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Client engagements are led by senior advisors who are former senior executives of financial institutions, international organizations, multinational corporations, large accountancy firms and consultancies.

Throughout our client engagements, these senior advisors take a hands-on role, which is significantly more intensive than the consulting industry standard. They are backed by an experienced analyst team.

David Risser
Managing Director
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David is the Managing Director of Nestor Advisors, the Morrow Sodali company focusing on governance, board effectiveness and organizational design. David is the UN Global Compact ambassador for Nestor Advisors and has been advising with Nestor Advisors since 2003. He has gained extensive ESG experience in developed and emerging markets, performing governance and board effectiveness reviews, policy advice and research for banks, listed and/or family-controlled companies, private equity firms, state-owned companies, governments, central banks, international organizations and market supervisors.

David regularly lectures at the London Stock Exchange and various Institutes of Directors and he is a member of the OECD MENA Corporate Governance Working Group.

Prior to joining Nestor Advisors in 2003, David established and managed the Economic Studies Department of RSM Salustro Reydel (now KPMG) for the CEE region.

David was a board member of private companies and trustee for an international not-for-profit organization.

David holds a post-graduate diploma in Banking, Finance and International Economics, with Honors magna cum laude from EM Lyon and University Lumière of Lyon. He holds a Certificate in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors and from the London Business School on managing companies of the future.

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Gemma Aiolfi
Special Advisor, Compliance and Anti-Corruption
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Gemma Aiolfi is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on compliance and anti-corruption.

She has been the Head of Compliance, Corporate Governance and Collective Action at the Basel Institute on Governance since July 2013.

Prior to that Gemma was Legal Counsel to the Integrity Department and the internal Office of Special Investigations at ABB AG in Oerlikon Zurich, focusing on advising on internal corruption allegations in connection with the US Deferred Prosecution Agreement. She was Global Head of Anti-Corruption at UBS AG in Zurich, and also worked in the Group Money Laundering Prevention Unit. Whilst employed by the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions she was seconded to work at the University of Basel, where she helped to establish the Basel Institute on Governance and worked with the Chairman of the OECD Working Group, Prof. Mark Pieth.

Gemma also served as an advisor to the UN Independent Inquiry Commission on the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program. Having studied Law at the London School of Economics, she was called to the bar of England and Wales and practiced in London before relocating to Switzerland. Postgraduate law studies were undertaken at Basel and Stockholm Universities. She is a member of the board of Ethics and Compliance Switzerland and an external council adviser to the board of Graña y Montero, Peru.

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Chris Barrett
Senior Advisor
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Chris joined Nestor Advisors as a senior advisor in 2012. He has broad experience, leading engagements in the banking, insurance, shipping and education sectors.

He specializes in risk governance in the financial services sector and has a long-standing interest in the risk and governance challenges facing financial services companies operating in emerging markets.

Until December 2011 Chris was a partner with PwC responsible for the Financial Services Advisory practice in the 29 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, based first in Moscow and then in Prague. His clients included leading local and international banks and insurers as well as IFIs such as the EBRD and World Bank. His work ranged from strategy and operations to governance, risk and compliance. He helped local clients develop governance structures which would meet the expectations of international investors and supported international groups as they adapted their policies, procedures and systems to the specifics of the local regulatory environment.

Before he moved to Moscow in 2004 Chris built PwC’s successful Forensic Services practice in Paris, where he specialized in operational risk work for financial institutions and corporates and the investigation of fraud and other irregularities. Previously Chris spent nearly 20 years (10 as managing director) with WBK International, a specialist risk management consultancy working with financial lines underwriters in London and around the world. Before that he worked as an insurance broker in London and as a broker and underwriter in the Middle East.

Chris is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds an MBA from Kingston University. He is a native English speaker and also speaks fluent French, good German and intermediate Russian. Chris is a frequent speaker at insurance and risk management conferences and is a regular contributor to 'Finance' magazine in Moscow.

