Thompson is the Communications Manager for FSC’s Asia Pacific regional office. She started her career as a reporter with a special interest in environmental and developmental news. FSC works to promote responsible forest management around the world. Operating in more than 100 markets, FSC is the preferred certification scheme for businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining FSC, she worked for WWF-Hong Kong, overseeing content management, branding and corporate partnership.

Lima is the member services manager at the Samoa Chamber of Commerce. She has worked at the organization for four years. Lima graduated from the Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand with a Bachelor in Social Sciences and Human Resource Management in 2011 and has been working in Samoa since then. As the Member Services Manager, she works extensively with the Samoa Chamber of Commerce membership (over 350 businesses) and with donor partners and stakeholders.

Lin oversees Academy and Life Care business of TUV Rheinland Group in Greater PRC region. She set up the Competence Centre of CSR & Sustainability. She has dedicated herself actively together with the team and achieved some highlights including development of capacity building program “FIT FIVE®” in 2005 with recognition of Best Practice by Global Compact for supply chain solution; consultancy of probably the first management system based on ISO26000 in PRC; consultancy to Carbon Pioneer in PV industry to win WWF Climate Saver award.

Schneider-Maunoury is head of SRI at Humanis. He has responsibility for the development of SRI in Humanis and Humanis Gestion d’Actifs, its asset management arm. Among other achievements, he has designed and developed HGA Obligations Vertes, a Green Bond fund with a quantification of environmental impact. He is a non executive Director the French SIF (Social Investment Forum). Before joining Humanis in 2008, Grégory Schneider-Maunoury was SRI analyst in sell side (CM CIC Securities) and buy (Dexia AM) as well as in CSR rating agencies (Vigeo, Arese).

Peters is an environmental specialist supporting ADB’s private sector transactions. Prior to joining ADB he provided environmental finance services to clients including major corporations, trading companies, international banks, the UN, national and regional governments and non-profit organizations.

Purnomo joined GAR in October 2014. He had held many positions for the government, multilateral institutions and international and national NGOs, including Special Assistant to the President of Indonesia for Climate Change (2010-2014), Special Assistant to the Minister of Environment (2004-2009), the World Bank (2002-2004), Executive Director of WWF Indonesia, and half a dozen other national organizations on sustainable development issues.

Sundahl has authored and co-authored a number of papers and is currently writing a book about scientific theory in business strategy and operations—the culmination of work from his time as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Institute, Sundahl was founder and managing partner at Rule 4 Consulting, LLC where for a decade he transferred relevant practices and principles of the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Business System to many of the most prestigious and successful health care organizations in the United States.

Agrawal heads International Banking at YES BANK, developing business and managing relationship with global financial institutions including banks, multi/bilateral agencies, exchange houses, merchant banks and financial sponsors. Focus of the team is on building strategic relationships in important geographies across the globe, in close coordination with the various product/business/service groups. He also leads the Multinational Corporate Banking team with focus on developing YES BANK as a strong Host Country Bank for MNCs in India. He joined YES BANK in 2005 as the Country Head

Barua is the pioneer of solar energy in Bangladesh and played a role in the conceptualization resulting to the initiation of Grameen Bank project in later part of 1976. From then Barua started his creative work as a co-founder of Grameen Bank and dedicated himself 35 years for building Grameen Bank. As Co-Founder of Grameen Bank, he he was Deputy Managing Director until December 2009. He is also the main architect of the Grameen Shakti.

In her current capacity, Acharya drives GGGI’s Green Investment Advisory Services to support GGGI member countries develop and seek financing for green investment projects, conceptualize knowledge products that build a strong theoretical and empirical base for green growth, build capacity for green growth implementation, and facilitate South-South cooperation. Prior to joining GGGI, Acharya was Managing Director at C-Quest Capital LLC, a carbon finance business specializing in carbon credits to bring investment capital to social welfare projects in developing countries.