The Value Commission

Mario has considerable leadership experience in both the private and public sectors. In particular, he has extensive experience in senior management, leading both large and small professional teams to deliver results. As a professional accountant he has financial management expertise with strong technical accounting skills in standard setting, especially IFRS and corporate reporting more generally. He has considerable experience in governance and in leading working groups and expert panels. He also has considerable experience in government policy development, analysis and execution and has held senior government positions in Australia, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

Rico Ancog is a professor and UP Scientist I at the School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) of the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB).

He serves as the Head of the Ecosystem Services and Environmental Policy (ESEP) Research Laboratory of SESAM, while also working as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Environmental Science and Management (JESAM), a Web of Science-indexed journal based in UPLB. He likewise sits as the Board Secretary of the Philippine Network of Educators on Environment (PNEE) and as District Chair of the Environment Protection Committee of Rotary District 3820.

With specialization in environmental science and environmental economics, his research projects are focused on systematic understanding of socio-ecological systems for efficient resource conservation and resilience. He has served as a consultant of National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in the initial development of the Philippine Mangrove Systems Account under the program, Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES). Currently, he also contributed in the development of a Supplemental Manual on the integration of DRRM/CCA in the project evaluation system of NEDA Board’s Investment Coordination Committee (ICC), as well as in the analysis of the efficiency, financing gap, and potential funding sources of the Coastal Resources Management (CRM) programs of selected 24 local government units (LGUs) around the country.

He finished his PhD in 2011 in UPLB complemented with a sandwich program in Nagoya University. He was awarded the Dr. Elvira O. Tan Award for Best Published Paper (2017) and the Asian Young Professional on Water Research (2009). He was recently awarded as one of the Outstanding Young Scientists of 2019.

A sustainability specialist with eleven years of professional experience. Have extensively worked in the areas of Sustainability Strategy, Reporting and Assurance, Multi Capital Accounting (Natural Capital, Social Capital & Human Capital), TCFD, TNFD, SDGs mapping and prioritisation, Environmental Mapping Studies, GHG Accounting, Social Return on Investment (SROI), Impact Assessment, Impact Investment, Due Diligence, Monitoring & Evaluation, Ecological Economics & Valuation and Market Research which necessitates conducting Stakeholder Engagements & Perception studies, Suppliers due diligence, Materiality Mapping and Management interviews.

Have organized and conducted international trainings on Sustainability Reporting, UNGC Principles, Social Return on Investment and Corporate Sustainability practices. Have participated in GRI Stakeholder Consultations and GRI South Asia Conference on Sustainability Reporting for Sustainable Economies. IRCA certified ISO 14000: 2015 EMS lead auditor.

Tom leads PwC’s work related to its Total Impact Measurement & Management (TIMM) framework, which allows organisations to measure and value their social, environmental, economic and fiscal impacts to drive impact data into the heart of decision-making processes.
He sits on the Methodology Board of the Value Balancing Alliance and the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative which are developing standards for impact measurement and valuation. Tom also sits on Accounting for Sustainability’s Expert Panel, set up by HM King Charles III. Previously he also acted as an advisor to the Impact Management Project.
Having supported PUMA develop the world’s first Environmental P&L (E P&L) Tom has supported others such as Kering and Natura follow in its footsteps. He also supported BASF develop its Value to Society programme.

Ben Carpenter is CEO of Social Value International the global membership network for social value and impact management practitioners. Our mission is to change the way society accounts for value. Ben oversees the strategic direction of the network and leads technical facilitation with other sustainability standard setters. Ben is dedicated to reducing inequality and improving the well-being of people and the planet.

Rudolf de Groot is an ecologist by training and has worked for more than 35 years on the development and application of the ecosystem services concept as a tool to analyze the socio-economic benefits of sustainable ecosystem management, and the economic costs of biodiversity loss. In July 2021 he retired as Associate Professor in Integrated Ecosystem Assessment & Management with the Environmental Systems Analysis Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

De Groot was involved as Coordinating Lead author in the UN-supported Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2001-2005) www.maweb.org and in the global study on “The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity” (TEEB 2008-2010) www.teebweb.org (leading the Conceptual Framework chapter and the development of a global database on monetary values of Ecosystem Services: www.esvd.info) which now contains over 8.000 unique value records.

