Founder, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Dr. Jean Rogers is an independent board member and advisor to investors and entrepreneurs best known for her work in founding the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). She is a respected global leader in the measurement and management of environmental impacts associated with sustainable development and financing the energy transition and climate solutions. Most recently she was Blackstone’s Senior Managing Director and ESG Chairperson. In this capacity, she oversaw the firm’s integration of sustainability factors into asset management while serving on the investment committees for certain private equity and private credit funds deploying more than $12B globally toward energy transition and climate solutions. She sat on the board of a portfolio company, Xpansiv, an environmental commodities marketplace partnering with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to launch a voluntary carbon market in Africa.
Dr. Rogers began her career as an environmental engineer for Arup, leading sustainable development projects throughout the US, Europe and Asia. She was a post-doctoral Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and holds degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Ph.D.), and Manhattan College (B.E. and M.E.).
Dr. Rogers has been recognized with numerous leadership awards including being named by Barron’s as one of the Top 20 Influencers of Sustainable Investing in 2018. She is a Society of Progress Medal Laureate (2018) recognized by INSEAD for her work in founding SASB, a Sustainable Hero by GreenTech Capital (2018), one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor (2015, 2016), and one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today (2015, 2016, 2017). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, and Huffington Post.
