ESG Competent Boards Leaders

Jim Hagemann Snabe

Chair, A.P Moller – Maersk, Chair Siemens, Vice-Chair, Allianz & Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum

Annette Verschuren, O.C

CEO and Chair NRStor Inc., Serves on multiple boards

Paul Polman

Former CEO, Unilever, Chair, International Chamber of Commerce, Chair, The B-Team, Vice-Chair, United Nations Global Compact and co-founder, IMAGINE

Peter Damgaard Jensen

CEO, PKA & Chair, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Claus Stig Pedersen

Head of Global Sustainability & Public Affairs, EMEA, Novozymes & UN SDG Pioneer

Torben Möger Pedersen

CEO, PensionDanmark

Michael Treschow

Chair, Wallenberg Foundations Investment Committee, Former Chair…

Kevin Coon

Managing Partner, Baker McKenzie Toronto, Chair Policy Committee, Baker McKenzie International…

Erika Karp

Chief Impact Officer at Pathstone

Bjarne Graven Larsen

Former CIO, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan & Former CIO, ATP

Nancy Lockhart

Board Member, Loblaw Companies Limited, Atrium Mortgage…

Andrew Steer

President and CEO, World Resources Institute, Global Trustee, World…

Richard Howitt

CEO, International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)

Peter Dey

Chair, Paradigm Capital Inc. and the “godfather of Canadian governance”

Paul Druckman

Chair, World Benchmarking Alliance, Corporate Reporting Council…

David Pitt-Watson

Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School, Leading thinker in responsible investment

Paul Dickinson

Founder and Executive Chair, CDP

Robert H. Herz

Non-Executive Director, Morgan Stanley and SASB

Jessica Fries

Executive Chair, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project

Thomas Thune Andersen

Chair, Lloyd’s Register Group Limited and Ørsted A/S, Vice-Chair, VKR…

Matt Arnold

Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Finance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Robert G. Eccles

Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Said Business School…

Georg Kell

Chair, Arabesque and Founding Director, United Nations Global Compact

Andrew Winston

Author, The Big Pivot, Co-Author, International Bestseller Green to Gold

Jules Kortenhorst

CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute

Veena Ramani

Senior Program Director, Capital Market Systems, Ceres

Michael Kobori

Chief Sustainability Officer, Starbucks Coffee Company

Amy Larkin

Author, Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global…

Nik Gowing

Founder, Director, Co-author ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’; Main Presenter, BBC World News 1996-2014

Tim Youmans

Lead-North America, EOS at Federated Hermes

Dianne Dillon-Ridgley

Former Board Member, Interface (1997-2014), Green Mountain Energy, Center for International Environmental Law…

Anirban Ghosh

Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group

Jonathan Drimmer

Partner, Paul Hastings, LLP

Helene Li

CEO and Co-Founder, GoImpact Capital Partners

Ingvild A. Sørensen

Senior Manager, Strategic Development, United Nations Global Compact

Julie Gebauer

Global Head of Human Capital & Benefits, Willis Towers Watson

Jane Diplock, AO

Chair, Regulatory Committee, Abu Dhabi Global Market; Director, Singapore Exchange…

Upkar Arora, FCPA, FCA, ICD.D

CEO, Rally Assets Inc. and Co founder and CEO…

Dr. Wesley Hall

Executive Chairman and Founder, Kingsdale Advisors

Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr

Board Member, AT&T, Inc, Jones Lang LaSalle, ProAssurance, and…

Naomi Diamant

Assistant Dean, NYU Stern Executive Programs, Academic Director, EMBA Programs, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communications

The Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Former Chair of a Cabinet Committee on Public Security and…

Caroline Casey

Founder, The Valuable 500

Sanjay Khanna

Foresight Advisor, Former Futurist at Baker McKenzie

Andrew Wallis OBE

CEO, Unseen and Modern Slavery Helpline

Huguette Labelle C.C., Ph.d., LL,D

Chair, International Anti-Corruption Conference Council

Sarah Keohane Williamson

CEO, FCLTGlobal, Board of Directors, Evercore, Board of Directors, Whitehead Institute, Advisory Board, Ira M. Millstein Center for Global…

Thomas Gann

Chief Public Policy Officer,
McAfee

José R. Hernandez, PhD

CEO, Ortus Strategies, Author, Broken Business: Seven Steps to Reform Good…

Tyson Johnson

Chief Operating Officer, CyberNB, Former Director, Global Security & Investigation, Celestica..

Gerry Tidd

Executive Vice President, Corporate, BlueScope and Founding Director, Manufacturing Australia

Hans Koeleman

Chief Corporate Communication & Corporate Social Responsibility, KPN

Timothy Mohin

Former CEO, GRI; Former Senior Director Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)..

