• Professor Gordon L. Clark, Director of the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford University, UK
• Professor James P. Hawley, Co-Director, Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism, St. Mary's College, California, United States
• Professor Nils Kok , Ass. Professor, Maastricht Universtity, The Netherlands
• Dr Danyelle Guyatt, Mercer Investment Consulting, Responsible Investment Business Unit (Moderator of the Academy 2009)

 

Professor Gordon L. Clark

Gordon L. Clark AcSS, ASSA, FBA, is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Head of the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, and Professorial Fellow at St Peter's College. Prior to his appointment in 1995, he held teaching and research positions at Harvard University (John F. Kennedy School of Government), the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz School of Public Policy and Management) and Monash University. Professor Clark has been UK representative on the European Commission DG Research TMR Panel, is a member of the Advisory Board of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (Warwick University), serves on the Scientific Advisory Board at Lund University (Sweden), is an Affiliate of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies programme, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne (Australia).

He is an Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the British Academy, and an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. He has also been recognised with the Distinguished Alumni Award (McMaster University).

His current research combines economic geography with finance and includes corporate governance, finance markets and decision-making, pensions and government regulation. Aspects of this programme have been supported by the British Academy, Rockefeller and Ford foundations, the ESRC, the European Science Foundation, the NAPF, the SSHRC (Canada), Allianz, Mercers, Watson Wyatt, AIG, and Credit Suisse. With Dr Emiko Caerlewy-Smith, Prof. John Marshall and Roger Urwin, Gordon Clark has developed a research programme devoted to the governance of finance institutions and pension funds and the nature and logic of financial decision-making. Related research from this project and other projects can be found on the Finance, Behaviour and Pension Fund Governance webpage. You can also find his Trustee Decision - Making Assessment Workbooks online.

 

Professor James P. Hawley

Dr. Jim Hawley is the Transamerica Professor in Business Policy and Strategy in the Graduate Business Programs, School of Economics and Business Administration, at Saint Mary’s College.

He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin, MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

He is the author of two books, the first on international banks and the global monetary system, and the most recent (with Professor Andrew T. Williams) on U.S. pension funds and the ownership of U.S. corporations, titled, "The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism: How Institutional Investors can make Corporations more Democratic," published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2000.

Additionally, he is the author (or co-author) of over 15 articles on a variety of topics, including corporate governance, the international monetary and financial system and environmental issues, and numerous papers and reports.

He has been at Saint Mary’s for almost 15 years. Prior to that he worked at Wells Fargo Bank as a country risk analyst, and previously taught at the University of California, Davis. He has also been an invited guest professor at the Universite de Paris, and at the Universite de Montpillier, in France. He was also a guest scholar at the Judge Institute at the University of Cambridge, U.K. He has lectured in a number of countries in Europe.

 

 

Professor Nils Kok

Nils Kok currently works as an assistant professor in Finance and Real Estate at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He recently finished his PhD on ‘Corporate Governance and Sustainability in Global Property Markets’ at Maastricht University, for which he received the 2009 Best Thesis Award of the European Social Investment Forum. During his PhD, he stayed for a semester at UC Berkeley, USA, and for a summer at National University of Singapore as a visiting scholar. Nils received his Master’s degree in International Business Studies from Maastricht University, Netherlands. He also studied in Seoul, South Korea.

His main research focus is on sustainability issues in the real estate sector, concentrating on the economics of “green” buildings. Besides, his research includes issues such as transparency of global property markets, property investments and demographics. Kok was the co-author of an influential report proposing a pan-European property fund structure.

Besides scientific work at Maastricht University, where he also teaches courses in Corporate Finance, Financial Management, International Investments and Real Estate Finance, Kok is an independent real estate consultant for Climate Change Capital and Triodos Bank. Besides, Kok is an active executive teacher at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate, the Finance Ideas Academy and the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. He is a contributing member of various real estate and market networks, such as the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the European Real Estate Society and the American Real Estate Society, where he regularly presents his work.

Nils Kok communicates his ideas and findings in the international arena as a frequent speaker on academic and industry conferences, and actively shares his expertise through workshops with investment practitioners and policy makers. Recent events include the Annual Forum on Sustainable Investments, the BMP 2008, ULI 2008 Annual Europe Conference, the INQUIRE 2007 Autumn seminar, workshops at MISTRA Investments and APG Investments, the AREUEA, ERES, ARES and EFM conferences, and seminars at National University of Singapore, City University and Cambridge University, where he presented his work. Moreover he publishes his ideas in internationally renowned academic journals, newspapers and popular magazines.

 

Dr Danyelle Guyatt

Danyelle graduated with an MSc in Investment Management with distinction at Cass Business School. She holds a PhD in Economic Psychology and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bath, UK. Her PhD thesis was awarded with th 2006 FRENCH SIF "FINANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY" EUROPEAN RESEARCH AWARD. As part of this research she undertook a project on behalf of the Marathon Club on “beliefs relating to good corporate governance and corporate responsibility” along the institutional investment management chain. She was part of a group of experts that were invited to contribute to the development of the UN principles of responsible investment. Her publications include contributions to the Journal of Corporate Governance (2005) and “The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour” (2008), Cambridge University Press. She is currently undertaking a research project for the Rotman International Centre of Pension Management on collaboration amongst pension funds and the evolution of conventions.