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...

Remy Briand

Switzerland (Geneva)

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

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

Amanda Young

UK (London)

SRI Officer, Newton Investment Management Ltd.

Amanda is the SRI Officer at Newton Investment Management. On behalf of Newton’s institutional, retail, charity and private clients, Amanda heads up SRI research and engagement, focusing on integrating responsible investment into the investment process. Amanda has over a decade of experience in investment research and SRI, having represented a wide range of clients from charities to institutional investors. Before joining Newton, Amanda was the Senior SRI Analyst at CCLA Investment Management...

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...

Michael Jantzi

Canada (Toronto)

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainalytics

Michael Jantzi, Chief Executive Officer Sustainalytics, has been active in the social investment field since 1990. Subsequent to founding Jantzi Research Inc. in November 1992, Michael developed theCanadian Social Investment Database TM, the country’s first database that tracks the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of Canadian corporations. In January 2000, Jantzi Research launched the Jantzi Social Index®, a market capitalization-weighted common stock index consisting ...

Antoinette van Lier

Netherlands (Zeist)

Investment Director Responsible Equity Portfolio, PGGM

Antoinette van Lier is Investment Director at PGGM Investments, Responsible Equity Portfolio, a Euro 3 bn portfolio which is invested long term in listed companies that operate in a responsible manner. Through a proprietary bottom-up approach, the portfolio identifies companies with strong financial and ESG profiles that can generate a superior risk-reward by bearing less financial, ESG and reputational risk for its clients. In addition, the portfolio plays an investor citizenship role by acting...

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...

Alex Cobham

UK (London)

Chief Policy Adviser, Christian Aid

Alex Cobham manages the policy team at Christian Aid, a leading international grant-making development NGO in the United Kingdom. He was previously Supernumerary Fellow in Economics at St. Anne's, Oxford, and Director of the Economy Section at the Oxford Council on Good Governance. He worked and studied in Oxford from 1999 to 2007, and in Edinburgh and Cardiff before that. He has carried out research and consultancy work for the European Commission, the U.K. Department for International Developm...

Craig Courtney

Switzerland (Geneva)

Senior Adviser, Innovative Finance, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Craig Courtney is a senior investment finance executive with over 25 years experience, who successfully transitioned into international development in 2005, now applying best practice in financial innovation to improve global development outcomes. He provides strategic leadership in international development/corporate finance, including the origination, incubation and execution of funding processes and structures for private and public sector donors. Craig has hands-on capacity for the design an...

Robert Nash

UK (London)

Policy Adviser - Private Sector, Oxfam GB

Rob Nash is a Policy Adviser in the Private Sector Advocacy Team at Oxfam GB, specialising in the finance sector. Oxfam works with responsible investors, investor networks and civil society organisations to build awareness of the impact of investment on poverty and the important potential role of the financial sector in mobilising resources in ways that reduce poverty. Oxfam also advocates for policies that generate positive impacts and help move towards a more sustainable and responsible financ...

Stéphane Voisin

France (Courbevoie)

Head of Sustainability Research, Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux

Stéphane Voisin is head of SRI Research at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, the European equity broker, which is recognised throughout Europe for thequality and independence of its research. Stéphane Voisin holds an MBA in law and finance and has 18 years experience in equity markets. Prior to joining CA Cheuvreux, Stéphane Voisin was an executive director at JP Morgan and at Paribas in London, and also held positions at BZW and Natwest in Paris. Stéphane has authored anumber of reports on social...

Martin Rapaport

USA (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...

Thomas Rau

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Chief Executive Officer, RAU Associates

Martina Macpherson

UK (London)

Vice President Marketing & Commercial Relationships, MSCI ESG Research and Indices

Martina Macpherson is responsible for MSCI ESG Research and Indices Marketing and Commercial Relationships. Martina is a multi-lingual, senior Marketing and Business Development professional and an acclaimed writer. She joined MSCI from Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in 2011, where she was Head of UK Marketing for Lloyds TSB Int. Private Banking, based in London and Geneva. Prior to that, Martina worked as Head of Institutional Marketing at LBG, Insight Investment, managing strategic marketing a...

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...

Daniela Carosio

Italy (Milan)

Senior ESG Reseacher, ECPI Group

Daniela Carosio is senior ESG researcher at ECPI. She is member of the UN PRI Small Funds Steering Committee and of the ESG Commission of European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS). She was previously head of Research, Proxy Voting and Engagement at Etica SGR in Milan. She has more than 15 years professional experience in corporate governance, financial analysis and investment banking in Austria (Bank Austria, Vienna) and in Italy (Mediobanca, Milan). She has also worked with th...

Steve Waygood

UK (London)

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

Steve Waygood leads Aviva Investors’ Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) analysis, engagement and voting. Steve is also Chairman of the SRI Advisory Committee for Aviva Investors. He previously worked for Insight Investment where he was a Director in the Investor Responsibility team. Prior to that, he was a Senior Analyst in the Governance and SRI team of F&C. He was on the board of the UK Sustainable Investment Forum (UKSIF) from 2003 to 2010, serving as its Chairman from 2006. Steve...

