SASB Investor Advisory Group Statement
The SASB Investor Advisory Group (IAG) comprises leading asset owners and asset managers who recognize the need for consistent, comparable and reliable disclosure of material and decision-useful ESG information.
IAG Members:
- Encourage companies to disclose material and decision-useful ESG information to investors
- Believe standards would improve the quality and comparability of sustainability-related information
- Believe SASB’s approach—which is industry-specific and materiality-focused—will help provide investors with relevant and decision-useful information
- Agree to participate in SASB’s ongoing standards development process, so that outcomes best reflect investor needs
- Agree to encourage companies to participate in SASB’s ongoing standards development process, so that outcomes reflect both issuer and investor viewpoints
- Believe that SASB standards can inform integration of sustainability factors into investment and/or stewardship processes, such as corporate engagement and proxy voting
Hugh Young
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Head of Asia
Egon Vavrek
APG (All Pensions Group)
Fundamental Equities, Global Emerging Markets
Anna Snider
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Head of Due Diligence for the Chief Investment Officer, Global Wealth & Investment Management
Jennifer Coulson
bcIMC (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation)
Senior Manager, ESG Integration | Public Equities
Michelle Edkins
BlackRock
Managing Director &
Global Head of Investment Stewardship
Peter Coffin
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Founder & President
Ted Eliopoulos
CalPERS
Chief Investment Officer
Christopher Ailman
CalSTRS
Chief Investment Officer (IAG Chair)
John Streur
Calvert Research and Management
President & CEO
Robert W. Lovelace
Capital Group
Vice-Chairman
Carole M. Laible
Domini Impact Investments
CEO
Hugh Lawson
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Managing Director
Global Head of Institutional Client Strategy
Dan Hanson
JANA Partners LLC
Head of Impact Investing
Co-Portfolio Manager, JANA Impact Capital
Scott Evans
New York City Retirement Systems
Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer
Rui de Figueredo
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer, Solutions & Multi-Asset Group
Eivind Lorgen
Nordea Investment Management, North America
CEO
Christopher Shipley
Northern Trust Asset Management
Senior Vice President and Head of Fundamental Equities
Barbara Zvan
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Senior Vice-President
Strategy & Risk and Chief Investment Risk Officer
John Skjervem
Oregon State Treasury | Investment Division
Chief Investment Officer
Jameela Pedicini
Perella Weinberg Partners
Executive Director
Felix Lanters
PGGM
Head of Equities
Christian Stracke
PIMCO
Global Head of Credit Research
Margaret Stumpp
QMA
Senior Advisor
Lynn Blake
State Street Global Advisors
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Global Head of Beta Solutions
Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D.
Sustainable Insight Capital Management
Portfolio Manager
Tom Franks
TIAA Investments
Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities
Benjamin L. Cotton, CFA
UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust
Senior Managing Director, Liquid Markets
Thomas Henley
Senior Managing Director, Strategic Opportunities
Bruno Bertocci
UBS Asset Management
Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investors
Glenn Booraem
Vanguard
Principal and Head of Corporate Governance
Heidi Soumerai
Walden Asset Management
Managing Director, Director of ESG Research
Kirk Hartman
Wells Fargo Asset Management
President and Chief Investment Officer
Wells Capital Management
David Zellner
Wespath Investment Management
Chief Investment Officer