Speakers

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.5 million views. He serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, giving a four-year programme of lectures to the public, and on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2020, and he is a co-author of “Principles of Corporate Finance” (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 23 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021.

Allison Herren Lee is a Former Acting Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Lee was appointed by President Donald Trump to the SEC, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn into office on July 8, 2019. Ms. Lee served as Acting Chair of the Commission from Jan. 21, 2021 to Apr. 17, 2021.

Commissioner Lee brought to the SEC over two decades of experience as a securities law practitioner. She wrote, lectured, and taught courses internationally in Spain and Italy on financial regulation and corporate law. Commissioner Lee served for over a decade in various roles at the SEC, including as counsel to Commissioner Kara Stein and as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit. In addition, she has served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, was a member of the American Bar Association’s former Committee on Public Company Disclosure, and participated on a USAID project in Armenia assisting in the drafting of periodic reporting and disclosure provisions for a comprehensive law of the Republic of Armenia on Securities Market Regulation.

Prior to government service, Commissioner Lee was a partner at Sherman & Howard LLC, focusing on securities, antitrust, and commercial litigation. A member of the Colorado bar, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Colorado and a JD from the University of Denver College of Law, where she was salutatorian, a Chancellor’s Scholar, and served on the Law Review.

Andrew Karolyi is Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and College Dean for Academic Affairs. He is a professor of finance and holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the College’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is also a professor of economics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Karolyi is a scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research is featured in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. Karolyi recently completed a four-year term as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. He is a recipient of the Michael Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations (2017), the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Biennial Best Paper Prize (2006), and Johnson School’s Prize for Excellence in Research (2010). He leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He is president-elect/program chair of the Western Finance Association, has served as a director of the American Finance Association, and is past chairperson of the board of trustees and past president of the Financial Management Association International. Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.

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.

Anup holds Canada Research Chair and Full Professor at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Previously, he was a professor at Kellogg (Northwestern University) and Tuck (Dartmouth College). Anup brings vast corporate experience of fourteen years to academics. He has worked at billion-dollar conglomerates and cash-strapped startups. He examines financial, valuation, and accounting issues of digital firms. He has published over thirty articles in Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. He has also published scholarly articles in Management Science, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies

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.

Christian Hofmann is Professor of Accounting and Control at LMU Munich School of Management. He is a principal investigator at the Accounting for Transparency project. His research interests are in performance evaluation and incentives. Professor Hofmann is currently an editor at European Accounting Review and Journal of Business Economics. Professor Hofmann has published his research in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Management Accounting Research, among others. His textbook on Cost Accounting (together with Gunther Friedl and Burkhard Pedell) will appear in 2022 in its fourth edition (in German) as well as a first edition in English.

Eivind Lorgen is the former CEO & President of Nordea Asset Management (NAM) in North America. NAM is a global leader within responsible investments & ESG. He is an unconstrained advisor to corporate issuers, funds and asset managers as well as non-profit organisations and leading business schools. He is a founding member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Investor Advisory Group (IAG) and the Chair Emeritus for SASB’s IAG.

Eivind is on the Reiman School of Finance Advisory Board for the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He holds a BSBA from the University of Denver and he also did his master’s studies at the University of Denver. His Executive Management education is from IMD, Switzerland and The London Business School. Eivind is also an Adjunct Professor and has lectured at Daniels College of Business and Columbia Business School.

Eivind served 16 months in the Norwegian Royal Air Force and played varsity soccer for The University of Denver. He lives in Harlem, Manhattan with his family.

Ethan Rouen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism, and the faculty co-chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School. His current research interests focu on the measurement and disclosure of human capital.

Head of department and associate professor at NHH Norwegian School of Economics.
Co-head of the research center Digital Auditing at NHH. Chair of EAA conference in Bergen 2022.
MBA, CPA and PhD from NHH. Auditor and consultant for 25+ years in McKinsey, Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young (EY). Have held several positions as a partner in Arthur Andersen and EY, including head of Nordic auditing practice in EY. Auditor for several of the largest firms in Norway; including Equinor.

