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New Speakers Confirmed for Sustainable Business, Responsible Investing on March 2nd, 2009

Jan 20, 2009 11:45 AM CST

(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - The Financial Times announces new speakers to its The one-day event, called the FT Sustainable Business and Responsible Investing Conference, to be held on 2 March 2009 in New York City at the Altman Building in New York.

The event is being held in association with the Social Investment Forum, a national membership association dedicated to advancing socially and environmentally responsible investing, and JustMeans, the leading provider of social responsibility news, jobs, and information.

Speakers for the event include:

Tod Arbogast, Director of Sustainable Business, Dell

Mary Barrett, Managing Partner, Edgewood Partners, LLC

Ben Bingham, Managing Director, Benchmark Asset Managers

Victor DeLuca, President, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Christine Eibs Singer, Co-Founder and EVP, E+Co

Rob Frederick, VP, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Brown-Forman

Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President for Social Research and Policy, Calvert

Eric Hespenheide, Partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP

Beth Holzman, Manager, CSR Strategy and Reporting, The Timberland Company

Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Business Advisory Services, IFC

Lance Lindblom, President, Nathan Cummings Foundation

Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions

Sonal Mahida, Vice President, Carbon Disclosure Project

Michael Musuraca, Designated Trustee, NYCERS Board

Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Bonnie Nixon, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett Packard

Will Oulton, Head of Socially Responsible Investing, FTSE

Dina Powell, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs

Gavin Power, Deputy Director and Head of Financial Markets, United Nations Global Compact

Auden Schendler, Author and Executive Director, Community and Environmental Responsibility, Aspen Ski Company

Rev. David Schilling, Program Director, Global Corporate Accountability, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Timothy Smith, Director of Socially Responsive Investment, Walden Asset Management

David Stangis, VP Corporate Social Responsibility, Campbell Soup

Jerome Tagger, Chief Operating Officer, UNPRI

Candace Taylor, Director of Sustainability, Wal-Mart

Stephen Viederman, previous President of Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Finance Committees of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and Needmor Fund

Dan Viederman, Executive Director, Verite

Jeff Zalla, CFO, Chiquita

For more information on the program, please visit http://www.ftconferenceslive.com/csr

SOURCE Financial Times