Impact Transparency

Current CEO GST Financial Group. Previously President of Aerolineas Argentina and President of GM Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Developed most of her career at GM Brazil and the US. Board member at Bladex, IRSA, and San Miguel and member of the Food Bank and CIPPEC councils. Author of the best seller “Un Lider en Vos”. In 2013 recognized by Fortune magazine among the 50 most powerful women in LA. In 2021, by Bloomberg as one of the most influential business leader in LA. Recognized in 2016, 2019 and 2020 with the Merco award for business reputation in Argentina. Received recognitions for CEO of the year by PwC in 2015 and EY in 2017. Distinguished by Konex for Industry Leaders. Received the Order of Rio Branco by the Brazilian Embassy in Argentina. Brazilian and Argentinean with a BS in Communications at PUC Brazil and an MBA at Loyola Chicago.

John W.H. Denton AO is the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He is a global business leader, international advisor on policy and a legal expert on international trade and investment.

He serves as Board member of the UN Global Compact, Founding Member of the Business 20 (B20), and Co-Chair of Italy B20 working group on Finance and Infrastructure. He is Co-Founder of the Australia–China CEO Roundtable and Patron of UNHCR in Australia.

Board member of the IFM Global Investors - a global institutional investment manager, John is also Chair of the Asia Pacific advisory board of Veracity, a global advisory group based in New York, and Chair of the Moeller Institute advisory board at the University of Cambridge.

He also serves on the Boards of the UNDP (New York) impact investing steering group, and of UNICEF’s global education initiative: GenU. He joined the Advisory Board of the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB) and the G7 Working Group on Impact Investment.

Karen joined Bridgewater in 2006. As Co-Chief Investment Officer for Sustainability, she leads the design and oversight of new investment solutions with both financial and sustainability objectives. Karen is also member of Bridgewater’s Investment Committee, co-chairs the firm’s Sustainable Investing Committee, and a Partner. She has 15 years experience developing systematic insights on global markets and overseeing Bridgewater’s investment logic and portfolio construction, and previously headed Bridgewater’s Investment Research function. Karen received her AB from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs with a Certificate in Finance. She serves on the boards of the Truman Center for National Policy and Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit cultivating young leaders to transform conflict in the Middle East and South Asia. Karen is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was included in Fortune’s "40 Under 40" most influential leaders in business in 2019, and has been named to Barron's list of "Most Influential Women in US Finance" for two years in a row.

Karen is the Founder of GV Partners and an expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and finance, working with private sector firms, international organizations, foundations and universities. Among other mandates, Karen has been working with the OECD since 2009 focused on impact investment, sustainable finance, impact measurement, entrepreneurial finance and the role of private finance for sustainable development. Most recently, she has been leading the OECD’s engagement in an international collaboration on impact measurement and management in collaboration with the Impact Management Project (IMP) Structured Network. She serves on a number of boards and is also an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University, a Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and teaches at other universities. She received, with honors, a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kyung-Ah is the Managing Director of ESG Investment Management at Temasek, where she leads ESG integration across Temasek’s global investments and works closely with teams to advance ESG related investments, partner with portfolio companies, and drive long-term sustainable value across the portfolio.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the investment banking industry, majority of which has been dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs and scaling financial solutions to address climate change. Most recently, she was a Managing Director and the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation in the Sustainable Finance Group. She also served as a member of the firm’s Sustainable Finance Steering Group and was the head of the Center for Environmental Markets. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a management consultant at McKinsey in Seoul, Korea and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University. She serves on the boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Resources for the Future.

Liza is the Chief Operating Officer for PwC Australia and a member of the firm’s Executive. She is also a director of PwC's Consulting (ASEANZ) Board and Chair of PwC’s Services Trust. Liza is PwC’s Net Zero leader and executive sponsor of its Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) advisory and assurance client offerings. Liza leads PwC’s core business enabling functions and is responsible for the firm’s ESG strategy and external sustainability reporting and commitment to Net Zero by 2030.

Liza has over 27 years’ professional expertise in risk, governance and sustainability and is an advisor and assurance provider to senior management and boards in ESG across a range of industry sectors.

Liza is an engineer with post-graduate qualifications in energy and resources law, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer and a senior fellow of the Melbourne School of Engineering. Liza also holds a range of external board and advisory roles, supporting organisations to build trust in society and solve important problems.

Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at the London Business School, non-executive director of AGEAS Insurance Group, sits on the Board of Morgan Stanley International and its German subsidiary and is a Trustee of IFRS.  She is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association.

Reichlin has been an active contributor to Centre for Economic Policy Research. She was research director in 2011-2013, first Chairman of the CEPR Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee, co-founder and scientist in charge of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, and is now a trustee.

