Andrew Jack

Global Education Editor at the Financial Times

Andrew Jack has been a journalist at the Financial Times since 1990, including as Paris correspondent, Moscow bureau chief and pharmaceuticals correspondent. He is currently global education editor, writing and overseeing the free FT schools access programme www.ft.com/schoolsarefree. 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.

Andrew Karolyi

Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Andrew Karolyi is the Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is a professor of finance and holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the College’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is also a professor of economics in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Karolyi is a scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research is featured in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. Karolyi recently completed a four-year term as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Empirical Finance, for instance. He leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He is president-elect/program chair of the Western Finance Association, has served as a director of the American Finance Association, and is past chairperson of the board of trustees and past president of the Financial Management Association International. Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.

Andy Hoffman

Holcim Professor at the University of Michigan

Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability. Professor Hoffman's research uses organizational behavior models and theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. He has published over 100 articles/book chapters, as well as 18 books, which have been translated into five languages. In this work, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues, including: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. He also writes about the role of academic scholars in public and political discourse. Among his list of honors, he has received several awards, such as the Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award (2016) and the American Chemical Society National Award (2016), for instance. His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Atlantic and National Public Radio. He has served on numerous research committees for the National Academies of Science, the Johnson Foundation, the Climate Group, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Environmental Defense Fund. Andy serves on advisory boards for ecoAmerica, Next Era Renewable Energy Trust, SustainAbility, the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Center for Environmental Innovation and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Aurora Díaz-Soloaga

Senior Lecturer at the AlmaU School of Management

Aurora Díaz-Soloaga, MSM, Senior lecturer at the School of Management (AlmaU): teaching Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Management. CEEMAN 2022 Teacher of the year. Member of the Expert Pedagogy Group of the i5 initiative of the Principles of Responsible Management in Education (PRME-Global Compact UN). SDSN focal point at AlmaU. Scientific and research interests: business ethics and intangible assets in the organization. Official mentor and volunteer of Training Center Kumbel (vocational training at KFCSED), mentor and jury of different social projects: Air Pollution project with GFSI-Lehigh, Aul.inspired (SEL for rural kids), Glocal-Hack 2021, Enactus-Kazakhstan 2014-2017. Member of the bureau of directors of Intercultural Space Irtysh. Official representative of the Institute of Virtuous Leadership in Central Asia.

Daniel Wilson

Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)

Daniel Wilson is the Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he is also a Principal Investigator, a Lecturer at HGSE, and the Educational Chair at Harvard’s “Learning Environments for Tomorrow” Institute – a collaboration with HGSE and Harvard Graduate School of Design. His teaching and writing explores the inherent socio-psychological tensions – dilemmas of knowing, trusting, leading, and belonging -- in adult collaborative learning across a variety of contexts. Specifically he focuses on how groups navigate these tensions through language, routines, roles, and artifacts. This interest is can be seen in three areas of current work: Professional learning in communities: Currently Daniel directs the research of Project Zero’s “Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA),” an interdisciplinary professional learning community that facilitates cross-organizational learning on contemporary challenges of human development and change in organizations. Learning & Leadership behaviors in the workplace: His co-authored book, Learning at Work (2005), outlines practices that support formal and informal learning in the workplace. From 2007-2011 he was a Research Fellow at the acclaimed innovation design consultancy, IDEO, in which he studied and designed interventions to enhance the learning and leadership behaviors in their design teams. Additionally, is currently co-directing the “Leading Learning that Matters”, a research project with 25 independent schools in Victoria, Australia that aims to document innovative school leadership practices that support 21st century learning skills. Making Learning Visible: Daniel was the Principal Investigator on the “Making Learning Visible Project,” a project that engages pre-k through highschool educators in adapting the Reggio Emilia pedagogical principles. This work will soon be published in the 2013 book, Visible Learners (Jossey-Bass).

Dr. Bindu Agrawal

Founder of Art of Learning & Consultant to Marketplace Simulations

Bindu Agrawal is an academician, start-up mentor, entrepreneur, and Conscious Capitalism simulation coach. She has been working in business education for more than two decades. Being a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation, she loves to explore new ways and pedagogies to make learning joyful, engaging, meaningful, and contributing to societal development. Bindu uses business simulations, real life projects, activities, and inspiring case studies in her class to achieve this goal. Her work with many government projects and initiatives, such as Innovation Ambassador and Mentor for Change with communities and schools, has given her a feeling of contentment as good Indian citizen. Bindu founded Art of Learning with a vision to mentor young minds to bridge the gap between what they are now and what they desire to be in the future. She has expertise in setting up and running business incubation centres and has coached 50 plus aspiring entrepreneurs to develop successful businesses. Bindu channels their energies in positive directions and challenges them to experiment with new ideas so that they become conscious leaders. Her vision is to build sustainable businesses models and society with responsible citizens, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

