Dr Anas Aboulamer is a Director of Research in Kroll’s Cost of Capital group in Toronto, with more than 15 years’ experience in economic and financial research specialising in risk and return, asset pricing and cost of capital, and is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles.

He holds a PhD in finance from the joint Concordia, McGill and HEC programme in Montreal and has taught finance on executive programmes across North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Alexander Aronsohn is a chartered surveyor with more than 20 years’ experience across development, rating, and international valuation and investment.

He has been the IVSC’s Director of Technical Standards since 2019, having previously held the equivalent role at RICS. Earlier in his career he worked on cross-border portfolio valuations and ran his own consultancy.

Dr Jeffrey Hales has been a member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) since 2022. He previously chaired the SASB Standards Board from 2018 to 2022 and, before that, the SASB Standards Council.

He is a professor of accounting at the University of Texas, where his research covers reporting standards, regulation and behavioural finance. He has also served on advisory groups for the FASB and the UK Financial Reporting Council, and on the Climate Disclosure Standards Board.

Paul Muthaura is a lawyer and financial-sector leader and a Trustee of the IVSC. He is Chief Executive of the American Chamber of Commerce Kenya, and previously led the Africa Carbon Markets Initiative, developing carbon market and climate finance frameworks across the continent.

Earlier, as Chief Executive of Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority, he drove reforms that strengthened market integrity, broadened investor participation and advanced regulatory innovation, and he has served on the board of IOSCO and its Growth and Emerging Markets Committee. He brings a regulator’s and an investor’s perspective to how valuation, disclosure and standards should evolve.