Steering Committee
Dr. Wanda R. Lopuch, President, Global Sourcing Council
Wanda Lopuch is a successful IT executive with a unique combination of life science expertise, international business savvy and vision for socially responsible enterprises.
Dr. Lopuch founded Medical Data Management Inc., (MDM) and led the company's growth up to multi-million dollar business with locations in seven countries. After navigating the company for 12 years, MDM was acquired by Dendrite International. Wanda was serving as the Vice President and General Manager of Dendrites Central and Eastern European operations.
Currently Dr. Lopuch serves as President of MDA Associates, Inc, a New York-based consultancy, which concentrates on forecasting and business planning, and greening global IT, operations and their supply chains. With 20 years of experience in the US, Europe, and Asia, Ms Lopuch advices companies on sustainability, social responsibility and performance in the global marketplace.
In her non-for-profit executive role, Dr. Lopuch is the President of the Global Sourcing Council, an association of businesses, government institutions and academia, dedicated to promoting sustainable global development and socially responsible sourcing.
Dr. Lopuch lectures on various aspects of international business in the US and abroad. She relentlessly pursues developments in new fields that emerge from the convergence of life sciences, information technology and materials science.
Mother of three adult children, in her spare time, Wanda is a marathoner, kayaker and a white water rafter. She lives with her husband on Long Island, NY.
Tim Smith, Past Chair SIF, Senior VP, Walden Asset Management
Timothy Smith serves as Senior Vice President of Walden Asset Management's Environment, Social and Governance Group.
Tim joined Walden in October 2000. His primary responsibilities include overseeing shareholder advocacy, public policy, assisting in client services and acting as the spokesperson for Walden on social issues. Walden Asset Management manages approximately $1.7 billion for individual and institutional clients. Walden has been a national leader in responsible investing for over 35 years working on dozens of issues like the environment, sweatshops and climate change, Apartheid in South Africa, executive compensation, corporate governance and equal employment opportunity in the U.S. among others. Walden also provides professional social screening and a community investing service for clients who have invested $8 million in empowering poorer communities.
Previously Tim served as Executive Director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) for 24 years. ICCR co-ordinates action for some 275 religious institution investors bringing social concerns to corporations- attention and assisting religious investors with their responsible investing decisions. ICCR has been a primary player in the corporate responsibility movement and social investment community.
In December 2007 Tim was named by Ethisphere Institute as one of top 100 most influential people in Business Ethics.
Tim is immediate past Chair of the Board of Social Investment Forum, the industry association for socially concerned investors where he served for 5 years. He serves on the boards of Shared Interest, a South Africa Development Fund, World Neighbors, an international development organization, and is a member of the newly created Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Advisory Board. In 2008 Tim was elected as a Board member of the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church, one of the largest pension funds in the U.S., with approximately $16 billion of assets under management.
Previously, Tim served on the Boards of Domini Social Equity Fund for 10 years and the Calvert New Africa Fund and chaired the Advisory Council for the Calvert Groups social investment funds.
Tim has a Masters in Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a BA from the University of Toronto.
Walden Asset Management is the socially responsible investment division of Boston Trust & Investment Management, an employee owned firm based in Boston.
Peter Webster, Executive Director, EIRIS
Peter Webster has been Executive Director of EIRIS since its foundation in the 1980s, and has been involved in the promotion and development of responsible investment in its various forms throughout the last 25 years. Peter is a regular conference speaker as well as advising clients on the creation or development of new approaches to responsible investment.
His current interests in this field include how PRI signatories can implement the commitments they sign up to in ways that make a significant difference to corporate performance and reporting across all the Global Compact issues (Environment, Human Rights, Labour Standards and Combating Bribery); the most effective role investors can play in advancing the Climate Change agenda; and what can be learnt from the experience of responsible investors and the models of corporate responsibility that they have encouraged that is of relevance to the re-structuring of the present international financial system to re-build trust and confidence, and reduce the prospect of future 'crunches'.
Andrew Mangan is co-founder and executive director of the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development, the leading national organization in creating cross-industry and public-private relationships to solve environmental and social challenges while improving its members' bottom line. The Business Council provides the opportunity to participate in authentic sustainability projects with industry, governmental and other key stakeholders who might not otherwise have the chance to collaborate and network. The projects generate economic returns while improving the environment and society -- the triple bottom line.
The US Business Council is a partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a global network of 200 international companies with members drawn from 30 countries and 20 major industrial sectors. The World BCSD plays a leading role in shaping the global business response to the challenges of sustainable development. The US BCSD plays a complimentary role by implementing projects in the United States that apply sustainable development principles to real world problems.
Peter is Treasurer of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance association (UKSIF).
