Amy Augustine

Amy is Senior Program Director of the Corporate Program at Ceres, co-leading a team of sustainable business strategists advising Ceres member companies on integrating sustainability into core business strategies and decision-making. Amy and her team bring companies together with investors, environmental and social issue experts, and other key stakeholders in face-to-face dialogues to find smart business solutions to today’s biggest sustainability challenges. With more than 15 years of experience in sustainability, Amy also leads specific projects related to The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, including Ceres’ human rights and supply chain initiatives, and co-developed the Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ): Building the Foundation for Sustainable Supply Chains.

Prior to joining Ceres, Amy led and managed diversity and international labor relations research, advocacy, and policy initiatives at Calvert Investments. At Calvert, Amy helped develop the Calvert Women’s Principles, the first global code of conduct focused on empowering, advancing, and investing in women worldwide, and its companion Gender Equality Principles' Initiative. Amy co-authored two reports on corporate diversity practices, including Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices in the Calvert Social Index, and spearheaded efforts to file more than 50 shareholder resolutions on board diversity and equal employment opportunities.

Amy serves on the board of the Global Compact Network USA. She previously chaired the steering committee of the Sustainable Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN), and graduated from the University of Kansas.