Support from Investors
The Investor Advisory Group (IAG) of the SASB Alliance comprises leading global asset owners, asset managers, and investment intermediaries who recognize the need for consistent, comparable, and reliable disclosure of financially-material, decision-useful environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information to investors.
IAG members recognize the SASB Standards as being globally applicable as part of a core set of company ESG disclosures and ask issuers to use SASB Standards in disclosures to investors.
Investor Advisory Group Members
Matt Christensen
Allianz Global Investors
Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing
Egon Vavrek
APG (All Pensions Group)
Director Global Emerging Markets Equities, Fundamental Strategies
John Rogers
Ariel Investments
Chairman, Co-CEO & Chief Investment Officer
John Oxtoby
Ariel Investments
Senior Vice President, Director of Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Investing
Leah Yablonka
Ariel Investments
ESG Research Analyst
Christian Kjaer
ATP
Head of Liquid Markets, Vice President
Ole Buhl
ATP
Head of ESG, Senior Vice President
Rebecca Greenberg
AXA Investment Managers
Investment Grade Credit Analyst
Clémence Humeau
AXA Investment Managers
Responsible Investment Coordinator
Anna Snider
Bank of America
Head of Due Diligence for the Chief Investment Officer,
Global Wealth & Investment Management
Jennifer Coulson
BCI (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation)
Vice President, ESG | Public Markets
Michelle Edkins
BlackRock
Managing Director & Global Head of Investment Stewardship
Ray Cameron
BlackRock
Head of Investment Stewardship – The Americas
Heidi Soumerai
Boston Trust Walden
Managing Director
Amy Augustine
Boston Trust Walden
Director of ESG Investing
Peter Coffin
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Founder & President
Rob Fernandez
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Vice President & Director of ESG Research
Faith Ward
Brunel Pension Partnership
Chief Responsible Investment Officer
Dan Bienvenue
CalPERS
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Total Portfolio
Simiso Nzima
CalPERS
Investment Director & Head of Corporate Governance, Global Equity
Christopher Ailman
IAG Chair Emeritus
CalSTRS
Chief Investment Officer
Kirsty Jenkinson
CalSTRS
Investment Director, Sustainable Investment & Stewardship Strategies
John Streur
Calvert Research & Management
President & CEO
John Wilson
Calvert Research & Management
Vice President, Director of Corporate Engagement
Jessica Ground
Capital Group
Global Head of ESG
Robert W. Lovelace
Capital Group
Vice Chairman
Heather Lord
Capital Group
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation
Nicole Bradford
CBUS
Portfolio Head, Responsible Investment
Réjean Nguyen
CDPQ
Director, Investment Stewardship
Richard Manley
CPP Investments
Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investing
Ben Lambert
CPP Investments
Senior Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Equity
Akifumi Kai
Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Group
General Manager, Investment Planning Department
Miyuki Zeniya
Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Group
Head of Sustainable Finance
Carole Laible
Domini Impact Investments
CEO
Corey Klemmer
Domini Impact Investments
Director of Engagement
Eoin Murray
Federated Hermes
Head of Investment
Dr. Michael Viehs
Federated Hermes
Associate Director – ESG Integration
Pam Holding
Fidelity Investments
Co-Head, Equity Division
Nicole Connolly
Fidelity Investments
Head of ESG Investing and Portfolio Manager
Julie Moret
Franklin Templeton Investments
Head of ESG
Joel Posters
Future Fund
Head of Investment Stewardship & ESG
John Goldstein
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Managing Director, Head of the Sustainable Finance Group
Catherine Winner
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Vice President, Global Head of Stewardship
Michael Cappucci
Harvard Management Company
Managing Director, Compliance and Sustainable Investing
Eva Zlotnicka
Inclusive Capital Partners
Founder & Managing Partner
Dan Hanson
Ivy Investment Management Company
Chief Investment Officer
Gil Scott
Ivy Investment Management Company
Director of Research
Jennifer Wu
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Investing
Jonathan Grabel
LACERA
Chief Investment Officer
Scott Zdrazil
LACERA
Senior Investment Officer
Aaron Meder
Legal & General Investment Management America
Chief Executive Officer
John Hoeppner
Legal & General Investment Management America
Head of US Stewardship and Sustainable Investments
Robert Furdak
Man Group
CIO for ESG
Jason Mitchell
Man Group
Co-Head of Responsible Investment
Steven Desmyter
Man Group
Co-Head of Responsible Investment
Peter Mennie
Manulife Investment Management
Global Head of ESG and Risk
Margaret Childe
Manulife Investment Management
Managing Director, Head of ESG, Canada
Ted Eliopoulos
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Vice Chair Investment Management & Head of Strategic Partnerships
Rui de Figueiredo
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer, Solutions & Multi-Asset Group
Joseph V. Amato
Neuberger Berman
President of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Chief Investment Officer of Equities
Jonathan Bailey
Neuberger Berman
Managing Director and Head of ESG Investing
Alex Doñé
New York City Retirement Systems
Deputy Comptroller & Chief Investment Officer, NYC Bureau of Asset Management
