The founding participants are as follows. Participants are involved as individuals; organizational affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

Robert Adamson,Executive Director, CIBC, Center for Corporate Governance and Risk Management, Canada

Keith Ambachtsheer, Director of Rotman International Center for Pension Management, University of Toronto, Canada

Alexander Bassen, Professor of capital markets and management at the University of Hamburg, Germany

Rob Bauer, Professor of the research institute ECCE, the Netherlands

Alexander Barkawi, Managing Director of SAM Indexes GmbH, Switzerland

Adrian Berendt, CFO,COO Glitnir Bank in London, United Kingdom

Paul Biddle, Analyst at Souls Funds Management, Australia

Ron den Braber, Lead Senior Consultant at Mindwell, the Netherlands

Carolyn Kay Brancato, CEO of the Consulting Company the Riverside Group, United Kingdom

Jorund Buen, Co-Founder of Point Carbon, Sweden

Jeremy Burke, Financial Reporting Manager, United Kingdom

Ann Byrne,CEO of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), Australia

Angelo Calvello, Founder of Environmental Alpha and consultant for climate change risk management, USA

Mark Campanale, Non Executive Director of Libra Natural Resources, United Kingdom

Daniela Carosio, Independent Financial Analyst of Italian companies, Italy

Leandro Carrera, Research officer at the London School of Economic’s Public Policy Group , United Kingdom

Peter Chapman, Shareholder Association for Research Education. Canada

Alice Chapple, Sustainable financial markets specialist and chartered accountant, Forum for the Future, United Kingdom

Greg Chipman, Managing Director and Co-Founder of CJC Global – a specialist advisory firm servicing key stakeholders in global wealth management markets, Australia

Matt Christensen, Executive Director of  Eurosif (the European Sustainable Investment Forum), United Kingdom

Cecile Churet, Senior Equity Analyst, Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), Switzerland

Gordon Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Director, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, United Kingdom

Andrew Clearfield, Consultant to Institutional Investors Investment Initiatives, USA

William Michael Cunningham, Social Investing Adviser, USA

Ronald B. Davis, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Canada

Stephen Davis,Project Director and Lecturer at the Yale University School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. USA

Jean-Philippe Desmartin, independent consultant, France

Paul Dickinson, Chief Executive Carbon Disclosure Project, United Kingdom

Hans Dijkstra,Senior Manager, Corporate Governance Unit, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the Netherlands

Dave Dore, Sustainable and Responsible Investment Analyst, Hong Kong

Robert Eccles, Professor at Harvard Business School, USA

Eugene Ellmen, Executive Director of the Social Investment Organization, Canada

Raymond van Ermen, Ececutive Director or European Partners for the Environment, Belgium

Sean Flannery, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Havard University, USA

Ralf Frank, Managing Director of DVFA, the Society of Investment Professionals, Germany

Stephen Feneley, Jornalist and media consultant, United Kingdom

John Fullerton, CEO of Alerian Capital Management, USA

Murray Gold, Pension fund lawyer, Canada

Jack Gray, Paul Wooley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, University of Technology, Australia

Danyelle Guyatt, Academic and responsible investment consultant, United Kingdom

Frank Jan de Graaf, Academic and responsible investment specialist,  the Netherlands

Peter de Graaf, Public Policy Advisor, United Kingdom

Stirling Habbitts, Vice President Natural Resources, ING Wholesale Banking, the Netherlands

Mathew Haigh, Faculty Member, Toulouse Business School, France

Christoph Harwood, Head of Marksmann Consulting, United Kingdom

Jim Hawley, Professor at the School of Economics and Bsiness Administration Saint Mary’s College, USA

Jonathan Hayward, Founder and Partner of Independent Audit Ltd., United Kingdom

Hazel Henderson, President and Founder of Ethical Markets Media. USA and Brazil

Catherine Howarth, Trustee at The Pensions Trust, UK and Executive Director, FairPensions, United Kingdom