Reichlin has published numerous papers on econometrics and macroeconomics. She is an expert on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy. She pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world.

Maha joined BNP Paribas in 2006 as a Risk officer, after two brief international experiences, Microfinance at the WorldBank and Export finance in Brazil, and a four-year auditing experience at Deloitte.

As Head of Social Business & Microfinance since 2012, she created dedicated framework and strategy for Social Enterprises, implementing specific credit policies, impact measurement, and developing new products and services such as Impact Bonds. After designing and structuring the very first French SIB for Adie (job reintegration in rural areas), she structured various other SIBs in France, Belgium and the US. In 2020, Maha launched with the EIF a dedicated fund to invest in Impact Bonds in the EU.

Recently appointed Head of BNP Paribas’ Positive Impact Business Accelerator, Maha and her team continues to design and structure impact bonds on various social, environmental or development issues, and also coordinates the impact investing strategy and implementation within the Group.

Maria is an Industrial Engineer with academic excellence from Universidad Iberoamericana
and has a Master's degree in Business Management with concentration in Finance from
Harvard. She spent her entire professional life in the private equity sector, holding
positions such as: CEO of the Mexican Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(AMEXCAP); Partner at Ictus Capital; and as associate at the NAFTA Fund LLC. Actually,
she performs as CEO at Bolsa Institutional de Valores (BIVA), a global electronic
marketplace for buying and selling securities, created with the aim of deepening the
Mexican stock market and generating a competitive financing alternative for high growth
companies. Additionally, she serves as an independent member and partner of various
boards.

María's career has been recognized with an award from the Women Economic Forum, from
the International Entrepreneurs Council, and in publications such as Expansión, Forbes,
Líderes, Revista 2020, among others.

Dr. Marta Santamaria has 20 years of experience promoting environmental economics and natural capital valuation, both in the public and the private sectors. She is leading Capitals Coalition’s work on standardizing capital approaches to foster the integration of people and nature’s values into decision making. Her work has been focused on the transformation of the energy, food, built environment and finance sector. She does this work through extensive engagement with business, finance and governments. She has several advising positions and a large list of publications, with frequent public speaking interventions. 

Martin Whittaker is the founding CEO of JUST Capital and is responsible for the overall leadership of the organization. He is also co-founder and Board member of the CREO Syndicate, a family office investment network; a Board member of the Carbon Disclosure Project U.S.; and a member of the Forbes Finance Council and Forbes Contributor. He was recently named to the 2020 NACD Directorship 100 – the annual list of the most influential people in the boardroom and on corporate governance – and to Business Insider’s 2020 List of 100 People Transforming Business.

Previously, Martin was a founding partner and investment committee member at Sonen Capital, an impact investing firm, where he led private equity, real asset, and direct investing activities. Martin has also served as Director of MissionPoint Capital Partners, a family office-led private equity firm; Senior Vice President at Swiss Re, where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team; and Managing Director at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., a pioneering sustainable investment advisory and research firm.

Martin received his Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, an M.Sc. from McGill University and a B.Sc. from University of St. Andrews.

Martin has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, provided expert testimony on environmental markets to the U.S. Senate, guest lectured at multiple business schools, consulted to major corporations on sustainability- and impact-related matters, and been an invited speaker, published writer, and contributor via television, print, social media, and conferences throughout his career.

With more than 30 years of experience across the private, public and academic sectors, Mary is a political risk leader, problem solver, and analyst who drives strategic initiatives in the Office of the Global Chairman, EY.  She has served as EY’s strategy officer for the World Economic Forum (WEF), bringing perspective to its initiatives on economic progress, gender parity and the future of education and work. She also leads EY’s engagement with WEF’s International Business Council, contributing to the creation of a common set of ESG metrics to help companies measure – and disclose—the impact they have on people, the planet, and society broadly.

Mary previously held positions at Eurasia Group, the US Department of State, and the RAND Corporation. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Mary holds a PhD in Political Science from UCLA and a BA from Bowdoin College.

Michelle Edkins is Global Head of Stewardship Policy in BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team of about 70 specialists who engage companies and others in the investment stewardship ecosystem to promote the governance and business practices aligned with long-term value creation by the companies in which BlackRock invests on behalf of clients. She is Chair of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a former Chair of the International Corporate Governance Network and an Aspen Institute First Movers’ Fellow. She currently serves on a number of industry initiatives to enhance governance and sustainable business practices including the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Investor Advisory Group.

