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"Creating a Sustainable World:  A Guide to Responsible Stewardship of American Indian Assets" was recently released by the Social Investment Forum and its Indigenous Peoples Working Group.  The publication details how American Indian financial portfolios can integrate socially responsible investment strategies into the management of tribal and other Native American assets.  The guide includes examples of tribes using social investment tools to work for positive economic, social and environmental changes. 5.10

Monday, October 26, 2009 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Tucson AB

Speaker(s)
Robin Hacke Director of Capital Formation, Living Cities Presenter
Gary Pivo PhD Professor, University of Arizona Presenter
Jonathan F. P. Rose President, Jonathan Rose Companies Presenter View
David Wood PhD Director, Institute for Responsible Investment, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Moderator

Description
Investors are increasingly looking to integrate social and environmental analysis into their property management and development strategies - from green building, to transit-oriented development, to urban redevelopment, to labor-friendly investment. But the real estate landscape has dramatically changed for all real estate investors. This panel will explore how Responsible Property Investing (RPI), as a discipline, is reacting to these changes. Panelists will explore what the market looks like in this transformed regulatory, political, and financial environment, and present specific opportunities for smart growth, energy efficiency, and green job investments that have emerged over the past year.

Speaker Biographies

Robin Hacke is Director of Capital Formation at Living Cities, a pioneering partnership among 21 major foundations and financial institutions that invests in revitalizing America's cities.  She manages the Living Cities Catalyst Fund and, together with Green For All, is developing a new green economy investment fund.  In her previous role as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Ms. Hacke raised over $72 million and built a portfolio of investments in 20 start-up companies.  She has spent most of her career guiding the growth of technology companies as a manager, consultant and director.  Prior to that, Ms. Hacke was a banker in the Public Finance Department at Shearson Lehman Brothers.

                    

Dr. Gary Pivo works in the areas of responsible property investing and sustainable city planning. He co-founded and advises the Property Working Group of the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative and the Responsible Property Investing Center, a joint project of the University of Arizona and the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investing. At the University of Arizona, he holds professorships in Urban Planning and Natural Resources, and is a Senior Fellow, Office of the Associate Vice-President for Economic Development.  This fall, Dr. Pivo will join a working group of the Global Reporting Initiative to create a sector supplement for the building and property sectors.

                    

Jonathan F. P. Rose is president of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary, award-winning real estate development, planning, consulting, and investment firm, and a leading green urban solutions provider.  The company's mission is to repair the fabric of communities.  Mr. Rose is widely recognized as a thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building and affordable housing movements.  He chairs the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission which developed the nation's first green transit plan.  Mr. Rose is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Enterprise Community Partners.  He also serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land's National Real Estate Council.

                    

 

David Wood is Director of the Institute for Responsible Investment (IRI), where he conducts research on responsible investment and its applications. Recent projects at the IRI include the production of a Handbook on Responsible Investment across Asset Classes and a follow-up Climate-Related Investment across Asset Classes.  He is co-director, with Gary Pivo of the University of Arizona, of the Responsible Property Investing Center.  Prior to his work at Boston College, Wood taught the history of ethics, ethical and economic thought, and human rights theory at Boston University. He was elected to the Board of the Social Investment Forum in 2008.