Judges


 

CO-CHAIR

Martin Dickson
Deputy Editor 
Financial Times



Martin Dickson was appointed Deputy Editor of the Financial Times in 2005. In his previous position as City Editor he edited the highly respected Lombard column, and prior to that he was the Financial Editor. He joined the FT in 1977 as a writer on African and diplomatic affairs. Mr Dickson started in journalism as a graduate trainee at Reuters and had postings in Africa and Turkey. In May 2006, he was named joint winner of the Wincott Foundation awards in the senior financial journalist category. He was voted Business Journalist of the Year in the 2005 Business Journalist of the Year awards, also winning in the category for the best opinion writer. He has a history degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a BSc in economics from London University.

CO-CHAIR
Nena Stoiljkovic
Vice President, Business Advisory Services
IFC
 

Nena Stoiljkovic is IFC's Vice President for Business Advisory Services and a member of its Management Team. She leads more than 1,000 Advisory Services staff in 84 offices across 66 countries, and heads IFC's work to set standards in sustainability.
 
IFC's Advisory Services are organized in four practices: Access to Finance, Investment Climate, Sustainable Business, and Public-Private Partnerships. Working with private sector clients, IFC's Advisory Services work to increase access to finance, and to improve standards and transform markets with more sustainable and responsible business practices. Working with governments, they help improve the investment climate, especially for small and medium enterprises, and facilitate partnerships with the private sector to provide essential services such as infrastructure.
 
Ms. Stoiljkovic also oversees IFC's Environment, Social, and Governance Department, which helps clients address challenges and opportunities on environmental, social, and corporate governance issues; and its Inclusive Business Models Group, which connects people, resources, and ideas to support inclusive business clients that target low-income people at the base of the economic pyramid.
 
A Serbian national, Ms. Stoiljkovic became Vice President in September 2011. She was previously IFC's Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where she provided successful leadership to a region particularly hard hit by the financial crisis and demonstrated the powerful impact of integrating IFC's Investment and Advisory Services.
 
Ms. Stoijkovic joined IFC in 1995 as an Investment Officer, and has since worked in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Southern Europe, and Central Asia. In 2005, she relocated to Istanbul as Senior Manager in the Southern Europe and Central Asia Department, where she led business development and assumed country management responsibilities for seven IDA/Post-conflict countries in the Balkans and Central Asia.
 
Prior to joining IFC, Ms. Stoiljkovic worked as a Consultant at the Economic Institute of Belgrade. She holds an MBA from the London Business School.
 

Dr James Gifford
Executive Director
 PRI



James Gifford is Executive Director of the PRI and has been guiding the initiative since its inception in November 2003, working from 2003-2006 for UNEP FI in collaboration with the UN Global Compact on the development process, and since then for the PRI Secretariat. He has a PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and corporate governance performance. He was a member of the UNEP FI / Global Reporting Initiative Working Group on environmental indicators for the finance sector. He has a background in IT and environmental protection. James has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Queensland, and a Master's of Environment Management from the University of New South Wales. He was named in 2010 by the World Economic Forum as one of the 200 Young Global Leaders.


David Harris
Head, Responsible Investment
FTSE Group



 David Harris joined FTSE in 2002, and is responsible for the FTSE4Good, the FTSE KLD Sustainability, and the FTSE Environmental Markets Indices. His responsibilities include overseeing index management, corporate engagement with index constituents, managing research partnerships, and developing new responsible investment indices. Previously, Mr Harris worked for Arthur D. Little's Global Environment and Risk Practice, developing sectoral sustainability strategies and programmes, and with PricewaterhouseCooper's climate change consulting team. He is a graduate of both Imperial College London and Oxford University, and also serves as a board director for the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance association (UKSIF).

Mary Ellen Iskenderian
 President and CEO
 Women's World Banking
 



Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks. Ms Iskenderian leads the WWB global team, based in New York, in providing hands-on technical services and strategic support to 40 top-performing microfinance institutions and banks in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. WWB's network members consistently rate among the top three microfinance institutions in their countries and 74 percent of their clients are poor women entrepreneurs.

Prior to WWB, Ms Iskenderian worked for 17 years in senior management at IFC, where her numerous leadership positions included Director of Partnership Development, Director of the Global Financial Markets Portfolio and Director of the South Asia Regional Department. Previously, she worked for the investment bank Lehman Brothers.  

Ms Iskenderian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Kashf Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. 

 

Chris Locke
Managing Director of the GSMA Development Fund
GSMA




Chris is the Managing Director of the GSMA Development Fund.   The Development Fund works with the mobile industry globally to build services that have a development impact for the poorest people in the world.  It helps take critical mobile services such as health, farmer, money & learning tools to scale to help countries develop at a nation-wide level.

Chris has spent the past 15 years working in the mobile and internet industries, for companies such as the Virgin Group, Three, AOL and T-Mobile.

Previous to his industry career he was the Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, and has maintained strong links to the research community, including being the editor of Thumbculture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, an anthology of research considering the global social effect of mobile technology.

 

Herman Mulder
International Sustainable Development Advisor



Herman Mulder, an initiator of the Equator Principles, was Head of Group Risk Management at ABN AMRO from 1998 - 2006, and a key driving force behind the Dutch bank's emergence as a pioneer of sustainable banking. He was previously Head of Global Structured Finance at ABN AMRO (1995-98). After retiring from the bank, he has dedicated himself, as an independent advisor and board member, to all dimensions of sustainable development, including voluntary business codes of conduct, climate change, value chain, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, development finance, and fair trade. He advises the UN Global Compact, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Club de Madrid, the Taellberg Foundation, Oxfam Novib (the Dutch affiliate of Oxfam), and Earth Charter International. He is a board member of the Global Reporting Initiative, UTZ Certified, Dutch National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), Dutch National Contact point for OECD Guidelines (NCP), Business in Development (BiD), ABN AMRO Foundation India, and the CBI (Consensus Building Institute) in Boston. He is a Knight of the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau for his work in sustainable development.