Neil Gregory is Chief Thought Leadership Officer of the International Finance Corporation, the private investment arm of the World Bank Group. He leads IFC’s engagement with the impact investing industry. He has held a range of senior strategy and management roles at IFC, including research, business planning, investment and advisory functions. He has extensive work experience in South Asia, China, Africa and the Caribbean. A British national, Neil has an MA in Economics from Cambridge, an MSc in Economics of Development from Oxford and an MBA in International Business from Georgetown. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization, global development and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University, and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government.

Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s International Advisory Panel, and on the Boards of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto. She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Chair of the Harvard University Visiting Committee on International Engagement and a member of the Department for International Trade’s Trade and Economy Panel. She is also an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation and is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Frontier Risks.

Paul Druckman is Chairman of the World Benchmarking Alliance and a Non-Executive Chairman and Director of organisations in multiple sectors. 

Active in different roles such as Chairman of Clear Insurance; Trustee of Shift and Accounting for Sustainability; and on the Advisory Council of the Impact Investing Institute.

Highlights in the past have included being President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW); Chairman of The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Executive Board; and as a Board member and Chairman of UK accounting standards through the UK government regulator (FRC). He was also the founding CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council, now merged into the Value Reporting Foundation.

Peter Harrison joined Schroders in March 2013 and became Group Chief Executive in April 2016. Prior to his current role he was Global Head of Investment.

Before joining Schroders, Peter was Chairman and CEO of investment boutique RWC Partners. Peter began his career at Schroders, and later spent time at JP Morgan, and as Group Chief Investment Officer of Deutsche Asset Management.

Peter is a member of the UK Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce, a member of the Board of Directors of FCLT Global and the Advisory Boards of venture capital firm Antler, Harvard University Impact Board, CityUK, CFA UK, the Investment Association and the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange. He was previously Chair of the Investment Association, sat on the Takeover Panel and the Prime Minister’s Financial and Professional Services’ Business Council. He is widely engaged in improving inclusion and diversity across financial institutions. He has an honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath.

Richard Brandweiner CFA has spent twenty five years working across all asset classes in the funds  management and pension fund industries. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Pendal  Australia (formerly BT Investment Management Australia) one of Australia’s leading independent  fund managers. Prior to this, Richard was Chief Investment Officer at First State Superannuation,  one of Australia’s largest pension funds, and Group Executive at Perpetual Investments.  

Richard is the Chair of Impact Investing Australia, part of the Global Steering Group for Impact  Investing. He is a member of the NSW Government Social Impact Investment Expert Advisory  Group, Chair of the NRL Players Retirement Account, and a member of the CFA Institute Future of  Finance Content Council. He is a former President of the CFA Society of Sydney. 

Robert G. Eccles is a leading authority on corporate purpose and the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in resource allocation decisions by companies and investors. He is also the world’s foremost academic expert on integrated reporting. Currently Eccles is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford where he is engaged in a number of research projects focused on corporate purpose, corporate reporting, engagement and stewardship, and private equity. Eccles has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and was a Berkeley Social Impact Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. He was a Professor at Harvard Business School and received tenure in 1989.

Robert H. Herz is a member of the Boards of Directors of Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, Workiva, Paxos National Trust, and the Value Reporting Foundation. He was previously a member of the Board of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation (SASB ). He is a member of several Advisory Boards, including AccountAbility and the Leadership Council of the Harvard Business School Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative. Robert is also an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School. He was a founder member of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB ) and chaired the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB ) from 2002-2010. Prior to that he was a partner at PwC for many years. 

Ruchi Bhowmik is Global Vice Chair - Public Policy at EY and has responsibility for the firm’s public policy operations in more than 150 countries. She previously served as the Senior Vice President for Global Public Policy and Government Affairs for PepsiCo.

Prior to entering tQuotehe private sector, Ruchi served as Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Special Assistant to the President for Policy in the Obama Administration.

Ruchi is a member of the Executive Consultation Group of the Blue Dot Network for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and current member and former co-President of the DC Public Library Foundation Board. 

She holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Ryohei Yanagi is the CFO of Eisai, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Japan and a Visiting Professor at Waseda University, where he focuses on ESG and Value Creation as well as Impact Measurement. Dr. Yanagi earned a Ph.D. in economics from Kyoto University in Japan. 

Now he is a member of working group A in connection with G7 Impact Task Force mandated by UK government in 2021 while having been an advisor to Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2009.

Under his leadership and in collaboration with Harvard Business School, Eisai disclosed its “Employment Impact” as the 1st case of IWAI (Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative) Japan via Eisai Value Creation Report 2021.

He has authored and published many books and articles on the topics of ESG, impact measurement and investor relations, including “Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan” published by Springer, in 2018 in English globally.

