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Architect of UNIDO’s Programme for Country Partnership guiding country/regional strategic engagements, field integration and partnership with financial institutions and business sector
Ciyong Zou
Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director, UNIDO [China]
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Partnering with the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach to establish a green shipping corridor and focus on low-carbon bunkering
Tan Hoe Soon
Deputy Chief Executive, Corporate & Strategy, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
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Enabling sustainable circularity at the world’s largest logistics company through innovation and investments worth over EUR 7 billion
Katja Busch
Chief Commercial Officer and Head of CSI, DHL [Germany]
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One of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies operating in more than 50 countries with telecom investments in excess of EUR 21.0 billion
KANIZ MAHDI
Group Chief Architech and SVP Deutsche Telekom [USA ]
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First telco in the world with SBTI validated net zero targets that’s taking the power of digitalisation to solve climate issues
RICHARD BENJAMINS
Chief AI & Data Strategist Telefonica [Spain]
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Launched the Sustainability Community of Practice for NTT
Rika Nakazawa
Global Vice President, New Ventures & Innovation and Head of Sustainability, Americas, NTT [USA]
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Mobilising USD 1tn green, sustainable and transition finance by 2030
DANIEL HANNA
Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Banking Barclays [UK]
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Training designers on sustainable design principles and to make sustainable fashion obtainable using sustainable materials, and switching to 100% renewable or recycled packaging by 2025
GREGG MEYER
Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Madden [USA]
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Led the development of an international carbon market in Hong Kong - Core Climate - in 2022
Glenda So
Managing Director and Group Head of Emerging Business & FIC, HKEX [Hong Kong]
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Trasnforming how Breitling responsibly sources its precious materials in close collaboration with suppliers
Aurelia Figueroa
Global Head of Sustainability, Breitling [Switzerland]
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Drove the growth of the global green bond market from $2bn to $2.2tn outstanding
SEAN KIDNEY
CEO and Co-Founder Climate Bonds Initiative [UK]
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Chaired IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) from 2014 to 2017
ARSENIO DOMINGUEZ
Director, Marine Environment Division
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Established the world’s first child-focused impact investment fund
Paul Ronalds
Founder and CEO, Save the Children Global Ventures [UK]
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Driving the world’s leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, through poverty alleviation, jobs creation and women’s economic inclusion
Somachi Chris-Asoluka
CEO, The Tony Elumelu Foundation [Nigeria]
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Digital Transformation strategist and an expert on leveraging the power of technology to “do good better” with and for the communities we serve.
Priscilla Chomba Kinywa
Chief Technology Officer, Greenpeace [Kenya]
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Leading sustainable shared value and impact at the leading global health and home hygiene company reaching billions of people around the world
David Croft
Global Head of Sustainability, Reckitt [UK]
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One of the world's largest steel producers that has committed to investing over $200m into tech startups to deliver decarbonised steel
Irina Gorbounova
Vice President, M&A and Head of XCarb Innovation Fund, ArcelorMittal [United Kingdom]
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Helping investors and market participants evaluate risk by integrating ESG considerations into capital allocations and long-term planning
Brian Cahill
Managing Director and Global Head of ESG, Moody’s Investors Service [Australia]
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Driving better sustainability practices and disclosure practices across over 400 listed companies and other key entities in South Africa
Shameela Soobramoney
Chief Sustainability Officer [South Africa]
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Steering carbon-intensive parts of the bank’s USD 1.1 trillion portfolio towards net zero by 2050
Andrew Bester
Head of Wholesale Banking, ING [Netherlands]
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Developing sustainability leadership in pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and other institutional owners of assets
Ben Caldecott
Founding Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, Oxford University, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
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Assisting global clients in successfully raising over $170 bn aggregate notional of ESG debt, including executing a number of landmark ESG trades
Jarek Olszowka
Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance, Nomura [UK]
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Satish Ramchandani is a Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Updapt – An ESG Tech Co. Prior to Updapt, he has worked in Leadership capacity in firms such as CRISIL S&P Ratings, Bank of America as Head of Business Development and CFO for 20 years.
Satish Ramchandani
Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Updapt [India]
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Advancing digital sustainability to accelerate environmentally and socially sustainable development since 2021
Shivam Kishore
Sr. Advisor, United Nations Environment Programme [Canada]
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Bringing together banks, businesses and regulators to support the financial sectors transition to net zero in the UK
Heather Buchanan
Director and Co-Founder, Bankers for Net Zero [UK]
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Drives Delivery Hero's global CSR & Sustainability strategy, engineering a science-based climate action program across the company's 70+ markets
Jeff Oatham
Global Senior Director of Sustainability, CSR, and Safety, Delivery Hero [Germany]
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Actively supporting the global financial industry in the transition to a net-zero economy
Sonja Gibbs
Managing Director and Head of Sustainable Finance, Institute of International Finance [USA]
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Developed ASTA- first adaptive set training reinforcement machine learning algorithm in 1991 to solve complex control system problems
Malur Narayan
Vice President, Sustainability and Emerging Tech, Tata Consultancy Services [USA]
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Developed the worlds first life sciences net zero corporate pledge - Ambition Zero Carbon
Jim Massey
Chief Sustainability Officer, Zai Lab [USA]
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Spearheaded the creation of a new standard-setting board—the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)—to help meet the demand for reporting by companies on climate and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters
Mardi McBrien
Director, Strategic Affairs, IFRS Foundation [United Kingdom]
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Driving social sustainability with the aim of educating 1 million girls per year by 2026
Anirban Ghosh
Head, Centre for Sustainability, Mahindra University [India]
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Transforming how IsDB responsibly invests in partnership with global asset managers
Mohamed Hedi Mejai
Director, Investments, Islamic Development Bank [Saudi Arabia]
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Driving the creation and adoption of a unified, coherent, standard-setting process for sustainability accounting and reporting across 3 million professional accountants
David Madon
Director – Sustainability Policy & Regulation, International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) [USA]
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Actively engaging with private equity-backed companies globally to accelerate the transition to net zero whilst itself being carbon neutral since 2019
Rebekah Earp
ESG Director, CVC Capital Partners [Hong Kong]
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Driving carbon accounting, measuring progress against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and other initiatives that support organisations' ESG commitments
Narayanan Vaidyanathan
Head of Business Analytics, ACCA [UK]
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Working with the Environmental Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) to restore the mangroves by planting approximately 10,000 seeds within a lagoon in Mirfa, Abu Dhabi
Daxita Rajcoomar
Chief Sustainability Officer, AMEA, Engie [UAE]
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One of the world's largest insurance providers that is growing the Zurich Forest in Brazil, where already more than 200,000 seedlings have been planted, in addition to its other sustainability programmes
Nadia Boumeziout
Head of Sustainability & Information Governance, Zurich Insurance [UAE]
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Driving carbon accounting, measuring progress against the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, and other initiatives that support organisations' ESG commitments
Fazeela Gopalani
Head of Middle East, ACCA [UAE]
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The largest procurement professional body in the world with global community of over 115,000 in 150 countries
Sam Achampong
Regional Head, The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply [UAE]
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The world's leading environmental disclosure system for investors, companies, cities and governments to assess their impact of over 18,700 companies and more than 1,100 cities globally and take urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy
Sonya Bhonsle
Global Head of Value Chains & Regional Director Corporations, CDP [UK]
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Assessing the impact of the energy transition on capital markets to accelerate the path to a low-carbon future and avoid overshooting the 2˚C emissions goals
Mark Campanale
Founder and Executive Chair [UK]