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GRI Topic Standard Project
for Economic Impact
Working Group member biographies
June 2024© GRI 2024

Contents
Working group members ......................................................................................................................... 3
Alberto Alemanno ......................................................................................................................... 3
Anne Lindsay .................................................................................................................................. 4
Carlota de Paula Coelho ............................................................................................................. 4
Christina O’Brien ........................................................................................................................... 5
Delilah Rothenberg ....................................................................................................................... 5
Evan Harvey .................................................................................................................................... 6
Gisela Granado .............................................................................................................................. 6
Joseph Mitchell ............................................................................................................................. 7
Kaunain Rahman ........................................................................................................................... 7
Luis Perera ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Lynn Pamment CBE ...................................................................................................................... 9
Dr. Mario Abela .............................................................................................................................. 9
Olumide Lala ................................................................................................................................. 10
Rodney Ndamba ........................................................................................................................... 10
Sharmeen Contractor ................................................................................................................ 11
Sachiko Ichikawa ........................................................................................................................ 11
Shivaram Rajgopal ...................................................................................................................... 12
GSSB project sponsor ........................................................................................................................... 12
Chulendra de Silva ...................................................................................................................... 13

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Working group members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing members to participate in the working group that will be responsible for reviewing the Phase
1 and 2 of the economic impact related disclosures in the GRI Standards. The members represent
diverse, multi-stakeholder backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge andexperience in economic performance, anti-corruption, anti-competitive behavior, and responsible
political engagement of an organization.

Alberto AlemannoFounder, The Good Lobby
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet Professor in European
Union Law at HEC Paris, and Founder of The Good Lobby, anonprofit civic start up aimed at equalizing access to power bydeveloping new forms of responsive corporate politicalengagement. He regularly advises civil society, leadinginternational organizations, governments, the private sector
and philanthropies. Alberto’s research has been centered on
how the law may be used to counter social, health, economic
and political disparities of access within society. Alberto is also
permanent visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges
and at the University of Tokyo School of Public Policy.
He has been named Young Global Leader by the World
Economic Forum, Ashoka fellow, Social Innovator of the Yearby the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship andInnovation, as well as European Young Leader by Friends ofEurope for his work aimed at filling the gap between academic
research and policy realities.
He regularly publishes in Le Monde, The Guardian, Bloomberg,
and Politico Europe and his work has been featured in The
Economist, The Financial Times, and Nature and Science.
Alberto is known not only for being a prolific scholar and active
public interest lawyer but also for being a creative andpassionate teacher having first embraced iTunes U, thenpioneering Coursera with a massive open online course
devoted to the functioning and impact of the European Union,
which has reached over 300,000 learners from all over theWorld.
Originally from Italy, Alberto is a graduate of Harvard Law
School, the College of Europe and holds a PhD in International
Law & Economics from Bocconi University.

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Anne Lindsay
Responsible Investment Coordination, International
Transport Workers’ Federation
Constituency: Labor Organization
Anne Lindsay is the Responsible Investment Coordinator for
the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF),
highlighting the rights of transport workers worldwide andactions needed to support the shift to sustainable transport. A
particular focus for Anne’s role is engaging with trustees,
pension funds, and asset managers on ways to increase
respect for human rights in global value chains and support ajust transition. She is an active member of the Committee on
Workers’ Capital, chairing the CWC’s taskforce on strategic
policy and has represented the ETUC on the EU Sustainable
Finance Platform.
Before joining the ITF in June 2020, she worked as lead
analyst on the private sector at the Catholic Agency forOverseas Development. As well as leading work on businessand human rights, she contributed to successful civil society
advocacy for the EU Non-financial Reporting Directive, theModern Slavery Act, and the UK Bribery Act. She was a
director of the CORE corporate accountability coalition from2011 to 2018.

Carlota de Paula Coelho
Policy Lead, B Lab
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Carlota is Policy Lead at B Lab, a global non-profit behind the
B Corp movement, businesses committed to transforming the
global economy to benefit all people, communities, and theplanet through economic systems change. B Lab creates
standards, policies, and tools for business and certifies
companies - known as B Corps - that meet high standards ofsocial and environmental performance, accountability, andtransparency.
She has a background in European Union Law (LL.M) andleads advocacy initiatives in the sphere of sustainable financein collaboration with other Civil Society Organizations andresponsible businesses. She's also a member of EFRAG TEG,
the European Commission's advisory body for the developmentof the new European Sustainability Reporting Standards. She'sa former corporate sustainability consultant, specialized in
impact measurement, ESG reporting, and assurance.

