Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance of more than 70 institutional investors representing approximately $7 trillion in assets. that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.

Ms. Lubber is the recipient of the Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award and under her leadership Ceres was awarded the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award for 2007 and 2008. She was recently voted one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Corporate Governance” by Directorship Magazine, who noted Ceres’ increasing influence in its field. Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations.

In her position at Ceres, Ms. Lubber has lectured on corporate sustainability issues at the New York Stock Exchange, the World Economic Forum, more than 100 Fortune 500 companies and the American Bar Association. She has led negotiating teams of investors, NGO’s and CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies who have taken far-reaching positions on corporate practices relating to mititaging their impact on global warming. Ms. Lubber has briefed hundreds of Wall Street anaylsts on how gobal warming effects shareholder value. She is a senior lecturer for the Ceres/Yale Sustainabile Governance Forum, a forum designed to train corporate board members on climate risk and opportunities and to train public pension fund trustees on the portfolio impacts from climate change.

Ms. Lubber is an attorney and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She resides in Brookline, MA with her husband and two teenage children.

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