External Review Committee

External Review Committee members for the Shell Sustainability Report 2011:

• Rebecca Adamson, First Peoples Worldwide, USA
• Motoko Aizawa, Sustainability Advisor, International Finance Corporation, Japan
• Tom Burke, Environmental Policy Advisor, Rio Tinto plc, UK
• James Hoggan, President, James Hoggan & Associates, Canada
• Christine Loh OBE, CEO, Civic Exchange, China
• Charles Secrett, Founder Member, The Robertsbridge Group, UK
• Dan Sperling PhD, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, USA

Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder

First Peoples Worldwide

Rebecca has worked directly with grassroots indigenous communities and internationally as an advocate of Indigenous self determination since 1970. She founded First Nations Development Institute in 1980 to create the first micro-enterprise loan fund, first tribal community bank, and first native community credit union in the United States. As trustee of Calvert Social Investment Funds she established the market mechanism, “Community Notes”, for individuals to invest directly into low-income community development financial institutions (CDFI). Today over $4.5 billion is being invested in Community Notes.

She established the Indigenous Peoples Working Group of the Social Investment Forum and launched the Indigenous Peoples Rights Investment Criteria used by all the premiere social investment research firms. Rebecca founded the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and recently she co-authored the award winning book “The Color of Wealth: the Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide”.

Over past two decades, Rebecca has received, the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award, the John Gardner Civic Leadership Award, the National Women’s History Recipient and numerous others awards for her work with Indigenous peoples. Rebecca holds a M.Sc from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, and honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College.

Motoko Aizawa, Sustainability Advisor

International Finance Corporation

Motoko is an expert on environmental, social and governance sustainability. She is the principal author of the IFC Sustainability Policy and Performance Standards, the de facto global environmental and social risk management framework for development and private financial institutions, and the basis for the Equator Principles. She currently manages programs aimed at setting standards on business and human rights, and corporate integrity and governance, among others, and advises on financial mechanisms to enhance standards compliance and performance.

Motoko also works with governments that seek to improve sustainability performance in the private sector. For example, Motoko serves as an international expert for a multi-donor advisory council that advises the Government of China on environmental sustainability and financial and economic issues.

Motoko obtained her BA from Hamilton College, LLM from London University, and is a Barrister in England and Wales, and attorney-at-law in the State of New York. Prior to pursuing her career path in sustainability, Ms. Aizawa specialized in international mergers and acquisition at Baker & McKenzie, and project finance at IFC.

Tom Burke, Environmental Policy Advisor

Rio Tinto plc

Tom is a currently an Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc and a Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London. He is a Senior Business Advisor to the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change. Tom is a Founding Director of E3G, a sustainability think tank and strategy consultancy. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS magazine.

He was appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to chair an Independent Review of Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland from 2006-2007. He was a member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity from 1999-2005. During 2002 he served as an advisor to the Central Policy Group in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office. He was Special Advisor to three Secretaries of State for the Environment from 1991-1997 after serving as Director of the Green Alliance from 1982-1991. 

He was an environmental advisor (part time) to BP plc from 1997-2001. He was a member of the OECD’s High Level Panel on the Environment 1996-1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the Council from 1990-1992 sitting on its Environment Committee 1988-1996. He also served on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations from 1984-1989. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield Institute of Management and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School.

He was formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau 1988-1991. He was the Secretary-General of the Bergen 1990 Environment NGO Conference 1988-1990. He was a member of the Board of the World Energy Council’s Commission ‘Energy for Tomorrow’s World’ 1990-1993. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for Conservation International’s Centre for Environmental Leadership in Business in the US. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Energy Institute. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Carbon Disclosure Project. He is a Patron of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and a Vice-President of Environmental Protection UK.

In 1993 he was appointed to United Nations Environment Programme’s ‘Global 500’ roll of honour.  In 1997, he was appointed CBE for services to the environment. He was awarded Royal Humane Society testimonials on Vellum (1968) and Parchment (1970).

James Hoggan, President

James Hoggan & Associates

Jim Hoggan is a Canadian public-relations professional and the president and owner of the Vancouver firm Hoggan & Associates.

A law school graduate with a long-standing passion for social justice, Jim also serves as chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, one of Canada’s most influential environmental organizations, and as a Trustee of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.

Jim is the cofounder of Stonehouse Standing Circle, an innovative public-engagement and communications think-tank, and the former chair of The Climate Project Canada - Al Gore’s global education and advocacy organization. He also led the Province of British Columbia’s Green Energy Advisory Task Force on Community Relations and First Nations Partnerships.

Jim is the co-founder of the website DeSmogBlog, chosen as one of Time Magazine's Best Blogs for 2011. He has published books on sustainability issues and speaks, writes, and presents widely on public attitudes toward sustainability, climate change, and the environment

Christine Loh OBE, CEO

Civic Exchange

Christine Loh is the co-founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank. Christine spent 14 years in the commercial world, having held top regional posts in US multinational Philipp Brothers, and subsequently Phibro Energy (divisions of the then Salomon Inc) in commodities trading and strategic planning.

Since starting Civic Exchange, she has also written and commented extensively on economics and political economy as well as corporate social responsibility. She is well known for her work on environmental protection. She has anchored public affairs radio shows and been widely published in Hong Kong and abroad in both mass circulation as well as academic publications.

Christine sits on the boards of a number of local and international non-profit organisations, including the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange and the Tällberg Foundation (Sweden). She is Senior Policy Adviser to the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group (London) and an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Christine also acts in various advisory capacities to numerous universities in Hong Kong and abroad. Christine is actively engaged with numerous non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong relating to air quality management, urban planning and city design, as well as equal opportunity.

Prior to establishing Civic Exchange, Christine had a career in politics. She was appointed to the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 1992 and then ran two successful elections in 1995 and 1998. As a politician, she championed many issues, which included the successful reform of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, access to information, rural land inheritance rights for the indigenous women of the New Territories, equal opportunity legislation and passed the historic Protection of the Harbour Ordinance. Christine chose to not stand for re-election in 2000.

She has received numerous awards, including being named Woman of the Year by Hong Kong Business for 2006, and receiving an OBE in 2007. She was recognised as one of the “Heroes of the Environment” by TIME in October 2007, and named a Justice of the Peace by the Hong Kong Administrative Region Government in 2009. Christine has an English law degree and a Masters of Law degree in Chinese and Comparative Law. She has been awarded the degree of Doctors of Law, honoris causa, by her alma mater, the University of Hull.

Charles Secrett, Founder Member

The Robertsbridge Group

Charles is a Founder Member of The Robertsbridge Group and a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. 
He has been Chair of the Board of Triodos Renewables, the Triodos Bank’s renewable energy investment fund, since 2004.  He sits on the Advisory Boards for The Ecologist magazine and the Environmental Law Foundation in Britain.  He is a trustee of The Building Exploratory, Hackney and Vice-President of the London Wildlife Trust.

Between 2004 and 2008, he was a Special Advisor on Climate, Environment and Sustainability for The Mayor of London, a Board Member of the London Development Agency, and Chair of its Health and Sustainability Advisory Group.  He was a member of the UK Government's Round Table (then Commission) for Sustainable Development for ten years from 1993 to 2003.

He has held advisory and paid positions with a number of companies and NGOs. As Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (1993-2003), Charles led its transformation into becoming, for many years, the UK's leading NGO organisation.

Amongst other jobs, he has previously worked on a variety of environmental research and investigation projects in Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Nigeria. He attended the University of North Carolina on a Morehead Scholarship between 1972-1977.

Dan Sperling PhD, Director

Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), UC Davis

Daniel has led ITS-Davis to international prominence by building strong partnerships with industry, government and the environmental community, integrating interdisciplinary research and education programmes, and connecting research with public outreach and education. In February 2007, the Governor of California appointed Daniel to the board of the California Air Resources Board. His chief responsibilities are related to the state’s climate change, alternatives fuels and zero emission vehicle technology programmes. He also served as co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study, requested in the Governor’s January 2007 Executive Order.

Daniel is recognised as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, environmental aspects of transportation and transportation policy. He has testified numerous times to the US Congress, California Legislature and various government agencies, and has presented keynote addresses at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America. In the past 25 years, he has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers and nine books. He is a recent member of ten National Academies committees on gasoline taxes, hydrogen, transport in China, biomass fuels R&D, sustainable transportation, and other related topics.

Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in Economics and Energy & Resources), Daniel worked as an environmental planner for the US Environmental Protection Agency and as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Honduras. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering and urban planning from Cornell University. From 1999-2000, he was a visiting scholar at OECD (European Conference of Ministers of Transport).