The Investor Water Toolkit was developed in collaboration with more than 40 institutional investors from across the globe and is the ultimate resource on water integration written for investors by investors.

Investor Contributors

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Kees Ouboter

ACTIAM

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Kristel Verhoef

ACTIAM

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Wood Turner

Agriculture Capital

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Emma Lupton

BMO Global Asset Management

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Robert Fernandez

Breckinridge Capital Advisors

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Kevin Lehman

Breckinridge Capital Advisors

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Andrew Teras

Breckinridge Capital Advisors

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Amy Hauter

Brown Advisory

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J. Michael Reinoso

Castleton Partners

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Stephen Kibsey

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

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Marcela Pinilla

Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS)

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Mounir Ennenbach

Citi

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Courtney Lowrance

formerly Citi (currently Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)

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Patricia M. Healy

Cumberland Advisors

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Lydia Miller

Dana Investment Advisors

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Jason Scott

Encourage Capital

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Heather Keough

formerly Goldman Sachs Asset Management (current Leaders Arena)

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Marissa LaFave

Green Century Capital Management

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Ken Locklin

Impax Asset Management

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Nadira Narine

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)

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Steven Lydenberg

The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) and Domini Impact Investments

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William Boardman

KBI Global Investors

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Matthew Sheldon

KBI Global Investors

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Sue Yang

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets

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Mary Minette

Mercy Investment Services

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D. Matthew Coleman

Nephila Advisors LLC

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Isabelle Juillard Thompsen, CFA

formerly Norges Bank Investment Management (current Gjensidigestiftelsen)

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Sarah Wilson

Nuveen, a TIAA Company

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Jessica Hans

Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the Regents, University of California

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Deborah Ng

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

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Jean Lavigueur

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

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Jon M. Jensen

Park Foundation

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Piet Klop

PGGM Investments

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Hugh Brown

The State Board of Administration of Florida

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Rakhi Kumar

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)

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Michael Younis

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)

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Bruce M. Kahn

Sustainable Insights Capital Management

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Anne Amanda Bangasser

Treehouse Investments LLC

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Mary Beth Gallagher

Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment

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Carly Greenberg

Walden Asset Management

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Marc Robert

Water Asset Management

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David Pereira

XEM Group

 

We are also particularly grateful to the many other stakeholders who contributed in the development, reviewed the Toolkit, or completed our survey of water datasets, tools and maps: 

Dr. Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan and CEO, Equarius Risk Analytics LLC
Libby Bernick and Narottama Bowden, Trucost, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Michelle Bonat, Data Simply, Inc.
Dr. Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Daniel Carreira, Natural Capital Finance Alliance
Christina Copeland and Cate Lamb, CDP Water
Gregory Elders and Lenora Suki, Bloomberg
Gemma James and Justin Sloggett, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Tytti Kaasinen, Global Engagement Services International (GES) 
Nadja Kunz, Liu Institute for Global Issues and NBK Institute of Mining Engineering, The University of British Columbia
Dr. Upmanu Lall, Columbia Water Center, Columbia University
Glen Low and Michelle Lapinski, The Earth Genome Project
Danny D. Marques and Cainaan Lacy, FactSet Research Systems
John H. Matthews, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) 
Alexis Morgan and Aaron Vermeulen, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 
Mike Myatt, Resource Legacy Fund
Paul Reig, World Resource Institute, Aqueduct Program (WRI)
Mary Ruckelshaus and Adrian L. Vogl, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University
Emilio Tenuta, Ecolab (Water Risk Monetizer)

While Investor Water Hub members and other Toolkit partners were affiliated with the above named organizations at the time of tool development, some have since moved to other institutions. The opinions expressed in the Toolkit are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors or investor contributors. 

Ceres
Monika Freyman, Siobhan Collins, Lital Kroll

Additionally, we want to thank our Ceres colleagues who provided thoughtful contributions, feedback and tireless editing including Brooke Barton, Eliza Roberts, Anisha Anantapadmanabhan, Meg Wilcox, Nathalie Wallace, Peter Ellsworth, Kristen Snow Spaulding, Ravi Varghese, Chris Davis, Rebecca Bar, Lindsey White, Tessa Castellani, Brian Sant and Gracie Villa. We would like to acknowledge our interns Dan Peckham and Elizabeth Glivinski for their work on datasets and content.   

We would like to give a special thanks to Sakis Kotsantonis of KKS Advisors who worked tirelessly with Ceres throughout the development of the Toolkit and his colleagues Sophie Lawrence and Thomas Cobti. We would also like to thank Dr. Peter Adriaens of the University of Michigan for support on researching metrics, maps and tools, as well as Jackie Cook of FundVotes who provided analysis on shareholder resolution, proxy voting and mutual fund trends. We are also grateful for SASB’s support of this work and their assistance in studying water risks by sector and industry. We in particular are grateful for Levis Stewart and Henrik Cotran for their engagement on this project. 

The Investor Water Toolkit was made possible with financial support from Generation Foundation, Park Foundation, Pisces Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation. 

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