The Panmure House Prize Judging Panel

James graduated from Oxford University with a BA in History and after postgraduate study in Italy and Canada he gained an MA in International Affairs in 1982.

He joined Baillie Gifford in 1983 and became a Partner in 1987. James headed Baillie Gifford’s European Equity Team until 2003 when he co-founded our Long Term Global Growth Strategy. James Chaired the International Growth Portfolio Group from its inception in 2003 until 2019 and has been the Manager and then Joint Manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust since 2000. James is a co-manager of the Vanguard International Growth Fund where Baillie Gifford serves as a sub-advisor. He is a member of Baillie Gifford’s Strategic Leadership Group.

James is a Trustee of the Johns Hopkins University. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the government sponsored Kay Review and as Chair of the subsequent industry working group that set up the UK Investor Forum.

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Mr. Dominic Barton was appointed as Canada’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of the China by the Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on September 4, 2019. Prior to his nomination, Ambassador Barton was a Global Managing Partner at McKinsey & Company where he served from 2009 to 2018. Ambassador Barton also served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden. He was also a board member of the Olayan Group, a private family-owned company. In 2016, Ambassador Barton assumed the responsibility of Chair for the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth. He was also the Chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council for six years prior to his nomination. Ambassador Barton also served as a Senior Trustee of the Brookings Institution, as a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board’s International Advisory Council, and as a member of the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Mr. Barton is also one of the founders of Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLTGlobal).

In 2018, Ambassador Barton was named Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. He has also served as Co-Chair on the Max Bell School of Public Policy Advisory Board at McGill University and on the University of Toronto Psychiatry Campaign Cabinet where he engaged in volunteer support, community outreach and leadership development. In addition to these roles, Ambassador Barton served on the board of the Malala Fund, has been actively involved in the HeForShe initiative, and worked with the Mastercard Foundation to create employment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ambassador Barton has co-authored four books, including on topics related to financial management and leadership. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the recipient of  eight honorary doctorates, including from the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Edinburgh.

Ambassador Barton graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics and has a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Ambassador Barton was born in Kampala, Uganda, in September 1962. He is married and has four children.

Ms. Beschloss is Founder and CEO of RockCreek. Previously, she was Managing Director and Partner at the Carlyle Group. She was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank and worked at J.P. Morgan. Ms. Beschloss has advised governments, central banks, and regulatory agencies on global public policy and financial policy as well as energy policy. She led the World Bank’s energy investments and policy work on areas including sustainable investing, renewable energy, power, and infrastructure projects to reduce carbon emissions and founded its Natural Gas Group as a transitional fuel.

Ms. Beschloss is Chair of PBS Foundation, and trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, World Resources Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, Global Alliance for Vaccines, Georgetown University, and the Bretton Woods Committee. 

She was recognized by Carnegie Corporation in their Great Immigrants, Great Americans 2020 list, received the Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award, and been listed among the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” by American Banker.

Ms. Beschloss holds an MPhil (Honors) in Economics from the University of Oxford, where she taught international trade and economic development. She is the co-author of The Economics of Natural Gas and author of numerous journal articles on energy, finance, renewable energy, and impact investing.

William H. Janeway is a Special Limited Partner of Warburg Pincus and an Affiliated Member of the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University. He joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building the information technology investment practice: leading investments included BEA Systems and VERITAS Software. Previously, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems and O'Reilly Media.

Dr. Janeway is a co-founder and member of the board of governors of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance. He is a member of the management committee of the Cambridge-INET Institute, University of Cambridge and a Member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). He is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators, and the State; the substantially revised and extended second edition of the book was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018,

Dr. Janeway received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.

John Kay is an economist whose career has spanned the academic world, business and finance, and public affairs. He has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, where he began his academic career in 1970.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 

John is a director of several public companies and a contributing editor of the Financial Times.  He chaired the Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making which reported to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2012.  He is the author of many books, including The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It (2009, new revised edition 2016) and Obliquity (2010).  Other People’s Money was published by Profile Books and (in North America) by PublicAffairs in September 2015, was a book of the year for Bloomberg, The Economist and the Financial Times, winner of the Saltire Literary Prize for non-fiction, and was short-listed for the Orwell Prize for political writing. Radical Uncertainty, jointly written with Mervyn King, was published in March 2020. His latest book, Greed is Dead, co-authored with Paul Collier, was published in July 2020.

