Our speakers in Davos

Find out about the speakers and partners taking part in our panels during the SDG Tent, in Davos.

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Tenu Avafia has extensive experience across human rights, public health, health systems and equitable access matters. He has overseen health programs in low and middle income countries and worked with several partners including programme and donor UN Member States, civil society, private sector and multilateral institutions. Before joining Unitaid, Tenu served as the Head of the Resident Coordinator’s Office in Zimbabwe and led a team at UNDP focusing on HIV, human rights, key populations and health technology innovation and access. 

Magali Anderson, Chief Sustainability and Innovation Officer of Holcim, is responsible for putting sustainability at the core of Holcim’s innovation pipeline but also of the company strategy and decision making. Magali joined Holcim in 2016 as Group Head of Health & Safety before being appointed to the Group Executive Committee and Chief Sustainability Officer in October 2019, a role which was expanded to her current position in 2021.Magali has over three decades of experience in the energy sector, primarily with Schlumberger. She started her career as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs in Nigeria and worked on 4 continents in both operational and functional roles. Magali graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from INSA Lyon, France.

Atalay Atasu (PhD INSEAD, 2007) is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management, and Bianca and James Pitt Endowed Chair in Environmental Sustainability at INSEAD. Specialising in fundamentals of sustainable business and operations and supply chain management, his research and interests include sustainable operations management, circular economy, extended producer responsibility and environmental regulation. His publications appeared in top outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management among others, and he has been the recipient of several research awards by MSOM, Wickham, and also received the Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2013). His HBR article on circularity was a finalist in HBR’s McKinsey Awards in 2021. He served as president of the MSOM Society (2020-21); as a Department editor for the Production and Operations Management Journal (2018-2021;2021-), and Associate Editor for Production and Operations Management (2009-2018) and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2016-).

Peter Bakker has led WBCSD since 2012. WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. WBCSD member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and with 19 million employees. Mr Bakker is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, served as CFO and then CEO of TNT NV, the global transport and logistics company. He has been recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009) and the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010). Mr Bakker serves as a member of several corporate sustainability advisory boards. He received the royal order Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2018 in recognition of his long-lasting commitment to engaging business in tackling global sustainability issues.

Stéphane Bancel has served as Moderna's Chief Executive Officer since October 2011 and as a member of Moderna’s board of directors since March 2011. Before joining the company, Mr. Bancel served for five years as Chief Executive Officer of the French diagnostics company bioMérieux SA. From July 2000 to March 2006, he served in various roles at Eli Lilly and Company, including as Managing Director, Belgium and as Executive Director, Global Manufacturing Strategy and Supply Chain. Prior to Lilly, Mr. Bancel served as Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Director for bioMérieux. Mr. Bancel currently serves on the board of directors of Indigo. He is currently a Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering. Mr. Bancel holds a Master of Engineering degree from École Centrale Paris (ECP), a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

A medical doctor and infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr Berkley joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as its CEO in August 2011. During his tenure, Gavi has increased coverage of routine immunisation in lower-income countries: even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gavi helps protect nearly half the world’s children, vaccinating more than 888 million children in just over two decades, reducing vaccine-preventable child deaths by 70% and preventing more than 15 million future deaths. In 2020, Dr Berkley co-created COVAX, the only global multilateral solution aimed at ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for people in all countries, regardless of their ability to pay.  Prior to Gavi, in 1996, Dr Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), where he served as President and CEO for 15 years. Previously, Dr Berkley worked for The Rockefeller Foundation; CDC; Massachusetts Department of Public Health; and the Carter Center.

Morten Bennedsen is the André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise at INSEAD and the Academic Director of the Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, and also co-directs the Hoffmann Research Fund. His teaching and research covers family business governance, corporate governance, applied microeconomics, and firm theory, with his work seen published in top finance and economics journals like Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economics, and Quarterly Journals of Economics among others. He is also the winner of several research and teaching prizes including the distinguished EliteForsk 2008. 
Morten Bennedsen has advised and consulted for ministries and associations like the Danish Ministry of Business, Danish association of private equity funds, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, and Novo Nordisk Foundation. His research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune and several business newspapers across Europe.

Michael Brenner was born in Switzerland in 1971. He graduated as a forest engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. From 2001 until the end of 2012, he worked for Ernst & Young as an auditor and consultant. He has been working for Weleda since December 2012. He is Co-Managing Director of the Weleda Group. In his function, he is responsible for the support and service areas of the company. This also includes the areas of finance, human resources, organizational development, culture & identity and sustainability. He grew up in the countryside in the canton of Solothurn. He is married and has a 16-year-old son. 

Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science. Formerly, six years at Morgan Stanley on the hedge fund desk, selling interest rates, FX, credit, equities and options products. With CNBC: co-anchored CNBC's “Capital Connection” and “European Closing Bell” and hosted special programmes, including an in-depth interview with Italian political activist Beppe Grillo; currently, Anchor and European Reporter, CNBC; lead reporter for the main business and political events in Europe, including Eurogroup and EU leaders summits in Brussels as well as in-depth coverage of the Greek and Italian elections and Cypriot bailout. Has interviewed European heads of state and finance ministers and often reports on key corporate earnings; regular contributor to CNBC programming in the United States.

Helen Clark was Prime Minister of New Zealand for three successive terms from 1999–2008. Throughout her tenure as Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament over 27 years, Helen Clark engaged widely in policy development and advocacy across the international, economic, social, environmental, and cultural spheres. She advocated strongly for New Zealand’s comprehensive programme on sustainability and for tackling the problems of climate change. She was an active leader of her country’s foreign relations, engaging in a wide range of international issues. In April 2009, Helen Clark became Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She was the first woman to lead the organisation, and served two terms there. At the same time, she was also Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of all UN funds, programmes, agencies, and departments working on development issues. As Administrator, she led UNDP to be ranked the most transparent global development organisation. She completed her tenure in 2017.

