Meet Our 2020 Speakers

Keynote Address

Ethan Zindler - Head of Americas, Bloomberg NEF

Ethan Zindler is Head of Americas at BloombergNEF, a provider of insight, data and news on energy, advanced transportation, commodities, and emerging technologies. In that capacity, Zindler manages the company’s analyst and commercial teams in New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo. Ethan also oversees Climatescope (www.global-climatescope.org), a project to profile clean energy investment conditions in emerging market countries that has been underwritten by the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the U.K. and U.S. governments.

Zindler serves as BNEF’s primary spokesperson in Washington, has been quoted widely in the media, and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee and other Congressional committees. He is a Senior Associate (non-resident), at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Energy and National Security Program.

Previously, Zindler oversaw BNEF’s coverage of clean energy policy developments globally and served as BNEF’s Head of North American Research. He joined the firm, originally known as New Energy Finance, in 2005.

Zindler’s prior experience includes stints at the White House, MTV, and as a freelance journalist covering two World Cup soccer tournaments. He spent two years reporting on the controversy surrounding the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm for The Cape Cod Times.

Zindler holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Georgetown University. He lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife and two daughters.

 

Mark McDivitt - Global Head of ESG, State Street

Mark McDivitt heads up ESG at State Street focused on data analytics, carbon trading and thought leadership across the firm. He plays an active role on State Street’s Executive Corporate Responsibility Committee constructing environmental attribute portfolios to address State Street’s annual sustainability objectives. He is on the advisory boards of the Cleantech incubator Greentown Labs, CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative and Self Help Africa. Mark is a SASB Alliance member and a First Mover Fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program. Prior to his role leading ESG Solutions, he ran FX Hedge Fund Sales.

Before joining State Street in 2010, Mark was Founder and President of CarbonCCY Management executing environmental attributes on behalf of renewable energy infrastructure companies.

Mark began his career with Fuji Bank in Tokyo, trading interest rate swaps followed by fifteen years with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, Singapore and London as Head of Hedge Fund Sales. In addition, he held an eight year term with AIG and CS in Hedge Fund FX & Derivative Sales.

Mark graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Lawrence University, attended the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan and served as a Captain in the United States Army Reserves.

 

Panel Sessions

The Theories and Practice of ESG

Demystifying ESG Investing: ESG vs Impact Investing

Sophie Purdom is the co-author of Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory in Practice and led the foundation of the Brown University Sustainable Investment Fund, the first ESG fund at a leading university endowment.

Alongside these efforts, she developed and taught a course on sustainable investing. Her book argues pathways for the continued evolution of sustainable investing, with a focus on profit, solutions, and effective partnership across stakeholders.

Sophie consulted at Bain & Company where she focused on private equity diligence. As a Brown alumna, she serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and is a Henry David Thoreau Scholar.

Sophie started a venture capital-backed agricultural technology business that replaces chemical fertilizer with a microbial solution. She has been admitted to Harvard Business School but is deferring in favor of pursuing more entrepreneurial opportunities.

Sophie Purdom - Advisor, Kula Bio

Kelly Ramirez is the CEO of Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG). She teaches/has taught Social Entrepreneurship at RISD, Salve Regina, Providence College, and in the Brown University Leadership Institute Previously, she directed the Social Enterprise Initiative at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She has consulting and project management experience with organizations including Aid to Artisans, the Ford Foundation, the European Commission, USAID, the State Department, and Roche. Kelly also worked as a political analyst for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, an election monitor for the OSCE, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Slovakia. Kelly received MA Degrees in Public Policy and Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, completed a leadership and management program at the Ross School of Business, and a nonprofit management program at the Harvard Business School. She was named a Woman to Watch by the Providence Business News, was a BALLE Fellow, and is a mentor at Year Up. Kelly is the proud mother of three, runs, likes to cook, garden and play the piano. She loves design and is an avid collector of mid century chairs.