Søren Peter Andreasen is the General Manager (CEO) of the Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Chairman of the EDFI Management Company.

EDFI promotes the work of European DFIs based on their shared mandates to align private investment flows with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement by informing policy, driving innovation in industry standards, and delivering development finance solutions. Søren is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on SDG Investment. Before joining EDFI in 2016, Søren worked for 15 years in the consulting industry with a specialisation in development, finance, and investment in emerging markets. Søren holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University. He started his professional career with the United Nations (UN) Secretariat in New York before he joined McKinsey & Company in Copenhagen and subsequently co-founded the consulting firm Dalberg Global Development Advisors.

Suni Harford is the President of UBS Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers globally, with over USD 1.2 trillion in invested assets. She also serves as the UBS Group Executive Board sponsor for Sustainability and Impact. In this role, she is responsible for driving the firm’s sustainability agenda and efforts to deliver on its Net Zero commitments. She has oversight of the Chief Sustainability Office, responsible for sustainability strategy, external engagement and corporate responsibility across UBS, and the Office of Social Impact that encompasses the Group’s philanthropic services, The Optimus Foundation, and community affairs activities.  Suni joined UBS in 2017 as Asset Management’s Head of Investments. Prior to UBS, Suni worked at Citigroup for almost 25 years, most recently as Regional Head of Markets, North America. Suni holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Denison University.

Thomas Verheye is the Principal Advisor for Sustainable Finance & Investment at the European Investment Fund since June 2021. He has been seconded from the European Commission where he held the same position at the Environment department since 2017.  His prior positions in the European Commission include managerial responsibilities for EU and international policies on air quality, ozone depleting substances and fluorinated gases, innovative financing relating to climate and energy in the EU and globally, technology transfer under the UNFCC, the auto-oil programme, etc.  Previous employers include the Bank of New York (Vice President corporate action at the bank's global custody branch), the International Monetary Fund (Treasurer's department), and Ernst & Young (Audit branch). He holds a bachelor and master's degree in business economics from the University of Ghent, and an MSc in audit and tax from the Vlerick Business School.

Tom is a Special Adviser on ESG to the KPMG Global Board. He leads the KPMG team working with the WEF on Stakeholder Capitalism.

In leading KPMG’s Global Asset Management practice, Tom grew the business to over $4bn annual revenues and positioned the sector as a strategic priority for KPMG. Over the years he has been the client lead partner for a number of significant investment managers and pension funds.

Tom has been a regular speaker at industry conferences including acting as Chairman of the FundForum International conference.  He has authored articles and publications including “Sustainable finance moves into the regulatory mainstream”, “Celebrating 20 years of asset management in China” and “Investing in the future”, a report on how global mega trends are impacting the investment management industry.

Veronica Poole is a vice chair of Deloitte UK and Deloitte Global IFRS and Corporate Reporting Leader. She drives change in the accounting profession, including reporting of ESG and climate. She chaired Accountancy Europe’s task force that set out a vision for a comprehensive corporate reporting system and facilitated the work of leading sustainability standard-setters (the ‘Group of 5’). She has been leading Deloitte’s contributions to the WEF IBC Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics project, including its contribution to the IFRS Foundation’s Technical Readiness Working Group. She also helped launch the UK Directors’ Climate Forum – Chapter Zero and spearheaded Deloitte’s partnership with The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Finance for the Future Awards. She was also instrumental in establishing Deloitte’s global response to climate change: WorldClimate.

Dr. Weiguo Zhang was professor and the Head of Accounting Department of Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE) in early 1990s. In 1997, he joined China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) as its Chief Accountant responsible for the supervision of accounting, disclosure, auditing, and valuation, and Director of International Affairs in charge of cross board listing, regulatory cooperation among nations and with IOSCO. From 2007 to 2017, Professor Zhang served as the full time Board Member of International Accounting Standard Board, the first one from China, and the second one from Asia. Professor Zhang is currently the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor in Accounting in SUFE, Professor of Management Practice in Tsinghua University, and mentor of post doctoral researchers of CSRC. He is now also the Chairman of Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s Accounting Expert Advisory Committee, and an independent director of one leading ERP firm in China.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017-2021: General Counsel and Member of the Board of Management, Bank Hapoalim

2012 – 2017: Executive Director, The IFRS Foundation, London

2006 – 2012: Director, Department of International Affairs, Israel Securities Authority, Jerusalem

1994 – 2006:   Prosecutor, Securities Crimes Division, Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office, Israel’s Ministry of Justice

EDUCATION

Columbia University School of Law, New York, N.Y. - LL.M.

Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law – LL.B.

Member of the Israel Bar since 1994