Helen Clark came to the role of Prime Minister after an extensive parliamentary and ministerial career. Prior to being elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1981, Helen Clark taught in the Political Studies Department of the University of Auckland, from which she earlier graduated with her BA and MA (Hons) degrees.

Cris leads WWF’s Markets Practice, providing strategic direction and leadership for WWF’s work on markets and sustainable production and consumption. She has extensive experience in sustainability, strategy and business development. She has worked for McDonald's and Syngenta, as well as foundations, designing projects in Latin America, India and Africa focused on sustainable value chains, community enterprise and smallholder market access. A Brazilian/Argentine national, Cris holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is based in Florianopolis, Brazil.

Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Refinitiv, now co-chair of the TNFD (Task Force on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures) with over 340 financial and corporate members. Focused on shift financial flows globally to both nature positive and net zero Joined Thomson Reuters in 2007 serving first as Chief Strategy Officer of Thomson Reuters and then CEO of the compliance and risk business. Formerly, Partner at McKinsey, focusing on technology, media and banking. Executive Fellow at London Business School, frequent contributor and speaker on data, fintech, sustainability and culture.

Born in the province of Lecce in 1972, he graduated in law with honors at the University of Bari in 1994 and became a lawyer in 1997. He joined the law firm Clifford Chance in 1995, and he moved to Consob in 1997, where he worked at the Intermediaries Division for a year. He then returned to Clifford Chance where he worked at the Milan and London offices before becoming partner in 2003. In 2009, he was among the founding members of the law firm RCCD, now Cappelli RCCD, with offices located in Milan, Rome, and London, and where he still works as partner. In his professional activity he has advised several banks, insurance companies, and financial intermediaries, domestic and international, on capital markets transactions (including issuance of equity, bonds and convertible financial instruments, as well as packaged retail investment products and liability management transactions). He has a deep knowledge of laws and regulations affecting capital adequacy of financial intermediaries and a strong experience in transactions aimed at equity consolidation, including issuance of hybrid and subordinated securities. He also worked on market abuse regulations, ownership structure transparency, and corporate governance of listed companies.

Gemma D’Auria is one of the global leaders of McKinsey’s People and Organization practice, and works primarily in the consumer, retail, fashion & luxury sectors. She supports organizations in driving holistic transformations that build capabilities, develop leaders, and drive culture change in support of sustainable and long-lasting improvements in financial performance and health. She started her career in McKinsey’s New York office, spent a significant amount of time in the Middle East, and is currently based in Milan, Italy.

Elisa Dierickx' interests lie in environmental sustainability, biodiversity and nature conservation. Dierickx and colleagues set up the NGO Fundação Maio Biodiversidade (FMB) on Maio Island in Cabo Verde, a multi award-winning nature conservation organisation that recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. In addition, she has served as Eurasia Programme Development Manager at Fauna & Flora International, the world's oldest international wildlife conservation organisation. Today, Dierickx is an associate at SYSTEMIQ, a systems change company that partners with business, finance, policy-makers, and civil society to make economic systems sustainable. Dierickx holds a BA in Biology from Harvard, a PhD in Zoology from Cambridge University and an MBA from INSEAD. Earlier this year, Dierickx received the inaugural Alumni Change Maker Award from the Financial Times for her work with INSEAD bringing the story of Maio and FMB into the MBA classroom.

Alan Donnelly is the Founder and Convenor of the G20 Health and Development Partnership and the Chairman of the political consultancy firm Sovereign Strategy. As part of his work within the G20 Health and Development Partnership, Alan has highlighted the inextricable link between health and the economy, working closely with successive G20 Presidencies since 2017. Alan was formerly a Member of the European Parliament, having first been elected in 1989, where he was also Leader of the Labour Party in Europe until 2000. Alan led the European Parliamentary Delegation to the special G7 summit on the development of the global information society, sharing the platform with the US Vice-President, Al Gore and was also awarded with the title “Knight Commander of Germany” in 1991 for his work on German Unification.

Reginaldo started his journey at Unilever Brazil as trainee in 1991. Just two years later, he was responsible for building a new factory and the production of a new category - powder detergents. Since then, through leadership positions across Unilever's supply chain in North America, Latin America, Central America and Greater Caribbean, Reginaldo has been at the forefront of transforming Unilever's supply chains, ensuring they are future-fit. In his most recent role, Reginaldo served as EVP of Unilever Mexico, Central America and Greater Caribbean, overseeing 11 countries, 12 product categories and high levels of growth despite the pandemic. Reginaldo has just been appointed Chief Supply Chain and Business Operations Officer Unilever.

Dr. Fidler is currently Senior Lecturer and Member of the Faculty at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) where he teaches in the European Master in Health Economics and Management. Previously, he worked at the World Bank in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region and the Europe and Central Asia Region where he was appointed Manager for Health, Nutrition, Population. In 2008, he was appointed Lead Advisor for Health Policy and Strategy in the Bank’s Human Development Network and led the cluster for International Health Partnerships. 

Fabienne Fischer is a lawyer and politician, a member of the Green Party, elected at the Council of State by-elections for the canton of Geneva on 21 March 2021. She is charge of the Department for the Economy and Employment. In 1985, while Fabienne Fischer was a student at the University of Geneva, she chaired the Scholarship Board for the National Students’ Union of Switzerland. After a graduate degree in History, she teaches humanities from 1987 to 2003 at a local school. She earns a master's degree in law in 2002 and the Geneva bar in 2005. Her work as a lawyer consists of administrative and employment law, as well as family law and amicable settlements of disputes. Fabienne Fischer has been a member of the Green Party of Switzerland since 2007. She became a City Councilor in 2011. She sat on the board of directors of the Geneva International Airport from 2012 to 2018, as well as vice-president of the board of directors and chair of the real estate committee of the Hospice General (welfare office).

