InfluenceMap maintains global teams in our offices in London, New York, Tokyo and Seoul. Our organization is governed by an independent, statutory Board of Directors and our programs are informed by our Advisory Groups.
Kyoko brings expertise in sustainable investing, digital transformation and geopolitics. In finance, she built one of Asia’s earliest ESG investing businesses as Head of Sustainable Investing for HSBC Global Markets, APAC. In tech, she served as an Executive Officer for Rakuten, Japan’s number-one internet company, contributing to group strategy including ESG. Kyoko started her career as a correspondent and anchor for CNN, CNBC and TV Asahi. She served as White House, Europe and Senior China Correspondent reporting on major global stories including in-depth reports on the destruction of the Amazon Forest during the world’s first environmental summit in Rio. Recently Kyoko has been appointed NED of PAG, one of the largest APAC focused alternative investment firms. She also serves on the board of The Mekong Club, a leading non-profit on modern slavery. She is Council Leader for the US-Japan Council. Kyoko has an Electrical Engineering Degree from Yale. She was an Associate at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center and its Center for International Affairs.
Lisa Jordan is a senior philanthropic executive with a twenty year career focused on impact and systemic change. Prior to her engagement in philanthropy Ms. Jordan was a founding director of the largest parliamentary body in the world focused on global environmental challenges the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE). She started her career as a legislative assistant to Congressman Jim Scheuer (8th NY) and has led many non-profit programs and organizations in Europe and the United States. She is co-editor of ‘NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations’ (2006, Earthscan) and a well known speaker on democracy and globalization. In 2018 she was named in the Netherlands as one of the top ten influencers in civil society.
Ed has led InfluenceMap's research on lobbying and corporate influence (LobbyMap) since 2017, having joined the company in 2015. Working with a team of dedicated analysts, Ed manages InfluenceMap's system for tracking and assessing the climate change lobbying of world's largest 400 industrial companies and their key trade associations. He represents the LobbyMap to InfluenceMap's key stakeholders in the finance, corporate, civil society and policymaker sectors. Before InfluenceMap, Ed completed a Masters at the London School of Economics.
Cressida Pollock is the former CEO of the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a UK based philanthropic foundation which she led from its inception. During her tenure QCF granted over $500m into global, systemic and tactical efforts to combat the climate emergency.
A deep generalist who focuses on transforming organizations and systems, she has advised national and multinational companies, governments, and NGOs on strategic challenges and transformational change. She is the former Chief Executive of English National Opera where she led the rescue and turnaround of the company from 2015-2018 and was a founding member of Somerset Capital Management, an emerging markets focused investment fund.
Cressida currently advises on the deployment of philanthropic and commercial capital to shift the current trajectory on climate change and build towards long-term sustainable economic systems. She holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alice Garton is an experienced Global Strategy Director and International Lawyer advising a range of foundations and NGOs on legal strategy necessary to combat the climate and nature crises. Previously Alice was Director of Global Legal Strategy at the Foundation for International Law and the Environment (FILE), and Head of Climate at Europe’s leading environmental law charity, ClientEarth. Alice has substantial experience using legal advocacy, advice, and litigation to accelerate government policies and corporate investment strategies that are consistent with a zero-emissions future.
Prior to joining the charitable sector, Alice honed her legal skills working for 15 years as a lawyer in large defence law firms acting for company directors in commercial litigation and insolvency disputes, and then as Senior Legal Counsel at Brookfield in London. Alice graduated with first-class honours in both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She has a double degree in Law and Politics from Charles Darwin University (in Australia) and a Masters of Environmental Law and Policy from University College London.
Dylan founded InfluenceMap in 2015 and has overall responsibility for its global operations. Prior to this, Dylan established a market-leading environmental consultancy in Tokyo which is now ERM Japan. Dylan grew and led a 50-person team engaging in a wide variety of corporate and technical advisory work in Japan and Asia covering environmental audits, land remediation, corporate sustainability, and climate strategies. Dylan grew up in Japan and is currently living in London. He holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics from Kings College London.
Daan leads on FinanceMap's quantitative analysis of financial institutions' portfolios and business activities through a climate lens. Before joining InfluenceMap in 2020, Daan earned his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven and completed the Global M.Sc. in Management at LSE. He has previous experience in the climate space through work and internships in the sustainable finance and renewable energy fields.
