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.

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Alison Taylor leads BSR’s energy and extractives practice and coleads the sustainability management practice. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change. Previously, Taylor was a Senior Managing Director at Control Risks. She has also worked at Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. Taylor has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She is a Board Member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and serves on the sustainability committee of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.