Corporate Disclosure Policy Council

Rob is a Partner within the Public Equities team at Viburnum Funds where his focus is the VF Strategic Equities Fund (Active Ownership Public Equities Fund). Prior to joining Viburnum Funds in 2011 he was a Senior Investment Analyst at CP2 (Global Infrastructure Fund) where he worked on numerous Infrastructure investments, including the successful A$2.1bn consortium bid for ConnectEast (Melbourne Toll Road). In his 17yr+ career Rob has also held roles as Partner/Analyst for Pegasus Securities (Independent Institutional Equity Research), Portfolio Manager/Analyst for Attunga Capital (Hedge Fund Manager) and as an Equity Analyst for both State One Capital Group and Oasis Asset Management (Global Fund Manager). Rob holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Finance Hons) from the University of Cape Town and is a CFA charterholder.

Rob is a past President (2017 to 2019) and Director (2013 to 2019) of CFA Society Perth. Rob has also been a member of CFA Institute’s Corporate Disclosure Policy Council since 2014.

As Director of Research – Standards, Bryan Esterly guides the Research Staff’s development of the 77 SASB industry-specific standards, including collaborating with Standards Board in its reviews and approvals of the standards. His role is centered on supporting the staff’s research and engagements with industry and investors in order to that drive the standardization of financially material sustainability information in corporate reporting for investors. Prior to SASB, Mr. Esterly worked in the financial risk management industry, most recently serving as Vice President with Aon’s Financial Services Group.

Chie Mitsui a Senior Researcher / Data Analyst at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. She is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Science and has a master’s degree from Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science. Before joining Nomura Research Institute in 2008, she worked at Jiji Press Ltd.
Chie specializes in corporate disclosure information and associated systems, IFRS, and corporate governance. A member of IFRS Taxonomy Consultative Group (ITCG) of International Accounting Standard Board 2014, she has been publishing articles and reports regarding efficient disclosure information for investors' & analysts' activities.
In the past several years, Chie has been researching the trends of disclosure systems, environmental investment, corporate governance code, and the impact on those issues from the UK and EU related discussion. As well as issues related to IFRS disclosure and data utilization.

Pranav is the co-founder and CEO of Calcbench, where he manages day-to-day activities. Pranav has a background in applied mathematics. He brings more than two decades experience as an analyst at TIAA and ITG, and at Calcbench. In addition, Pranav was a vice president for ModelWare and Quantitative & Derivative Strategies at Morgan Stanley. He is a Board member of XBRL–U.S., is on the Technical Computing Advisory Board for Microsoft and is a member of the CFA Institute’s Corporate Disclosure Policy Council (“CDPC”) which addresses issues affecting the quality of financial reporting and disclosure worldwide.

Pranav holds a B.S. from Bates College and an M.S. from New York University.

Vahan Janjigian is Chief Investment Officer at Greenwich Wealth Management LLC, former Editor of the Money Masters Stock Report investment newsletter, a former Forbes magazine columnist, and former Editor of the Forbes Special Situation Survey. He is author of Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect and co-author of The Forbes/CFA Institute Investment Course.

Janjigian previously served on the faculties of several universities including the University of Delaware, Northeastern University, the American University of Armenia, and Boston College. He received his B.S. from Villanova University, and his MBA and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.

Jeffrey P. Mahoney joined the Council of Institutional Investors as general counsel in 2006. His responsibilities include advocating the Council’s membership-approved policies before standard setters, regulators, members of Congress, and other policy makers. Prior to joining the Council, Mahoney was counsel to the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. From 1996-2006, he advised FASB and its parent entity, the Financial Accounting Foundation, on a variety of research, technical and administrative matters, and was primarily responsible for FASB’s Washington, D.C. liaison activities. Prior to joining FASB, Mahoney was a corporate securities lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; a law clerk to the Honorable James G. Exum Jr., chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; and an auditor at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mahoney holds a J.D. degree, served on the North Carolina Law Review, and was named to the Order of the Coif. He also holds a B.B.A. degree and an A.A. degree. Mahoney is a member of the District of Columbia and North Carolina Bar Associations and is admitted and qualified to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also is a certified public accountant in North Carolina and Michigan, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is the incoming vice dean for research at the Columbia Business School. He is the recipient of the 2006 and 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution to the Literature award, the 2006 Best Paper award from Financial Accounting Research Section of the AAA, and the 2006 and 2016 Graham and Dodd Scroll Prize given by the Financial Analysts Journal. Professor Rajgopal is also the recipient of the 2008, 2012 and 2015 Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics. He is the departmental editor of the accounting track of management science and an associate editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Professor Rajgopal is widely published in finance and accounting journals. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and The Economist.

John is the CEO of XBRL International, the standards development organisation behind XBRL, the business reporting standard. XBRL International works to enhance transparency and accountability in business performance by developing and promoting its freely licensed global data exchange specifications in the public interest.

Mr. Turner has previously served as the CEO of CoreFiling, a leading XBRL vendor, led the XBRL activities of KPMG International LLP and ran the first regulatory project to utilise XBRL for data collection, leading the data collection and analysis reengineering efforts at APRA, the Australian financial regulator. He is a passionate advocate for the pragmatic use of standards to enhance reporting and with the staff of XBRL International works with the consortium's members and leading regulators around the world to this end.

Turner holds a BA/LLB from the University of Queensland where, in addition to a law degree, he majored in computer science and government. Now based in Oxford in the UK, he works in his current role with regulators, policy makers, standards setters, financial institutions, financial analysts, and the accounting profession from around the world to improve business reporting to the benefit of a wide range of users.

Adam Ward is a portfolio manager and vice president in Dimensional’s London office and has over 25 years of experience. Adam manages both developed and emerging markets equity portfolios (including core and targeted value strategies) and has a particular focus on Dimensional’s sustainability equity strategies, having launched the Global Sustainability Core Equity Fund in 2013.

Adam joined Dimensional in 2011, having previously worked in a variety of roles at AXA Rosenberg, most recently as the company’s European deputy CIO. In this role, Adam had specific portfolio management responsibilities, oversaw the trading, portfolio management, and operations teams, and was a member of AXA Rosenberg’s investment committee.

Adam began his career in 1994 in Adelaide, Australia, in the KPMG graduate program. He is a CFA^® Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, having received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland in Australia in 1993.