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Speakers at NetZero Virtual Week
Speakers at Reuters Events ... NetZero Virtual Week ... August 4th-5th 2020
Peter Burgess
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Nigel Topping - HeadshotUNFCCC - Logo Nigel Topping UK's High-Level Climate Action Champion UNFCCC
Nigel Topping is the UK's High-Level Climate Action Champion, appointed by the UK Prime Minister in January 2020. Nigel works alongside the Chilean High-Level Climate Action Champion, Gonzalo Muñoz. The role of the high-level champions is to strengthen collaboration and drive action from businesses, investors, organisations, cities, and regions on climate change, and coordinate this work with governments and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Nigel was most recently CEO of We Mean Business, a coalition of businesses working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Before that he was Executive Director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, following an 18-year career in the private sector, having worked across the world in emerging markets and manufacturing.
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Virginie Helias - HeadshotThe Procter & Gamble Company - Logo Virginie Helias Chief Sustainability Officer The Procter & Gamble Company
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Gonzalo Muñoz - HeadshotUNFCCC - Logo Gonzalo Muñoz High-Level Champion of Chile UNFCCC
Mr. Gonzalo Muñoz is a business entrepreneur and social change-maker at the forefront of environmental innovation in Chile, who reinvented the country’s recycling industry to usher in a future without waste. He did so by founding a recycling company in 2009 and, ever since, has been presiding over the expansion of the company to other parts of Latin America. His company produces a recycling station capable of recycling 90 percent of household solid waste. Through the popularity of his innovation, Muñoz has been leading a cultural movement to advance environmental sustainability and social inclusion.
In recognition of his leadership, Gonzalo Muñoz was awarded the Circulars 2019 international prize at World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos and was also invited to join the New Plastics Economy advisory panel at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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Willem Mutsaerts - HeadshotGivaudan - Logo Willem Mutsaerts Chief Procurement Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer Givaudan
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Helen Clarkson - HeadshotThe Climate Group - Logo Helen Clarkson Chief Executive Officer The Climate Group
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Michael Dickstein - HeadshotCoca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company - Logo Michael Dickstein Group Sustainability Director Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
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Thomas Mueller-Kirschbaum - HeadshotHENKEL AG - Logo Thomas Mueller-Kirschbaum Corp. Senior Vice President Innovation & Sustainability HENKEL AG
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Marc Engel - HeadshotUnilever - Logo Marc Engel Chief Supply Chain Officer Unilever
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Sharan Burrow - HeadshotITUC - Logo Sharan Burrow General Secretary ITUC
Sharan Burrow is the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), representing 200 million workers in 163 countries and territories with 332 national affiliates.
Previously President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 2000 – 2010, Sharan is a passionate advocate and campaigner for social justice, women’s rights, the environment and labour law reforms, and has led union negotiations on major economic reforms and labour rights campaigns in her home country of Australia and globally.
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Scott Mackin - HeadshotDenham Capital - Logo Scott Mackin Managing Partner Denham Capital
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Sam Kimmins - HeadshotThe Climate Group - Logo Sam Kimmins Head of RE100 The Climate Group
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Alberto Carrillo Pineda - HeadshotScience Based Targets initiative - Logo Alberto Carrillo Pineda Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member Science Based Targets initiative
Alberto is Director of Science Based Targets at CDP. In this role, he leads CDP's efforts to help mainstream climate action within the corporate sector through the adoption of ambitious climate targets. Alberto is co-founder of the Science Based Targets initiative, the largest voluntary climate mitigation initiative for businesses, and represents CDP in the Steering Committee of the initiative.
In his previous role, Alberto led WWF’s climate and business strategy at the global level as part of WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative. In his role, Alberto oversaw WWF’s global climate & business platforms, including WWF’s Climate Savers leadership program and the Science Based Targets initiative; often contributing to thought leadership in areas related to corporate climate leadership and the role of businesses in fighting climate change.
Alberto combines 15+ years of experience dedicated to climate and global environmental change having worked in multiple settings including, Fortune 500 multinationals, top consulting firms, and international NGOs.
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Caroline Ashley - HeadshotForum for the Future - Logo Caroline Ashley Global Director, System Change Programmes Forum for the Future
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Sasja Beslik - HeadshotBank J. Safra Sarasin AG - Logo Sasja Beslik Managing Director Head of Sustainable Finance Development Bank J. Safra Sarasin AG
Sasja Beslik is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been employed by J. Safra Sarasin since 2019. Beslik won the Swedish Banking Profile of the Year award in 2016.
In 2013, he received the H. M. The King's Medal, 8th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for outstanding contributions within Swedish environmental and sustainability development within financial sector
He was chosen as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2011.