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Christina O’Brien
Senior Vice President of CSR Data and Reporting, Bankof America
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Tina O'Brien is the Senior Vice President of CSR (ESG) Data
and Reporting at Bank of America (BofA). Tina would represent
a business enterprise perspective to the GRI working group,
bringing her extensive experience leading external CSR
reporting for one of the world’s premiere financial institutions.
In addition to her disclosure work, Tina also instituted a data
and reporting controls program for ESG data at BofA. In
previous BofA roles, Tina worked in merchant services
oversight, payments strategy, and compliancecommunications. Prior to BofA, Tina was a public relations
associate for non-profit and civic organizations in New York
City. She holds a Masters of Business Administration degreefrom Wake Forest University and a Sustainability Excellence
Associate credential.
Tina lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. with her husband,two sons (seven and eight years old) and an adopted dog
named Frankie Banana.

Delilah Rothenberg
Co-founder and Executive Director, Predistribution
Initiative
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Delilah Rothenberg is a Co-Founder and the Executive Directorof the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), a multi-stakeholder, nonprofit supporting investors and their stakeholders in strategies
to share more wealth and influence with workers andcommunities, ultimately reducing system-level risks that affectboth portfolios and stakeholders. Delilah brings nearly two
decades of experience in finance across asset classes –particularly working in private equity, infrastructure, and project
finance with a focus on financing, economic inclusion, andsustainability for over 12 years. Previously, Delilah worked insell-side equities with Bear Stearns and investment researchwith GLG. Delilah has served in advisory capacities for theCouncil of Institutional Investors (CII), Capitals Coalition, For
the Long Term, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. She is an
Executive Fellow at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of
Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and former OSF
Fellow. She has served on various committees for the Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards

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Board (SASB), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI),
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and Taskforce on
Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD).

Evan Harvey
Managing Director, Audit & Assurance, Deloitte & Touche
LLP
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Evan Harvey is an Audit & Assurance managing director at
Deloitte & Touche LLP, specializing in Environmental, Social,and Governance (ESG) and Sustainability. He previously
worked as the Global Head of Sustainability for Nasdaq, where
he managed corporate sustainability (ESG strategy),philanthropy, volunteerism, and purpose projects. Evan has
held several nonprofit board and working group leadershiproles, and formerly served on the Global Reporting Initiative’s
Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB). He is theprimary author of Nasdaq’s ‘ESG Reporting Guide’ and his
work has been published in both Forbes and Capital FinanceInternational. Evan holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the
University of Texas and lives outside Washington DC.

Gisela Granado
Policy Director, Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Gisela Granado is the Policy Director at the EITI and focuses
on development of policy matters under EITI’s revisedStandard. This includes consideration of the impact of the oil,gas and mining industries on the economy. She leads andsupports EITI’s guidance on revenues, taxation, subsidies,
costs, payments to the government, greenhouse gas emissions
and anti-corruption amongst others. This is done through thereview of EITI’s country evaluations, known as Validation. The
nature of EITI’s work is multi-stakeholder working closely withgovernment, companies and civil society stakeholders across
EITI’s 56 implementing countries.
She has worked closely with the OECD team on Due Diligence
Guidance on Responsible Business Conduct. In particular,building synergies across their reporting standards on theimpact of the informal economy, such as the artisanal andsmall-scale mining sectors, on the economy. To this end, she
has explored not simply the economic impact of the sector, butalso impacts on the environment, social conditions and gender.

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She works directly with companies on their anti-corruption
policies and in certain cases, has engaged with companies on
remedial actions, such as anti-corruption training in instancesof corruption scandals.

Joseph Mitchell
Assistant Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions
Constituency: Labor Organization
Joseph Mitchell is the Assistant Secretary of the AustralianCouncil of Trade Unions (ACTU). The ACTU is the peak tradeunion body in Australia. Together with its 42 affiliate unions, the
ACTU represents nearly two million trade union members
across a broad spectrum of industries and occupations in boththe public and private sectors.
Joseph joined the ACTU in 2016 and most recently led the
ACTU Centre for Workers' Capital overseeing the ACTU'snational and international engagement on superannuation andretirement outcomes for working people. He has extensive
experience across the trade union movement, Australia's $3.5
trillion superannuation industry, responsible institutional
investment, compliance, and governance.
Joseph is a Trustee Director on Telstra Super, a leading
Australian profit-to-member superannuation fund with over $24
billion funds under management.
He holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts fromthe Australian National University and a Graduate Certificate inApplied Finance from the University of New South Wales.
Joseph is passionate about creating a fairer, more equitablesociety through empowering workers through their trade unions
and achieving positive economic and social public policy
outcomes.