Sofia joined InfluenceMap as an analyst in August 2021. Her focus is on tracking and evaluating the lobbying activities of corporates and industry associations in the global oil, gas, and minerals sector, and assessing its impact on climate policy. She holds a Master’s in International History from Columbia University and London School of Economics, and a Master’s in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
As a Senior Analyst on FinanceMap, Paula leads on the assessment of the financial and corporate sector's engagement with sustainable finance policies in the EU and the UK. She also contributes to InfluenceMap's engagement with policymakers and other stakeholders in advocating for policy engagement transparency in Europe. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Paula completed her Master’s in Global Development at the University of Copenhagen, carrying out field research in Tanzania and Myanmar, and writing her Master’s thesis on coal policy in Germany.
Emmett joined InfluenceMap in January 2022, having earned his BSc in Physics at Queen Mary, University of London in 2021. Emmett works as an Analyst on our FinanceMap workstream as well as being responsible for integrating, maintaining, and updating the Carbon Majors database originally released by the Climate Accountability Institute.
Laura joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in January 2022. As part of the corporate climate lobbying team, she mainly focuses on EU climate policies and analyses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in relation to them. Laura holds a Master's in Political Economy of Development from SOAS and a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, she worked on sustainability standards and issues around working conditions in global value chains.
Agi joined InfluenceMap in October 2020 as our Operations Manager. Agi is responsible for maintaining and developing the systems and processes that allow our team to run smoothly; recording KPIs as well as managing the infrastructure around our partner and stakeholder relationships. Prior to joining the team, Agi worked in administration and operations at various corporate organizations. She holds a Master’s of Communication and Media Studies from the University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Kendra joined InfluenceMap in 2020 after earning her Master’s in Sustainable Development from University College London. She has a degree in International Relations and English and completed a U.S. Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. With a background in environment and corporate accountability issues, Kendra works across InfluenceMap's teams on engagement efforts with US-based partners in the non-profit, policy-making, finance, media, and corporate sectors. She helps develop ideas for US-focused content while contributing to InfluenceMap’s ongoing tracking and analysis of corporate lobbying on climate change.
Prior to joining InfluenceMap in November 2020, Tom completed his MSc in Environment and Development at Lancaster University, writing his thesis on aviation climate policy. As a senior analyst in the Oil and Gas team, his work focuses on assessing the lobbying influence of corporations and trade associations on climate policy, with a particular focus on the Australian fossil fuel sector.
Megan joined InfluenceMap in August 2021, and works within the Operations team managing fundraising strategy and opportunities with the Executive Director, as well as coordinating internal databases and assisting with marketing and engagement within the organization. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations from New College of the Humanities.
Sejin joined InfluenceMap in October 2021. As an Analyst, she assesses the lobbying activities and engagements of South Korean corporates on climate policy and conducts research on South Korean climate and sustainability policy. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, she conducted research on sustainability transformations and geopolitics at Linköping University in Sweden. Sejin holds a double BA in Sociology and in Spanish Language and Literature from Korea University and a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University.
Rodolfos joined InfluenceMap in May 2021 after completing his MSc in Public Policy at University College London, where he specialised in EU policymaking, law and regulation, and public administration theory. He also holds an MSc in Engineering and Management from Coventry University. Working as an Analyst within the corporate climate lobbying team, Rodolfos tracks and analyses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations on climate policy, focusing on the EU and shipping sector.
Sanober joined InfluenceMap in December 2020 as a climate policy analyst in the US team. Before joining, Sanober finished a Master’s in International Conservation and Development from the University of Montana, completing a thesis on transboundary conservation with a particular focus on southern Patagonia. Sanober will contribute to InfluenceMap’s efforts to cover more sectors and regions within the United States.
Kat joined InfluenceMap in January 2023. She spent her education studying the intersection of social and environmental issues, earning her Bachelor’s from Bucknell University and her Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University in 2020. At InfluenceMap, Kat works as an Analyst evaluating commerce associations’ engagement with climate policy and their relationships with special-interest companies and industry groups. Her work contributes to InfluenceMap’s expanding platform covering United States policy at federal and state levels.