Kelly Ramirez - CEO, Social Enterprise Greenhouse

Ben is the team’s healthcare specialist and an ESG expert. Prior to joining RBC GAM in early 2014, he worked with the team at First State for three years. Ben sits in a non-executive advisory capacity for Responsible Investment and ESG for a leading U.K. investment trust. Prior to joining First State, Ben worked at Atlantic Equities where he was responsible for global healthcare research with a special focus on the US. Before that, he was at ABN AMRO where he was recognized with a #1 Thomson Extel rating across all sectors for integrated ESG research. In 2012, Ben won the Starmine award for best stock picker in Healthcare. He has worked in the investment industry since 2001. Ben holds a Master’s in natural science from Cambridge University, where he gained the top first in his year. He also won a scholarship to Harvard University and studied there at post graduate level specializing in behavioral neuroscience. Ben is a CFA Charterholder.

Ben Yeoh, CFA - Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Healthcare, RBC Global Asset Management

Karl Hofmann is the President and CEO of PSI (Population Services International), a non-profit global health organization based in Washington, D.C. PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide, with programs in sexual and reproductive health, malaria, water and sanitation, HIV, and non-communicable diseases.

For over 45 years, PSI has measurably improved the health of people in the developing world, making it easier for them to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire.

After being named President and CEO in 2007, Mr. Hofmann led PSI on its strategic path to double health impact between 2007 and 2011. In 2017 alone, PSI provided over 30.5 million years of healthy life that would have been lost to death or disability (DALYs), provided almost 20 million years of contraceptive protection to couples (CYPs), prevented over 4.87 million unintended pregnancies, over 250 thousand infections of HIV, and over 135 thousand deaths due to malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia.

As PSI looks to the future, the organization will reimagine healthcare to put the consumer at the center and whenever possible bring care to the front door.

Prior to joining PSI, Mr. Hofmann was a career American diplomat for 23 years. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and Deputy Chief of Mission (senior career diplomat) at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France.

Mr. Hofmann is a graduate of Georgetown University and the National Defense University. He is a Director of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a member of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, President of the TB Alliance’s Stakeholder Association and a Director of the Alliance, and a member of the External Board of Advisors of Pennsylvania State University’s School of International Affairs.

Karl Hofmann - CEO, Population Services International

ESG, Fiduciary Duty?

Mr. Keck leads StepStone’s global research activities and the development of SPI. He is also involved in the Firm’s ESG and risk management initiatives.

Prior to co-founding StepStone, Mr. Keck was a managing director at Pacific Corporate Group, a private equity investment firm that oversaw over US$15 billion of private equity commitments for institutional investors. Before that he was a principal with Blue Capital, a middle market buyout firm, and an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Keck graduated cum laude with a BA from the George Washington University and received his MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He served in the US Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, receiving numerous decorations flying EA-6Bs off the USS Nimitz (CVN-68).

Tom Keck - Founder and Partner, StepStone Group

Ari Gabinet has spent more than 30 years in the securities law field as a trial lawyer, senior securities regulator with the SEC, and financial services general counsel. After twenty years with major international law firms, from 2002 to 2005, Gabinet was the head of the SEC’s Philadelphia office, managing a staff of more than 100 lawyers and finance professionals running the Commission’s enforcement and regulatory examination program in the mid-Atlantic region. After leaving the SEC, he spent five years in Vanguard’s legal department, where he was responsible for the areas of securities regulation, broker-dealer, tax, international, and litigation. From 2010 through 2015, he was general counsel of OppenheimerFunds, overseeing the legal, compliance, and internal audit functions. He has been a frequent speaker on issues of securities regulation, leadership and management, and innovation in legal department operations.

Ari Gabinet - Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University and Former Senior Securities Regulator, SE

Peter Dixon is a Partner, Chief Investment Officer and a Portfolio Manager at Howland Capital Management. Peter delivers thoughtful asset allocation solutions, security selection, and financial planning strategies to individuals, families, and foundations. In addition, Peter is responsible for the ESG strategy and research at Howland Capital.

