Roy Swan leads the Ford Foundation's Mission Investments team, managing approximately $1.35 billion in capital dedicated to advancing social justice and addressing inequality through impact investing. He oversees a robust, global portfolio of impact investments and works to strengthen and encourage impact investing strategies across the philanthropic, corporate, and government sectors.

Before joining the Ford Foundation, Roy was managing director and co-head of Global Sustainable Finance at Morgan Stanley, where he oversaw his team's commitment of more than $13 billion to community development transactions. He was also the founding chief investment officer of New York City's Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), a federal initiative to bring new resources to distressed urban communities, which played a key role in Harlem's economic rebirth. He also previously served as CFO at Carver Bancorp, the nation's largest African American managed bank, and built deep expertise in investment banking at The First Boston Corporation, Salomon Brothers, and JPMorgan; finance at Time Warner; and practiced corporate law at Skadden Arps.

Roy has served on the boards of nonprofits related to economic development, education, and ESG reporting. He has also served on for-profit corporate and mutual fund boards. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Most recently, Roy authored "Positive Sum: How Zero-Sum Thinking Broke Capitalism – and How We Can Fix It," to be published by Wiley in July 2026. It reveals why zero-sum thinking continues to cost U.S. businesses $600 billion annually and offers a practical roadmap for recognizing the economic power of fairness to create broadly shared prosperity. Copies are available to order at positivesumbook.com.

Akasha Absher is the Co-President at Syntrinsic and Head of Impact Investing. She has more than 25 years’ experience in investment consulting, investment banking, fixed-income trading, risk management and nonprofit leadership and oversees the firm’s efforts to provide investment advice and strategic consulting to endowments, foundations, nonprofit organizations and philanthropic private clients. Akasha also Chairs the firm’s Portfolio Implementation Committee. Akasha serves as Chair of the Board of Pinnacol Assurance and Chair of the Investment Committee; she is also the Treasurer of the Board of Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, Management Advisory Committee Member for BH Credit Management LLC, and Investment Committee member for Gary Community Ventures. Akasha was previously Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Lucidus Capital Partners and Caxton Associates. Prior to that, she was a Vice President and Senior Publishing Analyst at JP Morgan. Akasha earned her bachelor’s degree in finance from Clark Atlanta University and her MBA from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. Akasha was voted one of Colorado’ Women’s Chamber of Commerce Top 25 Most Powerful Women in 2020 and a Girl Scout Woman of Distinction in 2021. When not spending time with family, Akasha can be found practicing yoga and is a certified instructor. She enjoys hiking, reading, and traveling, both domestically and abroad.

William Burckart is the CEO of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), where he advises a range of clients (including pension plans, investment management firms, private foundations and endowments, government and major industry bodies) on integrating system-level and investment goals through the development and implementation of related strategies. He is co-founder of Colorful Capital, a venture capital firm that brought capital support to enterprises founded and led by members of the broad LGBTQ+ community. William is Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs and The Brandmeyer Fellow for Impact and Sustainable Investing at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. He is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute, co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021), and co-editor of the book New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (Oxford University Press, 2014). His writing has been featured in Chief Investment Officer, Barron's, The Guardian, Pensions & Investments, Forbes, Quartz, top1000funds, Investment & Pensions Europe (I&PE), Benefits & Pensions, InvestmentNews, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), ImpactAlpha, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and FundFire to name a few.

Chief ESG and Impact Officer at Fondaction Asset Management, Belissa Rojas has more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and impact management. She advises financial organizations and impact investors on how to optimize their management and impact measurement practices by integrating sustainability into their business strategy, investments and governance.

A certified trainer in the field of impact standards for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UNDP advisor in this field, she contributed to their adoption and the design of training workshops. Belissa is among the invited members of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at Said Business School.

She previously worked as an advisor to executive directors at the Inter-American Development Bank Group (BID, BID Invest and BID Lab) for offices in Peru, Chile and Colombia, in particular supporting the development of the private sector in the strategic areas of innovation, business transformation and impact management.

