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Wednesday,  September 21

Welcome and Introduction – Peter Easton, Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accounting, University of Notre Dame; Editor-in-Chief, Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly; Academic Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education

Bridging the Gap:

A Key Message from Academia 

• Andrew Karolyi, Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management; Charles Field Knight Dean, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University

A Key Message from Practice

• Wilhelm Mohn, Global Head of Corporate Governance, Norges Bank Investment Management (NGIM)

 

Plenary Speaker –  Svetlana Klimenko, Advisor, World Bank Governance Global Practice 

Plenary Speaker –  Richard Robb, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Plenary Speaker – Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance; Academic Director, Centre for Corporate Governance (CCG), London Business School

 

Panel - Investment in a Sustainable World

Moderator: Shiva Rajgopal, Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing, Columbia Business School

• Eivind Lorgen, Independent Board Chair and Investor
• Robert Eccles, Founding Chairman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Visiting Professor of Management Practice; Saïd Business School, University of Oxford 
• Gerald Garvey, Managing Director, Blackrock

Spotlight – Ethan Rouen, Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Co-Chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project, Harvard Business School

Spotlight – Joseph Johnson, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Central Florida

 

Plenary Speaker –  Thomas Kamei, Executive Director, Counterpoint Global | Investor, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Plenary Speaker –  Rakhi Kumar, Senior Vice-President of Sustainability Solutions, Liberty Mutual and Shiva Rajgopal, Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing, Columbia Business School

Plenary Speaker –  Aniket Shah, Managing Director and Global Head of ESG and Sustainability Research, Jeffries Group LLC

 

Panel -  Assurance and Measurement in a Sustainable World

Moderator: W Robert Knechel, Distinguished Professor and Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar; Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

• Marc Siegel, Partner, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, EY, Former Member Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Former Member International Accounting Standards Board
• Roger Simnett, Professorial Research Fellow, BL Deakin Business School
• Finn Kinsendal, Head of Department IRRR, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
• Sebastian Dingel, Audit & Assurance | Internal Controls Assurance | Sustainability Assurance Partner, Deloitte Germany

 

Spotlight – Frederic Barge, Managing Director, Reward Value

Spotlight – Paul Griffin, Distinguished Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis

Spotlight – Anup Srivastava, Canada Research Chair and Full Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

 

 

Friday, September 23

Plenary Speaker – Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, Harvard Business School and Karthik Ramanna,  Professor of Business and Public Policy, Director of the Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Plenary Speaker – Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School

Plenary Speaker – Lars Pedersen, Professor and Co-Head of the Centre for Sustainable Business, NHH Norwegian School of Economics 

 

Panel -  Regulation in a Sustainable World

Moderator: Colleen Honigsberg, Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

• Joe Grundfest, Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford Law School, Former SEC Commissioner
• Robert Jackson, Pierrepont Family Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, and Director of the Program on Corporate Law and Policy, New York University School of Law, Former SEC Commissioner
• Satyam Khanna, Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and ESG, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Allison Lee, Former Acting Chair and Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Robert Stebbins, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

 

Spotlight – Khrystyna Bochkay, Associate Professor, University of Miami

Spotlight – Steven Orpurt, Clinical Professor of Accounting, Arizona State University and Nicole Holden, PhD Student, Arizona State University

Spotlight – Jurian Hendrikse, PhD Candidate, Tilburg School of Economics and Management

 

 Plenary Speaker – Jennifer Motles, Chief Sustainability Officer, Philip Morris International  

Plenary Speaker – Jacob Soll, University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History and Accounting, University of Southern California, Author of The Reckoning: Financial Accounting and the Rise and Fall of Nations  

 

Panel -  Target Setting in a Sustainable World

Moderator: Jan Bouwens, Professor of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam  

• Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow of Finance, London Business School
• Frank Verhoeven, CEO, Vos Logistics 
• Juliette Gaussem, Head of ESG Reporting, Signify  

 

Spotlight – Florian Berg, Research Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management                        

Spotlight – Marcel Metzner, Research Affiliate, University of Oxford 

Spotlight – Christian Hofmann, Professor of Accounting and Control, LMU Munich School of Management

 

Closing Remarks - Peter Easton, Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accounting, University of Notre Dame; Editor-in-Chief, Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly; Academic Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education