Claude Fussler is an expert in business innovation and issue management with a focus on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. In 2006, he received the Cleantech Pioneer Award in business processes for eco-efficiency and innovation.

He is the editor of the business book Raising the Bar published in June 2004 at the occasion of Kofi Annan’s Leaders Summit in New York. In 2002, he coordinated the business input to the World Summit on Sustainable development in Johannesburg and produced the book Walking the Talk. As a vice president of Dow Chemical in Europe, where he worked for more than 30 years, Claude managed a number of international business assignments.

For a number of years he was vice chairman of the Stockholm Environment Institute (until 2003) and chaired the European faculty of the International Business Leaders Forum seminars in Salzburg (until 1998). In 1994, he was the recipient of Tomorrow’s magazine first Environmental Leadership Award.

Dr. Byong-Hun AHN is a Professor at the KAIST Graduate School of Management, an AACSB accredited school in Korea, which he founded in 1996. He is also the founding director of the Center for CSR within the school.

After earning his Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems at Stanford University and working as one of the founding members of Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) at Stanford University during late 70s, Dr. Ahn returned to Korea and had led many research and educational efforts in the areas of energy and environmental policy, and more recently in CSR. Professor Ahn published articles on the global carbon exchange as early as 1992, participated at FNCCC's multilateral negotiations, and also created the “Green MBA” program at his school in 1998, the first of its kind in Asia. Many of his research results have influenced the energy and environmental policies of Korea. After having served as independent directors of the boards of Korea Gas Corportation, Korea Developement Bank, DSME (a global shipbuilding company) and Auction Corp (eBay's Korean subsidiary), he became instrumental last five years or so in motivating and supporting Korean firms to adopt the agendas of responsible business and leadership, and of sustainable finance. For these and other educational activities, Professor Ahn received the 2006 Faculty Pioneer Award in the institutional leadership category from Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program.

Roger Raufer is an independent consulting engineer with more than thirty years of private-sector experience in dealing with environmental impacts in the energy sector.  He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations addressing environmental issues in China since 1990, and spent four years as a Technical Advisor in the Division for Sustainable Development at U.N. headquarters in New York.  He has similarly worked on energy/environmental projects for the World Bank and U.S. AID in numerous countries around the world.  Dr. Raufer holds a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, with one of the very first doctoral dissertations addressing emissions trading (1984).  He has taught at Penn for more than twenty years, and is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wharton School; he also teaches at the Institut Français du Pétrole in Paris, and has done so since 1989.  Dr. Raufer holds degrees in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and political science; and he is a registered Professional Engineer in a number of U.S. states.  He has written two books on the role of emissions trading in environmental management. He recently assisted the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in determining whether they should become a carbon exchange.

DONG-SUNG CHO is a Professor of Strategy and International Business at Seoul National University. He is concurrently Commissioner of Korea Trade Commission, the Republic of Korea. He is Founding Chairman of the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies, the Institute for Policy and Strategy on Competitiveness, and the System Integration Technology Research Institute. He graduated from SNU in 1971, and received a doctorate degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1976. He was with Boston Consulting Group and Gulf Oil Corporation before joining the SNU faculty in 1978.

He was a visiting professor at HBS, 1983-84; INSEAD, 1985; Hitotsubashi University, 1992; the University of Tokyo, 1993; the University of Sydney, 1994; University of Michigan, 1996; Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 1991-2000; and Duke University, 1998. At these universities, he taught MBA, doctoral and executive courses on Corporate Strategy, International Business Strategy, Theory of Competitiveness, Design Management, and Business in Asia.

Miki Watanabe is a senior staff at CSR Department, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. After she earned her Bachelor degree in International Economics at Yokohama National University, she continued her education at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies where she received her Master degree in Arts in International Affairs: Conflict Management and International Economics, being recognized as recipient of SAIS Conflict Management Program Paper Award.

She began hers career at the Fuji Xerox company in Tokyo, where she contributed as Research Staff and Corporate Planning Staff in Research Department, Corporate Research on Management and Knowledge, and Corporate Planning Department.

Mills is the Managing Member of Highland Good Steward Management, LLC. Highland GSM acts as the Fund Manager for a suite of socially screened investment products.  He is also a founding Partner of Highland Associates, an affiliate company.  Highland Associates provides investment consulting advice to not-for-profit entities.

Prior to Highland Associates, Mills was in the healthcare finance business, working in the accounting and finance areas for a number of healthcare providers, since graduating from the University of Louisville in 1973. He is also an active member of Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) serving as co-chair of the Access to Capital Working Group and a member of the Human Rights Working Group. Mr. Mills is also a board member of the Interfaith Disaster Relief Fund which is a multi-denominational group working to provide disaster relief.

Prior to founding PT Komunikasi Kinerja in 2007, a consulting firm specializing in Issue Management, Reputation Building and Corporate Social Responsibility, he has been an international business executive for over 30 years.