Professor Heather Jane McGregor, CBE is the Executive Dean of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. She is a non-executive director on several boards and received the IoD Scotland Chair’s Award in 2020. The author of the ‘Mrs Moneypenny’ column (Financial Times 1999-2016) she now writes in the Sunday Times. An earlier career in investment banking preceded 17 years as an entrepreneur.  In 2008, she established the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which supports the careers of minority ethnic graduates. She was a founding member of the 30% Club in 2010. Heather is an alumnus of the London Business School (MBA) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD). She has an honorary degree from the University of East London.

Mr. Mizuno is a Japanese financial executive and former Executive Management Director and CIO of GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan with AUM $1.5 trillion) between Jan 2015 and March 2020. Prior to joining GPIF, he was a partner of Coller Capital, a London-based private equity firm (Jan 2003 - Jan 2005). He previously worked for Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. in Japan, Silicon Valley and New York (April 1988 - Jan 2003).

Mizuno works in the following capacities to promote long term and ESG investment:

• World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council member
• Special Adviser of Milken Institute
• CFA Institute Future of Finance Advisory Council member
• One Planet Lab TCFD Work Stream Co-chair.
• The B Team Leader
• Member of Global Business Coalition for Education Advisory board
• External Board Member Tesla, Inc.
• Danone S.A. Mission Committee Member

Mizuno’s involvements with academics included:

• Advisor of Office of the President of the University of Tokyo,
• Guest professor of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
• Executive in Residence and Global Leadership Council member of Said Business School, Oxford University,
• Executive Fellow of Harvard Business School, Harvard University.
• Visiting Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
• Senior fellow Kellogg School of Management

Dr Renosi Mokate is the Executive Chairman of Concentric Alliance (Pty) Ltd. She is the former Executive Dean of the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, and Executive Director of the World Bank Group, representing Angola, Nigeria and South Africa. She has served as Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, during which time she also chaired the South African Bank Note Company and the SA Mint Company Her experience at senior executive level spans 20 years.

Dr Mokate has corporate governance experience spanning 25 years serving on public and private sector boards and advisory councils. She has served on the following Board committees: audit and risk, human resources, investment, nominations, corporate governance and social ethics. Dr Mokate is the Chairperson of the Government Employees Pension Fund and of the Pan African Infrastructure Fund. She is a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council of South Africa and serves on the Board of Advisors, Joseph R Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware. She has been a board member of the Principles for Responsible Investment Association since 2015.

She holds a PhD (’86) and MA (’83) from the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and a BA (’81) from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. She specialises in Development Economics, Urban Economics and Policy Analysis.

Nitin Nohria became the tenth dean of Harvard Business School on July 1, 2010. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. His intellectual interests centre on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. He is co-author or co-editor of 16 books.

Dean Nohria is also the author of over 50 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes. He has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies in different parts of the world. He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR, and cited in Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Dean Nohria received his Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007).

Adrian Orr was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in March 2018.

Previously, Adrian was Chief Executive Officer at the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. During his time there he won many awards including the Deloitte IPANZ Improving Performance through Leadership Excellence award in 2016, and Asian Investor’s Individual Contribution to Institutional Investment Award in 2017.

Prior to that he was Deputy Governor and Head of Financial Stability for the Reserve Bank. Adrian has also held the positions of Chief Economist at Westpac Banking Corporation, Chief Manager of the Economics Department at the Reserve Bank and Chief Economist at The National Bank of New Zealand. He has also worked at the New Zealand Treasury; and the OECD, based in Paris.

Adrian graduated from the University of Waikato in 1983 with a Bachelor of Social Sciences, majoring in Economics and Geography. He also has a Master of Development Economics from the University of Leicester, England, graduating with distinction in 1985.

David Pitt-Watson is a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of responsible investment.

He was co-founder, and former CEO of Hermes responsible investment activities, which became the largest of any fund manager in the world.

His non-executive activities include chairing the UN Environment Finance Initiative in the run up to the Paris conference. He was a trustee and chaired the endowment fund for NESTA, the innovation charity. He was a non-executive and chaired the Public Interest Committee at KPMG.

Amongst his current activities, he leads the Tomorrow’s Investor programme for the RSA, is Chair of Ownership Capital B.V., and Chair the advisory board for Sarasin’s Climate Active fund.

He was a Visiting Professor and is now a Fellow at Cambridge University, His books have been translated into five languages.

David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has authored over 30 books and 200 scholarly papers, and has been cited almost 170,000 times, per Google Scholar. Dr. Teece has been ranked as the world’s most-cited scholar in the combined field of business and management in an analysis of science-wide author citations published in PLOS Biology, a peer-reviewed journal. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Dr. Teece has received nine honorary doctorates and has been recognized by Royal Honors.

Dr. Teece pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective in strategic management, defined as “the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments.” According to Science Watch (November/December 2005), his paper (with Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen) “Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management” was the most cited paper in economics and business globally.

