daiwa Insitute of Research Ltd.

Received bachelors degree in public finance from HitotsubashiUniversity in Japan in1983. Received Masters degree in applied economics from Hitotsubashi University Graduate School in 1986. Joined Daiwa Securities in 1986, worked as researcher and securities analyst. Transferred to Daiwa Institute of Research in 1994 and have worked as securities analyst, consultant of environmental management, now engaging in research and study of CSR and SRI environmental and reporting sustainability reporting. ...

Rana Kapoor

India (Mumbai)

Founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yes Bank Limited

Dr. Rana Kapoor is the Founder, Managing Director & CEO of YES BANK. As a professional entrepreneur, since 2003, he is progressively establishing a high quality, state-of-the-art private Indian Bank with a vision of "Building the Best Quality Bank of the World in India” by 2015. Under his leadership, YES BANK has steadily evolved as the “Professionals’ Bank of India” with exemplary business and financial outcomes as evidenced in the financial results since inception, highest RoA/RoE, and...

Frédéric Surry

France (Paris)

COO Investments and Head of Investment and Business Solutions, BNP Paribas France

Martin Rapaport

United States of America (New York, NY)

Chairman, Rapaport Group

Martin Rapaport is Chairman of the Rapaport Group, a leading diamond and jewelry organization with over 12,000 clients in 82 countries. In 1978 he established the Rapaport Diamond Report the primary source of diamond price and market information. He also established RapNet - the world’s largest diamond trading network with daily listings of approximately US$5 billion of diamonds. The Group recently announced the introduction of the Rapaport Diamond Fund. Group activities also include informati...

Steve Howard

United Kingdom (Kingston upon Thames)

Chief Sustainability Officer, Ikea Group

Steve Howard is Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA and a member of its Executive Management Committee, a role he has held since January, 2011. He is responsible for the Company's sustainability strategy, environmental and social performance, the impact of its products. Steve believes that sustainability will be one of the mega-trends that shape society and the business landscape this century. He is committed to developing innovative ways to make sustainability attractive and affordable for eve...

Pippa Croney

United Kingdom (London)

Director, Board Intelligence

Pippa is a Director of Board Intelligence and joined the firm in 2009 to lead the development of the Board Practice division: to develop a service that enhanced board effectiveness and raised corporate governance standards. A respected voice in the field of corporate governance, Pippa is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and has contributed to the review of the UK Combined Code, the Walker Review and the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper. In 2010 she received an award ...

Ralf Frank

Germany (Dreieich )

Managing Director, DVFA - Society of Investment Professionals in Germany

Ralf Frank is managing director of DVFA, the society of investment professionals in Germany. He is also global coordinator of ESG related activities of EFFAS, the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies. Ralf has led DVFA and EFFAS through the process of drafting Key Performance Indicators for ESG from the perspective of mainstream investment professionals which fill a gap between traditional financial analysis and the typical SRI communities’ way of valuation. Ralf is very interes...

Bruno Beauvois

France (Paris)

President, French Association of Financial Analysts - SFAF

Jonathan Normand

Switzerland (Geneva)

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Codethic SA

Expert in good governance best practices, management systems implementation and global CSR advisory, John leads the Codethic 26000 program. John has been Codethic's moving force behind “CSR’s growing importance in organizations’ risk management processes and compliance programs.”

Larry Abele

United Kingdom (London)

Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Auriel Capital Limited

Larry Abele is a founding partner at Auriel Capital Limited, an absolute return manager specialising in equity market neutral strategies. Before founding Auriel Capital in April 2004, Larry led the Quantitative Strategies and Portfolio Engineering Group at Deutsche Asset Management for four years. Prior to Deutsche Asset Management, Larry was a quantitative researcher at Barclays Global Investors and First Quadrant. He has spent the bulk of his career working on quantitatively based tactical ass...

Maria Custer

Switzerland (Zurich)

Executive Director, Global Equity Analyst , Vontobel Asset Management

Dr. Maria Custer is an equity analyst within the Global Equity Research Team. In her role, she is responsible for the coverage of the Global Health Care and Chemical sectors. Maria has over ten years research experience, focused on the Healthcare sector as well as four years experience working within the pharmaceutical industry. Before joining Vontobel, Maria worked for Swiss Re, as an analyst within the Global Equities Portfolio Team. Prior to this from 2001 to 2007 Maria was Head of the Gl...