Peter joined Howland Capital in 2018 after working as a Portfolio Manager, Senior Research Analyst and Sector Leader in the equity division at Fidelity Management & Research Co. As a Portfolio Manager for ten years, Peter was sole manager of various mutual funds, most recently overseeing $7.5 billion of assets. As a Research Analyst, Peter covered domestic and international equities for eleven years. As Sector Leader for five years, Peter oversaw a large team of Equity Research Analysts across offices in Boston, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

Peter earned his B.A. with honors from Brown University and his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Board of Trustees for Hebrew SeniorLife, and the Reunion Gift Committee for Brown University’s Annual Fund. Peter is an avid snowboarder and he volunteers as a coach for New England Disabled Sports. He lives in Chestnut Hill with his wife, Rachel, and their two sons.

Peter Dixon - Partner and CIO, Howland Capital

Keith L. Johnson is Chair of the Institutional Investor Services Group at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. and serves as legal counsel to institutional investors globally on fiduciary, investment, governance and litigation matters. He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty, holds the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board’s Level I Credential and was selected by peers as among the Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Governance. He also serves on the Intentional Endowments Network Steering Committee. Mr. Johnson previously served as General Counsel for the Wisconsin public pension fund’s Investment Board, President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys and Program Director for the University of Wisconsin Law School's International Corporate Governance Initiative. .

Keith Johnson - Chairman, Institutional Investors Services Group

ESG Data: Quantifying ESG Performance

Connie currently works as a Research Associate at Preqin, a leading data provider for the alternative assets industry. In her role, she speaks with private equity, private debt and venture capital fund managers in order to gather data and identify the latest trends that shape the alternatives industry. Connie holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Northeastern University. While in college, she served as the President of NUImpact, Northeastern's student-led impact investing initiative. She is also the Marketing Chair of the ESG network Building a Sustainable Investment Community (BASIC NY).

Connie E - Research Associate, Preqin

Prior to joining Arabesque in 2017, Mr. Young was Chief Executive Officer at Eclat Impact in 2016 and Chief Executive Officer and a Partner at Mariner Investment group from 2000-2015. He joined Mariner directly from Goldman Sachs, where he retired as a Partner, after a 20 year career in Fixed Income in New York, Tokyo, and London. He serves as Board Chair of GWAVE, a wave based renewable energy company. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a coeducational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Social Finance, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organisation dedicated to mobilising investment capital to drive social change.

Brace Young - Partner, Arabesque

Matt worked at MSCI ESG Research for nearly ten years, developing the ESG Ratings model used by the largest institutional investors in the world. He chaired the MSCI ESG Research Editorial Committee, sat on the MSCI Research Editorial Board, co-created the MSCI ESG Now podcast, and wrote more than 100 investor papers, industry reports, and profiles in his time at MSCI. He's been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NPR, Pensions and Investments, and other investor and business publications. He routinely lectures at business schools, including past discussions with students at Yale, Brown, University of Massachussetts, and others. Prior to joining MSCI, Matt developed low-carbon investment programs and engaged directly with US pension funds and asset managers managing over USD 10 trillion in assets as a Manager at Ceres, a Boston-based non-profit. Matt also founded a hedge fund with a sustainability and resource scarcity theme before joining Ceres. He is a graduate of Brown University with a concentration in Computers and Music.

Matt Moscardi - CEO, Freefloat Media and Former Executive Director, MSCI

Howard is responsible for sustainable finance projects at the United Nations Global Compact. Most recently, he leads initiatives around financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), working with a diverse group of international companies and investors. He is the primary liaison for collaborations with the UN PRI, the UN Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance, UNDP’s SDG Impact, the Impact Management Project (IMP), and the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. Before joining the UN Global Compact, Howard was a senior finance specialist at World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he managed engagements with the financial sector around environmental risks in commodities and agriculture. He has also previously worked on climate change issues as a technical consultant for development banks, governments, and foundations. Prior to his sustainability work, Howard held roles in multinational corporations including HSBC, Deutsche Borse, and Vodafone. Howard holds a BSc in Economics and Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), an MPP from the Hertie School of Governance, and an MPA from Columbia University.