Belissa holds a master's degree in development management from the London School of Economics, a master's degree in finance, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru.

Madison Condon writes about issues at the intersection of climate science, economics, and financial regulation. Her scholarship has been included in collections of the best articles of the year for several fields, including environmental law, corporate law, and securities law. In 2025, the American Law Institute named Condon a recipient of its Early Career Scholars Medal, which is awarded every other year to “two outstanding early-career law professors whose work is relevant to public policy and has the potential to influence improvements in the law.” At Boston University School of Law, she teaches classes on Environmental Law, Corporations, Law and Capitalism, and Climate Risk and Financial Institutions. Outside of Boston University, Professor Condon serves on the Principles of Responsible Investment Academic Network Advisory Committee, and she is a member scholar at the Center for Progression Reform. Professor Condon’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in leading legal journals including the UC Davis Law Review, the Washington Law Review, and the Utah Law Review. She has written for interdisciplinary publications including Finance & Society, NOMOS, Land Use Policy, PNAS, and the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Professor Condon is also a contributor to the Law and Political Economy Blog. Her writing and commentary have been featured in popular media outlets including The New York Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Politico, The Atlantic and The New Republic. Before joining BU Law, Professor Condon was an attorney at New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, where she participated in litigation against federal regulatory rollbacks. She clerked for Judge Jane Kelly of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Professor Condon holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MALD from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and a BS in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University. She was a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands where she researched water resources management at the Delft University of Technology.

Mark Surman has spent three decades building a better internet, from the advent of the web to the rise of artificial intelligence. Mark is President of Mozilla, a non profit that works with companies and communities around the world to ensure the internet is built for people, not for profit. Mozilla's double bottom line portfolio includes the public benefit companies that make Firefox, Thunderbird and open source AI developer tools; a venture fund that invests in responsible tech companies; and a global foundation which backs the work of artists, educators and builders. Mark works across this whole portfolio to ensure Mozilla's people and resources are aimed at bending tech — and the tech industry — in a direction that serves all of humanity. Before joining Mozilla, Mark spent 15 years leading organizations and projects focused on building the internet and open source in the public interest.Mark Surman has spent three decades building a better internet, from the advent of the web to the rise of artificial intelligence. Mark is President of Mozilla, a non-profit that works with companies and communities around the world to ensure the internet is built for people, not for profit. Mozilla's double bottom line portfolio includes the public benefit companies that make Firefox, Thunderbird and open source AI developer tools; a venture fund that invests in responsible tech companies; and a global foundation which backs the work of artists, educators and builders. Mark works across this whole portfolio to ensure Mozilla's people and resources are aimed at bending tech — and the tech industry — in a direction that serves all of humanity. Before joining Mozilla, Mark spent 15 years leading organizations and projects focused on building the internet and open source in the public interest.

As Co-Executive Director of the AJL Foundation, Kristi recognizes that working within philanthropy is a privilege and responsibility. She is honored and committed to ensuring John and Amy’s spirit of philanthropy lives on by investing in people, programs and movements that benefit Colorado's youth and families while also acknowledging and addressing the contradictions and power dynamics inherent to philanthropy. Kristi is personally passionate about holding herself and AJL accountable to the communities we serve and the triple bottom line - people, planet and profit. She serves on the steering committee for Colorado Funders for Inclusiveness and Equity and served two terms on the Board of Directors for Philanthropy Colorado. Prior to working in philanthropy Kristi worked for marketing agencies in Denver, Los Angeles and Madrid specializing in digital and print marketing, public relations and events planning for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 300 companies across the nonprofit, tech, consumer goods, healthcare and aerospace industries. She also spent time as a freelance writer and intern for the Steamboat Pilot & Today, a travel guide in Ecuador and various other online and print outlets. Kristi holds a master's degree in Journalism and a bachelor's degree in Marketing both from the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Maurits Dolmans’ practice focuses on EU, UK and international competition law, especially in high-tech and EU intellectual property law, and sustainability. He has extensive experience in information technology, internet, telecom, media and entertainment, as well as in energy and financial services. He has appeared in proceedings before the European Commission and the EU courts, national courts and national competition authorities of several Member States, and ICC and NAI arbitrations. Many of his competition cases involve multi-sided platforms, high-tech products, new economy services, licensing or refusals to license, standardization, IP strategy, access to networks, mergers, joint ventures and other transactions, intellectual property arbitration and litigation, abuses of dominance, vertical agreements and cartels. Maurits joined the firm in 1985, became a partner in 1994, and became senior counsel in 2024.

