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Evan Harvey manages all corporate sustainability, philanthropic, and volunteering efforts for Nasdaq, including internal management of systems and disclosures, as well as external engagement with public companies, institutional investors, advocacy groups, and other stock exchanges. He sits on the U.S. Network Board for the United Nations Global Compact and the advisory board for the CECP Strategic Investor Initiative. He previously served as the first Chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) Sustainability Working Group and an Advisory Board Member for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

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As Head of Sustainable Business Programs at Bloomberg L.P., Lee Ballin reports to the chairman’s office and leads a team charged with aggressively integrating sustainability considerations into all operations. His team also co-develops products and services for the Bloomberg Professional Service, which helps clients evaluate sustainability market risks and opportunities. Ballin works closely with a cross-functional team conducting life-cycle analyses of customer-facing equipment, optimizing a global logistics network to minimize carbon output of shipments, and setting paper standards for three magazine publications. His communications team develops employee-engagement programs, training curriculum for operating departments, and Bloomberg’s annual GRI-based sustainability report. A Fellow within the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Programs First Mover Fellowship, Ballin is also an Adjunct Professor at the Pratt Institute and a member of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business advisory board.

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Renée Morin manages stakeholder relations for the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Living Progress team. Her responsibilities include providing technical counsel to the renewable energy development team; managing relationships with key NGO partners; overseeing the HPE response to the CDP and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index surveys; and developing the annual Living Progress Report. Morin has more than 15 years of experience consulting globally on sustainability strategy, climate change, and life cycle assessment.

As Executive Director of the open-source platform WikiRate, Vishal Kapadia helps corporations become more transparent and responsive by making data about their social and environmental impacts useful and available to all. WikiRate is working with GRI, UNGC, and other civil society organizations to help define and handle metrics, which facilitate dialogue between companies and their stakeholders on their corporate ESG performance. Kapadia’s previous research and roles span marketing, entrepreneurship, technology, and the intersection between neuroscience and economics.

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Alethea Lange’s work focuses on empowering online users to control their digital presence. She develops standards for fairness and accountability in algorithms, updates estate law to protect digital accounts from inappropriate access, and researches how data influence aspects of our everyday lives, like our diet. Prior to joining CDT, Lange was an independent writer and researcher focused on technology policy. She also worked for several years in the U.S. Senate and had a brief but glorious internship for Chicago Public Radio’s Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me.

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At Telenor Group—a mobile operator with operations in 13 markets and more than 200 million customers—Jan Kristensen has played a central role in developing the company’s sustainability reporting framework, with a focus on climate change and the environment. He also has been involved in collaborative groups to demonstrate how the information and communications technology (ICT) sector can provide sustainability benefits, including reducing carbon emissions and energy/resource use, generating revenue, reducing costs, and providing societal benefits. Kristensen’s work also focuses on how ICT can be used for sustainable development, and he served on the steering committee for GeSI’s recent SMARTer2030 study. Kristensen has spent 20 years in the telecom industry and 10 years in the consulting sector.

At GE, Libby Wayman is responsible for driving the development of cleaner technology and business solutions that also deliver a better business case and growth opportunity. This includes physical and digital technologies, new business models, and global partnerships to address challenges in water, energy, and transportation. Prior to this, she served as the Director for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative, where she was responsible for developing the DOE’s strategy for innovation in manufacturing technology. Wayman previously developed new solar energy technologies at SunPower and Alion Energy.

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Daniel Fibiger leads Gap Inc.’s global partnerships team, where he is responsible for designing and implementing the company’s stakeholder engagement strategies focused on labor and human rights. In his role on the supplier sustainability team, he helps lead a global field team of approximately 50 specialists who seek to improve working conditions in the facilities that manufacture Gap Inc. branded apparel. Prior to joining Gap Inc., Fibiger was Program Manager at the Responsible Sourcing Network, coordinating a multistakeholder network to end forced child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector. He was also a Research Fellow at the International Labor Rights Forum.

Vivian Chang focuses on understanding, engaging, and improving the livelihood of frontline workers. Chang uses a unique CIQ mobile app to connect with, and analyze data from, a broad base of workers across China. She also helps workers learn new skills and earn certificates that expand career options and improve their family’s lives. Chang joined MicroBenefit to partner with clients to improve worker behavior analysis, worker attraction and retention, and career-advancement programs. Prior to MicroBenefits, she spent time with a firm working on employee engagement, talent identification, and development.