He is co-founder (2012) and Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal “Ecosystem Services: Science, Policy & Practice” www.journals.elsevier.com/ecosystem-services and since 2018 is listed among the top 1% most cited researchers worldwide on cross-disciplinary topics.

Next to his scientific work, he is passionate about the practical application of the ecosystem services concept. He is co-founder and Chair of the Foundation for Sustainable Development (www.fsd.nl) which aims to stimulate awareness of the many ways in which people depend on, and benefit from nature https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/en/home and `make nature count` in everyday decision making. Furthermore, he is Special Advisor on Ecosystem Services and Nature Based Solutions of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and Chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (www.es-partnership.org), a worldwide network to enhance the science and practical application of ecosystem services assessment.

Following 30 years founding and developing consulting, services and technology companies, in 2021 Peadar presented the case for, and defined, Quantum Risks. Peadar explains the existence of Quantum Risks as a logical conclusion to an examination of risk practices and seismic changes we see around us. These include, but are not limited to, the effects of:
Globalization which has accelerated an evolution from vertically integrated, command and control organizational hierarchies of yesteryear to ecosystems, where integrated thinking and decision making across geographically spread entities, partners and suppliers is an imperative.

Pace of change in a multi-polar, hyper-connected interdependent world which is growing in uncertainty
Growth of intangible assets and a search for new ways of accounting for value across capitals.

These challenges present a conundrum for the Governance of Organizations where fulfilment of purpose, generation of value and effective oversight of strategies required to sustain value over the longer-term are principal criteria by which stakeholders assess the worth of organizations today.

But these and associated sustainability topics pertain to social constructs and sciences. They are not the result of precise formulae where particular inputs will always precipitate determined outputs and outcomes. Rather they are context driven where stakeholder needs, and expectations influence the perception of value generated in pursuit of objectives.

Peadar is Chairman of The ESG Exchange Technical Committee which is charged with the publication of ESG How-To Playbooks developed by global experts drawn from global ESG regulators, standard setters, and international corporations.

As Global ESG Practice Lead in Archer IRM, Peadar is responsible for leveraging his thought leadership in the organizational risk and governance domains to provide strategic direction and collaboration across Archer’s internal and external partners in the design and development of Archer’s ESG solutions.

Helen Dunn joined AECOM in December 2022 as Technical Director Natural Capital. From 2018-2022, Helen was a Director of Analysis at Simetrica-Jacobs. Helen is an experienced economist specializing in cost-benefit appraisal and approaches for measuring social value. She has significant experience from both the public and private sector in development, use and application of valuation to inform decision-making in business and government. Helen has an in-depth experience of non-market valuation approaches, wellbeing analysis linked to social outcomes, and advice on use of valuation in decision-making. Formerly, a Senior Economic Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Helen played a lead role in developing the approach to natural capital valuation in government. While at Defra, she was part-seconded to the Natural Capital Coalition (Capitals Coalition) in the early stage of development of the Natural Capital Protocol. During 2017-18, at Anglian Water, Helen led the societal valuation programme for the Price Review (PR19) to deliver transparent, credible values for use in business planning, and developing a systematic approach to triangulation of value evidence. Helen holds an MSc in Environment and Resource Economics with distinction from UCL and a first-class degree in Economics from the University of Bath.

Dr. Eli Fenichel is the Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Yale University, http://environment.yale.edu/profile/eli-fenichel. He received a PhD from Michigan State University in 2007, and was on the faculty of Arizona State University for four years prior to joining Yale in 2012. Prof. Fenichel conducts quantitative research that connects economics, epidemiology, natural science, and sustainable development, with a focus on intertemporal allocation and tradeoffs. He has published over 80 papers on natural resource management, epidemic management, and economics in outlets including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Lancet Public Health.

Prof. Fenichel approaches natural resources as capital assets, and views natural resource management problems as investment decisions. He believes that framing resource management problems as investment decisions creates opportunities for creative 21st century natural resource management and policy. A central part of Prof. Fenichel’s research focuses on measuring the value of natural capital under prevailing institutions.