His business career commenced as management trainee with Siemens in 1974 ultimately culminating at the top executive position as President Director of PT Siemens Indonesia. Thereafter he managed Salim Group companies in Germany, Australia and the U.S. before returning to Indonesia to take up the job of Country Head of Rio Tinto in Indonesia in September 1997. In 2001 he was reassigned as President Director of Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), at the time a joint-venture between Rio Tinto and BP. Following the sale of KPC in October  2003 he was retained as non-executive Chairman, Rio Tinto Indonesia before joining PT Newmont Pacific Nusantara as President Director from October 2005  - December 2006.

Chong San Lee has served as Deputy President of Transparency International Malaysia for the past five years. Previous to this he has worked as a tax analyst and in 1988 he was appointed the Financial Controller of the Esso Companies in Malaysia.

His many responsibilities in this role included overseeing the company’s ethics and business practices and ensuring compliance with company policies. He also participated in the company’s contracting practices. After retiring from ExxonMobil in 2001, he volunteered and worked in many projects organised by Transparency International Malaysia.

Chong San Lee was elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of TI at the Annual General Meeting in Berlin, 12- 13 November 2005.

Yunjong Wang is Vice President at SK Research Institute for SUPEX Management. He is currently a member of the advisory group to the President’s National Competitiveness Council. He has been formerly Senior Research Fellow and Director of Center for Regional Economic Studies at Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) for 1993-2004. He graduated from Seoul National University. He obtained his Ph.D in economics from Yale University in 1993. Dr. Wang has been a consultant and advisor to Korean government’s numerous projects and committees. He has been a Visiting Scholar to the IMF. He has served as a consultant to various international organizations including ADB, ADBI, UNCTAD and the United Nations. He served as a co-managing editor of Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press) and is currently serving as an executive editor of Journal of Asian Economics. He has published many books and articles in various professional journals, mainly focusing on regional financial arrangements and integration, new international financial architecture, and international finance and trade. His most recent publication includes A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia (co-edited with Yung Chul Park and Takatoshi Ito, Edward Elgar, 2005) and Financial Governance in East Asia (with co-edited with Gordon de Brouwer, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).

George S. Dallas is Director of Corporate Governance at F&C Investments in London.  He is a member of F&C’s Governance and Sustainable Investment team, where he leads all aspects of F&C’s global policies relating to corporate governance, including proxy voting, remuneration and engagement matters. He joined F&C in January 2008, prior to which he was a Managing Director at Standard & Poor’s.

Mr. Dallas began his career as a corporate lending officer at Wells Fargo Bank before joining S&P in 1983. At S&P he served in a range of managerial and analytical roles, including head of Governance Services, head of Global Emerging Markets, regional head for S&P’s Ratings Services in Europe and head of the firm’s London office. As global practice leader for corporate governance at S&P, Mr. Dallas led the development of S&P’s approach to governance analysis and built a multinational team of governance analysts. He has conducted governance evaluations on companies across the globe and contributed to the formal linking of these to the overall credit rating process. He also was actively involved in the development of the S&P India index focused on corporate governance and sustainability.

Mr. Dallas has written extensively on corporate governance and international finance and edited the book Governance and Risk (McGraw Hill, 2004). He is member of the advisory board of Duke University Global Capital Markets Center, is a professorial fellow at Tilburg University in The Netherlands and a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Haas SRI Fund at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Dallas is also a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and is a member of European Corporate Governance Institute and the International Corporate Governance Network.

Mr. Dallas holds a BA degree, with distinction, from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School of the University of California at Berkeley. He has dual US/UK nationality and speaks German and French.

Mr. Allen is the founding Secretary General of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). He is a published author and has more than 20 years experience as a writer, editor and analyst covering Asian business, finance and economics from Hong Kong.

Prior to the establishment of ACGA in mid-1999, Mr. Allen acted as a consultant for multinational companies, carrying out customized research on mainly finance-related topics, including corporate governance. From 1992-95, he worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) as editor of Business Asia, a regional management newsletter, and was a contributor to The Economist magazine from 1994-6. Mr. Allen began his career the late 1980s as a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

Mr. Allen is a graduate of the Australian National University, Canberra, where he received a BA (Honours) in political science and Chinese language. He furthered his Chinese studies during a two-year period as a student in Taiwan in the early 1980s.

In May 2006, Mr. Allen was appointed to the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. From 2001 to 2007, he served on a new advisory committee, the Public Shareholders Group, formed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

Dennis is currently the Senior Portfolio Manger in charge of Global Corporate Governance for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). He is responsible for both strategy and the day-to-day management of all corporate governance activities within CalPERS. Dennis is responsible for the management of four lines of business which are CalPERS’ Focus List Program, global proxy voting, global corporate governance policies and CalPERS’ global active corporate governance investment strategies. Within CalPERS’ global active corporate governance investment strategies, Dennis manages a combination of eleven external investment managers worldwide and internal investments with a total market value of approximately $7 billion.

