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All Speakers

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Below is the complete speakers' overview. Speakers that are indicated in blue will speak in one of the Plenary sessions. Click on the hyperlinks to see the speakers' bios and photos.

Dr. Naoki Adachi, Executive Director, JBIB (Japan Business Initiative on Biodiversity)

Mr. Roger Adams,
Executive Director-Technical, ACCA

Dr. Gloria Agyemang
, Lecturer in Accounting, Royal Holloway, University of London 

Ms. Marjella Alma, Report Services Coordinator/Readers' Choice Award Project Management, GRI

Ms. Elisabet Riera i Alemany, Manager of Integral Management, Dep. Gestió Integral i Innovació Fundació Ramon Noguera, Spain  

Mr. Thiago Alexsander Costa Grego, Subsecretary for Innovation and Logistics, Sisema 

Ms. Jo Appleby, Community Action Learning, Impact International 

Dr. Nelmara Arbex, Director, Learning and Services, GRI 

Ms. Wendy Arenas Wightman, Founder, Arenas  

Mr. Manoj Arora, Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs India

Ms. Seema Arora, Principal Counsellor and Head, CII ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development
 
Ms. Christine Bader, Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on business & human rights, UN  

Mr. Ian Ball, Chairman, International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)

Mr. Shri R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India

Mr. Wim Bartels, Partner and Global Head of Sustainability Assurance Services, KPMG NL

Mr. Steve Bass
, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Dr. Bill Baue, Research Fellow, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Ms. Laura Berry, Executive Director, ICCR  

Ms. Amy Birchall, Associate Director Strategy Projects, Volans Ventures  

Mr. Joshua Bishop, Business and Enterprise Coordinator, TEEB  

Dr. Leeora Black, Managing Director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR)

Mr. Bill Blackburn, President, William Blackburn Consulting, Ltd.

Ms. Susan Blesener, Director of Corporate Accountability, Novo Nordisk  

Mr. Richard Boele, Managing Director, Banarra Sustainability Assurance and Advice

Ms. Rebecca Bowens, Global Sustainability Report Assurance Product Manager, SGS

Mr. Marc Brammer, Head of UK & European Business Development, RMG Sustainability Solutions

Mr. David Brilleslijper, Director Corporate Communications, Delta Lloyd

Mr. Olaf Brugman, Senior Manager CSR at Rabobank and Member of Standards Board at Accountability

Mr. Henk de Bruin, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sustainability Office, Philips

Mr. Jermyn Brooks, Chair Business Advisory Board, Transparency International

Mr. Chris P. Buijink
, Secretary-General, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands 

Mr. Bastian Buck, Technical Development Coordinator, GRI

Dr. Timo Busch, Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

Mr. Etienne Butruille, Director, KPMG Global Sustainability Services (Spain)
 
Mr. Peter Capozucca, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP  

Prof. Mark Cohen, Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Mr. Jo Confino, Executive Editor, The Guardian

Dr. Claus Conzelmann, Vice President - Head of Safety, Health & Environmental Sustainability, Nestlé Group

Mr. Juan Carlos Corvalan, CSR & Legal Affairs Manager, Sodimac, Chile

Mr. Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR

Ms. Angela Cropper, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UNEP


Ms. Carole Crozat, Allianz Global Investors France

Mr. Frank Curtiss
, Head of Corporate Governance, Railpen Investments

 
Ms. Elisabeth Dahlin, CEO, Save the Children

Dr. Colin Day, Lecturer, University of Dundee

Mr. Peter DeSimone
, Social Investment Forum (SIF)

Ms. Jenny Didong, Ministry of Enterprise, Sweden

Mr. Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Chairman and CEO, ITC Limited

Mr. Tom Dodd, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European Commission

Mr. Michel Doucin, Ambassador of the French Republic in charge of Corporate Social. Responsibility and Bioethics (France)

Mr. Paul Druckman, Chairman of The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project Executive Board

Dr. Barbara Dubach, Sustainable Development, Senior Vice President, Holcim
 
Prof. Aldnoor Ebrahim
, Associate Professor General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard University 

Dr. Robert Eccles
, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Mr. Tobias Eigen, Founder, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa

Ms. Bernarda Elizalde, Program Director, Sustainable Development, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)  

 
Mr. James Farrar, Vice President Sustainability, SAP 

Ms. Alyssa Farrell, Global Marketing Manager, SAS

Ms. Sonia Favaretto, Director Sustainability, BM&F BOVESPA

Ms. Rufina Fernandes, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation

Ms. Liesel Filgueiras, General Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility and Vale, Vale

Ms. Maaike Fleur, Project Manager, Sector Supplements, GRI

Prof. Frank Figge, Chair of Management and Sustainability, Queen's University Belfast

Ms. Lotta Fogde
, Senior Vice President Corporate Communication, LKAB  

Ms. Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive, GRI

Mr. Paul Freundlich, Sustainability Film Producer/Director, President of Fair Trade Foundation, former Chair GRI Stakeholder Council

Ms. Jessica Fries, Project Director, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project 

Dr. Glenn Frommer, Head of Sustainable Development, MTR Corporation

Ms. Anna Fuster, Consultant/GRI Training Partner, Lavola Spain  
 
Ms. Susana Pascual Garcia, Manager Integrated Systems Management, ACEFAT

Ms. Isabel Garro Hernandez
, General Director Spanish Network, UN Global Compact

Dr. Georgios Georgakopoulos,
Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting, University of Amsterdam Business School

Ms. Kate Gilmore
, (former) Amnesty International

Dr. James Gifford, Executive Director, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Mr. Sean Gilbert, Director GRI Focal Point China, Global Reporting Initiative, GRI

Mr. Oded Grajew, President and Chair, Ethos Institute of Business and Social Reponsibility

Mr. Oliver Greenfield, Head of Sustainable Business and Economics, WWF-UK


Mr. Christopher Greenwald, Director of Data Content, ASSET4 - A Thompson Reuters business

Ms. Ana Paula Grether, Coordinator of Petrobras Social and Environmental Report

Mr. Jan Ernst de Groot,  Managing Director and Member of the Board of Management, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Ms. Selin Gür,
CEO, SLN Tekstil Ve Moda Sanayi Ticaret Ltd Sti

Mr. Rodolfo Guttilla
, Corporate Affairs and Government Relations Vice-President, Natura Cosmeticos

Ms. Sylvain Guyoton, Vice President Services, EcoVadis

 
Mr. Pierre Habbard,
Policy Advisor, TUAC-OECD

Mr. Mikael Hagström
, Executive Vice President, SAS EMEA and Asia Pacific

Dr. Tobias Hahn
, Associate Professor for Corporate Sustainability, CSR and Environmental Management, Euromed Marseille Management School

Mr. Jonathon Hanks,
Managing Director, Incite Sustainability, and Chair, ISO 26000 Drafting Team

Mr. Jörg Hartmann
, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 

Mr. Sean Harrigan (Moderator), Past Executive Director, States Council, Region 8, United Food and Commercial, Workers Union and Member, GRI Board of Directors

Mr. Raji Hattar, Chief Sustainability and Compliance Officer, Aramex International

Mr. Adrie Heinsbroek, SRI, ING Investment Office

Mr. Giuseppe van der Helm, Executive Director, VBDO  

Mr. Les Hendry, Director, Onearth

Mr. Ricardo Henriques, Special Advisor to the President, National Social and Economic Development Bank (BNDES)

Mr. Eric Hespenheide , Audit and Enterprise Risk Services Global Leader, Sustainability & Climate Change, Deloitte & Touche LLP

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

Ms. Denise Hills, Sustainability Superintendent, Itau Unibanco

Mr. Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam  

Mr. Paul Hohnen, Sustainability Strategies

Ms. Marie-France Houde, Head of Corporate Responsibility and OECD Senior Economist, OECD  

Mr. Richard Howitt, Labour Member of the European Parliament

Mr. Peter William Hughes, Managing Director, Impahla Clothing – South Africa  

Mr. Mark Hynes, Board Director and Chair, Policy Committee at the Investor Relations Society
 
Mr. Eric Israel, Managing Director, KPMG

Mr. Carsten Ingerslev
, Head of Centre for Danish Commerce and Companies Agency  

Ms. Karin Ireton, Director of Group Sustainability Management, Standard Bank Group
 
Prof. Paul James
, Director of the Global Cities Institute (RMIT) and Director of the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme, Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Globalism Research Centre (RMIT)

Mr. Frank Janssen, Director Corporate Communications, Van Gansewinkel Groep

Ms. Sally Jeanrenaud, Programme Director Green Economy Coalition, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Mr. Jon Johnson
, Walmart Sustainability Consortium

Ms. Helle Bank Jorgensen, US Sustainability Advisory Practice Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

 
Ms. Nancy Kamp Roelands, Deputy Chairman, FEE Sustainability Group

Mr. Adam M. Kanzer, Managing Director & General Counsel, Domini Social Investments

Ms. Alya Kayal, Vice President Social Research, Calvert Group, and Member GRI Stakeholder Council 

Mr. Georg Kell,
Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Mr. Jitesh Khosla, Officer on Special Duty, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs

Dr. Matthew Kiernan, Founder and Chief Executive, Inflection Point Capital Management


Prof. Mervyn E. King S.C., Chairman, GRI Board of Directors

Ms. Catharina Hempel Kipp, CSR Ambassador, International Trade Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sweden

Mr. Victor Kjaer, Deputy General Director, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency

Mr. Scott Klinger
, Director of Corporate Engagement, First Peoples Worldwide

Mr. Piet Klop, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute (WRI) 

Dr. Alan Knight, Head of Standards OR Associate Senior Partner, AccountAbility  

Mr. Patrick Koimans, Stakeholder Relations & Public Affairs Manager, Delta Lloyd 

Prof. Ans Kolk, Professor of Sustainable Management, University of Amsterdam  

Ms. Claudia Kruse, Senior Sustainability & Governance Specialist, APG All Pensions Group

Mr. Mike Krzus, Partner, Grant Thornton LLP

Ms. Barbara Kux, Member of the Managing Board; Head of Supply Chain Management and Chief Sustainability Officer, Siemens AG
 
 
Mr. Helder Leite, Investor Relations Manager, Petrobras

Dr. Linda Lewis
, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield

Mr. Ernst Ligteringen,
Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Dr. Jianli Liu,
Deputy Director of the Research Center of Management Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ms. Christine Loh
, CEO, Civic Exchange

Ms. Erin Lyon, Executive Director, CSR Asia
 
Mr. Daniel Malan, Senior Lecturer, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, University of Stellenbosch Business School

Mr. Alex Malley
, CEO, CPA Australia


Mr. Marcello Manca, VP & General Manager, UL Environment

Mr. Frank Mantero, Director, Corporate Citizenship Programs, GE Corporation

Mr. Joost Martens, Director General, Consumers International

Dr. Robert Massie, Sustainability and Corporate Governance Expert

Mr. Toshiya Masuoka, Director Corporate Advice Department, International Finance Corporation (IFC) 

Dr. Richard Mattison
, Chief Operating Officer, Trucost Plc

Mr. Mike McCluskey, State Director NSW Head Corporate Social Responsibility, Australian Broadcasting Corporation  

Mr. Kevin McKinley, Deputy Secretary-General, ISO

Ms. Jane Meacham, Research Analyst, Sustainable Investments Institute  

Ms. Katherine Miles, Project Manager, Sector Supplements, GRI

Ms. Estelle Mironesco, Director SRI Department, Vigeo

Ms. Narina Mnatsakanian, Manager, Global Networks, Recruitment and Emerging Markets Work Streams, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Ms. Andrea Moffat, Senior Director of Corporate Programs, CERES

Mr. Sietze Montijn, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Heineken International B.V.  

Mr. R. N. Mukhija, President (Operations) and Member of the Board, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T)  

Mr. Herman Mulder, GRI Board, NCP-NL Board, Worldconnector, former Director-General ABN AMRO 

Mr. Michael Muyot, President, CRD Analytics  
 
Mr. Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International

Mr. Roel Nieuwenkamp, Director International Trade and Globalization, Ministry of Economic Affairs (The Netherlands), Vice Chair of OECD Investment Committee, GRI Government Advisory Group Member

Mr. Tomasz Noetzel, SRI Equity Research Analyst, Bloomberg

Mr. Are-Jostein Norheim, CSR Ambassador, Section for Economic and Commercial Affairs, Ministry Foreign Affairs Norway

Ms. Dorah Nteo, Chief Director: Planning, Coordination and Information Management, National Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa

Mr. Dumisani Nyoni, Director of Zimele Institute, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) and Member, Earth Charter Initiative Council
 

Prof. Brendan O'Dwyer, Professor of Accounting, University of Amsterdam Business School

Mr. Pedro Ortun, Directorate-General,  Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

Prof. David Owen, Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting, Nottingham Business School, University of Nottingham
 
Ms. Suzanne Pahlman, Innovation Catalyst, Connecore

Mr. Dennis Pamlin
, Global Policy Advisor, WWF 

Mr. Fabian Pattberg, Managing Director at Sustainability Business Limited, 3BL Media

Prof. Karen Paul, Professor Department of Management and International Business, Florida International University

Dr. Paolo Perego, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor Department of Accounting and Control, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University 

Ms. Angeles Pereira, Executive Director, CEDHA

Mr. Luis Perera, Partner, PwC Chile  

Mr. Jason Perks, Group Director, Two Tomorrows

Prof. Francesco Perrini, Professor, Bocconi University (Department of Management)

Mr. Dante Pesce, Founder and Executive Director, Vincular: Centre for CSR

Mr. Yannick Peterschmitt
, Director, Solution Management Sustainability Performance Management, SAP AG  

Ms. Ruth Picker, Global Leader - Global IFRS Services, Ernst & Young

Dr. Jonatan Pinkse, Assistant Professor of Strategy, University of Amsterdam Business
School

Ms. Maria Luiza de Oliveira Pinto e Paiva, Executive Director, Banco Real

Ms. Amanda Plakosh, Global Sustainability Analyst, Lexmark International

Ms. Leontien Plugge, Senior Manager Regional Networks, GRI

Ms. Jennifer Pollard, Sr. Product Manager Microsoft Dynamics. Microsoft Corporation

Ms. Anna Pot, Senior Sustainability Specialist, APG All Pensions Group 

Mr. Patrick Quinlan, CEO, Rivet Software

Mr. Hans Rademaker, Member Management Board, Robeco

Mr. Fernando Ramires
, Owner, Envases Orlandini  

Mr. Curtis Ravenel, Advisory Board, Director of Sustainability, Bloomberg

Mr. Trevor Rees

Mr. Jean-Philippe Renaut, Program Manager, SustainAbility Ltd

Mr. Ben Richards, Lead Researcher Sustainability Reporting, Radley Yeldar

Ms. Julia Robbins, Senior Accountability Associate, Vancity

Ms. Célia Rosemblum, Valor Econômico

Ms. Asthildur Rutten, Learning Services Manager, GRI
 
Mr. Jean Paul Schaay, Deputy Director State-owned Companies, Netherlands Ministry of Finance 

Dr. Dorothea Seebode, Senior Director Sustainability, Philips Research

Mr. Stefan Seidel, Environmental and Social Affairs Manager, EMEA, PUMA  

Mr. Quintas Serrano, Grupo Quintas & Quintas

Ms. Kate Simpson, Impact International

Ms. Anneke Sipkens, CEO, People 4 Earth

Ms. Pauline Skypala, Editor, Financial Times FM

Mr. Martin Smith, CEO, JustMeans 

Mr. Steven Stone, Director, Economics and Trade Branch, Division of Technology, Industry & Economics United Nations Environment Programme

Mr. Jose Figueiredo Soares, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, EDP

Mr. Anders Söderlund, Chief Financial Officer, Systembolaget

Ms. Susanne Stormer,  Vice President, Global TBL Management at Novo Nordisk

Mr. Pavan Sukhdev, Study Leader, TEEB

Dr. Rory Sullivan, Head of Responsible Investment, Insight Investment

Mr. Jim M. Sylph, Executive Director, International Federation of Accountants 

 
Ms. Maria Eugenia Sosa Taborda, Sustainability Superintendent, Itau Unibanco

Mr. Simon Theeuwes, Manager Investor Relations, Corporate Treasury Schiphol Group

Dr. Ian Thomson, Reader at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Strathclyde

Dr. Mike Toffel, Assistant Professor of Business, Harvard Business School

Mr. Fernando Toledo Pierre, HSE Manager, Petrobras Biocombustivel

Mr. Enrique Torres, Training Development Manager, GRI

Ms. Solitaire Townsend, Co-Founder, Futerra
 
Dr. Elizabeth Umlas, Independent Consultant  

Prof. Jeffrey Unerman, Professor of Accounting and Corporate Accountability, Deputy Head of School of Management, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
  
Mr. Roberto S. Waack, Board Member Forest Stewardship Council, AMATA

Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, President, Global Footprint Network (GFN)

Mr. Mike Wallace, Director Sustainability Reporting Framework, GRI

Dr. Stiaan Wandrag, Sustainable Development Manager, Sasol 

Prof. Alyson Warhurst, Chief Executive Officer, Maplecroft  

Mr. Mark Weick, Director of Sustainability Program Management Office and Enterprise Risk Management, The Dow Chemical Company 

Dr. Allen White, Vice President, Tellus Institute, and Former Chief Executive, GRI

Ms. Heather White, President, New Standards


Mr. Hans Wijers, CEO, AkzoNobel

Mr. Jerry Williams, Program Director, Environmental Sustainability,SAS

Ms. Erna Witoelar, Member, Earth Charter International Council  

Mr. Xu Wu, Executive President and Deputy Secretary of China Communist Party Comittee (Guangshou Development Industry (Holdings))

Prof. Xiao Hong Jun, Deputy Director of the Research Center of Management, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  
Mr. David York, Head of Auditing Practice, ACCA

Mrs. Wang Yuan
, Director General, China Development Bank
 
Ms. Jacqueline van Zundert, Associate Corporate Secretary, Royal DSM NV

Ms. Marijke Vos, Former Alderman for the Environment, City of Amsterdam