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...

Thomas Rau

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Chief Executive Officer, RAU Associates

Douwe Jan Joustra

Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Managing Partner , One Planet Architecture institute

Douwe Jan Joustra works on shifts in sustainable development. The city of the future as the basis for a cradle to cradle based circular economy is what he sees as a viable future. Joustra works on the Dutch Innovationprogram Climateneutral Cities and sees the importance of proces- and systemsinnovations. All together he profiles himself as an 'architect of the new economy'.

Angelica Ortiz de Haas

Netherlands (The Hague)

Investment Officer Asia, FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank

Miyuki Nihei

Japan (Tokyo)

Senior Deputy Manager, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

Michael Salvatico

Australia (Sydney)

Vice President, ESG Client Coverage, MSCI Inc.

Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI Inc. based in Sydney Australia, is responsible for growing the MSCI ESG Research presence in Australia and New Zealand. He is working closely with Asset Owners and Managers to integrate ESG analysis into their investment strategies. Previously, Michael was a co-founder in the Climakind initiative to reduce global carbon emissions by promoting a price on carbon and a thought leader in solutions to the rising levels of global carbon emissions. Mich...

Palle Ellemann

Denmark (Copenhagen)

Senior Consultant, GES Investment Services

For more than 10 years Palle has been supporting companies in driving performance through the development of people oriented cultures and sustainable practices. His current role as Senior Consultant with GES Investment Services is focused on building strong ESG capabilities in emerging markets and he travels the world on behalf of investor clients. Palle is a seasoned writer and speaker on subjects like sustainability, ESG, workplace development, leadership. GES Investment Services was in 2011 r...

Natalie A. Trunow

USA (Bethesda)

Chief Investment Officer, Equities, Calvert Investment Management

Parker Fairfield

People's Republic of China (Guangzhou)

Managing Director, Fusion Consulting International Limited

Parker Fairfield is from the USA and has been the head of many diverse companies over the past 15 years. His experiences encompass many industries, including sourcing and logistics, software development, real estate development, marketing, and most recently, corporate social responsibility consulting. Parker’s wide knowledge base combined with his life experiences of traveling through over 60 countries, as well as his charisma and enthusiasm, give him a unique ability to relate to audiences of...

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...

Ciara Shannon

Hong Kong

Founder, Eden Ventures Hong Kong

Ciara Shannon (MSc), founder of Eden Ventures is Hong Kong born and has worked on environmental and development issues for the last 16 years, including initiating and running the Climate Change Business Forum (CCBF) for the Business Environment Council (BEC). Her commitment and early action on raising awareness on climate change and motivating the business sector towards reducing their emissions earned her the accolade of Outstanding Earth Champion in 2008. Ciara with Eden Ventures is now focusi...

Daisy Zhang

People's Republic of China (Shanghai)

Head of Utility Research, China Utility & Renewable , BNP Paribas Equities (Asia) Ltd. Shanghai

Daisy joined BNP Paribas in 2007 and covers the PRC utilities sector. She has spent six years working in equities research in China, covering China consumer and insurance sectors at UOB KayHian in Shanghai. Daisy is a CFA Charterholder and has an MBA from McGill University, alongside Undergraduate degrees in Management Information Systems and Power Mechanical Engineering.

Richard Lancaster

Hong Kong

Managing Director, CLP Power Hong Kong Limited

Mr. Lancaster was appointed as Managing Director of CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd. in 2010. He has overall responsibility for the operations of the Hong Kong business, which includes a vertically integrated electricity utility serving over 5.7 million people in Kowloon and the New Territories of Hong Kong. Mr. Lancaster began his career with the Electricity Commission of New South Wales in Australia and has over 25 years experience in the power industry and in other industrial operations in Austral...

Charles Travis Canfield

Hong Kong

Senior Corporate Governance Officer, International Finance Corporation

CPA, J.D., Illinois, has a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Elmhurst College, Chicago, Illinois, USA and a Juris Doctor with a concentration in International Law from Northwestern University. Has over twenty years professional experience in accounting, consulting and law, with eleven years of that spent in the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union and East Asia. Assisted companies in these jurisdictions implement international best practices of corporate governance, and advised on dr...

Bonny Landers

Hong Kong

Chief Executive Officer, Sterling Private Management Ltd.

Bonny spent most of her career as a banker with 20+ years with Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan Chase, having worked on all continents and in all sectors with few exceptions. From 2005 to the present, she has been head of a large single family office in Hong Kong which is active in wealth management, philanthropy, finance, trust admin and family services. Sustainable and impact investing are recent initiatives to which Bonny devotes much of her time. Bonny is an Honors graduate of Harvard Universit...

Terry Alan Farris

Singapore

Head of Family Office and Philanthropic Services, Senior Vice-President, DBS Private Bank

Terry Alan Farris joined DBS Private Bank in January 2011 to head a team of Senior Relationship Managers focused on supporting family offices, ultra high net worth individuals, family foundations and non-profits in Asia. Terry has over 20 years of experience in managing & advising high net worth individuals with their private wealth, family office, family governance and their philanthropic initiatives. He has been a leading advisor to many of the large non-profit organisations around the regi...

Omar Martin Cordes

Hong Kong

Asia Pacific Co-Head of Distribution for Asset Management, Credit Suisse Hong Kong

Almis Povilaitis

Hong Kong

Head of Product Development Asia Pacific, State Street Global Advisors

Larry Abele

UK (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...

Haroon Askari

Pakistan (Karachi)

Deputy Managing Director, The Karachi Stock Exchange (Guarantee) Limited

Mr. Haroon Askari holds an MBA degree from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and has been working as Head of Operations at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) since December 2005 till he was appointed as Acting Managing Director of the Exchange on November 01, 2010. In addition, he is also a member of Textile Institute, London. Mr. Askari carries a diverse experience of around 37 years in different businesses. His professional life began when he established business in London by the name...

François Passant

Belgium (Brussels)

Executive Director, Eurosif

Francois Passant joined Eurosif on September 1st, 2011 as Executive Director. François has over fifteen years experience in the financial services industry, most of which in asset management. He is a former Executive Director of Vanguard Investments Europe, the European subsidiary of The Vanguard Group, Inc. where he was most recently in charge of European Planning and Development. Between 2006 and 2008, he acted as a Deputy Managing Director with direct responsibilities including compliance...

Alexandra Boakes Tracy

Hong Kong

Chairman, Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia

Alexandra Tracy is President of Hoi Ping Ventures in Hong Kong, which she established to provide research and consulting on investment and sustainability issues. Based in Asia for nearly twenty years, Alexandra was for much of that time an investment banker, with Morgan Stanley, Citibank and ABN Amro Bank, advising on construction, acquisition and financing of major energy and infrastructure projects in developing countries in the region. Following this, she was Chief Financial Officer of Aptitu...