2016 Fall Conference Speaker

Lisa Woll has been the CEO of U.S. SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment since 2006 and has been responsible for strategic planning, advancing and growing the field, developing a robust policy presence, expansion and diversification of funding, launching the U.S. SIF national conference and creating the Center for Sustainable Investment Education. Her earlier career focused on domestic social policy and began in the New York City Human Resources Administration as an Urban Fellow and the U.S. Congress as a legislative assistant. This was followed by international human rights and development work where Woll was executive director of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization focused on press freedom and expansion of women’s role in the media. She was the director of the first international study to look at the impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and directed the Washington, D.C. office of Save the Children. She has written and spoken widely on sustainable and impact investment, human rights, and development as well as leadership. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, the founder of Suited for Change, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization serving low-income women, and was Board President of Women’s Voices for the Earth, a national environmental health organization based in Montana. She is currently a board member of the Children's Environmental Health Network and the founder, with her teenage son, of Advantage Ethiopia: Kids' Tennis and Education Initiative.