Joanne Sawicki

UK (London)

Founder and Director, Ceres Communications

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

Neil Brown

UK (London)

Senior Partner, Earth Capital Partners LLP

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

Mark Fulton

USA (New York, NY)

Managing Director, Global Head of Research, DB Climate Change Advisors , Deutsche Bank

• In his role as Global Head of Climate Change Investment Research based in New York, Mark Fulton co-ordinates a team of analysts who publish white papers on key industry, policy and strategic topics. The research team uses this to advise investment managers on climate change based strategies across the asset management platform. • Mark joined the Company in 2006 after 29 years of investment experience in senior roles in research and management at Citigroup in the US, Salomon Smith Barney a...

Gerard van Baar

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Managing Director Finance and Sustainability, Holland Financial Centre for Finance and Sustainability

Gerard van Baar is responsible for the Finance & Sustainability section within Holland Financial Centre (HFC). HFC is a public private foundation with participants from the financial industry, consultants, audit and legal firms as well as government (both central and local) and regulators. The objective of HFC is to develop initiatives aimed at preserving a strong, open internationally competitive financial industry in the Netherlands. Gerard is in charge of the initiatives for Finance & Sustain...

Robert Bragar

Netherlands (Amersfoort)

General Counsel, Oikocredit International

General Counsel, Oikocredit International Independent Adviser, Legal Risk Management for Impact Investors Mr. Bragar, an American, is an international lawyer in the Netherlands. He serves as General Counsel to Oikocredit International, which is one of the world’s largest impact investors (approx. $1 billion placed in 70 countries). At Oikocredit, he is a member of the Credit Committee which approves investments; he supervises legal compliance and terms for loans and investments, and is res...

Michael Steidl

Germany (Frankenthal)

Founder and Managing Director, Micro Service Consult GmbH

Mr. Michael Steidl is the founder and Managing Director of Micro Service Consult GmbH (MSC), a German consulting company that is specialized in micro and small business finance. More recently, he is co-founder of PICOS Impact GmbH, a private equity fund for impact investment in access to finance and energy. He has 16 years of experience in consulting to microfinance institutions and microfinance development agencies in more than 30 countries worldwide, including Latin America, Africa and Asia. H...

Michael Madden

Ireland (Dublin)

Founder and Managing Partner, Ronoc

A successful entrepreneur with a passion for emerging economies, Michael has been actively involved in the Financial Services business in emerging markets for over twenty years. He has lived and worked in Russia for eight years on two separate occasions. He is currently the Managing Partner and founder of Ronoc an investment and advisory business focused on financial services in emerging economies, which he setup in July 2007. Ronoc have offices in New York and Dublin. Recently he launched t...

Paul Blyth

UK (London)

Head of Business Development, Finethic Microfinance Fund

Paul Blyth is a pioneer in the field of Microfinance investment. As UK Head of Business Development for the Finethic Microfinance Fund, Paul is bringing a unique microfinance investment fund to a previously untapped market – UK pension funds! Paul is of the belief that if we really want to move significant capital into Impact Investment, we have to engage with Pension Funds as they represent one third of the world’s capital market – wish him luck! Prior to Finethic, Paul was CFO, Finan...

Joan Trant

USA (New York)

Executive Director, International Association of Microfinance Investors

Joan Trant is Executive Director of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI), a global membership organization that helps commercially oriented microfinance investors leverage capital more effectively to achieve financial and social returns. Joan’s responsibilities encompass recruiting and serving Association members, overseeing research, developing educational and networking events, conducting outreach to industry leaders and managing the day-to-day operations of the o...

Suzanne Bodevin

France (Paris)

Assistant Professor of International Business Administration, American University of Paris, Department of International Business Administration

Assistant Professor in the International Business Department of the American University of Paris, Suzanne Bodevin is a lecturer for the Corporate Finance, International Financial Markets and Multinational Business Finance courses. Recently, Professor Bodevin has begun concentrating her research efforts on Finance and Sustainability, including the organization of a spring 2012 study trip to Växjö, Sweden.

Philipp Aeby

Switzerland (Zurich)

Chief Executive Officer, RepRisk AG

Dr Philipp Aeby is the Chief Executive Officer of RepRisk AG. Prior to being appointed CEO of RepRisk AG, Philipp Aeby was COO and Managing Partner of ECOFACT. Before joining ECOFACT in 2006, he served in various managerial positions in the biotech company Amgen and worked on a broad range of international assignments with the Boston Consulting Group. Philipp Aeby holds a PhD in environmental physics and a Master's degree in climatology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich...

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 ...