At Yale, Dr. Fenichel teaches graduate level courses in applied math, mathematical modeling, natural resource economics, and the economics of sustainable development. He took a leave for Yale in June 2021 to serve in the Biden-Harris Administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Natural Resource Economics and Accounting.

Katherine Foster is the Executive Director of the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA). A former diplomat specializing in climate and human security, she has been spearheading multi-stakeholder innovation at the nexus of technology, policy, finance, and sustainable development for 30 years. With degrees in natural resource management and geography including specializations in gender inclusion and indigenous knowledge in decision making, Katherine has held leadership roles with Climate-KIC (Europe’s flagship climate innovation partnership and accelerator) and the GDFA including as including as Sherpa to the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs. She has held advisory roles with the World Bank, the United Nations, the Bank of International Settlement, the European Securities Market Authority, FIDES Microfinance, the EIT Food (Europe’s leading food innovation initiative) and several Startups focused on open innovation. In these roles, she has led the development of research, trainings and integrative tools for nested climate accounting, resource traceability and circularity, biodiversity valuation including papers green digital financing and on opportunities and challenges of integrative emerging technology in scaling natural capital valuation. Katherine is Swiss-Canadian and currently based in Switzerland.

Marcelo has over 30 years of experience working in the sustainability field, committed to advancing environmental and social justice through advocacy and philanthropy. Most recently, he became a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University – ILAS (Fall 2021).

A founding partner at the start-up ZCO2/BlockC, a traceability platform for environmental assets using blockchain technology. He was the CEO of Alana Foundation and Arapyaú Institute, family foundations that promote sustainability, social justice and education. Marcelo is a co-founder and was the facilitator of the Brazilian Coalition on Climate Forest and Agriculture, a multi-stakeholder forum with representatives from academia, business and civil society to implement a just and sustainable low carbon economy focused on land use issues. He is also a co-founder of the Climate & Sovereignty Centre, a think tank on Defense and Climate issues.

Marcelo also spent twenty-four years at Greenpeace where he served as Executive Director of Greenpeace Brazil, and was previously Head of the Forest, Climate & Energy, and Toxics and Oceans campaigns in Brazil. At Greenpeace International, he coordinated the global Toxic Trade Campaign on the promotion of clean technology and the worldwide ban on hazardous waste trade and industrial pollution and later worked as a policy adviser on Climate & Energy.
Marcelo is a chemical engineer by training with a master’s degree in renewable energy. He is a Yale World Fellow and currently serves as the Board Chair at World Resources Institute (WRI) Brazil. He is also a Board member of Conectas Human Rights. He is also a member of the sustainability committees of Dexco SA and Marfrig SA.

Sonja has worked on impact valuation for Novartis since 2015, as Head Strategic Measurement and Materiality in Global Health and Corporate Responsibility and in Group Financial Reporting and Accounting since August 2020. She leads the Novartis Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) engagement, is a Member of the Capitals Coalition Advisory Panel, and a Member of the WEF Global Future Council “Economic Growth and Recovery” (2020-2022) and “New Economic Agenda” (2019-2020).
Sonja earned an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is a First Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute, USA.

Christian is Vice President at BASF and seconded as CEO to the Value Balancing Alliance. The Alliance focuses on the development and standardization of an accounting methodology to protect and create companies’ long-term value. It is designed to empower decision makers to optimize the total value contribution of their business to society as well as the enterprise.
More than 20 international companies are member of the Alliance contributing to its success by providing know-how, workforce, and budget. As a non-profit organization, the Alliance enjoys pro-bono assistance by Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC. The EU Commission has mandated the Alliance to provide natural capital accounting principles for integration in the Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Directive. The Alliance cooperates with the OECD and provides the methodology to the Business for Inclusive Growth program to assess the value of inclusive value chains. The World Bank, OECD and EU are policy advisors to the Alliance.
For the scientific foundation of the methodology, the Alliance engages with a significant number of universities and business schools from all over the world such as the University of Oxford, the Harvard Business School, and the University of Hamburg are the lead partners from academia. To be connected with most recent developments towards new corporate reporting systems, the alliance is connected to organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the Value Reporting Foundation, the IFRS Foundation, WBCSD, Capitals Coalition, Rethinking Capital, and others.
Christian is nominated as member of the EU Platform Sustainable Finance where he also acts as interface with the EFRAG Project Task Force on sustainability reporting, he is Vice Chairperson of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee to the Federal Government of Germany, he is Commissioner at the Global Value Commission, he contributes to the G7 Impact Task Force, is member of the Capital Coalitions Advisory Panel, of the Practitioner Council of Harvard Business School’s Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative, and of the Expert Commission for Sustainable Corporate Governance Principles for SMEs.
Before his current position, Christian was leading BASF’s Value-to-Society program and had various roles in communications, sustainability and human resources such as leading the human rights program.
Christian received his high school diploma from the Kolleg St. Blasien. After a civil year in Israel, he moved to Munich for studying philosophy, macroeconomics, psychology, and politics. Christian holds a master’s degree in philosophy.