An early pioneer in sustainability, Maggie works from the belief that providers of capital can create value for both stakeholders and society. She joined UBC Investment Management earlier this year to lead its responsible investing and stewardship efforts. Armed with a degree in environmental studies, Maggie began her career on a derivatives trading desk, going on to manage the collateral desk for over-the-counter derivatives at RBC Capital Markets through the Great Financial Crisis. After ten years in financial markets and a year-long sabbatical to work on children’s rights in Southeast Asia, she moved into the field of sustainable finance and joined Sustainalytics, a dedicated ESG research provider. From there, Maggie went on to pursue the development of responsible investing and stewardship efforts across various parts of the financial system in Canada, including for asset managers, asset owners, and now UBCIM, an asset allocator. At UBCIM, her focus is on deepening the team’s approach to ESG integration for manager selection, monitoring and assessment, and embed social risk, including human rights, into the investment process. Maggie obtained her Master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge and carries the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting Credential, and has studied Finance and Accounting through the Columbia Business School Executive Education program. A late bloomer in sports, Maggie now dabbles in a wide range of activities including snowboarding, marathon and ultramarathon running, powerlifting, and most recently Olympic lifting. She lives with her husband, two boys, and border collie in Toronto.

Kevin joined SHARE in 2013 as a Senior Analyst on social issues and became Executive Director in 2018. Prior to working with SHARE, Kevin was the Director of Advocacy for the Maquila Solidarity Network, a labour and women's rights organization, where he advised companies, governments, and public institutions on the development and implementation of policies and practices to improve respect for worker rights in global supply chains. From 1998 to 2009 Kevin served as a political advisor to the Chief and Governing Council of the Lubicon Lake First Nation in Alberta, Canada, and as Chief Negotiator for treaty negotiations with the Federal and Provincial governments. He also negotiated land use, environmental protection and economic benefit agreements with oil, gas and forestry corporations. Kevin holds a Master of Laws, LLM in international business law (with a focus on securities law, corporate governance, taxation, trade, and arbitration) and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Environment and Resource Management from the University of Toronto.

At the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation (UTAM), Nikki is focused on driving the advancement of responsible investing practices and climate commitments across asset classes through manager selection, stewardship, reporting, and industry building. Prior to UTAM, Nikki has worked with social finance investment management firms, intermediaries, ventures, and institutional investors in North America and Asia to design and implement impact investing strategies and product. She holds an Honours Business Administration undergraduate degree with a Sustainability Certificate from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

As Director, Sustainable Investing at OMERS, Lila focuses on advancing and implementing the SI strategy across the portfolio working with different investment teams and stakeholders. Prior to returning to Canada, she spent the bulk of her 20-year career in the United States developing investment solutions and advising different types of institutional investors in the US, Canada and Asia on their investment strategy, asset allocation and portfolio implementation across public and private markets, including ESG/RI/SI work. Some of her current areas of focus for OMERS include leading the strategy work for the ‘S’ of ESG, climate transition risk, and system-level stewardship.

Michael Azlen is a senior investment professional with 25+ years of industry experience. After a 15-year career spanning two Canadian banks and several alternative asset management companies, Mr. Azlen founded his first investment management business in 2005 and grew it to $700 million in assets before achieving an exit to a public company. Mr. Azlen holds a Sloan Masters Degree in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School, is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and has completed the LSE’s “Economics and Governance of Climate Change” course. Following the sale of his business, Michael then focused on research into climate change and impact investment strategies. Michael’s research culminated with a deep focus on regulated carbon markets resulting in the authorship and publication of a full academic paper on carbon as a liquid and investable asset class. Based on this research, Michael formed Carbon Cap Management LLP as an environmental asset manager focused on carbon markets and climate impact and launched the World Carbon Fund in February 2020.

