Robert Massie

Bob Massie has been a leading figure in sustainability and finance for more than forty years. Beginning as a student anti-apartheid activist at Princeton in the 1970s, he went on to earn a master’s degree in social and theological ethics from Yale Divinity School (1982) and a doctorate in corporate strategy from Harvard Business School (1989). Massie served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town in 1993. His book Loosing the Bonds, a history of the South African divestment movement, won the 1998 Lionel Gelber Prize. He became the first president of Ceres in 1996 and in 1998 co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative to advance standardized sustainability reporting.

In 2002, he organized the first Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations. He also served on the original International Integrated Reporting Commission (2012-13). Active in Massachusetts politics, he was a Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 1994) and a candidate for governor in 2018. Recently, as Senior Research Scholar and director of the Pathways to Consensus Program at SIRI, he has focused on advancing structural reforms to capitalism.