ICGN Human Capital Committee

ICGN Human Capital Committee focuses on anti-corruption, culture, stakeholder relations, workforce engagement, succession planning, diversity-equity-inclusion, human rights, workforce safety and more.

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Michela Gregory
NEI Investments

Committee Co-Chair

Michela Gregory is Director, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Services at NEI Investments. As part of NEI’s longstanding corporate engagement programme, Michela spearheads dialogues with companies across a number of sectors including tech, consumer staples, consumer discretionary and pharmaceuticals. Michela considers various themes related to the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ in corporate dialogues including human rights, human capital and diversity, equity and inclusion issues. She actively works to further NEI’s policy efforts on these and other issues with the goal of striving towards meaningful change on critical and systemic issues.

Prior to joining NEI, Michela was based in Ghana with an impact investor focused on early-stage investment in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a lawyer by trade, and practiced plaintiff-side class actions law in Canada across various legal issues including: securities litigation, product liability, consumer protection and price fixing issues. Michela holds a B.A. in Honours Business Administration from the Ivey Business School (The University of Western Ontario) and a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University).

Karin Halliday
Future Fund

Committee Co-Chair

Karin Halliday is Director of Investment Stewardship & ESG at Future Fund. Prior to this, Karin was the Senior Manager of ESG & Investor Stewardship at AMP Capital, one of Australia’s largest asset managers and pioneers of responsible investing. In early 2000, Karin moved from portfolio management into a newly created role with responsibility for AMP Capital’s proxy voting and related engagement. While her initial mandate was to use the power of voting to hold investee companies accountable and ensure they were well-governed on behalf of clients, the scope expanded and now sees Karin involved in deep discussions about the many environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities companies face.

Karin is motivated by the real-world impact of her role and enjoys the fact that on any day she can be discussing issues ranging from CEO incentives and board composition to human rights, biodiversity, waste management — and anything in between. While all topics are of interest, her current focus is on issues relating to stewardship, governance, human capital, and how such ESG factors drive company value.

By combining both an investment and an ESG perspective, Karin has developed a balanced and pragmatic approach that sees her regularly called upon to share an investor’s perspective on ESG issues. She was recently appointed Co-Chair of the ICGN’s Global Human Capital Committee, is a long-standing membership of the PRI’s Stewardship Advisory Committee and is an active participant in various diversity and inclusion initiatives such as the 30% Club. Karin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Directors Program.

Lisa Beauvilain
Impax Asset Management

Lisa heads the Global Sustainability and Stewardship team at Impax. She is responsible for the oversight and development of sustainability research and methodologies, as well as overseeing Impax’s stewardship work. She is the Chair of Impax’s ESG and Sustainability Lens committees and a member of Impax’s Executive Committee. Lisa joined Impax in 2010. She started working in the financial industry in 1999 and previously worked as an executive director in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs in London. She is actively participating in industry working groups and advisory councils furthering sustainable practices in industry organisations such as the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). She is a member of the Nominations Board of Kemira Oyj, Finland and a former Trustee of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED).

Lisa has an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics as well as an MSc in Finance from the Hanken School of Economics, Finland.

Aldo Bonati
Etica Sgr

Aldo is the Stewardship and ESG Networks Manager at Etica Sgr. Aldo’s work in stewardship involves establishing a dialogue on ESG topics with the investee issuers, managing the advocacy with governments, regulators and standard setters, directing the voting activity, and managing the relations with the networks Etica is a member of, including ICGN, UN PRI, CDP, SfC and ICCR. He also supports the implementation of SRI strategies, and the promotion of sustainable and responsible investments to stakeholders.

Aldo is also active in teaching. He co-leads the ESG Lab at ALTIS Graduate School “Master in sustainable finance. He teaches the Asset Ownership module of the online certification program on “ESG Analysis & Investing” at MIP Politecnico di Milano and CFA Society Italy. Aldo is Adjunct Professor of sustainable and responsible finance at the MSc ERGOLABOS at Cattolica University in Milan, and at the MSc Management of innovation and entrepreneurship at Statale University in Milan. He is also Professor by contract in Sustainable Corporate Finance and ESG at University of Pavia.

Before joining Etica Sgr, Aldo held positions at Citibank International plc, BNP Paribas Asset Management, ECPI and Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile.

Publications: Investimenti Sostenibili (EGEA, 2010); Sviluppo sostenibile e Cina (L’asino d’oro, 2014).

