Stephen Badger serves as Chairman of Mars, Incorporated’s Board of Directors. He was a key investor in Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company, and also served as President. As Global Director of Corporate Affairs, Badger led Mars to be the first company among its food and confectionery peers to eliminate marketing its products to children under 12, a move which has since shaped industry-wide practices. Badger also financed and produced the film Muscle Shoals which premiered at Sundance to a standing ovation in 2013.

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Miranda Ballentine is the CEO of REBA, an alliance of clean energy buyers, developers, service providers, and NGOs that are unlocking the marketplace for a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon energy future. REBA members were involved in 100 percent of corporate large renewables deals in 2018. Ballentine was previously CEO of Constant Power, a DER company, as well as managing director of RMI’s Business Renewables Center. From 2014-2017,  she served President Obama as assistant secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment, and Energy). She was responsible for a US$9 billion energy budget and launched the Resilient Energy Demonstration Initiative, developing clean, cyber-secure microgrids. Previously, Ballentine was Walmart’s director of sustainability for renewable energy. She led a global team to achieve Walmart’s 100 percent renewable energy goal, identifying more than US$1 billion in annual energy savings and 9 million metric tons of avoided GHGs.

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Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak serves on the Boards of eHealth, Inc, a public company that provides a leading private online health insurance marketplace and services to health insurance exchanges, and SHEEX, Inc., a private company that has transformed the bedding industry by creating bedding made of high-performance athletic fabrics. She retired as the Global Vice-Chair, Public Policy at EY and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board. Brooke-Marciniak had public policy responsibility for the firm’s operations in over 150 countries and was the global sponsor for EY’s Diversity and Inclusiveness efforts. She is a prominent voice around the world on Diversity and Inclusion, most prominently on LGBT inclusion and women. She has been named 11 times to the Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women list. In 2017, Brooke-Marciniak received the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the top individual honor bestowed by the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and has also been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. During the Clinton administration, she worked in the US Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care. She played important roles in the healthcare reform and Superfund reform efforts.

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Greg Dalton founded Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in 2007 after traveling to the Arctic aboard a Russian ice breaker with climate scientists and journalists. Today, Climate One produces a weekly radio show broadcast on public stations in California and around the country, in addition to a rapidly growing weekly podcast. Climate One is the only regular talk show that engages high-level leaders from business, policy, advocacy, and academic circles in a conversation about building resilient communities, sustainable economies, and a healthier future. Previously, Dalton was a journalist for 12 years covering news in Beijing, Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco for the Associated Press, South China Morning Post, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and Industry Standard magazine.

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Seth Goldman is co-founder & TeaEO emeritus of Honest Tea and executive chair of Beyond Meat.  Honest Tea is the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, specializing in beverages that are just a tad sweet, organic, and Fair Trade Certified™. In March 2011, Honest Tea was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company, becoming the first organic and Fair Trade brand in the world’s largest beverage distribution system.  Honest Tea and Honest Kids are sold in more than 150,000 stores in the USA and Europe, including McDonald’s, SUBWAY, and Chick-fil-A. Beyond Meat is also rapidly expanding distribution, as the company seeks to expand the availability and accessibility of plant-based protein. Godman graduated from Harvard College (1987) and the Yale School of Management (1995), and he is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

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Amy Harder covers energy and climate change for Axios and writes a weekly column called Harder Line. Previously, she covered similar issues for The Wall Street Journal, based out of its Washington, D.C., bureau. Harder was the inaugural journalism fellow for the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute in the 2018-2019 school year, contributing to the school’s work through events, workshops, and other discussions. She has appeared on PBS NewsHour, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among many other media outlets. She is regularly sought out to speak and participate in events, including moderating and participating in panel discussions and giving speeches in Washington and throughout the country.

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Hubert Joly is Executive Chairman of Best Buy Co. Inc. In this role, he leads the board of directors while advising and supporting the CEO on key matters, such as strategy, capability building, M&A, and external relationships. He also may assume certain responsibilities at the request of the CEO, in areas such as government relations, community relations, and leadership development. Joly joined Best Buy in 2012 and served as the company’s CEO until June 2019. He led the company through its much publicized Renew Blue transformation. The transformation resulted in improvements in customer satisfaction, market share gains, revenue growth, and improved margins. Joly then led Best Buy into its next phase, Best Buy 2020: Building the New Blue. This growth strategy aims to enrich lives through technology by addressing key human needs in entertainment, productivity, communication, food, security, and health and wellness. Under Joly’s leadership, Best Buy committed to preparing youth from underserved communities for the tech-reliant jobs of the future. Additionally, the company is on a path to reduce its carbon footprint by 60 percent.

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Tan Le is an innovator, inventor, and entrepreneur; she is the founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Born in South Vietnam, Le migrated to Australia as a refugee with her family in 1981. Le began university studies at the age of 16 and went on to complete a bachelor’s degree with honors in law and commerce in 1998 at Monash University. In 1998, Le was named Young Australian of the Year and voted one of Australia’s 30 Most Successful Women Under 30. Le’s story was featured in the ‘Hope’ section of the Eternity Exhibition of the National Museum of Australia. Le has been featured in “Who’s Who in Australia” List since 1999, Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology in 2010, and Forbes’ 50 Names You Need to Know in 2011. Le has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader since 2009. Le was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2013. She currently serves on the Board of Stewards on Shaping the Future of Information and Entertainment of the World Economic Forum and the Global Future Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science of the World Economic Forum.

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Since Mayor Sam Liccardo took office in 2015, San Jose has thrived. In his very first year, Liccardo settled intense battles over pension reform with 11 unions, saving taxpayers US$3 billion over the next three decades and enabling the restoration of San Jose’s police force. Since then, he has led the most successful period of economic growth in the City’s history, announcing major expansions from employers like Adobe, Apple, Broadcom, and Google. Liccardo has also implemented innovative approaches to reduce homelessness—such as converting motels, expanding work-first programs, and building “tiny home” villages—while working with community partners to house more than 1,000 homeless veterans. Furthermore, he has helped broaden prosperity in San Jose by launching after-school programs in less affluent neighborhoods, providing jobs for 2,000 at-risk teens, teaming with community colleges to eliminate tuition for low-income students, and lifting the minimum wage across the region. Liccardo has also co-led successful measures to bring Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and other transit improvements to San Jose and protect its hillsides and open spaces from sprawling development. In 2018, San Jose residents overwhelmingly re-elected Liccardo, with 76% of the vote.

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Simone Niven was appointed Corporate Relations Group executive in January 2017. She joined Rio Tinto in 2008 and has accountability for the Group’s reputation and corporate relations areas: external affairs, communities, media, brand, reputation, and employee communications. She also has responsibility for the leadership of the country and regional office teams including Africa, Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. Prior to joining Rio Tinto, Niven spent over 15 years working in senior roles at some of the world’s largest companies across many continents, including Vodafone, the United Technologies group, Smiths Group plc, and Smith & Nephew plc in a range of corporate relations fields.

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Kevin Roose is a bestselling author and award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times. His column, “The Shift,” examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. In his new book, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Machine-Age Humans (forthcoming from Random House, 2020), Roose lays out a practical guide to human survival in the age of A.I., automation, screen overload, and other worrying technological trends. His previous books, Young Moneyand The Unlikely Disciple, explored the worlds of young Wall Street bankers and evangelical Christian college students. Previously, Roose was a writer at New York magazine and the executive producer and co-host of “Real Future,” a documentary TV series about technology and innovation. His work has been published in GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and other publications, and he is a regular guest on “The Daily,” the New York Times’s daily news podcast. He lives in the Bay Area.

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Patrick Temple-West is a journalist at the Financial Times in New York covering ESG and sustainability issues. He has written recently about asset managers, rulemakers in the ESG sector—such as the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board—as well as the sustainable investing deals involving biofuels and recyclable coffee cups. Before joining the Financial Times in July, Temple-West was in Washington, D.C., covering financial regulations and he reported internationally from Brazil, Nigeria, Taiwan, and Turkey. Earlier in his career, he was a correspondent for Reuters.

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Shannon Watts is a mother of five who, prior to founding Moms Demand Action, was a stay-at-home mom and former communications executive. The day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, she started a Facebook group with the message that all Americans can and should do more to reduce gun violence. The online conversation turned into a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that protect people from gun violence. Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state and is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the U.S., with nearly 6 million supporters. In addition to her work with Moms Demand Action, Watts is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office. Her book, Fight Like a Mother, was released in May of 2019. In 2018, Watts was named as one of PEOPLE’s 25 Women Changing the World and profiled in InStyle’s annual “Badass Woman” series.

