Farid Baddache is Director, Europe for BSR, based in Paris. With more than 12 years’ CSR strategy and management experience in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, Mr Baddache brings his global expertise to BSR's Paris office as a leading authority in sustainability. He draws on his wealth of experience in CSR strategy, programme design and implementation to serve BSR's members and clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As part of the Advisory Services team, he leads engagements with companies from the energy, ICT, and food, agriculture and beverage sectors. He also serves on BSR’s global Advisory Services Management team, which oversees consulting and membership strategy and operations.

Prior to joining BSR, Mr Baddache was a CSR strategy/management consultant and project manager. He has worked closely with various industry leaders, international organisations, NGOs, unions and public authorities to build a shared vision, where environmental and social issues are key market forces and new opportunities for value creation. Mr Baddache is a visiting professor at the French University of Versailles, working with its Centre of Economy and Ethics for the Environment and Development (C3ED). Widely published, he is the author of Le Développement Durable tout Simplement, Prévenir les Risques, Agir en Organisation Responsable, and Entreprises et ONG Face au Développement Durable, L'Innovation par la Coopération. Mr Baddache holds an MBA from the ESSEC Business School in Paris and has completed studies at the National University of Singapore's Business School.

He has a post-graduate diploma in Organisational Sociology from EHESS, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France, where he focused on sustainability implementation.

Lionel Barber is the Editor of the Financial Times. Since his appointment in November 2005, the FT has been pioneering the concept of the integrated newsroom, where reporters and editors work seamlessly across print and digital formats. During Mr Barber's tenure, the FT has won numerous global awards for its quality journalism, including three newspaper of the year awards (2008), which recognised the FT's role as a 21st century news organisation. As Editor, Mr Barber has interviewed many of the world's leaders in business and politics including President Barack Obama, Premier Wen Jiabao of China, former President elect and current prime minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and former South Africa President Thabo Mbeki. Mr Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. He moved to The Sunday Times as a business correspondent in 1981.

He joined the FT in 1985 as a business reporter. In 1986, he became Washington correspondent before being appointed Brussels bureau chief in 1992. He served as the News Editor from 1998 to 2000 before taking charge of the continental European edition between 2000 and 2002, when he became US Managing Editor in charge of the FT's American editorial operations. In 2001, Mr Barber was invited to brief George W Bush on European affairs ahead of the President's inaugural mission to Europe. In the same year, European Voice named him one of the 50 most influential personalities in Europe. Mr Barber has co-written several books and has lectured widely on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European security and monetary union in the US and Europe. He appears regularly on international TV and radio.

During his career, Mr Barber has received several distinguished awards. In 1981, he was named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards. In 1985, he was the Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1998, he was named one of the 101 most influential Europeans by Le Nouvel Observateur. In 2009, he was awarded the St George Society medal of honour for his contribution to journalism in the transatlantic community. Mr Barber graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University with a joint honours degree in German and Modern History.   

Jin-Yong Cai is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on private sector development and the fight against poverty.

Prior to joining IFC, Mr Cai worked in the financial services industry for 20 years. That included 12 years with Goldman Sachs Group, where he was part of Goldman Sachs’ global leadership team and its top executive in China. Before that, he held senior positions in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division. During his time at Morgan Stanley, he was seconded to China International Capital Corporation at the inception of what has since become one of the country’s largest investment banks. Mr Cai has extensive experience in private sector development in global emerging markets and deep expertise in a variety of financial products and industries with a record of success managing highly complex business transactions.

Throughout his career, he has been recognised for his role in major transactions in financing, restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. He began his professional career in the World Bank Group in 1990. Mr Cai has a PhD in Economics from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Peking University.

Jack Ehnes is Chief Executive Officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest teacher pension fund in the US, serving more than 862,000 members and benefit recipients. The asset value of its investment portfolio was $161.5 billion as of February 28, 2013. Mr Ehnes came to CalSTRS in 2002 from Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company based in Denver, Colorado, where he was Vice President for Corporate Affairs and served as the trustee/plan administrator for Great-West’s employees’ defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Prior to Great-West, Mr Ehnes served as Colorado’s Insurance Commissioner and Deputy Insurance Commissioner, and Board Trustee for the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association. Mr Ehnes is currently Chairman of the FTSE Environmental Markets Committee and serves on the boards of the National Council on Teacher Retirement, Ceres (a national US network of investors and environmental organisations working to address sustainability challenges), and the Public Employees Board of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Long-Term Investing. As a recognised leader and public servant, Mr Ehnes has served on high profile national task forces throughout his career, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and on various healthcare and insurance commissions and advisory boards. He also was a board member of the National Institute on Retirement Security and chair of the Council of Institutional Investors.

Mr Ehnes received the 2011 Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) Lillywhite Award, recognising outstanding lifetime service and contributions to Americans’ economic security. He was also included in the National Association of Corporate Directors’ list of the 100 most influential corporate governance professionals for 2011. Mr Ehnes holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a Master’s from Vanderbilt University.

Catherine Gill is Vice President of Investor Relations at Root Capital, where she manages debt and philanthropy fundraising efforts. Previously, she served as director for the Capital Partners division of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and as site director for the agency’s New England region. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Boston University’s School of Management.

Ms Gill holds an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona and a BA in Ancient Greek from Wellesley College in the US.

Justine Greening was appointed Secretary of State for International Development in September 2012. She is the Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields. Ms Greening was a finance manager at Centrica plc before being elected as a Member of Parliament in May 2005. Following her election she was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for youth.

As well as being a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, in 2007 she became a Shadow Treasury Minister and in 2009 the Shadow Minister for London. Ms Greening was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2010 to October 2011 and Secretary of State for Transport from October 2011 to September 2012. She studied Economics at Southampton University and has an MBA from the London Business School.

Previous to his industry career, he was the Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London and has maintained strong links to the research community, including being the Editor of Thumbculture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, an anthology of research considering the global social effect of mobile technology.

Joost Oorthuizen is CEO of IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative. IDH aims to deliver mainstream sustainable impact in commodity supply chains by co-investing with front-runners from industry and civil society, and has programmes in cocoa, timber, soy, natural stone, tea, coffee, cotton and more.

From 2007 to 2009, Mr Oorthuizen worked as a senior consultant with Twynstra Gudde, guiding multinational companies, government and civil society on establishing innovative partnerships. One of his assignments was fostering an alliance between the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, environmental organisations and the private sector on a road and integrated area development. He was also involved in stakeholder management and sustainable chain development in the energy sector.

Before Twynstra Gudde, Mr Oorthuizen worked for Agri-Profocus, where he set up alliances for agricultural value chains in developing countries. He has a PhD from Wageningen University, in which he focused on large-scale water management in the Philippines. 

Usha Rao-Monari is the Director of the Sustainable Business Advisory Department of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. Her department is responsible for working with companies and investors on issues of environmental and social sustainability, resource efficiency, clean energy, and agribusiness/food security. The global team she leads is also focusing on strengthening SMEs, supply chains, and communities.

Ms Rao-Monari joined IFC in 1990 and has specialised on a broad range of industries including Infrastructure, Manufacturing, and Petrochemicals in several countries and regions across the world. In 1998, she assumed the position of Regional Manager for Manufacturing and Services for South Asia and Country Head for India, based in IFC’s New Delhi regional office. She subsequently became the Global Head of IFC’s investment operations in Utilities, with a particular focus on urban infrastructure and natural gas. In that role, she was instrumental in the formation of the Water Resources Group, a public-private platform housed in IFC that works with governments to transform the water sectors in their countries. Prior to joining IFC, Ms Rao-Monari was Vice President at Prudential-Bache Capital Funding, working both in New York and London.

She holds an MBA from the Bajaj School of Management in Bombay and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York.   

Danny Truell is Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Board of the Wellcome Trust, a leading medical research charitable foundation. He and his team are responsible for assets exceeding $25 billion, which are invested both directly and indirectly in a broad range of investments including public equities, private equities, property, venture capital and hedge funds.

Mr Truell is also a Co-Founder and Advisory Partner of Pension Insurance Corporation, an insurer with assets exceeding $9 billion, where he chairs the Asset/Liability Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee, and a partner of Disruptive Capital Finance. He is the Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Long-Term Investment Council, and Co-Chair of the B20 Group on Investment & Infrastructure. He is a Trustee of the Truell Charitable Foundation, Chair of the charity Debate Mate, and a member of the Investment Committees of the British Library and of the Wellington College Endowment. Until 2005, Mr Truell was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs & Co in its investment management division. Between 1986 and 1996, his career was focused on investment in Asia. He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford University. 

Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times in London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism". Mr Wolf is an associate member of the governing body of Nuffield College, Oxford; honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University; an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia); and a special professor at the University of Nottingham.

He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by Warwick University, in July 2009.