Jean Rogers is an independent board member and advisor to investors and entrepreneurs, best known for her work in founding the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
She is a respected global leader in the measurement and management of environmental impacts associated with sustainable development and financing the energy transition and climate solutions. Most recently, she was Blackstone’s Senior Managing Director and ESG Chairperson. In this capacity, she oversaw the firm’s integration of sustainability factors into asset management while serving on the investment committees for certain private equity and private credit funds deploying more than $12B globally toward energy transition and climate solutions. Rogers sat on the board of a portfolio company, Xpansiv, an environmental commodities marketplace partnering with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to launch a voluntary carbon market in Africa.
Rogers began her career as an environmental engineer for Arup, leading sustainable development projects throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. She was a post-doctoral Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and holds degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Ph.D.), and Manhattan College (B.E. and M.E.). In 2011, Rogers founded the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a 501(c)(3) now operating globally under the International Financial Reporting Standards Board to enhance the efficiency of 140 global capital markets by fostering high-quality disclosure of material sustainability information that meets investor needs and enhances public trust in companies.