Speakers

The event will feature representatives from the corporate and investor communities who will address the question: Why do these programs make business sense for both sides? Investors will talk about their own issues of bottom line vs. responsible investing.

 

Speaker(s)

Tod Arbogast, Director of Sustainable Business, Dell

Mary Barrett, Managing Partner, Edgewood Partners, LLC

Ben Bingham, Managing Director, Benchmark Asset Managers

Victor DeLuca, President, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Christine Eibs Singer, Co-Founder and EVP, E+Co

Rob Frederick, VP, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Brown-Forman

Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President for Social Research and Policy, Calvert

Eric Hespenheide, Partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP

Beth Holzman, Manager, CSR Strategy and Reporting, The Timberland Company

Thomas Kuh PhD, Managing Director, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.

Bruce Kuhlik, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Merck & Co., Inc.

Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions

Shawn MacDonald, Senior Program Advisor, Verite

Sonal Mahida, Vice President, Carbon Disclosure Project

Michael Musuraca, previously Designated Trustee, NYCERS Board, & Managing Director, Blue Wolf Capital

Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Bonnie Nixon, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard

Dina Powell, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs

Gavin Power, Deputy Director and Head of Financial Markets, United Nations Global Compact

Auden Schendler, Executive Director, Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company

Rev. David Schilling, Program Director, Global Corporate Accountability, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Laura Shaffer, Director of Shareholder Activities, The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Timothy Smith, Senior Vice President , Environment, Social and Governance Group, Walden Asset Management

David Stangis, VP Corporate Social Responsibility, Campbell Soup Company

Jerome Tagger, Chief Operating Officer, UNPRI

Candace Taylor, Director of Sustainability, Wal-Mart

Stephen Viederman, previous President of Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Finance Committees of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and Needmor Fund

David Walker, Director of Environmental Sustainability, PepsiCo International

Monika Weber-Fahr, Manager, Sustainability Business Innovator, IFC

Jeff Zalla, CFO, Chiquita

Moderator(s)

John Authers, Investment Editor, Financial Times

Deborah Brewster, Fund Management Correspondent, Financial Times

Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, Financial Times

Sarah Murray, Contributing Editor and Specialist Writer on Corporate Responsibility, Financial Times

Martin Smith, CEO and Founder, JustMeans

Award Categories

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