Anne Simpson
Anne Simpson
Managing Investment Director Board Governance & Sustainability
Anne is CalPERS’ Managing Investment Director for Board Governance & Sustainability, responsible for strategic initiatives across the $450 billion fund. She leads CalPERS’ Sustainable Investment Strategy, which includes Climate Action 100+, a global investor alliance of over $52 trillion driving business action on climate change. Anne also leads CalPERS’ work on human capital management, including diversity & inclusion, emerging managers, financial markets advocacy and sits on the CalPERS’ Investment Management Committee.
Anne was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of 15 women globally leading the fight on climate change and as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance by Barron’s. The National Association of Corporate Directors also named her as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the boardroom. She was recently appointed to California's Climate-related Financial Risk Disclosure Advisory Group and State Steering Committee.
Anne recently co-authored “The Financial Ecosystem: The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability” (Palgrave MacMillan) with Satyajit Bose and Dong Guo. She is also co-author of “Fair Shares: The Future of Shareholder Power and Responsibility” (Oxford University Press, with Jonathan Charkham) and wrote one of the first research studies in the field “The Greening of Global Investment: How the Environment, Ethics, and Politics are Reshaping Strategies” (The Economist Publications).
Anne has served on the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group and she represented the Council of Institutional Investors on the International Financial Reporting Standards’ Advisory Council. Anne was a Senior Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, where she taught with Ira Millstein on ‘The Role of the Corporation in Society’.
Anne is a member of the Robert F. Kennedy Leadership Council, Senior Advisory Board of the Center for Responsible Business at Haas Business School, and the Institute for Business and Society at UC Berkeley. She is an editorial board member of the journal Directors & Boards.
In roles prior to joining CalPERS, Anne served as the first Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network, and as the head of the World Bank-OECD Global Corporate Governance Forum. She was Joint Managing Director of Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd. Anne read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford University, where she earned a BA and MA, and a Slater Fellowship at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