Dennis has twenty six years of experience in the investment management industry. Prior to joining CalPERS, he served as a Managing Director for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Responsibilities throughout his career include, the development and management of proxy voting policies and guidelines, advising and counseling clients on corporate governance and proxy voting policy, and voting proxies. In addition, Dennis has extensive direct experience managing global equity and global fixed income investment portfolios, conducting quantitative, fundamental equity and credit research as well as equity and fixed income trading. Dennis has a B.A. in Economics from the Virginia Military Institute, and M.S. in Finance from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) northern California Chapter. Dennis is a member of the CFA Institute and previously served on the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors.

Masaru Arai is Chief Investment Officer at Daiwa Asset Management (DAM). He joined DAM in 1992. Prior to joining DAM, he worked with Daiwa Securities for 20years where he became specialized in the global business with his experience in France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Arai has been working closely as a member of Investor Consultation Group for the third generation of GRI Guidelines (G3) and a Policy Committee member for FTSE4Good Index since 2005.

Paul Clements-Hunt has been the Head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Finance Initiative (FI) since November 2000. UNEP FI, based in Geneva, is the largest partnership between the United Nations and the financial services sector counting more than 170 banks, insurers and asset managers as members. UNEP FI was instrumental in the 2004-2006 development and launch of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). The PRI is now backed by close to 230 institutional asset owners and managers representing approx. $13,000 bn in assets under management. Clements-Hunt was one of the two lead United Nations representatives throughout the PRI negotiation in 2005-6.

In 2007 he was invited to join the Financial Times (FT) Sustainability Banking Awards judges panel and the United Nations special climate change panel on finance and investment. Clements-Hunt is a Board Member of Sustainable Finance Geneva, a network of professional finance executives committed to pushing forward sustainability practice amongst the Swiss financial services sector.

Ambassador Chung is the chief negotiator for climate change issues representing the Republic of Korea. Having studied Economics at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea, he completed his masters at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Since the early nineties Ambassador Chung has been involved in international environmental negotiations such as the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and inserted compulsory licensing and transfer of publicly owned technologies in Agenda 21. He contributed as a lead author for an IPCC special report on technology transfer. He served at Korean Missions at the UN and the OECD and as Deputy Director-General for Environmental Affairs and as Director-General for International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea before he joined UN ESCAP(Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) as Director for Environment and Sustainable Development Division.

Her entrepreneurial success story began in 1980 when she established the first joint venture between Hong Kong and Mainland China through a co-operation arrangement between the Civil Aviation Administration of China and Hong Kong Beijing Air Catering Ltd.  Since then, she has become the Vice Chairman of over 20 joint venture and catering companies in China. Annie Wu is also a recipient of various awards, which include Silver Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

She is an Executive member of various women’s organisations. She helped Hong Kong obtain the membership of the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) in 1976, thereby putting the territory in direct trade partnership with 750,000 trade organizations around the world. She is the first Chinese to sit on the board of the Association.

She serves on various Advisory Bodies, including a Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Consultative Conference. She is also the Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Chinese History and Culture Educational Foundation for Youth and China Soong Ching Ling Children’s Foundation.

As CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd, Colin Melvin provides corporate governance, voting and engagement assistance to pension funds on assets managed by third party fund managers. He is also responsible, as Director of Corporate Governance for Hermes Pensions Management Ltd, for the direction, development and management of corporate governance and responsible investment in relation to Hermes’ equity shareholdings, directing the largest corporate governance resource of any fund management company.

Mr. Melvin is currently an active member of various industry steering groups and committees including those of the United Nations Project on Principles for Responsible Investment, the Work Foundation Panel of Inquiry into Work and Enterprise, the Global Institutional Governance Network and the Institute of Directors Professional Accreditation Committee.

He also chaired the organizing committee for the International Corporate Governance Network’s 2005 annual conference, which attracted over 500 attendees from 37 countries. He is currently a member of the ICGN’s standing committees on executive remuneration, cross-border voting and shareholder responsibilities. He has also founded or led various investor groups including the Performance Pay Group and SRI Forum in the UK and co-drafted guidelines for corporate disclosure on social, environmental and ethical matters, which have been issued by the Association of British Insurers. In November 2001, he set up the Responsible Investors Network, to facilitate the development of corporate engagement in this area.

Previously, Mr. Melvin was Corporate Governance Manager and Secretary to the Ethics Committee at Standard Life Investments and Head of Corporate Governance at Baillie Gifford. He is also a former member of the Advisory Board to Aberforth Limited Partnership I, a fund engaged in relational and active-value investing.

Mr. Melvin joined Hermes in 2002 and became CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services in 2005. He is an associate member of the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute and the UK Society of Investment Professionals. He holds an MA from Aberdeen University and an MPhil from Cambridge University, both in History, and a Diploma in Investment Analysis from Stirling University. He is currently an Associate of the Centre for Corporate Governance Research of the University of Birmingham.