Michael is active in both for-profit and non-profit circles regarding Sustainable Finance. As a non-executive director on boards around the world focused on impact and ESG finance, he also works directly with institutions to help them take a more systemic approach to impact finance and sustainable thinking. ​

Co-founder, Forum for Impact
Forum for Impact (FFI) provides a series of unique, global engagements to build sustainable legacies within over 450 of the world’s family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and leading investors - and bring their voices to the wider global responsible investment community. The group hosts three invite-only events per year, FFI Americas (Bahamas), FFI Asia (Singapore) and FFI Europe (Zurich) to help advance impact finance within the world's family offices and investors. 

Board Member, Knowledge Impact Network
Knowledge Impact Network™ (KIN) is a movement of purpose-driven leaders and innovative social entrepreneurs. Our desire is to alleviate some of the world’s most urgent issues by exchanging skills, insights, and connections to accelerate progress in these areas. We strive to secure a brighter future for all. Currently KIN represents over 1000 ecosystem partners, over a dozen social ventures, and has touched the lives of over a million people around the world. 

Chief Executive, Canoe Carbon
Canoe Carbon is a climate finance firm that invests and manages high-impact carbon assets by leveraging its proprietary investment framework, research, and data. Using artificial intelligence, big data, and standards-based foundation research, Canoe Carbon invests in carbon offset project developers around the world by taking an impact-first approach and innovative financing solutions. 

Board Chairman, UK Sustainable Investment & Finance Association (Former)
UKSIF represents a diverse range of financial services firms committed to sustainable finance with over 260 members managing over £10trn in assets under management (AUM), including investment managers, pension funds, banks, financial advisers, research providers, NGOs, among others. ​

CEO, Global Reporting Initiative (Former)
Based in Amsterdam, GRI is the world's largest and most respected sustainability standards organization for corporate reporting. With thousands of reporters in over 90 countries, GRI is used for non-financial disclosures throughout the world to help companies understand and communicate their commitment to critical sustainability issues.

Adjunct Professor, Sustainable Finance MBA
The Peter B Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, Canada is recognized as one of the leading graduate programs in sustainable business and finance. Michael is lead faculty for the sustainable finance and international program in sustainable innovation. ​

​Principal, Opus Four Ventures
Opus Four engages with global funds, investors, family offices, thought leaders and entrepreneurs to help build the next sustainable revolution. The firm invests, advises, and connects leaders in ESG finance and innovation all over the world, built over 20 years on a network of ESG finance institutions of over $11 trillion AUM.

Special Advisor, First Nations Major Projects Coalition
The First Nations Major Projects Coalition creates pathways to reconciliation by advancing opportunities for over 70 First Nations across Canada and the US. The organization helps obtain ownership stakes in major projects that run through their territories by advocating for sovereign loan guarantees and establishing economic models that increase Indigenous participation in major development projects. FNMPC also advances the capacity needs of their members in the broad areas of Economic Participation and Environmental Stewardship.​

​Board Trustee, Global Canopy
​​Global Canopy is a data-driven non-profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by providing innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide.

Vice-Chairman, Natural Capital Coalition (Former)
Based in Singapore and London, the NCC is a platform for global stakeholder engagement focused on research and development of methods for natural capital accounting. The coalition brings together stakeholders to study and standardize methods of natural capital accounting, valuation, and reporting for business. ​

Leadership Council, The Climate Music Project
​Based in San Francisco, The ClimateMusic Project was created to harness the universal language to tell the urgent story of climate change to broad and diverse audiences in a way that resonates, educates, and motivates. CMP is connected to a growing network of climate literacy and action organizations to seamlessly channel the emotive energy of our audiences into action. In partnership with world-class collaborators, CMP works on on exciting new content that leverages technology to reach global audiences with inspiring, content-infused music. 

Board of Advisors, Sustainable Future Fund
Led by Tembusu Partners and Eco-Business, the Sustainable Future Fund (SFF) is an inaugural $100m platform based in Singapore that deploys purpose-driven capital into solving the most urgent sustainable development challenges across Asia. The fund pursues high impact growth stage opportunities across the region that focuses on addressing the climate crisis and reducing social inequalities. 

Advisor, Climate Smart Ventures
CSV's mission is to unlock the power of finance to accelerate Asia's transition to 100% renewable energy. The firm provides capital market-driven solutions to retire a target of 1GW of fossil fuel-fired plants and replace them with renewables each year in South and Southeast Asia.

Advisor, Leaders on Purpose
Leaders on Purpose is a community of purpose-driven corporate leaders promoting an inclusive and sustainable economy that puts purpose at the core and leaves no one behind. What began as a research collaboration between business leaders and experts from Harvard University, Unilever, The World Bank, and The London School of Economics has evolved into a platform that connects the CEO agenda with the global agenda. 

Board Chairman, TCR Innovations BV (Former)
Based in Amsterdam, TCR Innovations is a consortium of global CEOs who share a commitment to improving the state of the world. The consortium builds projects focused on sustainability, impact finance, and indigenous issues. TCR Foundation provides systemic frameworks to large-scale projects to promote investment, improve outcomes, and diversify impact projects around the world. ​