Dr. Teece co-founded and is executive chairman of the Berkeley Research Group, an expert services and consulting firm of economists and other professionals with expertise in domains ranging from higher education to corporate finance. Founded in 2010, BRG had more than 40 offices and 1,200 employees as of December 2020. Dr. Teece also founded, and then acted as chairman and then vice-chairman of the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), a business that provided expert advice and testimony to companies and countries in need of independent economic analysis and review.

Dr. Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; St. Petersburg State University, Russia (where he was instrumental in founding the Graduate School of Management); Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Lappeentranta University of Technology, Finland; University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business, Canada; Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; EBS University of Business and Law, Germany; Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom; and Keio University, Japan.

Other honours Dr. Teece has received include:

• Thinkers50 Hall of Fame (2020)
• Citation of Excellence, Emerald Publishing (2017)
• Named among Who’s Who Legal’s five “Most Highly Regarded Experts” in North America (2016)
• Distinguished Fellow, New Zealand Association of Economist (2016)
• Eminent Scholar Award, Academy of International Business (2013)
• New Year Royal Honours, Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2013)
• Herbert Simon Award (2011)
• Winner of the Best Paper Prize Award of the Strategic Management Journal: “Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management” (2003)
• Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics (2003)
• On Accenture’s list of the world’s “Top 50 Business Intellectuals” (2002)

Omobolanle has over 20 years’ experience in the field of sustainability and communications spanning various industries including manufacturing, media, and the financial sector. She has pioneered many notable sustainability focused initiatives, including initiating and leading the development of the Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principles (NSBP), and being the only West African on a global team that developed the Global Principles for Responsible Banking.  In 2020, as Head of Sustainability at Access Bank, Omobolanle led the Bank to become the first Sustainability-Certified Commercial Bank in Africa under the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI) championed by the European Organization for Sustainable Development.

A multiple award winner, Omobolanle has received several professional awards including the 2020 Award for Outstanding Female Sustainability Professional of the Year by WIMCA, 2020 Top 50 Women in Marketing & Communications, the 2019 Shenomics Award, the prestigious CEO Employee of the Year 2018 award at Access Bank Plc, and the Most Outstanding Sustainability Practitioner in Africa Award (2017 and 2018) by the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAs).

Omobolanle has provided support in establishing partnerships with local and international organizations/networks to fund high impact projects. These projects are aimed at accelerating the impact of interventions focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. These projects have reached millions of people and helped them to lead healthy, productive, and sustainable lives.

She is the co-Chair of the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa, Board member of United Nations Global Compact Local Network Nigeria, the OVL Foundation, and Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria. She is also a member of the S&P Global Sustainable Finance Scientific Council, the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative Council, and the Nigeria Circular Economy Working Group.

An executive member of the Access Women Network (AWN), Omobolanle is an advocate for youth and women empowerment. She mentors a wide range of young female and is the Chair of Women in Development and Sustainability, a not-for-profit organisation which primarily utilizes mentorship and customized education to support the development of women whilst maximizing their potentials.

Omobolanle holds a B.Sc in Mass Communications and M.Sc in Sociology, both from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She also holds a Chartered Banker MBA from Prifysgol Bangor University, UK. Additionally, she has received management and leadership training at leading institutions such as Wharton Business School, London Business School, and the University of Edinburgh. 

Omobolanle is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, UK (ICRS), Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Chartered Institute of Bankers, Scotland (CIOBS), Associate of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), and Chartered Institute of Bankers, Nigeria (CIBN).

Sarah Keohane Williamson is the Chief Executive Officer of FCLTGlobal. In this role, she leads FCLTGlobal's efforts at conducting innovative, practical research, engaging with our global membership, sharing our perspectives and research with constituents globally, and building our team. Williamson assumed her current role in July 2016, after spending over 21 years at Wellington Management in Boston and San Francisco, most recently as a Partner and Director of Alternative Investments. Prior to joining Wellington Management, Williamson spent over five years with McKinsey & Company Inc. in London, Dallas and Boston. She was also a special assistant at the US Department of State and was a mergers & acquisitions investment banker in New York and London for Goldman, Sachs & Co.

In her FCLTGlobal capacity, Williamson is a co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Long-term Investing, a member of the Advisory Board for the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia, and a member of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research Council of Advisers. Williamson also serves as a Director of Evercore (NYSE:EVR) and is a member of the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Boston Children’s Hospital investment committee and the board of
the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

She earned her MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School and her BA in Economics, with honors, from Williams College. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. She is a US citizen and is married with three grown children.

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