Elizabeth Warren, the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has most recently served as the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University. Warren was the Chief Adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and she was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist as the first academic member of the Federal Judicial Education Committee. She has served as a member of the Commission on Economic Inclusion established by the FDIC. She served as Vice-President of the American Law Institute, and she has been elected to membership in the American Academic of Arts and Sciences. Warren has written nine books, and more than a hundred scholarly articles dealing with credit and economic stress. Her latest two popular books, The Two-Income Trap and All Your Worth, were both on national best seller lists. Warren has been principal investigator on empirical studies funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and more than a dozen other foundations. She has testified several times before House and the Senate committees on financial issues. Time Magazine has twice named her one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World, the Boston Globe named her Bostonian of the Year, and the National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers of the Decade.
Luis A. Aguilar is a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was sworn in on July 31, 2008.Prior to his appointment as an SEC Commissioner, Aguilar was a partner with the international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP, specializing in securities law. Aguilar’s previous experience includes serving as the General Counsel, Executive Vice President, and Corporate Secretary of INVESCO. He also was INVESCO’s Managing Director for Latin America in the late 1990s. His career also includes tenure as a partner at several prominent national law firms and as an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Commissioner Aguilar has served as the SEC's primary sponsor of the Investor Advisory Committee. Additionally, he represents the Commission as its liaison to both the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and to the Council of Securities Regulators of the Americas (COSRA). Aguilar is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, and also received a master of laws degree in taxation from Emory University. He serves as sponsor of the SEC’s Hispanic Employment Committee, the African American Council, and the Caribbean American Heritage Committee.
Janet Cowell is the State Treasurer of North Carolina. Elected in 2008, she is the state’s 27th popularly-elected Treasurer and is the first woman to win the post.As the state’s fiscal advisor, Treasurer Cowell oversees more than $65 billion in pension fund investments, affecting 820,000 public employees including teachers, firefighters and other government employees.Cowell and her staff manage the issuance of several billion dollars of debt each year and help cities, towns and counties by monitoring their financial condition while providing professional technical assistance on audit and financial reporting. Her expertise in government operations comes from hands-on experience as a member of the North Carolina Senate and the Raleigh City Council.Cowell is at the forefront of economic development in North Carolina, serving as chair of the State Banking Commission and on the boards of State Education and Community Colleges.An investment professional, Cowell earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Master’s degree in International Studies from the Lauder Institute. She worked as a financial analyst with HSBC Bank and Lehman Brothers before making her home in North Carolina.
Martin Eakes is the CEO of Self Help and the Center for Responsible Lending. Eakes co-founded Self-Help, a community development lender and credit union, in 1980. Self-Help has provided almost $6 billion in financing to more than 64,000 homebuyers, small businesses and nonprofits and serves approximately 86,000 mostly low-income families through 27 retail branches. Self-Help reaches people who are underserved by conventional financial institutions—particularly persons of color, women, rural residents, and low-wealth families.Eakes holds a law degree from Yale, a Master's from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, and a BA from Davidson College. He is a nationally recognized expert on development finance and has been honored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a MacArthur Fellow and by the Opportunity Finance Network, which presented him with the Ned Gramlich Lifetime Achievement Award for Responsible Lending. In 1998, Eakes helped form the Coalition for Responsible Lending, a group of 120 CEOs from financial institutions and organizations representing three million North Carolina citizens, to oppose predatory lending practices in North Carolina and nationally. The Coalition’s work resulted in the nation’s first anti-predatory mortgage lending law being enacted in the state of North Carolina in 1999. This work also led to the creation of the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a Self-Help affiliate dedicated to protecting home ownership and family wealth. CRL has helped American families save more than four billion dollars annually.
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. He is also co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an Emmy Award-winning, independent cable and satellite television news and information network based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. In addition, Gore is a senior partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a member of the board of directors of Apple and senior adviser to Google.Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit focused on solutions to the climate crisis.Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.During the Administration, Gore was a central member of President Clinton’s economic team. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, and Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
Michael Jantzi is the CEO of Sustainalytics. He was the founder of Jantzi Research and has been active in the social investment field since 1990. Jantzi is one of Canada’s foremost thought leaders on social investment and corporate social responsibility issues and regularly appears in the national media. He is the co-author of The 50 Best Ethical Stocks for Canadians: High Value Investing, published by MacMillan Canada. In June 2001, Jantzi was the recipient of an Ethics in Action Award in recognition of his significant contribution to corporate social responsibility and social investment in Canada. Jantzi Research won the 2006 Capital Markets Award for Sustainable Investment & Banking, awarded by the GLOBE Foundation and The Globe and Mail as part of the GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence.Jantzi mentors social entrepreneurs through his involvement in the Ashoka Support Network. He also sits on the practitioner advisory council for the Research Network for Business Sustainability, overseen by the Richard Ivey School of Business, and is a member of the grant review panel at the Rotman School of Management. Most recently he was invited to the advisory council for the Schulich School of Business' Centre of Excellence.