As Manager of the Sino TYTEX factor in Hangzhou, China, Wei Sun seeks to provide opportunities for the material and intellectual growth of all 210 employees working at his textile-weaving business. He also seeks to advance green fashion through a greener “top dye” process at his facility and by influencing the consumer products industry as a whole. His factory supplies to a range of international brands, including Zara, Gap, Uniqlo, and H&M. In 2003, he took over management of his family’s business, and in 2015, his company generated US$50 million in sales. He has been investing in and producing top dye textile goods since 2010.

As Head of Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Reporting at the pharmaceutical, vaccine, and consumer healthcare company GSK, Clare Griffin leads responsible business strategy and engagement, supporting the board’s Corporate Responsibility Committee and the company’s annual reporting. Prior to joining GSK in 2012, Griffin worked in house and as a consultant across a wide range of industries in both the United States and the UK. She has a master’s degree in responsible business practice.

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Dominic Channer has worked in the mining business for more than 20 years. He started his career as an exploration geologist with Guaniamo Mining Company in Venezuela, and eventually became Vice President, responsible for exploration, permitting, community relations, and technical studies. In 2007, he joined Aurelian Resources as the Country Manager for Ecuador, and in 2008, he moved to Kinross Gold Corporation, where he was responsible for external affairs in Ecuador until he assumed responsibility for all Kinross operations in Ecuador in 2012. In 2013, Channer took on external affairs in South America, and in 2014, he took over external affairs for the combined Americas region. In January 2016, he moved to Toronto to become Vice President of Community Relations for Kinross Gold Corporation.

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As the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion for Thomson Reuters, Patsy Doerr is responsible for overseeing the company’s corporate social responsibility, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability functions. Doerr has more than 20 years of experience in talent, learning, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, employee recognition, and customer engagement. Her main background is in investment banking, and she has held a number of leadership roles at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse, in New York, London, and, most recently, Hong Kong.

As an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University Stern School of Business, Sinziana Dorobantu focuses on the value and evolution of firms’ relationships with local communities, NGOs, and governments. Her research provides direct empirical evidence that increasing stakeholder support enhances the firm’s financial valuation and helps the company protect this value during difficult times. Dorobantu’s research also examines the evolution of these relationships, the formalization of these relationships into contractual agreements, and the formation of international partnerships to manage stakeholder relations in large infrastructure projects.

Nestor Zwyhun leads engineering and production operations at GT Nexus, which provides the world’s largest cloud-based collaboration platform to automate hundreds of supply chain processes on a global scale. Over 17 years, the GT Nexus Network has grown to include 25,000 businesses, 100,000 users, and more than US$500 billion in goods managed. Previously, Zwyhun was Vice President of Technology for the Corporate Banking Practice at American Management Systems (now CGI). While at AMS, he led the development of e-commerce and internet solutions for many large international banks, including American Express Bank, Bank of America, and Royal Bank of Canada.

Sheila Bonini joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) as CEO in September 2014, bringing considerable corporate experience to the scientific rigor and stakeholder engagement on which TSC is based. Her focus is on driving more sustainable consumer products by strengthening the adoption of TSC tools by retailers and large purchasers, and by working closely with supply chain partners to ensure TSC metrics support change across the full product lifecycle. Prior to joining TSC, Bonini spent more than 15 years with McKinsey & Company in Europe, South America, and the United States. Her other experience includes investment banking at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, as well as positions with the Hewlett Foundation and Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation.

Wendy Savage’s expertise ranges from field auditing to CSR program development and implementation, training and education, capacity-building, stakeholder engagement, and supply chain mapping and traceability. In her current role, Savage is responsible for Patagonia’s global supply chain compliance and commitment to upholding the company’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Fair Labor Association (FLA) obligations. Savage also heads Patagonia’s Traceability Programs and spearheaded the development, implementation, and switch to the Traceable Down Standard. Among her other responsibilities, Savage leads the social compliance program implementation for Patagonia’s food division, Patagonia Provisions, as the company embarks in working with food suppliers.