Paul Hughes, President and Founder of Green Fox Energy Group, USA

Anna Hyrske, Senior Adviser and ESG specialist in a Finish pension insurance company, Finland

Michael Jantzi, Head of Jantzi Research Inc, independent ESG investment research firm, Canada

Sanford Jacoby, Professor of Management, Public Policy and History at UCLA, USA

Anthony James, Managing Director and Co-Founder of CJC Global. Australia

John Jarrett,Director of Research, GovernanceMetrics International, USA

Keith Johnson, Head of Institutional Investors Service practice group at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, USA

Adam Kanzer, Managing Director and General Counsel, Domini Social Investment LLC, USA

Sean Kidney                        , Europe Manager for Climate Risk Ltd, United Kingdom

Robert Klijn, Account Manager at Cordares Asset Managemant, the Netherlands

Eric Knight, Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Janelle Knox-Hayes, D.Phil candidate in Economic Geography at Oxford, United Kingdom

Claudia Kruse, Independent responsible investment professional, United Kingdom

Jonas Kron, Senior Social ResearchAnalyst at Trillium Asset Managemnt Corp, USA

Michael Krzus, Partner at Grant Thornton LLP and President of Enhanced Business Reporting, USA

Floris Lambrechtsen, Owner Director of Double Dividend, the Netherlands

Jeremy Leggett, Founder and Executive Director of Solarcentury, United Kingdom

Jinyan Li, Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

Celine Louche, Assistant Professor at Vlerk Leuven Gent Management School (CSR), the Netherlands

Sanford Lewis, Attorney focused on enviromental laws and securities. USA

Steve Lydenberg, Chief Investment Officer, Domini Social Investments, USA

Craig Mackenzie, Advisor to FTSE4Good, Hymans Robertson (investment consultant) and the UN PRI on ESG issues, United Kingdom

James McRitchie, Publisher, USA

Vivian Maese, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for BIDS Trading, USA

Michael Mainelli, Leads Z/Yen, a leading City of London commercial think tank, United Kingdom

Joseph Mariathasan, Independent Consultant and Investment Specialist, United Kingdom

Franz Maritsch, Independent sustainable and renewable energy production consultant, USA and Austria

John Mathews, Foundation Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS Guido University, Italy

Stephanie Maier, Head of the research team at EIRIS, United Kingdom

Terry Mock, Sustainable Land Development International Executive Director and SLDI Newsletter Editor, USA

Fritz Mostboeck, Vice Chairman Austrian Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management, Member Executive Board, EFFAS , Austria

Paul Moxey, Head of Corporate Governance and Risk Management, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), United Kingdom

Mike Musuraca, Pension Fund Manager, USA

Robert A. G. Monks, Esq., Lens Governance Advisors, P.A., USA

Rene Nicolodi, Sustainability analyst and deputy head of the sutaibility research team at ZBK, CH

Patricia Nwopodo, Executive Director of Savannah Bank, Nigeria

Frederic Nystrom, Client Manager at GES Investment Services, Sweden

Adam Ognall, Deputy Chief Executive of UKSIF, United Kingdom

Louise O’Halloran, Executive Director at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, United Kingdom.

David O’Hara, Founder of Blackthorm Focus, United Kingdom

James O’Loughlin, Founder and CEO of JOL Consulting, United Kingdom

Matt Orsagh, Director, Capital Markets Policy, USA

Will Oulton, Managing Director CRG Advisory Services Ltd, United Kingdom

Vasudev Palladam, Corporate Lawyer, currently Lecturer commercial Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Frank Partnoy, Professor of Law and Herzog Endowed Scholar, San Diego University, USA

Susheela Peres Da Costa, responsible for the company engagement program at Regnan, Australia

Avinash Persaud, Chairman of Intelligence Capital and Member of the Board Elara Capital, Ltd., United Kingdom

Steve Podmore, Founder & CEO of Global Sustainability Challenge Ltd, and Founder of The Get Stuff Done Foundation, United Kingdom