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David Beatty
Senior Advisor
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Over his career David has served on 39 different boards of directors in Canada, America, Mexico, Australia and England and been chairman of 9 public companies. Currently he chairs two startup companies and runs governance courses for incubators in Canada.

David was the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (2003-2008), an organization that today represents 50 institutional investors with ~C$3 trillion of assets under management. While there David created, and still oversees, the Canadian Directors’ Education Program a rigorous 12 day series of classes that has now graduated over 6,000 senior Canadian entrepreneurs, directors and family office members.

David was President of Weston Foods, a multi-billion sales company in food processing from 1984 until 1994. He then took control and became CEO of a publicly traded closed end investment trust. He began teaching at the University of Toronto as a Professor of Strategy in 1998. Today he directs the Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation at the University.

As an advisor on corporate governance he has worked in many jurisdictions from Malaysia to Saudi Arabia where he developed and then led Aramco’s training for their Joint Venture directors. He has worked extensively for the Australian Institute of Corporate Directors and the Board Development Institute of Dubai. As a member of the Public Sector Advisory Group of the IMF he has facilitated conferences on corporate governance all over Europe. He now sits on the Advisory Boards of both ecoDa and Hawkamah.

In 2013 he was inducted into the Order of Canada (the C.M. above) the nation’s highest civilian honor and was earlier awarded the Queen’s Jubilee medal. In 1994 he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (the O.B.E. above) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his services to Papua New Guinea. On June 26, 2018 he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) a grouping of global asset managers with AUMs ~$33 trillion.

David was educated at the University of Toronto and Queens’ College, Cambridge, in mathematical economics.

David speaks English, Nuigini Pidgin and some Swahili.

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Alvaro Correa
Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions
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Alvaro Correa is a senior advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on financial institutions.

Alvaro has served in several senior management and board positions at Credicorp Ltd, the largest financial services group in Peru with operations in Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Panamá and Miami.

As Deputy CEO, he led two of the four core business units serving as Head of Insurance-Pensions and Investment Banking-Wealth Management. Before that, Alvaro was CEO of the Insurance Group with activities in property and casualty, life, health, and health delivery business units.

Alvaro was also Chief Financial Officer of Credicorp Ltd and Banco de Credito BCP, the largest bank in the country. He also held international management positions as CEO of Atlantic Security Bank, BCP Miami agency and broker-dealer Credicorp Securities.

Alvaro created and led Credicorp´s Corporate Sustainability Program and led the corporate governance transformation process of the Group. He worked closely with the Board to design and implement a new corporate governance policy to strengthen board independence and led the search for and incorporation of new independent board members at both holding and subsidiary levels as well as the onboarding process of new directors. He coordinated the agendas of the board´s Sustainability (former Corporate Governance) and Nominations committees.

He currently serves as chairman of the board of COSAPI (engineering and construction, where he also chairs the audit committee) and Prima AFP (pension funds). He is a board member at Credicorp Capital, ASB Bank Corp (chair of the compliance committee), and an advisory board member with Deheza Ltd in the UK. He is treasurer and member of the executive committee at CONFIEP, the overarching business interest group in Perú.

Alvaro holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Lena Eriksson
Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions
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Lena is a senior advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on the governance of financial institutions. She is particularly focusing on board and board secretariat related matters, compliance issues as well as governance in group structures.

Lena has extensive experience from her many years as Head of Group Legal and Board Secretary of Nordea, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region. She has worked in a rapidly transforming industry environment, impacted by economic cycles, digitalization, regulatory and structural development, and changing business models. She advised management and the board in governance matters and has a thorough understanding of the development of governance processes in a large multinational financial institution both from a theoretical and practical perspective. As Head of Group Legal, she led the Nordic legal team with high levels of support and performance in complex and large-scale strategic change agendas.

Lena chairs the Swedish Network for Board Secretaries in major listed companies and is furthermore engaged in designing and performing executive leadership programs for legal leaders, amongst others with Novare Leadership Academy.

Lena has a Master of Laws from Uppsala University. She speaks Swedish and English and has a good understanding of Norwegian and Danish.

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Jorge Fabre
Senior Advisor
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Jorge Fabre has been Provost and Academic Vice Chancellor of Anahuac University in Mexico since 2015. Prior to this, he was the Dean of Anahuac del Sur University's Business School, a position he held since 1996. He founded the Mexican Center for Excellence in Corporate Governance in 2003, an organization that trains board members and top executives in corporate governance, and rates ESG practices of all the listed companies in Mexico to integrate the IPC Sustentable index of the Mexican Stock Exchange since 2012.

Jorge is a Professor of management and governance. He is co-author of the 2006 book “La Institucionalización de la Empresa: Casos de Éxito en Gobierno Corporativo”, published by the Global Corporate Governance Forum and the Center for International Private Enterprise.

He is managing partner of Governance Capital, where he has advised financial market authorities, ministries, institutes of directors, family offices and more than one hundred companies and non-profit organizations in Mexico and abroad.

He serves as an independent director in the following boards: Punto Casa de Bolsa (where he also chairs the Audit Committee), Productos Medix (where he also chairs the Compensations Committee), Oxal, Grupo El Arca, and On Ventures Venture Capital Fund. He served as a member of the Advisory Boards of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University and also on the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance at Yale University. He is Chairman of the Editorial Committee at Editorial LID México. He is a mentor for entrepreneurs at Endeavor.

He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with honorary achievement and an MBA from Anahuac del Sur University.

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Daniel Genberg
Special Advisor, Not-For-Profit Organizations
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Daniel is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on the sector of not-for-profit organizations.

Daniel is an experienced professional in the area of governance of not-for-profit organizations. He has worked at senior levels in a number of international organizations (IPPF, ActionAid International, Amnesty International), and has in addition undertaken numerous assignments as an independent consultant.

Since 2002, Daniel had various positions with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and became Head of Governance and Accreditation in 2005 where he oversaw an internal accreditation system that was rolled out with member associations in over 150 countries. In 2012 he joined ActionAid International where he in 2013 became head of the international governance unit with responsibilities for the global governance and the process for integrating new member organizations into the federated structures. In 2015 Daniel joined Amnesty International as director of governance with responsibility for the global governance arrangement.

While in these positions Daniel carried out both small and large scale governance reforms, introduced new approaches to governance and capacity building, and conducted a number of reviews and assessments. He has a rare overview of the approaches and set up of governance in many international not-for-profit organizations.

Between 2009 and 2012 he worked as an independent consultant and carried out governance reviews, organizational assessments and evaluations in a number of different contexts around the world. He was also delivering training and capacity building modules on program monitoring and evaluation.

A Swedish national, Daniel works in many languages and is a social anthropologist by training. As well working with Nestor Advisors, Daniel is currently an independent consultant based in Brussels.

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Chris Hodge
Special Advisor, Corporate Goverance and Policy
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Chris is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on corporate governance policies and disclosure systems.

Chris is an experienced policy-maker who has worked at the highest levels with business, investors, regulators, governments and international organizations, and has written and presented extensively on the topics of governance and stewardship.

For ten years until 2014, Chris was Director of Corporate Governance at the UK’s Financial Reporting Council. He was responsible for developing and promoting the UK Corporate Governance Code, one of the earliest and most influential codes for companies. The practices that he introduced include board effectiveness reviews and public reporting on the management of significant risks. He was also responsible for introducing the first national stewardship code for investors in the UK in 2010.

Chris was the FRC’s Strategy Director from 2014 until January 2016. He was responsible for developing the FRC’s overall strategy and plan for 2016-19 and for overseeing its external communications, public affairs and international influencing activities.

In his time at the FRC, Chris contributed to a number of UK government and other reviews, such as the Walker Review of the governance of banks and other financial institutions, and was secretary to the Pre-Emption Group. He established, and chaired for eight years until 2015, the European Corporate Governance Codes Network which shares information and good practice among the bodies responsible for codes in 28 European countries. In this capacity Chris provided advice to the European Commission and ESMA, and in his personal capacity he has advised bodies such as the OECD and EBRD.

As well as working with Nestor Advisors, Chris is currently an advisor to the Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hawkamah Institute. He is an Honorary Life Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute and the Institute of Risk Management.

Chris began his career in the UK Civil Service, where his various positions included responsibility for deregulation, competition policy and liaison with the EU. Chris has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Essex.

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Sherine Jayawickrama
Special Advisor, Stakeholder Driven Organizations
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Sherine Jayawickrama is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on stakeholder driven organizations.

Sherine has 25 years of experience working in international development and civil society spaces. Since 2013, Sherine has focused on helping international organizations to strengthen governance, global processes and organizational models in ways that enhance performance, agility, accountability and diversity. Amongst others, Sherine has advised ActionAid International, CARE International, Oxfam International, Save the Children, Oak Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Sexual Rights Initiative, Greenpeace International and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.

From 2008 to 2013, Sherine managed the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and served as Executive Director of the NGO Leaders Forum, a gathering of the US-based NGO CEOs. From 1999 to 2008, she worked at CARE USA in roles related to policy analysis and advocacy, regional management (Asia) and the Office of the President. Earlier in her career, Sherine worked on environmental policy issues in Sri Lanka, where she grew up.

Now based in New York City, Sherine is a member of the Board of Directors of Oxfam America and Chair of the Board Development and Governance Committee. Sherine has a BA in economics and international relations from Scripps College, and an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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George Kyriakos
Special Advisor, CG & Privatization
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George Kyriakos is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on corporate governance and privatization.

George has over 30 years of Greek and international experience in senior-level managerial positions, in the private, public and banking sectors. His main expertise is privatization, corporate governance, and corporate restructuring, both financial and operational, while he has been regularly working to improve corporate governance practices. George has hands-on experience across a broad spectrum of large, midsized and small companies, with the companies he has worked for having demonstrated solid financial growth.

Between 2010 and 2012, he was Special Secretary for State Owned Companies and Privatization at the Greek Ministry of Finance. He was responsible for supervising 170 state-owned enterprises in all sectors of the Greek economy, with a total of 36,000 employees.

He was formerly a Bureau member at the OECD working group for State Owned Enterprises and enterprises focusing on sharing best practices and formulating strategy on SOES, corporate governance principles, and privatization.

He speaks Greek, English and French.

Education: INSEAD (1994); MBA, Boston University Brussels (1987).

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Emmanuel Maurice
Senior Advisor
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Emmanuel is a senior advisor with Nestor Advisors focusing on governance, policy and international institutions.

Emmanuel’s career has been in the practice of law in an international context and in banking for developmental and transitional purposes. He has acquired a vast body of experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating project finance transactions and cross-border investments in a large number of jurisdictions and sectors. In addition, he has a thorough knowledge of the policies, procedures and practices of international financial institutions (IFIs), and an ability to analyze, benchmark and assess the institutional, legal and management issues they aim to resolve.

Emmanuel joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the London-based IFI, at its creation in 1991. Promoted to General Counsel in 1998, he was a member of the bank’s Executive Committee and its chief legal officer, providing legal, institutional and policy advice to its officers and governance bodies. As head of the Legal Department, he directed and oversaw the legal handling of the bank’s loans and investments in favor of project finance entities and financial intermediaries in Central Europe, Russia and the CIS, and countries of the Mediterranean, including Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. After retiring from the EBRD in 2014, he was appointed interim General Counsel of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA), an IFI and a specialized agency of the United Nations based in Rome.

Prior to EBRD, Emmanuel worked as a transaction lawyer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, working on project finance, foreign investment and privatization operations in various countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Mexico and Tunisia. He started his career in the New York and Paris offices of Willkie Farr and Gallagher, an international law firm, working on numerous acquisitions and investments, as well as legal frameworks and transactions consistent with Islamic finance principles.

Emmanuel is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences and has law degrees from the universities of Paris I, Paris II and Stanford. Emmanuel speaks French and English.

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Stilpon Nestor
Senior Advisor
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Stilpon Nestor is a Senior Advisor to Nestor Advisors and Morrow Sodali.

Stilpon founded Nestor Advisors in 2003 and the company was acquired by Morrow Sodali in early 2021. In this role, he has advised the boards of some of the largest companies and financial institutions in the EU and emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East across a variety of sectors. He has also advised public policy makers in Europe and MENA on building an effective corporate governance framework for their markets. He supported the board evaluation of the World Bank Group in 2018 and the European Investment Bank in 2019 and has led governance assessments in large NGOs such as the Global Fund.

Until March 2002, Stilpon was the Head of the Corporate Affairs Division at the OECD, leading the team which produced the global corporate governance benchmark, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.

Stilpon is a non-executive director of the Arabian Construction Company, one of the largest contractors in the Gulf. He was a director and member of the risk committee of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg (2009-2013), a member of the EU Commission’s Advisory Board on Company Law and Corporate Governance (2007-2011) and a member of the board of the International Corporate Governance Network (2004-2007). He is currently a member of the UK Institute of Directors (IoD) Advisory Board on Corporate Governance and co-chairs its working group on governance and technology.

A regular public speaker on governance, Stilpon has participated in events organized by, among others, the Institute of International Finance, the European Securities Market Authority and the UK PRA/FCA.

Stilpon has a legal background and practiced corporate law early in his career. He holds an LL.B from the University of Thessaloniki Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School (1983).

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Oleg Shvyrkov
Special Advisor
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Dr. Oleg Shvyrkov is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors.

Oleg took part in the drafting of the Russian Corporate Governance Code in 2013 and 2014 and the development of the Code implementation tools in 2015 and 2016 (jointly with Stilpon Nestor). He is a member of the Corporate Affairs Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a key national forum for governance-related legislative initiatives, and of the Expert Council on Corporate Governance of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). In 2021, he led a Working Group of the CBR Expert Council that drafted the ESG Guidance for Public Company Boards.

In Kazakhstan, Oleg is a member of the National Council on Corporate Governance – a body that oversaw the development of the new Corporate Governance Code of Kazakhstan and supporting guidance in 2021.

From 2018 to 2021 Oleg led the Corporate Governance Services group at EY in Moscow, leading the firm’s policy advisory projects (in Belarus and Tajikistan), as well as providing board assessment services to major listed companies including Rosneft Oil Company in 2019, and Sistema JSFC in 2021, providing advice to non-public companies and helping clients prepare for an IPO. In 2021, he contributed a chapter to the Moscow Exchange Guide to Issuers on Compliance with Best Sustainability Practices. Prior to this, Oleg held a similar position with Deloitte in Moscow for six years where he led Deloitte CIS Center for Corporate Governance.

In 2012, Oleg served as a consultant to the OECD Corporate Governance Roundtable, analyzing the effectiveness of exchange-based regulation of Corporate Governance in Russia and other markets. Prior to that, for eight years Oleg was employed by Standard & Poor’s in Russia, where he was analytical director for the Governance Services group.

Before joining Standard & Poor's, he spent five years in the Netherlands pursuing an academic career, focused on research in the performance of top management teams and teaching. He holds a PhD in Organization and Strategy from Tilburg University (2004).

In 2014, Oleg was presented with a “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” Award by Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership.

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Peter Taylor
Special Advisor, ESG
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Peter Taylor is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors, with a particular focus on advising companies on the governance of E&S. For over 20 years Peter has combined an investment career with a role as an ESG specialist, both in the asset management industry as a portfolio manager and with the International Finance Corporation as an advisor to securities regulators, stock exchanges and companies.

From 2007 to 2020, Peter worked for Aberdeen Asset Management, one of Europe’s largest asset managers, as a senior fund manager and Head of Corporate Governance. He was based initially in Singapore with the Asian Equities team before moving to join the Global Emerging Markets equities team in London. His corporate governance responsibilities encompassed leading on shareholder engagements with portfolio companies and building out the global corporate governance function. Peter wrote the Aberdeen Corporate Governance Principles and established Aberdeen’s global proxy voting committee.

In 2016 Peter moved to Brazil as lead portfolio manager for Latin American equities, growing assets under management to $4 billion to become the world’s largest manager of Latin American regional investment mandates. He also established Aberdeen as the leading investment firm for ESG in the region – electing the first two independent directors to the board of iron ore miner Vale, Latin America’s largest company, and negotiating substantial board changes at protein producer BRF.

Peter began his career at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington DC, where he specialized in capital markets development and corporate governance. He supported Bovespa (the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange) in the creation of the Novo Mercado listing segment for companies with higher standards of governance and disclosure. In 2004 Peter moved to Hong Kong to develop corporate governance improvement programs for banks in Asia, including Bank of Beijing, Industrial Bank of Fujian and Asia Commercial Bank in Vietnam.

In 2010 he was nominated by the Governor of the Monetary Authority of Singapore to join the Singapore Corporate Governance Council, which issued the 2012 Corporate Governance Code.

From 2016 to 2021, Peter was a non-executive director of the Brazilian Capital Markets Association (AMEC), where, as a member of the Succession Committee, he oversaw the successful transition to a new CEO.

Peter graduated with a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University. He received his Master’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he graduated with Distinction, concentrating in International Economics and International Law. He is a CFA Charterholder.

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Peter Tropper
Special Advisor, Investor Governance
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Peter Tropper is a renowned expert in emerging markets private equity with 30 years of investment and advisory experience in 110 countries in over 200 funds. His guidance is regularly sought by fund managers, institutional investors, and policymakers in this rapidly growing asset class.

Peter advises fund managers and institutional investors on private equity fund formation and governance issues. He is former chair of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association’s Frontier Markets Council and sits on several PE advisory committees. He teaches at Wharton MBA School and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

In January 2014, Peter left the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as Chief Investment Officer in IFC's Private Equity Group, which had commitments of more than $3.5 billion in over 180 private equity funds plus investments in two dozen fund managers, all dedicated exclusively to emerging markets. At IFC, he worked on more than 200 funds and served as IFC’s representative on the advisory committees of numerous private equity funds. In his last role at IFC, Peter was the global lead for funds that invest in small and medium enterprises, and set up and ran the SME Ventures program for funds that invest in small enterprises in frontier markets.

Peter also served as the first head of IFC’s Emerging Markets Data Base unit, which has since been sold to Standard & Poor’s. The EMDB is a comprehensive data base that provides detailed statistics on stock markets in developing countries. A commercial service, it includes information on more than 2,000 stocks in 45 developing countries.

He has a BA from Yale University, an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Dano Weisbord
Special Advisor, Sustainability
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Dano Weisbord is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors focusing on corporate sustainability strategy. He has created sustainability functions in multiple organizations and has 20 years of experience in strategic leadership and advising on corporate sustainability strategy. He has conducted strategic reviews and consulted across higher education, energy, international NGO, mining and real-estate sectors.

He currently serves as the Associate Vice-President for Sustainability at Smith College where he created the sustainability function and now oversees both institutional strategy and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability. This center links real-world problems to research and curriculum. Dano is also responsible for large-scale planning projects at Smith including the electrification and decarbonization of a thermal and electric district energy system.

Dano is a regular speaker and trainer on sustainability strategy and topics across multiple industry organizations including the International District Energy Association, the Society for College and University Planners and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. He was the Head of Organizational Learning and Change at ActionAid International where he created an organizational sustainability function. During that time, he participated in the development of the environmental components of the INGO Accountability Charter and created an international community of practice for sustainability professionals in NGOs.

Dano advised on corporate environmental responsibility strategy for CLF Ventures in Boston MA where clients included international mining, energy and real-estate companies and organized a regional wind-power industry alliance.

He was a director of the Global Association of Corporate Sustainability Officers in London, and lead author on Sustainable Endowments Institute’s Greening the Bottom Line. He holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University.

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