ASrIA benefits from a highly experienced Board of Directors who meet formally four times a year and regularly advise on ASrIA's strategy and development. We thank our Non-Executive Directors for the time and support they give.

ALEXANDRA BOAKES TRACY (Chairman)
Alexandra Tracy is President of Hoi Ping Ventures in Hong Kong, which she established to provide research and consulting on investment and sustainability issues. Based in Asia for nearly twenty years, Alexandra was for much of that time an investment banker, with Morgan Stanley, Citibank and ABN Amro Bank, advising on construction, acquisition and financing of major energy and infrastructure projects in developing countries in the region. Following this, she was Chief Financial Officer of AptitudeX Pte. Ltd., a start-up software company in Singapore, and later ran her own corporate finance consulting business in Singapore. She was then responsible for developing the Asian business of Campden Publishing, a media company specialising in the private wealth management and family business sectors and providing information to ultra high net worth investors and family offices. For several years following the buy-out of Campden Publishing, she was Vice President - Strategy at First Eastern Investment Group, an independent private investment group in Hong Kong. Alexandra is currently an Advisor to the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology's Asian Family Business Research Centre. She speaks and writes regularly on sustainability issues and is a columnist in “Investments & Pensions Asia” magazine. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and MA degrees from Yale University and Cambridge University.
alexandra@asria.org

ERIK FLOYD (Treasurer)
Erik Floyd is Treasurer of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (www.asria.org), and a co-founder of the Plastic Disclosure Project (www.plasticdisclosure.org). Erik served as Joint Executive Director of ASrIA during 2009-2010, following a finance career that spanned investor relations, equity research, capital raising and government service. Starting at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, Erik moved to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo where he participated in the negotiations to open up the Japanese capital markets. After Tokyo, Erik joined JP Morgan in New York on the capital-raising desk. Shifting to equity research, Erik covered the metals and mining sector for JPM, then Asia's power and gas utilities for Schroders and Jardine Fleming. Erik attended ASrIA's founding conference in Hong Kong in November 2001. Based on his experience working with investors, he was recruited by Hong Kong's leading telecoms company, PCCW, as Director of Investor Relations in 2003, then in 2008 joined Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries as VP, Investor Relations. Erik is a graduate of Yale College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
erik@asria.org

DAVID ST. MAUR SHEIL (Director and Co-Founder)
David is an independent expert on sustainability related issues. In 2001 David was a co-founder of ASrIA, which was established to raise awareness and build capacity in sustainable and responsible investment among the investor community in Asia as well as to provide environmental, social and governance (ESG) support to global investors investing in the Asian region. He has developed strong expertise in both corporate and investor sustainability issues in the Asian region over the past twenty years. He has conducted extensive research, information management, consultancy and training in Hong Kong and elsewhere around the Asian region during this time. David started his career in Standard Chartered Bank. Subsequently, David was a leading partner in an environmental consultancy based in Hong Kong, providing consultancy, research and training to corporates, government bodies and civil society associations. David has conducted extensive training to financial and investment institutions on sustainability issues, including developing materials, organising and delivering Sustianable Finance training for the International Finance Centre (IFC) in the Asian region as well as other multilateral agencies, financial, corporate and academic organisations. David has deliverered presentations at numerous regional conferences on sustainable investment. He has led projects, such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, on behalf of ASrIA in the Asian region. He has written and edited numerous ESG research papers and reports. He is currently Executive Director of ASrIA. David is also a social entrepreneur and has been a partner in several social enterprise businesses in Hong Kong. He was a founding member of the UK Social Investment Forum and a member of the New Economics Forum. David has a Masters of Philosophy in cultural studies from Hong Kong University.
david@asria.org

ROBERT SHERRIFF
Item Industries, Hong Kong
Robert Sherriff is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Item Industries Ltd, a consumer product contract manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China. Robert serves on the advisory board of Solar Nation, a renewable energy outreach and action organization which aims to steer the course of the USA towards a future of clean energy. Robert also serves on the advisory board of Energy Access Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that increases access to clean and renewable energy for unserved populations in emerging markets through rural energy enterprises to alleviate poverty, expand economic development, and protect the environment.
robert.sherriff@item.com.hk

DUNCAN PATERSON (Non-Executive Director)
CAER - Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility, Australia
Duncan is Chief Executive Officer and founder of CAER - Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility, the not-for-profit ESG research organisation based in Canberra, Australia. He has worked extensively in the field of responsible investment, both in Australia and in the UK with EIRIS - Experts in Responsible Investment Solutions. Duncan values the opportunity his work offers to combine research into company activities with direct dialogue through company representatives. In addition to his work with CAER, Duncan is the President of the industry body for responsible investment in Australia, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), a Director of the Hong Kong-based Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA), and is a member of FINSIA’s Managed Funds & Super Advisory Group.
dpaterson@caer.org.au