Dr Lieve Fransen is a medical doctor specialised in infectious diseases and public health and with a PHD in social policies. She is Board member of the Africa Public Health Foundation, and of the African Potential Foundation, in South Africa, Advisor for the T20/ G20 on Global Health, manufacturing and supplies of biologicals and social infrastructure investment, Director supporting Health Initiatives of the Wits health consortium at the University in South Africa, Senior policy advisor for European policy think-thank (EPC- Belgium).

Jessica has overall leadership responsibility for A4S. She has led A4S since 2008, working with the finance community to catalyse a shift to a sustainable economy, with a focus on practical actions and targeted interventions capable of achieving global change.

She is currently a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council Governance and Nominations Committee, the Smith School Global Sustainable Finance Advisory Council, the UN Global Assessment Report Advisory Council and the Global Reporting Initiative.

Previously, Jessica held a number of roles at PwC advising a wide range of companies, governments, investors and not-for-profit organizations.

Jessica is a chartered accountant, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Ms. Gilbert has a background in investment management and is a leader in the international climate community. Ms. Gilbert is a board member and the Chairwoman of the Investment Committees of both the David Rockefeller Fund and the Synergos Institute, and she is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Ms. Gilbert is the Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero Advisory Panel as well as a member of its CEO & Principals Leadership Group. Ms. Gilbert is the Chair of U.S. Policy for the United Nations-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, and is a member of the State of California’s Climate-Related Financial Risk Advisory Group. Ms. Gilbert is also a member of the Social Mission Board of Seventh Generation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever. Ms. Gilbert was a Co-founder and Portfolio Manager at Matarin Capital. Prior to Matarin, Ms. Gilbert was a Senior Director and Senior Quantitative Analyst at Invesco. Ms. Gilbert is a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York, where she sits on the Membership Committee. Ms. Gilbert holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in a Special Concentration in Economics & Social Studies from Harvard University magna cum laude.

For over two decades, Tony has worked at the intersection of finance, sustainable development and diplomacy. Prior to joining the TNFD in September 2021, Tony was an adviser to government, financial sector and philanthropic leaders on a range of sustainable development challenges, including as a Senior Adviser with the World Bank Group.  As a Partner at the strategy consultancy Monitor Deloitte, Tony led the development of national reform strategies at both a country and city level and advised government leaders on the design of governance arrangements and performance management frameworks for mobilizing strategic investment capital and delivery of policy outcomes aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He was a senior member of Monitor Group’s global public sector advisory practice, has advised Fortune 500 US companies on their sustainability strategy and co-authored a seminal 2008 report on the investment behavior of Sovereign Wealth Funds.  Earlier in his career, Tony worked in infrastructure development and corporate finance in Australia and began his career in the Australian foreign service including a diplomatic posting in East Africa as a representative to UNEP and UN Habitat.  He graduated as a Littauer Fellow from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and has degrees from Monash University and Sydney University.

1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982, elected to the US House of Representatives; 1984 and 1990, elected to the US Senate. 20 January 1993, inaugurated as the 45th Vice-President of the United States, and served eight years. Co-Founder and Chairman, Generation Investment Management. Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Member of the Board of Directors, Apple. Spends majority of time as Chairman, Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis. Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum. Author of "Earth in the Balance", "An Inconvenient Truth", "The Assault on Reason", "Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis", "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" and "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”. Subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and a new film which premiered in July 2017, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”. Co-Recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change".

Mark Gough is the CEO of the Capitals Coalition, a global collaboration of business, governments and civil society that is transforming the way that decisions are made by including the value provided by nature and people.  Previously, Mark led the Natural Capital Coalition and was on the board of the Social and Human Capital Coalition. He championed and delivered the bringing together of these two communities, creating a unified, systemic, collaborative approach. Mark has worked extensively in the private sector, leading programs and strategy for the Crown Estate and Reed Elsevier (now RELX), as well as advising many more.  Among other board and advisory positions, Mark is on the Advisory Board for TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations CEO Water Mandate, an advisor on the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and on the board of Digital with Purpose and Positive Luxury. 

Lynda Gratton is one of the foremost global thought-leaders on the future of work, named by ‘Business Thinkers 50’ as one of the top fifteen business thinkers and described as a ‘rock star’ teacher. Lynda is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where she received the ‘teacher of the year’ award and designed and directs ‘the future of work’ elective, one of the school’s most popular electives. Her research on hybrid work was featured as the cover article for Harvard Business Review in May 2021 and she explores issues of work in her MIT Sloan column. Over a decade ago Lynda founded HSM-Advisory, which has supported more than ninety companies around the world to future-proof their business strategy. Her eleven books, including Redesigning Work and The 100-Year Life, have sold over a million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages.

With 27 years of experience, Georgina Grenon is an expert in renewable energies and clean technology innovation. Having obtained an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and an MBA from INSEAD Business School (France). Polyglot, she has triple nationality : Argentinean, French and Italian. Georgina began her career in business development at YPF S.A., the national oil company in Argentina. She then took up position as a director at international strategy consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, devoting herself mainly to energy and operations, working in Europe, the USA, Japan and South America for nearly ten years. She then joined the Directorate-General of Energy and Climate (DGEC), part of the French Ministry of Ecology and Energy, where she supported the development of renewable energy policies and markets for six years. She also represented France at the International Energy Agency, promoting international cooperation in the creation of markets, innovation and the deployment of clean technologies, playing an active part at COP21 and, among other things, helping to create the International Solar Alliance. She then moved to the ENGIE Group, becoming director of the New Business Factory at ENGIE Fab. In August 2018, Georgina Grenon has joined the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games as its Director of Sustainability. 