Florian is currently a research associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he cofounded the Aggregate Confusion Project. His research interest covers sustainable investing with a focus on ESG ratings, the disagreement between different rating agencies, and how it affects investors, firms, as well as academic research.

He received his PhD in economics from Paris-Dauphine University. During his PhD, he held a visiting research position at ETH Zurich. Florian worked as a quantitative researcher at Amundi Asset Management and as a quantitative strategist/ trader at Alphadyne Asset Management. He taught at Paris-Dauphine University, Sciences-Po Paris, and MIT Sloan.

Frank (J.M.) Verhoeven (1966) is CEO of European logistics service provider Vos Logistics since 2008. Through a MBO he became co-owner of the company in 2014. Frank has a passion to work in international teams, to improve performance and he has a strong drive for innovation and sustainable solutions. Before Vos Logistics, Frank held management positions at Frans Maas (currently DSV), Lease Plan and rotogravure printer Biegelaar. He holds an MBA in Business Management from the University of Groningen.

Frank also serves as board member of NDL/HIDC (promotion board for the Dutch logistics community), supervisory boardmember of Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs (OMO), Munckhof Group (taxi, coach and travel services) and Secure Logistics.

Frank is married and father of 3 kids.

Frederic is a former KPMG partner and HR executive at large organisations, Frederic has held a number of global positions for businesses and institutions at a management and supervisory level on executive remuneration.

Frederic is a published author and recognised thought leader, who actively participates in sector discussions in the financial services industry in light of the guidelines from regulatory bodies on compensation, with particular expertise in: Executive remuneration, Private Equity compensation programmes, Equity plans, Corporate governance, HR aspects in M&A transactions, Performance assessment.

Geoffrey Heal is a professor at Columbia Business School, noted for his research on environmental and resource economics and economic theory.

He chairs the Board of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and past president and a Life Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Heal has also been a principal in two start-up companies.

Heal has written 18 books and about 300 articles. His latest book, Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity, sets out the economic case for environmental conservation.

Gerald Garvey, PhD, Managing Director, is a member of BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equity team and head of Sustainability Research for Blackrock Systematic.

Dr. Garvey’s service with the firm dates back to 2004, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. His research is based on applied microeconomics and has spanned from short-term trading to company strategy at the company, industry, and country levels. Prior to joining BGI, Dr. Garvey was an academic for 15 years including at the University of British Columbia, Sydney University, Australian National University and the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of New South Wales.

Dr. Garvey’s research on executive compensation, labour economics, and corporate finance has been published in finance, accounting, labor economics, law and economics, and contract theory. Dr. Garvey earned an BA degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983 and a PhD in economics from University of California at Los Angeles in 1987.

Jacob Soll is University Professor (one of only 22 at USC), and Professor of Philosophy, History and, Accounting at the University of Southern California.

He received a D.E.A. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and a Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge University. He has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy before coming to USC.

Soll has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes including the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society, two NEH Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2011, the $500,000 MacArthur “Genius Prize” Fellowship.

Soll’s first book, Publishing “The Prince” (2005), examines how Machiavelli’s work was popularized and influenced modern political thought. It received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. In his second book, The Information Master (2009), Soll investigates how Louis XIV’s famous finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert fused financial management and library sciences to create one of the first modern information states.

His third book, The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (2014), presents a sweeping history of accounting and politics, drawing on a wealth of examples from over a millennia of human history to reveal how accounting can used to both build kingdoms, empires and entire civilizations, but also to undermine them. It explains the origins of our own financial crisis are not so much cyclic, but rather deeply rooted in a long disconnect between human beings and their attempts to manage financial numbers. The Reckoning has sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide.