Christopher Greenwald

Switzerland (Zurich)

Head of Sustainability Application and Operations, SAM Sustainability Asset Management

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

Remy Briand

Switzerland (Geneva)

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

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

Thierry Sanders

Netherlands (Àmsterdam)

Founder and Director, BiD Network

BiD Network prepares emerging market entrepreneurs for investors. It was founded in 2005. BiD Network operates an online community with 26,000 members, it has supported 8,000 entrepreneurs in the writing of business plans. Over 300 SMEs have started through BiD Network in the last 4 years. Thierry’s career is a blend of development and business, with a dash of IT, carbon markets and finance. At NCDO he set up Dutch Design in Development, the BiD Challenge, the MDG Scan for multinationals. H...

Michael C. Spanos

Greece (Athens)

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, EuroCharity

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, EuroCharity Michael co-founded EuroCharity in 2006 as a social enterprise, with a vision to become Europe’s innovative communications and networking platform in CSR, green economy and responsible investing. Michael has an extensive professional experience through senior positions in management consulting, business information, risk management and investment services. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in Production Engineering and Management and speaks English, Frenc...

Hélène Lebedeff

France (Paris)

Director Indicators & ESG Performance - Sustainable Development Department, Veolia Environment

Helene Lebedeff has a degree from the French Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris as well as a MAS in applied probabilities. Her career has been in the telecom regulation and in the economic development before joining Veolia Environnement, the world leader in environmental services (http://www.veolia.com/en/group/). She is currently Director - Indicators & ESG Performance - for the French company Veolia Environnement, based in Paris.

Bijaya Prakash Sainju

Nepal (Kathmandu)

Executive Director , CONCERN Nepal

Dr. Sainju has 20 years experience of working as Human Rights Activist in implementing and developing policies on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). He completed Ph. D. thesis on the child labor issue in Nepalese context. He has ten years of research experiences on socio economic issues related to children and most of his researches are based on child participatory approaches. He has been to Geneva for three times and gained experiences on knowing UN Human Rights mechanism in Ge...

Giulio Franzinetti

Italy (Milano)

Member of the Advisory Board, TBLI GROUP™

Director of two charitable foundations and actively involved in Fair Trade projects in Africa. Giulio was formerly in banking and fund management and is now focussed on the activities of not for profit institutions and in particular religious institutions. He is a member of the Advisory Board of 3iG (The International Interfaith Investment Group) and a Director of a European Executive Search Company specializing in the financial field.

Paul Watchman

UK (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Quayle Watchman Consultancy

Paul was named in 2006, with Hank Paulson, formerly Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and now United States Treasury Secretary, as one of the five most influential world figures in the development of Sustainable Banking. He has lectured and published widely and is the author or co-author of many legal text books, the latest is on Climate Change: A Guide to Carbon Law and Practice is prefaced by HRH The Prince of Wales, collections of essays on the law, reports for government, government agencies...

Ajeet Manjrekar

UK (London)

Director , DB Advisors UK

Ajeet Manjrekar is responsible for DB Advisors relationships with UK institutional investors and their advisors. Prior to joining DB Advisors, he advised institutions on strategic asset allocation, manager selection and ongoing governance of their investment arrangements, most recently as a Principal Investment Consultant at P-Solve Asset Solutions.

Gert-Jan Sikking

Netherlands (Zeist)

Innovation Manager, PGGM

Tamsin Omond

UK (London)

Director, Climate Rush

Tamsin Omond left Cambridge University with one ambition - to become the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. After reading a popular science book about climate change she had to rethink her goal. One morning she left her church office so that she might climb the roofs of Parliament to drop banners that read: No Third Runway (at Heathrow Airport). This was the beginning of a new ambition - to build a women-led environmental movement in the UK. Since that January morning three years ago she ha...

Martin McAdam

UK (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Chief Executive Officer , Aquamarine Power

Martin McAdam joined Aquamarine Power as Chief Executive Officer in August 2008, bringing with him nearly ten years experience in the renewables industry. Martin joined Aquamarine Power from major renewable energy developer Airtricity. Martin was the founder and CEO of Airtricity’s North American operations and managed the sale of the company to E.On for £0.75bn in 2007. A highly experienced business leader, Martin previously held a number of technical and management roles in the utility sect...

Matthew Hammond

UK (London)

Partner, WHEB Infrastructure

Matt has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Automation from Sydney University, and a masters in International Relations from LSE. The WHEB Group is a European-focused boutique clean technology fund manager. WHEB Infrastructure invests in renewable energy generation assets on behalf of institutional and private investors through a range of different vehicles. The main targets currently are wind, PV solar, CSP, biomass and hydro across Europe. Matt was part of Macquarie’s infrastructure team...

Nadia Sood

UK (London)

Founding Member and Partner, Impact Investment Partners LLP

Nadia Sood is a founding member and Partner of Impact Investment Partners, LLP. IIP invests in critical goods and services companies in emerging markets that deliver significant social impact at scale. Nadia was previously Executive Vice-President for South Asia at a leading international renewable energy company with $1.75 billion of assets under management. Nadia has initiated a number of private-public partnerships over the course of her career including a PPP with the UNDP to built out one o...

