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Rosina M. Bierbaum
Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, University of Michigan
Dr. Bierbaum was selected by the World Bank to co-direct the World Development Report 2010, an annual publication that focuses on a different topic each year and aims both to consolidate existing knowledge on a particular aspect of development and to stimulate debate on new directions for development policy.
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Abby Joseph Cohen
President, Global Markets Institute, Senior Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs
Abby is the president of the Global Markets Institute and senior investment strategist. She serves on the firm’s US Retirement Investment Committee and has served on the Partnership Committee. Abby joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 and was named partner in 1998. Prior to joining the firm, Abby specialized in quantitative strategy and economics at other major financial firms. She began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC.
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Janet Cowell
North Carolina State Treasurer
Treasurer Cowell oversees nearly $74 billion in pension fund investments for the 850,000 teachers, firefighters, and public employees of North Carolina. Under her executive leadership as Treasurer, the state has maintained a triple-A Bond rating for strong financial and debt management practices, and is recognized as one of only seven states to earn the rating by the three major credit rating agencies. In addition, North Carolina has outperformed the national average for public pension funds by 32%, ranking 2nd in the United States by Standard and Poor’s in 2009.
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Thomas P. DiNapoli
New York State Comptroller
State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli was elected to a full four-year term as New York State Comptroller in November 2010. Since first taking the position in February 2007, DiNapoli has transformed the way his office does business, instilling reforms to make government more effective, efficient and ethical. He has pushed for increased transparency and accountability in government, and identified billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
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Jack Ehnes
Chief Executive Officer, California State Teachers' Retirement System
Mr. Ehnes provides leadership for the largest teacher pension fund in the nation, which serves more than 850,000 members and benefit recipients with an operating budget of approximately $163 million and 900 employees. The asset value of the investment portfolio is $154.3 billion as of June 30, 2011.
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Christopher Flensborg
Head of Sustainable Products and Product Development, SEB
Christopher is the Head of Sustainable Products and Product Development at SEB where he is employed since 2003. As co-developer (together with The World Bank) and instigator of Green Bonds, he has developed concepts and mechanisms to make investors able to address climate investments in their mainstream portfolios.
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Bill Green
Senior Managing Director, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA)
With more than 20 years of investment and management experience in renewable energy and related sectors, Mr. Green serves as Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), where he is leading the expansion of the firm’s North America renewable energy infrastructure team.
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Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Chairman, Bank of America Corporation
Chad Holliday is the Chairman of the Board for Bank of America Corporation, and is the former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont from 1998–2008. Under his direction, DuPont established its mission to achieve sustainable growth: increasing shareholder and societal value while decreasing the company’s environmental footprint.
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Zoe Knight
Director, Climate Change Strategy, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC
Zoe Knight joined HSBC in 2010 as a senior analyst. She has been an investment analyst at global financial institutions since 1997, initially focusing on Pan European small-cap strategy and subsequently moving into socially responsible investing, covering climate change issues. Throughout her career she has been ranked in Extel and II. She holds a BSc (Hons) Economics from the University of Bath.
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Nancy K. Kopp
Maryland State Treasurer
Originally elected in February 2002, and re-elected to full four-year terms in 2003, 2007, and 2011, Nancy K. Kopp is the 23rd Maryland State Treasurer since the adoption of the Constitution of 1851. She is the second woman ever to serve as Maryland’s State Treasurer and is the only woman serving Maryland in a Constitutional Office. In addition to her responsibilities for managing the Office of State Treasurer and its Divisions, as a Constitutional Officer and a representative of the General Assembly, the Treasurer holds positions of leadership on a number of key State finance planning committees.
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Roelfien Kuijpers
Global Head, DB Advisors, Deutsche Asset Management
Roelfien Kuijpers joined Deutsche with 10 years of industry experience. Roelfien leads a global business that manages assets for institutional investors worldwide, including pension funds, corporations, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. Prior to that, Roelfien was the Global Head of Strategic Planning, Communications & Marketing for DeAM, a role she earlier held in Global Equities.
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John C. Liu
New York City Comptroller
New York City Comptroller John C. Liu serves as the 43rd Comptroller of the City of New York, independently elected and sworn into office on January 1, 2010 to protect and enhance the fiscal health of New York. In his first two years as the City’s Chief Financial Officer, John Liu has sharpened the tools of the Comptroller’s Office to make government more efficient and accountable. Liu serves as trustee to four of the five New York City Public Pension Funds and investment advisor to, and custodian of, all five Funds, among his other duties as Comptroller.
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Mindy S. Lubber
President, Ceres and Director, Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR)
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, an organization that advocates for sustainability leadership. Ceres brings together a powerful network of companies, investors and public advocacy groups to expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy economy. Mindy also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a group of more than 100 institutional investors managing $10 trillion in assets focused on the business risks and opportunities of climate change.
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Donald MacDonald
Director of the Trustee Board, BT Pension Scheme, Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Donald MacDonald is a member nominated Director of the Trustee Board of the BT Pension Scheme and Chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), a European based investor forum for collaboration on climate change. BTPS, a defined benefit (final salary) scheme, is the UK’s largest corporate occupational pension fund, with around 330,000 members, of whom over half are current pensioners. BTPS is a member of the IIGCC which seeks to engage with policymakers, companies and investors on addressing long-term risks and opportunities associated with climate change. Prior to taking on his present role with IIGCC, Donald was Chair of the Principles for Responsible Investment for four years.