Steven Rothstein is the Ceres’ Chief Program Officer. He served as the founding Managing Director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. In his new role, he oversees all aspects of the organization’s programmatic work. Steven’s 40+ years of experience are critical to explore the most effective strategies to focus on and move capital markets towards climate sustainability including the remarkable colleagues in the Accelerator and throughout Ceres. Steven has had a successful career starting, managing, and growing several nonprofit, social change, and government organizations. After college he was one of Citizens Energy Corporation’s founding team members. He later started and ran Environmental Futures, a management and market consulting company serving enterprises seeking to grow their environmental work. He also ran the New England market for Constellation’s work as a successful electricity broker, the world-renowned Perkins School for the Blind, Citizen Schools, and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. He has worked at local, state, federal, and international levels of government. Steven has served on numerous nonprofit and government boards. He has spoken and written extensively.

Founder and CEO of VentureESG, a global non-profit focused on equipping 500+ VCs and 100+ asset owners and managers with responsible investing and ESG knowledge and tools. Anthropologist and writer. Finishing a manuscript (for Columbia UP) on the Kingmakers of tech, the venture capital investors and their decision making. Last year, I co-authored a book on diversity in VC/tech, published with Holloway. Directing CHIRN (Cambridge Homelessness Inclusion and Research Network) to support meaningful change in the Cambridge homelessness ecosystem. This builds on my PhD research (and monograph) on homelessness in Paris.

Lisa joined Prime Buchholz in 2024 and has more than 25 years of investment industry experience, She advises clients in all aspects of their investment program, from the development of the investment policy statement through structural implementation and ongoing manager evaluation. Lisa is a member of the Fixed Income Asset Class and Mission- Aligned Investment Committees. Her previous roles were as the founder of Sitari Capital, where she consulted to funds and other investors on impact investment strategies. Lisa was a managing partner at Fresh Source Capital, focused on private investments in the food and agriculture sector. At Boston Advisors, LLC, she was senior Vice President and lead portfolio manager of a domestic small cap equities product. Prior, Lisa was a portfolio manager at Batterymarch Financial Management responsible for managing a $4.0 B small cap product. Lisa earned a M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.S. in Economics from Holy Cross. She is a member of CFA Institute/CFA Society Boston.

Walter is currently Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, Private Markets at Manulife Investment Management, heading up sustainable investing for the global private equity, private credit, and venture capital businesses. Walter also oversees several cross-asset class functions within the wider private markets business, including sustainability reporting and ESG regulations.

Previously, Walter was a Principal on the Responsible Investing Team, part of the CIO's Total Fund Management Group, at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, a C$221B AUM global asset owner. His primary focus was on developing the organization's ESG integration, corporate engagement, and responsible investing strategies.

Before that, Walter worked as an Associate Portfolio Manager at Jarislowsky Fraser Global Investment Management, a C$37B AUM privately owned investment management firm, where he focused on fundamental equity research, portfolio management, and helped develop the U.S. and international institutional client strategy. One of his core accomplishments was helping establish the firm's sustainable investing strategy.

An early pioneer in sustainability, Maggie works from the belief that providers of capital can create value for both stakeholders and society. She joined UBC Investment Management earlier this year to lead its responsible investing and stewardship efforts. Armed with a degree in environmental studies, Maggie began her career on a derivatives trading desk, going on to manage the collateral desk for over-the-counter derivatives at RBC Capital Markets through the Great Financial Crisis. After ten years in financial markets and a year-long sabbatical to work on children’s rights in Southeast Asia, she moved into the field of sustainable finance and joined Sustainalytics, a dedicated ESG research provider. From there, Maggie went on to pursue the development of responsible investing and stewardship efforts across various parts of the financial system in Canada, including for asset managers, asset owners, and now UBCIM, an asset allocator. At UBCIM, her focus is on deepening the team’s approach to ESG integration for manager selection, monitoring and assessment, and embed social risk, including human rights, into the investment process. Maggie obtained her Master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge and carries the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting Credential, and has studied Finance and Accounting through the Columbia Business School Executive Education program. A late bloomer in sports, Maggie now dabbles in a wide range of activities including snowboarding, marathon and ultramarathon running, powerlifting, and most recently Olympic lifting. She lives with her husband, two boys, and border collie in Toronto.

