From 09:00 am until 10:30 am
At Virtual Webinar
In late September 2024, the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) will be launched. As we look ahead to the launch, the TISFD Working Group and Monash Business School & Group of 100 are pleased to invite you to a webinar to learn more about the forthcoming Taskforce.
If you would like to attend the consultation webinar, please RSVP to Bridget Bridget.Gartland@au.ey.com by Friday 2nd August 2024. Please feel free to pass on this invitation to others who may be interested.
Markets rely on people and society to operate. These dependencies, as well as the impacts businesses and investors have on people, can pose major business risks or opportunities. Inequality is a system-level risk for the economy, which can undermine the functioning and stability of society and institutions. TISFD will develop a global framework and recommendations for reporting and managing inequality and social-related risks, opportunities, impacts and dependencies. The framework will build upon existing initiatives and be positioned to be integrated within existing disclosure frameworks, including those of the ISSB, GRI, and EFRAG.
The TISFD Working Group, composed of 25 organisations from business, finance, labour, and civil society, is working together to prepare the Taskforce launch. At the 7thAugust ’24 webinar, representatives of the Working Group will present the proposed scope, workplan, and governance structure, and opportunities to become part of the Taskforce.Â
Join us to share your feedback on how TISFD can add value to your work and how to make it relevant for your organization.Â
In advance of the webinar, you encouraged to visit the TISFD website at www.tisfd.org to learn more about TISFD and consider becoming a TISFD Supporter.
Joanne’s work with Rights CoLab builds on her 30-year career of human rights research, publication, advocacy, and teaching, and spans two areas: 1) re-aligning the role of business in society by examining corporate governance innovations and the market potential of alternative corporate structures; 2) improving investor responsiveness to human rights. A recognised expert in business and human rights, she is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, where she founded the SIPA Business and Human Rights Clinic and leads the Business and Human Rights Program of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Joanne's previous positions include Director of Studies, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and Senior Researcher, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Books: Forging Environmentalism: Justice Livelihood and Contested Environments (Routledge, 2006); The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1999).Â
Delilah Rothenberg is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), a multi-stakeholder non-profit supporting investors in identifying measurement and management tools, as well as investment structures, which share more wealth and influence with workers and communities. Delilah brings nearly two decades of experience in finance across asset classes – particularly private capital markets – having worked with private equity investors, lenders, and project developers on financing and sustainability and impact strategies for over 12 years. Earlier in her career, Delilah worked in sell-side equities with Bear Stearns and investment research with Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Delilah serves and has served on various committees, advisory groups, and working groups for the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), Capitals Coalition, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), and US city and state treasurers / comptrollers. She is an Executive Fellow at the Rutgers SMLR Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and a former Open Society Foundations Fellow.
Michaela is Professor and Head of the Department of Accounting at Monash Business School, and was Deputy Dean (International and Accreditation) for the past eight years. Her research focuses on corporate governance, executive compensation, sustainability, and accounting education, with her work being published widely across a range of international journals. Michaela is an active contributor to the accounting community, currently as a board member of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, where she has held the responsibility for the Doctoral Symposium and developing a mentor program for early career academics across accounting and finance departments in Australia and New Zealand.