BOB DANNHAUSER | SENIOR ADVISOR
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In his role as Senior Advisor at Shift, Bob Dannhauser focuses on how investors and other financial institutions address the human rights impacts associated with capital allocation decisions, the information about corporate social performance that supports their decisions, and the relationships between human rights and systemic risks that underpin risk and return in capital markets.
His expertise includes how the UN Guiding Principles are applied in the context of diverse portfolios, the evolution of more effective data and disclosure to support investment analysis and decisions, and the potential connections between human rights performance and other dimensions of relevance to assessment of financial performance and impact.
Bob’s career spans a variety of investment functions, including client-facing roles for several North American institutional asset managers, development and sales of fixed income analytic tools, and investor policy and professional standards advocacy in the US, Europe, and Asia for CFA Institute, the global membership association for professional investors. He has experience across a broad range of asset classes with corporate defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans, public retirement systems, multiemployer trusts, foundations and endowments, and high net-worth investors. His investment governance experience includes service as Chair of the CFA Institute 401-k investment committee and member of the investment committee overseeing the CFA Institute Reserve Fund.
Bob earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from CFA Institute as well as the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation and Sustainability and Climate Risk certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, an MPH in Health Policy and Systems from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a BA in Political Science from the George Washington University.