Cleo joined InfluenceMap in May 2021 after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she studied Political Science and International Political Economics; engaging in research on trade and immigration policy. At InfluenceMap, Cleo works as an Analyst evaluating financial services industry associations’ engagement on sustainable finance, looking into their efforts to influence policy in the United States at the federal and state levels.
Venetia holds a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from the University of Leeds and a MSc in Environment, Politics and Society from UCL, writing a dissertation on investment banks and fossil fuels. As a Senior Analyst in the corporate climate lobbying team, Venetia assesses and analyses the lobbying activities of corporates and trade associations and their impact on climate policy with a focus currently on the EU and heavy industry.
Dylan founded InfluenceMap in 2015 and has overall responsibility for its global operations. Prior to this, Dylan established a market-leading environmental consultancy in Tokyo which is now ERM Japan. Dylan grew and led a 50-person team engaging in a wide variety of corporate and technical advisory work in Japan and Asia covering environmental audits, land remediation, corporate sustainability, and climate strategies. Dylan grew up in Japan and is currently living in London. He holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics from Kings College London.
Aria joined InfluenceMap in December 2020 after completing a MSc in International Politics at SOAS, writing her dissertation on Africa-China relations. At InfluenceMap, Aria works as an analyst assessing corporate lobbying activities on climate policy and analyzing financial institutions’ climate policies, governance, and company stewardship; with a special focus on China and Chinese speaking regions.
Will leads InfluenceMap’s engagement with strategic European partners in the non-profit, policymaking, finance, and corporate sectors. His key focus is the European Green Deal as the bloc implements policy to reach its new 2030 emissions reduction target. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Will was a Senior Policy Advisor in the climate strategy team of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in the UK Government, working on the delivery of the UK net-zero commitment.
Joe manages InfluenceMap’s investor-related research and engagements on the LobbyMap team, including work related to the Climate Action 100+ initiative, lobbying disclosures and shareholder resolutions. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in June 2020, Joe spent 18 months working on the climate change team at responsible investment NGO ShareAction. Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and an MSc in Environmental Policy from the University of Bristol.
Yuna is InfluenceMap's country lead for Korea and works with our global content teams to adapt our work for this market. She also leads in engagement and partner management in-country as well as media outreach. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Yuna was a Partnerships Executive with climate data NGO CDP, focusing on East and Southeast Asia. She has also worked as a Research Manager and Acting Correspondent for the Economist magazine in Seoul. Yuna has a BA from Oxford and MSC in Environment and Sustainable Development from University College London.
Matthew works on projects across InfluenceMap, building tools to automate the gathering and processing of data. His main area of focus is monitoring how corporations and asset managers are responding to climate change. Prior to joining InfluenceMap he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Birkbeck University.
Ciara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Newcastle University, for which she was awarded the ‘2021 Best Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Dissertation Award’ for her research on wildfires and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Ciara joined InfluenceMap in December 2021 and is a member of the LobbyMap team. As an Analyst, she tracks and analyses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations, and their impacts on climate change policy.
Jennifer joined InfluenceMap in January 2023 after completing her degree in Sustainable Development with Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation explored the Chinese State’s approach to the development of their National Park system. At InfluenceMap, she works as an analyst assessing corporate lobbying on climate policy as part of our Europe team.
Jack joined InfluenceMap in August 2022 as an Analyst. He works across our Australia and Oil/Gas teams, where he tracks and assesses corporate engagement on climate-related policy. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Jack worked as a Research Consultant with The Institute for Sustainable Futures. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Australian National University and an MA in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College.
Reina joined InfluenceMap in November 2021 as an Analyst, and she is based in Tokyo. She works on evaluating and scoring Japanese corporate engagement with climate change policy, as well as researching on Japanese climate and energy policy collaborating with Japanese partners including non-profit, policymaking, finance, and corporate sectors. She holds a BA in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining, Reina worked for Sumitomo Forestry as an associate business planner and conducted research to design new business towards decarbonized society and regional revitalization.
Karin joined InfluenceMap in October 2021 as an Analyst. She conducts the assessment and scoring of Japanese and Asian corporate engagement with climate change policy, as well as research on Japanese climate and energy policy in collaboration with Japanese partners. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and has previously worked in government relations and sustainable development.