Ted van der Put

Netherlands (Utrecht)

Program Director, Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)

Ted van der Put is a Program Director and part of the management team at the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), a Public Private Partnership agent for sustainable development that convenes front running businesses and civil society organizations in result oriented coalitions for change. Ted provides leadership to a wide variety of sector transformation initiatives for sustainable sourcing including tropical timber, electronics and aquaculture. Ted’s background includes several internationa...

Gabriel Micheli

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Pictet Timber, Pictet Asset Management Limited

The Pictet-Timber fund has marked its second anniversary with continued outperformance of its benchmark. At 30th September 2010, the Pictet-Timber fund managed by Pictet Asset Management, had returned 24.72% in sterling since inception on 30 September 2008 on a gross income reinvested basis, ahead of a 21.16% sterling gain in the MSCI World Index. The fund targets the timber theme by investing in listed stocks, with a focus on companies that own and/or manage forests and timberland. This appr...

Ernst A. Brugger

Switzerland (Zurich)

Chairman of the Board, Precious Woods Holding Ltd.

Born in 1947, Swiss citizen. Professor, with a doctorate in science. Ernst A. Brugger, is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Partner of BHP – Brugger and Partner Ltd. in Zurich and is also is a Titular Professor at the University of Zurich. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Precious Woods since 2004 and was appointed Chair of the Board of Precious Woods Holding Ltd. in 2009

David G. Brand

Australia (Sydney)

Founder and Managing Director, New Forests Pty Limited

Dr. David Brand, Managing Director, has over 30 years experience in forest management, investment management, science, public policy, public administration and international affairs. He is the founder of New Forests Pty Limited and oversees the company's strategic direction and investment policies, as well as chairing the investment committee. Previously, David was director of the New Forests Program with Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) and was responsible for the design and oversight of i...

Jaume Iglésies

Switzerland (Zurich)

Head of Values Based Investing, UBS AG

Jaume Iglésies is Head of Values Based Investing at UBS AG, responsible for advising on investment solutions that consider social and environmental values alongside financial returns. Prior to joining UBS in 2005, he worked for 11 years at Deutsche Bank SA in the financial planning unit, where he was responsible for product management. Jaume is a full member of the International Actuarial Association and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Economy.

Erol Bilecen

Switzerland (Basel)

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

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

Patrick Elmer

Switzerland (Zurich)

Director, Head Microfinance, Private Banking Investment Services and Products, Credit Suisse

Florian Sommer

Germany (Frankfurt)

Senior Strategist, Union Investment

Florian Sommer is working at Union Investment since 2010 as Senior Strategist and is responsible for the sustainable investment research in different asset classes. He has more than 10 years professional experience as an investor, management consultant and policy advisor. In the asset management industry he led for 5 years the sustainability research for Fortis Investments and BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Before he advised multinational companies on sustainability while working at Forum f...

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 Europe 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...

Balazs Magyar

Switzerland (Zurich)

Sustainability Analyst , Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd

Balazs Magyar is a sustainability analyst at Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd. He joined the bank in December 2000 as a freelancer of the Sarasin Sustainable Investment department. After graduating from the economics faculty of the University of Basel in summer 2005 (Master of Science in Business and Economics), he pursued his assistance activities to the Sustainable Investment team. Starting in September 2005 he supported the portfolio management and the sustainability research. Between 2006 and 2008 he ...

Jorim Schraven

Netherlands (The Hague)

Manager Financial Institutions Africa , Dutch Development Bank

Jorim Schraven is Manager of the Financial Institutions Africa Department at FMO. This department is responsible for taking Financial Sector risk in Africa through trade finance, senior debt and mezzanine transactions as well as for providing capacity development assistance. Previously Jorim Schraven was Head of Retail at Clear Capital Ltd., an equity research and advisory firm based in London. He also worked as Economist at the European Central Bank and held various positions at the Dutch C...

