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IFC Advisory Panel on Sustainability and Business The panel is made up of a select group of thought leaders and high‐level experts in sustainability and business. Members were chosen based on their experience in a broad range of business, economic, environmental, social, and emerging‐market issues. They bring multi‐disciplinary perspectives together to explore sustainability and business challenges that are likely to deepen and become more intertwined, resulting in a world that will look very different 10 years from now. As a result, actions and solutions will not be "business as usual" and will increasingly involve collaboration between multiple disciplines. Corporations Academia Mrs. Hildy Teegen is Dean of the Darla Moore School of Business, a leading institution in international business scholarship and education. The Moore School focus is on global business and a new theme of sustainable enterprise and development to complement its international business expertise. She is on the boards of Blue Ridge Holdings and Certus Bank, the United Way of the Midlands, the Palmetto Institute, the Center Mr. Thomas Loster is Chairman of the Munich Re Foundation. for International Private Enterprise, and the Midlands Business Munich Re is one of the world's leading players in the Leadership Group Executive Committee reinsurance industry and has actively supported and advanced climate protection and adaptation to global warming. The Rosina Bierbaum is Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Munich Re Foundation primary principle is to tap into the Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan.. She is on the potential for sustainable development in global change, to find Obama Administrations President’s Council of Advisors on long‐term solutions. Science and Technology (PCAST). She authored the World Development Report on Development and Climate Change. Lelei TuiSamoa LeLaulu is a development entrepreneur working at the confluence of climate change, tourism, food security and Development Institutions renewable energy. He is President of the renewable energy company, Sustainable Solutions in the Dominican Republic, Paul Collier is Director at the Centre for the Study of African coordinator of the Oceania Sustainable Tourism Alliance, and Economies at Oxford University and advisor to the IMF and executive director of the Small Island Developing States Climate World Bank on economic policy. He has authored various books on natural resource rich societies, such as the The Plundered Change Alliance of the Earth Council. Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature, and writes for Michael Mack is Chief Executive Officer, executive Director the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Member of the Chairman’s Committee and the Corporate and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and Responsibility Committee for Syngenta. He was Chief Operating consequences of civil war; the problems of democracy in low‐
Officer of Seeds (2004–2007) and Head of Crop Protection, income and natural‐resources rich societies. NAFTA Region (2002–2004) for Syngenta. Prior to this, he was President of the Global Paper Division of Imerys SA, a French Civil Society Organizations mining and pigments concern, from the time of its merger in 1999 with English China Clays Ltd., where he was Executive Vice Carter Roberts is President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund. He President, Americas and Pacific Region, in addition to being an has also pioneered global partnerships with companies like The Coca‐Cola Company, bringing water efficiency efforts to their Executive Director of the Board. supply chain; Walmart, providing information to consumers on Mr. Simon Thompson has been Chairman of Tullow Oil plc since the sustainability of the products they sell; and Mars, moving January 2012, having been appointed as a non‐executive commodity production to already degraded land. He holds an Director in May 2011. Simon held investment banking roles with M.B.A. from Harvard University; a B.A. from Princeton. N M Rothschild and S G Warburg before joining the Anglo American Group in 1995, where he held a number of senior Thomas E. Lovejoy became the first recipient of The Heinz positions. In 2005 he became an executive director of Anglo Center Biodiversity Chair in August 2008. Dr. Lovejoy has been American plc, a position he held until leaving in 2007. He is a Assistant Secretary and Counselor to the Secretary at the non‐executive director of Newmont Mining Corporation, Sandvik Smithsonian Institution, Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior. Dr. Lovejoy served on science and environmental AB and AMEC plc. councils or committees under Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Mr. Jamshyd N. Godrej is the Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited, the holding company of the Godrej group. He is the Chairman Emeritus of Aspen Institute India and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and Chairman of India Resources Trust.