Mike Coombs

UK (London)

Chief Financial Officer , Nur Energie Ltd

Mike Coombs joined Nur Energie as CFO in 2011 having spent the last five years as Group CFO of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) an international wind farm developer which saw annual revenues increase from £160m in 2006 to £500m by 2010. RES, a member of the Sir Robert McAlpine Group, is one of the renewable energy sector’s market leaders with over 5,000MW of wind projects developed and built and 600MW under ownership in various markets including the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden, Canada and the ...

Marc Brammer

UK (London)

Head of Business Development, MSCI ESG Research

Marc Brammer is Head of Business Development for the UK and European markets at MSCI ESG Research. Marc has over 14 years of experience in the sustainable finance field. He was the Head of UK and European Business Development at RiskMetrics and prior to that he served as the Director of Product Development and Carbon Finance at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. He also held various senior positions including Director of Research for the European and New York research teams at Innovest a...

William Davis III

USA (New York)

President, GATE Global Impact LLC

Mr. William Davis, Bill III serves as the President of GATE Global Impact LLC. Mr. Davis provides Leadership with extensive hands on managerial experience rooted in "Best Practices" and "Guaranteed Delivery". He specializes in Business & Logistical Intelligence with recent engagements with American Express, IBM and Boeing. He provides advisory services to some of the largest Social Investment Portfolios and passionate consultants in the U.S. He coauthored the Impact Intelligence for High Perform...

Arthur Wood

UK (London)

Founding Partner, Total Impact Advisors

Arthur Wood is a former banker, educated at the London School of Economics, SDA Bocconi in Italy and HEC in France and Merrill Lynch in New York. Now Geneva based, he is a Founder Partner of Total Impact Advisers (TIA www.totalimpactadvisors.com). A Social Finance entity whose clients are the social entrepreneurs looking to scale - and who recognise blended value requires blended capital expertise. He is also the current Chairman of the World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF- www.sanitation...

Vivina Berla

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Senior Partner and Managing Director Europe, Sarona Asset Management

After a first career spent in industry and 17 years in the commercial, for-profit investment world, Vivina has now combined her experience and a desire for positive change to join the Impact Investing world. During her ten years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers she was responsible for a variety of investors and products across Europe, Africa, Middle East and the Pacific Region. After leaving her position as Managing Director, Alternative Investments in 2004, Vivina joined Gartmore Investme...

Michele Giddens

UK

Executive director, Bridges Community Ventures Ltd.

Michele Giddens has 10 years of international development and community finance experience ranging from large equity and debt instruments to micro-finance and small business lending. She was previously at Shorebank Corporation, one of the leading community development banks in the USA. She was Chair of the Community Development Finance Association (cdfa) 2003-2005.

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...

Paul Wenman

UK (London)

Founder and Managing Director , SourceAsia Ltd

Paul is founder of SourceAsia and CSR China, which have been providing advice and support for responsible investment and sourcing in Asia since 2004. He was previously a Partner with ERM for 13 years and Director of Evironment and Corporate Responsibility Services with Ernst & Young for 4 years. SourceAsia's InvestAssure service monitors the internet, in English, Chinese and other Asian languages, for reports of incidents and allegations relating to unethical or environmentally damaging pract...

Wim van der Beek

Netherlands (Hilversum)

Managing Partner, Goodwell Investments

Wim van der Beek is an investment specialist with over two decades of experience in financial structuring and private equity investments. In 2004 he founded Goodwell Investments, an impact investment firm focused on access to finance and sustainable development in emerging countries. Goodwell channels capital to scalable business solutions, currently mainly in financial services (microfinance) and increasingly in other impact sectors that combine demonstrable social and environmental impact with...

Lisa Hayles

UK (London)

Head of Client Services (North America), EIRIS

Lisa Hayles is Head of Client Services (North America) at EIRIS. Founded in 1983, EIRIS provides research on corporate environmental, social, governance (ESG) and other ethical performance indicators to more than 150 institutional investors around the world. EIRIS’ clients range from those who use our research for stock selection or exclusion, to pension funds and other institutional investors applying an engagement or sustainability overlay to their investment strategy. In her current role,...

Jennifer Harris

UK (London)

Founder and Managing Partner, Board Intelligence

Jennifer is the Managing Director of Board Intelligence, a business she has led since its inception in 2002, following a career with the strategy consultancy, Roland Berger. Jennifer has led over 60 strategy and governance assignments, with clients including Aviva, Compass, easyJet, The Economist Group, E.ON, Laird, RBS and Universal Music amongst others. In 2005 Jennifer was named The Times’ ‘Young Business Woman of the Year’ and in 2007 she was listed in Management Today's 35 unde...

Kris Douma

Netherlands (Rijswijk)

Head of Responsible Investment & Active Ownership, Mn Services

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

Jeroen van Kwawegen

USA (New York, NY)

Associate, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP

Mr. van Kwawegen is a senior associate at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann (BLB&G) in New York. BLB&G is widely recognized as one of the leading law firms in the world advising pension funds and institutional investors on issues related to ensuring corporate governance improvements at investment portfolio companies, enforcing shareholder rights, and shareholder recovery in case of breach of duty or securities fraud. Mr. van Kwawegen has extensive experience litigating a wide array of sec...

Brent Knudsen

USA (San Francisco, CA)

Founder and Managing Partner, Partnership Capital Growth

Brent Knudsen is Managing Partner and founder of Partnership Capital Growth, the leading investment bank and financial advisory firm focused exclusively on the healthy, active and sustainable living marketplace. Brent has a long history of founding, buying, building, advising and successfully selling companies. Fueled by equity transactions that include CytoSport, Sambazon, World Health Club, Planet Organic Health Corp, and Anytime Fitness among others, Partnership Capital Growth was named to...

Ruby Sandhu

UK (London)

Partner, Amsterdam and Peroff LLP

Ruby Sandhu began working within the international legal community in 1995. In 2002, she qualified and became associated with a reputable city firm. She has gained considerable commercial experience working on large scale merger and acquisition projects as well as advising individuals and companies on general aspects of company / commercial law. She has travelled and worked extensively abroad and with NGOs and Governmental organisations in post-communist and transition economies in Central & Eas...

Joanne Sawicki

UK (London)

Founder and Director, Ceres Communications

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

Robert S. Earhart

France (Paris)

Director, TBLI Consulting Group, Sárl

Jonathan F.P. Rose

USA (New York, NY)

President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC

Jonathan F.P. Rose's business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities. The company's mission is to repa...

Paul Cayford

UK (London)

Founder and Director, Cayford Architecture Ltd (UK)

Paul Cayford is an architect who advises the UK government and international business leaders on the creation of better designed more energy efficient public buildings and corporate headquarters. Paul is an accredited (Royal Institute of British Architects) RIBA Client Adviser and has experience with over 20 building types, including education, healthcare, police, commercial, broadcasting, & residential, many receiving prestigious design awards and achieving top BREEAM accreditation for sus...

Elena Panaritis

USA (Washington DC)

Founder, Panel Group

Elena Panaritis is an institutional economist, property rights expert, and social entrepreneur. In more than a decade as an economist at the World Bank, Ms. Panaritis spearheaded several institutional reforms including property rights reform in Peru that received International Best Practice and Innovation award. Her book "Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust" (Palgrave Macmillan) recounts her experience and expounds on her methodology- “Reality Check Analysis”, which is...

Kathelijne Marritt Alers

Switzerland (Zürich)

Regional Director, SAM Indexes

Kathelijne Marritt Alers is a Regional Director responsible for developing SAM Indexes’ business in Europe. In addition, she is responsible for managing SAM Indexes’ institutional clients. Prior to joining SAM in 2009, she spent 2.5 years as a Relationship Manager at ABN AMRO Bank in Zurich, where she managed a portfolio of private clients and led the bank's sustainability activities in Switzerland. She began her career at Reuters, working in product management, strategy and account manageme...

Mirjam Staub-Bisang

Switzerland (Zurich)

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Independent Capital Management AG

Dr. Mirjam Staub-Bisang (41) is a founder and managing partner at Independent Capital Management AG, an asset management and real estate advisory firm, based in Zurich. Prior, she held senior positions in investment banking/asset management among which Commerzbank and Swiss Life Private Equity Partners. Dr. Staub-Bisang is an attorney-at-law and holds a Ph.D. degree in law from the University of Zurich and an MBA from INSEAD/Fontainebleau. Dr. Staub-Bisang serves on the advisory boards of severa...

Christopher McKnett

USA (Boston, MA)

Vice-President, Head of ESG, State Street Global Advisors

Chris McKnett is a Vice President of Boston-based State Street Global Advisors. He is the Product Engineer for the firms global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment business. Chris works across asset classes and investment teams to champion sustainable and responsible investment on behalf of SSgA and its clients. His primary responsibilities include producing thought leadership, product management, analyzing market trends, and business strategy. Chris is a member of State Street...

Stuart Kinnersley

UK (London)

Chief Investment Officer , Nikko Asset Management Europe Ltd (Nikko AME)

As Chief Investment Officer, Stuart Kinnersley has overall responsibility for the Nikko AM group's European Equity and Fixed Income investment teams based in London. Prior to joining Nikko AM in 1998, Stuart was with Foreign & Colonial for more than 10 years, initially as a fixed income portfolio manager, before becoming a fixed income director. Prior to his departure, he held the position of Chief Investment Director within a joint venture with LTCB. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) Economics from the L...

Daron Sheehan

UK (London)

Chief Executive Officer, Active Earth Investment Management

Daron Sheehan began building Active Earth's proprietary equity research/trading platform in 2010, which drives equity long/short funds that integrate sustainability for higher performance. Previously, Daron was co-founder and director of Metage Capital, a London-based emerging markets hedge fund. In the early 1990s, he was Financial Director of Buchanan Partners, one of the first quantitative hedge funds. Daron also founded Active Earth Foundation, which supports a sustainable community in South...

