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About Graham Sinclair

Graham Sinclair is Principal at SinCo, where his roles include sustainable investment strategist, ESG architect and global project leader.

Graham has eight years specialist experience in sustainable investment globally after eight years in pensions consulting and investment banking in Africa. Recent consulting engagements in sustainable investment include leading IFC-funded research into private equity and liquid equity ESG strategies in sub-Saharan Africa in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria to be published in 2011, developing innovative financing mechanisms strategy and ESG index architecture for developed, emerging and frontier markets for a Swiss-based international organization, and for a global institutional investment firm in New York with a US$ one trillion AUM portfolio, designing ESG architecture across private equity, liquid and global real estate portfolios covering philosophy and process innovations and investment strategies. Currently he provides index architecture and stakeholder engagement for the Istanbul Stock Exchange Sustainability Index.

As consultant to the UN, Graham developed strategy for 25 emerging markets and launched PRI in Emerging Markets project in Q2 2007 for UNEP FI, creating a network infrastructure, building relationships with 108 investor stakeholders including in Africa through 2008. Before launching the sustainable investment advisory boutique SinCo in 2006 in Boston, he was Product Manager at KLD Research & Analytics, Inc adding to his background in pension funds and asset management.

Graham is a former contributor to the CSR Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, Distinguished Member of Net Impact, alum of WWF One Planet Leaders programme and the Tallberg Forum New Leaders Program. He currently leads the AfricaSIF Project building an independent, pan-African not-for-profit Africa Sustainable Investment Forum network at africasif.org, member of ASISA’s Responsible Investment sub-committee, and a member of Investment Analysts Association of South Africa, and the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. He has lectured at more than 25 graduate schools globally, and the most recently published work is chapters on Private Equity, Indexes and Africa to Evolutions in Sustainable Investing [Wiley Business, 2011].

Graham earned his MBA on scholarship at Villanova University in the USA where he co-managed the Arnone-Lerer SRI Fund equity portfolio in 2004. He holds a B.Com from the University of Natal and LL.B from the Howard College School of Law as well as numerous industry specialist certifications. He holds diplomas in retirement funds and insurance law, and in 1998 he was one of the youngest ever dual-FILPAs. He resides in Cape, South Africa and Vermont, USA. On any given day, he would rather by cycling over a mountain pass.

Graham SinclairPrincipalSinCo sincosinco.com

1 August 1970South AfricanB.Com 1991, LL.B 1994, MBA 2004Dip.RFM 1997, IISA 1998, ILPA 1999IASSA, ELP, WWF OPL, USSIF.org AfricaSIF.orgExperience in over 25 countriesEnglish, Afrikaans

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About Cornelia WickiCornelia Wicki is Junior Manager Sustainability Services at SAM Research AG. The Sustainability Services division offers a range of services that allow companies, experts and practitioners to evaluate sustainability performance. Cornelia’s role includes providing companies with benchmarking reports containing detailed information about their corporate sustainability performance versus their peers as well as customized reports and individual sustainability training services.

Prior to joining Sustainability Services, Cornelia worked for the Sustainability Application & Operations team where she was involved in the process of the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment that is conducted annually in cooperation with Dow Jones Indexes. At the same time, she was responsible for the sustainability analysis of the telecommunications sectors.

Cornelia had work assignments at UNESCAP in Bangkok and gained work experience in a major Swiss Bank as well as a Private Equity Firm in Switzerland.

Cornelia WickiJunior Manager Sustainability ServicesSAM Research AGwww.sam-group.com16 AprilSwissM.A University of Zurich 2010, Studies at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and at University of Geneva

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