Janine Guillot is an experienced financial services leader and expert on sustainability and climate-related financial disclosure. She is the former CEO of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and served as Special Advisor to the Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Janine was one of the leaders of the global effort to create the ISSB, leading two mergers in two years to consolidate SASB into the ISSB and simplify the global sustainability disclosure landscape.
Prior to joining SASB, Janine led a distinguished career in financial services. She served as Chief Operating Investment Officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Chief Operating Officer for the European and Global Fixed Income businesses of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), and executive management roles at Bank of America.
Janine serves on Neuberger Berman’s Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Advisory Council and is a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In addition to the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board, Janine currently serves on the Boards of ReFED, a nonprofit focused on catalyzing evidence-based solutions for food waste, and the Gardens of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Janine previously served on the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee to the US Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Board of Directors of Equilibrium Capital, and the Board of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust.
In recognition for leadership at the intersection of sustainability, accounting and finance, Janine was selected as a 2020 and 2021 NACD Directorship 100 Honoree and named to the 2020 Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business list.