His new book, Free Market: The History of an Idea (Basic Books, September 6, 2022), traces the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, arguing that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand just how central the state was in the genesis free market thought—and to develop new economic concepts to face today’s challenges.

Soll is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Politico, the Boston Globe, The New Republic, PBS, Salon.com and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

He has spent the last several years directly involved with policy questions concerning the Greek debt crisis and EU economic policy, working with Greek, EU and private stake-holders, and has recently worked with the Greek government, the European Commission and the Prime Minister of Spain. An award-winning Renaissance and Enlightenment intellectual historian, Professor Soll was also was named one of the Top Accounting Power 50 2015 by The Accountant magazine, the oldest publication in the profession. Mixing historical scholarship with policy studies, as an advisor to the Kazarian Foundation, he is now a noted independent public spokesperson for government transparency, international financial standards and professional accounting ethics.

He lives in Los Angeles.

Jan Bouwens is full professor of accounting at the University of Amsterdam and is research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

In his studies he tries to speak to the question of whether, how, and under what conditions accounting affects decision making of investors and managers. He collects archival and survey data from individual firms to examine the working of accounting and control systems in these firms to examine his research questions. He currently studies how audit firms design and use performance measurement systems to motivate their equity partners. He also studies how target setting is related to implicit contracting within firms. In another study he examines how the deployment of internal controls affect a bank’s loan decisions. In his current research he looks into how ESG metrics are becoming a part of the performance management system..

On behalf of the (Dutch Inter-University) Limperg Institute he organizes Ph.D. courses in accounting. He serves at the board of Contemporary Accounting Research and The Accounting Review and is head of the accounting department at the University of Amsterdam.

Jan has advised the Dutch parliament on education, finance, compensation/performance measure and auditing topics. He also advised the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the AFM (Dutch equivalent of the SEC) and the Dutch banking Association. He is an active member of the Dutch association of accountants. He writes editorials for newspapers in the UK and in the Netherlands on a regular basis. He is one of the managing directors of the Foundation of Auditing Research (FAR), a research institute that provides academics with data collected in audit firms.

His teaching experience extends from bachelor, to Ph.D. programs in business economics. During the academic year 2013-2014 he taught accounting in the MBA program at Harvard business School. He also taught accounting in various executive programs. He holds his doctorate degree from Tilburg University and has published in several top tier academic journals, including Management Science; the Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and The Accounting Review. Jan recently established the Journal Accountability in a Sustainable World teogheth with Peter Easton, Robert Knechel and Shiva Rajgopal.

Jennifer is an International and Human Rights lawyer and Chief Sustainability Officer for Philip Morris International (PMI). Ms. Motles joined the company in 2015 and helped craft PMI’s sustainability strategy, ensuring it was intrinsically linked to the adoption of the company’s vision of delivering a smoke-free future. Since then, she has helped advance PMI’s transformation, honing the company’s sustainability and ESG performance.

Since Jennifer assumed the role of CSO in 2020, PMI has been recognized as a sustainability leader by multiple leading organizations in the ESG space, including, notably, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), as well as receiving CDP’s prestigious “triple-A” score for its efforts to combat climate change, protect forests, and ensure water security for the second consecutive year.

Joseph A. Grundfest, the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, is a former Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission whose scholarship has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford law reviews. He is recognized as among the nation’s most influential attorneys, and has received multiple teaching awards. He founded Stanford’s Directors’ College, the nation’s leading venue for the continuing professional education of directors of publicly traded corporations, and is senior faculty at Rock Center for Corporate Governance. Professor Grundfest chairs the audit committee of KKR & Co. and is a co-founder and former director of Financial Engines, the nation’s first successful robo-adviser that grew to $202 billion in assets prior to a going-private transaction. He is also a director of Air Protein and of Quantifind, and a former director of Oracle Corp.

Joseph Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Dixon School of Accounting at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2015. His research focuses on the effects of environmental, social, and governance reporting in financial and managerial accounting settings and has been published in top accounting and ethics journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Business Ethics. Prior to his career in academia, Joseph worked in commercial real estate as an asset manager. He teaches financial accounting and accounting theory at UCF.