Roger Urwin is the Global Head of Investment Content for Towers Watson, a post he assumed in July 2008 after acting as the Global Head of the investment practice from 1995 to 2008. Urwin joined Watson Wyatt in 1989 to start the firm's investment consulting practice and under his leadership the practice grew to a global team of 500. His prior career involved heading the Mercer investment practice and leading the business development and quantitative investment functions at Gartmore Investment Management. Urwin's current role includes work for some of the firm's major investment clients both in the UK and internationally. He is also involved with the Towers Watson thought Leadership Group (Thinking Ahead Group). He is the author of a number of papers on asset allocation policy, manager selection and governance. He is on the Board of the CFA and an Advisory Director to MSCI Inc. Urwin has a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University and a Masters in Applied Statistics also from Oxford. He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1983.
Greg Bischak, PhD is the Manager of the Office of Financial Strategies and Research at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). He oversees research and analysis related to programmatic activity, development of performance data and strategic research to ensure effective implementation of the CDFI Fund mission.Prior to joining to the CDFI Fund, he was a senior economist for the Appalachian Regional Commission where he directed economic development research. Bischak served as executive director of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament and was responsible for developing public educationand policy research on economic conversion, defense employment impacts, disarmament and industrial policy. He was also an economic professor at Ramapo College in New Jersey.Bischak is a member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science, and Co-Chair of the Transportation and Economic Development Committee. His research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and publications.
Phyllis C. Borzi was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of Labor of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in 2009. As agency head,she oversees the administration, regulation and enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).Previously, Borzi was a research professor at George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services. In that position, she was involved in research and policy analysis involving employee benefit plans, the uninsured, managed care, and legal barriers to the development of health information technology. In addition, she was of counsel with the law firm of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP, specializing in ERISA and other legal issues affecting employee benefit plans.Borzi has published numerous articles on ERISA, health care law and policy and retirement security issues and has been a frequent speaker to legal, professional, business, consumer and state and local governmental organizations. An active member of the American Bar Association, Borzi is the former chair of the ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.
Scott J. Budde is a Managing Director in TIAA-CREF’s Asset Management Division. In this capacity, he heads TIAA-CREF’s Global Social and Community Investing Department which is responsible for the organization’s community investing programs and overseeing its socially screened funds. Budde assumed his current position in 2006 after serving as an equity analyst covering financial services stocks and as a portfolio manager. He has also worked in senior investment client service positions with a wide range of TIAA-CREF clients. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in 1994, Budde’s experience includes 12 years of financial, analytical and consulting positions with several financial services companies in the USA and overseas.Budde is the author of Compelling Returns: A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing Strategies, published by Wiley and Sons of New York City. Compelling Returns discusses how individual investors can get competitive returns through the main social investing strategies of social screening, community investing and corporate engagement.
Zach Carter is a Reporter in The Huffington Post's Washington D.C. office. He previously worked as AlterNet's Economics Editor, blogged about economic policy at Campaign For America's Future and served on the steering committee at Americans for Financial Reform. Before any of that, he worked as a banking reporter for SNL Financial News. His work has appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon and CNBC.
Doug Cogan is a Vice President in MSCI’s ESG Research Group. He directs carbon, energy and climate risk research.He is the author of several books on environmental and energy topics and is a frequent speaker on corporate social responsibility issues. He has testified before Congress to provide an investor perspective on climate change and clean air legislation.Cogan’s 1992 book, The Greenhouse Gambit: Business and Investment Responses to Climate Change, was one of the first to examine the investment implications of global warming for major industries. Cogan’s latest research sponsored by Ceres and INCR is on two especially carbon-intensive sectors. Canada’s Oil Sands: Shrinking Window of Opportunity, was published in May 2010.A forthcoming report on U.S. coal producers and the electric power industry addresses their prospects under emerging environmental constraints.Prior to MSCI and RiskMetrics Group, Cogan was Deputy Director of the Social Issues Service at Investor Responsibility Research Center.He helped establish IRRC’s Environmental Information Service in 1988 and was its first staffer.
