Robert Eccles

About Robert Eccles

You can subscribe to my Substack Heavy Lifting newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/HeavyLiftingSub.In a nutshell:Dedicated weight lifter. Focused on finding common ground across on the political spectrum.In detail:Issues of interest are capitalism, corporate purpose, corporate reporting, sustainability, sustainable finance, climate change, and the energy transition. Current Bob is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School at Oxford University. He is the Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He chairs KKR\'s \"Sustainability Expert Advisory Council\" and is an advisor to EarthenaAI, Novata, and Persefoni.Thought Leadership In 2011, Bob was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, for his extensive, positive contribution to building trust in business, and in 2014 and 2015 was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).Author Bob is the award-winning author of a dozen books including seminal works on integrated reporting, sustainability, and the role of business in society. A prolific writer for both academic and practitioner audiences, he has his own column on Forbes.com. He is also on Substack as Heavy Lifting newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/HeavyLiftingSub. most recent book (with Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot) is The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality (John Wiley & Sons, 2015). In this book he suggests the idea of an annual board of directors “Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality.”

Experience

1. Chair of Kkr\'s Sustainability Expert Advisory Council

   KKR

   Dec 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Harvard University

  Master’s Degree, Sociology

  1973 — 1975

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Humanities and Social Science

  1969 — 1973

• Harvard University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology

  1975 — 1979

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics

  1969 — 1973