Suni Harford is the President of UBS Asset Management, one of the largest asset managers globally, with over USD 1.2 trillion in invested assets. She also serves as the UBS Group Executive Board Lead for Sustainability and Impact. In this role, she is responsible for driving the firm’s sustainability agenda and efforts to deliver on its Net Zero commitments. She has oversight of the Chief Sustainability Office, responsible for sustainability strategy, external engagement and corporate responsibility across UBS, and the Office of Social Impact that encompasses the Group’s philanthropic services, The Optimus Foundation, and community affairs activities. Suni joined UBS in 2017 as Asset Management’s Head of Investments. Prior to UBS, Suni worked at Citigroup for almost 25 years, most recently as Regional Head of Markets, North America. Suni holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Denison University.

Sonja has worked on impact valuation for Novartis since October 2015. Since May 2019 she heads the Strategic Measurement and Materiality team in Global Health and Corporate Responsibility. Previously she served as Head of Group Reporting Systems Development in Novartis Finance, launching and implementing reporting processes for Group functions. She joined Novartis in the IT department of the Pharma Division in 2001. Sonja earned an MBA from IMD Lausanne (International Institute for Management Development), and holds Master degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the driving force behind Novartis engagement in the Value Balancing Alliance and represents Novartis in the Impact Valuation Roundtable. She is part of the EVIAN group network. Sonja is interested in co-creating social impact, long-term value creation and political economy.

Tanja is the co-founder and director of Clarmondial and a director of the Food Securities Fund. She has ca. 20 years of experience in environmental finance, including in private investments, carbon finance and Nature based Solutions. Tanja established Clarmondial to mobilize additional capital for sustainable natural resource management. Clarmondial works with leading companies, investors, foundations, and conservation organizations. She holds Danish and Swiss nationalities and has academic qualifications in tropical environmental finance, environmental economics, environmental law and policy and was born and raised in Tanzania and Kenya.

Helena Helmersson, born in 1973, started at H&M in 1997 as an economist at H&M’s buying department and thereafter held various roles within Buying and Production. Helena was sustainability manager for five years and after that production manager based in Hong Kong. For just over a year she has been COO (Chief Operating Officer) with responsibility for expansion, logistics, production, IT, Advanced analytics and AI and Insights and Analytics.

Dr Sherine Abbas Helmy has over 37 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Helmy graduated in 1981 with Bachelor of Science degree from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University. He then obtained an MBA from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) and the Central Michigan University in 1999. Throughout the years, he was appointed as CEO of Pharco Corporation and Pharco Pharmaceutical International-KSA, Board member of Batteriee Pharmaceuticals, KSA; Pharco Impex, Romania; consultant of SEEG Pharm, Switzerland; and Presidio Pharmaceuticals, USA that discovered for Hepatitis C. He is on the Board of multiple organizations, universities, and chambers of commece in Egypt and globally. Dr Helmy started the Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry in Egypt and developed a new drug for the Hepatitis C virus at a cost of 0.1% of the international price with a cure rate of 98%.

Dr Susan Henshall is the Chief Executive Officer of City Cancer Challenge (C/Can), an independent Swiss Foundation, which supports cities as they work to improve access to quality, equitable cancer care. Dr Henshall  has led C/Can’s strategic development and global operations as a standalone foundation, growing a team of more than 25 people in nine cities in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and mobilising more than 70 strategic cross-sector partnerships.

Rudi is a nontraditional entrepreneur and visionary who considers himself a global citizen and responsible optimist. Rudi is the Founder of "The System Change Foundation" which together with the "World Systemic Forum" and "THE HUS.institute" forms a platform to explore the transformation of the traditional world into an ecologically as well as economically sustainable future. The nonprofit sees itself as a value-based global village for global topics to rethink systems and global challenges free of higher interests. The nonprofit does not know the answers either but can ask relevant questions that lead to new directions and answers without national biases based on inspiration, collaboration and holistic thinking "without" the box. The nonprofit is building bridges between various disciplines by creating new narratives for new eras. As Picasso said, thoughts become strong as they become imaginable. In addition, Rudi is the Founder of RHEINEST with THE COMBINATOR, a sustainable investment company. 
 

André Hoffmann is a businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist. He firmly believes in business as a force for good and is a passionate advocate for the corporate pursuit of societal purpose and sustainability. André is Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG, a highly innovative pharmaceutical company established by his great-grandfather in 1896. He also serves on the board of the fully-owned subsidiary, Genentech Inc.  Alongside these non-executive roles in the family business, André joined the Board of SystemIQ to help drive positive disruption in economic systems; and sits on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, and the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. André also has a distinguished career in nature conservation and sustainability. He is the President of the MAVA Foundation, a leading conservation foundation, and President of Fondation Tour du Valat, a world-renowned institute dedicated to wetland conservation. He has also served on the boards of WWF International, Wetlands International, Global Footprint Network, and FIBA. André’s also helped establish the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society (HGIBS) at INSEAD and chairs its Advisory Board. André studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD. 

Alexander is from Switzerland and the UK, has 8 years experience in technology and digital innovation and holds an MBA from INSEAD. After spending 4 years in Singapore, he is now based in Boston and working at the HMS as a researcher at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare. His interests include sustainability, entrepreneurship and history.

Frederic Hoffmann devotes his time to supporting entrepreneurs in both non-profit and commercial organisations. He focuses on sustainability strategy, and enjoys working on innovative and cross-sectorial projects. Frederic has entrepreneurial experience and in 2018 built a venture fund investing in food and agtech. Today, Frederic serves on the board and advises clean-tech startups and philanthropic foundations, including the MAVA Foundation. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and in 2021-22 is doing an executive MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics. 

Isabel Hoffmann has a background in ecology and corporate sustainability. Co-founder and director of two reforestation start-ups, rePLANET and the Biodviersity Credit Company, Isabel is committed to optimizing the role of business for the benefit of people and planet. Through her work at the Capitals Coalition, Isabel engages with business to enable them to understand, measure and value their impacts and dependencies on nature and people. She is an active board member of the Tour du Valat wetland research institute, and is a member of the scientific and technical committee of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. 

