Geoffrey Mazullo is Principal of Emerging Markets ESG, a consultancy engaged in the analysis, benchmarking, development and promotion of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure about and in emerging markets. Following studies of diplomacy, economics and political science in Washington, DC; Sussex, UK; Krakow, Poland; Berlin; and London, Mr. Mazullo worked as a corporate governance analyst, first with Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and later with Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC). In 1992-93 he served as a corporate governance advisor to the Russian Privatization Center. Thereafter, he worked on several long-term financial sector development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Moldova and Russia. From 2001-2009 he directed the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program, a regional financial sector development project in Central and Eastern Europe, for which he designed, launched and conducted two semi-annual surveys of listed companies in Eastern European emerging markets: Investor Relations Online (2001-2009; 2011) and Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (2003-2009). Since 2006, he is chair of the evaluation committee of the NASDAQ Baltic Awards, that recognize excellence in investor relations. In 2014, Mr. Mazullo designed the course, Introduction to Sustainable Finance, for the MOSTADAM initiative in Egypt; he has delivered the course in Cairo five times since then. Complementing his advisory, research and training activities he publishes widely on corporate governance, ESG issues and socially responsible investment (SRI) – on the Emerging Markets ESG internet portal and in online as well as print media. He is the author of the chapter, “Responsible Investment in Eastern Europe” in The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment (2015). Mr. Mazullo holds a Master in Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.