Francis G. Coleman, Executive Vice President, is responsible for corporate strategy and planning, strategic planning and board member and trustee relations and development, as well as overseeing the Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and Information Technology departments at Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS). As Vice President and Director of SRI, he was responsible for incorporating ethical standards into investments and developing a policy and approach for CBIS that reflects the Church's broad concerns in an effort to impact corporations. He is on the board of the IRRC Institute, a research center for social, environmental and corporate governance issues, and serves on the SRI Committee for the SRI Fund, an alternative hedge fund serving primarily Catholic investors, and on the Independent Committee of the STOXX Christian Values Index, a screened faith-based index of European stocks. In addition, he serves on the Investment Committees of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and American Friends Service Committee. He formerly served as Chair of the Board of Partners for the Common Good, a community investing program sponsored by CBIS.
Lisa Davis is a Program Officer at Ford Foundation. Her work focuses on the foundation's investments in quality housing, and on planning and land use innovations in metropolitan regions across the country. Her grant making supports integrated regional strategies and capital tools for building more equitable, sustainable regions.Previously, Davis worked for more than a decade in both nonprofit and private sector organizations to improve housing and economic conditions in low-income communities. She was vice president and project executive at the New Boston Fund, a private real estate investment management firm. There, Davis built an innovative partnership among for-profits, nonprofits, financiers, public agencies and community groups to secure entitlements for various units o housing, developments and land purchases.Before joining the New Boston Fund, Davis was director of development for the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation and director of housing and development for the Asian Community Development Corporation, two large,nonprofit community development corporations in Boston.
Victor De Luca joined the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in 1991 as a program officer and became its president in 2000. De Luca is a board member of Philanthropy New York and on the Council on Foundations Committee on Family Philanthropy. He served on the board of the Funders Network for Population, Reproductive Health and Rights and the Advisory Board for the Diversity in Philanthropy Project. A former VISTA Volunteer, he spent 15 years as director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, a Newark community-based organization. De Luca is a founding and current board member of New Jersey Citizen Action. He is serving his fourth, three-year term on the Maplewood Township Committee (NJ), currently serving his sixth year as Mayor.
Cathy Dolan is the Chief Operating Officer of Opportunity Finance Network, a post she assumed in September 2010. Her background includes a decade of experience in community development finance and almost three decades in banking which provides the relevant expertise, knowledge of the field, and management experience for her role at OFN. In addition to community development finance, Dolan’s banking career included 12 years as an investment banker in the financial services sector and three years in international banking in Santiago, Chile.As COO, Dolan’s responsibilities include business development, executive management, and public representation of OFN. Dolan joined OFN from Wells Fargo, where she was a Senior Vice President and Director of Community Lending and Investment for the Eastern United States. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and a B.A. from Drake University in Des Moines, IA.
Ellen Dorsey has 25 years experience promoting international human rights, and advocating for environmental sustainability. Dorsey is the Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, a private foundation located in Washington, DC, that focuses on environmental sustainability, corporate accountability, women’s human rights, criminal justice, media reform and civic participation. Dorsey came to the Fund from The Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, serving as senior program officer for the Environment Program. Dorsey has served on the board of numerous non-profit organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development, including serving as chair of the board of Amnesty International USA. Dorsey has a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh, was selected as a Fulbright Research Fellow in South Africa, and has served on the faculty of several Universities. She has written extensively on effective strategies of non-governmental organizations and social movements. Most recently, Dorsey is co-author, with Paul J. Nelson, of New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs, published in 2008 by Georgetown University Press.
Rich Ferlauto joined the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy in January 2010 as Deputy Director for Policy.Prior to joining the SEC, he was director of Corporate Governance and Public Pension Programs for the American Federation of State,County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) where he was responsible for representing public employee interests in public retirement and benefit systems.Ferlauto was the Managing Director of Proxy Voter Services,a division Institutional Shareholder Services. He also was a consultant with the AFL-CIO where he helped launch the Office of Investment and its corporate governance program. He was the Founder and Chairman of ShareOwners.org and has been named as one of the most influential people in Corporate Governance by Directorship Magazine.Ferlauto worked for the Center for Policy Alternatives, a nonprofit public policy think tank, serving as Policy Director from 1993-1996. He is co-author of two books: A New Housing Policy for America and Employer-Assisted Housing: A Benefit for the 1990s.
As Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy, Bennett Freeman directs the Sustainability Research Department and serves on the Management Committee at Calvert Investments, where he has led the social, environmental and governance research and analysis, shareholder advocacy and public policy work since April 2006.Before joining Calvert, Freeman led Burson-Marsteller's Global Corporate Responsibility practice from 2003-06 advising multinationals on policy development, stakeholder engagement and communications strategies related to human rights, labor rights and sustainability. As Principal of Sustainable Investment Strategies from 2001-03, he advised multinational corporations, international institutions and NGOs on corporate responsibility and human rights, and co-authored the first-ever human rights impact assessment of a large extractive project in the world.As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1999-2001, Freeman directed U.S. bilateral human rights diplomacy under Assistant Secretary Harold Koh. In that position, he also led the development of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the global human rights standard forged by governments, companies and NGOs for the extractive sectors operating in zones of conflict.
Bobbi Hapgood is the Executive Director of the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers, an association of local, regional, and national grantmakers who have a presence in North Carolina. Since leading the organization in 2005, the network has grown from 40 foundation organizations to over 85 foundations that span both North Carolina and the globe. In addition to working with corporate, private, and community foundations, Hapgood’s role includes interfacing with state and local officials as the voice of North Carolina philanthropy.Previously, Hapgood worked as program director, development director and media consultant to several nonprofits, including Rachel's Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Voices & Choices of the Central Carolinas and the Center for Child & Family Health. Hapgood has also served as board member to other foundations and nonprofits, including 20 years as a trustee of The Educational Foundation of America and The Prentice Foundation, and a past board member of NC Environmental Defense, NC Coastal Federation, EcoAmerica, and the Rensselaerville Institute.
Janice Hester Amey is a Portfolio Manager in the Corporate Governance unit at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS). CalSTRS is a public pension fund established for the benefit of the California public school teachers over 80years ago. CalSTRS serves over 800,000 members, retirees and beneficiaries. As of December, 2010, the fund had approximately $149 billion in assets; Corporate Governance represents about $3 billion of these assets. The remainder is allocated to fixed income, global equities, real estate, and alternative investments. Hester Amey is responsible for the day-to-day management and the development of policies and guidelines relative to the relational investment managers and corporate affairs.Hester Amey has over twenty years of experience in the investments area, almost equally split between the public and private sectors. CalSTRS’ Corporate Governance guidelines and most recent fiscal year domestic proxy votes can be found on the fund’s web site at calstrs.com.
Jim Hourdequin is a Managing Director at The Lyme Timber Company LP. He joined Lyme in 2005 and leads the Company’s investment focus on the acquisition and management of working forest lands. He has expertise in New Markets Tax Credit financings and other structures that achieve conservation and economic development outcomes while meeting the Company’s financial return criteria. Since its founding in 1976, Lyme has been a leader in the field of conservation investment, having completed conservation transactions on over 1 million acres of US timberland. Prior Lyme, Hourdequin founded and managed an employee-owned contracting business in New Hampshire and Vermont. Hourdequin also established a workers’ compensation safety group for logging contractors in the Northeast US. He serves on the board of the Center for Woodlands Education, publisher of Northern Woodlands magazine. Hourdequin earned an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 2005 and a B.A. Cum Laude in Biology from Dartmouth College in 1998.
Jeannine Jacokes was appointed CEO of Partners for the Common Good in 2001. Prior to coming to PCG, Jacokes served for more than six years as a senior member of the management team at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, where she was a leader in designing and implementing the Fund's programs and operations. She went to the CDFI Fund after serving as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, where she played a key role in drafting many of the laws that currently govern the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's programs.In addition to her work with PCG, Jacokes serves as senior policy advisor to the Community Development Bankers Association (CDBA), the national trade association for community development banks. She currently serves on the Board of Opportunity Finance Network and the CDFI Coalition, and previously served on the Board of the Social Enterprise Alliance.
Keith L. Johnson chairs the Institutional Investor Services Group at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. Mr. Johnson represents pension funds and institutional investors on a global basis regarding fiduciary, investment, corporate governance and securities litigation matters. He is a Director of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, an international think-tank, and a member of the Stanford Institutional Investors' Forum Committee on Fund Governance. Johnson also acts as Program Director of the International Corporate Governance Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network, where he serves on both the Shareholder Rights Committee and Investment Manager Mandate Working Group. Before joining Reinhart, Johnson was chief legal counsel at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the ninth largest public pension fund in the United States. At SWIB, he headed the investment legal services, corporate governance and securities litigation programs. He served as President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA).