Jonathan (Jonny) Hughes is WCMC Chief Executive Officer at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), based in Cambridge. UK. Prior to this, Jonny held CEO and other senior leadership roles in the NGO sector. Jonny is a former chair of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and a twice elected Councillor of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In 2012 Jonny co-founded the World Forum on Natural Capital which ran for a decade, successfully bringing together the business, policy, science and NGO communities towards a shared vision on natural capital. 

Andrew Jack is global education editor at the Financial Times, overseeing its education coverage including its business education covering and rankings, and the free schools access programme www.ft.com/schoolsarefree. He has a particular interest in sustainability. He has been a journalist at the FT since 1990, including as Paris correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, pharmaceuticals correspondent and head of curation. He is author of the books  Inside Putin's Russia and The French Exception. He received an MA (Hons) from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, was the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard, and a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford. 

Jan Jenisch is the Chief Executive Officer of Holcim Ltd since 2017. With 70,000 employees globally and revenues of over CHF 23 billion in 2020, Jan Jenisch led the company to a new level of financial performance and growth and established Holcim as a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. Under Jan’s leadership, Holcim committed to become a net zero company, working in partnership with the Science-Based Targets initiative, and set itself the most ambitious climate objectives in its industry. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Sika AG, which develops and manufactures systems and products for the building materials and automotive sector. Under his leadership, Sika expanded into new markets and set new standards of performance in sales and profitability. Jan Jenisch is Chief Executive Officer of Holcim. Since joining in 2017, Jan has led Holcim to a new level of strength, with record profitability levels, revenues of over CHF 26.8 billion in 2021, 70,000 people worldwide and industry-leading ESG ratings. 

Jayasree K. Iyer leads the Access to Medicine Foundation. She sets the Foundation’s strategy for addressing how the pharma industry and other health sectors can reach the 80% of people worldwide who live in low- and middle-income countries. In her discussions with global pharma leaders, she engages them on the practical proven steps they can take to develop, scale up and supply essential health products to reach more people around the world. 

Before joining the Foundation, Jayasree developed and managed a large portfolio of public-private partnerships independently between the pharmaceutical industry and its partners, totalling a budget of over €100 million. These partnerships addressed cancer, immunology and neglected tropical diseases. Jayasree is an infectious-disease scientist by training and holds various postgraduate degrees (Masters and PhD), from Singapore and the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. 

Akanksha Khatri is Head of Nature Action Agenda for World Economic Forum’s Platform for Global Public Goods. Prior to this, she worked as Lead on Government Engagement for India and South Asia followed by an extended remit as Chief of Staff and Head of Strategy and Performance for the Forum’s Regional and Government Engagement globally. She has also had experience working at HT Media Ltd. which is the second-largest media company in India. She holds a BA (Hons.) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, USA. She was a Global Leadership Fellow with the World Economic Forum (2013-16).

Beth Krasna, a US and Swiss citizen, went to school in Lausanne before obtaining a degree in Chemical Engineering from the ETHZ. After 5 years in industry she spent a year at the MIT Sloan School of Management where she obtained an MBA. She has worked 10 years in venture capital, 3 years in consulting, 10 years in turnarounds of industrial companies as CEO (Valtronic SA, Symalit AG, Sécheron SA) before specialising in governance as an independent board member. Among others, she was 18 years on the Board of the ETH Domain (as vice-president, then ad interim president) , 14 years on the Coop Board, 12 years on the BCV Board and 4 years on the Swiss Railways Board.

Beth is currently Chair of the Board of Ethos Services SA, vice-president of Symbiotics SA, president of the Foundation Board of the Graduate Institute in Geneva, member of the Board of the University della Svizzera Italiana and president of the associations of the École de Danse de Genève and the Ballet Junior de Genève.

With over 25 years of global conservation leadership experience, works with world leaders, corporate executives and civil society to forge a future in which people and nature thrive. As Director-General of WWF International, heads one of the world's largest and most respected conservation organizations and represents WWF wherever action on the environment is required.

Katell Le Goulven joined INSEAD in April 2018 as the founding Executive Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society. Previously with UNICEF, she founded a Policy Planning unit to analyze global trends and emerging issues and inform UNICEF’s strategic positioning, and led UNICEF’s corporate engagement with International Financial Institutions. She has held senior positions with high-level commissions that defined the policy implications of the data revolution, climate change, and global public goods for the development agenda. She has over 20 years of professional experience at the interface of research and decision-making designing policies and strategies, and advising senior executives in international organizations and governments. She holds a PhD in agricultural economics, a Msc. in tropical agronomy, and an engineering degree. She lives in Fontainebleau with her husband and three children.

President and, since November 2019, Chief Executive Officer, HP, a global technology leader whose innovative product and service portfolio spans personal systems, printing, and 3D printing and digital manufacturing. A Fortune 100 company with operations in more than 170 countries, HP creates technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere, while championing sustainable impact and diversity in the communities where it does business. During 30-year HP career, has held senior leadership positions spanning HP’s Personal Systems, Print, Industrial and Services businesses across country, region and worldwide roles. Was a key architect of the separation of Hewlett-Packard Company in 2015, of one of the largest and most complex corporate separations in business history, and led the Separation Management Office. Was instrumental in transforming HP’s cost structure while simplifying the organization and creating the capacity to invest in innovation to drive profitable top and bottom-line growth.

Jean-François Manzoni is the President of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), where he also serves as the Nestlé Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development.  His research, teaching and advisory activities are focused on leadership, the development of high-performance organizations and corporate governance (including interpersonal dynamics within the Boardroom and between management and the Board).  The recipient of several awards for teaching excellence, he also received numerous awards for his research and case writing activities.  A Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors, Professor Manzoni currently serves on the Board of Keppel Corp., an international diversified group listed on the Singapore stock exchange, and previously served on the Boards of AACSB International (the world’s largest business education alliance) and Singapore’s Civil Service College.  A citizen of Canada and France, Professor Manzoni received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School. 