Connor joined InfluenceMap in May 2021, having completed a BSc in Physics and Philosophy at King's College London. As a front end developer, Connor is responsible for maintaining and updating InfluenceMap's public facing content, as well as its internal tools and systems, in order to ensure a positive user experience.
Leo joined InfluenceMap in September 2022 as an Analyst. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis and Organizational Studies from Pitzer College, where he wrote his thesis on the political theory behind trade associations and their engagement with environmental regulations. Leo also interned at the World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Business. As an Analyst at InfluenceMap he currently analyzes the auto sector’s engagement with environmental policy.
As Country Manager, Monica leads the InfluenceMap content development and JETI engagement efforts from the Tokyo office with strategic partners in the non-profit, policymaking, finance, media and corporate sectors based in Japan and Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2020, she conducted research on energy policy at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). Monica holds a Master’s in Environmental Policy and Energy from Sciences Po, a Masters of Law in International Relations from Peking University, and a BA in Environment and Information Studies from Keio University.
Vivek joined InfluenceMap in November 2020 after completing his Master’s in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment at University College London. He also holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of York. As a Senior Analyst in the Oil and Gas team, Vivek tracks and analyses lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations on climate policy, with a particular focus on the European gas sector. This included analysis for InfluenceMap's February 2022 The EU’s Green Deal vs The Fossil Gas Industry report, which identified a systematic attempt to weaken key elements of the EU Green Deal in 2020-21.
InfluenceMap’s People and Culture Manager, Emily, focuses on the continuous evolution of HR processes that optimize a culture of ongoing team and Organizational growth, ensuring through individual development that every team member can reach their full potential. Her career began as an HR Generalist in large Corporates, Arthur Andersen and UBS Investment Bank, then founding an HR Consultancy in 2006 to bring senior HR expertise out of the corporate world to smaller, more dynamic Organizations, latterly with a focus on sustainability and climate change. Before starting her career she studied a BA (hons) degree in Modern History and Politics at Southampton University followed by a Masters in HR Management.
Bonnie joined InfluenceMap in December 2022, after completing an Americorps service year at a nonprofit in New York City. She graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Biology and Spanish from Colgate University. Bonnie works as an Analyst on FinanceMap, working on the qualitative side and evaluating financial institutions and their stewardship activities through a climate lens.
Inès joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in December 2022. As part of the corporate climate lobbying team, she mainly focuses on EU climate policies and analyses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in relation to them. Inès holds a MSc in International Development from LSE and a Master's degree in International Relations from Sorbonne University (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne). Prior to joining InfluenceMap, she completed an apprenticeship at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working on innovation and partnerships for development
Isabella joined InfluenceMap as and Analyst in January 2023. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and in her final year, she specialized in issues of environmental and social injustice on the African continent. In her role as an Analyst, Isabella scores companies based on their engagement and interaction with climate policy. This entails vigorous research and scrutiny of various organizational reports, media outlets and disclosures – the successful pursuit of which allows her to produce scores based on our bespoke methodology.
Tom joined InfluenceMap in June 2021, having completed an MSc in Theoretical Physics at King's College, London. As an Analyst on FinanceMap, Tom works on analyzing the financial sector’s alignment with global climate targets and assessing financial institution's climate policies, governance and company stewardship.
Jake leads InfluenceMap’s data analysis across multiple streams of work. This includes InfluenceMap’s ongoing research into how digital media advertising influences the climate debate, as well as InfluenceMap's analysis of the automotive sectors' vehicle production plans and emissions. Jake has also developed tools to help automate aspects of InfluenceMap’s research process, such as the data gathering for our ongoing analysis of lobbying and corporate influence. Before joining InfluenceMap, Jake completed an integrated master’s course in Physics at the University of Sussex.
Ed has led InfluenceMap's research on lobbying and corporate influence (LobbyMap) since 2017, having joined the company in 2015. Working with a team of dedicated analysts, Ed manages InfluenceMap's system for tracking and assessing the climate change lobbying of world's largest 400 industrial companies and their key trade associations. He represents the LobbyMap to InfluenceMap's key stakeholders in the finance, corporate, civil society and policymaker sectors. Before InfluenceMap, Ed completed a Masters at the London School of Economics.
