Impact Measurement and Management Webinar Series #1｜AIMR Winter Issue Debut Dialogue

Join us for the AIMR Winter Issue Debut Dialogue. This online event brings together thought leaders and experts to discuss the latest insights in sustainable finance, impact investment, and corporate sustainability.

🗓️ DATE: January 16, 2025 (Thursday)
⏰ TIME: 15:00 – 16:30 (Taiwan Time / UTC/GMT +8:00 hours)

To secure your spot, please sign up using the registration form below.
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Join distinguished speakers Lloyd Kurtz, Senior Portfolio Manager; Gayle Peterson, Associate Fellow at Oxford; Philip Sugai, Director of Value Research Center; and Hao Liang, Associate Professor at SMU, as they share invaluable insights on impact finance, sustainable investing, and innovative measurement frameworks. 

This engaging webinar features expert talks, interactive Q&A sessions, and opportunities to explore the future of sustainable finance in Asia. 

Don’t miss this chance to connect with industry leaders and gain actionable knowledge for driving impactful change. Mark your calendar and join us!

Event Agenda (Taiwan Time / UTC/GMT +8:00 hours, January 16, 2025):

15:00 – 15:05 Opening Remarks: Introduction to the 2024 AIMR Winter Issue

15:05 – 15:20 Cover Story: Impact Finance in Asia: Time to Build
Speaker: Lloyd Kurtz / Senior Portfolio Manager
Lloyd Kurtz is a portfolio manager with long experience in sustainable finance. He has designed and managed numerous sustainable investment strategies, including a seven-year stint as head of Wells Fargo’s Social Impact Investing Team. He is a visiting scholar at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he serves as faculty co-chair for the Moskowitz Prize. He has been a member of the steering committee for the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium since its founding and is also a member of the PRI Academic Network Advisory Committee. He served on the SASB technical board from 2017-2022.

15:20 – 15:25 Q&A Session

15:25 – 15:40 Regional Report: Japan’s Impact Economy (Part 1)
Speaker: Gayle Peterson / Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Gayle is co-founder of an international consultancy offering strategic guidance in leadership development, programme strategy, and impact measures to leading foundations, corporations, impact investors, governments, and intermediaries. With more than 20 years’ experience as a strategist, philanthropist, and trusted adviser to social investors worldwide, Gayle has managed and assessed more than US$15 billion in philanthropic and impact investments. She has advised social investors in more than 45 countries and has taught social investing classes worldwide. Career highlights that have helped shaped Gayle’s researching, teaching and consulting include: Programme Director for the Great Lakes Protection Fund, where she created the first bi-national grant-making programme with the Great Lakes Governors and Premiers to promote environmental sustainability, economic development, and multi-sector collaboration. She has also served as Executive Director, Milkweed Editions, a literary press where she created an award-winning children’s literacy programme; and Chief of Staff, Commissioner of the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, where she advocated for policies to expand employment opportunities for women. Gayle holds an MA in Social Policy and Law from the University of Chicago and an MSc from the HEC-Paris School of Management and Oxford University. She is a contributor to Alliance Magazine, the Financial Times, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Huffington Post.

15:40 – 15:45 Q&A Session

15:45 – 16:00 Research Highlights: Beyond ESG: Embracing Impact Measurement for Real Sustainable Finance
Speaker: Philip Sugai / Director of Value Research Center / Professor of Marketing within Doshisha University’s Graduate School of Business
Philip Sugai is the director of the Value Research Center and a marketing professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of two books, Building Value through Marketing and The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business.

16:00 – 16:05 Q&A Session

16:05 – 16:20 Methodology: Monetizing and Reporting Impact: Applying an Impact-Weighted Accounts Framework to Asia.
Speaker: Hao Liang / Associate Professor of Finance, Singapore Management University (SMU)
Dr. Hao Liang is an Associate Professor of Finance, the Academic Director of the Singapore Green Finance Centre, and the Co-Lead of the Sustainable Business Research Peak at Singapore Management University (SMU). He holds the Ho Bee Professorship in Sustainability Management and has been awarded the BNP Paribas Fellowship, DBS Sustainability Fellowship, and Lee Kong Chian Fellowship. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an extramural fellow at Tilburg University, where he received his PhD in Finance and won the university-wide Best Dissertation Award in 2015. Additionally, he serves on the Steering Committee of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, the Scientific Committee of the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy, the Technical Committee for Sustainable Finance of Enterprise Singapore, and has been nominated to the China ESG 30 Forum by Caixin Magazine. Dr. Liang’s research interests include sustainable finance, impact investing, corporate finance, and governance. He has published in prestigious academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, and Journal of Business Venturing. He is the Section Editor (Finance & Business Ethics) for the Journal of Business Ethics, an Associate Editor for Management Science, Journal of Business Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, and British Accounting Review, and serves on the editorial review board of the Strategic Management Journal. Professor Liang received the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Emerging Scholar Award in 2020 and has twice won the prestigious Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (2014 & 2019). At SMU, he teaches Sustainable Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, and Applied Econometrics at the undergraduate, master’s, DBA, executive, and PhD levels. He frequently contributes to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and the Oxford Business Law Blog, among other media outlets.

16:20 – 16:25 Q&A Session

16:25 – 16:30 Closing Remarks