Eva McLellan is a healthcare executive, known as a business strategist and a well-rounded transformational leader. She brings with her a track record of helping individuals and organizations transform to meet the complex challenges facing healthcare systems and patients today. Her career in biotechnology has spanned numerous roles across Canada, Europe, and Switzerland where she built and led teams tasked with innovating and transforming healthcare. Her professional experience, and her unique perspective stemming from her upbringing, have taught her that personal transformation is the catalyst, and the key to unlocking positive change in society, business, and the world. Staying true to her personal mission “to help others tap their fullest potential” and amplify positive impact, Eva has partnered with Kaye Vitug to co-found Unlocking Eve. Eva holds an Honours Bachelor of Science and Masters of Biotechnology from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate from INSEAD Business School’s Executive General Management Program.

Dr. Richard Mattison is President of S&P Global Sustainable1 and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global Trucost. Richard is an expert in sustainable finance and over the last 22 years he has led numerous ground-breaking projects including creating the first portfolio carbon risk assessment for Henderson and the UK Environment Agency, launching the first carbon efficient index with S&P Dow Jones Indices, leading the first global assessment of corporate environmental externalities for the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and developing the world’s first Environmental Profit and Loss account for PUMA. Richard is Chair of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance Data Council, a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School Stranded Assets Programme, the TNFD Forum, the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association. He is an Advisory Board Member for IUCN Finance for Nature initiative and the Capitals Coalition. 

Dr. Rania Al Mashat is Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation since December 2019, and previously served as the country’s first female Minister of Tourism. Prior to that, she was Advisor to the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. She specialized in central banking issues and designing monetary policy frameworks. She represents Egypt as Governor in several international financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and Arab Bank for Economic Development; and as Alternate Governor of Egypt at the African Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and Islamic Development Bank. Al-Mashat received her PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and BA in Economics from AUC. She completed executive education at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and SaÏd Business School, Oxford University.

Louis de Montpellier has extensive experience in international finance with senior roles in both public finance and the investment banking world. He is an expert in the management of government debt and sovereign wealth, ESG, impact and green finance, sustainable economics, and inclusive capitalism. He presently serves as Chairman of the Board of rePLANET, a firm that he co-founded in 2020 to drive large scale ecological restoration through private sector funding. He also serves as an independent board member and senior advisor of financial firms and think tanks engaged in sustainable economics and impact finance. His public sector’s roles included Member of the Executive Committee of the BIS; Executive Director of the Belgian Government Debt Agency and Director of Funding at the EBRD. In the private sector, he worked for State Street, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Louis holds a Master of Law and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a MBA from Cornell University (US).

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema was the Director of the Law Division and has worked with UNEP for over two decades. Prior to joining the Law Division in June 2014, she was the Deputy Director of the Ecosystems Division, in charge of coordination, operations and programme delivery from 2012 and for one year, also serviced as Acting Director to the same Division. In 2018, in addition to her role as the Law Division Director, she was also the Acting Director of the Corporate Services Division where she led the management of the human resources, financial operations and management and other administrative functions for the entire Organization.  In 2009 she had been appointed as the Executive Secretary of the UNEP/Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Acting Executive Secretary of the UNEP/ASCOBANS and Interim Executive Secretary of the UNEP/Gorilla Agreement, all based in Bonn, Germany and held that position until 2012 and thereafter she joined the Ecosystems Division in Nairobi, Kenya. In these portfolios, she over saw and ensure effective conservation of migratory animals globally as well as implementation of a number of specific species agreements covering geographical areas where animals or birds or marine species migrate during their lifetime.

A Belgian Artist and Facilitator focusing on healthy connections.  She empowers others with brave interventions to give life more color and meaning through Art. Healing from a medical illness she discovered the power of Art. Those early experiences led her to pursue an MA in Visual Arts, a membership at the Institute for Research in Expression Semiology in Paris and a certified training in Leadership and Life Coaching. As part of her commitment to care for others and manifesting the connections that come from making Art to every corner of our communities, she sets the creative direction of Unlocking Eve.

Expert in societal innovation and governance, Jonathan Normand spent more than 12 years in international financial institutions before creating the consulting firm Codethic in 2009. Specialist in improving global performance and sustainable growth, he is passionate about the evolution of the economy and studies its trends and disruptions. In 2014, he participated in the launch of B Lab in Europe, which is responsible for rolling out the B Corp movement. He founded and has been leading B Lab Switzerland since 2017, a non-profit organisation promoting socio-environmental impact measurement tools as well as the B Corp certification. He is also the designer of the Swiss Triple Impact engagement program and contributes to academic research for an inclusive, circular and regenerative economy.

Degree in Economics, University of Geneva; MBA in Finance, University of Chicago. 1982, with Group Lombard Odier: training in Zurich, New York and Montreal; 1986, Managing Partner; since July 2008, Senior Managing Partner. Former Chairman, Swiss Bankers Association (2009-2016). President of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF). Board member of economiesuisse (Swiss Business Federation). Member of the Board of several Swiss and international academic institutions, and non-profit organizations.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an expert in the adaptation and mitigation of indigenous peoples to climate change. She is a member of the Mbororo pastoralist people in Chad and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT). Oumarou Ibrahim is an advocate for the greater inclusion of indigenous people and their knowledge and traditions in the global movement to fight the effects of climate change. Oumarou Ibrahim received the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award and was appointed as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocate. She serves as a Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; Member of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC); Member of the Advisory Committee to the Secretary-General’s 2019 Climate Action Summit; and Conservation International Senior Indigenous Fellow. In 2019, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of 15 women championing action on climate change.

Kunaal Patawari is a London-based circular economy investor whose vision is “a consumer-driven circular economy for a sustainable world”. He created the tyre recycling business at Gemini, which now collects and ensures the resource recovery of every 6^th tyre in the world. Gemini is one of the world’s largest circular economy platforms, which enables the recycling of 4 billion plastic bottles, 5 million refrigerators and 300,000 cars across 500 towns in 75 countries. Kunaal is now developing an investment pipeline of $20 billion beginning with the existing trusted pool of 4,000 stakeholders on Gemini’s platform.