Juliette Gaussem is the Head of ESG reporting at Signify where she leads the sustainability reporting process and manage internal and external engagement and reputation. Prior to this role, Juliette worked for a French start-up focusing on maximizing social impact and became a sustainability reporting expert at GRI where she led the GRI Guidance and Practice unit. Her main expertise is multi-stakeholder consultation, ESG and corporate sustainability strategies. Juliette holds a Master in Management from the Reims Management Business School (France) and the International Business Linkage Program Degree from Aalto University (Finland). She was born in Paris (France) and now lives in Amsterdam.

Jurian Hendrikse is a PhD candidate in accounting at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. Before starting his PhD, he graduated from the Research Master in Accounting at Tilburg University. His research focusses on the real and capital market effects of companies’ sustainability performance and disclosures. His research has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and several other international news outlets.

Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business & Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. An expert on business-government relations, sustainable capitalism, and corporate reporting & auditing, Professor Ramanna studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. He has authored dozens of research articles and case studies on leadership and public-policy issues in Africa, Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, Latin America, and the US, and he has consulted with several leading commercial and public organizations worldwide. His scholarship has won numerous awards, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics Best Paper Prize and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for outstanding case-writing, dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.” In 2022, he won the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey prize for “groundbreaking management thinking” for joint work on rigorous climate accounting.

Professor Ramanna is director of Oxford’s Master in Public Policy program, a flagship one-year degree for current and prospective leaders in government. He is founder and faculty chair of the Transformational Leadership Fellowship, a bespoke, by-invitation program for senior leaders looking to reimagine their public-service impact. He also founded and directs Oxford’s Case Centre for Public Leadership, and he is fellow and member of the finance and investment committees at St. John’s College.

Previously, Professor Ramanna taught leadership, corporate governance, and accounting at the Harvard Business School in both the MBA and senior executive-education programs. He has a doctorate from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including as co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Accounting, Economics & Law.

He lives in Oxford with his husband, Jon, and they enjoy dinner parties and touring Caravaggios.

Khrystyna Bochkay is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Miami (UM) and an Academic Fellow at the International Sustainability Standards Board. She joined the faculty at UM in 2014 after completing her PhD in Accounting at Rutgers University. Khrystyna holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Statistics from Ivan Franko National University in L’viv, Ukraine.

Khrystyna’s research interests include corporate disclosures, sustainability reporting, capital markets, behavioral finance, forecasting and textual analysis. Khrystyna’s research on the information value of the SEC filings, earnings conference calls, and other corporate disclosures has appeared in top accounting journals.

Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen is a sustainability adventurer. He is a co-heads of the Centre for Sustainable Business at NHH Norwegian School of Economics with Sveinung Jørgensen. For close to two decades, they have done research, teaching and outreach on issues related to sustainable business in close collaboration with companies both in Norway and abroad. In addition to their work as researchers, they serve on boards of start-ups and established firms, advise business organizations and have co-founded companies, including the circular-economic start-up Nordic Circles, which was acknowledged as a “World Changing Idea” by Fast Company in 2021. They host the podcast Adventures in Sustainable Business and have co-authored the Open Access book RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation, which has been downloaded more than 800,000 times.

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.

Marcel is a Research Affiliate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Senior Impact Associate at Planet First Partners. He specialises in integrating climate change and sustainability considerations into accounting, finance, and strategic management. As a researcher, consultant, and analyst, he has advised on sustainability issues for a broad range of organisations, including investment management firms, private equity groups, fintech start-ups, and multinational corporations. Marcel completed his PhD at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, researching how companies and investors manage climate risks.