Kaunain Rahman
Business Integrity Specialist, Transparency International
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Kaunain is the Business Integrity Specialist at Transparency
International (TI), and her role is to drive integrity in business –an integral component of TI's movement-wide strategy. At TI,
she contributes to strengthening businesses' capacity toengage in collective action initiatives, fostering a culture of
integrity throughout value chains, and advocating for enhanced
regulatory frameworks and compliance control mechanisms.
She has worked on projects such as Integrity Pacts (IP) andPage 7 of 13

Business Integrity Country Agenda (BICA), focusing ontransparent public procurement and advancing integrity
practices in business at the national level, respectively.
Kaunain also leads TI's efforts in addressing corruption throughprivate sector sustainability reporting (e.g., ESG).
Previously, she served as a Research Coordinator at TI, andher main responsibilities lay with the Anti-Corruption Helpdesk.
In the NGO sector, she campaigned for nuclear disarmament
as a Regional Ambassador for South Asia at Global Zero in the
USA and volunteered with the Child in Need Institute (CINI) in
India. In the private sector, she worked in internal audit
services at Ernst and Young (EY) in India.
Kaunain received her Master's in Corruption and Governancefrom The Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of
Sussex in the UK, where her focus area of research wascorruption in international business. Her other qualifications
include degrees in Political Science and Human Rights.

Luis Perera
Academic and Author, INSEAD Business School;
Universidad de Montevideo; Universidad de Burgos;
Center on Social and Environmental Accounting
Research
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Luis Perera-Aldama was the PwC Chile partner in charge of
Sustainable Business Solutions since 2004 until his retirementin June 2012 and, throughout his 38 years career, a seasoned
audit partner with wide international experience servicing many
audit and sustainability clients and projects, management
positions within the South American firms of PwC and memberof the auditing standard committees of the professional
accounting bodies in Uruguay and Chile
He is the author of several papers on sustainability reporting,wrote many books and chapters on the socio-economic
dimension of sustainability reporting and has been engaged in
the past as a technical expert to GRI working groups, for the
G3, G3.1 and G4 versions (on Reporting as a process,Materiality and Report Content, and Boundaries.)
Currently, he continues actively engaged in several academic
activities: Ph.D. candidate at the Universidad de Burgos,
Spain, under its research group on Accounting, Change andSociety with his project ''Integrating sustainability information inmainstream reporting'', focusing on the interphase between
financial and sustainability accounting through value-added
statements; executive-in-residence with the executive-inresidence with the Sustainable Business Initiative and the
Humanitarian Business Group at INSEAD, Fontainebleau,

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France; Professor on Auditing, Assurance, and Sustainability
and the road towards Integrated Reporting at the Post
Graduate Center of the Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay;
and invited master class lecturer on Assurance of Sustainability
Reports at the Master on Advanced Accounting and Auditingat the Universidad de Burgos. He has been a member of
CSEAR (Center on Social and Environmental Accounting
Research) since 2017.

Lynn Pamment CBE
UK Representative, International Public Sector
Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Lynn Pamment is a UK representative on the International
Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB). In
December 2022, IPSASB confirmed its role in advancing public
sector sustainability reporting.
Lynn Pamment is Comptroller & Auditor General for Jersey, an
appointment she took up in January 2020. Prior to her
appointment in Jersey she was a lead partner in PwC UK’s
Government and Public Sector Assurance practice where she
gained over 30 years of experience of working in an assurance
and advisory capacity with public and private sector
organizations in the UK and beyond.
Lynn Pamment is a first-class honours graduate from the
University College Cardiff. She is a prize-winning member of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales(ICAEW) and is also a member of CIPFA. She is also the Chairof the Financial Reporting Advisory Board to HM Treasury in
the UK.

Dr. Mario Abela
Strategic Advisory, Value RedefinedConstituency: Mediating Institution
Dr Mario Abela FCPA FCMA is an Expert Advisor on Corporate
Reporting at Bain &Co and in the past has worked with clientssuch as CERES, Value Balancing Alliance and the Capitals
Coalition. He is the Global Chair of World Intangible Capital
Initiative and Vice-Chair of the IMA’s Sustainable Business
Management Committee. Mario is a recognized expert inaccounting, reporting and governance. Mario holds a PhD in
Accounting from the University of London, a Masters of
Science from Linkoping University, Sweden and a Bachelor ofCommerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He

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has held senior executive positions in both the public andprivate sector and for the last decade has been working in thearea of sustainability and the importance of accounting andgovernance in companies transitioning to a sustainableeconomy. Mario is passionate about promoting the roleaccounting and governance can play in driving towards moresustainable businesses and is a frequent presenter atinternational conferences and seminars.

Olumide Lala
Executive Director, Climate Transition Ltd.
Constituency: Investment Institution
Olumide Lala is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of
Climate Transition Limited as well as the Chief Executive
Officer & Board Member for the Climate Finance & Investment
Accelerator Limited.
Olumide has devoted his career to helping business leadersand governments find solutions to the global challenges ofclimate change, sustainable finance and capital markets
infrastructure development gaps.
He has provided advisory services to a number of financial
institutions, regulators, and governments in countries across
Africa. His areas of focus include sustainable development inemerging economies, climate change mitigation/adaptation
strategies and climate finance.
Olumide has over 30 years Banking & Capital Markets
experience delivering technology-enabled strategic solutions
and products that have created value and wealth to clients.
He holds an MBA from the Imperial College, London, UK, an
MSc. in Business Systems Analysis & Design from London City
University, London UK, and a BSc in Accounting from the
University of Hull, UK.

