Innovations In Social Investing Across The Finance Spectrum 4. Social Equity And Equity-Like Investing

Speakers

• Mark Campanale

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  Founder and Executive Director, Carbon Tracker Initiative

  Mark is founder and executive chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non profit financial think tank. Best known for the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis, the lexicon of ‘stranded asset’ risk is now common place in climate finance language. Mark commissioned and was editor of Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? In 2011 and more recently, Mark co-founded ‘Planet Tracker’. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing their capital markets framework analysis. Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth. Prior to forming these groups, Mark worked for major institutional asset management companies in building sustainable asset management franchises. Mark is a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care between 1994 and 1999, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds from 1999-2008. Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’ and Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. Mark is an advisor to Consilium Capital, serves on the Advisory Board of Tribe Impact Capital and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s sustainable finance programme. Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.

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• Jamie Hartzell

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  Delegated Director, Ethical Property

  Jamie first invested in commercial property jointly with Andrew King in 1986. In 1994, he bought the first of the Archway Resource Centre buildings. With help from Triodos Bank, the premises were expanded in 1997. Jamie managed the Archway Resource Centre before moving from London to Oxford at the beginning of 1999. Jamie's work has always kept him in close contact with campaigning and charity organisations. After leaving university in 1981, Jamie first worked with the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, before going on to produce a number of award-winning environment and development television programmes. In 1990 he became assistant director of the charity, Television Trust for the Environment, setting up and running the budget for its Dutch office in 1992. For eight years he was a director and the financial controller of his own television company, Small World Productions Ltd, which specialises in providing media support to campaign groups. He has also worked for the World Development Movement and as a grants assessor for the National Lottery Charities Board. Jamie is responsible for the overall management and financial control for the Company

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• James Vaccaro

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  Head of Investment Banking, Triodos Bank

  James Vaccaro is a specialist in environmental and social finance and is the Head of Investment Banking at Triodos Bank. While at Triodos he has been an advisor on a number of ethical share issues including Cafedirect in 2004. He established the UK’s first ethical business angels service, Triodos Match; he has worked in the Triodos International Fund Management department on investments in microfinance institutions in Indonesia and South Africa; and he oversees the Triodos Renewables Energy Fund which invests in a range of renewable energy projects. James is also a non-executive director of the Carbon Neutral Company, providing carbon-offset, and Organic Farm Foods, the largest supplier of organic fresh produce in the UK.

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