Jérôme Perez is Head of Sustainability at Nestlé Nespresso SA, the worldwide pioneer and reference in premium portioned coffee, and is based in Lausanne,Switzerland. Mr. Perez is responsible for defining the global sustainability strategy for Nespresso. He oversees the planning and implementation of the company’s sustainability strategy, The Positive Cup, a platform to work together with business partners, stakeholders and innovators to help ensure that sustainability is integral to Nespresso daily business decisions. His team ensures that the company operates in a way that seeks to improve its environmental performance and to positively impact stakeholders throughout the value chain.

Guillaume Pitron is a French journalist (Le Monde Diplomatique, National Geographic, etc.) and documentary maker for France’s leading television channels. In 2018, he published his first book, "The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side Of the Energy Transition and Digitalization" (Scribe). From Chinese rare earth metals, oil extraction in Alaska, to Sudanese gum arabic and khat trading in Djibouti, he focuses his work on commodities and on the economic, political and environmental issues associated with their use. This common thread is paired with geographic consistency: the African continent, particularly South Africa where Guillaume was a news correspondent in 2010. To date, he has authored around 100 reports, investigations and documentaries across more than 40 countries and has been awarded about twenty French and international journalism awards, including the Izraelezewicz Prize for best investigative report of the year and the award for best economic book of the year 2018.

From 2012 – 2018, Susanne was the CEO of Swiss Post (CHF 8bn revenues, 60,000 employees, of which 8000 international). Elected as the world’s best Postal Service. Through her many years at IBM, recently as Leader of Global Technology Services Switzerland, as CEO of BT Switzerland, the service business of British Telecom, she played an active role in shaping the implementation of global processes and procedures and brought about growth in the multinational companies from Switzerland for which she was responsible. 

Since 2009, Susanne has been active as a Member of the Board of Directors with organizations such as Geberit SA, Bedag SA (Software & Informatics), and the International Postal Corporations. As well she served on the Board of Trustees of the IBM Pension Fund. Today, besides running her own Advisory company, she is a Member of the Board at CTT Correios Portugal, Eldora SA (gastronomy company) and Member of the Strategic Advisory Boards of EPFL.

Joanne Steiner is the founder of Apriori AG, a Swiss consultancy specialized in supporting leaders in the life sciences and healthcare space. Since 2000, Joanne and her associates design client initiatives ranging from commercial strategy to participative governance. A sought-after advisor, Joanne serves as a mentor and advocate to advance the representation of women in leadership roles across all sectors. Tapping her corporate and non-profit executive experience, Joanne brings a pragmatic eye to the challenges leaders face, offering an approach that is expert yet relatable. She is tapped to facilitate discussions requiring a deft touch in companies, congresses, and communities, from North America to Africa. Joanne holds a master's degree in Change Management from Oxford University and bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and Marketing from Rutgers University.

Banker. 2011, McCluskey Fellow, Yale University (writing a book on the history and future of the Corporation) and founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a consulting collaborative. Member of the Board, Conservation International and Stockholm Resilience Centre. Lead author of two landmark reports in 2010 - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), which brings the invisible economics of nature into policy and business, and UNEP's Towards a Green Economy, which shows that greening of economies is not a drag on growth but a new engine for growth, provides a net source of employment, and the means to end persistent poverty). Awards: Personality of the Year, 2010 by Environmental Finance; IEEM medal (2011) for work on TEEB.

Pr. Frédéric Thomas has directed 3 research groups over the past 20 years. He has published more than 320 articles in international peer reviewed journals and edited/written 15 books. He has an established expertise in the field of host-parasite interactions, and has been working on projects relating to evolution and cancer since July 2010. He co-founded in 2012 the Centre de Recherche Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer (CREEC) in Montpellier (France). In 2016, he initiated with Deakin University and University of Tasmania (Australia) an International Associate Laboratory on cancer in wildlife. He is also developing researches is health ecology, in collaboration with la Tour du Valat. Dr Frédéric Thomas obtained in 2012 the CNRS silver    medal for excellence in research.

Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD is the Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Future Earth Montreal Hub. Eliane is a Professor of Practice For Public-Private Sector Partnerships at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, where her research focuses on innovation, gender, sustainable development for prosperity creation and her teaching has focused on facilitating leadership development. She is a Research Professor at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. She is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council and Presidential Advisory Council. Eliane is a member of the Impact Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet. She is a member of the Expert Consultation Group on the Post COVID-19 Implications on Collaborative Governance of Genomics Research, Innovation, and Genetic Diversity. Eliane is a member of the African Development Bank’s Expert Global Community of Practice on COVID-19 Response Strategies in Africa. She is a member of the Capitals Coalition Supervisory Board as well as the Crop Trust Executive Board. Eliane is a former member of WWF International’s Board of Trustees. She was the principal investigator on a Gates Grand Challenges Phase I grant looking at Innovations in Feedback & Accountability Systems for Agricultural Development. Eliane was the project manager and an investigator on a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health project led by Professor Timothy Geary, the director of McGill’s Institute of Parasitology from 2009 to 2014. As a result of this work, she has been a reviewer for the Grand Challenges Canada Stars in Global Health program since 2012. Eliane is a co-editor of the 2021 book Building Resilient African Food Systems after COVID-19. She is on the boards of the Science for Africa Foundation, Genome Canada and is a member of the Advisory Board of ShEquity. 

Thomas Vellacott is CEO of WWF Switzerland and a member of WWF‘s global Network Executive Team. WWF‘s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. WWF challenges unsustainable practices and builds solutions-based alliances for transformation. WWF Switzerland has 280,000  supporters and over 4,000 volunteers. Worldwide, more than  5 million people support WWF in over 100 countries. 