Michael Garland
New York City Retirement Systems
Assistant Comptroller – Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, NYC Office of the Comptroller
Tomoaki Fujii
Nissay Asset Management
Co-CIO
Toshikazu Hayashi
Nissay Asset Management
Chief Analyst
Eivind Lorgen
IAG Chair
Nordea Asset Management
Director Active Ownership, Responsible Investments
Katarina Hammar
Nordea Asset Management
Head of Responsible Investments
Wilhelm Mohn
Norges Bank Investment Management
Head of Sustainability Initiatives, Corporate Governance
Christopher Shipley
Northern Trust Asset Management
Senior Vice President and Head of Fundamental Equities
Catherine Moyer
Northern Trust Asset Management
Head of North America Stewardship
Deborah Ng
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Director, Strategy and Risk
Walter Viguiliouk
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Principal, Responsible Investing
Anna Totdahl
Oregon State Treasury, Investment Division
Investment Officer, ESG & Sustainability
Jennifer Peet
Oregon State Treasury, Investment Division
Corporate Governance Director
Hans Op ‘t Veld
IAG Vice Chair
PGGM
Head of Responsible Investment
Del Anderson
PIMCO
Senior Vice President, Credit Research
Katherine Collins
Putnam Investments
Portfolio Manager and Head of Sustainable Investing
Paul Scanlon
Putnam Investments
Head of Credit Research
Margaret Stumpp
QMA (a PGIM company)
Senior Advisor
Nydia Montoya
QMA (a PGIM company)
Senior Governance Officer
Lindsay Patrick
RBC
Managing Director & Head, Sustainable Finance
Melanie Adams
RBC Global Asset Management
Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment
Mads Gosvig
RPMI Railpen
Chief Fiduciary Officer
Michael Marshall
RPMI Railpen
Head of Sustainable Ownership
Sarah Bratton Hughes
Schroders
Head of Sustainability, North America
Andrew Howard
Schroders
Global Head of Sustainable Investing
Lynn Blake
State Street Global Advisors
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Global Head of Beta Solutions
Ben Colton
State Street Global Advisors
Co-head Asset Stewardship
Rob Walker
State Street Global Advisors
Co-head Asset Stewardship
George Parker
Sustainable Insight Capital Management
Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel
Chin Yee Png
Temasek International
Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Head Financial Services
Gim Huay Neo
Temasek International
Managing Director, Sustainability
Hershel Harper
UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust
Chief Investment Officer
Malcolm Goepfert
UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Bruno Bertocci
UBS Asset Management
Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investors
Christopher Greenwald
UBS Asset Management
Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing Research
Glenn Booraem
Vanguard
Principal & Senior Adviser, Investment Stewardship
Bill Roberts
Vanguard
Principal & Head of Investment Stewardship Policy and Research
Christopher McKnett
Wells Fargo Asset Management
Co-head, Sustainable Investing
Jessica Mann
Wells Fargo Asset Management
Head of Stewardship
David Zellner
Wespath Investment Management
Chief Investment Officer
Nizida Arriaga
Wespath Investment Management
Manager, Fixed Income
Investor Advisory Group Statement
The SASB Investor Advisory Group (IAG) comprises leading global institutional investors who recognize the need for comparable, consistent, and reliable disclosure of financially-material, decision-useful environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information to investors.
IAG members recognize SASB Standards as being globally applicable and ask issuers to include SASB-based disclosures in their ESG communication to investors because:
- SASB Standards – which are industry-specific and framed upon financial materiality – improve understanding of company performance on ESG issues most relevant to long-term value creation (or destruction). Disclosure via SASB Standards yields improved quality and comparability of ESG data, not only via quantitative performance-focused metrics, but also qualitative measures providing insights into context around performance.
- SASB Standards are important tools for improving price discovery and valuations across asset classes and global capital markets. The Standards enable integration of ESG considerations into investment and stewardship decisions across global portfolios.
- Other reporting standards and frameworks may complement SASB Standards but are not replacements for them.
IAG members encourage companies, investors, and other market participants to engage in SASB’s ongoing standards development and improvement process, so that the SASB Standards best reflect evolving market needs.
IAG Working Groups
- Asia Pacific Working Group
- Corporate Engagement Working Group
- Data Provider Engagement Working Group
- European and UK Working Group
- Exchanges Working Group
- Messaging Working Group
- U.S. Policy and Regulatory Working Group
For more information on these working groups, please contact: [email protected].
The SASB Alliance
Expectations from a wide range of corporate stakeholders for more detailed reporting on sustainability have yielded high rates of such reporting. Today, expectations of a wide range of investors for higher quality sustainability data is also growing, resulting in a need for tools through which companies can better translate their work on sustainability into a language and format more usable to investors across asset classes and strategies.