Daniel is a partner at Aon Investments USA Inc. As Head of Responsible Investing for North America, he helps institutional investors to: understand their exposure to sustainability risks, design policy language, provide investment manager insights, and implement impactful portfolios. Prior to joining Aon in 2022, Daniel was Head of Responsible Investing at both Wilshire Advisors in Los Angeles and at BT Pension Scheme in London. Previously he was Senior Corporate Governance Analyst at [Federated] Hermes and Policy Analyst at Her Majesty’s Treasury and a congressional aide for a U.S. Senator. He first began working in the industry in 2004. Daniel’s expertise include: climate risk analysis; energy transition; water stress; governance of artificial intelligence, corporations and pension funds; social impact and stewardship. Daniel earned a M.A, summa cum laude, in Philosophy and Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Post Graduate Certificate from University of Cambridge’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership. He holds both the UK CFA Institute’s Investment Management and Impact Investing Certificates and the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential.

Wren Laing is a Senior Investment Director with over a decade of experience leading investment strategy creation and implementation across the UK, Europe, and North America. With a strong track record completing mid-to-large size transactions spanning multiple asset classes, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and public equities, Wren brings both strategic vision and hands-on execution to complex, cross-border mandates. Wren is recognized for integrating sustainability and impact across the full investment life cycle, connecting long-term investment performance with durable, system-aware outcomes.

Carole Laible is the Chief Executive Officer of Domini Impact Investments, an SEC-registered investment adviser focused exclusively on impact investing. As CEO, Ms. Laible leads business strategy development and execution and oversees the firm's research and mutual fund operations. Ms. Laible joined Domini at its inception in 1997 as Director of Finance and Compliance, rising to Chief Operating Officer in 2002, President in 2005, and Chief Executive Officer in 2016. Prior to joining Domini, she was an audit manager at RSM US LLP. Ms. Laible played a key role in the launch of the Domini Impact International Equity Fund, the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund, and the current investment strategy for the Domini Impact Equity Fund, for which she has served as co-Portfolio Manager since 2018. She has also served as co-Portfolio Manager of the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund since its inception in 2020 and oversees investment strategy and subadviser due diligence for the Domini Impact International Equity Fund and Domini Impact Bond Fund. She is a voting member of Domini's Standards Committee (responsible for the development of the firm's Impact Investment Standards) and Impact Review Committee (which makes final investment eligibility decisions). Ms. Laible has spearheaded Domini's pioneering work on system-level issues, including the Domini Forest Project, which emphasizes the connections between environmental, societal, and financial systems. She served as a founding member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investor Advisory Group (IIAG), formerly the SASB Standards Investor Advisory Group, engaging with companies on the use of SASB metrics. Ms. Laible also serves on the Investment Subcommittee of the American Cancer Society and the Tobin College of Business Board of Advisors at St. John's University. She is a Global Angel for 100 Women in Finance, a global nonprofit dedicated to empowering women in the finance industry at every career stage. Ms. Laible holds a B.S. in Accountancy from St. John's University.

Paul Fehlinger is Senior Director of Policy, Investment & Innovation at Project Liberty Institute, where he leads global strategic initiatives at the intersection of capital, entrepreneurship, and governance to shape the future of the AI and data economy. He works with institutional LPs, venture investors, family offices, founders, and policymakers across North America, Europe, and Asia to develop investment frameworks, governance models, and incentive structures that shape how tech is built and scaled.