Miranda Ballentine

CEO, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA); Former, Assistant Secretary, Installations, Environment…

Ariel Fromer Babcock, CFA

Managing Director, Head of Research, FCLT Global

David Crane

B Team Leader, Board Member, ACWA Power, Former CEO NRG Energy

Daniel Oh

Managing Director, Corporate Governance, Morrow Sodali, Former Vice President, Investment Stewardship, BlackRock Inc..

Hentie Dirker

Chief Integrity Officer, SNC-Lavalin, Former Regional Compliance Officer, Siemens Canada, Former Chair, EthicsCentre of Canada

Dottie Schindlinger

Vice President of Thought Leadership, Diligent, Co-author, Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate…

Harald Friedl

CEO, Circle Economy

Christian Leitz

Head, Corporate Responsibility Management and Historical Archives, UBS

Philippe Zaouati

CEO, Mirova

Hakan Lucius

Head of Corporate Responsibility and Civil Society, European Investment Bank

Herman Mulder

Chair, Impact Economy Foundation and SDG Charter Netherlands

Jens W. Moberg

Chair, Grundfos

Daniel Siciliano

Co-Founder & Fellow, Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Fellow, Stanford Law School…

Albert Wong

Citizenship Judge, Citizenship Commission, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada…

Kathleen Taylor, CM

Chair, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Vice Chair, The Adecco Group; Director, CPPIB and Air Canada…

Daniel Schmid

Chief Sustainability Officer, SAP

Curtis Ravenel

Senior Advisor to Mark Carney (COP26 Finance Adviser and UN Special Envoy) Member of the Secretariat, FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Distinguished Fellow, Sustainable Finance, ClimateWorks Foundation

Lisa Reshaur

General Manager, Digital Security and Risk Engineering – Governance, Risk…

Mark Hawkins

Member of the Executive Committee, President and Chief Financial Officer…

R. Gopalakrishnan

Author, Doodles on Leadership: Experiences within and Beyond Tata, Castrol India and Board Member, Hemas…

Mervyn E. King

Chair Emeritus, King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa

Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Former Member of Parliament, and Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Trudeau and to International Development

Samuel J. Palmisano

Chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise, Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM…

Annette Stube

Board Member, Fortum and Former Head of Sustainability, Maersk Group

Joyce Cacho

Board Director / NED, Sunrise Banks, NA; World Benchmarking Alliance

Martin Wolf

Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Josée Morin

Board Member, Cima+ and Mila

Barbara Oberleitner

Vice President, WSP Global Inc.

Christopher Crummey

Global Executive Director, IBM Security Command Centers

Mike Barry

Director Mikebarryeco Limited

Shailesh Haribhakti

Chairman, Blue Star LTD, Larsen&Toubro Finance

Charles O. (Chad) Holliday Jr.

Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, Former Chairman of the board of Bank of America, Former Chairman and CEO, DuPont.

Mairead Lavery

President and Chief Executive Officer, Export Developm

Johan Rockström

Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Peter Schlosser

Vice President & Vice Provost, Global Futures Arizona State University

Dov Baron

IncMag Top 100 leadership speakers to hire, #Speaker, #1 Fortune 500 Podcast Host, Master Storyteller, Dragonist

Robert Rubinstein

Chairman and Founding Partner, TBLI Group Holdings B.V.

Herbert Heitmann

Former Chief Communications Officer at SAP SE, Royal Dutch Shell plc and Bayer AG, Founder of European Association of Communications Director (EACD), Managing Partner of Karaktero Management Consulting

Kersi Porbunderwalla

President and CEO, The Information-Security Institute, The EUGDPR, and President at The E-Compliance Academy

Birgit Noergaard

Non-Executive Director, WSP Global, DSV, NCC, Associated British Ports

Bonnie Saynay

Global Head of ESG Research, ISS ESG

Marija Kramer

Head of ESG Business, ISS ESG

Leslie Traub

Principal Consultant, Udarta Consulting LLC

Vagn Sørensen

Chair, FLSmidth, Air Canada, Board Director, Royal Caribbean Cruises

Tamara Vrooman

President and Chief Executive Officer, YVR

Emily Waita Macharia

Africa Public Affairs Director for Coca-Cola Africa

Carol Hansell

Senior Partner of Hansell LLP; Member, Hansell McLaughlin Advisory Group

Nabeela Ixtabalan

EVP of People and Corporate Affairs, Walmart Canada

Keith Martell

President & CEO, First Nations Bank of Canada | Président et chef de la direction de la Banque des Premières Nations du Canada

Mia d’Adhemar

Senior Manager, Sector Program Standards, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Victor van Kommer

Director Tax Services, Member Executive Board IBFD; Professor of Tax Policy at the University of Utrecht

Jennifer Koury

ICD.D, Independent Director

Tom Knudson

Director, Bristow Group, Inc., Midstates Petroleum, Inc., MDU Resources, Inc., Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, NACD Texas TriCities Chapter

Anna Tudela

Director, Regulus Resources Inc; Director, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI); Vice President, Diversity, Regulatory Affairs and Corporate Secretary, Goldcorp