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Priya Anand is a reporter for The Information, where she has broken news on various facets of Amazon’s expansive business, from its ambitions to open more bricks-and-mortar retail stores to the company’s culture. She previously reported for BuzzFeed News, where she uncovered stories on Uber’s finances, self-driving car program, and cultural crisis. Priya’s reporting has also appeared in <em>Bloomberg</em>, the <em>Houston Chronicle</em>, MarketWatch, <em>Politico</em>, and <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>.  

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Del Anderson is a senior vice president and credit analyst in the Newport Beach office of PIMCO, covering regional banks and bank regulation, property and casualty insurance, insurance brokerage, and exchanges. He is also a member of PIMCO’s global sustainability initiative, helping to oversee integration of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors among PIMCO’s credit research team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, Anderson was an engagement manager at McKinsey, responsible for developing strategic and risk solutions for global financial institutions. He was previously a banking analyst at the Federal Reserve. He has 16 years of investment and financial services experience.

Tiffany Apczynski is vice president of public policy and social impact at Zendesk, a customer support software company founded in Denmark, with its global headquarters in San Francisco. In this role, she drafted the City of San Francisco’s first-ever Community Benefits Agreement, a controversial piece of policy borne out of legislation tied to pre-IPO tech companies. Other policy work includes serving on San Francisco’s Workforce Investment Board from 2012-2016, founding the Mid-Market Business Association in 2014, and sitting on the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s Tech Council since 2014. She is a passionate supporter of the arts and currently serves as the vice president of the board of directors for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. 

Danielle Azoulay is the head of CSR and sustainability for L’Oréal USA. As part of her role, she oversees the implementation of L’Oréal’s global sustainability program, Sharing Beauty With All, which addresses environmental and social impacts across L’Oréal’s value chain. Prior to joining L’Oréal USA, Azoulay established the environmental sustainability program at Marc Jacobs International and worked on supply chain sustainability issues at PVH. Throughout her career, Azoulay has developed and executed sustainability strategies to reduce supply chain impacts, drive positive change upstream, create business value, and increase stakeholder engagement. Specifically, she has designed and implemented goal-oriented programs for impact areas such as responsible chemicals management, waste management, carbon emissions, water quality, and more.

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Ayesha Barenblat has over a decade of leadership promoting social justice and sustainability within the fashion industry. She founded Remake to ignite a conscious consumer movement. Remake’s films, stories, and immersive journeys rebuild human connections with the women who make our clothes. She has worked with brands, governments, and labor advocates to improve the lives of the women who make our clothes. She led brand engagement at Better Work, a World Bank and United Nations partnership to ensure safe and decent working conditions within garment factories around the world. She was head of consumer products at BSR, providing strategic advice to brands including H&M, Levi Strauss & Co., Marks and Spencer, Nike, The Walt Disney Company, and Pou Chen on the design and integration of sustainability into business.

Robin Barr brings over fifteen years of international experience working with companies to procure responsibly produced materials and achieve corporate sustainability goals to her work leading the Earthworm Foundation. This includes working with international brands; multinational commodity processors; and producing companies in the palm oil, pulp and paper, soy, and solid wood sectors to develop responsible global supply chains, especially with regard to policies ensuring traceable supply chains, respect for human rights, and protection of forests and other critical ecosystems.  Prior to managing the U.S. and Canada, Barr worked extensively with programs in Latin America and Southeast Asia on building responsible palm oil, soy, and timber supply chains for international buyers. She has worked throughout Southeast Asia to implement policies that protect tropical forests and indigenous peoples’ rights and benefit local communities. 

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Fernando Basch is a partner at Bruchou, Fernandez Madero & Lombardi. With almost 20 years of professional experience, he specializes in corporate compliance and business crime. He advises companies and international organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), and the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN). Basch led MACN’s collective action in Argentina, which resulted in a 90 percent reduction in illegal solicitation to bulk carriers in the country. He also obtained an Anti-Bribery Specialist Accreditation (Trace International, 2012). He is a senior researcher at the Center of Anti-Corruption Studies at Universidad de San Andrés.

Stephanie Beers is policy counsel at Microsoft, advising on issues including the interplay between technology and global labor trends. Her work focuses on diversity and inclusion in tech, economic security, and the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on skills and employability.

As GVP, Managing Partner, Jennifer Berry is the Account Lead for Unilever which includes a Global relationship with Dove. Berry played an Integral part in the launch of Project #Showus which is an initiative led by Dove to change the representation of female identifying and non-binary individuals in Media and Advertising around the world. Project #ShowUs is an open source solution that rally’s the industry to take action, and has taken Dove to a place of driving change beyond traditional advertising. As part of Publicis Sapient for 12 years, Berry previously led the Citi account in New York City after transferring from the Sydney, Australia office in 2011 where she was responsible for half the client roster. Berry is a passionate, intuitive and creative thinker who loves working with large, cross-functional teams to do market leading work for her clients.

Jayson is a co-founder and technology lead at Envisible, a sustainable food marketing company and the creators of Wholechain traceability system. He has more than a decade of leadership experience in mobile technology and has worked in partnership with organizations such as BSR, the GSMA, Unilever, and the U.S. Department of State on developing digital innovations for food and agriculture supply chains. Prior to his work at Envisible, Berryhill lived in Indonesia for more than five years working for XL Axiata, one of the largest mobile network operators in Southeast Asia, leading their flagship sustainability initiative. Prior to that, he served as head of marketing for a Swiss-based mobile game payments company with distribution in over 50 countries worldwide.

Dazzle Bhujwala is responsible for strengthening and expanding Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk and Sustainability. Ceres Investor Network consists of North America’s leading institutional investors with a collective AUM of $26 trillion. Bhujwala supports the largest and most influential investors with strategies to decarbonize portfolios, advance corporate engagement, and construct portfolios with investments for impact in developed and emerging markets.  He is the founder of Columbia University’s Sustainable Finance Network, that connects academia with practitioners to promote well researched sustainable and impact investing practices. Prior to joining Ceres, Bhujwala has extensive international experience in US, Asia, and Middle East in investment advisory with leading international banks, most recently with UBS Wealth Management.    

Kate Brandt leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations and products. In this role, she works with Google’s data centers, real estate, supply chain, and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability and circular economy. Previously, Brandt served as the United States’ first federal chief sustainability officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across federal government operations, including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles, and US$445 billion annually in purchased goods and services. Prior to the White House, Brandt held several senior roles in U.S. federal government, including senior advisor at the Department of Energy, director for energy and environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, and energy advisor to the secretary of the Navy. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award the U.S. Navy can give to a civilian, for her work helping the Navy go green. Outside Magazine also named her, in honor of the magazine’s 40-year anniversary, as one of 40 women who has made the biggest impact on our world.

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With a background in public policy and government affairs, Dan Bross has led corporate social responsibility, government affairs, and public policy teams at two Fortune 100 companies. Bross joined Microsoft in 1998 and was instrumental in developing and managing Microsoft’s global corporate social responsibility program. He founded and served as executive director of the Microsoft Technology and Human Rights Center. In addition to his internally facing responsibilities, Bross was responsible for Microsoft ’s global outreach and engagement with a variety of key stakeholders, including the socially responsible investment community and the World Economic Forum. Having retired from Microsoft at the end of 2016, he is now leading the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, a global leadership platform to accelerate LGBTI inclusion in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.

Patrick Browne serves as director of global sustainability for UPS, a worldwide leader in supply chain and logistics solutions. Working with cross-functional teams and executive leadership, Browne leads strategies and initiatives to advance the company’s long-term sustainability vision.  Browne has managed UPS’s sustainability programs since 2008, including overseeing the company’s global greenhouse gas inventory and reporting, and has held various assignments in Plant Engineering and Environmental Affairs during his 30-year tenure with UPS. He is an active participant in organizations focused on advancing sustainable business practices around the world, including BSR’s Future of Fuels initiative and Global Reporting Initiative’s Community Program. 

Bridget Burns specializes in policy advocacy, research, and movement- building at the intersection of gender equality, women’s rights, and environment/climate justice. She has worked on integrating gender equality into the decisions and outcomes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She serves as the co-Focal Point of the Women and Gender Constituency, which supports the political participation of women’s rights advocates into the climate process. Previously, Burns worked at LEAD International training environmental leaders. Burns has also spent time completing on site practicum on various development issues: renewable energy infrastructure in Beijing, global health issues in Tunisia, disaster risk and resilience in Bangkok, and women’s economic development in Costa Rica. She is currently in a number of climate activist groups, as well as a feminist writing collective.