His work and perspectives on tech, investment, and governance have been featured by The Economist, The New York Times, Politico, Fortune, New Private Markets, ImpactAlpha, and Mary Meeker. He speaks regularly at investor, policy, and innovation forums including SuperVenture, Private Equity International, FRAME, Norrsken Impact Week, and the AI Action Summit, and served on advisory groups at the World Economic Forum and other international initiatives.

He publishes VC+POLICY and works at Harvard University and the Hertie School on venture and regulated markets. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade as an entrepreneur, co-founding and scaling a global platform for cross-border digital markets, active across 70+ countries, with senior leaders from governments, the world's largest tech companies, and institutions such as the UN, OECD, EU, and G7 to catalyse policy innovation.

Drake Hicks joins Variant with experience across finance, impact investing, and sustainability strategy. Prior to Variant, Drake was Head of Strategy/ Strategic Partnerships at Manifest Climate, where she led global commercial strategy and partnerships. Her career has spanned capital markets, early-and growth investing, and mission-driven companies focused on scaling sustainable innovation. Drake received her BA from Williams College and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Scott is the founder and CIO of Mercator Partners, a sector specialist investment manager focused on global electricity systems transformation. Mercator’s investment strategy centers on a detailed technical understanding of hardware innovation across the energy value chain. The firm’s approach combines primary scientific and technical analysis, leveraging decades of internal expertise and partnerships with leading academic institutions. As CIO, Scott is responsible for investment strategy, portfolio construction and risk management. His career spans more than two decades across public equities, venture capital, and commodities trading.

Martin Grosskopf manages AGF Investments’ sustainable investing strategies and provides input on sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues across the firm’s investment teams. He is a thought leader and a frequent public speaker on ESG and Green Finance issues. He served as Vice-Chair of the CSA Group technical committee on Green and Transition Finance and is a past member of the Responsible Investment Association (RIA)’s Board of Directors. Martin has more than 30 years of experience in financial and environmental analysis. He previously served as Director, Sustainability Research and Portfolio Manager with Acuity Investment Management Inc., which was acquired by AGF Management Limited in 2011. Before joining the financial industry, Martin worked in a diverse range of industries in the areas of environmental management, assessment and mitigation. He was a project manager with CSA International from 1997 to 2000 and, prior to that, served as an environmental scientist with Acres International Limited. In 2023 Martin was a recipient of the Canada Clean16 Award for his work furthering sustainability in the financial sector. Martin obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an MES from York University, and earned an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

Whitney Shepard (she/her) is the Co-Executive Director of Majority Action. She believes systems change through our interactions with them, valuing campaigns that create opportunities for positive impact and new pathways of systemic engagement. Her background as a campaign strategist, organizer, and researcher shapes her approach to social and systemic change. Whitney has worked on local and national campaigns addressing food insecurity, mass incarceration, immigration reform, workers' rights, and Wall Street accountability. She advocates for the explicit connection to be made between economic and racial justice, and explores how economic structures perpetuate racial bias, harm and inequity. Whitney is also a national member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), believing wholly that learning from our past better informs our future.

Simon Archer works to protect the wages, working conditions and retirement security of his clients and their families. He works with trade unions, retiree associations and boards of trustees across Canada, advising on negotiating pension and benefits, trust administration and fiduciary issues, public interest litigation, insolvencies, corporate accountability and governance. He has worked with public and private sector pension and benefit plans, multi-employer plans and jointly governed and sponsored plans across Canada. Simon is past Chair of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario. He was previously appointed by Ontario’s Minister of Finance to represent the interests of workers and unions in a review of pension funding regulations, and was previously lead researcher for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions. Simon was previously appointed to the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities’ Industry Working Group on Environmental, Social and Governance investment policy guidance for Canadian pension funds. He is also a climate governance expert with the Canada Climate Law Initiative, which works to ensure Canadian directors and trustees understand their fiduciary obligations with respect to climate change. Since 2021, Simon has been an expert advisor to the Unifor-Mexico Workers Rights Action Project International Advisory Committee, which supports worker rights awareness and trade union capacity building in critical, export-led industrial sectors in Mexico. Simon is recognized by his peers as a leading practitioner in pension and employee benefits in Best Lawyers, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and Chambers Canada. When not at the shop, Simon’s often trying something new. He can be found playing footie (soccer, of course) around Toronto, cooking up a new dish, or trying to stay limber practising yoga. He also might be getting grease under his fingernails by restoring antique espresso machines on his workbench. His best work was a full restoration of a 1967 Olympia Cremina, now on display in his kitchen. Simon attended Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario bar in 2002, but he can’t seem to stay away from school. He has taught a variety of courses at law schools at York University, McGill University, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, and Kings College London. He writes extensively and is co-Editor of The Daunting Enterprise of the Law, a volume dedicated to the work of Harry Arthurs, and The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism, a volume on issues with pension fund investments.