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Rob McCord
Pennsylvania State Treasurer
Rob McCord, Pennsylvania State Treasurer and respected business leader and entrepreneur, took office as the 45th Treasurer of Pennsylvania on January 20, 2009. Today, as chief executive of the Pennsylvania Treasury Department, Treasurer McCord helps invest more than $80 billion per year, and he oversees a broad variety of operations designed to improve the economic security of Pennsylvanians.
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Denise L. Nappier
Connecticut State Treasurer
Denise L. Nappier is the first African-American woman elected to serve as a State Treasurer in the United States, and the first African-American woman elected to statewide office in Connecticut. Elected in 1998, and re-elected in 2002, 2006, and 2010, Ms. Nappier is also the only woman to be elected Treasurer in Connecticut history. As Connecticut’s chief elected financial officer, she oversees $50 billion in state assets, including the $23.8 billion Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds. Treasurer Nappier serves on several boards, including the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority, the first state-established green bank created to invest in clean energy and energy efficiency projects.
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Robert C. Orr
Assistant Secretary General, United Nations
Dr. Robert C. Orr has served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General since 2004. His responsibilities include running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee and serving as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary-General on climate change, food security, global health, counter-terrorism and the UN reform agenda.
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Sally Osberg
President, Chief Executive Officer, The Skoll Foundation
Sally Osberg is President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation. Named one of the “Millennium 100” for her role in shaping and leading Silicon Valley, she is a change agent and champion of social entrepreneurs and other innovators working to solve the world’s most pressing problems. With Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll, she has headed the Skoll Foundation’s team since its inception, identifying and supporting innovators pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges.
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Kevin Parker
Global Head, Deutsche Asset Management
Kevin Parker is a member of the Group Executive Committee and the Global Head of Deutsche Asset Management, reporting to Josef Ackermann, the Chairman of the Group Executive Committee and Spokesman of the Managing Board: New York.
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Roland Rich
Officer-in-Charge, United Nations Office for Partnerships
Mr. Roland Rich, an Australian national, is Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), a United Nations General Trust Fund, with the primary purpose of supporting democratization around the world. Mr. Rich brings to the job more than 30 years of experience as a diplomat, a scholar and a democracy promotion practitioner.
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Theodore Roosevelt IV
Managing Director, Investment Banking, Barclay’s Capital
Theodore Roosevelt IV is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Barclays Capital, based in New York. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the firm’s Clean Tech Initiative. Mr. Roosevelt joined Barclays Capital when it acquired the North American assets of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. He started work with Lehman in 1972 as a general banker in domestic corporate finance. He was named a Managing Director in 1984, and, in January 1991 he was asked to focus on the development of the firm’s international business. In February 2007, he was appointed Chairman of Lehman Brothers’ Council on Climate Change.
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Anne Stausboll
Chief Executive Officer, California Public Employees' Retirement System
Anne Stausboll became Chief Executive Officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System in January 2009. She is the eighth CEO and first woman to head the Fund. Ms. Stausboll oversees 2,300 employees, a $332 million budget, and programs that include investments, health and retirement benefits administration. She served as CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer from 2004–2008.
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Andrew Steer
Special Envoy, Climate Change, The World Bank
Dr. Steer became Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank in July 2010. As such, he is responsible for guiding the Bank Group’s work on climate change (now in over 130 countries), and for advancing a strong pro-development climate agenda internationally. In his post, which ranks at the level of Vice President, he will also oversee the $6.5 billion dollar Climate Investment Funds and help mobilize climate financing.
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Richard L. Trumka
President, AFL-CIO
Under Richard L. Trumka’s leadership, the AFL-CIO Capital Stewardship Program has promoted corporate governance reform, investment manager accountability, pro-worker investment strategies, international pension fund cooperation and trustee education and support. Trumka has been a key part of White House economic initiatives, starting in 1993, when President Clinton established the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and nominated Trumka to be a member of the commission.
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Mark Vachon
Vice President, GE ecomagination
Mark Vachon, a 29-year GE veteran and Corporate Officer and member of GE’s Corporate Executive Council, leads ecomagination, GE’s business strategy that has invested $5 billion in clean tech research and development and generated $85 billion in revenues through 2010.
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Daniel Wild
Head of Research and Member of the Executive Committee, Sustainable Asset Management
Daniel Wild, Swiss, Head Research and member of the Executive Committee, joined Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) in 2006. As Sector Head of Industrials, he was in charge of research for the SAM SustainableWater Fund.
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Timothy E. Wirth
President, United Nations Foundation
Timothy E. Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund. He began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration. Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 where he focused on environmental issues, particularly global climate change and population stabilization.
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Ethan Zindler
Head of Policy Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Ethan Zindler is charged with managing and expanding BNEF’s coverage of key policy developments globally impacting renewables, biofuels, and energy efficiency. He is also specifically tasked with managing the company’s research efforts in the Americas.
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