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Accountability in a Sustainable World
We recognize the immediate need for dialogue among academics and practitioners about sustainability, accountability, data and measurement, related assurance, high quality information to inform responsible investment decisions, and accountability in setting of personal, corporate, and public sector goals.
The aim of this conference is to meet this need by focusing on those 4 key pillars to a sustainable future: investment, assurance, regulation, and target setting while building and strengthening the links between academia and practice, encouraging younger academics by providing an opportunity to present their work to both other academics and practitioners, while providing opportunities for practitioners to communicate with academics and influence their work. We don’t have time to wait for COP27. The time to act is now.Featured speakers

Thomas Kamei
Executive Director, Counterpoint Global | Investor
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
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 Siegel
Partner, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Former Member Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Former Member International Accounting Standards Board
EY
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
Advisor
World Bank
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 Eccles
Founding Chairman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Visiting Professor of Management Practice
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Robert is the world’s foremost expert on integrated reporting and a leader on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies.
He was previously a tenured Professor and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.
He is the Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He has recently joined the board of Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) in Sweden. Bob is also on the Advisory Board of the JANA Impact Capital Fund.
In 2011, Bob was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, for his extensive, positive contribution to building trust in business, and in 2014 and 2015 he was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Bob is the award-winning author of a dozen books, including seminal works on integrated reporting, sustainability, and the role of business in society. A prolific writer for both academic and practitioner audiences, he has his own column on Forbes.com. His most recent book (with Michael P Krzus and Sydney Ribot) is The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality (John Wiley & Sons, 2015). In this book he suggests the idea of an annual board of directors ‘Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality’.
From the beginning of his career as an academic and practitioner, Bob has always been dedicated to turning theory into practice. One of his most significant current efforts in this regard is ‘The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality Campaign’ in collaboration with the American Bar Association’s ‘Task Force on Sustainable Development’, the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and the UN Global Compact. The goal of this campaign is that, by 2025, the board of directors of every listed company will publish ‘The Statement.’ In doing so, they will demonstrate the extent to which the company views its role in society to be one of supporting sustainable development for the long-term interests of shareholders. This will help to make sustainability core to both companies and investors.
Bob received an SB in Mathematics and an SB in Humanities and Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (both degrees in 1973) and an AM (1975) and a PhD in Sociology (1979) from Harvard University. He joined the faculty of Harvard Business School that year and received tenure in 1989.

W. Robert Knechel
Frederick E Fisher Eminent Scholar; Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center
Warrington College of Business, University of Florida
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
Associate Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
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
Distinguished Professor of Management
Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis
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
Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Research
Jefferies Group LLC
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.