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Peter D. Kinder is President of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., (KLD) in Boston, Massachusetts, which he co-founded in 1988.
KLD’s mission is to remove barriers to socially responsible investing by providing institutional investors with social research, compliance services, benchmarks, performance analytics and consulting. The firm is best known for the Domini 400 Social Index, the first for socially screened US equity portfolios which it created in 1990.
His articles on socially responsible investing and fiduciary duties have appeared in publications in the US, Canada, the UK and India. His most recent think piece Socially Responsible Investing: An Evolving Concept in a Changing World is available on KLD’s website, together with a number of his essays.
Mr. Kinder, Steven Lydenberg and Amy Domini are the authors of The Social Investment
Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992) and Investing for Good (HarperBusiness, 1993). He collaborated with Amy Domini on Ethical Investing (Addison-Wesley, 1984). He also co-authored Law and Business (McGraw- Hill, 1982/94). With Steven Lydenberg, he wrote Mission-Based Investing (1999) which is about to appear in a revised edition.
Mr. Kinder was a co-founder and principal (1997-2000) of Domini Social Investments, LLC. KLD is a co-founder of the Sustainable Investment Research International Group (SiRi) and he has served on its board. Mr. Kinder has served two terms on the board of the U.S. Social Investment Forum, the SRI trade organization, one as vice chair.
From 1973 to 1988, Mr. Kinder practiced law, first as an assistant attorney general in Ohio, then in Boston as a staff lawyer for a foundation and finally in private practice. He specialized in administrative law and corporate regulation.
Mr. Kinder received an A.B. in History from Princeton University in 1970 and was awarded a J.D. from Ohio State University in 1973, both with honors. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio (1973), the District of Columbia (1977), Massachusetts (1978) and the Supreme Court of the United States (1978).
Mr. Kinder has two sons, one at the University of London and the other at the University of Wisconsin. His spare time is spent waiting for the New England weather to accommodate his passions for biking and cross-country skiing. | 