Michael C. Spanos

Greece (Athens)

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, EuroCharity

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, EuroCharity Michael co-founded EuroCharity in 2006 as a social enterprise, with a vision to become Europe’s innovative communications and networking platform in CSR, green economy and responsible investing. Michael has an extensive professional experience through senior positions in management consulting, business information, risk management and investment services. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in Production Engineering and Management and speaks English, Frenc...

Dimitra Pragalou

Greece (Athens)

Investment Manager, Invest in Greece S.A.

Ms Dimitra Pragalou is a graduate of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and holds an MSc in Financial Management and Control with the Aston Business School. She has worked with KPMG Financial Advisory Services as a consultant and as an Investment Analyst from 2000 to 2002 in Vectis Capital (Venture Capital Company of Alpha Bank, Leventis Group and Martinos Group). Her next position was with the highly ambitious project of the Athens International Airport S.A. where she worked for t...

Ioannis Pappas

Greece (Athens)

Chief Executive Officer, Green Evolution S.A.

Dr Ioannis Pappas has a Diploma in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a Post-Doc in Applied Mechanics in Energy Applications. He is a Senior Consultant in Carbon Finance and Energy Markets, with experience since 2001, Coordinator / Manager for more than 20 National & EU Research Projects and has been a Research Fellow in Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He was a Special Advisor on Energy and Carbon Finance for Greek Government, the Princ...

Vivian Bouzali

Greece (Athens)

Group Communications Director, Mytilineos Holdings S.A.

Ms Vivian Bouzali was born in Kastoria, Greece, in 1970. She holds a BSc in Psychology from the Loyola University of Chicago, an MSc in Counseling Psychology from Harvard University and an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Louisville. Following two years of work as a psychologist in Loyola and Harvard University, she pursued a business career in Greece, starting in 1997 as the Administrative and Business Development Director of New York College of Athens. Following that,...

Wim van der Beek

Netherlands (Hilversum)

Managing Partner, Goodwell Investments

Wim van der Beek is an investment specialist with over two decades of experience in financial structuring and private equity investments. In 2004 he founded Goodwell Investments, an impact investment firm focused on access to finance and sustainable development in emerging countries. Goodwell channels capital to scalable business solutions, currently mainly in financial services (microfinance) and increasingly in other impact sectors that combine demonstrable social and environmental impact with...

Robert Bragar

Netherlands (Amersfoort)

General Counsel, Oikocredit International

General Counsel, Oikocredit International Independent Adviser, Legal Risk Management for Impact Investors Mr. Bragar, an American, is an international lawyer in the Netherlands. He serves as General Counsel to Oikocredit International, which is one of the world’s largest impact investors (approx. $1 billion placed in 70 countries). At Oikocredit, he is a member of the Credit Committee which approves investments; he supervises legal compliance and terms for loans and investments, and is res...

Gloria Nelund

USA (Manhattan Beach, CA)

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 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 a...

Joachim Merten

UK (London)

Chief Operating Officer, QC Private Equity Services Ltd.

Joachim Merten is the Chief Operating Officer of Quadriga Capital, one of the leading German private equity funds focused on the midcap market. He joined the company in 2007. Prior to this he was working for KPMG in their Frankfurt office. He received his Masters in Economics from Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Patricia von Papstein

Austria (Salzburg)

Founder, Capital in Love

Patricia von Papstein is a private investor, with remarkable analytical skills and a love for play. She sees the attraction between Eros and Wealth as the most creative force in economic matters. She initiated an informal group of private investors across the globe, which successfully focuses on investments in Art of Living. "Art of Living", she states, "demands products, which are ingenious and lush". And she knows how to source new deals to identify and transact Art of Living investments. U...

Rosali Pretorius

UK (London)

Partner, SNR Denton UK LLP

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

Lauren Kickham Ryder

UK (London)

Investment Manager, Ariya Capital

Lauren Ryder is the Investment Manager for Ariya Capital. She was previously on the portfolio team for the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, which invests in social enterprises in low-income communities, and a Business Advisor to a start-up venture capital fund focused on socially responsible, commercially viable businesses in West Africa and Latin America. Prior to that she was a Consultant at Marakon Associates, a global management consulting firm, and is a Civil and Environmental Engineer....

Niclas During

UK (London)

ESG Manager , CDC Group plc

Niclas During joined CDC in September 2009 as ESG Manager. Prior to joining CDC Mr. During was with McKinsey & Company’s London office where he worked on strategy and organisational matters for clients across a range of sectors including private equity, oil and gas, steel, insurance and health care. Before McKinsey he worked in operational management consulting with Celerant Consulting, and before that with the World Bank on private sector development and investment climate enhancement in a nu...

Marten Leijon

USA (Washington, DC)

Chief Executive Officer, MIX

Marten Leijon has many years of experience in leading advisory, information and research businesses, with a primary focus on financial services. Between 1999 and 2008, he led several global practices within the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). As Managing Director in the Financial Services practice, Marten was responsible for the development and growth of information products and executive networks in insurance, service delivery, and retirement services. Marten also served as Managing Directo...