Howard Li - Manager, UN Global Compact Sustainable Finance Program

The E, The S, and The G

Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability

Deborah Gordon is the former Director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trained as a chemical engineer and policy analyst, Gordon works on global oil and climate change issues. After beginning her career with Chevron, Gordon managed an energy and environmental consulting practice, taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and directed the Energy Policy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Gordon regularly testifies before Congress, collaborates with government agencies, industry, and NGOs, and has served on National Academy of Sciences committees. Gordon’s op eds, articles, and quotes have appeared in The National Interest, The Hill, Pacific Standard, Financial Times, Scientific American, International Economy Magazine, About Oil, Boao Review, Xinghua News, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Time, Washington Post, and New York Times. She has been featured on ABC News, PBS Great Decisions, NPR’s To the Point, E&E TV's On Point.

Deborah Gordon - Senior Fellow, Watson Institute

Kayalin Akens-Irby is a Senior Associate at Malk Partners.

Kayalin joined Malk in 2018. She has assisted on over 50 transactions spanning an array of industries including information technology, manufacturing, consumer goods, healthcare and financial services. Major projects Kayalin has supported include venture capital investment in an EU-based open banking platform, growth stage investment in a healthcare technology provider disrupting the orthodontics industry, investment in a global pharmaceuticals, biologics, and consumer health products developer, development of an ESG policy and LP-facing fundraising communications for a leading manufacturing-focused GP.

Kayalin holds a B.A. in Environment, Economics, and Politics from Claremont McKenna College where she was a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Interdisciplinary Science Scholar.

Kayalin Akens-Irby - Senior Associate, Malk Partners

Riddhima is part of Goldman Sachs' Sustainable Finance Group, a team that is at the center of driving the firm's initiatives on climate transition and inclusive growth. Her work at Goldman comes on the back of extensive experience on the topic bringing together the public and private sector to affect change. She has worked for the United Nations, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, Poverty Action Lab at MIT and most recently for former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, on climate policy.

Riddhima holds a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University. She is additionally a member of the Leaders Forum of The Global Education and Leadership Foundation and has been recognized for her work by UN Women, Mary Robinson Foundation, The Aspen Institute and Sanctuary Asia.

Riddhima Yadav - Analyst, Goldman Sachs Sustainable Finance Group

Holly Moynahan is a Senior Consultant in Ernst & Young’s (EY) Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) practice. CCaSS provides Climate Change, Sustainability Advice and Assurance, non-Financial Reporting, Impact and Outcomes Measurement, Human Rights, and Health, Safety, and Environment services that help clients build more sustainable and profitable enterprises by addressing their environmental and social challenges.

Holly specializes in CCaSS' Climate Change, Sustainability Advisory, and non-Financial Reporting services, with particular focus on environment, social, and governance strategy and communication.

Prior to EY, Holly was a sustainability consultant at Sustainserv Inc/GmbH, a boutique sustainability consultancy based in Boston, MA and Zurich, Switzerland. She joined Sustainserv after receiving her Bachelors degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in Economics from Colorado College.

Together with her team and her clients, Holly creates solutions that: reduce environmental impact, mitigate risk in the business and supply chain, attract and retain talent, catalyze innovation, enhance social impact, engage stakeholders, communicate initiatives, and above all: support responsible growth.

Holly Moynahan - Senior Consultant, EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services

Global Supply Chain Management in the ESG World

 

Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. She is the author of New York Times best-seller, Being Catholic Now ( Random House 2005), Speak Truth to Power ( Random House 2000) and Robert F. Kennedy; Ripples of Hope ( Hachette 2018).

For more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She has worked on a range of issues, including children’s rights, child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, impunity, and the environment. She has concentrated specifically on women’s rights, exposing injustices and educating audiences about women’s issues, particularly honor killings, sexual slavery, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, sexual assault, abuse of prisoners, and more. She has led hundreds of human rights delegations.

At a time of diminished idealism and growing cynicism about public service, her life and lectures are testaments to the commitment to the basic values of human rights.

Under Ms. Kennedy's leadership, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights partners with the bravest people on earth to create lasting change. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supports defenders in the field with advocacy, litigation, and training; brings human rights to students in the classroom with its innovative Speak Truth To Power curriculum; and engages the financial community about sustainable investing and the intersection between business and human rights.

She appears regularly on ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countries around the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, Corriere della Sera The Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Daily News, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Marie Claire, The New York Times, Newsday, El Pais, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others.