Renaye Manley is a strategy and policy advisor working at the intersection of finance, labor, and racial and gender equity. She is the founder of MCG, a consulting practice focused on ESG strategy across the investor ecosystem, and a senior advisor to the Capital Markets Hub project sponsored by Assets Under Management (formerly the Amalgamated Bank Foundation). Renaye is one of the original architects of the racial equity audit shareholder proposal, launched after the murder of George Floyd to hold corporations accountable to their 2020 racial equity commitments. Previously, she served as Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives at SEIU, leading the “Diversity & Dollars” campaign that brought the Rooney Rule to seventeen major companies. She has also served on the Biden-Harris transition team and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s advisory council.

Nelson Switzer is an investor and author who built his career on a single conviction: that the largest profit opportunities of this century lie in fixing the economy’s deepest inefficiencies. Over a 25-year career he has served as a Chief Sustainability Officer at Nestlé, held senior roles at PwC, Centrica, and RBC, and advised more than 150 corporations, asset managers, and governments operating in nearly every country on Earth. Today he co-leads a venture fund that backs companies capable of reaching billion-dollar valuations while removing a billion tons of carbon as an inherent result. Known as The Gigacorn Hunter, after his bestselling book, he reframes climate action as opportunity rather than obligation and insists that data beats dogma.

Bryan serves as US SIF's Managing Director. Bryan leads the staff on executing the organization's strategic priorities and is US SIF's lead representative advancing the interests and perspective of the sustainable investment community with policymakers and stakeholders. Bryan is frequently quoted in the media about sustainable finance and the impact of public policy. Prior to joining US SIF in 2017, Bryan brought 20 years of policy and advocacy experience, most recently as Policy and Engagement Director for the American Sustainable Business Council, where he directed the policy team for a wide range of issues related to sustainability in business and the economy and served on the executive team. Prior to joining the American Sustainable Business Council in 2011, Bryan served in a variety of issue advocacy roles in climate, environmental and telecommunications policy. Bryan's political campaign experience spans presidential campaigns, congressional races, and local ballot initiatives. Bryan received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Sheldon Gen is an administrator and professor at San Francisco State University, where he also serves on the board of the SFSU Foundation. He chaired the Foundation's investment committee when it overhauled the investment policy for its endowment, applying a values-based approach that centers ESG and social justice criteria, while upholding fiduciary responsibilities.

Keith Johnson is currently CEO of Global Investor Collaboration Services, a consulting firm that provides governance advice, collaboration support and educational services to institutional investors. Keith previously headed the Institutional Investor Legal Services Group at the Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren law firm, where he was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for corporate governance matters. Prior to Reinhart, he served as Chief Legal Officer for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the ninth largest public pension fund in the US. While at SWIB, he was President of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys and Co-Chair of the Council of Institutional Investors International Committee.

Keith more recently served as Chair of the Kids Forward Foundation, a Wisconsin-based anti-racist policy center, and as an Intentional Endowments Network Steering Committee member. He co-edited the "Cambridge University Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty." Keith holds a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Sustainable Accounting Standards Level 1 Credential from the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board.