Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda: Building Sustainability into Finance

• How can financial institutions fully embrace sustainability?
• Exploring the role financial systems; How far are regulations and infrastructures of the market prepared to go?

Speakers

Introduction
Mr. Hikaru Kobayashi, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Presentation (PDF: 409 KB)

Panelists
Mr. Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

Professor Fernando Teixeira Dos Santos, Chairman, IOSCO Executive Committee; Chairman, Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários of Portugal

Ms. Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert Group

Chair
Mr. Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland)

Speaker Biographies

Mr. Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

Ernst Ligteringen has been serving as Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) since November 2002. The GRI is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines and make sustainability reporting as routine and comparable as financial reporting. Started in 1997 by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), the GRI became independent and moved to Amsterdam in 2002. GRI is an official collaborating centre of UNEP and also works in co-operation with UN Global Compact.

Mr. Ligteringen brings a management and leadership background in international organisations. As its first Executive Director he led Oxfam International from 1995 to 2001 and subsequently he worked with the International Federation of the Red Cross. As the Director of Program Coordination he led a re-organisation to strengthen the Federation's support for the 178 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies worldwide. He has furthermore been a management consultant for the International Labor Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization.

Mr. Ligteringen is a Dutch national, who returned to his home country for the GRI assignment after 24 years of work and study in former Zaire, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, the United Kingdom and France.

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Professor Fernando Teixeira Dos Santos - Chairman, IOSCO Executive Committee; Chairman, Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários of Portugal

Academic Degrees

Doctor in Economics, University of Porto, 1986.
PhD in Economics, University of South Carolina, United States, 1985.
License in Economics, University of Porto, 1973.

Professional Career

As of March 2000, chairman of the Portuguese Securities Exchange Commission (CMVM - Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários).
Since May 2000, chairman of the Executive Committee of IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions).
October 1995 to October 1999, member of the Portuguese Government as Secretary of State for the Treasury and Finance.
Since 1991, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto.

Academic Activity

Publication and presentation of several articles in journals, books, conferences, and congresses in the areas of Macroeconomic and Monetary Theory and Policy.
Teaching of several courses in those areas at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto between 1992 and 1995.

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Barbara Krumsiek, President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairperson, Calvert Group, Ltd.

Barbara J. Krumsiek is President and CEO of Calvert, the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds. Calvert manages over $9.0 billion among both screened and non-screened portfolios. In 2002, Barron's ranked Calvert the eighth best performing mutual fund family for five years.

Ms Krumsiek often addresses international audiences on topics such as sustainability, social investing, and governance. In 2001, she represented Calvert as a founding member of ASrIA, an organization whose mission is to promote social investing throughout Asia's capital markets. Ms. Krumsiek is a member of the Advisory Counsel to the United Nations Global Compact, an initiative of the UN Secretary General designed to promote responsible corporate citizenship within the international business community.

Ms. Krumsiek has over 29 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Calvert in 1997, she spent 23 years with Alliance Capital Management, LP where she served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the mutual funds division.

Graduating Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Douglass College, Rutgers University, she received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She received her masters degree in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Ms. Krumsiek was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, by Georgetown University in May 2002, citing her work in advancing the critical dialogue regarding the role of business in society.

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Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland)

Tony Juniper has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 20 years. Since 2003 he has been the Executive Director of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland and from 2000 has been the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International, the global federation of 68 national Friends of the Earth organisations.

Tony has worked with Friends of the Earth since 1990 and played a prominent role in many of its most high-profile campaigns. He led the Policy and Campaigns team of about 40 campaigners and researchers on the organisation's energy, biodiversity, transport, industrial pollution, food / biotechnology campaigns and sustainable development policy. Tony has been very active in successfully changing the policies and practices of international companies, among others Rio Tinto, BP, Shell and Balfour Beatty. He is now active in the Friends of the Earth campaign to change UK and international law so as to promote more sustainable companies. Tony has been closely involved with the international campaigns on globalisation, climate change and GM crops. He is also a Director of the Ilisu Dam campaign, which successfully prevailed in persuading Balfour Beatty to withdraw from the controversial Ilisu dam project in Turkey (2001).

Tony is a leading commentator on environmental issues and has co-authored an award-winning guide to the parrots of the world. He co-authored the award-winning Parrots (1998) and wrote the acclaimed story of Spix's Macaw (2002).

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