Rodolfo Fracassi

United Kingdom (London)

Co-Founder and Director, MainStreet Partners

Rodolfo founded MainStreet Partners in 2008 aiming to create the first global impact investing arranger and placement agent. Prior to this he served as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, in charge of developing new business opportunities with institutional investors, distributors and consultants in several European countries. Rodolfo covered a similar position at Franklin Templeton Investments, co–heading the Italian Institutional department. He also held positions...

Marcus Malkmus

Switzerland (Zurich)

Chairman, FimpactT AG

Marcus Malkmus is Chairman of FimpactT AG, a Swiss technology consultancy. Since 2001 Marcus has specialised in in-depth contextual technology analyses in the following sectors: renewable energy, energy storage technologies, biotech and material science. Marcus is also founder and former CEO of CDoernemann Software Gmbh. Marcus holds degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics and Neuroscience from Universities of London, Braunschweig and Oxford. He was a visiting researcher to the U...

Matthias Fawer

Switzerland (Zurich)

Director, Asset Management Sustainability Research, Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd

Richard Bookbinder

United States of America (New York, NY)

Managing Director, TerraVerde Capital Partners LP

Mr. Bookbinder formed Bookbinder Capital Management LLC ("BCM") in 1999 and is actively involved in all aspects of fund management including portfolio allocation, manager research, and due diligence. Mr. Bookbinder currently manages two funds of funds, The Roebling Fund LP launched October 1999, and TerraVerde Capital Partners LP, launched July 2009. Prior to forming BCM, Mr. Bookbinder was a Founding Principal of Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P, a leading investment bank specializing in mid...

Joseph Naayem

France (Paris)

Fund Manager, HDF Finance SA

Paul Udall

United Kingdom (London)

Investment Director , GAM

Paul Udall has over 15 year experience managing sustainable investments. Paul is an Investment Director at GAM and heads the sustainability team. Prior to joining GAM in May 2010, Paul spent two years managing long/short equity environmental funds for Climate Change Capital, and prior to that he worked for both Tudor Investments and Morley Fund Management managing sustainability long/short and absolute return strategies. Before joining Morley, Paul was a global equity analyst at AXA Investment M...

Geneviève Ferone

France (Paris)

Senior Vice President Sustainability, Veolia Environnement

Doctor of Law (International Economic Law- Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris I), graduate of the Ecole Supérieures de Commerce et d’Administration des Entreprises, Geneviève Ferone has worked with many international organisations: International Energy Agency, OECD, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She was a partner in an economic intelligence consultancy firm based in San Francisco and developed expertise in the study of pension funds and ethical investments...

Christophe Churet

Switzerland (Zurich)

Analyst, SAM

Christophe Churet is an equity analyst in SAM’s research department covering the renewable energy sector. Before joining SAM, he worked as a researcher at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Christophe Churet holds a BA in development economics and political sciences from the University of London, as well as a MA in International Business from Grenoble Graduate School of Business. Joined SAM in 200...

Benjaming Firmenich

Switzerland (Geneva)

Executive Director, Kharmax Impact Monitoring System S.A.

After his master in environmental sciences at Wageningen university, Benjamin worked as a consultant for a civil engineer. In 2010 he joined Impact Finance Management S.A., a company specialized in value chain financing with a positive impact at the Base of the Pyramid. His task was to set up a reporting system. In 2011 he co-founded Kharmax Impact Monitoring System S.A., the affiliate company of Impact Finance Management dedicated to the provision of impact monitoring services.

Jody Rasch

United States of America (New York, NY)

Senior Vice President Social Performance Group , Moody's Analytics

Jody Rasch heads the Social Performance Group at Moody’s Analytics working on projects including microfinance and social investing. He also serves on various advisory board s including the Global Impact Investing Rating Service (GIIRS) , Women’s World Banking’s Gender Performance Initiative, the SMART Campaign’s Certification Task Force and Grameen Foundation’s Social Performance Advisory Committee. Prior to this Mr. Rasch worked at Moody’s Risk Management Services as part of the tra...