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...

Alexia Zavos

UK (London)

SRI Manager, Cazenove Capital

Alexia Zavos joined Cazenove Capital in September 2006. She focuses on the Social, Environmental and Ethical research process across Pan Europe, ethical restriction implementation, third party fund selection and SRI marketing. Alexia joined from J M Finn where she was a Private Client Fund Manager Assistant. Alexia has also worked at ISIS (now F&C) and HSBC. Alexia worked at Cazenove for 6 months (SRI) in 2002 having graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in Geography. Alexia has 9 years...

Yvonne Li

Hong Kong

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Avantage Ventures

Yvonne Li is the founder and CEO of Avantage Ventures. She founded Avantage Ventures to bridge the information and funding gaps between social entrepreneurs and investors in Asia. 

She is a former Hong Kong finance executive who has worked in investment banking, hedge funds, and commercial banking. Her experience includes working at Lehman Brothers’ capital markets division in equity structured derivatives and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation in commercial banking. She began her career...

Geoff Burnand

UK (London)

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Investing for Good

Geoff had over twenty years’ experience in private and institutional investment management before co-founding Investing for Good CIC in 2005. He has a proven track record of business generation and relationship development with high net worth individuals and corporate clients, and of developing a new global wealth management business. His experience includes designing donor advisory services at The Institute for Philanthropy and Charities Aid Foundation. Since May 2010 he has also been Chief I...

Robert S. Earhart

France (Paris)

Director, TBLI Consulting Group, Sárl

Steven Fawkes

UK (London)

Partner, Matrix Corporate Capital LLP

Steven is a Partner at Matrix where he heads New Energy and Clean Technology, having previously led the Extel number 1 rated research team in the sector. Following a PhD concerned with the potential for energy efficiency in UK industry, Steven worked in energy efficiency for more than 20 years implementing large-scale energy management programmes. He also worked in Romania, on energy efficiency programmes funded by the EU, UNDP, USAID and World Bank. In 2000 he joined Enron and was part of the t...

Tobias Reichmuth

Switzerland (Zurich)

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SUSI Partners AG

Tobias Reichmuth founded SUSI Partners AG, a sustainable and ecologically responsible Swiss investment advisor active in the field of renewable energy infrastructure and energy efficiency. He also serves as a Director of Sustainable Funds SCA, a Luxembourg fund manager investing in renewable energy infrastructure. Prior to founding SUSI, he was a Director at the Foundation for Global Sustainability, worked as a Strategy Consultant for The Boston Consulting Group and has successfully sold his fir...

Peter Gillespie

France (Paris )

Director of Sustainability-CSR, Veolia Transdev

Peter Gillespie has a degree in Economics and Administration from Trinity College, University of Dublin and is a chartered accountant. His career has been in the paper and public transport industries and he has worked in Ireland, the UK, Italy and France. His most-recent role was as Deputy Group Finance Director of Transdev, and from 2005 to 2009 he was also the UK Consumer Expert in the development of ISO26000, "Guidance on Social Resposnbibility". He is currently Director of Sustainability-...

Noah Beckwith

UK (London)

Independent Adviser, TBLI Conference B.V.

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

Valerie Issumo

Switzerland (Duillier)

Designer of the Ethical Water Exchange, Prana Sustainable Water

Valérie Issumo, Economist (+MBA), Laureate of the Belgian Prize of Foreign Trade, has 15 years working experience as soft commodities trader and traders trainer in Europe, Africa and South America. She is the designer of an environmental and sustainable growth tool - the Ethical Water Exchange, matching demands of treated water with wastewater purchases and treatment. Valérie Issumo is lecturer at Geneva university, diver and active member in numerous associations for nature conservation, sust...

Fredrick Royan

UK (London)

Research Director, Global Environment (Water) Markets, Frost & Sullivan

Currently leading and developing the Global Water Markets Program Area at Frost & Sullivan. Environmental Management research and consulting experience with particular focus on the Water Market. Tracking the Water Market as an Analyst for the last 7 years and worked on successful advisory assignments for Tier 1 Water Companies, OEM’s and start-ups. B Sc Environmental Science from Bangalore University, India; M Sc Environmental Protection and Management from University of Edinburgh.

Marcus Norton

UK (London)

Head of Investor CDP and CDP Water Disclosure , Carbon Disclosure Project

Marcus' background is in corporate law (with Allen & Overy and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) and in government with the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs where he wrote environmental laws and advised ministers and officials on matters of EC and public law. He holds an MA from the University of St Andrews, an LL.M from University College London and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He joined CDP in 2009 to launch and lead CDP Water Disclosure and he now also heads...