Nicole Holden is a PhD student at Arizona State University. She has a BS in Biology and studied for a year at the University of British Columbia in the Zoology PhD program. Given her background, Nicole’s research interests are in ESG-related topics including Sustainability Framework Integration. She enjoys collaborating with Tax, Audit, Financial, and Data Analytics faculty. Her dissertation is entitled “Does Green Fund Ownership Impact Liquidity and Analyst Following?”

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.

Professor Easton’s expertise in accounting and valuation is widely recognized by the academic research community and by the legal community. Professor Easton has been qualified as an expert witness in the Delaware Chancery Court and he has consulted on valuation issues for investment firms and accounting firms in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Professor Easton holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. He holds a graduate degree from the University of New England and a PhD in Business Administration (majoring in accounting and finance) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Easton’s research on corporate valuation has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Professor Easton has served as an Associate Editor for 11 leading accounting journals and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is an Editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Easton has held appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, Macquarie University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne, and Nyenrode University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of CentER, Tilburg University and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and in research. Professor Easton regularly teaches accounting analysis and security valuation to MBAs.

He, together with John Wilde, Mary Lea McAnally, and Robert Halsey, is author of “Financial Accounting for MBAs,” now in its sixth publication; “Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs,” authored with Robert Halsey, Mary Lea McAnally, Al Hartgraves and Wayne Morse is in its fourth edition; “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation,” authored with Mary Lea McAnally, Patricia Fairfield, Xiao-Jun Zhang and Robert Halsey is currently in its third edition; and “Estimating the Cost of Capital Implied by Market Prices and Accounting Data,” was published in Foundations and Trends in Accounting in 2009. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Rakhi leads efforts to integrate sustainability across the global enterprise. She Chairs Liberty’s Climate Council, an internal cross-functional group that is developing and coordinating the company’s climate-related activities. She also represents Liberty on the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) Forum and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Framework’s (PCAF) Insurance Emissions Working Group.

Rakhi joined Liberty in May 2020, prior to which she led State Street Global Advisors’ ESG Investing and Asset Stewardship activities. She is a globally recognized leader in the area of sustainability and serves on the Advisory Board of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at the Columbia Law School and Persefoni, a SaaS-based carbon accounting, reporting and management platform.

She earned her MBA (’02) from Yale University and her Bachelors of Commerce (’95) from Bombay University. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1997.

Richard Robb is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs where he teaches classes on economics and finance; CEO of investment manager Christofferson, Robb & Co. which he co-founded 20 years ago in New York and London; and Principal of project developer First Ammonia. In 2019, Yale University Press published his book, Willful: How We Choose What We Do. He has a PhD in Economics from University of Chicago.

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

Robert J. Jackson, Jr. is Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, and Director of the Program on Corporate Law and Policy at the New York University School of Law. He was nominated and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2017 and served in that role until February 2020.

Prior to his nomination to the Commission, Professor Jackson taught at Columbia Law School, where students honored him with the Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Before that, he served as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department during the financial crisis and as deputy to Kenneth Feinberg, Treasury’s Special Master on Executive Compensation. Earlier in his career, Professor Jackson practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns. Jackson holds two undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He was born in the Bronx, is a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees, and lives in New York with his wife, Bryana and son, Briggs.

Robert S. Kaplan, Professor Emeritus (but not retired) at Harvard Business School, has co-developed both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), widely recognized as seminal contributions to management theory and practice. His current research applies these innovations to problems at the intersection of business and society, including a new robust system for carbon accounting.

Kaplan has authored or co-authored 14 books and 250 papers. He received engineering degrees from MIT and Cornell, and has been recognized with Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the American Accounting Association and induction into the Accounting Hall of Fame.

Robert Stebbins is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the Corporate Governance practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He focuses on SEC compliance and enforcement issues, corporate governance matters, internal and governmental investigations, and advising boards of directors. He also has an extensive practice as a transactional attorney, advising on M&A, private equity, investment fund and capital markets transactions.

Bob rejoined Willkie in 2021 after serving as General Counsel of the SEC from 5/17 to 1/21.