Patricia Jurewicz is Director of Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), which is a new project of As You Sow. RSN advances global value chains that are accountable to the people and natural habitats they touch at the raw commodity level.Since 2006, Jurewicz managed As You Sow’s Human Rights Program, where she addressed factory labor abuses and began exploring forced child labor and extortion in corporate value chains. She launched RSN as a way to coordinate corporations, NGOs and investors to implement value chain and diplomatic solutions in the mineral and cotton sectors.Preceding As You Sow, she was at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Gap Inc. She is fluent in Spanish, and has past work experiences with natural dyes, handcrafts, and in Latin America.Jurewicz has an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management,and undergraduate degrees from the Fashion Institute of Technology and Cornell University.
Adam Kanzer is Managing Director and General Counsel of Domini Social Investments and Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Domini Funds. His responsibilities include directing Domini’s shareholder advocacy department, where for more than ten years he has led numerous dialogues with corporations on a wide range of social and environmental issues.In June 2009, Kanzer was named to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, representing “social investors." He is a founding member and serves on the board of the Global Network Initiative, an organization addressing threats to freedom of expression and privacy rights on the Internet and other communication technologies. In addition, he serves on the public policy committee of the Social Investment Forum. He is the author of “Putting Human Rights on the Agenda: The Use of Shareholder Proposals to Address Corporate Human Rights Performance,” and is a frequent speaker and commentator on socially responsible investing and corporate accountability.
Erika Karp is a Managing Director and the Head of Global Sector Research for UBS Investment Bank. She serves as Chair of the Global Investment Review Committee, managing the UBS Global Sector Research effort encompassing analysts and strategists around the world. Karp represents UBS Investment Bank Research on behalf of the UBS Wealth Management Investment Office in Zurich. Asa champion of the integration of the principles of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) in UBS Investment Research processes, she recently became a member of the UBS Corporate Responsibility Network which supports the efforts of the CR Committee reporting to the Chairman of the Board of UBS Group.Formerly, as the Global Head of Research Product Management, Karp was responsible for developing the UBS family of equity research products and processes. She created and oversees the trademarked UBS “Q-Series” global research initiative. She is among the first winners of the UBS Investment Bank Leadership Award established in 2006.Prior to joining UBS in 1999, Karp worked at Credit Suisse First Boston for eight years. She holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Lent is a founding principal and the Chief Investment Officer of Veris Wealth Partners, a wealth management firm specializing in sustainable investing. The firm is dedicated to aligning families’ and foundations’ financial objectives with their mission and values. For 17 years, Lent has delivered financial planning and investment consulting services to high net worth families, family offices and foundations. Prior to Veris, he co-founded the New York office of Progressive Asset Management, the first full service national broker/dealer to focus on socially responsible investing.Lent is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Social Investment Forum, an association for professionals, firms, institutions, and organizations engaged in socially responsible and sustainable investing. He is also Treasurer and a Trustee of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation. Lent is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) and a member of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA). He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Biology.
Sasha Lezhnev is Policy Consultant at the Enough Project, focusing on the nongovernmental campaign to end the trade in conflict minerals. He is also Executive Director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group, an NGO that helps reintegrate former child soldiers into their communities. He was previously Policy Adviser at Global Witness, where he led the organization's U.S. advocacy on conflict resources and energy policy issues. Sasha worked for 2 1/2 years in Uganda as Senior Program Officer with the Northern Uganda Peace Initiative and peace process advisor to the northern Uganda mediator. He is author of the book Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States and previously worked with the International Crisis Group's Africa Program and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He holds a Master's in International Relations from Cambridge University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. You can reach Sasha at sasha@enoughproject.org
Kenneth R. Locklin is the North American Managing Director for Impax Asset Management LLC, which manages $3.6 billion of public and private equity investments for major institutional clients around the world. It is the global investment leader in the FTSE-tracked environmental sector, investing in clean energy, resource recovery/waste management, and water processing/distribution.Previously, Locklin was the Director of Finance and Investment with the Clean Energy Group (CEG), the private organization that supports and advises clean energy investment efforts worldwide. CEG also advises the Investor Network on Climate Risk, which brings together leading pensions and institutional investors committed to pursuing low carbon investment. Locklin acted as a founding member of the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund management team, the innovative clean energy venture capital investment vehicle launched in 2004. From 1997 to 2004, Locklin was a Partner with EIF Group, the oldest and largest power investment management firm in the United States. He also is a founding Co-Chair of the Finance Committee of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the leading US renewable energy umbrella organization.
