Paul Rissman is a former archaeologist and investment executive, and co-founder of Rights CoLab. Along with Joanne he helped Rights CoLab to become a Founding Partner of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD). He is a member of TISFD’s Americas Regional Council and a member of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s Sustainability Reference Group. For two decades, Rissman worked at AllianceBernstein, where he served in various roles including analyst, portfolio manager, Director of Global Growth Research, and CIO of Alliance Growth Equities, and spent eight years on the firm’s Executive Committee. He has served on nonprofit and for-profit boards and is currently Director Emeritus of the Sierra Club Foundation. He was named an Open Society Foundations Fellow in 2019, researching shareholder advocacy regarding economic inequality, grounded in financially material disclosure standards. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, where his research concerned pastoralists in Bronze Age South Asia. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School.