Carol Anne Hilton, MBA is the CEO and founder of the Indigenomics Institute and the Global Center of Indigenomics. Carol Anne is a dynamic international Indigenous business leader, author, speaker, director and senior adviser with an international Masters Degree in Business Management (MBA) from the University of Hertfordshire, England. Carol Anne is of Nuu chah nulth descent from the Hesquiaht Nation on Vancouver Island.
Carol Anne is an award winning, best selling author of ‘Indigenomics- Taking A Seat at the Economic Table’ and is also an adjunct professor at Royal Roads University’s School of Business.
Carol Anne was the only Indigenous person appointed to the Canadian Economic Growth Council as a senior advisor to the federal Finance Minister in 2016. Carol Anne most recently served on the BC Emerging Economy Taskforce, and the BC Indigenous Business and Investment Council. Carol Anne currently serves as a Director onthe McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada, MITACS Research and the BC Digital Supercluster.
Carol Anne’s work has been most recently recognized with the inaugural Nation Builder Award from the National Angel Capital Organization in 2022, the BC Achievement Foundation’s Award of Distinction in Indigenous Business as well as the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business’s national Award of Excellence in Aboriginal Relations.

Conor Kehoe Conor is the outgoing Chair the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) – an advisory board of 70 organisations dedicated to improving ‘ESG’ reporting. Elected to the Chair in May 2020 with a desire to rationalise the sector, he and colleagues announced the merger of Integrated Reporting with SASB to form the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) (Nov 2020).
A year later (Nov 2021) he and colleagues announced the merger of the VRF (where he was a board member) with the IFRS’s new Intl Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at COP26 – this merger was finalised on Aug 1 2022.
Conor was a member of the 2021 G7 Impact Taskforce which called for Impact Accounting in three years.
He is a director of two organisations whose aim is to unify and advance ‘impact coefficient’s’ that translate Sustainability/Impact KPIs into monetary values – a key recommendation of the G7 taskforce. (IFVI, Value Commission).
He is a Special Advisor at McKinsey where he founded and co-convenes McKinsey’s Board Intelligence Forum for large company chairpersons/non-executive directors and is an Advisory Board member of Blackrock’s private equity activity.
Previously, he co-founded McKinsey’s Private Equity Industry Practice where took a special interest in how PE firms interact with portfolio companies to create value. He also co-founded McKinsey New Ventures and was part of the founding team of Focusing Capital on the Long term in 2013 (flct.org). Originally a software engineer, he also led McKinsey’s Tech and Telecom Practice in Europe. He advises a small number of software-based growth stage companies and PE firms incorporating Impact into their investing and portfolio management approach.
He is an adjunct lecturer at Tsinghua University in Beijing and, recently, he has refreshed his old software engineering skills – completing Stanford’s Machine Learning Course.

Alessandra holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Trento (Italy) and a Master Degree in Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). She is specialized in environmental and ecosystem accounting and in the monetary valuation of ecosystem services.

She was part of the experts involved in the revision of the System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EA) lead by the United Nations Statistical Division and she is still part of the SEEA EA Working Group on Oceans. She was also a member of the Task Force on Ecosystem Accounts led by Eurostat.
As part of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Alessandra has intensively worked on the “Knowledge Innovation Project on Integrated system of Natural Capital Accounts” (KIP-INCA) and developed an operational approach to assess, value and account for different types of ecosystem services. Such services have been tested throughout Europe and outcomes are available here https://ecosystem-accounts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Other than KIP-INCA, Alessandra is also involved in another initiative: LInking ecosystem Services and Benefit to the Economy THrough bridging (LISBETH), whose purpose is to find out by whom and how ecosystem accounts can be used in economy and finance.