Jessica Matthews is the Associate Director of the Mission-Related Investing Group at Cambridge Associates. She re-joined the firm in March 2008. Matthews oversees and coordinates the activities of all MRI resources across the firm,including a team of generalist and research consultants and analysts. Jessica advises a number of foundation clients on their mission-related investment programs, and also works with various functional areas across the firm,including manager research, capital markets research and performance measurement.Before re-joining Cambridge Associates, Matthews was an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, specializing in transformation and change management for government clients in the Financial Services sector. Previously, she worked in the Investment Office at the American Red Cross, with a focus on the Alternatives Assets portfolio, and in the Global Consultant Relations group at BlackRock, where she cultivated and maintained relationships with several top tier investment consulting firms. Matthews began her career with Cambridge Associates as a consulting analyst, eventually being promoted to senior consulting analyst.
As Managing Director and Vice President: Agriculture for the World Wildlife Fund based in Washington, DC, David McLaughlin leads WWF’s work on key agricultural commodities. These duties include coordinating WWF’s efforts on Global Commodity Roundtables, and working directly with major US corporations developing and implementing supply chain sustainability strategies.Since joining WWF US in 2008, McLaughlin's corporate engagement efforts have included developing a biofuels scorecard for the World Bank, evaluating the feasibility of planting palm oil on degraded lands in Indonesia, and helping leading US brands develop sustainability strategies around key commodity sourcing.Prior to joining World Wildlife Fund in 2008, McLaughlin worked 28 years with Chiquita Brands in Latin America in a variety of financial, production and senior management positions, as well as overseeing banana operations in the Ivory Coast. He led an eight-year effort developing and implementing the strategy for environmental and social performance in Chiquita’s agricultural production and sourcing operations in Latin America, Africa, Philippines and Australia.
Tim Mohin joined AMD as the Director of Corporate Responsibility in December 2009. In this role, Mohin is responsible for the development of the company’s corporate responsibility strategy, oversees program execution, and heads the company’s cross-functional corporate responsibility advisory council. He also co-chairs a multi-stakeholder, industry-wide effort to assist with the implementation of federal legislation requiring the elimination of conflict minerals in electronics products.Prior to joining AMD, Mohin was a Principal Consultant and Team Leader for EORM's sustainability and corporate social responsibility practice; led Apple’s Supplier Responsibility program; spent 12 years in multiple sustainability management positions with Intel Corporation, and worked for ten years in the Federal government with both the U.S. Senate and U.S. EPA.Mohin serves on the board of directors of Net Impact. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Biology from the State University of New York and a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Duke University.
Melissa Moye is Maryland’s Deputy Treasurer for Financial Policy and currently serves as the Interim Chief Investment Officer of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. Moye heads an Investment Division of 20 professionals and is responsible for the prudent investment of the $38 billion trust fund which is diversified across asset classes.As Deputy Treasurer, Moye advises the Treasurer in matters of financial policy including investment of trust funds, revenue estimation and state investment in business development.Prior to joining the Treasurer’s Office in early 2007, she served on the retirement system’s board and investment committee since 2003. She was Senior Vice President and Director of Trust and Investment Services for Amalgamated Bank from 2005 to 2007 where she previously served as Chief Economist.Moye was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for dissertation research in Spain and received the Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. She is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and the American Economics Association.
Tom Murray is a managing director in the Corporate Partnerships Program at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a leading national nonprofit organization. He directs the Washington, DC Corporate Partnerships team, which develops and implements joint projects with leading companies to create environmental improvements that make business sense. Currently he is leading EDF’s “Green Returns” initiative with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts,The Carlyle Group, and other private equity firms to measure and improve environmental and business performance across their portfolios. Other partner companies include Citigroup, FedEx, McDonalds, PHH Arval, and Walmart. Murray’s projects have been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Fortune, Fast Company, NPR Marketplace, and Environmental Finance.Before joining EDF, Murray held several positions at ICF International and Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, where he advised governmental agencies and Fortune 500 companies on environmental, safety, and health compliance, pollution prevention, and legislative and regulatory strategy.Mohin is an advisor to the George Washington University Institute for Sustainability, American University Center for Environmental Policy, Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, and 2010 Newsweek Green Rankings.
Paul O'Brien is the Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America. Before joining Oxfam in 2007, O’Brien lived in Afghanistan for five years where he worked in the office of the President and the Ministry of Finance as an advisor on aid coordination, development planning and policy reform. Before that, he worked for CARE as their Afghanistan Advocacy Coordinator and Africa Policy Advisor. Previously, O'Brien was the President of the Echoing Green Foundation, and a litigator in New York for Cravath, Swaine and Moore. He is the co-founder of the Legal Resources Foundation in Kenya and the founder of the Human Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium in Afghanistan, both of which are thriving organizations today. O’Brien has juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, and has published on humanitarian policy, human rights and emerging trends in development.
Shilpa Patel leads IFC’s work on climate change strategy and metrics, supporting the corporation’s climate change agenda and commitment to increase its climate-friendly lending.In this position, Patel has focused on building IFC’s analytical capacity to better understand the climate change impacts of its activities, as well as the impacts of climate change on private business and IFC’s operations. She is the key architect of IFC’s portfolio GHG accounting initiative, and is currently working on developing metrics to better assess development and climate change trade-offs in developing countries. Her unit tracks IFC’s climate related investment activity and serves as a corporate resource on climate related issues. She helped launch IFC’s first green bond and continues to work with institutional investors and other stakeholders to define green bond criteria and standards.
Matt Patsky is the CEO of Trillium Asset Management, a pioneer, innovator, and leader in sustainable and responsible investing with a history spanning nearly three decades. He is a senior portfolio manager at Trillium, where he is also one of the portfolio managers for the Green Century Balanced Fund, the first US mutual fund to report its carbon impact. Trillium is the Co-Founder of Ceres, the Social Investment Forum, SIRAN (Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network), and Open MIC (Open Media and Information Companies Initiative). Trillium was one of the very first investment firms to develop a high social impact investing program through the use of direct community investments.Patsky has over 25 years of experience in investment research and investment management, and is widely considered as an expert in socially and environmentally responsible investing. He has appeared on “Wall Street Week”, CNBC, ABC Evening News and Fox News, and been featured in Barron’s, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and other major media.
Nancy E. Pfund is a Managing Partner of DBL Investors, a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, economic and environmental returns in the regions in which it invests. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including; Pandora, BrightSource Energy, SolarCity, Solaria and eMeter. Originally a regional venture capital group within JPMorgan, DBL Investors spun out as an independent firm in January 2008. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 first as a securities analyst and then, as a Venture Capital Partner and Managing Director; She is also a member of the board of directors of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), and Advisor to the CalCEF Angel Fund; a member of the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency, and is a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. Pfund speaks frequently on subjects relating to environmental investing, environmental policy, and mission-related investing.
Vineet Rai has over 17 years of experience in leading innovative interventions in development sector and brings unique understanding of Enterprises based development approach through his pioneering interventions in Venture Capital, Micro Enterprises and Microfinance Investments and social investment banking.Rai founded Aavishkaar, the fund advisory company providing advisory support Aavishkaar I & II Rural investment funds as well as Aavishkaar-Goodwell I & II Microfinance focused funds.Rai is the Co-founder and Chairman Intellecap Group of companies, that is leveraging knowledge to channel social capital to deserving social or rural entrepreneurs through pioneering initiative in Social Investment Banking, Social Advisory, Technology and unique financing and incubation mechanisms. He also chairs the board of Intellecash MicrofinanceNetwork Company, a subsidiary of Intellecap.Rai has received numerous awards including the G 20 SME Finance Award, UNDP-IBLF World Business Award on behalf of Aavishkaar. He has also received Ashoka Fellowship and Honorary Membership of XLRI Alumni Association.
Dean V. Shahinian is Senior Counsel and Chief Securities Policy Advisor on the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. He works under Chairman Tim Johnson and previously has worked under Chairman Christopher Dodd and former Ranking Member and Chairman Paul Sarbanes since 1997.In this role, Shahinian has advised Senators and their staffs on legislative issues involving securities, data privacy, banking, insurance and other matters under the Committee’s jurisdiction. He has staffed over one hundred oversight and nomination hearings, prepared speaking remarks, and discussed legislative and regulatory issues with representatives of Federal and State agencies, trade associations, securities firms, depository institutions, consumers, insurers and Congressional offices. His work has involved negotiating and drafting financial services legislation, including assisting Chairman Dodd in drafting Titles IV and IX of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Chairman Sarbanes in drafting Titles II, IV, V, VI and VII of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Damon A. Silvers is the Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO. Silvers is also the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP.He is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee as well as a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and Investor Advisory Group.Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Silvers was a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.Silvers is the author of “The Legacy of Deregulation and the Financial Crisis—Linkages Between Deregulation in Labor Markets, Housing Finance Markets, and the Broader Financial Markets,”published in The Journal of Business& Technology Law (2009) and “Rebuilding Workers’ Retirement Security: A Labor Perspective on Private Pension Reform,” published in Restructuring Retirement Risk Management in a Defined Contribution World (2010).
