PAC 2020 Annual Conference on Professional Accounting Futures - October 22 & 23, 2020

This PAC Conference and related videos has been generously supported by a donation from the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPAO)

Videos (click on the presenter to view)

Intro - Len Brooks, Director PAC, Soo Min Toh, Director, IMI, and Craig Smith, EVP, Member & Student Services, CPA Ontario
ESG Opportunities & Challenges
- Jean Charest, Partner, McCarthy Tetrault,
ESG and Corporate Value Creation Challenges
- Sakis Kotsantonis, Managing Partner, KKS Advisors, London, England
- Rosemary McGuire, CPA Canada – CPAC Value Creation Initiative
- Linda Coady, Executive Director, Pembina Institute – transition to non-fossil energy
- Jody Grewal, U of Toronto – Moving to a non-carbon, sustainable operation
- David Beatty, Senior Board Member – Board challenges with ES
- Q&A
ESG Strategy Challenges
- Sonia J. Struthers, Partner, McCarthy Tetrault – ESG Legal Challenges
- Anton Tabuns, Senior Advisor, Mantle314 – ESG Framework for Climate Risk
- Gigi Dawe, Director, CPA Canada – ESG Strategic Challenges
- Susan McGeachie, Global Director, Hatch Ltd. – An ESG performance roadmap
- Q&A

Intro - Len Brooks, Director PAC, Dushyant Vyas, Associate Director PAC
ESG Measurement and Disclosure Challenges (Panel)
- Daniel Hicks, Miami Herbert Business School; Florida Sustainability Partners
- Simon MacMahon, Sustainalytics
- Rob McLean, MatrixLinks
- Stefan Reichelstein, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Moderator: Gord Richardson, Rotman School, University of Toronto
- Q&A
ESG Investing: Making Sense of Measurements and Disclosure
- Dominique Barker, CIBC – Asset management view
- Elizabeth White, Global Head of Strategy-ESG Sustainability, International Finance Corporation (World Bank) – International development investments
- Carson Block, Muddy Waters – Short perspective
- Shiva Rajgopal, Vice Dean for Research, Columbia University – Academic view
- Anthony Scilipoti, Veritas Investment Research – Analyst view
- Q&A
Keynote - Insights for Practice from Academic Research on Sustainability
- Naomi Soderstrom, University of Melbourne

Conference Summary