Membership Type: Professional

Ted Jackson

E.T. Jackson and Associates is an international management consulting firm providing strategic planning, organizational learning, and performance assessment services in sustainable development to grant-makers and investors in the public interest in developed and emerging economies. Among the company’s current priority areas are jobs and gender in the energy transition, impact incentives in climate finance, affordable housing, fair food production, and community-university partnerships. Its President, Dr. Ted Jackson, holds Responsible Investment Professional Certification.

Sandy Rose, CFA

I help investors find the modern slavery exposure they don’t know they have.

Modern slavery is one of the most financially material ESG risks that developed-market investors aren’t pricing in – and that’s what I work on.

I’m an independent consultant helping investors identify, assess, and act on human rights risks in their portfolios. My work includes modern slavery risk assessment during private equity due diligence, and helping public market investors develop and execute human rights-related proxy voting guidelines.

My background is in investments first, sustainability second. That sequencing matters: I speak the language of fiduciary duty and financial materiality, not advocacy. My goal is always to translate complex human rights realities into frameworks investors can actually use.

If you’re an investor who suspects this is a blind spot in your portfolio, I’d love to connect.

Christie Stephenson

Christie Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at UBC Sauder School of Business and a national expert on social and environmental investment and governance.

Before joining UBC Sauder in 2016, Christie spent more than 15 years at socially responsible and impact investing firms Sustainalytics (then Jantzi Research Associates), NEI Investments (Ethical Funds) and Rally Assets (previously Purpose Capital).

Christie also has more than two decades of diverse director experience, serving on the boards of organizations addressing a variety of social and environmental issues, as well as values-driven companies in a range of industries, across the spectrum from start-ups to large mature entities and with both business-to-consumer and business-to-business operating models. This has ranged from the boards of non-profit organizations, university bodies, cooperatives, a multi-employer pension plan, private companies, and reporting issuers, including Vancity, Central 1 and the Cooperators.

She is a member of the Climate Governance Experts Network of the Canadian Climate Law Initiative, the Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre’s investment committee, the British Columbia Securities Commission Corporate Finance Stakeholder Forum, and the International Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium.

She has served as a judge for Governance Professionals of Canada’s Excellence in Governance Awards, the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada’s Corporate Reporting Awards and the Canadian Investment Review’s Pension Leadership Awards.

She has delivered board governance training through UBC Sauder Executive Education, Directors College, and the Governance Professionals of Canada; taught environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to undergraduate and MBA students; and delivered training for a variety of professionals including accountants on non-financial disclosure through the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

Christie is a regular media commentator on business ethics and ESG issues, whose views are covered by TV, print and radio media.