Michael Solomon is the founder and managing director of the company. He is responsible for the development of the SEE What You Are Buying Into brand and business.

Michael believes that real change is possible and has a healthy appetite for challenging the status quo. After living and working in several countries around the world, he developed the strong conviction that business should take responsibility for its impact on people, society and the environment.

In his mid-twenties, Michael returned to the UK and gained a degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Manchester. After working as an economic researcher in the City, then in an NGO and subsequently in financial publishing, he conceived the SEE concept. In March 2002 he quit his job to develop 'the website for credible CSR' on a full time basis.

Michael has led the transformation of the initial concept of a responsible business questionnaire and online directory into the current scheme with its revolutionary mission.

Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Dr Clare Hall has two degrees in anthropology and a long-ago qualification as a nurse. She has diverse professional experience in consultancy, academia and research. In the mid-1990s, after several years working in tropical forestry and fisheries management, Clare conceded defeat to the tropical cockroaches and moved onto the challenges of UK organisations instead.

Previous roles include management consultant at Gardiner & Theobald LLP, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and at the London School of Economics (LSE), Supervisor in Development Studies and in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

Clare joined the company in April 2007 to develop and manage the SEE What You Are Buying Into evaluation processes. Clare is also responsible for company policy and the development of the SEE Questionnaire.

Zabrina Law is a recent graduate of the London School of Economics with an MSc in the Sociology of Crime, Control and Globalisation. Her dissertation focused on the use and implications of racial profiling in Western societies. Zabrina also holds a BA(Hons) degree from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in International Development Studies.

Zabrina has experience in mobilising youth as change advocates in their communities. This extended from her hometown in Toronto, Canada to the slums of Kenya, where she focused on youth civic engagement and community development through the arts and music. Zabrina has also worked with the Canadian Fund for International Understanding Through Culture to garner a bilateral relationship in cultural trade between China and Canada and has worked for the Commercial Services of the United States of America Consulate.

Reading Naomi Klein's book "No Logo" in 2003 really sparked an interest in SEE issues as they affect business and society. Zabrina is fascinated by both the power of private enterprise in public life and the enormous potential of conscious consumerism to inspire and effect change. Zabrina in interning for SEE Ltd in the marketing team.

Andrea Barton is currently studying for an MSc in Global Politics at the London School of Economics. Andrea's dissertation will explore the impacts and implications of multinational corporations providing basic goods and services in developing countries. In particular, how globalisation affects the ability of states to fulfill one of their fundamental roles as a provider of basic goods, services and infrastructure.

Andrea hails from Ontario, Canada. She studied Global Development at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Her experience includes working at a sustainable, organic vegetable farm, perhaps surprisingly located on the outskirts of Shanghai, China. Happily, the experience included witnessing firsthand the positive impacts sustainable business ventures can have on their communities and consumers.

Andrea is interning for SEE Ltd in the marketing team.

Since finishing her undergraduate degree in 2005 (a BA degree in History from Oxford University), Kate has worked on a BBC documentary about World War I, researched a report on social mobility for a political think-tank and taught history to secondary school pupils. This latter experience prompted her to emigrate to New York for a year, where she worked as a researcher and analyst for an international investigations agency on cases involving corporate fraud, corruption and money-laundering. Her work also included more prosaic investigations, such as background checks on nannies for hedge fund millionaires.

After returning to London, Kate continued working for this agency while studying for a Masters in Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Her varied experience has given her an insight into the 'dark side' of human nature and the corporate world, but also a conviction of the importance of transparency and a firm belief that any serious effort to change the world for good needs to get business on side.

Kate worked as an intern for SEE What You Are Buying Into whilst still studying and investigating part-time, subsequently joining the company as a part-time employee. After spending the first half of 2010 in Buenos Aires improving her Spanish, Kate is now living in Geneva where she is working for a human rights organisation. Kate continues to work for the SEE Ltd evaluation team on a part-time basis.