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Raheem Cash joined Lockheed Martin in 2017 as the senior manager for corporate sustainability. He is responsible for executing the corporation’s Sustainability Management Plan, leading Lockheed’s Enterprise Energy and Chemical Stewardship programs, enhancing the understanding of sustainability concepts across the corporation, and identifying opportunities to maximize the business value of sustainability innovations. Cash is a veteran sustainability professional with 25 years of experience developing and implementing business-focused sustainability strategies for a variety of organizations.  Cash’s prior experience includes serving as director of environment, health, and safety for the U.S. General Services Administration and 13 years as an environmental management consultant to clients in the real estate, defense, postal services, and transportation sectors.  

Marshall Chase leads the development of the company’s sustainability strategy, works with key stakeholders including customers and investors, and coordinates company activities on priority environmental and social issues. Chase previously supported the development of Micron’s sustainability program as the manufacturing industry lead at BSR, where he worked for 10 years as a consultant on a range of sustainability strategy issues.

Virginia Covo is the global director of supply chain sustainability at AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer. In her role, she leads the climate action agenda and non-financial reporting. She is responsible for GHG emissions reduction, providing guidance to achieve AB InBev’s 25 percent reduction goal by 2025. She was responsible for setting AB InBev’s science-based target and setting the strategy in emissions reduction across the supply chain. Covo has over 10 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, working in roles from research and product development to sales, supply chain, and sustainability.

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Linsi Crain serves as manager of global social performance in Chevron’s Corporate Responsibility department. Her team helps brings Chevron’s purpose of enabling human progress to life around the world with a focus on best practices in stakeholder engagement, building social license, and investing in communities. Over the last two decades, Crain has served in various roles of increasing responsibility across the energy industry in California, London, Kazakhstan, Houston, and Oklahoma.

Dr. Helen Crowley is the head of sustainable sourcing innovation at Kering. In this role, she advises and supports Kering’s portfolio of luxury brands to implement best practices in sustainability. Specifically, she focuses on developing innovative approaches for raw material sourcing and improving manufacturing processes, and she leads the implementation of animal welfare standards and the integration of biodiversity, planetary boundaries, and circular economy principles into the business. Currently, Crowley is taking a year-long sabbatical from Kering. During this time, she will be a Lui-Walton Fellow at Conservation International and will focus on developing new approaches for business to address climate and biodiversity challenges. She is on the boards of Textile Exchange, Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. She is also a senior advisor to Conservation International and the World Economic Forum.

Maisie Devine is the global director of the AB InBev Sustainability Accelerator. Before her role in sustainability, Devine was a technology investor at ZX Ventures, the global incubator and venture capital arm of AB InBev. Earlier in her career, she co-founded a recruitment app for busy, professional women and in 2015, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, Tech.co Top 20 Startup Founders Under 30 list, and 26 Women to Watch in Tech list by AlleyWatch. Devine also worked in digital media advertising supporting large Fortune 500 clients including Comcast, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, and Walmart.

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Luciana Duarte leads Employee Experience at HP, overseeing culture, employee communications, engagement, and change. With over 20 years of experience, Duarte specializes in helping corporate leaders achieve business results by driving culture and engaging employees with the company, their colleagues, and their work through effective programs and communications. She has led both internal and external communications teams. Prior to joining HP in 2015, she spent four years at Apple. Before that, she spent four years at PwC. Duarte began her career at Sapient. She consulted for MIT, Manulife, and Merck, among other clients.

Lisa Dyer is the director of policy at the Partnership on AI (PAI). She leads PAI’s policy activities to collaborate closely with policymakers, Partners, and other key stakeholders to advance PAI’s mission of benefiting people and society. Dyer also represents PAI’s work to a global audience of stakeholders, including the general public and the public policymaking community. Dyer previously worked at the U.S.  Department of State, where she collaborated with global companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, academia, civil society, think tanks, and foreign governments to achieve consensus in resolving challenges facing the global community. She created and implemented policy on such issues as information and data sharing, privacy, intellectual property rights, export controls, and the regulation of commercial satellite operations. She also served in the U.S. Air Force as a program manager and systems integrator for satellite, drone, and sensor technologies.

Sarah Dyson is head of corporate responsibility and corporate reporting in GSK’s global corporate affairs department. Having joined the company in 2012, she is responsible for GSK’s annual report, ESG reporting, external indices and benchmarks, and human rights work. Dyson has also previously worked on RELX’s corporate responsibility team as well as at an investment advisory firm.

Althea Erickson leads Etsy’s efforts to advance public policies that make it easier for Etsy sellers to start and grow their creative businesses. She developed and advanced Etsy’s position on portable benefits and economic security for the self-employed, tax and regulatory simplification, net neutrality, and global trade, among others. Althea leads Etsy’s unique strategy of empowering Etsy sellers as advocates for themselves, modeling a mission-driven approach to government relations that uses the power of business as a force for social good. Prior to joining Etsy, Althea was the advocacy and policy director at Freelancers Union. Previously, Althea worked at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she focused on strategies to build economic security within the U.S. workforce.

Sarah Fleish Fink oversees private-sector engagement, including the Business Working Group for Gender Equity, working with companies to strengthen gender equity through internal corporate policies, culture change, and public policy solutions, with a focus on safety at work, non-discrimination, and portable benefits. Fink also serves as a policy expert on key workplace priorities, including paid leave, paid sick days, fair pay, and pregnancy discrimination. Prior to joining the National Partnership, Fink practiced employment law at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C. Previously, Fink worked in the communications department at the Center for American Progress and at David Axelrod & Associates (now AKPD Message and Media).

As principal of Bennett Freeman Associates LLC and as a senior advisor to BSR, Freeman advises multinational corporations, foundations, and NGOs on international human rights and labor rights. He is chair of the advisory board of Global Witness; co-founder and board secretary of the Global Network Initiative; chair of the advisory board of the Responsible Sourcing Network; and serves on the governing board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute. He co-founded and serves on the board of advisors of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark.

Freeman has previously served as senior vice president for sustainability research and policy at Calvert Investments, managing director for global corporate responsibility at Burson-Marstelle, and principal of Sustainable Investment Strategies. Freeman served as a Clinton presidential appointee in three positions at the U.S. Department of State: as deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor; senior advisor to Under Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Stuart Eizenstat; and as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs and chief speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was manager of corporate affairs for GE after beginning his career as a speechwriter and presidential campaign aide to former Vice President Walter Mondale. 

Freeman authored <em>Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders</em> for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and International Service for Human Rights.  Launched in September 2018, the report provides analytical and operational guidance for companies and was endorsed by the American Bar Association in August 2019.

Michael Fürst has 20 years of experience in corporate responsibility, including business, social innovation, and integrity and compliance management, in business and academia. He is currently the head of social innovation and strategy at Novartis. His responsibilities span the development and implementation of the Novartis Corporate Responsibility and access to medicines strategy, inclusive business model innovation, innovative finance, ESG investor relations, measurement and evaluation, materiality analysis, global health policy, human rights, and more. Fürst is a key partner for the business to develop and run social business models such as Novartis Access or Novartis Healthy Family (Arogya Parivar). He was the Secretary of the Corporate Responsibility Board of Novartis and is an author and editor of articles and books. 

Amanda Gardiner leads social responsibility strategy at Verizon, working across the company to implement responsible business practices that drive digital inclusion, climate resilience, and stakeholder well-being. Previously, Gardiner led sustainability and social innovation at Pearson. She developed Pearson’s 2020 sustainability plan, founded a company-wide incubator to innovate for ‘Tomorrow’s Markets,’ and established a partnership with Save the Children supporting Syrian refugees. She
spent three years at UNDP leading the ‘Business Call to Action,’ advancing global development goals through business model innovation. She was previously program director at the International Business Leaders Forum in London, advising on CSR in emerging markets and heading the Voluntary Principles on Security & Human Rights secretariat. Gardiner chairs the Board of Children in Conflict and also serves on the Board of The Partnering Initiative.

Silvia M. Garrigo leads Millicom’s Corporate Responsibility team and oversees the company’s corporate responsibility policies, programs, goals, and reporting, ensuring they support the company’s business strategy and objectives while being responsive to stakeholder needs. Garrigo has broad experience across legal, public policy, sustainability, and public affairs. Previously, she held various roles at Chevron on global policy, investor relations, and major transactions and litigation. Garrigo also served as the chief sustainability officer for Cuba Strategies Inc. Prior to her in-house experience, she practiced law. Garrigo serves as an advisory board member for the Business in Society Institute at UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law, the University of Miami School of Business, UN Global Compact Human Rights and Labor Group, and the American Bar Association Business and Human Rights Group.

Dr. Seth Garz manages the research and measurement portfolio for the Financial Services for the Poor strategy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Seth was a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, where he was the lead researcher for a large-scale randomized control trial in the Dominican Republic, evaluating innovations to the country’s G2P conditional cash transfer program. Garz has previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and has conducted a variety of policy consulting work for organizations such as the World Bank Gender Innovation Lab and the City of San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment. He remains actively engaged in research at the intersection of G2P programs, financial inclusion, and gender. 

Elissa Goldenberg, Founder and President of EGCC, partners with purpose-driven people, teams, and organizations to deepen their impact by connecting with their unique purpose and managing their energy, so they have the fuel they need to sustain their passion for changing the world. As a coach, Goldenberg partners with mission-driven or socially conscious individuals to enhance their personal and professional fulfillment and navigate critical life transitions. As a consultant, she works with teams and organizations to enhance their cultures and leverage their missions, purpose, and values for optimal impact. Prior to founding EGCC, Goldenberg worked for more than 10 years in the social impact sector advancing women’s empowerment, worker well-being, and human rights in global value chains.

Biography coming soon.

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Natalie Grillon is the director of the Open Apparel Registry (OAR). Launched in March of 2019, the OAR is a directory and interactive map of global apparel facilities. The registry’s name and address-matching algorithm normalizes uploaded facility names and addresses and assigns each facility a unique identifier code. Users can upload and normalize a factory list, search a factory profile, and explore data contributors and their corresponding affiliations. Before this role, Grillon was the co-founder of Project JUST, an online platform to help to bring transparency to fashion supply chains and empower consumers to shift their purchasing behavior. She is an Acumen Fellow and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer.

Ali Hartman joined KKR in 2011 to support the firm’s growing work on ESG issues and stakeholder engagement across its investment portfolio. Over the course of five years, she helped to build the ESG platform to encompass a range of asset classes and focus areas. In 2016, Hartman was named the head of global citizenship for KKR. In this role, she oversees the firm’s approach to strategic philanthropy, community impact, and employee engagement. Previously, Hartman worked at The Coca-Cola Company in the public affairs department, where she oversaw a range of social and environmental issues in North America and Europe. Prior to this role, she studied worker rights at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Paris and completed fieldwork in child labor issues at the Working Boys Center in Quito, Ecuador.  Hartman is involved in a number of philanthropic activities and is also a long-time volunteer with Camp Fatima of New Jersey and a chapter leader for Moms Demand Action.

Witold Henisz is the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. His research—which examines the impact of political hazards on international investment strategy, including efforts by multinational corporations to engage in corporate diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of external stakeholders—has been published in top-ranked journals in international business, management, international studies, and sociology. He is also the author of the book Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations and Relationships with External Stakeholders. He has won multiple teaching awards and teaches extensively on the topic of corporate diplomacy in executive education programs. Henisz is also a principal at PRIMA LLC, a political risk management consultancy.

Sarah Hill is Associate Director, Global Sustainability at BD. In this role, Hill leads key programs within the Office of Global Sustainability, including stakeholder engagement, publication of BD’s annual sustainability report, and ongoing strategy development for the function. She also represents BD in BSR’s Future of Reporting working group. Prior to joining BD in March 2016, she was product stewardship and sustainability program manager at Covidien (now Medtronic) for over 15 years. Hill is a Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.

Harriet Howey is responsible for global non-financial reporting at Diageo. With a career spanning reporting and communications in not-for-profits and corporates in Europe and Asia Pacific, Howey is a passionate advocate for sustainability and impact communication. She also firmly believes in the power of leveraging data to engage stakeholders and, ultimately, drive change. Her current role encompasses reporting on all sustainability and responsibility work delivered across Diageo’s 23 markets and activity across more than 180 countries in all. Every year, her team delivers one of the fastest published integrated annual reports in the world, including a comprehensive GRI submission, UN Global Compact advanced-level index, Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures update, and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board response.

Susan Hunt Stevens is the founder and CEO of WeSpire, an award-winning employee experience technology platform focused on engaging people on purpose-driven initiatives. After her son was diagnosed with serious food allergies, she was inspired to use her digital behavior change expertise to help people embrace healthier and more sustainable lifestyles. She was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year for New England, a Boston Business Journal Woman of Influence, and to the Environmental Leader 100 list. Prior to WeSpire, she spent 9 years at The New York Times Company, most recently as SVP/General Manager for Boston.com, a $60M digital media division.

Harvey Jang is chief privacy officer and counsel for Cisco Systems, Inc. He leads a team of lawyers, privacy professionals, and engineers responsible for developing and orchestrating Cisco’s global data protection policies, compliance capabilities, privacy engineering methodologies, and accountability frameworks and certifications. Prior to joining Cisco, Jang was senior director at McAfee. He was part of Intel Security and served as lead counsel for privacy, security, marketing, consumer protection, and antitrust compliance. Before McAfee, Jang was the director of privacy and information management and chief privacy and security counsel for HP; senior compliance counsel for Symantec; and litigation counsel with O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

Katie Joseff is the research manager of the Digital Intelligence Lab at Institute for the Future (IFTF). She works to investigate computational propaganda—the use of automation, disinformation, and algorithms to manipulate public opinion online—and the ethical implications of emerging technologies. At IFTF, she has conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including the “human consequences” of computational propaganda during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections—a series of eight studies on impacted social groups and issue-publics (e.g. Jewish Americans and immigration); the effects of false information on journalism and journalists; nuclear disinformation; psychological biases underlying propaganda; technology policy in the U.S.; and Ethical OS (a training series meant to illuminate future ethical risks related to technology). 

Tom Kalil leads initiatives to harness technology for societal challenges, improve science policy, and identify and pursue 21st-century moonshots. Prior to Schmidt Futures, Kalil served in the White House for two presidents (Obama and Clinton), helping to design and launch national science and technology initiatives in areas such as nanotechnology, the BRAIN initiative, data science, materials by design, robotics, commercial space, high-speed networks, access to capital for startups, high-skill immigration, STEM education, learning technology, startup ecosystems, and the federal use of incentive prizes.

Yui Kamikawa is the strategy and analytics lead for climate risk and resilience at The Coca-Cola Company. He also works across the Company’s environmental sustainability pillars on strategy development and disclosure. He has a passion for innovation in the space of climate change, packaging, and sustainability. He has worked in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America and has worked in The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling system for seven years. He has a background in supply chain, engineering, and packaging recycling technology.

Michael Karimian has responsibility for Microsoft’s implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which includes Microsoft’s human rights policy, due diligence, transparency, and training, as well as external engagement with human rights organizations. The human rights team is also responsible for implementing the Global Network Initiative Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy and for strategic partnerships with the UN, the World Economic Forum, and other key partners. Prior to joining Microsoft, Karimian worked in trade finance at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London and in business and human rights at the UN in Bangkok and New York.

As the leader of the Business and Human Rights Program, Nicole Karlebach drives efforts to respect and promote human rights across Verizon and Verizon Media and works to identify innovative solutions to human rights challenges. She previously led the Yahoo Business & Human Rights Program. Prior to joining Yahoo, Karlebach worked as an attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York; as an international policy fellow at Human Rights First, examining issues of business and human rights and national security law and policy; and as a human rights consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Karlebach also worked at the UN in the Office of the Legal Counsel, as well as at the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Special Department for War Crimes in Sarajevo. Currently, she co-teaches a course on Corporate Sustainability and Transnational Business and Human Rights at Fordham University School of Law.

Jonas Kron is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium’s extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance, as well as good governance. His advocacy work includes direct communications with company leadership, investor education and awareness, shareholder proposals, and public policy advocacy. As a recognized legal expert in the field and a leader in shareholder advocacy, Kron regularly represents Trillium in the media and before policymakers. Kron currently serves on the board of US SIF and as co-chair of the organization’s policy committee. Prior to joining Trillium, Kron was an environmental attorney and public defender as well as outside counsel to many socially responsible investment organizations.

Abigail Kroon leads Starbucks’ Digital Traceability program, a continuation of the company’s C.A.F.E. Practices ethical sourcing requirements, which include a comprehensive set of environmental, social, and economic standards. In this role, she has spearheaded efforts to revolutionize Starbucks’ coffee supply chain with new and innovative technologies in support of the more than 400,000 coffee farmers from which it buys around the globe, and the customers who enjoy Starbucks coffee every day. This effort to digitally connect each member of the Starbucks supply chain provides a new level of transparency that will change the relationship customers have with the products they purchase. But the primary aim of the work is to drive positive impact for coffee farmers. Kroon also supports the broader ethical sourcing and traceability team’s sustainability efforts in coffee, tea, and cocoa sourcing.

Sheila Krumholz is the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks and reports on money in politics. Krumholz became executive director in 2006, prior to which she was CRP’s research director for eight years. As research director, she supervised data and analysis published on CRP’s website, OpenSecrets.org, and research for investigative journalists and CRP’s partners and clients in the media, academia, and elsewhere. Krumholz has testified before Congress and the Federal Election Commission on issues related to government transparency and accountability and is cited frequently in prominent national news outlets. She regularly makes presentations to citizen’s groups, scholars, government officials, NGOs that conduct research and advocacy, and at meetings of professional news organizations.

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Megan Metzger is a research scholar and associate director for research at the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi) Program. Metzger’s research is focused on how changes in technology change how individuals and states use and have access to information, and how this affects protest and other forms of political behavior. Her dissertation was focused primarily on the role of social media during the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine. She has also worked on projects about the Gezi Park protests in Turkey and has ongoing projects exploring Russian state strategies of information online. In addition to her academic background, Metzger has spent a number of years studying and working in the post-communist world. Her scholarly work has been published in <em>The Journal of Comparative Economics</em> and <em>Slavic Review</em>. Her analysis has also been published in the Monkey Cage Blog at <em>The Washington Post</em>, The Huffington Post, and Al Jazeera English.

As senior vice president, global prepaid for Mastercard, Laura Mackenzie is responsible for developing, executing, leading, and adapting the global product strategy for Mastercard’s core prepaid products. In addition, she is responsible for driving product solutions to deliver Mastercard’s commitment to the World Bank to include 500 million people into the formal economy by 2020 through the development and deployment of innovative products and delivery channels. Prior to this role, she spent 12 years leading Mastercard’s U.S. Merchant acceptance for core merchant verticals. Mackenzie began her career in fashion with luxury global brands Ralph Lauren, Ann Klein, and Nicole Farhi before making a move into the financial realm with South African startup joint venture e-commerce companies.

Conrad MacKerron is senior vice president at As You Sow, a non-profit that promotes corporate social responsibility through shareholder advocacy. MacKerron manages corporate dialogues and initiatives on social and environmental issues. He specializes in recycling and resource efficiency of products and packaging. His current focus challenges consumer brands to stop plastic pollution by making plastic packaging recyclable, taking financial responsibility for recycling, and reducing use of plastic overall. He was formerly director of social research at Piper Jaffray Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting and Washington Bureau Chief for <em>Chemical Week</em>. He is author of <em>Business in the Rainforests: Corporations, Deforestation and Sustainability</em>.

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Kim Malfacini is manager of Product Policy at Facebook, the team responsible for writing and interpreting global policies governing what users can share on the platform. Malfacini focuses on stakeholder engagement, ensuring Facebook’s Community Standards are informed and strengthened by the views of outside experts and Facebook users across the globe. Prior to joining Facebook, she served as director of public policy for Sunrun Inc., the largest residential solar energy provider in the U.S., where she advocated for the rights of residential energy producers with state legislators and regulators. She spent two years in the West African nation of Benin with the United States Peace Corps, leading projects in environmental health and young women’s empowerment.

Marika McCauley Sine is vice president of global sustainability at Mars, Incorporated, responsible for the company’s economic and social sustainability strategy, policy, programs, and partnerships worldwide. She also represents Mars as co-lead of the Consumer Goods Forum’s global forced labor taskforce and is a member of the Aspen Institute Leaders Forum. Sine’s expertise is in driving business growth and profitability in ways that deliver positive societal impact. She joined Mars in 2015 after a decade at The Coca-Cola Company, where she led award-winning sustainability strategy and programs and developed 5by20, a global women’s economic empowerment initiative that has reached 3.2 million entrepreneurs in 92 countries to date. Sine began her career at Oxfam. She was selected as an Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow in 2010. 

Mary Jane Melendez is chief sustainability and social impact officer for General Mills. She also serves as president of the General Mills Foundation.  Melendez stewards the company’s sustainability and philanthropy efforts, working closely with key business leaders to develop, coordinate, and execute programs to achieve companywide targets. She is responsible for advancing collaboration to drive change by promoting environmentally and socially responsible practices across the company’s entire value chain. She serves on the boards of Partners in Food Solutions, the Saint Paul and Minnesota Community Foundations, and the Dougherty Family College at the University of St. Thomas. She was recognized by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as a 2018 40 Under 40 Award Winner and named one of Latino Leaders’ Top Latina Executives in Corporate America in 2018.

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Shankari Mylvaganam is the director of strategy and global partnerships at Unreasonable Group. A career strategist and deals professional, Mylvaganam is focused on how commercial solutions and enterprise can drive social innovation. She has substantial experience in M&A advisory, having worked with private equity and corporate clients, across the deal continuum, on IPOs, acquisitions and divestitures ranging from $50m to $20bn in size. Prior to this, she worked in strategy consulting advising the C-Suite at Fortune 200 and private companies, as well as leadership of federal governments and international institutions on growth, operations and organizational transformation. Mylvaganam also acts as a Private Sector Delegate to the United Nations on issues of Public Private Partnerships and private investment into the social sector.  She currently resides in New York but is a proud Australian with a global background, having lived in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

Leandro Nunes is vice president of product development and innovation at Mastercard. In his role, Nunes leads initiatives that de-risk the development and execution of new technologies in the market both internally within the company and externally with key customers. One of his key focus areas is in commercializing Mastercard’s Provenance Solution, leveraging blockchain to establish trust, transparency, and traceability across the supply chain ecosystem for the authenticity and origin of goods. Prior to joining Mastercard, Nunes served in a number of roles at IBM, leading global teams to drive growth in corporate finance, business operations, partnerships, and sales. In his last role, he successfully led the go-to-market strategy of blockchain solutions.

Physician, attorney, and health policy advocate Michael Painter is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). He and his colleagues scour the nation and the world looking for great ideas that help build a healthy, just, and equitable future on a warming planet. To Painter, a healthy future is one where humans thrive in harmony with all living things and serve as sacred protectors of our home. From 2003-2004, Painter was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow with Senator William H. Frist, M.D., then majority leader. Prior to that, he was the chief of medical staff at the Seattle Indian Health Board, a community health center serving urban American Indians and Alaska Natives. Michael is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Laurel Peacock is a director of sustainability for NRG Energy, a U.S.-based integrated power company that brings energy to more than three million residential and commercial customers and focuses on delivering value to all stakeholders. Peacock drives strategy creation and execution of company-wide sustainability initiatives. She also leads all voluntary reporting processes to foster industry leadership and create shareholder value. Over the past six years at NRG, she has helped set industry-leading, science-based carbon reduction goals and led practical, innovative initiatives that address key societal and environmental issues.

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Jason Rahlan is the director of social impact and philanthropy at Chobani. In this role, he oversees philanthropic investments and grants for the company. He manages the organization’s nonprofit and public sector partnerships on issue- and policy-related initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and natural disaster response efforts. In this work, he partners with senior internal leaders to define goals and priorities and seeks to drive meaningful change at the local, state, and national level through an effective use of the company’s voice, profits, and people. He also co-develops internal wellness initiatives that establish policies of greater inclusion, diversity, and equity for Chobani’s more than 2,000 employees. Prior to Chobani, Rahlan served as communications director for the Human Rights Campaign, as communications director for Ambassador Capricia Marshall at the U.S. Department of State, as press secretary for Congresswoman Jackie Speier, as press aide at the Center for American Progress, and on then-Senator Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Tim Reilly is an environmental scientist with over 30 years of experience in performing terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and coastal natural resource damage assessments (NRDA), natural resource/ecosystem valuations, and remedial oversight and restoration of habitats impacted by oil, hazardous substances, and more. He has played a key role in determining biological, physical, and chemical response strategies, ecological restoration, and remedial and damage compensation options at hundreds of contaminated sites globally. Reilly developed Quantitative Mitigation Analysis (QMA), which provides quantitative and defensible mitigation strategies for large, complex developments for any manner of resource and habitat takings, facilitating equitable and timely sustainable mitigation negotiations between project proponents and regulators alike. QMA is a published protocol and used throughout the United States and abroad. Reilly leads Stantec’s Global Natural Resource Valuation Program, providing NRDA, ecosystem valuation, and natural capital accounting services.

John Schulz is director of sustainability integration at AT&T. In this role, Schulz works with AT&T customers to identify and quantify how AT&T technology can play an important role in addressing pressing environmental challenges. He began his AT&T career in the Corporate Real Estate group and migrated into leadership roles with the Energy and Corporate Sustainability organizations. Before joining AT&T, Schulz held a variety of roles with several technology startups.

Soo Shim has a career that spans more than 18 years in the high-tech industry leading and managing teams across software development to partner management to her current position playing an integral role in sales and business development for global organizations. In 2011, Shim participated in a board-sponsored initiative to bring technology to underserved communities in Africa as part of a sustainability strategy focused on economic equality. Today, in addition to her role overseeing the strategy execution at SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass as part of the executive leadership team, she advocates the role of innovation and Ariba Network to drive sustainable and responsible business. Shim challenges the status quo by striving for better solutions that help businesses create social impacts that produce profits.

Shannon Siart is the manager of climate strategy and sustainability initiatives at HPE, responsible for setting and overseeing the company’s environmental strategy and goals and enhancing reputation through industry-leading programs, reporting, and rankings. She is the force behind HPE’s ambitious new commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2025; she earned HPE an A on CDP’s 2018 Climate Change disclosure to maintain the company’s position among the top 2 percent of companies globally; and she constructed HPE’s first disclosure applying TCFD recommendations. At the heart of Siart’s work is belief that a sustainable future will transform our economy, nurture innovation, and create new markets ready to be seized by leading technology companies. Prior to joining HPE, Siart was on Northrop Grumman’s corporate sustainability team.

Joel Simon serves as managing director for workforce strategy at Burning Glass Technologies. He brings more than 20 years of experience supporting multistakeholder workforce and economic development initiatives across a wide range of communities, industries, and initiatives. His clients and partners include economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, colleges and universities, community-based organizations, industry associations, state and local governments, and foundations. Prior to joining Burning Glass, he worked in a variety of nonprofit and public-sector roles, focusing on employment, educational attainment, housing, and community and neighborhood development.  He has served as faculty for the International Economic Development Council, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Institute for Higher Education Policy, and the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago. 

Dan Smith is corporate lead for the identification and management of sustainability issues at Crowley Maritime, one of the principal United States-based marine transportation and logistics companies.  He also manages policy engagement for environmental issues impacting Crowley’s domestic and international vessel operations. Prior to joining Crowley, Smith served as a fellow on a United States Environmental Protection Agency regulation-writing team and as an environmental response consultant in the marine and energy sectors. Smith also sits on SASB’s Standards Advisory Group and on the steering committee of the BSR Clean Cargo Working Group.

Celine Suarez drives Morgan Stanley’s corporate sustainability strategy, disclosure, and stakeholder engagement and she oversees the activities of the Institute for Sustainable Investing. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Suarez was client director at the consultancy Context Group, where she led engagements with major global firms. Previously, she was also a consultant at BSR, where she drove strategic sustainability consulting with leading companies in the financial, airline, hospitality, retail, and food and beverage industries and led the Center for Sustainable Procurement. She started her career as an analyst integrating ESG factors into investment decisions at several leading sustainable asset management firms, including Citi and Domini Social Investments. Suarez is currently an adjunct professor at NYU, teaching a Master’s course on strategic Corporate Sustainability.

Toshio Tamamuro has over 30 years of experience with Takeda. Prior to becoming CSR head, he was senior director, investor relations, global finance from 2010-2016. He was selected as one of the best investor relations professionals in the 2014 All-Japan Executive Team, a survey in Institutional Investors magazine. He also contributed to the production of the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility guidance as a core member of the ISO project team of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) from 2005-2007. He was also a researcher of health economics at the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine at Keio University from 1998-2001 and worked as a manager of product planning, strategic development, and health policy planning.

Irit Tamir is the director of Oxfam America’s private sector department. In her role, she is focused on working with companies to ensure that their business practices result in positive social and environmental impacts for vulnerable communities throughout the world. Tamir leads Oxfam America’s work on business and development including shareholder engagement, value chain assessments, and collaborative advocacy initiatives, such as the successful “Behind the Brands” campaign. Tamir is co-author of <em>Community Voice in Human Rights Impact Assessments</em> and has contributed to numerous reports at Oxfam focused on business and human rights issues. She is a frequent commentator on agricultural policies, labor, human rights, and their intersection with business. Tamir has had years of experience in government relations and is a former prosecutor who supervised civil rights prosecutions and hate crimes.

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Kevin Thompson spent 15 years at IBM in executive and management roles in corporate citizenship, marketing, and global strategy in business units spanning healthcare, government, commerce, mobile, social, and financing. An IBM career highlight was the design, launch, and scaling of the Corporate Service Corps (CSC), often called a “business version of the Peace Corps.” Thompson is adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is a First Mover Fellow with the Aspen Institute. He also co-founded a leadership development consultancy called World Action Teams that designs and delivers immersion experiences in rapidly developing markets. Prior to IBM, he spent two years managing a farm and micro-enterprise in rural Ghana, West Africa, as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and performed as a musician based in Massachusetts. 

Sissel Waage, Ph.D., has over 25 years of experience working on sustainability and environmental issues—in North America, Europe, and Africa—with the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) Africa Program, Sustainable Northwest, The Natural Step, Forest Trends, and BSR. She has edited two books on climate change and sustainable business and delivered more than 50 invited speeches and briefings, including at the U.S. Capitol Congressional Center, the Commonwealth Club, and numerous universities as well as conferences around the world. Waage is currently partnering with private-sector clients on a range of initiatives, including investments in maintaining and restoring natural systems and assessments of business risk and opportunity related to climate change, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem function.

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Jeff West is the corporate responsibility leader for the IBM Corporation. He leads IBM’s global corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy. West manages global ESG reporting across IBM’s value chain, engagement with socially responsible investor analysts, and partnerships that help scale IBM initiatives. His cross-functional role includes leading the IBM working group on corporate responsibility, which involves stakeholders from IBM’s corporate citizenship, environment, governance, supply chain, public policy, human resources, and research functions. Prior to joining IBM, West served as director of corporate Philanthropy at the Council on Foundations. West is an expert in developing public-private partnerships and spent eight years at the Peace Corps, the last five as the agency’s lead on strategic partnerships with the private sector. West also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.

Jessica Wolff is the U.S. director of climate and health for Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) and Practice Greenhealth (PGH). She leads the HCWH team in developing strategies to engage and support the health care sector in working on climate solutions and in becoming a leading voice on climate change. Prior to her current position, Jessica was the environmental sustainability advisor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-H), where she worked to develop and drive the system’s environmental sustainability program. Jessica worked as a women’s health nurse practitioner and health center director for many years. In 2009, she returned for her MBA, focusing on strategy and sustainability, and then held positions at Waste Management in their recycling and sustainability services.

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Brian Yamasaki leads PayPal’s corporate legal function as company secretary and VP of corporate, strategy, and growth. He is responsible for multiple teams that support PayPal’s securities, corporate governance, compensation/benefits, ESG strategy and reporting matters, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, corporate strategy, and payment product and engineering matters. Yamasaki joined eBay Inc. in 2007 on the corporate legal team and moved to management in 2013. He served as lead on several acquisitions, including Braintree and Xoom. Brian was a member of the core team managing PayPal’s separation. In September 2016, he took on the role of company secretary for PayPal. Prior to PayPal, Yamasaki worked in private practice. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals.  

With a background in consulting, private equity, and international development, Karlyn brings rigorous thought leadership and a focus on financial value to BSR’s consulting work in Asia.

She supports companies across sectors to design and implement strategies linking corporate sustainability policies to on-the-ground realities in the areas of shared value, sustainable supply chains, and inclusive economy. 

Prior to BSR, Karlyn was vice president of strategy and transformation for TAU Investment Management, a private equity firm founded on principles of ESG integration. She was also a management consultant, first with IBM Global Services and later with the Boston Consulting Group, where she advised Fortune 500 clients in the financial services, technology, and healthcare industries. She has also worked in international development in Chile, Namibia, and the Republic of Guinea. 

Karlyn holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Wharton, and an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS. She speaks fluent French and Spanish.

Dunstan oversees BSR’s human rights, women’s empowerment, and inclusive economy practices.

Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology and heavy manufacturing practices.

He brings significant experience working in North America, EMEA, and Asia on a diverse range of issues such as technology and human rights, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting, sustainability strategy, and stakeholder engagement.

Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book, Big Business, Big Responsibilities.

Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications’ corporate responsibility team.

Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.

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With strong project management skills and a background in CSR analysis, Charlotte supports companies in the financial services, consumer products, transport and logistics, and information and communication technology industries with advice on sustainability strategy, supply chain, and human rights.

Charlotte leads BSR’s financial services practice in Europe. Before joining BSR, Charlotte was an analyst for nearly five years at Innovest and Vigeo, two socially responsible investment rating agencies. Through her work as an analyst, Charlotte covered the energy, automobile, retail, and software sectors. Charlotte is bilingual in French and English.

She holds an M.A. in CSR Management from the University of Paris XII and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado.

Kate develops BSR’s grant-funded initiatives, focusing on women’s empowerment, human rights, and supply chain issues. She works specifically with foundations and bilateral donors in the EMEA region. 

Before joining BSR, Kate led the development team at the International Federation for Human Rights, where she successfully built partnerships with a broad array of public and private donors and led significant growth in the organization’s resources. Previously, she held development roles within an INGO with programs aiming to improve access to quality education for all in countries across the globe, with a focus on corporate partnerships.

Kate holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a B.A. with Honors (first class) in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington, specializing in the politics of development. She also holds a certificate in teaching English as a second language from Cambridge University.  She speaks fluent English and French.

Aron is recognized globally as a preeminent authority on sustainable business. In addition to leading BSR, which has grown substantially throughout his tenure as President and CEO, Aron advises senior executives at BSR’s more than 250 member companies and other global businesses on the full spectrum of social and environmental issues.

Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and later opened BSR’s Paris office in 2002, where he worked until becoming President and CEO in 2004. Aron serves on advisory boards to CEOs at Barrick Gold, Marks & Spencer, and SAP, and previously for AXA, Shell, and Nike. He is also a director of the Natural Capital Coalition, the International Integrated Reporting Council, and We Mean Business, and serves as a member of the Steering Council for the World Economic Forum’s Board of Stewards of its Future of Consumption System Initiative.

Aron speaks frequently at leading business forums and is widely quoted in top-tier media such as the Financial Times, Le Figaro (France), The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is co-author of the book Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World, which spotlights innovative sustainability strategies that enable business success.

Prior to joining BSR, Aron practiced law in San Francisco and worked as a journalist at ABC News in New York. He holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Hannah works with multinational companies to align business and human rights strategies and facilitate incorporation of sustainable practices into business operations across sectors.

She focuses on the intersection of human rights and new, disruptive technology and leads the Tech Against Trafficking collaborative initiative.

Prior to joining BSR, Hannah worked with the Skoll Foundation, where she co-led the portfolio and investments team’s efforts to identify social entrepreneurs with the potential to drive large-scale social change. Her work led to over US$20 million in grants and investments between 2015 and 2018. Before Skoll, Hannah spent six years working in anti-human trafficking in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Bay Area. She is fluent in French.

Hannah holds a Master’s in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of Michigan. She currently serves on the advisory boards of Oxfam’s Women in Small Enterprise initiative and Convening17.

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With a background in sustainable business and exploring the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, Eileen fosters private-sector engagement to accelerate climate resilience in Southeast Asia.

Before joining BSR, Eileen was vice president at Edelman, where she implemented strategic sustainability plans for Fortune 500 companies to drive climate action, responsible sourcing, resource optimization, and community engagement. While at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Eileen advanced policy solutions on climate change, sustainable development, and urban resiliency.

Eileen holds a Master’s of Environmental Management from Duke University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. 

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Chhavi oversees BSR’s relationships with governments and foundations in North America, where he seeks to create cross-sector partnerships between the private sector and donors to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Prior to joining BSR, Chhavi worked for a socially responsible investment firm, where he combined financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis to make sustainable investment recommendations. He also spent several years as an operations manager for Oracle’s Asia-Pacific and Americas regions, opening a new operation in India. He also developed a CSR strategy for a spirits company in Mexico, developed sustainability reports for companies in India and Saudi Arabia, and worked as a freelance CSR consultant for the Institute of Public Health. He speaks English, Spanish, and Hindi.

Chhavi holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and an M.A. in International Studies from the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. in English and Computer Science from Rutgers University.

Laura is a global expert on corporate sustainability, with two decades of experience in strategy consulting and has advised senior executives at global companies across a range of industry sectors and sustainability issues.

Laura has also been a leader in BSR’s organizational growth and impact. She launched BSR’s financial services practice and New York office, and she is currently the Chief Operating Officer, leveraging her strengths in strategy, organizational change, and people management.

Laura works with leading global companies to develop and enhance their sustainability strategies to maximize value for business and society. She is sought after to facilitate senior-level strategy workshops and multistakeholder collaborations. She has published reports on environmental, social, and governance trends among investors as well as sustainability integration and leadership. From 2006 to 2010, she facilitated the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, growing the initiative from 15 to more than 50 companies.

Laura previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she acquired extensive strategy experience advising multinational financial services companies. She also worked on several community and economic development projects in Latin America.

Laura holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is an adjunct professor in the Bard M.B.A. in Sustainability program and a member of the UN Global Compact Expert Network.

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Samantha (Sam) drives the climate resilience pillar of BSR’s climate change practice, which includes how businesses can act at the intersection of people and climate change. She leads BSR’s foundational research and strategy on the intersection of climate and women’s empowerment, as well as this cluster in the Business Action for Women collaboration. Sam also leads the international policy work at the UN climate negotiations for the We Mean Business coalition. 

Before joining BSR, Sam worked on the Climate Action Network international policy team, where she drove the development of common positions for hundreds of NGOs during the climate negotiations, focusing in particular on climate justice, short-term mitigation action, a long-term global goal, climate finance, and low-carbon technology. Sam was previously at the NGO Islands First, advising Pacific small island nations on climate change and oceans policy.

Sam holds an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University and a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University.

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Denielle works with BSR member companies across various industries on strategy, supply chain sustainability, and reporting. She also supports Value Creation through Natural Capital.

Prior to joining BSR, Denielle focused on greenhouse gas accounting, sustainability reporting, solid waste management, and sustainability strategy for Dartmouth College. She has experience researching the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the conflict minerals supply chain, and assessing the viability of mitigating climate change through climate finance projects such as REDD+.

Denielle holds an M.E.S.M. from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and B.A. in Ecosystem Science and Policy, and Geography from the University of Miami.

With more than 20 years of sustainable development experience, John leads BSR’s global infrastructure and financial services practices, advising companies on corporate sustainability strategy, responsible investing and project development, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk management.

Before BSR, John was the founder and president of SunOne Solutions, a leading carbon project developer in North and South America. John worked as a staff member in the World Bank’s sustainable development group, where he managed global energy and transport infrastructure projects and the vice president for sustainable development’s front office, and served as the infrastructure advisor in the Thailand and Kosovo country offices. He has also held positions in the airline transport industry, with a private infrastructure project developer in Chile, and with an impact investing fund in the Balkans.

John holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University, an International M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina, and a B.S. in International Trade and Finance from Louisiana State University.

David leads BSR’s financial services practice and works closely with BSR’s sustainability management team to partner with companies across sectors. He advises companies on integrating sustainability into corporate strategy, investment management, and products and services. 

David has led engagements in all of BSR’s areas of expertise and major industry groups. As part of his collaboration with BSR members, he has developed sustainable investment strategies for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, designed and operationalized a leading impact investing fund, conducted materiality assessments and facilitated strategy development, undertaken human rights impact assessments on emerging technologies, co-authored research on the business benefits of inclusive business strategies, and built global stakeholder engagement tools, among other activities. David also co-leads the Net Positive Project.

Before joining BSR, David worked in strategy and management consulting at Bain & Company. Additionally, he has worked as an independent consultant in sustainability and nonprofit governance.

David holds a B.A. in History from Amherst College.

Michaela advises multinational companies on how to drive impact through human rights, sustainability, and multistakeholder collaboration. She specializes in the intersection of tech and human rights and covers the cross-industry implications of issues like privacy, security, and free expression. 

She also supports the cross-industry Human Rights Working Group and Building Responsibly.

Before joining BSR, Michaela was awarded the CORO Fellowship in Public Policy, through which she drove cross-sector collaboration among government, business, labor, and nonprofit organizations. She has also done field research in West Africa to examine the use of mobile phones and educational apps by women-led microfinance and savings groups. She has additional experience with an international policy firm helping companies open, access, and expand into international markets in the food, beverage, and agriculture sectors. She is proficient in French.