Rodney Ndamba
Chief Executive, Institute for Sustainability Africa (Insaf)
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Rodney is the Chief Executive/Founder of the Institute for
Sustainability Africa (INŚAF) and is a Fellow Member of the
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) (UK)and Registered Public Practice Accountant in Zimbabwe. He
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Huddersfield, UK) and a Bsc (Hons) in Accounting (Oxford
Brookes University, UK).
He is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional. He has over
20 years of experience working in the private and academic
sector in Zimbabwe and former University Lecturer. Rodney isa former GRI Stakeholder Council Member for Africa (6 years).
He is also a member of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Listing
Committee, and Advisory Committee Member of The ESG
Exchange. He was the lead Consultant to the GRI and UNOLLDC Pilot Project on Sustainability Reporting in Malawi. He
has also been a Subject Matter Expert in Kenya and South
Africa.

Sharmeen Contractor
Lead, Market Systems and Investors, Oxfam America
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Sharmeen leads investor advocacy at Oxfam America. In this role,
she plays multiple roles as an advocate, ally, educator, andconnector to investors to provide awareness of the social andenvironmental impacts and risks of their investments. Sharmeen
has over a decade of experience in environmental and social
advocacy and research. Prior to Oxfam, she worked at SoC
Investment Group (formerly CtW Investment Group) as an ESG
Research and Engagement Specialist where she focused onproviding research to and engaging in advocacy with investors on
issues of human capital management. Sharmeen also worked at
MSCI, Inc. in the ESG team conducting research, providing
thought leadership, and informing on MSCI’s ESG methodology
for both companies and countries.

Sachiko Ichikawa
Board Director, Olympus and Tokyo Electron
Constituency: Business EnterpriseServes as a board director for two prominent companies listedon the Tokyo Stock Exchange, namely Olympus and Tokyo
Electron, and also holds a directorship at the Board Directors
Training Institute (BDTI), a public interest institution dedicatedto advancing corporate governance. In her role, she actively
spearheads sustainability discussions during board meetings,
overseeing the governance of the management team, andchampioning the principles of stakeholder capitalism.
Possessing a wealth of knowledge and recognized as an FSA
credential holder of SASB, she brings a strategic and informed
perspective to her responsibilities. With a background as alawyer specializing in Human Resource Management and acurrent position as a GRI Labor Group Advisor, she is well-

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versed in navigating the intricate landscape of stakeholder
capitalism.

Shivaram Rajgopal
Kester and Byrnes Professor, Columbia Business School(CBS)
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Shivaram is the Kester and Byrnes Professor at the Columbia
Business School (CBS). He is a world-renowned expert on
ESG, financial reporting issues, fraud, executive
compensation, corporate culture and corporate governance.
Professor Rajgopal has been internationally recognized for his
scholarship on several occasions including the prestigious
American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution
to the Literature Award (thrice), Graham and Dodd Scroll Prizegiven by the Financial Analysts Journal (twice) and the Glen
McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics (thrice).
Shiva is passionate about bridging academic theory with policy
setting and corporate practice. He writes a regular column for
Forbes and has published op-eds in every major outlet. He
advises think tanks, asset management firms, advisory firms,
and professional and trade associations.

GSSB project sponsor
In addition to formal working group members, there will also be a project sponsor. As arepresentative of the GSSB in the project, the role of the project sponsor is to reconnect ongoingproject process back into GSSB discussion and to reflect, from a governance perspective, on theexecution of the project by the project team.

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Chulendra de Silva
Founding Partner and Owner, InterBalance Consulting, Sri
Lanka
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Chulendra is the Co-Founder of InterBalance, a consultancy
company providing Sustainability and Risk Management
solutions to corporate clientele. Chulendra also acts as theSustainability Consultant and Country Representative for
Goodera, a Sustainability Software provider headquartered in
Bangalore India and Menlo Park, California. Chulendra hasover 19 years of experience in Financial Analysis, Business
Process Management, Enterprise Risk Management andSustainability, and was instrumental in entrenching
Sustainability and Risk Management processes withinorganizations of various industry groups.
Chulendra holds a first class honours degree in Science fromthe University of Colombo, an MBA from the University ofSouthern Queensland, was an Associate Member of theChartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) from2006 to 2017, and was a Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA)
Charterholder (USA) from 2006 to 2020.He is also a certified
Sustainability Practitioner and Sustainability Assurance
Practitioner, and a certified lead auditor for ISO 14001:2015
Environmental Management Systems.

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