Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Julie Fox Gorte, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Social Investment Strategist, 
Calvert Group 
Dr. Julie Fox Gorte is Vice President and Chief Social Investment Strategist for the 
Calvert Group. Dr. Gorte works to build stronger links between social and financial 
analytics and company performance, and serves as a spokesperson for social investing.
Until summer of 2005, she served as Director of Social Research at Calvert, where she 
directed analytical staff to provide company and issue analysis and carry out shareholder 
activism for Calvert’s mutual funds. Before joining Calvert, Julie was a senior policy 

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analyst for the Northeast-Midwest Institute, working with members of Congress to 
develop legislation and oversight on issues of electricity restructuring, climate change, 
and Forest Service appropriations. Prior to that, Dr. Gorte was Program Manager for 
Technology Analysis at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Policies and 
Programs Division, where she analyzed technological possibilities and developed policy 
options to encourage the development of low-carbon technologies leading up to COP-3, 
where the Kyoto Protocol was born. She served for two years as Vice President for 
Ecological and Economics Research at The Wilderness Society.
Gorte spent nearly 14 years at the Office of Technology Assessment where she was a 
Senior Analyst and Project Director, managing OTA studies on manufacturing 
technology and competitiveness, defense conversion, technology policy, forest policy, 
and worker dislocation and reemployment.
She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Resource Economics from Michigan State 
University, and was graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Forest Management 
from Northern Arizona University.
Dr. Gorte serves as a board member for Ceres and the Center for a New American 
Dream, and as a member of the advisory panel for the Forest Economics and Policy 
Program at Resources for the Future. She co-chairs UNEP FI’s Asset Management 
Working Group, and is a member of the Steering Committee of UNEP FI.