Dr. Jean Rogers is a Senior Managing Director and Blackstone’s Global Head of ESG. She oversees the firm’s corporate ESG team and partners with business unit heads of ESG and asset management teams to advance ESG initiatives and integration across portfolio companies and assets.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Rogers advised companies and asset managers on long-term ESG integration as an independent board director and C-level advisor. Rogers founded and led the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a non-profit dedicated to optimizing US capital markets by fostering disclosure of material sustainability information that meets investor needs and enhances public trust. Before founding SASB, Rogers worked to advance sustainable development across the US, Europe and China for more than a decade at Arup, a global engineering consultancy specializing in low-carbon infrastructure and green buildings, and Deloitte, where she worked on environmental projects in its manufacturing practice.

Rogers holds a PhD in environmental engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and earned both her BE and ME in civil and environmental engineering from Manhattan College. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and currently serves as an advisor to the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Hoffman Global Institute at INSEAD.

Environment, Business Growth, Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Business Ethics, Green, Communication, Leadership, Corporate Responsibility, Accountability, Corporate Culture, Business, Business Leadership, Ethics & Integrity, ESG Female Leadership,