Founder and Executive Director, Investor Environmental Health Network
Moderator, Session 3: Environmental, health, and safety issues

Dr. Richard Liroff is founder and Executive Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network (www.iehn.org). He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University.

Since 2009 Dr. Liroff has led investor efforts to promote increased disclosure by energy companies on risks from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations in “shale plays”. He is principal author of Extracting the Facts: An Investor Guide to Disclosing Risks From Hydraulic Fracturing Operations. It identifies twelve core management goals, practices to implement them, and indicators for reporting progress. He is also lead author of Disclosing the Facts, a disclosure scorecard based on Extracting the Facts.