JN Gupta
Stakeholders Empowerment Services Private Ltd.

Mr. Gupta is the Founder and Managing Director of Stakeholders Empowerment Services (SES), a not for profit corporate governance research and advisory firm (Proxy Advisory). He has over 44 years of diversified professional experience in public and private sector including two terms with securities market regulator (SEBI) in India. In his first stint with SEBI (1994-96), Mr. Gupta was the Division Chief of Primary and Secondary Market Division. He re-joined SEBI in July 2009 as Executive Director for a two-year term and was in charge of Market Regulations, Surveillance, Derivatives and New Products departments. Mr Gupta is a B Tech (Electrical Engineering.) from IIT Kanpur (1977), CAIIB (1984), and Certified Financial Analyst, ICFAI (1991). He is a member of International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

Mr. Gupta is also a member of Primary Market Advisory Committee of SEBI and former member of Secretarial Standard Board – Institute of Companies Secretary India, Member of Corporate Governance committee (Kotak Committee) constituted by SEBI & Committee constituted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, to review rules relating to Companies Act 2013.

Mr. Gupta works pro bono in Stakeholders Empowerment Services since inception.

Michael Herskovich
BNP Paribas Asset Management

Michael is the Global Head of Stewardship within the Sustainability Centre. He is working within BNPP AM since 2008.

He is in charge of the elaboration and implementation of the stewardship policy, which includes voting and engagement. He also plays a critical role in the design, development and implementation of BNPP AM’s Global Sustainability Strategy and is a key driver for the firm’s ESG research and integration, as well as SRI analysis. He is also member of the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

His wider industry activity includes being a Chair of the “Corporate Governance” committee at the French Association of Asset Managers (AFG) and Chair of the International Corporate Governance Committee at the Council of Institutional Investors (CII). He is also member of the “Oversight committee” of the Best Practice Principles (BPP) and member of the “Shareholder rights” committee and the “Global Network of Investor Associations ‘GNIA’ committee” at the ICGN.

He holds others membership such as the Responsible Investment committee « at the French Association of Asset Managers (AFG), and the “Grand prix jury of the general meetings” in France.

Michael previously worked as a jurist between 2006 and 2008 and was in charge of proxy voting for the Fonds de Reserve des Retraites (French back-up pension fund) in Paris.

He graduated from the University of Paris XI (France) and has a master degree of Corporate and business law (2008).

Satoko Hoshino
Japan Shareholder Services

Satoko Hoshino has been a Senior Analyst with the Research and Advisory Division of Japan Shareholder Services, an IR/shareholder relations advisory firm, since 2019.

Previously she was a consultant in the Financial Services Risk Advisory Division of Deloitte Japan from 2016 to 2019. Before Deloitte, she held various investment management positions at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking from 1996 to 2016.

She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo and a Masters in Finance from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.

William Ng

HSBC Asset Management

William Ng is a Director, Investment Stewardship in the Responsible Investment team at HSBC Asset Management, based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for delivering the firm’s stewardship plan, with a focus on engaging with Asian companies on a variety of material and salient ESG issues. He also supports equity and fixed income teams on their ESG integration, research and engagement. He has been the human rights lead within the stewardship team since the start 2022, leading and contributing to the firm’s engagement and voting approach on human rights.

Prior to HSBC AM, Will worked as a sustainability consultant and a sustainability learning facilitator in Hong Kong for three years, supporting local companies with their materiality assessments, stakeholder engagements and ESG disclosures. Prior to that, he worked as a chartered accountant at PwC in London. Will holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London.

Hideto Nishitani

Virtuous Capital

Hideto Nishitani is former CEO of ORIX Corporation USA and Senior Managing Executive Officer of ORIX Corporation in Japan (NYSE ‘IX’), where he led Principal Financial Investments and Asset Management in the Americas for ORIX Corporation. In his 36-year career with ORIX in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Japan, and the United States, he acquired international business acumen. He distilled a disciplined philosophy in investment, management, and governance. As a member of the management board of ORIX headquartered in Tokyo, he helped implement ORIX’s global business strategy in Asset Management Industry, where ORIX owns a Dutch Asset Management Company, Robeco. He is also a former board member of Houlihan Lokey Inc (NYSE ‘HLI’), a leading global investment bank in the middle market. His expertise through management experience and board involvement includes business ethics, purpose and culture, stakeholder relations, anti-corruption, and corporate risk oversight.

He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) with the credential of NACD Directorship Certification and an active member of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at University of Texas, Dallas. For his interest in the comparative research of Corporate Governance, he is also a member of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors. He writes his opinions on Social News Media in Japan on the topics of ESG and Corporate Governance. He launched an advisory firm, Virtuous Capital, in 2020 as the founder with the vision of helping businesses create sustainable long-term value for the stakeholders by focusing on building constructive stakeholder relations. For his philanthropic activities, he sits on the advisory board for non-profit organizations in the US to provide oversight on charitable activities for a good cause in society. He received MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a Certified Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan.

Simon Rumore

Peakstone Global

Simon Rumore has over 10 years’ experience in board and governance advisory work supporting complex organisations undertaking once in a generation governance reform. He is the Managing Director of Peakstone Global which is a specialist board services firm operating across Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific. Simon’s board experience includes roles as Deputy Chair of Open Minds Australia, a large disability provider and Amnesty International Australia. He has chaired committees responsible for governance, nominations, remuneration, safety, membership engagement, strategy and M&A. He is currently the independent Chair of the Governance, Nominations & Remuneration Committee of Settlement Services International, Australia’s largest migrant and refugee settlement organisations.

His management career started as a recruitment consultant in Belfast before progressing to be an organisational development consultant, HSEC executive and interim executive supporting private, government and not for profit organisations. These experiences have provided him with applied knowledge in the following social aspects of organisations:

Diversity, equity and inclusion
Labour standards
Employee engagement
Community relations
Human rights

As a certified coach he works with non-executive directors, and he is a governance education facilitator with the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ali Saribas

SquareWell Partners

Ali is a corporate governance and activism specialist with over 15 years’ experience. Ali started off as a research analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) in Washington DC. In 2009, Ali moved to London to work with Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) to cover the UK market as well as help set-up the contentious M&A/ Activism team to cover the UK and continental Europe. Ali has a dual undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from the George Washington University and an Executive Masters in Business Administration from Bayes Business School.

Miekela Singh
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Miekela works at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan as a Principle, Corporate Governance in the Total Fund Management department. She has a deep interest in governance, strategy and culture which she leverages in support of responsible investing. Miekela devotes much of her time to stewardship activities including public company engagements, supporting the proxy voting function, and provides insight and input into regulatory and policy development. Her thematic work focuses on human rights and human capital management where she supports the development of tools including frameworks and diligence efforts. She is a member of the CII Corporate Governance Advisory Council, and is a member of the Pension Investment Association of Canada’s (PIAC) Investment Stewardship Committee.

Miekela is called to the bar in Ontario. Miekela is the Chair of the Immigrant Working Centre (IWC) in Hamilton, ON and sits on the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) a not‐for‐profit boards in Toronto, ON. Prior to law school, Miekela completed her MSc at the London School of Economics in Global Governance.

Ruth Wilkinson
Institution of Occupational Health and Safety

Ruth is the Head of Health and Safety (Policy and Operations) at the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH). Ruth’s role is one of public policy, advocacy and regulatory engagement on occupational health and safety matters within the UK and Globally on behalf of IOSH. The role also involves collaboration and attendance at various meetings, including the British Standards Institute HS/1 committee and TC/283, presenting at conferences, webinars and branches (including the IOSH conference in 2018 and 2019), representing IOSH at the CSHS Global Summit on sustainability, writing articles to support occupational safety and health advocacy and good OSH management and IOSH policy positions.

Ruth also provides occupational health and safety professional leadership to all levels of staff, supporting and advising top management, management teams, employees, volunteers and contractors across all of IOSH’s work activities, delivers IOSH training internally (IOSH Managing Safely, IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing, IOSH Working Safely and IOSH Managing Safely Refresher), and is responsible for the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (working towards ISO 45001:2018). More recently, Ruth has led on the internal development of the IOSH Sustainability Policy and Strategy, as well as being active member of the IOSH campaign group for the development of the human capital and sustainability campaign.

Ruth is also a volunteer in her own time for IOSH (as a member rather than an employee) and supports with category transfer audits, peer review interviews, mentoring and as a technical advisor on content being produced for the membership.

Ruth’s journey into health and safety started in 2000 and since then a BSc, MSc and CMIOSH has been achieved along the way.

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