Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He was previously Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and Professor of Labor Economics at Monash University in Melbourne. Before that, he was Director of the ILO’s Socio-Economic Security Program and Director of the ILO’s Labor Market Policies Branch. Standing is a Founder and Honorary Co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). His most recent books are The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016); Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (2015), with S. Davala, R. Jhabvala, and S.K. Mehta; A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014); and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011; third edition, 2016).

Maurice Jones brings a career’s worth of business, management, and policy experience—and an enduring personal commitment to improving communities and the lives of low-income Americans—to his role as President and CEO of LISC. Previously, Jones was the Secretary of Commerce for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Deputy Secretary in charge of operations at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Social Services, Deputy Chief of Staff to Virginia Governor Mark Warner, and he served in the U.S. Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration. His private-sector experience touches on media, law, and philanthropy, with top positions at the Virginian-Pilot, a Richmond law firm, and a private philanthropy in Washington, D.C.

At Mastercard, Walt Macnee has led a number of global initiatives to create meaningful public-private partnerships. He also founded the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, which combines research and direct philanthropy to identify ways to support inclusive growth economies. Prior to Mastercard, Macnee had a long career at Toronto Dominion Bank. He is currently Chairman of Convergence Finance and Chairman of the Queen’s University Centre for Social Impact, and he has also served on the UN’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing.

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Linda Scott works with a long list of organizations in the private, public, and civil society sectors to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate women’s economic empowerment programs in both developed and developing nations. Her blog and website, DoubleXEconomy, offers commentary and news to the women’s economic empowerment community. Recently, she was chosen as one of the world’s top 25 thinkers by Prospect magazine, which cited the high impact of her work on the women’s economy.

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Suzanne Fallender collaborates with key stakeholders across Intel to integrate corporate responsibility into company strategies, public goals, marketing and communications, and stakeholder-engagement activities. Her team also works closely with Intel’s investor relations and corporate governance groups to drive an integrated outreach strategy with investors on governance and corporate responsibility issues. Fallender has more than 20 years of experience in corporate responsibility and socially responsible investment, and she has served on a number of leading industry advisory boards and committees on sustainability and corporate responsibility over the past decade.

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Chris Jochnick is a global land rights expert with decades of experience in international development. He joined Landesa as CEO in August 2015 after leading Oxfam America’s work on private-sector engagement, including the successful “Behind the Brands” campaign. Jochnick is the Cofounder and former Director of two human rights organizations: Center for Economic and Social Rights and the Ecuador-based Centros De Derechos Economicos y Sociales. Jochnick spent seven years working in Latin America, devoting much of that time to addressing threats to indigenous peoples’ land rights. He spent four years on Wall Street as an attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He teaches business and human rights at Harvard Law School and serves as Chair of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

As Senior Vice President Corporate Responsibility and Global Chief Diversity Officer for Sodexo, Rohini Anand is responsible for the strategic direction, implementation, and business alignment of Sodexo’s integrated global diversity and inclusion initiatives, as well as Sodexo USA’s sustainable development, wellness, and corporate responsibility strategies. She also leads the organization’s sustained culture change initiatives and its integration in the overall business growth strategy. Today diversity and inclusion, wellness, and sustainability are thought leadership platforms of the Sodexo brand and key drivers of the company’s growth.

At UNICEF, Suba Jayasekaran played a lead role in the development of the Children’s Rights and Business Principles. She currently leads UNICEF’s engagement on children’s rights in global supply chains. Jayasekaran has expertise in child protection, emergencies, and corporate social responsibility. She has worked in Asia, Africa, and headquarters with UNICEF, and she is currently based in Geneva.

As President of Global Product at Pearson, Tim Bozik is passionate about smart design and delivering great customer experiences. He and his team are responsible for product strategy and development across global school, higher education, and English language learning. They are focused on digital products and services, personalized learning, better outcomes, measuring impact, understanding what works, and bringing education and employability closer together. Bozik started his career as a Sales Representative for Prentice Hall and worked from the customer front line through product development and general management across higher education.

Jonathan Drimmer helps oversee Barrick Gold Corporation’s international regulatory and compliance programs, as well as its global investigation group, entity-level litigation and disputes, and other matters. Before Barrick, he was a Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, in Washington, D.C., and Deputy Director in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving suspected war criminals. He is a former Bristow Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General, and was a judicial clerk on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In addition to his role at Barrick, he serves on several boards and steering committees, including for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and he teaches business and human rights courses at Georgetown University Law Center.

As The Walt Disney Company’s Director, International Labor Standards, Laura Chapman Rubbo seeks to foster safe, inclusive, and respectful workplaces wherever Disney-branded products are made. She leads the global supply chain monitoring program, external stakeholder engagement and communications, industry collaboration, supply chain philanthropic investments, risk assessment, research, and training.  She also co-led the creation of Disney’s human rights policy. In addition, Rubbo is Chair of the Corporate Responsibility Committee of the United States Council for International Business, a member of Social Accountability International’s advisory board, and a past member of the U.S. delegation to the International Labour Organization’s International Labour Conference.

As Head of Responsible Sourcing, Packaging, and Plan A at Marks & Spencer, Louise Nicholls is with responsible for setting strategic direction for the company’s food sustainability plan. Her team works closely with buying teams on issues as diverse as ethical trade, water stewardship, global community programs, lean manufacturing, and sustainable raw material procurement. In the past 12 months, Nicholls has travelled to China, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, the United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe, meeting with more than 1,000 suppliers and local stakeholders to understand their issues and perspectives.

As Group Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at PVH Corp. in New York, Marissa Pagnani oversees PVH’s global human rights and environmental programs. Prior to PVH, she worked for Warnaco Inc. and Skadden Arps in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Pagnani is a member of the Fair Labor Association board and is actively involved in the Bangladesh Accord Steering Committee, currently undertaking her second two-year term.

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Diego Tamburini identifies manufacturing trends and needs to help define Autodesk’s vision for the industry, which he shares by delivering talks, writing, and engaging with the media and industry analysts. Prior to Autodesk, he held roles at Microsoft, developing the first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services, and working with the company’s developer and platform evangelism group. Tamburini also has held engineering positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Systems (PSLM) Center, and at SDRC (now Siemens PLM), where he helped customers such as Boeing and Goodrich Aerospace.

Frank Koller is an author and former foreign correspondent who spent decades covering economics for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His book, Spark, examines the corporate addiction to layoffs that fueled much unnecessary unemployment since the Great Recession. The book shares lessons from Lincoln Electric, a highly profitable Fortune 1000 multinational company that maintained global dominance in welding for a century without laying off employees. Spark won praise from the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, economists, and unionists. Koller writes for the Huffington Post, PBS-TV’s Making$ense, and MotleyFool, and he lectures across North America. Photo credit and copyright: Courvette/Ottawa.

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At Microsoft, Susan Hauser’s team drives innovative corporate social responsibility programs on issues such as accessibility, privacy, responsible sourcing, and human rights—all in support of the company’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a 25-year Microsoft veteran, Hauser has held a number of executive positions, most recently as Corporate Vice President of the Worldwide Enterprise and Partner Group, where she helped Microsoft successfully meet the needs of its global customers. She began her career as a special education teacher in the New York City public schools.