WHO WE ARE
Sustainable Holdings was founded in 2007 with a vision for developing a data-driven methodology to serve as a backbone in the development of meaningful sustainable investment products.
With experience and relationships across the media and communications, financial services and technology sectors, the company and its principals are at the forefront of the environmental revolution.
Sustainable Holdings Service Providers:
Sustainable Holdings Advisory Board:
Daniel C. Esty
Ian Goldin
Andrew A. King
Stephen Ramsey
Jeremy Smith
Daniel C. Esty
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Formerly a senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dan is one of the world’s leading experts on corporate environmental strategy. He has advised CEOs and top executives from Honeywell, Northeast Utilities, Kerr-McGee, Limited Brands, Shell, and more than a dozen other companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dan helped establish and continues to serve on Environmental Advisory Boards at Coca-Cola and Unilever.
Dan is Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University with faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools. He is Director of both the Center for Business and Environment at Yale and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. The author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles on environmental strategy, policy, governance, and regulation, Dan comments frequently on environmental issues on television and radio, as well as in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, and Fourtune.
In government, he helped to craft air and water pollution regulations and shaped government policies affecting waste, food safety, and other issues. He negotiated the 1992 framework convention on climate change on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and he was the principal architect of the environmental provisions for the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has testified before Congress on environmental issues numerous times.
Dan holds a B.A. from Harvard, a masters degree from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Yale. He lives in Cheshire, CT with his wife and three children.
Ian Goldin
Dr Ian Goldin was appointed as the first Director of Oxford University's James Martin 21st Century School on September 1, 2006. As Director, Dr Goldin will lead the School to provide solutions to the great challenges of our time. The School initially is composed of ten University Institutes drawing together leading scholars from across the University. It covers the frontiers of physical, medical and biological science as well as climate change and environmental science, the social sciences and the humanities. Under the Director's guidance, the School aims to become the leading global centre of research and applied policy analysis on the key challenges of the 21st Century.
From January 2001 to August 2006, Dr Goldin was at the World Bank, first as Director of Development Policy, and from 2003-2006 as Vice President. As Director of Development Policy he provided policy and management leadership, contributing to the Bank's renewed focus on poverty and support for the Millennium Development Goals. He played a catalytic role in the development of the Bank's research on trade, infrastructure and migration. On becoming Vice President, Ian became an active member of the Bank's senior management team, with particular responsibility for the Bank's relationship with all developed countries, and for key institutional relationships, including with the United Nations.
From 1995 to 2001, Dr Goldin was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Under his leadership, the Bank was transformed to become the leading agent of infrastructure development in the fourteen countries of Southern Africa. It financed the provision of water, electricity and other basic services to over 500 municipalities and supported public utilities, agriculture and small business initiatives throughout Africa. During this period, Ian served on several Government committees and Boards, accompanied President Mandela on many state visits and was Finance Director for South Africa's Olympic Bid.
Prior to returning to South Africa, Dr Goldin worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where as Principal Economist he took the lead in developing the strategy of the Bank for the accession of its members to the European Union. He previously worked at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he directed the Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development.
Dr Goldin was born in South Africa and after his BSc and BA(Hons) degrees at the University of Cape Town, graduated with a MSc at London School of Economics and a DPhil at Oxford University. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including Chevalier (Ordre du Merit) from France and was nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He has published over fifty articles and 13 books, the most recent being Globalisation for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Policy.
Andrew A. King
Andrew A. King is an associate professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, he was a faculty member at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He has held visiting positions at both the University of Michigan and MIT.
He is the recipient of numerous honors including the Faculty Pioneer award from World Resources Institute, the Industrial Ecology Fellowship from AT&T, and the Zannetos Prize for scholarly excellence.He currently directs an NSF/EPA funded research effort on industry self-regulation.
Dr. King holds a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley; and a BA in mechanical engineering from Brown University.
Stephen Ramsey
Stephen Ramsey has served as Vice President for Corporate Environmental Programs at General Electric Company (GE) since 1990. In this capacity, he manages the development and implementation of GE's environmental health and safety policies, management systems and programs. He oversees all environmental litigation for the company and manages the company's program for dealing with legacy issues such as the Hudson River.
Prior to joining GE, Ramsey practiced environmental law at Sidley & Austin, and he was the first Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from 1980 to 1985, during which time he supervised more than 75 lawyers who handled civil and criminal prosecutions under federal environmental laws.
He was awarded the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for the creation of the Environmental Crimes Unit at the DOJ.
Ramsey has written about and lectured on all aspects of environmental law and management systems, and he has served on the Boards of Directors of a variety of non-governmental organizations.
Jeremy Smith
Mr. Smith has worked in the investment and clean energy arena since 2000. He is a Partner at Berkeley Partners, a private equity fund management firm, focused upon renewable energy infrastructure assets in the emerging markets. Prior to Berkeley Energy Mr. Smith was a Vice President at Tersus Energy, a publicly quoted clean energy project development and investment company, with particular responsibility for project development and investment in the bioenergy and Asian project portfolios. Prior to this he gained investment experience with Bain Capital (buyouts), Conduit Ventures (clean energy venture capital), and Gartmore (fund management). He started his career with Credit Suisse First Boston in the International Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Smith is also a Co-Founder of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a $41 trillion institutional investor collaborative focused upon shareholder value and climate change. Mr. Smith has an MBA from London Business School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.