Priya Nandita Pooran, Legal and Regulatory Expert on Financial Regulation, United Kingdom

Tom Powdrill, Head of Communications at Pension Investment Research Consultant (PIRC), United Kingdom

Poonam Puri, Associate Professor Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

Amin Rajan, CEO of CRETE-Research, strategy advisor for Global Banks and Funds, United Kingdom

Nick Robins, Head of Climate Change Centre of Excellence, United Kingdom

William Russell-Smith, Managing Director, AQ Research Ltd, United Kingdom

Janis Sarra, Professor and Director of the National Center for Business law, the University of British Columbia, Canada

Alister Scott , freelance exceutive coach, leadership consultatnt and researcher, United Kingdom

Charles Scanlan, former Practising Pension lawyer and Head of Pension at the Law Firm Simons&Simons, United Kingdom

Ebba Schmidt, Pension Funds Adviser, United Kingdom

Geoffrey See, post graduate student in Management Research, USA

Sumantra Sen, Vice President & Delivery Lead at Global Wealth & Investment Management division, India

Howard Sherman, President and CEO of Governance Metrics International, USA

Penny Shepherd, Chief Executive, UKSIF – the sustainable investment and finance association, United KingdomK

Dan Siddy, Founding Director of Delius Ltd., United Kingdom

Nick Silver, pension policy consultant, Director of Callund Consulting Ltd. United Kingdom

Graham Sinclair, Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Investment at kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill and ESG Investment Architect at Sinclail & Company, South Africa

Michael Siebecker, Visiting Professor Washington University Law School and Professor Law, the University of Florida, USA

Jasper Sky, Academic Projects Manager Consultant, Germany

Lauren Smart, Assosiate Director and Manager of Trucost’s key client relationship. UK

Florian Sommer, Head of Sustainability Research at Fortis Investments, United Kingdom

Charlotte Steel, Investment Analyst, United Kingdom

Ken Stewart, Investment Banker and founding President of Stewart Advisory Inc, Canada

Katie Swanston, ESG Research Manager for the RA Academy, Australia

Peter Sweatman, Founder and Chef Executive of Climate Strategy, Spain

Robert Swift, Head of Multi Strategies BT Investment Managment Limited, Australia

Nicholas Taylor, Independent advisor and head of Outcrop, Australia

Raj Thamotheram, Responsible Investment specialist with experience of institutional investors, United Kingdom and France

Sebastien Thevoux-Chabuel, Sellsyde Analyst at Oddo Securities, France

Jeroen Tielman, is working on the establishment of an international callaboration network, the Netherlands

Matteo Tonello, Associate Director Corporate Governance Research at The Conference Board Inc, USA

Roger Clive Urwin,  Global head of Investment Consulting Watson and Wyatt, United Kingdom

Mark Van Clieaf, Managing Director of MVC Associates International. USA

Rosalie Vendette, Marketing and research director at Groupe investissement responsable inc. (GIR). Canda

Alex Veys, Partner and fund manager at Beetle Capital which specialises in Natural Capial Asset Management, United Kingdom

Stephen Viederman, Ex President of Jessi Smith Noyes foundation. USA

Ed Waitzer,Partner, Stikeman Elliott, and Jarislowky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Goverance, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

Robert Walker, SRI Investment Analyst at Credit Agricole Cheuvereux International, United Kingdom

Robert Walker, Vice President of Sustainability for The Ethical Funds Company, Canada

Steve Waygood, Head of Sustainability Analysis and Engagement, Aviva Investors, & Chair UK SIF, United Kingdom

Hugh Wheelan, Editor and Co founder, Responsible Investors, United Kingdom

Helen Wildsmith, Consultant to the Ethical and Responsible Investment sector in the UK, United Kingdom

Cynthia Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

Alexander Wood, Environmental and Economic Adviser, Canada

Claire Woods, Clarendon Scholar at University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Peer Zumbansen,the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada