PRI Awards 2024 judging panel

Alison is a sustainable finance practitioner, sustainability consultant, Senior Fellow for GRESB, Canadian Representative for Ceres Investor Network, and Director of Emerging Markets Investor Alliance. She designed and teaches Canada Climate Law Initiative’s climate risk micro-certificate and sustainable finance for the University of Alberta’s MBA programme. Alison was previously Vice-President, Responsible Investment at AIMCo (2011-2022) and built a world class responsible investment programme. Alison is a co-founder of GRESB Infrastructure (2015), and of Climate Engagement Canada (2022). Alison is a published author and was awarded Canada’s Clean50 award (2021, 2020), and the University of Alberta Alumni Honour Award (2022) for her contributions to the field of RI.

Amr Addas is the Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Insights at Farm Credit Canada. Prior to joining FCC, Amr was the Strategic Advisor for Sustainability and a lecturer at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, director of the Van Berkom Investment Management Program, led the Sustainable Investing Practicum and was the director of Concordia’s Sustainability Ecosystem. Amr has been involved in the sustainable investing community in Montréal since 2010, offering advisory services to financial institutions on developing sustainable investing strategies, serving on a number of investor ESG Advisory boards, and on key working groups that helped put Montréal on the map as a global hub for sustainable finance. This included the Finance and Sustainability Initiative, Finance Montréal’s Sustainable Finance Working Group, and more recently as a member of the Advisory Committee for developing a Sustainable Finance Roadmap for Québec led by Finance Montréal.

Andy is the founder of SRI-Consulting.co.uk, specialising in ESG research and investor & corporate profiling. He has over 25 years’ experience in the sustainable investment industry for advisory firms and asset managers. Previously he worked with fund managers to develop innovative strategies, including ethical, labour rights, carbon neutral, green crypto and green real estate products and has undertaken projects for Unicef, WFP, WWF, Greenpeace, Environment Agency, Access to Medicine and Access to Nutrition initiatives. More recently, Andy has written CSR reports for large corporates in the MENA region and worked with SRI-Connect and InterAxSGlobal on IR ESG communications. He has appeared on BBC News24, CNBC and Bloomberg TV discussing SRI industry trends.

Anne is currently Adjunct Faculty and Practice Director of the Responsible Finance Initiative at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Before co-founding the RFI, Anne headed up the Alexander Forbes Research Institute – an initiative that looked at the full spectrum of savings, investment and wellness issues that confront South Africans in particular and Africans in general. Anne also spent 32 years managing pension fund assets in North America, Japan, the UK, Europe and South Africa. Global asset allocation, risk management and quantitative modelling were her focus. She is a member of the CFA Institute and served on its global Future of Finance Committee. She sits on the FTSE/JSE Index Advisory Committee and the INSETA Research and Learning Committee. She also heads up the Collective Investments editorial committee.

Anne is a strategy and finance professional who started her career in the Netherlands at Rabobank where she worked in Special Asset Management and Corporate Finance. She subsequently became an investment manager at Karmijn Kapitaal, a Private Equity fund with a special focus on investing in diverse management teams. Having worked for five years with various companies, she decided it was time to work in one specific company and became the CFO of a sustainable tech-startup. This accelerated her interest in impact investing, as access to patient capital for purpose-driven companies is one of the keys to systemic change. This eventually lead to Investing For Purpose. Besides IFP, Anne is still advising various impactful start- and scale-ups.

Anne-Marie Bor is the Founding Director of NextGreen, a sustainable transition facilitation company from the Netherlands. Since 2014 she has worked with financial institutions in the Netherlands on the topic of natural capital. Anne-Marie convenes and supports the finance and biodiversity community with over 50 members as part of the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform set up by the European Commission. In 2021 Anne-Marie set up the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation together with Anita de Horde and currently sits on the board. One of the main activities was building the collaborative engagement initiative Nature Action 100. She also0 coordinates the Dutch Sustainable Finance Platform Working Group on Climate Adaptation and acts as a Board member of the Dutch Adaptation Alliance Foundation.

Caroline Flammer is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University. She currently serves as the Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at SIPA. Caroline is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Research Member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She is an expert in sustainable investing and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. The Web of Science ranked her among the top-100 Highly Cited Researchers in the economics and business profession in terms of impact over the past 10 years. Caroline serves as the President of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), a Council Member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Future Council on the future of responsible investing, and as a Trustee at Domini Impact Investments. She also serves as Department Editor at Management Science.

Christopher Wigley has been a sustainable bond portfolio manager since 2004, initially with Epworth Investment Management in London, exploring the potential of applying ESG analysis to bonds, engagement through bonds and investment in green and social bonds. Working for Mirova in Paris for five years from 2014, Christopher led their Green Bond project and designed, launched and managed three Green Bond funds. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (2014 - 2019) Christopher has spoken at more than forty conferences around the world on sustainable bonds, including Green Bonds.

Clare is Head of the Finance and Capital Markets Programme at Laudes Foundation, leading its work to harness the power of the finance system in pursuit of a just transition in industry. Clare began her non-profit career at the Carbon Trust, culminating in the role of Head of Networks before becoming CEO of Carbon Leapfrog – a charity supporting the development of community energy. Clare then set up a charitable foundation for the Energy Saving Trust and spent time as COO of both Accounting for Sustainability and ShareAction as well as consultancy engagements with Carbon Tracker and the Finance Dialogue. Clare has a degree in Engineering, an MBA and is on the board of Energy Local CIC and the Advisory Council for the Investor Alliance for Human Rights.

David Carlin is Head of Risk at UNEP - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). He and his team support financial actors across the world to develop best practices for managing environmental risks and identifying environmental opportunities. He currently advises UNEP FI’s Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). He has also been a technical advisor to the Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ). He is the founder of Cambium Global Solutions and a senior associate at Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

David Sanders, CFA leads the Practice Analysis team at CFA Institute. Prior to this role, David led the curriculum development team at CFA Institute where he played a key role in building out content throughout the CFA Program curriculum particularly in areas such as: ESG, Alternative Investments, Risk Management, and Portfolio Management. Before joining CFA Institute in 2018, David spent over 14 years in the United Arab Emirates including various roles at Abu Dhabi based Sovereign Wealth institutions such as: Chief Investment Officer at Abu Dhabi Investment Company (ADIC), Senior Fund Manager at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), and Senior Analyst at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). David has also worked in various roles in the Finance Division of Procter & Gamble (P&G) including roles in Global Pension Fund Management (based in USA), Asia Treasury (based in Japan), and Forecasting & Analysis (based in Japan).

David is the Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which assesses preparedness for the transition to a low carbon future, supporting the efforts of investors in addressing climate change. Prior to this, David was the Head of Responsible Investment at the USS, the largest UK pension fund, with responsibility for all aspects of RI strategy development and implementation across. David is a former Board member of the PRI, was involved in the governance of the IIGCC from its inception in 2001, and until June 2023 was on the Board of the International Centre for Pensions Management. David is a member of the FTSE Russell Sustainable Investment Advisory Committee.

Dr Deborah Cotton is a senior lecturer in the Finance Discipline of the UTS Business School and has a PhD in Applied Finance for a thesis titled the Efficacy of Emissions Trading Schemes. Her teaching included investing and financial instruments for environmental, social and governance issues as well as impact investing. Deborah has been part of a number of successful research projects and grants at UTS including receiving funding from the 2024 UTS Strategic Research Accelerator scheme for the project; Achieving net-zero goals for corporations: Developing an evidenced-based decision making and benchmarking tool to achieving net zero goals for corporations. Recent research included topics covering gender diversity, carbon emissions, nature and motivations for charitable giving.

Dr Dhruba Purkayastha is the Director for Growth and Institutional Advancement with Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a leading public policy think tank, research and analysis non-profit institution in India. Before that, he was the India Director for the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), having worked with the International Finance Corporation as the Program Manager for Advisory work in India and with The World Bank as a Senior Specialist in the South Asia Finance and Private sector unit.

Dhruba has also led the Regulatory Group for Sustainable Finance Task Force set up by the Indian Government. He chairs the Climate Finance Committee at the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and is a member of the CII Net Zero Council for India. He is also a visiting faculty at IIM Calcutta for Climate Economics and Finance.

Dr Ellen Quigley is the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer, a Principal Research Associate, and the Founder and Co-Director of Finance for Systemic Change, all at the University of Cambridge. Dr Quigley’s first book, forthcoming in 2025 from the Cambridge University Press’ Elements series in Corporate Governance, is based on her article “Universal Ownership in Practice: A Practical Investment Framework for Asset Owners”, which won the GRASFI Paper Prize for Potential Impact on Sustainable Finance Practices in 2020. Dr Quigley hails from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and holds a BA from Harvard University, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Emily Farrimond is Partner at Baringa, where she is responsible for building the ESG & Sustainability practice for Financial Services. Emily has over twenty years’ experience shaping strategy and delivering large scale business and technology change programmes in the Financial Services sector. She is a trusted advisor to C-level client executives and has shaped and delivered numerous mission critical change initiatives at Baringa and through an earlier career at three blue chip organisations: IBM, KPMG, and Accenture.

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Fabrizio is the founder of Impactivise, a boutique advisory firm focused advising finance teams of hard-to-abate sectors on their climate finance strategy. Fabrizio has over 20 years of combined expertise in asset management, credit analysis, and climate finance. Prior to setting up Impactivise, Fabrizio held key positions as head of fixed income product management and credit analyst at renowned asset management firms and rating agencies, including Jupiter Asset Management, PIMCO Source JV, BNP Investment Partners, Union Bancaire Privee, Moody’s Investor Service, and Standard & Poor’s. Fabrizio serves as well a senior Advisor at the Climate Bonds Initiative.

Dr Hao Liang is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre at Singapore Management University (SMU), where he is also the recipient of Ho Bee Professorship in Sustainability Management, BNP Paribas Fellowship, DBS Sustainability Fellowship, and Lee Kong Chian Fellowship. He is an extramural fellow of Tilburg University, and serves as a member of European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), the Steering Committee of Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, and China ESG30 Forum. He is Section Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, Associate Editor of Management Science, Journal of Business Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies and British Accounting Review, and on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal.

Harriet Assem is the BVCA’s Head of Sustainability. Her role includes leading on sustainability related policy matters for private capital industry including net zero, biodiversity, and sustainability regulation and disclosure requirements, as well as helping members navigate the ESG landscape by helping to facilitate conversation/knowledge share and sign posting ESG related best practice. Harriet also supports with the BVCA’s DEI strategy and sits on the Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs. Prior to joining the BVCA she spent several years in environmental consultancy leading and directing on environmental due diligence and ESG related service line projects. Harriet holds a BSc in Geology/Geography from University of Birmingham and a MSc in Contaminated Land from Nottingham University.

Jen Sisson is CEO of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) a membership body, led by investors led responsible for assets under management of around US$77 trillion, focused on advancing the highest standards of corporate governance and investor stewardship worldwide. Jen joined ICGN from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was EMEA Head of Stewardship. Jen was a member of the Investment Association Company Reporting and Auditing Group, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investor Advisory Committee and the US Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Council. Previously, Jen worked at the UK Financial Reporting Council, where she led policy outreach on ESG, audit and reporting matters including the creation of the 2020 UK Stewardship Code and the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code.

Jessie Miller is a Senior Manager of ESG Services at Novata, a sustainability management platform built for ESG data collection, carbon measurement, and regulatory reporting. In her current role on the Expert Services team, Jessie helps GPs develop and refine their ESG strategy while aligning to leading international standards, frameworks, and regulations. She specializes in creating ESG processes, uncovering data-driven insights, and developing action plans while considering how ESG can serve as a lever for value creation and risk mitigation. Prior to joining Novata, Jessie held several other roles in the sustainability and corporate responsibility space and received her MPA in Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment from NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Jodi-Ann Wang leads on global policy for the Just Transition Finance Lab, which is hosted at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Jodi-Ann's research looks into the articulations of justice in national climate policies, and what this means for financing just transitions globally. She was recently the author of the UK Transition Plans Taskforce's advisory report on just transition metrics in transition plans.

Prior to joining LSE, Jodi-Ann was a climate policy specialist at the PRI, advising governments and financial institutions on the actions needed to align finance with net zero.

Jon is currently managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to institutional investors. He currently serves as Brandmeyer Fellow for Sustainable Investing and adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and is a trustee for the Van Eck mutual funds where he chairs the audit committee. He is a member of the Deloitte Audit Quality Advisory Committee and Senior Fellow at the High Meadows Institute. He serves on the Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Board of The Shareholder Commons and the Advisory Board of The Investment Integration Project. Jon has co-authored books on capital markets, including “Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters” with Professor Jim Hawley, along with more than 200 academic and practitioner papers.

Martin Norman is ACCR’s Investor Engagement Lead, and supports the work in the Northern Hemisphere and East Asia. Based in Norway, Martin has deep climate and energy experience, and has built extensive networks with the finance industry and investors in Europe, as well as parts of Asia and America. Martin has a background in anthropology, as well as sports training, having trained alpine skiing sports teams at national level in Norway and Iceland.

Michael Eisenberg co-leads ERM’s global private markets ESG & impact value creation team. He focuses on working with GPs and their portfolio companies on driving top and bottom-line growth though their ESG & impact programmes. The private markets value creation team focuses on developing robust ESG commercial strategies, implementation of those strategies in close partnership with GP portfolio operations teams, and supporting portfolio companies on exit preparation projects. Before ERM, Michael worked at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, where he was Head of ESG Integration and focused on the Fund’s private markets investments.

Naoko Nemoto is a professor at Waseda Business School. She was a financial economist at the Asian Development Bank Institute until May 2021. Her research focuses on financial markets, inclusion, and sustainable development. She has held roles at Standard & Poor’s, the Bank of Japan, and holds a BA from Waseda University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from Hitotsubashi University. She is a board member of the Government Pension Investment Fund Japan, Hokkoku Financial Group, and Mizuho Bank, and chairs the Carbon Neutrality Working Group at Japan’s Financial Services Agency.

Nicole Martens is a development economist and environmental scientist with a passion for sustainable development in emerging markets. Her 15-year career has included a role as Head of Stewardship for Old Mutual Investment Group and Head of Africa and Middle East for the PRI. Nicole has spent the bulk of her career working with finance-first and social-first investors to develop and implement mechanisms to improve social outcomes while meeting financial targets. Most recently, Nicole’s work is focused on leveraging innovative finance mechanisms for the purposes of advancing Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy. Nicole is currently the head of impact investing research at Krutham, an African research-led consultancy specialising in financial innovation in the emerging market context.

Patricia Moles is a specialist in the development and implementation of business strategies that incorporate sustainability factors to generate business value. She has served as an international financial executive working in the capital markets in Mexico and the United Kingdom, and as a business executive in the private equity and manufacturing markets in the food sector in Brazil. Between 2019 and 2022 she worked as a sustainable finance specialist at Mexico’s Central Bank to foster the Sustainable Finance Committee Agenda.

Today she serves as member of Mexico’s Financial and Sustainability Standards Board (CINIF), coordinates the executive training program in sustainable finance at ITAM and acts as a senior advisor in organizations that promote finance and sustainable businesses.

Peter Elwin is Director of Fixed Income, and Head of the Food & Land Use Programme, at financial think tank Planet Tracker. He has over 20 years of financial markets experience in senior management and functional roles on the buy side and sell side. His experience covers food systems, equity and credit research, accounting, valuation, natural capital, sustainability, strategy and operations.

Peter was previously Head of Research at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), one of the largest UK private pension schemes with over £60bn under management. Before joining USS, Peter was Deputy Head of European Research and the #1-rated Global Head of Pensions, Valuation, & Accounting research at JP Morgan. He is the lead author of a number of award-winning Planet Tracker reports including Financial Markets Roadmap for Transforming the Global Food System.

Dr Rory Sullivan is CEO, Chronos Sustainability and Visiting Professor in Practice in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. His current and recent projects include acting as project director for the delivery of data for the 2021 and 2022 CA100+ Net Zero Company Benchmarks, acting as Chief Technical Adviser to the Transition Pathway Initiative (2017-2022), and leading the development of the Global Investor Statement on Responsible Climate Lobbying. His previous roles include Interim Head of ESG Research and Standards for FTSE Russell and Head of Responsible Investment at Insight Investment. He is the author/editor of eleven books and of many papers and reports on responsible investment, climate change and related issues.

Sagarika Chatterjee leads on finance for the UN Climate Change High-level Champions, HE Ms Razan Al Mubarak (UAE) and Ms Nigar Arpadarai (Azerbaijan). Sagarika initially joined the Champions on secondment from the PRI and helped establish GFANZ with the COP26 Private Finance Hub. Sagarika was PRI’s Director of Climate Change and the Environment, having set up PRI’s climate change work including the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the Inevitable Policy Response and early green finance work in China. Sagarika was seconded to PRI signatory Aviva Investors, to support Aviva and the PRI Chair’s in the TCFD recommendations. Before PRI, Sagarika worked for over ten years at F&C Asset Management, was as an investment committee member for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for five years and a trustee at Earthwatch, an environmental research organisation.

Sara E Murphy joined The Shareholder Commons in 2020 after 22 years working in sustainable investing and environmental and social advocacy. Sara began her career working for NGOs in the international development and disaster response fields. In 2001, she transitioned into Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) research for the Investor Responsibility Research Center. In 2005, Sara moved to Frankfurt, Germany to work as a senior sustainability analyst for Fortis Investments’ SRI fund management team. Fortis Investments was acquired by BNP Paribas Asset Management during Sara’s tenure. Sara moved back to Washington, DC in 2011, where she launched her independent consultancy on sustainable investing and corporate responsibility.

Susheela Peres da Costa has led developments in institutional investor stewardship since 2006, including strategy development for some of the world’s most influential banks, pension funds, wealth advisers and asset managers. She led programme development for pioneering collaborative engagement service, Regnan, and spent 10 years as chair and deputy chair of The Responsible Investment Association of Australasia. She also authored the PRI's blueprint for advanced stewardship, Active Ownership 2.0. Currently, she serves on the boards of the boards of The Shareholder Commons (USA), Beyond Zero Emissions (Australia), and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW.

Tina Mavraki is a IoD Chartered Portfolio Director and strategic adviser, and a sustainability change-maker. Her 25-year executive career spans global capital markets, physical supply chains, and investment management in C-suite positions. In her executive career with Morgan Stanley and Citi, Tina managed US$ multi-billion debt portfolios and advised European Debt Management Offices. In physical supply chains, she led multiple private transactions in emerging and frontier markets. She led strategic co-financing agreements in investment management and the launch of new funds. She advised the State of Maharashtra, India, on renewable policy and solar tariffs. Tina is a Fellow of Chapter Zero UK and member of the ECODA Director Circles. She is a CFA charter holder and an accredited corporate mediator with CEDR.

Toby Heaps is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Corporate Knights. He spearheaded the first global ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations in 2005, and in 2007 coined the term “clean capitalism”. He helped co-found the Montreal Carbon Pledge, Financial Centres for Sustainability, Action Declaration on Climate Policy Engagement and the Sustainable Economy Intelligence Database. Toby has been published in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and the Globe and Mail, and is a regular guest speaker on CBC. In 1998, he played centrefield for the Yugoslav National Baseball Team.

Vipul pioneered ESG in Emerging Markets in 2007. Ranked in 2018 as one of the top 25 people who made the most positive contribution to ESG globally, he has rated 10,000+ companies in partnership with several leading ESG rating firms. He pioneered the world’s first EM ESG rating methodology in 2010 called 'Best in Context' that predicted the USD 20bn Corporate Governance scandal at Petrobras in 2012, two years ahead of time. This methodology was backed by investors with AUM exceeding USD 13tn.

He contributed to building the world’s first UN SDG based rating model (2019), Access to Medicine Index (2008), Access to Affordable Housing (2010), Responsible Mining Index (2016), Community Investment Index (2009), multiple Carbon Strategy indices (2011) and has spoken at 50+ global conferences. Vipul served on the SDG advisory committee of the PRI and is a two-times Fellow of Stanford University.