Michaela holds a B.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Davis. 

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Jorgette leads BSR’s consumer products practice for the United States, and the global food, beverage, and agriculture practice. She focuses on aligning innovative sustainability practices with business strategy and operations, working with executives from the food, beverage, and agriculture; consumer packaged goods; apparel; footwear; and retail industries, among others.

Jorgette brings more than 10 years of experience consulting with multinational companies and governments, with expertise in supply chain management, procurement, strategy, and employee engagement. She has worked at Arthur Andersen, Great Place to Work, and Unisys. She also spent four years at PepsiCo leading global supplier CSR assurance. Jorgette speaks English and Spanish.

Jorgette holds a B.A. in Economics and Policy Studies, with a minor in Marketing, from Syracuse University.

Working with companies in the food and agriculture and oil industries, Roger advises on sustainability policies and programs in the areas of supply chain management, community development, stakeholder relations, reporting, and strategy.

He has worked with Tate & Lyle on code of conducts, Archer Daniels Midland on CSR strategy and supply chain management, and Threemile Canyon Farms on developing a sustainability vision and metrics.

Prior to joining BSR, Roger worked for the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, doing research and consulting on international and domestic labor issues for multinational corporations.

Roger holds an M.S. in International Affairs from George Washington University.

Aditi works with BSR members across sectors to help them improve and advance their sustainability strategies. She leads BSR’s global portfolio of work on women’s empowerment across consulting, collaboration, and research.

Aditi joined BSR after several years at Calvert Investment Management, a leading sustainable and responsible investment firm. There, she led strategic planning for Calvert’s executive committee, and held various roles within the sustainability research team. Her portfolio included companies in the information and communications technology sector, and she led corporate engagements on the subjects of gender corporate governance and gender equality, including the advancement of the Calvert Women’s Principles.

Aditi holds an M.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University, and a B.S. in International Economics from the University of Florida.

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Cecilia leads BSR’s Copenhagen office and the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN).

She was one of the front drivers for MACN’s establishment in 2011. Under Cecilia’s leadership, MACN has grown significantly, won multiple awards, and is considered one of the pre-eminent examples of collective action to tackle corruption.

Prior to joining BSR, Cecilia built more than eight years of compliance and shipping experience as senior compliance officer in the Maersk Group. She has been responsible for anti-corruption efforts globally; trained management and staff worldwide; implemented whistle-blowing systems; rolled out country-specific anti-corruption campaigns; and conducted risk assessments, audits, and misconduct investigations. In 2015, she was awarded “Compliance Officer of the Year” by the C5 Women in Compliance Awards. 

Cecilia sits on the International Advisory Board for the Port Efficiency and Public Private Capacity in Ghana and is guest lecturer at the World Maritime University. She speaks English and Swedish and holds a Master of Laws from Lund University in Sweden.

Elisa leads BSR’s consumer sectors practice globally and oversees the BSR global membership network. She works with companies in the luxury, beauty, fashion, hospitality, retail, and food industries to better integrate sustainability into core business strategy, products, and operations.

She helps companies understand the world’s big disruptions, create resilient and inclusive business models and practices, and evolve brand strategy to integrate changing consumer expectations. Elisa also leads BSR’s Responsible Luxury Initiative and the Southeast Asia Reptile Conservation Alliance (SARCA).

Prior to joining BSR, Elisa was an account manager at CHANEL and a consultant at Accenture and Ernst & Young.

Elisa is French-American. She holds an M.B.A. in Luxury Goods Marketing and Management from Sup de Luxe, an M.A. in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris, and a B.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tara leads BSR’s global supply chain sustainability practice.

She advises chief product officers and senior directors at leading global companies on the development of supply chains that create business value and address urgent and long-term risks and opportunities. She drives strategy and implementation projects across industry sectors covering sustainable procurement, supply chain strategy, collaboration, traceability, blockchain and supply chain finance.

She has authored several reports, including The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0, Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity, The Future of Supply Chains 2025, the UN Global Compact Supply Chain Sustainability Guide, and the UN Global Compact Guide to Traceability. Tara also teaches on the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Sustainable Business certificate courses.

Before joining BSR, she directed supply chain work at 2degrees, the sustainability collaboration platform, and was the general manager of Sedex, where she ran and significantly grew the world’s largest not-for-profit sustainable supply chain membership organization and database. Previously, Tara worked in sustainable procurement at BAA, was project manager at the World Trade Center Association Los Angeles, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kherson, Ukraine. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, has lived in five countries, and speaks fluent French.

Tara holds an M.B.A. from London Business School and a B.A. in International Studies and French from Northwestern University.

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Biography coming soon.

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With more than 20 years in the consulting field, Eric leads BSR’s global consulting practice to design and implement sustainability strategies that create business value by addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges.

In addition to advising the CEOs and senior teams of several global companies, Eric plays a lead role on a number of BSR’s collaborative initiatives, including the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, the Net Positive Project, and Future of Fuels, as well as our work with the We Mean Business coalition.

Prior to joining BSR, Eric worked with the Natural Step in San Francisco, accelerating sustainability through strategic counsel on a broad range of corporate responsibility matters that included supply chain management and sustainable development. He also has served as vice president at the Boston Consulting Group and was a partner and founding member of the global consultancy Mitchell Madison Group.

Eric was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned an M.S. in Russian and East European Studies. He also holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Macalester College.

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Jacob leads BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining BSR, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago. 

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Biography coming soon.

Michael leads BSR’s work with companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry.

His experience in sustainability with global ICT companies includes addressing climate, human rights, and ethics issues in various settings, including mines, the factory floor, and cyberspace. From drafting reporting regulations and audit protocols on greenhouse gas (GHG) to advising on renewable energy procurement for data centers and human rights opportunities with blockchain, his experience touches all parts of the sector.

Before joining BSR, Michael was the senior program director at the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and acted as the director for the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative. He also served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) climate change and stratospheric protection divisions, focusing on mitigation of and reporting on GHG emissions. In addition, he previously worked for a sustainability consulting firm in Hong Kong.

Michael holds a J.D. and a Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School and a B.A. in International Relations from Michigan State University.

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Christine leads BSR’s HERproject—our women’s empowerment workplace program that brings together global and local companies, business associations, and donors to support women in global supply chains through health, finance, and other curricula.

With more than 15 years working in international development, Christine has substantial global experience in women’s economic empowerment, private-sector development, financial inclusion, value chain development, enterpreneurship, cross-sector partnerships, and social enterprise.

Prior to BSR, Christine was the director of women’s economic empowerment at CARE International, leading the organization’s global work to support 30 million women and give them greater access to and control over economic resources and opportunities. Before that, Christine led CARE International’s work on private-sector development, focusing on inclusive business models and bottom-of-the-pyramid social enterprise development, and significantly expanding CARE’s strategic engagement with companies. Christine also previously worked on building leadership training programs for sustainable development at Lead International and for the United Nations Development Programme. She speaks English, Spanish and Danish.

Christine holds an M.S. in International Development and Business and a B.S. in International Business and Modern Languages, both from Copenhagen Business School. She also holds an Advanced Business Management degree from IESE Business School. 

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Alison leads BSR’s sustainability management practice and oversees the supply chain practice and the Sustainable Futures Lab. She previously led BSR’s energy and extractives practice. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.

Previously, Alison was a senior managing director at Control Risks, where she helped companies operate with integrity, particularly in high-risk environments. She has also worked at Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture. She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and the Gabelli Business School.

Alison holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University.

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Jenny leads BSR’s human rights practice across consulting and collaboration.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in both field management and advisory roles to better understand, prevent, and mitigate conflict. As the organization’s first Peace & Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace & Conflict technical advisory team, she launched, built, and implemented programs that aimed to reduce violence, build the preconditions for peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats – from climate change and disruptive technology to poor governance and gender inequality. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, mediation and negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. 

Jenny holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

David leads BSR’s climate practice to maximize the impact of our applied research, collaborative initiatives, and work with individual companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience. He is also the international policy lead for the We Mean Business coalition.

Before joining BSR, David was a climate diplomat for the Marshall Islands with the advisory group Independent Diplomat and led on transparency issues in the UN climate negotiations for the Alliance of Small Island States. As an international lawyer with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, David built up the environmental treaty expertise of countries across the globe. He began his career as a securities litigator with Fried Frank in New York before focusing on climate change and energy.

David holds a LL.M. in International Law from New York University, a J.D. and M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University.

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