Working as an Analyst within the corporate climate lobbying team, Kalina tracks and analyses lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations on climate policy, with a particular focus on the automotive sector. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, she spent a year in Spain working in sustainable energy, and also has experience in the international development field. Kalina holds a BA Geography degree from the London School of Economics, and an M.Sc. in Emerging Economies and International Development from King’s College London.
Lucca joined InfluenceMap in 2021 after completing an MSc in Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy at King's College London, and writing her thesis on the social implications of biofuel policies on smallholder farmers in India. At InfluenceMap, Lucca works as an Analyst within the corporate climate lobbying team. In this position, she assesses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations on climate-related policy, with a particular focus on the aviation and shipping sectors.
Rose joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in December 2022. She works in the Oil and Gas team helping track and analyze the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in this sector. Prior to joining she completed a BSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of Brighton and a Master’s in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London.
Faye has been a member of the InfluenceMap team since 2018, when she started as an intern while completing her MA at King's College London. Faye is now a Program Manager at InfluenceMap, managing our work streams on 'Oil and Gas' and 'Digital Media and Advertising'.
Chris is a system architect and developer based in the Scottish Borders. He holds a BA in Economic and Social History from the University of Hull. Since 2000 his focus has been on web based systems for business, charities and campaigning organisations. He is the co-author of the Evoke web application system.
Nadia joined InfluenceMap in June 2021 as Finance Administrator. She manages our accounts and deals with payroll, expense monitoring, bank payments, all aspects of accounts payable and receivables, and regular financial reporting. Nadia holds a BA in International Relations from the University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria. After moving to London, she achieved ABE Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Nadia worked in finance & accounts assistant roles in both private and public sectors.
Juliette joined InfluenceMap in 2020 after completing an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at UCL, where she wrote her dissertation on integrating Indigenous knowledge and frameworks to climate adaptation in the Canadian Arctic. Prior to her move to London, Juliette earned a BAH in Health and Global Development at Queen's University in Canada and worked on various public health initiatives and research. As an analyst on FinanceMap, Juliette examines the asset management sector through a climate lens, critically evaluating financial institutions’ climate policies, governance, and company stewardship.
Marie joined InfluenceMap in September 2021 after completing her MSc in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policies and Transitions at UCL, writing her dissertation on how a shift to renewable energies could impact Libya's politics. At InfluenceMap, Marie works as an Analyst in the lobbying team as part of the biodiversity project, building biodiversity benchmarks as well as assessing corporate lobbying on nature-based policies.
Mohammed joined InfluenceMap in January 2022 as an Analyst, tracking and analyzing the lobbying activities of corporations in the US. Before joining InfluenceMap, Mo completed a B.Sc. in Physics with Astrophysics from Queen Mary, University of London.
Prior to joining InfluenceMap in May 2021, Emilia worked on energy and global philanthropy projects with Acadia Center and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. As an Analyst, Emilia contributes to InfluenceMap’s efforts to track corporate lobbying on climate change, particularly within the US power sector. Emilia holds a joint Bachelor’s & Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Bloustein School at Rutgers University.
Harri joined InfluenceMap in October 2022, having completed an MSc in Computing at Cardiff University. With a background in NLP and ML, Harri helps to develop software tools to track climate disinformation in digital media.
Nanami joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in July 2022 through the fellowship program of the Japan Climate Alliance. She conducts assessment and scoring of Japanese corporate engagement with climate change policy, as well as research on Japanese climate and energy policy in collaboration with our local partners. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Agriculture from the Kyoto University, and has previously worked in rural development in Benin.
Rebecca joined InfluenceMap in 2019, and leads teams expanding InfluenceMap's research to assess corporate engagement on sustainable finance and biodiversity policy. Rebecca holds an MPhys degree from the University of Oxford, where she specialized in the physics of atmospheres and oceans.
As Program Manager, Ben leads InfluenceMap's work on transport (autos, aviation and shipping), analyzing corporate lobbying on climate regulations from the global transportation sector. Prior to InfluenceMap, Ben worked for Patricia Espinosa's office at the UNFCCC, including at COP25, alongside multiple London-based think-tanks. Ben holds an MA in Public Policy from Central European University & IBEI, graduating top of his class, and a first-class BA from the University of York.
