2016 ET CARBON RANKINGS REPORT
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Michael is non-executive Director of the<br />
United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UK’s<br />
national body for standards and laboratories)<br />
and AIM-listed Wishbone Gold Plc.<br />
Adam Rose, Panel Secretary<br />
An LSE (London School of Economics and<br />
Political Science) economic geography<br />
graduate, with postgraduate qualifications<br />
in management, marketing and corporate<br />
governance. Adam is an experienced provider<br />
of research services for government, corporate<br />
bodies and the investment sectors and<br />
has specialized in Risk Management and<br />
Socially Responsible Investment research<br />
techniques for over 10 years. He has built up<br />
several research teams, has been a freelance<br />
consultant and research advisor for the SERM<br />
Rating Agency, and is now currently corporate<br />
governance executive and ratings officer at<br />
Pensions Investment Research Consultants<br />
Ltd (PIRC). He is co-author of The Handbook<br />
of Business Risk Management: A sustainable<br />
approach (CIMA/Elsevier), and is contributor<br />
to The Due Diligence Handbook (CIMA/<br />
Elsevier). He is currently writing on the subject<br />
of corporate governance risk and developing<br />
training material for a Sustainable Enterprise<br />
Risk Management framework. Adam is also an<br />
Affiliate Member of the Institute of Chartered<br />
Secretaries and Administrators.<br />
Cary Krosinsky, panel member<br />
Cary Krosinsky is Executive Officer of the<br />
Network for Sustainable Financial Markets.<br />
He is lead editor of Evolutions in Sustainable<br />
Investing, (along with NSFM participants<br />
Nick Robins & Stephen Viederman), a recent<br />
book (Wiley, 2012) on the positive strands<br />
of SRI, including 15 case studies, regional<br />
perspectives and thought leadership from<br />
Dan Esty, Paul Hawken, Rory Sullivan, Roger<br />
Urwin and a host of others. Cary is also<br />
co-editor of a previous book on this subject<br />
– Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long<br />
Term Performance, also with Nick Robins<br />
(Earthscan, 2008).<br />
Until October 2012, Cary was Senior Vice<br />
President & member of the Management<br />
team for Trucost. He also teaches<br />
sustainability & investing at Columbia<br />
University’s Earth Institute, and an MBA<br />
course on the same subject at the University<br />
of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of<br />
Business, and is a frequent speaker on the<br />
intersection of sustainability & ownership.<br />
He was a member of the Expert Group that<br />
helped create the United Nations Principles<br />
for Responsible Investment.<br />
Cynthia Cummis, panel member<br />
Cynthia Cummis is the Deputy Director of<br />
GHG Protocol within WRI’s Climate and<br />
Energy Program. In this role she manages<br />
GHG Protocol’s corporate work which<br />
includes activities related to the Corporate,<br />
Scope 3 and Product Life Cycle Standards.<br />
Cynthia is a well-known expert in GHG<br />
accounting and brings more than 15 years<br />
of experience working on the issue of global<br />
climate change. Prior to WRI, Cynthia was<br />
the Director of Carbon Management at Clear<br />
Carbon Consulting where she managed<br />
carbon quantification and management<br />
projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients<br />
as well as large public institutions. Ms.<br />
Cummis was the Founding Director of U.S.<br />
EPA’s Climate Leaders Program, a voluntary<br />
program that partnered with businesses<br />
to develop corporate-wide greenhouse<br />
gas inventories and reduction goals. For<br />
more than 5 years, she led the design and<br />
implementation of the program and oversaw<br />
the growth of the program to more than 90<br />
corporate Partners.<br />
Cynthia holds a MPA in environmental policy<br />
from Columbia University in New York City and<br />
a B.S. from Cornell University in Ithaca N.Y.<br />
<strong>2016</strong> <strong>CARBON</strong> <strong>RANKINGS</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong><br />
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