Andrew Kassoy

United States of America (Berwyn, PA)

Co-Founder, B Corporation

Before leaving the private sector to form B Lab with two long-time friends and college mates, Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity business; as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, an affiliate of MSD Capital, the $12 billion investment vehicle for Michael Dell; and before MSD, as Managing Director in Credit Suisse First Boston's Private Equity Department, a founding partner of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, and President of its international busine...

Andy Gebhardt

South Korea (Seoul)

Director, SolAbility

Andy is founder & director of SolAbility Ltd, a consultancy specialising in sustainable management strategy and sustainable investment research provision, founded in 2005. Prior to moving to Korea, he worked as analyst for the DJSI at SAM Research in Zurich and held several assignments as researcher on energy technology and energy market developments. In his earlier career, he was involved in humanitarian relief projects in the Balkans and Central America and served as Project Consultant. He hol...

Stephen Tong

Switzerland (Zurich)

Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, Vontobel Asset Management

Stephen Tong is Head of Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Management in Zurich and a portfolio manager within the Vontobel Global Equities Team. In his role, Stephen has responsibility for the management of all emerging markets equity strategies. He is also the lead portfolio manager for the Vontobel Fund – Global Responsibility Asia ex Japan Equity. Prior to joining Vontobel in 2011, Stephen worked for AllianceBernstein, initially as an analyst in Singapore. From 2003 Stephen worked in To...

Elodie Grant-Goodey

United Kingdom (London)

Head of Social Policy and Sustainability, BP plc

Rosanna Bolzoni

Italy (Rome)

SRI Analyst, Eni SpA

Bertrand Janus

France (Paris)

Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development, Total SA

Ken Newcombe

United States of America (Washington, DC)

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, C-Quest Capital, LLC

Ken Newcombe has over 30 years of experience in developing financially viable sustainable energy and forestry projects around the world for entities including Goldman Sachs, Climate Change Capital and the Carbon Finance Unit of the World Bank Group. At the World Bank, he started the first public-private partnership Carbon Fund, which went on to pioneer the global carbon market. He also managed the growth of the World Bank’s carbon finance business to a total of eight carbon funds and a billio...

Bernhard Zander

Germany (Frankfurt a/M)

First Vice President, KfW Carbon Fund

Sascha Lafeld

Germany (Bad Vilbel)

Executive Board Member, First Climate (Germany) GmbH

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

Stephanie Gerteiser

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Consultant, TBLI Consulting B.V.

Stephanie is a consultant with TBLI GROUP™. She is presently focusing her efforts on increasing TBLI’s presence with the German-speaking ESG network with a view to the upcoming TBLI CONFERENCE™ EUROPE taking place in Zurich for the next two years. Her cornerstone efforts will shift to supporting TBLI’s current cooperation with GATE IMPACT, a unique technological platform designed for worldwide impact investment as well as related consulting work around the platform. Having spent ten y...

Alyson Warhurst

United Kingdom (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Maplecroft

Alyson Warhurst is CEO and Founder of risk analysis and mapping company Maplecroft. Over the last 10 years she has built Maplecroft into the leading source of extra-financial risk intelligence for the world’s largest multinational corporations; banks and asset managers; governments and NGOs. Coming from an academic background, she now advises global companies and organisations at board level on issues including: global and political risks, human rights, ethical supply chains, corporate reputat...

Silke Riedel

Germany (Hannover)

Head of Investment Research, imug GmbH

Silke Riedel, Head of imug Investment Research and also shareholder of imug, manages the SRI Departement at imug - an independent consultancy and CSR rating agency, based in Germany. imug, founded in 1992, stands for Institute for Market, Environment and Society and is the German research partner of EIRIS. The main focus from imug is CSR ratings for investors with a clearly customized focus.

Patrice Schneider

Switzerland (Zurich)

Chief Strategy Officer , Media Development Loan Fund

Patrice Schneider is Chief Strategy Officer at Media Development Loan Fund. Patrice started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia at the end of the 1980s. Before being involved in media development, he held the responsibilities of Managing Director of Netscape Europe overseeing it’s European activities, Senior Adviser for the World Economic Forum (The Davos summit), Deputy Managing Director at Hachette Filipacchi Medias in France. Schneider has also wor...