Dan Abbasi is an entrepreneur focused on mitigating climate change, with executive experience in private equity, media, consumer software and industrial manufacturing. His current venture, the Climate Action Platform, aggregates individuals to engage corporations to take stringent action; it is incubating at Conservation International, where he is Senior Fellow. Dan served at U.S. EPA and on the National Climate Assessment, and as Associate Dean at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He earned a BA and MBA from Harvard and an MA and PhD from Stanford.
Paul is Executive Chairman of CDP which he founded in 2000 with an ambition of creating a global economic system that operates within sustainable environmental boundaries and prevents dangerous climate change. Paul previously founded Rufus Leonard Corporate Communications and EyeNetwork, the largest videoconference service in Europe. He served as a member of the Environmental Research Group of the UK Faculty and Institute of Actuaries. Paul has authored various publications, including Beautiful Corporations.
Heather is a Senior Program Officer for Environment at Wallace Global Fund focused on supporting people-powered movements and campaigns with the necessary research and advocacy to turn the tide on catastrophic climate trends and catalyze an equitable, just transition for all. Prior to joining the Fund, she served as global climate and energy director at Oxfam America and previously worked on climate policy at the US regional level. She received an MEM in 2004 from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she was named a Switzer Environmental Fellow and was 2015 recipient of the ‘Prospect Street’ Leadership Award.
Ilmi Granoff is an attorney and policy expert with nearly two decades of experience in environmental law and policy, sustainable development, energy and infrastructure finance, and public-private partnerships. Previously, Ilmi headed the Green Growth Business Unit at the Overseas Development Institute, served as the Special Counsel for Climate and Environment at the African Development Bank, and practiced law in the global energy and infrastructure group at Freshfields. He is also currently a Senior Research Associate at the University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He holds graduate degrees in law, international relations, and environmental science from New York University and Yale University, and a BA from Swarthmore College.
Susheela is Principal at the Stewardship Centre. She serves on the boards of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Beyond Zero Emissions (Australia), and The Shareholder Commons (USA). She was chair / deputy chair of The Responsible Investment Association of Australasia from 2012-2022. She has been advising financial institutions on responsible investment and sustainable markets governance, strategy, and implementation since 2006. These have included some of the world’s most influential banks, pension funds, wealth advisers, and responsible investment initiatives (including the PRI). Her previous roles included leading the establishment of Regnan’s advisory programs and the development of its stewardship programs.
Marshall is Senior Specialist at the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), where he oversees investor engagements for 42 high-emitting companies as part of Climate Action 100+, the largest-ever investor engagement initiative on climate change. Marshall also leads several workstreams related to the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark, the main framework by which the initiative’s investors track progress and inform engagement decisions. Climate Action 100+ aims to secure commitments from the world’s highest-emitting companies to improve their board governance of climate change, set strong emissions reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement, and issue robust climate-related financial disclosures. Previously, Marshall served as Senior Energy Associate at The Climate Reality Project, a global NGO founded by former US Vice President, Al Gore, and dedicated to building a worldwide movement for climate action
Yusuke Matsuo leads IGES’s work supporting corporate and policy actions. He is also the director of the secretariat of Japan Climate Leaders' Partnership, an independent business coalition, where he leads the team supporting the business group of more than 60 companies from across various sectors in Japan who are jointly driving corporate ambition for the transition to a net zero economy. Previously, he was a senior analyst at the Good Bankers Co., Ltd, an investment advisory firm, and at Sanwa Bank (current MUFG Bank). He received the Kaya Award from the Japan Society of Energy and Resources in 2008 and awards from the Ministry of Environment in Japan in 2007 and 2010 for his climate and energy policy proposals. He has MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University.
Carol Lee Rawn is a consultant with extensive experience working with federal and state regulatory agencies, companies, investors and nonprofit organizations on clean transportation as well as a wide variety of other environmental issues. She previously served as the Senior Director, Transportation Program, at Ceres, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, and Deputy Legal Counsel to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. Carol Lee was also an attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and an environmental crime prosecutor with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. She also served on the Massachusetts Commission on the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth, and the Cambridge Climate Crisis Working Group.