Roger Simnett is an Emeritus Professor at UNSW Sydney and a Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin University. He was previously a member of the IAASB (2019-2021) and the Chair and CEO of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (2017-2020). He. He has over 25 years background in international standard setting, including being a member of the task force that developed the international integrated reporting framework and co-chairing the IAASB standard on assurance of greenhouse gases. A leading international auditing/assurance researcher with publications in the top accounting and auditing journals, in 2018 he was awarded the Order of Australia for service to the accounting profession and education.

Satyam Khanna is the SIEPR Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He joined Stanford after serving as the SEC’s Senior Policy Advisor for Climate & ESG, the agency’s first-ever official dedicated to integrating ESG considerations into the federal securities laws, under Acting Chair Allison Lee. Previously he was Counsel to SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and on the staff of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury Department. He received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

With more than 18 years experience in various fields of Internal Control Assurance in large scale international environments I am passionate about providing my Clients with in-depth feedback and support on the management and continuous improvement of internal controls in all respects including specific challenges arising from sourcing or transformation scenarios. In my career I gained professional experience in the audit and advisory of international clients as well as complex corporate structures with focus on proven expertise in Internal Controls. I am experienced with regards to Procurement excellence regarding end-to-end lifecycle from an effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and compliance perspective. I am also experienced in Integrated Reporting / Sustainability Assurance expertise focusing on traceability and audit readiness of reporting processes from an Internal Control perspective and EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy expertise in providing assurance as well implementation.

Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture.  His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist. He teaches fundamental analysis of financial statements for investors, managers and entrepreneurs and a PhD seminar on accounting regulation.

Key awards include 2006 and 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution to the Literature award, 2006 and 2016 Graham and Dodd Scroll Prize given by the Financial Analysts Journal, and the 2008, 2012 and 2015 Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics.

He is the Departmental Editor of the Accounting track of Management Science.  He is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics and an ex-editor at Contemporary Accounting Research.  He was on the editorial board of The Accounting Review from 2003-2011. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Professor Orpurt earned his MBA and Ph.D. at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His dissertation garnered the 2004 American Accounting Association International Section dissertation of the year award.

At Arizona State University, he teaches ESG Reporting and Ethics at the master’s level and is cross listing the course with ASU’s School of Sustainability. Previously, he was the Associate Director of the School of Accountancy and has held visiting professorships at The University of Chicago and Purdue University. He has won numerous teaching awards.

His recent research focuses on the Statement of Cash Flows with top-tier publications and in-person presentations to the International Accounting Standards Board. Currently, he is researching ESG Reporting.

Before his academic career, he was a CPA with KPMG, a portfolio manager (Franklin Templeton), and a litigation expert helping lead an expert testimony team representing JPMorgan Chase & Co. regarding their Enron class action lawsuit defense.

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

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.

Tom is an Executive Fellow in the Department of Finance at London Business School and is an Executive Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He contributes to the evidence-based practice of responsible business by connecting academic research, public policy, and corporate action. His research interests include executive compensation, stakeholder versus shareholder capitalism, and ESG investing.

Tom has 20+ years of experience as a board adviser. Most recently he was a senior Partner at PwC where he established and led the firm’s executive pay practice, advising major European companies on corporate governance and executive pay.

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.

Wilhelm Mohn is Global Head of Corporate Governance at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), where he leads teams of experts focusing on NBIM’s ownership and standard setting activities, and ESG analysis. Until 2021, he was NBIM’s Head of Sustainability. NBIM is the investment management division of the Norwegian Central Bank and manages the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The GPFG is invested globally in listed equities and bonds, as well as listed and unlisted real estate.

Wilhelm joined NBIM in 2014 from the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, where he worked on asset management and responsible investment from 2009. He has also worked at Storebrand, a Norwegian insurance company and asset manager. His experience spans the governance and sustainability topics.

Wilhelm is a board member of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). He holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford.