ASrIA INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

Jacob Park
Senior Research Consultant

 

SPEAKER BIOS

Jacob Park is a Washington D.C.- based senior research consultant who specializes in socially responsible investment research of Japanese and Asian equities for Friends Ivory & Sime.

He is also a research scholar in the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, and a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program.

His professional work experience covers a wide range of corporate environmental management and research issues, including corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, socially responsible investment research, and climate change & green energy/technology.

A former New York City-based financial journalist, including two years at Fortune Magazine, he worked in Tokyo, Japan for four years, initially as a policy advisor at the Global Environmental Affairs Office of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and later as an environmental and urban development specialist for the United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies.

He is the co-editor of two forthcoming books, Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries and Financing Global Sustainability.

His writings on a wide range of energy, environmental, and sustainable business topics have appeared in the Business Strategy and the Environment, Greener Management International, Energy Policy, Corporate Environmental Strategy, as well as in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, MSNBC.Com, Toronto Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Far Eastern Economic Review, Nikkei Weekly, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and others.

He received his master's degree in urban studies and planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bachelor's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago, and is a former research fellow at the Department of Urban Engineering at the University of Tokyo.

He is on the advisory board of the Greening of Industry Network, and a member of the ICANN's (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) East Asian Membership Implementation Task Force, the Greenhouse Gases Protocol Initiative, and the Global Reporting Initiative's Verification Working Group.