Dan has researched and campaigned in Australia for corporations to be held accountable for the influence of their industry associations on climate and energy policy since 2015. Dan is currently a Strategic Communications Campaigner for the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) and previously worked as Director of Climate & Environment at the Australasian Centre of Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). Prior to working on corporate responsibility, Dan spent fifteen years in investment banking and asset management.
Giulio Mattioli is Research Fellow at the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Earth & Environment at the University of Leeds. He has more than a decade of experience of research on sustainable transport, with a particular focus on climate mitigation. His research interests include car dependence and carbon lock-in in the transport sector, transport poverty, and the political economy of transport systems. He was involved as Contributing author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 WG3 report. He holds a PhD in Urban and Local European Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Bill Weihl is an independent consultant helping companies and non-profits drive climate action. From 2012 to 2018, Bill was Director of Sustainability at Facebook. He built a team that directs work on sustainability and energy efficiency across the company; they also drive cross-industry collaborations, including playing critical roles in RE100 and the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. Prior to Facebook, Bill was Green Energy Czar at Google, where his team pioneered Google’s work to buy clean energy for its data centers. He is on the boards of several companies and nonprofits.
As Director for Investor Engagements, Morgan leads Ceres' team to implement the goals of the Climate Action 100+ initiative in North America. She is responsible for supporting investor leadership on focus companies and working with Ceres' Oil and Gas, Electric Power, Transportation and Food and Water teams. Previously, Morgan spent five years working with European investors on corporate and public policy engagement at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), leading the development of a number of collaborative guides on Investor Expectations of Corporate Climate Risk Management and other publications focused on climate risk integration across asset classes. She has also had roles as a consultant for the physical climate risk research provider 427 and as an advisor to family offices and investment advisors on integration of environmental indicators into investment practices.
Ayako is a Manager for Climate Action 100+ at PRI, and facilitates collaborative engagements across Asia for Climate Action 100+, a global investor initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. Ayako joined PRI in 2019, after working as a senior analyst at an international credit rating agency and serving as a director of an educational non-profit organization.
Paul leads the PRI’s work on stewardship, working with signatories to improve practice and collaboration. As part of his role, Paul oversees a team coordinating PRI’s collaborative engagements and is also the PRI lead and steering committee member for the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI). Paul has been at the PRI since 2014, having previously worked in Australia as an ESG Analyst for Regnan and in business development for Colonial First State Investments. Paul holds a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Business, majoring in finance, from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Alex is a Senior Strategist at the Sunrise Project, working with a wide range of analysts and activists worldwide to drive and assess investor actions on fossil fuel phaseouts. Previously, as Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, and then of the European Network on Debt and Development, he scrutinized World Bank and IMF policies and built civil society pressure for them to change their policies and practices. Later, he helped build Avaaz to become an independent movement involving 60 million citizens, leading campaigns calling on governments to forge a climate agreement in Paris, and to stop Rupert Murdoch taking over Europe’s biggest independent broadcaster.
Andreas is Full Professor of Operational Risk, Banking & Finance at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and the Lochlann Quinn School of Business of University College Dublin (UCD) and serves on the schools’ management team as Vice Principal for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Prof. Hoepner is serving on the European Union’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance as one of three independent members (i.e. appointed in personal capacity instead of representing a legal entity). In his TEG role, he co-invented ‘EU Climate Transition Investing’ by aligning investment strategies across asset classes with the IPCC’s 1.5°C trajectory (with no or limited overshoot). In August 2019, he was furthermore commissioned by the EU’s Joint Research Centre to draft a report scoping out further options for the development of the EU Ecolabel.
Simon is a passionate sustainability and climate finance specialist with 15 years of professional and academic experience. He has held a number of senior roles in the field, and currently serves as CEO of 1Planet Advisory, a sustainability reporting and sustainable finance consultancy that he founded. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Previously, Simon was the Director in Paris for 2 Degrees Investing Initiative (the leading global think tank on climate-related metrics in financial markets), Managing Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, Head of Consulting at the UK's Energy Saving Trust, and a Sustainability Manager at Deloitte & PwC.
