2024 Session Featured Speaker

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Cambria Allen Ratzlaff is Chief Responsible Investment Ecosystems Officer for the Americas + APAC at Principles for Responsible Investment!, overseeing the independent nonprofit’s work in the pensions, investments, and finance industries. She is responsible for developing and leading JUST’s financial market strategies work, with a focus on institutional and retail asset owners, asset managers, sustainable investment, and broader stakeholder communities.

Prior to joining JUST, Cambria was the Corporate Governance Director of the $63 billion UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, the largest non-governmental purchaser of retiree health care benefits in the United States. Cambria led the corporate governance program for the Trust’s liquid markets portfolio and oversaw the Trust’s global proxy voting program. Prior to joining the Trust in 2011, she served as Senior Corporate Governance Analyst for the Office of Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier and an Analyst for the Council of Institutional Investors. Since 2013, Cambria has also led the Human Capital Management Coalition, a cooperative effort among a group of 36 institutional investors representing over $8 trillion in assets to elevate effective human capital management as a critical driver of long-term shareholder value. 

Cambria is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. In 2016, Cambria was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. Cambria previously served as an Officer on the Council of Institutional Investors board of directors. She received her A.B. in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and her M.A. in Public Policy from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.