Ms. Kennedy served as Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council for over a decade. Nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate, she serves on the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace, Human Rights First, the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Laureate and Leaders, Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), and Sustainable Development Goals- Africa, SDGUSA, and HealthEVillages, as well as RFKHR – UK, RFK HR-Italia and RFKHR- Suisse. She is on the Advisory Committee for the Association of American Indian Affairs, the Global Youth Action Network, the Albert Schweitzer Institute, Sankofa, San Patrignano, and the Center for Victims of Torture.

Ms. Kennedy received high honors from President Lech Walesa of Poland for aiding the Solidarity movement, The Humanitarian award from the Congress of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and many other honors.

Ms. Kennedy has served in numerous political campaigns, and she is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. She is a graduate of Brown University and Boston College Law School, and she holds honorary doctorates of law from Le Moyne College, University of San Francisco Law School, and University of New Caledonia, and honorary doctorates of Humane Letters from Bay Path College and the Albany College of Pharmacy.

Ms. Kennedy is the mother of three daughters, Cara, Mariah, and Michaela.

Kerry Kennedy - President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Antonio Galvao Costa is chief supply chain officer for DuBois Chemicals. He has more than 28 years of experience encompassing planning, logistics, sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, product portfolio management and marketing operations. In addition, Galvao Costa has a proven track record of managerial success in generating multimillion-dollar cost savings and double-digit percentage improvements in both customer service levels and productivity. He has lived and worked in Brazil, England, the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands, leading local, regional and global teams. Galvao Costa has a degree in production engineering and an MBA from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been the author of the “Working Green” department in SCM Now (previously APICS magazine) since July 2008 and has presented at several conferences and seminars across the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He previously served on the APICS Supply Chain Council board of directors.

Antonio Galvão Costa - Chairman of the Board, Association for Supply Chain Management

Julia Morello is a senior ESG research analyst and ESG research director for the Americas at MSCI. Julia leads research for the Biopharma and Tobacco industries at MSCI ESG Research, where she is responsible for the development of ratings methodology and thematic research in these industries along with select investment content projects. Based in Boston, Julia joined MSCI in 2009 and holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and pharmaceutical assessment from Boston University School of Public Health and a B.A. in Chemistry from Skidmore College. Julia’s research at Skidmore focused on the synthesis of small organic molecules with an emphasis on tandem intramolecular Diels-Alder (TIMDA) chemistry. Prior to joining MSCI, she coordinated the World Medicines Situation report in the Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies division at the World Health Organization Headquarters.

Julia Giguere-Morello - Vice President, MSCI

 

Corporate Governance

 

As Rhode Island’s General Treasurer, Seth Magaziner is committed to promoting economic growth and expanding opportunity through honest, effective leadership.

Seth was born in Bristol, Rhode Island and began his career as a public elementary school teacher and later as an investment professional, before taking office as General Treasurer in 2015.

Seth’s priority as Treasurer is strengthening the economy and putting Rhode Islanders to work. Seth launched the BankLOCAL program, which has helped hundreds of Rhode Island small businesses get access to the capital they need to grow and expand, by moving millions of dollars of the state’s cash to local community banks and credit unions.

Seth also successfully championed the expansion of the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy projects across the state, putting hundreds of tradesmen and women to work while reducing the state’s carbon footprint.

As co-chair of the Rhode Island School Building Task Force, Seth worked to develop a once-in-a generation plan to repair Rhode Island’s crumbling public school buildings, because all students deserve to attend schools that are safe, warm, dry and equipped for twenty-first century learning. This plan was approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 and is already funding school repairs across the state.

Seth Magaziner - General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island

Alicia Ritcey is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) analyst with a specialty in corporate governance at Bloomberg. She was also a reporter and editor at Bloomberg News covering executive compensation, corporate governance and ESG issues, in addition to managing an executive compensation data collection tool. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was a research analyst at the proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. Alicia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria and a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Queen’s University.

Alicia Ritcey - ESG Analyst, Bloomberg LP

Andrew Droste is a board advisory specialist at Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) within the firm's Board and CEO Advisory Partners practice. Prior to RRA, Andrew led Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) engagement, research and risk analyses for BNY Mellon’s Proxy Voting and Governance Committee. Andrew began his career as an ESG analyst at Nuveen on their Responsible Investing Team. He is also treasurer and member of the board at Speak For The Trees, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in the greater Boston area.

