🗓️ When: Saturday, June 1st, 2024
📍 Where: INSEAD Europe Campus (Boulevard de Constance, 77305 Fontainebleau, France).
Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) brings together leading alumni from its eight partner schools in a unique conference to explore how to accelerate the financing of the climate transition.
Participating Schools: Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), INSEAD, London Business School, and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford).
The objectives of the conference are to:
- Identify research-based insights and solutions the BS4CL alumni community can jointly promote to accelerate the role of the private sector in financing the climate transition and achieving the objectives agreed at the UNFCCC Conference of the parties (COP).
- Act as a bridge between COPs, inspiring business to take a leadership role in achieving progress.
- Design an action plan to mobilize alumni from all 8 leading European business schools in a united effort to magnify the role of business in climate leadership en route to COP 29.
- Deploy the knowledge of our communities of researchers and alumni to a wider audience of business practitioners, policymakers, and government officials.
Programme:
🗣️ Confirmed speakers:
- Lee Newman: Dean, IE Business School
- François Ortalo-Magné: Dean, London Business School
- Francisco Veloso: Dean, INSEAD
- Laurent Babikian: Global Director Data Products & Distribution, CDP
- Vanina Farber: Dean of Executive MBA, elea Chair for Social Innovation, Professor of Social and Financial Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
- Jean-Michel Gauthier: Affiliate Professor; Executive Director of the Energy & Finance Chair, HEC Paris
- Robin Millington: CEO, Planet Tracker
- Gerhard Mulder: CEO & Founder, Climate Risk Services
- Alexander Palkovsky: Vice-President, Euro Lithium-Borates
- Larissa Sidarto: Commissioner, Green Rebel Foods
- Gerrit Sindermann: Executive Director, Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA)
- Pavan Sukhdev: CEO, GIST Impact
- Felicity Tan: Director, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
- Hisham Uddin: Head of Strategic Growth & Venture Capital, Sungrow Europe
- Prerna Wadikar: ESG Expert; Global Advisory Council Member, Tech India Advocates
- Robert Witik: Cluster Head & Senior Analyst (Materials & Industrials), Robeco
- David Zorn: Head of Strategic Partnerships, Climeworks
Stay tuned for upcoming further information!