Alessandra has published many articles on ecosystem services valuation and accounting and acts as guest editor of two dedicated special issues:
on the journal Ecosystem Services (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecosystem-services/special-issue/10RZK17R0JP)
on the journal One Ecosystem (https://oneecosystem.pensoft.net/topical_collection/94/).

Alessandra has a broad experience as professor in courses at B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. levels, specifically at the Universities of Torino, Venezia, Genova.

Doug MacNair, Ph.D. is a Technical Director at ERM, and is seconded to the Coalition. He has 30 years of experience in the field of economics and decision sciences. Dr. MacNair specializes in non-market valuation, benefit-cost analysis, and in developing decision support tools for helping companies include environmental, financial, and social issues in strategic decision-making. The topics have included climate change, water management, air quality, outdoor recreation, open space and managed landscapes, capital expenditures, health and safety risks, and environmental liabilities. Dr. MacNair also has extensive experience in survey design and analysis and in facilitating workshops/focus groups for public stakeholders and agency and corporate staff.

Dr. MacNair is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University. His research has been published in Land Economics, Marine Resource Economics, and Forest Economics. Prior to focusing on environmental economics, Dr. MacNair worked for 10 years in the securities industry. He was Associate Director of Economic Research for NASDAQ, the over-the-counter stock market.

Dr. Richard Mattison is President of S&P Global Sustainable1 and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global Trucost.
S&P Global Sustainable1 is the single source of intelligence on sustainability. Our comprehensive coverage across global markets combined with in-depth ESG intelligence provides financial institutions, corporations and governments with an unmatched level of clarity and confidence.
S&P Global Trucost assesses and prices risks relating to climate change, water, pollution and natural resource constraints, enabling companies and financial institutions to understand exposure to environmental factors, inform resilience and identify the transformative solutions of tomorrow.
Richard is an expert in sustainable finance and over the last 22 years he has advised various UN bodies, governments, financial intuitions, companies and NGOs on how to integrate ESG, climate change and natural capital analysis into their decision making. Richard was a member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, providing key recommendations for Europe’s ground-breaking Sustainable Finance Action Plan. He has led numerous ground-breaking projects including creating the first portfolio carbon risk assessment for Henderson and the UK Environment Agency, launching the first carbon efficient index with S&P Dow Jones Indices, leading the first global assessment of corporate environmental externalities for the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and developing the world’s first Environmental Profit and Loss account for PUMA.
Richard is Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance Data Council, a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School Stranded Assets Programme, the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association. He is an Advisory Board Member for IUCN Finance for Nature initiative and the Capitals Coalition. Previously, Richard was a strategy consultant and began his career as a neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ståle Navrud is a professor in environmental and resources economics (ERE). He is Dr. Scient. (Ph.D) in ERE from NLH (now NMBU), and has been a visiting researcher and Fulbright Scholar at University of California (UC) – Berkeley, UC- San Diego and University of New Mexico. He specializes in cost-benefit analysis and economic valuation of ecosystem services (terrestrial, aquatic and marine), biodiversity, recreational activities, landscape aesthetics, air/soil/water quality, cultural heritage, environmentally related health impacts (from air pollutants, chemicals and radionuclides) , externalities from transport (noise, air pollution, aestehics etc), externalities of renewable energy (hydro and wind) and electric transmission lines (landscape aesthetics, biodiversity and recreational impacts), and environmental impacts from climate change, extreme weather events, nuclear accidents and natural disasters. He has particpated in more than 20 EU-projects on these topics, and has also extensive experience in applying Stated Preference methods in Africa, Asia and South America. He was a review editor of the economics of adaptation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Asessment Report (AR5, 2014), and a member of the pool of experts for the UN Integovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN World Ocean Assessment I and II (on the socio-economics of Oceans). He was also an appointed expert to the international technical committees (TC) developing new ISO-standards in environmental management; 14007: “Determinig Environmental Costs and Benefits” and 14008: “Monetary valuation of environmental impacts”, and is currently a member of ISO/TC 323 “Circular Economy”.