Bob Monks is frequently cited as the founding father of shareholder activism and for more than 20 years has been a corporate governance advisor dedicated to the project of harmonizing corporate energies with the long-term interests of global society. Bob has spoken and written widely on such matters: his latest book is Corpocracy and he also publishes news and opinion via his website.

After an immensely successful and varied career, including senior roles in prominent American companies and in the US Government, Bob founded Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., now a leading corporate governance consultancy firm advising clients with more than $1 trillion in assets. He served as its president from 1985-1990. He also founded the LENS investment fund (US) and Hermes LENS Asset Management Company (UK), which developed the 'institutional activist' mode of investment while still providing financial returns that outperformed industry benchmarks. In addition, Bob is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation.

Bob is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. He has served on the board of directors of ten publicly held companies. He was appointed by President Reagan as one of the founding Trustees of the Federal Employees' Retirement System and served as Administrator in the Department of Labor, with jurisdiction over the entire U.S. pension system. Bob was the Co-Chairman of the 2008 World Economic Forum Council on Corporate Governance and 2008 Co-Chairman of 'Republicans for Obama' in Maine.

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Alnoor is the Director of Strategy for Purpose, a New York-based company that creates 21st century movements. His work at Purpose focuses on the intersection of brand, political and social strategy. Purpose take insights from political organising, behavioural economics and brand strategy to create social movements underpinned by cutting-edge technology.

Prior to joining Purpose, Alnoor was the founder and director of the Toronto-based strategy consultancy in vitro, providing social and political strategies for a number of agencies, Fortune 500 clients and political parties in North America and Europe. Previously, Alnoor spent almost a decade in brand strategy working for some of the leading advertising and communications agencies in the world, including Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson and Mother. At the latter, Alnoor was a senior strategist at the London office and co-founder of Mother Social, the agency's social strategy unit.

Alnoor has worked as lead strategist on world-renowned projects such as the global launch of Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, MTV's Exit initiative against human trafficking and slavery, Amnesty International's recent expansion of their mandate to include social, economic and cultural rights, and Greenpeace's anti-aviation campaign.

Alnoor is an industry writer and speaker on the social value of brands, social enterprise, and public/private partnerships. He holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and a BBA in International Business from Simon Fraser University in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

John Christensen is co-founder of the Tax Justice Network and directs its London-based International Secretariat. Trained as an auditor and development economist, he has worked in a variety of the world's poorer countries. In addition he has worked in offshore financial services with Touche Ross & Co, and for eleven years was economic adviser to the government of the British Channel Island of Jersey.

In 1999/2000 he advised NGO Oxfam GB on the preparation of their influential report: Tax Havens: Releasing the Hidden Billions for Development (June 2000). Other recent publications on current faults in the global financial system, including Tax Us If You Can (2005), Closing the Floodgates (2007), and A Game As Old As Empire (2007). John is a Board Member of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition (Washington, D.C.) and a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Intergovernmental Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development. He has published many journal and newspaper articles on economic issues, and regularly takes part in radio and television programmes and documentary feature films.

John holds an honours degree in applied economics and an M.Phil in economics and law. He has also done post-graduate studies at Templeton College, Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is an associate researcher at CENTICA (the Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas) at the University of Kent, U.K. His work is sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Ford Foundation, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Click here to view an interesting 7 minute interview with John that touches on his various areas of interest and expertise.

Nicole Schwab is co-founder of The Gender Equality Project, a non-profit organisation based in Switzerland committed to closing the gap in opportunities between men and women in the workplace. The Gender Equality Project is working with leading multi-national corporations to create a global certification system for gender equality that will launch in 2011.

Previously, Nicole spent two years as designer and facilitator with Architects of Group Genius, a consulting firm based in Milan that focuses on designing processes and events to foster innovation, change, collaboration and learning within communities and organisations.

From 2004 to 2006, Nicole was Director of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Prior to this role, Nicole spent five years working on health sector reform in Latin America for the World Bank and the Ministry of Health in Bolivia.

Nicole holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.