Thomas Kamei is an investor for Counterpoint Global. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2012 and has ten years of investment experience. Thomas leads the Sustainability Research integration strategy for the US based funds managed by the team. He was a Fellow at The Aspen Institute in 2015 where he developed a proprietary process to quantify executive compensation alignment. Prior to his current role, Thomas worked with Counterpoint Global for two years as an intern. Previously, he was a research intern at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he analyzed late stage private technology businesses for the Green Technology Growth Fund. Thomas received a B.S. in architectural studies from the University of Southern California.

Marc, a former Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Member and current Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Member, is the Corporate and ESG Reporting Thought Leader for EY Americas Assurance Practice. In this role, he provides insights on ESG and corporate reporting, including matters involving investors, corporations, NGOs and regulators. These insights are delivered via a combination of high-value communication channels to connect with key audiences.

Fluent in both financial and ESG reporting, Marc helps clients understand the rapidly evolving corporate reporting landscape and how they can develop a transparent articulation of the long-term value creation story throughout all the communication channels to investors, which is key to maximizing valuation opportunities. Marc’s expertise in corporate reporting has been built over 30 years, with deep experience in audit, buy-side research, policy and consulting. In January 2019, Marc was appointed as a Board Member of the SASB.

Previously, Marc was a Board Member of the FASB with his second and final term ending June 2018. During this time, the FASB finalized major new accounting standards for revenue recognition, lease accounting, financial instruments, hedge accounting, long-duration insurance, credit losses and many others. Further, Marc was instrumental in FASB projects on financial statement presentation, financial performance reporting, disclosure framework, and was involved globally with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), Enhanced Disclosures Task Force, International Integrated Reporting Council and the Corporate Reporting Dialogue. At FASB, Marc hosted forums on both coasts with auditors, preparers, securities regulators, securities attorneys, investors and audit committee members to kick off the Disclosure Framework project.

Prior to the appointment to the FASB, Marc’s prior experience includes Director of Research at a boutique sell-side research firm providing detailed forensic financial statement analysis to mutual fund and hedge fund clients to support their investment decisions. He led a team of more than twenty analysts in the US and London doing forensic financial statement analysis designed to detect early warning signs of underappreciated business deterioration and to warn institutional investor clients about those risks. Also, Marc worked closely with Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) corporate governance and ESG research teams to identify synergies in research processes and findings, especially around contentious shareholder voting situations.

Marc began his career at Arthur Andersen as both an auditor and as a litigation consultant.

Marc is a CPA licensed in New York. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with a concentration in Accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania.

Svetlana Klimenko is an advisor at the World Bank Group. She has extensive experience and internationally recognised expertise in the areas of financial and non-financial corporate and governments reporting. Over years, she has led World Bank engagement with the IPSAB, IFRS Foundation and other key stakeholders contributing within the global standard-setting landscape. She has actively contributed to the process and consultations leading to the set up of the International Sustainability Standards Board and coordinates teh WB sustainability reporting agenda. Svetlana is a FCCA and CPA

Robert is the world’s foremost expert on integrated reporting and a leader on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies.

W. Robert Knechel, PhD is the Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He is the Director of the International Accounting and Auditing Center (IAAC) located within the Fisher School of Accounting. Robert holds appointments at the University of Auckland as a Professor of Accounting Research and University of New South Wales as a Professor of Auditing. He is a member of the Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG) to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the US and is on the Board of the Foundation for Audit Research in the Netherlands. He is currently the Senior Editor of The Accounting Review and one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Colleen Honigsberg is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where her research is focused on the empirical study of corporate and securities law. She sits on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee and served previously as a Senior Economic Research Fellow with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Prior to joining the faculty in 2016, Professor Honigsberg received her Ph.D. from Columbia Business School and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She previously worked as a Certified Public Accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services and for Compass Lexecon.

Paul Griffin is an international authority on accounting, financial information, and disclosure.

He has published over 80 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, five research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two case books on U.S. corporate financial reporting. His research has had a substantial impact on the profession.

Aniket Shah is Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Finance Strategy at Jefferies Group LLC. In this role, Aniket leads the integration of ESG and sustainability analysis within the global investment research department and engages with clients on this dynamic area of corporate and financial services. Prior to joining Jefferies, Aniket held senior roles in emerging market investing and financing sustainable development in both the public and private sectors, including at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, OppenheimerFunds and UBS Group AG. Aniket serves on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International and the UN SDSN. He is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Aniket is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Bretton Woods Committee, and is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Oxford, where he completed his PhD on the financing of sustainable development.