Andrew Droste - Board Advisory Specialist, Russell Reynolds Associates

 

ESG Strategies in Emerging Markets

Asia

 

Cary is Lecturer in the Practice of Management, fall 2017 at the Yale School of Management and Lecturer and Faculty Adviser, Yale College on Energy Studies, Climate and Investing, having previously taught Yale College Seminars on Business, Innovation and Sustainability.

He also teaches the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Investing at Brown University, helping support the Sustainable Investment Fund within the Brown Endowment, and has been an MBA Lecturer at Concordia and Maryland and helped lead and design the RFK Sustainable Investing program at Columbia's Earth Institute.

Books include Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017), a look at the present and future of investing where financial success requires a sustainability focus, and at the same time, desired outcomes require a business case, following two previous books with Nick Robins among other leading contributors.

He is also Senior Advisor to BlueSky Investment Management, Principal at NPV Associates, Co-founder and Director of Real Impact Tracker and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, and Editor of the Journal of Environmental Investing, now in its 8th year. The next issue and a related symposium on The State of ESG Data and Metrics are being guest edited and hosted at Yale on September 21-22, 2017.

He also co-created Systems Finance at Yale in 2016, led a Working Group in 2015 for the Principles for Responsible Investment developing its Climate Change Asset Owner Strategy framework and advised to the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System authoring papers that include The Value of Everything among other papers following earlier careers in environmental and institutional investment analytics and technology.

Cary Krosinsky - Professor, Yale School of Management

Mathias Lund Larsen is the Director of International Cooperation at the International Institute of Green Finance – a Beijing based Chinese think tank. He simultaneously holds roles as consultant to UN-Habitat, UNESCAP, and GIZ. His research focuses on green finance in China and in a global context, as well as links between the two. He has spent more than a decade working on the intersection between China, sustainability, and economics, and speaks fluent Chinese. More specifically, his key areas of research include green bonds, multilateral development banks, sustainable infrastructure financing, and greening the Belt and Road Initiative.

Having worked for UN-Habitat in Nairobi and the UN Global Compact in New York, Mathias has a professional background in making the economy work towards sustainability issues. He has an interdisciplinary academic background across the fields of economics, business, politics, and law, holding a double master in international business & politics (CEMS) from Copenhagen Business School, Warsaw School of Economics, and Rotterdam School of Management, as well as a double master in international development and law from Sciences Po Paris and Peking University. He has authored numerous articles, reports, and book chapters published by the UN, financial institutions, and academic journals, and is a frequent speaker on green finance in China across Asia, Europe, and North America

Mathias Lund Larsen - Director of International Cooperation, International Institute of Green Finance

François Perrin is Head of Asia and advises on the China strategies and sustainability. He leads the China team. François joined East Capital in 2015 as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to East Capital, he was Head of Greater China Equities and Asian SRI Equities at BNP Paribas Investment Partners Asia in Hong Kong, Senior Portfolio Manager at Fortis Investments in Frankfurt am Main, Portfolio Manager at Lombard Odier in Geneva, Manager at Suez and Auditor at KPMG in Paris. He has been working with green finance since 1999 and pioneered environmental strategies for China.

François holds a PhD in Finance from Grenoble University, a post-graduate diploma from EM Lyon/IAE Lyon and an MA in Economics from Sorbonne University in Paris. He speaks French, English and German.

Francois Perrin - Head of Asia, East Capital

 

Africa

 

Binta P. Mamadou is a senior associate in the New York office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group. Binta’s experience includes advising project sponsors and financial institutions, including commercial lenders and development banks, in a range of cross-border transactions in various countries in the Americas, Europe and Africa in connection with the acquisition, development, structuring and financing of energy and infrastructure projects. Her publications include: (1) “On the path of reform…Linklaters looks at Morocco and on how it is attracting private investment through innovative legal reforms and public-private partnerships” (co-authored with M. Barges and P. Lignières), The Oath – The Middle East Law Journal for Corporates and (2) “The Journey to a Virtual African Identity: Did ICANN Correctly Deny the African Union’s Request to Include dot Africa on the ‘Reserved Names List’?”, ABA International Law News.

In 2019, Binta was named to the National Black Lawyers’ Top 40 under 40. She received her J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law and B.S.F.S. in International Economics: Economic Growth, Transition, and Development from Georgetown University. She is a member of the New York Bar and the Paris Bar (Barreau de Paris) (inactive status), and is fluent in French and Zarma.

Binta Mamadou - Associate, Milbank

Kalie Gold '08 majored at Brown in International Relations, and has an MS from Brandeis University in Strategic Analytics. She currently is COO for Pula Advisors, an insurance technology startup headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Previous to her role at Pula, she served as Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for One Acre fund in several African markets including Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Kalie considers her greatest skill simply "being pragmatic."

Kalie Gold - COO, Pula

Femi has a first-class Master of Engineering from Oxford University where he published in Quantum Physics and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied as a Thouron Scholar. Femi is a British-Nigerian born in Togo and has also lived and worked in Rwanda and Tanzania. Prior to joining CrossBoundary, Femi worked in The Boston Consulting Group’s Energy and Industrial Goods practices where he managed cross-functional teams in the implementation of priority growth initiatives in the US, Africa and Latin America. Femi has also worked in two early stage energy ventures including One Degree Solar and Rare Energy, a UK-based recruitment firm which he co-founded in 2011. Femi is the Head of Business Development for CrossBoundary Energy and is based in CrossBoundary’s Nairobi office.

Femi Fadugba - Head of Business Development, CrossBoundary Energy

 

Latin America

Peter is a key member of the investment team, responsible for implementing and managing all ESG and impact related activities for the firm. Peter has spent his career in the emerging market investment industry, including prior experiences as an ESG and Impact Officer and Analyst at TriLinc. Prior to returning to TriLinc in August, 2019, Peter worked as a Country Manager for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and was responsible for developing and managing the agency’s infrastructure project portfolio in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Early in his career, Peter consulted for the Bogota, Colombia-based conservation trust fund, Fondo Accion, and worked for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), where he primarily supported the ESG and impact due diligence and monitoring efforts of OPIC’s Investment Funds Department. Peter Holds an MBA from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, a MPIA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BA in International Studies and Spanish from the University of Minnesota.

Peter Greenwood - Director of ESG & Impact, TriLinc Global

Patrícia Genelhú is responsible for Impact Investing products structuring in BTG Pactual and is based in São Paulo. Ms Genelhú has 11+ years of experience in the financial markets and joined BTG Pactual in 2012. Prior to contributing to creating the Impact Investing division in 2020, she acquired a solid background on Alternative Investments, having held positions in Illiquid Asset Management (focused on Real Estate Development and Timberland Acquisitions & Dispositions in Latin America) and in Corporate Lending (focused on Agribusiness & Food Credit Risk). Ms Genelhú holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and is an associate member of IFL-SP, a Brazilian think tank focused on leadership development based on individual liberty and free markets.

Patrícia Genelhú - Head of Impact Investing, BTG Pactual

Partner and co-founder of Vox Capital, Brazil’s first impact investing venture capital firm, focused on high potential businesses serving the Brazilian low income population through products and services with the potential to improve their lives. Vox Capital has been recently featured on a Harvard Business School business case: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52183

Daniel has over 20 years of experience in marketing, business development and start-up investment. He has been working with the Brazilian low income population since 2007. Daniel has an MBA with high distinction from HEC Montreal and a BA from EAESP/FGV in Brazil. He is a board member for several companies, leader of the ANDE Brazilian Chapter, a World Young Leader by the BMW Foundation and a Professor at the Impact Investing Executive Program at Said Business School, in Oxford.

Daniel Izzo - Co-Founder and CEO, VOX Capital

Alexandre Gazzotti is the ESG analyst at Itaú Asset Management. With more than 10 year of experience in capital markets, Alexandre is responsible for integrating ESG into equities and credit strategies at Itaú Asset Management since 2014. Alexandre begun its career performing Equator Principles due diligences for Unibanco in 2006.


Alexandre Gazzotti - ESG Analyst, Itaú Asset Management