Professor Vetterli taught at Columbia University as an assistant and then associate professor. He was subsequently named full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley before returning to EPFL as a full professor at the age of 38. He has also taught at ETHZ and Stanford University. Professor Vetterli has earned numerous national and international awards for his research in electrical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics, including the National Latsis Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member the US National Academy of Engineering. He has published over 170 articles and three reference works. Professor Vetterli’s work on the theory of wavelets, which are used in signal processing, is considered to be of major importance by his peers, and his areas of expertise, including image and video compression and self-organized communication systems, are central to the development of new information technologies. As the founding director of the National Centre of Competence in Research on Mobile Information and Communication Systems, Professor Vetterli is a staunch advocate of transdisciplinary research. Professor Vetterli knows EPFL inside and out. An EPFL graduate himself, he began been teaching at the school in 1995, was vice president for International Affairs and then Institutional Affairs from 2004 to 2011, and served as dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences in 2011 and 2012. 

A Filipino-American healthcare executive with 25 years experience in the US, Switzerland, South Korea and UK spanning the healthcare ecosystem: providers (hospitals and clinics), payers (health insurers), and suppliers (pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies). Kaye’s personal mission of “being of service to others”, and “empowering others and their communities” were ingrained by her family of mostly women teachers, nurses and social workers, who role modeled that empowered women bring health and well-being to their communities when their collective impact is unlocked. The integration and amplification of both these professional expertise and personal mission led Kaye to partner with Eva McLellan to co-found Unlocking Eve.

John Ward, MD is the Director of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination at the Task Force for Global Health. Prior to the Coalition, Dr. Ward spent his career at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over a 13-year tenure as Director of the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis, Dr. Ward was responsible for viral hepatitis surveillance, prevention, and research. At the national level, Dr. Ward led development of recommendations for hepatitis vaccination, testing and linkage to care and treatment.  Globally, Dr. Ward serves as member of the WHO Strategic Technical Advisory Committee for HIV and Viral Hepatitis and advises WHO regional offices and member countries development and evaluation of viral hepatitis prevention and elimination programs. From 1984-1998, Dr. Ward was a scientist in the CDC HIV/AIDS program conducting epidemiologic studies and directing national HIV/AIDS surveillance. From 1998-2005, Dr. Ward served as Editor of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and also as Editor of Silent Victories, a history of public health in the 20th Century published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Ward has authored over 150 publications of scientific work in viral hepatitis and HIV. Dr. Ward is a Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta. 

Padraic joined Roche in 2004 and has worked in a number of key roles including leading the team bringing a new medicine for breast cancer through the final stages of development and regulatory approval. He was General Manager of Roche Pharma in France and then Head of Region Europe. He was appointed to his current role as Head of Pharma International in June 2018, and is responsible for the business operations of the Roche Pharma Division worldwide outside the USA.

With a background in natural capital and environmental management, Eva is an experienced leader, facilitator, speaker, writer and media spokesperson who has led Business for Nature since 2019.  Business for Nature brings together business and conservation organizations and forward-thinking companies to amplify a powerful leading business voice calling for governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss this decade. Prior to joining Business for Nature, Eva spent 15 years leading multiple projects at the at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This included work on natural, social and human capital measurement and valuation for business decision-making, towards integrated performance management, and ultimately reporting for investors. She led the development of the Natural Capital Protocol as well as the establishment of the Social and Human Capital Coalition, both of which now sit under the leadership of the Capitals Coalition.  

Dr Zadek is Chair of Finance for Biodiversity, Director of Migrant Nation, Senior Advisor to the Task Force on Nature Related Financial Disclosure, and co-lead of the Taskforce on Nature Markets. He was Head, Secretariat, UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, Senior Advisor on Finance in the office of the UN Secretary General, and Co-Director of UNEP’s Finance Inquiry. He co-Chaired China’s Green Finance Task Force, and led the Green Finance Study Group secretariat under the Chinese, German and Argentinian G20 Presidencies. Prior to this, he was Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum and the Global Green Growth Institute, founder and CEO of the international think tank, AccountAbility and Development Director of the New Economics Foundation.  He was Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University and the Copenhagen Business School, and has been a senior fellow at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, Harvard`s Kennedy School of Government,  and the University of Southern Africa. He has worked with many corporations, governments and multi stakeholder initiatives on their sustainability and broader strategies, been a member of the International Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management, and has published extensively, including the award winning book, The Civil Corporation.

A passionate educator, Professor Zemsky has been an INSEAD faculty since 1994 and part of the school’s leadership since 2010. As Deputy Dean and Dean of Innovation, his responsibilities cover the school’s extensive external relations, and the digital strategy including the development of its award-winning online courses. A leading scholar in the economics of strategy, he develops rigorous analysis of topics like disruptive technologies, the trade-offs between value creation and value capture, and the choice of generalist versus specialist strategies. He has led the development of large-scale customized online courses for companies including Accenture, Microsoft and Schneider Electric. These courses were awarded gold medals by the Chief Learning Officer’s Learning in Practice Awards for “Excellence in Blended Technology” and “Excellence in Academic Partnerships”, by Brandon Hall for “Best Results of a Learning Program” and “Best Unique or Innovative L&D Program” and by EFMD for “Excellence in Professional Development”.

Patricia Zurita is the Chief Executive Officer of BirdLife International, the world’s largest nature conservation partnership, bringing together over 120 organisations worldwide to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. Patricia is also the first woman from a developing country (Ecuador) to become CEO of an international conservation organisation. Prior to BirdLife, Patricia was the Executive Director of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), a global multi-donor fund enabling civil society to participate in and benefit from conserving some of the world’s most critical ecosystems. Patricia also led the Conservation Stewards Program in Conservation International (CI), implementing conservation agreements that provided economic incentives to local and indigenous communities in developing countries in exchange for their commitment to protect biodiversity.