Dave Stangis is Vice President of CSR and Sustainability for the Campbell Soup Company. Campbell's is the world's largest soup manufacturer, and comprises other brands such as Pepperidge Farm, V8, Pace, Prego and Swanson.Stangis is responsible for designing and leading Campbell’s overarching CSR/Sustainability strategy. He heads a global CSR Network organization and oversees the execution of CSR and Sustainability goals, policies, programs, engagement and reporting for the company. Since Stangis' s arrival, Campbell Soup has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the 100 Best Corporate Citizens List and as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies.For more than 20 years, Stangis has been leveraging corporate responsibility and sustainability principles to generate business and brand value. Before joining Campbell, he worked at Intel for 12 years where he created and led the Corporate Responsibility function. Dave is on the advisory boards of Net Impact, University of Detroit College of Business, and Ethical Corporation magazine. In 2008, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. In 2011, Trust Across America named Stangis one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior.
Joan Trant is Executive Director of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI), a global membership organization that helps commercially oriented microfinance investors deploy capital more effectively to achieve financial and social returns. Her responsibilities encompass recruiting and serving Association members, managing day-to-day operations, overseeing research, developing educational and networking events and convening industry leaders to shape best practices.Previously, Trant was Deputy Executive Director of The Resource Foundation for nine years, supporting the community-building programs of 120 nonprofit organizations in 20 Latin American countries, and benefiting annually 4.6 million underserved children, youths, women and men. Prior to The Resource Foundation, she held sales and operations management positions in the financial services industry at Bankers Trust and Citibank.Trant is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Level Nonprofit Management Certification Program and holds a bachelors degree from Georgetown University. She is based in New York City.
Meg Voorhes is the Deputy Director and Research Director of the Social Investment Forum. Among other duties, she manages the research process for the biennial Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States and is the Chair of the Agenda Committee.Prior to joining SIF, Voorhes directed environmental, social and governance research for RiskMetrics Group’s Financial Research and Analysis division to assist and inform institutional investor clients in their proxy voting, investment screening and shareholder advocacy initiatives. From 1997 through 2005, Voorhes led the Investor Responsibility Research Center’s Social Issues Service, where she coordinated the organization’s research on the environmental, human rights and other social issues raised by shareholders at U.S. companies. She directed IRRC’s Southern Africa Service from 1990 through 1996; for many years previously, she conducted first-hand research in South Africa on the impact of divestment and other anti-apartheid campaigns. She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on corporate and investor responsibility issues. From 2006 to 2008, Voorhes served on the board of the Social Investment Forum.
Lisa Woll has been the CEO of the Social Investment Forum and the Social Investment Forum Foundation since 2006. While at SIF, she has been responsible for strategic planning, expansion and diversification of funding and developing a robust policy presence.Prior to SIF, Woll was executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation, an organization focused on press freedom and expansion of women’s role in the media. During her tenure, the IWMF played a significant role in re-orienting the way journalism training was carried out on the issues of HIV-AIDS, malaria and TB in several African media organizations. Woll also spent a decade working on children’s human rights. She was the director of the first international study to look at the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and directed the Washington, DC office of Save the Children. Her early career focused on domestic social policy and began in the New York City Human Resources Administration and the US Congress. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She is also Board President of Women’s Voices for the Earth, a national environmental health organization based in Montana.
Betsy Zeidman is Director of the RFK Compass Program at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. This program engages institutional investors to explore and advance the connections among investment performance, fiduciary duty, and public interest issues.Zeidman previously served as Director of the Center for Emerging Domestic Markets and Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute. She continues to be a Senior Fellow. She managed the Institute’s work in mission-related investing, corporate governance and development finance, working with institutional and individual investors, foundations, governments,entrepreneurs and policymakers.Earlier, Zeidman provided strategic management and marketing advisory services, with a specialty in corporate responsibility and financial performance. She also held senior roles in financial and business affairs at several entertainment companies.Zeidman is a member of the board of directors of the Social Investment Forum and sits on the advisory board of the Center for Community Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.