Suzanne Bodevin

France (Paris)

Assistant Professor of International Business Administration, American University of Paris, Department of International Business Administration

Assistant Professor in the International Business Department of the American University of Paris, Suzanne Bodevin is a lecturer for the Corporate Finance, International Financial Markets and Multinational Business Finance courses. Recently, Professor Bodevin has begun concentrating her research efforts on Finance and Sustainability, including the organization of a spring 2012 study trip to Växjö, Sweden.

Walter van Helvoirt

Netherlands (The Hague)

Environmental and Social Specialist, FMO - Netherlands Development Finance Company

Walter van Helvoirt studied Applied Economics in Belgium and completed his Masters in Human Resources Management. Before working as an E&S specialist with FMO, Walter worked for 12 years as Senior HR Advisor for different companies, ranging from operational in small, to strategic level in large companies, dealing with all subjects in the HR field. Currently he is happily working at FMO's Private Equity department, dealing with Equity Fund Managers in Africa and Asia, and working on FMO's dire...

Weiyee In

Hong Kong

Global Head of Technology, Media and Telecom Research, BNP Paribas GECD Asia Pacific

Weiyee joined BNP Paribas in 2009 as head of TMT equity research and is a publishing TMT equity strategist. He has more than two decades of experience in the TMT sector, working for publishing/media giant McGraw-Hill, consulting to the tele-tech sector and as global tech strategist at UBS. He is a graduate of Columbia College with majors in Political Science and East Asia Studies.

Richard Mattison

UK (London)

Chief Executive , Trucost Plc

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

Raymond Van Ermen

Belgium (Brussels)

Director, EPE-European Partners for the Environment

Raymond van Ermen is the Executive Director of EPE and drives EPE's programmes. He also is Rapporteur of the European Forum of Civil Society and on the Board of the RIET Foundation, in Singapore (an EU-Singapore Initiative). Prior to joining EPE, he was Treasurer of the Environment Liaison Committee - Nairobi, Secretary General of the European Environment Bureau (EEB), and a member of the Belgian Council for Sustainable Development. In his various capacities, he has been inpermanent dialogue wit...

Julia Balandina Jaquier

Switzerland (Zurich)

Board and Investment Committee Member, SIFEM

Julia has 18 years experience focusing on sustainable investing in non-listed companies and funds, with over 4 bn invested in environmental technologies, renewable and conventional energy, as well as infrastructure around the world. She has served on boards of 7 companies, including her current roles as IC member of SIFEM (Swiss Federal Development Finance Institution) and board member and IC chair of Entropy (pan-Asian cleantech fund). She is actively involved in several innovative cleantech/im...

Ewoud Goudswaard

Netherlands (The Hague)

Managing Manager, ASN Bank

Ewoud Goudswaard (1958) is Managing Director of ASN Bank, the market leader in sustainable banking in the Netherlands. One of the first ethical banks in Europe, ASN Bank calls for a society in which sustainability is the key objective. Prior to joining ASN Bank, Ewoud Goudswaard worked for ING Group, a leading Dutch financial institution, for more than seventeen years. During this period he worked at ING Head Office and in several management positions in the branch network of ING Bank. Ewoud ...

Lisa Hall

USA (Berthesda, MD)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Calvert Foundation

Lisa Hall is the newly appointed President and CEO of Calvert Foundation, appointed by the Board in January 2011. Lisa, who joined Calvert Foundation in 2005, brings nearly 25 years of industry experience and has held multiple policy and financial posts. Lisa has held positions in real estate and community development finance with the Enterprise Foundation, JP Morgan Chase and Travelers Insurance. She holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Universi...

Yvonne Li

Hong Kong

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Avantage Ventures

Yvonne Li is the founder and CEO of Avantage Ventures. She founded Avantage Ventures to bridge the information and funding gaps between social entrepreneurs and investors in Asia. 

She is a former Hong Kong finance executive who has worked in investment banking, hedge funds, and commercial banking. Her experience includes working at Lehman Brothers’ capital markets division in equity structured derivatives and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation in commercial banking. She began her career...

Nadia Sood

UK (London)

Founding Member and Partner, Impact Investment Partners LLP

Nadia Sood is a founding member and Partner of Impact Investment Partners, LLP. IIP invests in critical goods and services companies in emerging markets that deliver significant social impact at scale. Nadia was previously Executive Vice-President for South Asia at a leading international renewable energy company with $1.75 billion of assets under management. Nadia has initiated a number of private-public partnerships over the course of her career including a PPP with the UNDP to built out one o...

James Gifford

UK (London)

Executive Director, UN PRI

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

Frank Curtiss

UK (London)

Head of Corporate Governance, Railpen Investments

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

Howard Pearce

UK (Almondsbury)

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

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

Edward Mason

UK (London)

Secretary, The Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group

Edward was appointed Secretary to the Church of England's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) in March 2009. The EIAG gives ethical investment advice to the national investing bodies of the Church – the Church Commissioners, Church of England Pensions Board and CBF Church of England Funds, with assets of £8bn. As Secretary, Edward prepares policy advice and implements agreed polices. Before taking up employment at the Church of England, Edward served for 15 years as a British diplomat...

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...