Stars Fund, the Nordea sustainable fund launched by Beslik in 2011, was chosen as Sweden's best overall equity fund in 2017. It was the first sustainable fund to receive the award
His work for Nordea started in 2009, when he became head of responsible investments and corporate governance. He was named CEO of Nordea Investment Funds Sweden in 2011 and head of responsible investments and identity at Nordea Asset Management in 2013. Finally, at the beginning of 2017, Nordea placed Beslik at the head of a new unit, Sustainable Finance, tasked with implementing the decisions made by the company's corporate responsibility unit.
He is the author of the book 'Guld och gröna skogar' (2019).
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Pernilla Bergmark - HeadshotEricsson - Logo Pernilla Bergmark Principal Researcher, ICT Sustainability Impacts Ericsson
Pernilla Bergmark is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson focused on the sustainability impacts of ICT. Her research interests include methodology development and assessments related to climate impacts, circular economy, smart sustainable cities, and the SDGs. Pernilla Bergmark is a co-author of the Exponential Roadmap for 1.5oC aligned climate action , a collaboration between Future Earth, Sitra, WWF, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, PIK, Ericsson and others, where she focused on policy and technology. She is also a co-author of the 1.5C Business Playbook, which is supported by 40+ partners from brands, enterprises, organisations and academia . Pernilla Bergmark is active in standardization as a co-rapporteur of ITU SG5 Q9, in ETSI EE, and in the Swedish national committee for cities, TC 268 (SIS TK 588). Lately, she has contributed to the development of the ICT sectoral decarbonization approach.
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Giovanni Tula - HeadshotEnel Global Power Generation - Logo Giovanni Tula Head of Sustainability Enel Global Power Generation
Giovanni graduated in Engineering from the University “Politecnico” of Milan in 1997. At the onset of his career, he served as project engineer, construction supervisor and proposal manager in Foster Wheeler.
In 2002, he joined Alcoa and began working in Health, Safety and Environment, managing teams, projects and programs, becoming familiar with various HSE management models, systems and cultures. He was exposed to an international environment and involved in cross-country projects with a high degree of complexity.
In 2008 he moved to Tenaris and in 2010 he joined the Enel Group taking on various positions at global level at International Division first, and from 2014 in Enel Green Power where he led the HSEQ, Innovation and Sustainability Units. Since October 2019 he has been responsible for Sustainability of the Enel Global Power Generation business line.
Being a scuba diver, he travels discovering the beauties of the seas and to learn from different cultures, but above all, he’s passionate about making a good use of his time, with family and friends, because “happiness is real only when shared”.
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Ray Dhirani - HeadshotWWF-UK - Logo Ray Dhirani Head of Sustainable Finance & Green Economy WWF-UK
Ray Dhirani leads the sustainable finance team at WWF-UK, where he has spent the last nine years. Previously, he spent eight years working in the markets division of Merrill Lynch in New York within foreign exchange and fixed income sales and trading. His educational background includes a BSc. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and an MSc. in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics. Ray’s team focus mainly on sustainable investment and metrics, spatial finance, policy and regulatory work on climate and environment, as well as wider systemic change in the finance and economic systems.
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Anirban Ghosh - HeadshotMahindra Group - Logo Anirban Ghosh Chief Sustainability Officer Mahindra Group
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Peter Harris - HeadshotUPS - Logo Peter Harris International Sustainability Director UPS
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Xavier Houot - HeadshotSchneider Electric - Logo Xavier Houot Senior Vice President - Group Environment, Safety, Real Estate Schneider Electric
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Alex Thompson - HeadshotThomson Reuters - Logo Alex Thompson Chief Communications Officer Thomson Reuters
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Meg Parker Young - HeadshotThomson Reuters - Logo Meg Parker Young Director of Impact Strategy and Development Thomson Reuters
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Emily Kreps - HeadshotCDP - Logo Emily Kreps Global Director Capital Markets CDP
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Hannah Pathak - HeadshotForum for the Future - Logo Hannah Pathak UK & Europe Director Forum for the Future
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Patrick Horka - HeadshotSouth Pole - Logo Patrick Horka Practice Lead of Renewable Energy Services South Pole
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Sue Helen Nieto Hernandez - HeadshotSouth Pole - Logo Sue Helen Nieto Hernandez Principal Consultant for Land & Water South Pole
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Dorethe Nielson - HeadshotNovo Nordisk - Logo Dorethe Nielson VP of Circular Economy Novo Nordisk
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Richard Howitt - HeadshotFrank Bold LLP - Logo Richard Howitt Senior Associate Frank Bold LLP Former CEO IIRC
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Gauri Kasbekar-Shah - HeadshotNatwest - Logo Gauri Kasbekar-Shah Director | Project and Infrastructure Financing Natwest
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Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - HeadshotEuropean Commission - Logo Klaus-Dieter Borchardt Deputy Director European Commission
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Terry Slavin - HeadshotReuters Events - Logo Terry Slavin Editor in Chief, Sustainable Business Reuters Events