About the Authors

Ben Bradshaw is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. His nine-year old research program on the mining sector’s use of company–community agreements, typically called Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs), has sought to investigate their origins, effectiveness, and relationship to regulatory systems. He is the originator of the IBA research network (see www.impactandbenefit.com), which brings together academics, regulators, Aboriginals, executives, and consultants for the purpose of identifying and addressing knowledge and practice gaps.

Marieke de Leede is ESG Officer at Kempen Capital Management since March 2013. She previously worked for SNS Asset Management where she was responsible for integrating non-financial investment criteria in the impact investment funds. Before she was a member of the ESG Research team at SNS Asset Management. Marieke obtained a master in International & European Law (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and a master in International Human Rights Law (Lund University, Sweden). She is specialized in human rights and business.

Christel Dumas is a PhD Candidate at Gent University where she will earn her doctoral degree in 2015. She is a teaching assistant at ICHEC Brussels Management School where she teaches financial mathematics. Prior to her doctoral work at Gent University, she worked for a corporate governance rating agency. Her thesis focuses on the mainstreaming of responsible investment from a convention theory and institutional theory perspective.

Stephanie Giamporcaro is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB). She received a PhD in Social Sciences from Paris la Sorbonne on the social construction of the Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) market in France in 2006. From March 2009 to December 2010 she pursued post-doctoral research on SRI at the UCT School of Economics. She is currently involved in research and teaching on impact investment and sustainable and responsible investment.

Ronald Grzywinski was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShoreBank Corporation, the first and largest certified Community Development Finance Institution in the United States. From 1973, ShoreBank invested in disadvantaged communities, created the nation’s first environmental bank and provided management advisory services to Grameen, BRAC and other local development banks in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. He has been the recipient of numerous honors including the Theodore Hesburgh Award for Ethical Business Practices from the University of Notre Dame.

Heather Hachigian is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment. She is also a research assistant on the Responsible Investment Community University Research Alliance Award, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada. Prior to studying in Oxford, Heather completed a Master of Arts (Public Policy and Administration) at Carleton University, Ottawa. During this time she was a research assistant at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation.

Mary Houghton was one of the four co-founders of ShoreBank Corporation and is a director of several financial institutions: Basix and an affiliate in India and Citizens Bank, Vancity Credit Union subsidiary in British Columbia. She is a director of Women’s World Banking, Calvert Foundation and the Grassroots Business Fund and Steering Committee advisor for the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. She was a graduate of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Scholar there in 2011.

Harry Hummels is a Professor of Ethics, Organisations and Society at Maastricht University. He has written on Impact Investing, Responsible Investing, Corporate Responsibility, Organizational Ethics and the Philosophy of Work. He is a fellow of the university’s European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE) and associated with the Initiative for Responsible Investments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Harry is also co-managing director of SNS Impact Investing and European Liaison of the Global Impact Investing Network.

Ben Jacobsen is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, under the supervision of Associate Professor Gordon Boyce. His study will examine the potential of shareholder activism on climate change. Ben is a staff member of James Cook University where he teaches finance. His Masters of Economics research explored policy options for mitigating farming impacts on marine protected areas. He leads a teaching research project redesigning finance curriculum for online teaching. He is a member of the PRI academic network.

Steve Lydenberg is a Partner at Strategic Vision for Domini Social Investments. For over three decades he has been active with various organizations including KLD Research & Analytics. He is author of “Reason, Rationality and Fiduciary Duty” and “On Materiality and Sustainability: The Value of Disclosure in the Capital Markets” as well as several books on responsible investment including Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand (Berrett-Koehler), and with Céline Louche Dilemmas in Responsible Investment (Greenleaf).

Michael R. MacLeod is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at George Fox University in Oregon, USA. He has BA and MA degrees from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) and a PhD from George Washington University (Washington, DC). His research focuses on the evolution of corporate social responsibility as part of emerging global governance and has written extensively on the rise of modern socially responsible investment.

Caitlin McElroy is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Smith School, University of Oxford. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in History and Environmental Studies, an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a DPhil in Economic Geography from the University of Oxford (2012). A Clarendon Scholarship supported the Dphil. Caitlin’s research addresses the governance of resource extraction.

Emmanuelle Michotte is a graduate teaching assistant and a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She provides teaching support in organizational sociology, leadership, and human resources management. Her thesis investigates the relationships between discourses of corporate social responsibility and the conditions for the legitimacy of capitalism.

Austin G. C. Onuoha is the Executive Director of the Africa Center for Corporate Responsibility in Nigeria. He is the author of From Conflict to Collaboration: Building Peace in Nigeria’s Oil-Producing Communities. He has conducted several research projects both in Africa and abroad on different subjects especially on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Currently he is a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Science and is designing a CSR-mediation facility that will focus exclusively on company/community conflicts.

James Post holds the John F. Smith, Jr. Professorship in Management at Boston University. He is a co-author of Redefining the Corporation: Stakeholder Management and Organizational Wealth. In 2010, he received the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer for Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of business and society.

Benjamin J. Richardson is a Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and previously he held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His scholarship specializes in the legal and public policy dimensions of socially responsible finance. His publications include the books Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing (Routledge, 2013).

Nicholas J. C. Santos is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA. He is a Jesuit priest originally from Pune, India, and has academic degrees in business, philosophy, and theology and practical experience in for-profit and non-profit organizations. His research interests include marketing strategies for impoverished markets, business ethics, business and society, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. He has published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Macromarketing, Business and Politics among others.

John Sealey is the Provincial Assistant for Social and International Ministries for the Chicago-Detroit and Wisconsin Provinces of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Jesuits number over 17,000 members worldwide, the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church. They are probably best known for their work in education, spirituality and the promotion of justice. Serving the Midwest Jesuits, John works on designated social concerns, shareholder advocacy and cooperation with Jesuits overseas, particularly those in Eastern Africa, Northeast India and Peru.

Suzette Viviers is a Professor in the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her PhD focused on the financial performance of responsible investment funds in South Africa over the period 1992–2006. She mainly teaches financial and investment management. Her research centers on various aspects of responsible investing, sustainability and business ethics. She has supervised numerous postgraduate students and serves on the Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University.

Fiona Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship at the Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire. She serves as a Faculty Research Fellow at UNH’s Sustainability Institute and Carsey Institute. She has authored a number of papers and book chapters on social ventures. Prior to her academic career, she held senior-level roles in for-profit, non-profit and government organizations in the United States and Europe.