Bianca is a proven and successful leader in business and sustainability with an extensive network across business, governmental organisations and NGOs. She has ample experience on natural, social and human capital, water, biodiversity, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, Sustainable Development Goals and environmental social governance. Bianca is co-author of the Natural Capital Protocol and contributed to the Social & Human Capital Protocol. As an ecologist by education, she worked across a variety of sectors on natural capital and biodiversity and ecosystem services, from developing strategies and action plans, facilitating stakeholder dialogues to implementation.
She has been a member of Anthesis since 2022, currently as Associate Director focussing on nature and water. Previously Bianca was the managing Director of the Netherlands Water Partnership, a strong network of Dutch water organisations, working worldwide on co-creating future-proof solutions and catalysing global water impact. While with Arcadis she was ao a founding member of the Core Sustainability Team designing and implementing Arcadis NV sustainability strategy.
Bianca is a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Capitals Coalition, Member of the Value Commission, Member of Strategic Council of the International Water Association, Member of the Sustainability Commission of the NKBV (Dutch Mountaineering Association), Member of the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality (BCTI), Co-chair of the Foundation Board of Workplace Pride, and the SDG6 Ambassador Data for Good.

Carl is a Director at the Institute for Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting – IDEEA Group. Carl was the lead author and editor of the United Nation’s System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) – the international standard for government work on accounting for natural capital and encompassing accounting for ecosystem and biodiversity values. Further, Carl has been leading the development of sector level statistical concepts including methods for the measurement of sustainable tourism with the UN World Tourism Organization, and the design of the multiple capitals based evaluation framework for TEEBAgriFood. Prior to this work, Carl had a long career with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, including time at the OECD. His primary topics of research included productivity measurement, financial services measurement and the valuation of natural resources.
His current work involves projects on natural capital accounting and sustainability measurement within the United Nations system, with the Capitals Coalition and with various companies and governments in Australia and internationally. Carl is a leading player in closing the gap between government and corporate approaches to natural capital accounting. This includes work as part of the Value Accounting Network, as an editor in the revision of the System of National Accounts, in developing guidance for the valuation of ecosystem services and in designing models for incorporating natural capital values in risk models.

Ece is the founder and CEO of eftec. As an environmental economist she specialises in economic valuation of natural capital assets and using this evidence in accounting and appraisal. Her work has contributed to making nature more visible in decision making and she continues to work with forward-thinking central and local governments, businesses and NGOs. She champions multi-disciplinary working and improving how we communicate evidence by engaging with different audiences and bringing academic and applied research together. She has made many presentations and co-edited / co-authored 11 books.
Ece is also a member of the Scottish First Minister’s Environment Council, the Chair of the British Standards Institution’s Assessing and Valuing Natural Capital Committee (SES/1/8) which launched BSI:8632 on Natural Capital Accounting for Organizations, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. Until July 2022, she had been a member of the UK – Climate Change Committee working on Adaptation for 6 years.
Ece holds an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London and a BA in Economics from Istanbul University; she works in both English and Turkish.

Anupam Ravi works as Senior Vice President at GIST, a company which follows a multi-capital approach for measuring performance of companies. Anupam has been working in the domain of economic valuations since a decade. During this period, he had the opportunity to be part of 25+ bespoke studies which uses the natural capital protocol’s framework to assess the impacts of the companies on the local and global environment.

One of the biggest challenges of natural capital impact valuation is the need of regional explicitness and the scalability, so that consistent framework and methodology can be applied to business operations across the globe. Anupam and his team at GIST have developed a set of methodologies which can be applied across the globe with a high level of regional specificity and granularity. The approach has been now applied to 3,000+ publicly listed companies across the globe and has a time series information on the size of natural capital externalities which these businesses generate.

Stephanie is the founder and CEO of SiMPACT Strategy Group (SiMPACT). Throughout her career, she has served as a senior advisor to project leaders and executives in the for profit, non-profit and public sectors.
Stephanie has decades of experience in social issue management, measurement, and reporting; community investment and social value. Her expertise has helped hundreds of clients to assess the value of investment in community and across society, which has led to improved outcomes, enhanced reporting, and a broadened understanding of the concepts of social and environmental value creation.
Her clients and partners include for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Stephanie’s work supports the community and social impact vision of many businesses operating across a diversity of ownership structures. She has worked in industries that include telecommunications, banking, energy, pipelines, mining, cooperatives, and credit unions. Social impact areas that have been the focal point of her work include social enterprise, education, health, entrepreneurship, crime prevention, social procurement, apprenticeships and job creation, construction, financial literacy, local economic development, and mental and physical health, among many others.
In 2005, Stephanie launched, and continues to facilitate, the LBG (London Benchmarking Group) Canada network: Canadian companies that act to strengthen society through voluntary community investments. Through her leadership, LBG Canada is the champion of a standard definition of corporate community investment as a key part of the ‘S’ in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting and disclosure.
As Chair of Social Value Canada (SVC), Stephanie is empowering a growing movement of professionals to share the true value of their organizations’ social and environmental actions. SVC members are committed to changing the way the world accounts for value by changing the way organizations report their actions.
Stephanie is a graduate of Trent University and with an MBA from London Business School (UK). In addition to her leadership in the Canadian social value movement, she has represented Social Value Canada on the Social Value International Board since 2012. SiMPACT was founded in Calgary, Alberta, in 2004, where it is headquartered. Stephanie is currently based in Toronto with her husband, son, and the SiMPACT mascot: Metric the dog.

Kate divides her time between Carleton University where she is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Sprott School of Business and a nonprofit organization called Common Approach to Impact Measurement where she is the Interim Executive Director.
Kate’s research on impact valuation has been published in leading scholarly journals. Ruff (2021) showed that impact valuation devices can reconfigure analysis. Ruff, Nappert & Graham (2022) explored the challenges of emic (in the voice of stakeholders) and polyvocal (many points of view) valuations.
As Interim ED of the Common Approach, Kate works in collaboration with partners to develop standards that enable interoperability of impact accounts without resorting to uniformity. The Common Impact Data Standard, for example, is integrated into the software to enable the interoperability of dissimilar indicators, outcomes and impact models.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce, McGill University (Montreal, QC), an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Business (UK) and a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting) from the Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto, ON). She has served as a Board Member of Social Value International, Social Value Canada and as a member of the Standards Council of Canada Advisory Committee on Environment, Social and Governance.

Andreza is as a senior partner of Valuing Impact with over 14 years of experience in the private sector in the fields of sustainability, project engineering and supply chain, having worked for 11 years in the Corporate Sustainability at Natura&Co Latam leading the development and implementation of the Impact Valuation strategy called Natura Integrated Profit and Loss between 2014 and 2022. Within these years she was in charge of the environmental impact valuation assessment of Natura (EP&L), SROI analysis, diverse pilots to assess impact in the Amazon and smallholder communities, Carbon Offsetting Program, impacts over Beauty Consultants and Resellers of Natura&Co and the full Integrated Profit and Loss of Natura in the Latin America. She has also been involved with impact valuation engagement and as a practitioner in external initiatives such as the TEEB for business Brazil. As a Sustainability Manager, Andreza supported value creation to the business while creating value to society throughout strategic planning, integrated performance management and reporting, social impact purpose structuring, among others.

Awerangi is Chief Operating Officer for the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency and Te Whānau o Waipareria Trust in Aotearoa/New Zealand, both which have a clear focus upon improving overall well-being for communities. She has spent the last three decades working with Māori – indigenous community so to support development of policy, blueprinting and implementing game-changers that contribute to the success and wellbeing of Māori. Understanding and measuring social impact has become an effective framework for Whānau Ora to assess how to invest in the strength of whānau – the family unit – and to assess lasting change over time. Her work in outcomes and impact sees the Commissioning Agency leading in New Zealand as the first collective system model for measuring outcomes, understanding the resulting impact and the value from which the total collective system across 100 indigenous organisations contribute to wellbeing for Māori.
Her career spans the public sector – working in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Social Reform and other government agencies through to the private sector – establishing and leading the KPMG Indigenous Consulting Team for New Zealand. She is currently a director on a number of national and regional bodies that influence national policy, systemic health reforms and regional workforce strategic planning and solutions.

Dr Gabi Teren is the manager of the Wildlife and Transport Programme and the National Biodiversity and Business Network (NBBN) at the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT). The NBBN works with forward-thinking businesses to understand their dependencies and impacts on biodiversity. The NBBN manages the Biodiversity Disclosure Project scoring corporate biodiversity performance, and has developed the Biological Diversity Protocol which enables any company to scientifically measure their biodiversity footprint. Gabi is a terrestrial systems ecologist and holds a PhD in Biodiversity from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where she is an honourary lecturer. She is on the Executive Committee of the Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity of the CBD.
She has experience in valuation having co-led the measurement of biodiversity footprints for several large international companies such as Sibanye-Stillwater, Glencore and Mondi. Her experience as a terrestrial ecologist in Africa brings a solid understanding of on-the-ground components of diverse and complex ecosystems, as well as accounting for change in ecosystems with intact megafaunal assemblages, only found in Africa in the present-day. She has critical skills in assessing connectedness of ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales, important to the understanding of valuation for the future.

Liesl Truscott brings 20 years’ experience in corporate responsibility and environmental management to her role as Director of Corporate Benchmarking. A graduate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership “Women Leading Change” class of 2022, Liesl leads the Benchmarking Program, enabling companies to measure and manage their performance against their peers and against the Textile Exchange Climate+ targets. Liesl specializes in raw materials, industry accountability, and corporate reporting and has a deep knowledge of the sector gleaned from more than 10 years at Textile Exchange. With a first-class degree in Environmental Management from the University of Newcastle in Australia, Liesl’s career has spanned both the private and public sectors. She is a Commissioner to the Capitals Coalition Values Commission and serves on the Technical Advisory Group of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the Aligning Accounting Approaches for Nature (Align) project, and the Advisory Board of the Copenhagen Fashion Awards.

Samuel has 15 years of experience supporting organizations to integrate the value of human, social and human capital into decision making and has worked with over 50 of the world’s largest organizations using impact valuation, social return on investment (SROI), life cycle assessment (LCA), strategy and management, risk assessment, and extra-financial or integrated reporting. Prior to founding Valuing Impact in 2015, Samuel spent six years at Quantis International, where he led the water sustainability practice and business development for key accounts and specific services across 3 continents. Part of Valuing Impact work has been focused at developing new impact valuation methods and factors, in particular in the field of human and social capital accounting. He developed for instance the Health Utility of Income and Taxes method and associated valuation factors dataset which allows to define the utility of income and taxes in different socio-economic contexts and is now used increasing across industries and continents. He developed as well valuation approaches to address human and labor rights and pilot tested them through his work with companies such as Nestle, Natura, Novartis, Olam, Reckitt Benckiser and more.

David has held finance executive roles in the technology industry for 25 years.  He is the President of the DFCG International Group, the French CFO Network. He holds the President’s Chair of the Board of Directors for Aangen, a Canadian social enterprise focusing on breaking the cycle of poverty. He also holds a master’s degree and is a Chartered Accountant.

David is a transformation expert, sharing his views on accounting governance, organisational impact, change management, digitization and large-scale transformation.

David has authored several articles on digitization, sustainability and transformation and his Amazon best-selling book The Power of Potential: A Straightforward Method for Mastering Skills from Personal to Professional.

David is passionate about people and the planet, contributing much of his time to public good sustainability digitization initiatives.

Rob is the President and CEO of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts. Previously, he served as the Program Director and Senior Researcher for Multi-Faculty Sustainability and Impact Investing Special Projects, including The Impact-Weighted Accounts Project, which developed methodologies related to impact valuation in public markets and published thousands of corporate impact estimates as well as engaged on numerous multi-lateral working groups. Previously, Rob was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs where he had roles in Investment Product Innovation, Strategy & Development, Alternative Investment Strategies, and Private Wealth Management. Rob received his MBA from Columbia Business School in the Executive Program where he concentrated on Social Enterprise and Impact Investing. He is a Board Member at the US National MS Society and was a member of the MS Society Advisory Committees for Impact Metrics and the 2022-2024 strategic plan. Rob earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Georgetown University.