Robert G. Eccles was a tenured professor at the Harvard Business School. He is now with Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He was the founding chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. The focus of his work is on the role companies and investors play in creating a sustainable world within the bounds of the fiduciary duty of their directors. This also means understanding the proper relationship between the public and the private sector. He explains this in his Harvard Business Review article "Moving Beyond ESG." Eccles graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. with degrees in pure mathematics and humanities and has a master and doctoral degree in sociology from Harvard University.