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