Dr. Ernest Cadotte

Leader of Marketplace Simulations & Professor at University of Tennessee

Dr. Cadotte is the Emeritus Professor of Innovative Learning at the University of Tennessee where he teaches a course in new product development, entitled Innovation and Creativity. He is also the author of Marketplace Simulations. For more than thirty years, Dr. Cadotte has been developing business flight simulators for college students and entrepreneurs. More than 1,200,000 students and business professionals have participated in one of his simulations as part of their business education. Dr. Cadotte’s Conscious Capitalism Simulation just won the Silver Medal at the International Serious Play Awards. The simulation was designed in cooperation with Dr. Raj Sisodia, one of the founders of the Conscious Capitalism movement. In this simulation, students must manage a full-enterprise, startup business while addressing product reliability, environmental concerns, employee morale, ethical considerations, and community issues. Students learn to become stewards of all the firm’s stakeholders. Dr. Cadotte has a strong interest in experiential learning and is on the cutting edge of pedagogical innovations. Professor Cadotte’s research interests include learning processes, assessment, new product development, entrepreneurial decision-making, customer satisfaction, and psychological measurement.

Gustavo Loiola

Manager of Leadership Education at PRME

Gustavo Fructuozo Loiola is a program manager at PRME - UN Initiative for Responsible Management Education and former Chair for the Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter. He is a PhD student in Business Administration at EAESP / FGV, holds a Master's degree in Sustainability and Corporate Governance from ISAE/ FGV, specialization in Administration and International Business and a degree in Advertising from the Federal University of Paraná. He has always valued international experiences as part of his education, having a specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the University of California (USA), Project Management from George Washington University (USA), as well as immersions in Smart Cities in the city of Nantes in France and Business to the Base of the Pyramid by the University of Externado of Colombia. In his professional career, he worked with communication and marketing in advertising agencies and in the internal area of ​​companies such as Correios, Aliança Empreendedora and Ashoka. For some years, he was also involved in working with the third sector and social development in Brazil and Latin America. In the education area, he worked in the marketing management of learning institutions, developing strategies for attracting and retaining students, and as a consultant in international education companies that help students to seek development opportunities outside of Brazil. For over 10 years he was involved in international expansion projects, development of startups and new businesses, and coordinates the institution's Sustainability area, responsible for the relationship with United Nations programs and international partnerships as the Development Goals, the PRME and the Global Compact. He is a visiting professor at ISAE , PUC PR and FGV Online, in disciplines related to sustainability, ESG, sustainable finance, innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.

Ilian Mihov

Professor and Dean of INSEAD

Professor Ilian Mihov has been Dean of INSEAD since October 2013. He is concurrently the Rausing Chaired Professor of Economic and Business Transformation. His expertise is in macroeconomics with a focus on monetary policy, fiscal policy and economic growth. He joined INSEAD in 1996 and has taught macroeconomics and econometrics in the MBA, EMBA, PhD and for many executive education programmes. He has been recognized several times with the Outstanding Teacher Award. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and a BSc in business administration from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. In 2018 he received the UN Women (Singapore Chapter) HeForShe Leader Award for his outstanding service and contributions towards gender equality at INSEAD. Professor Mihov is a board member of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and Stewardship Asia Centre. He has been the Academic Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society since its foundation in 2018 and was appointed Chair of the Board at the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a United Nations Global Compact initiative, in 2020.

Jason Jay

Director of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan

Jason Jay is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan. He teaches courses on leadership, strategy, and innovation for sustainable business. Jason engages students and alumni in hands-on projects with leading companies and organizations. These efforts help build a community of innovators for sustainability that includes MIT students and alumni, faculty and researchers, with partners in business, government, NGOs, and hybrid organizations. Jason’s research focuses on how people navigate the tensions inherent in the quest for sustainability, as they simultaneously pursue their own self-interest and the flourishing of human and other life. This work includes deep case studies of cross-sectoral collaboration and hybrid organizations that combine social and business goals. These case studies have been published in the Academy of Management Journal and California Management Review. He also contributes to the MIT Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Greenbiz on the topic of sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI). A key finding of his research is that social innovation occurs through authentic conversations that hold the tension between divergent values and perspectives. With Gabriel Grant, he is the author of Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World. As a facilitator and consultant, Jason has helped advance sustainability strategy with companies like Biogen, Novartis, and Bose. He is a research partner and facilitator for the EDF Climate Corps and its network of companies. He has contributed to the strategy and curriculum of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation and Change Initiative as a faculty affiliate.

John Goodwin

Executive Chair of Learning Economy Foundation

John Goodwin is the Executive Chairman of the Learning Economy Foundation, an organization committed to researching and developing Web3 solutions to remove societal inequities that exist in education and employment. He is an accomplished executive and board advisor in strategy development, M&A, and ESG leadership in a range of sectors including Education and FMCG. Before joining the Learning Economy Foundation, John was the CEO of The LEGO Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping children acquire the broad suite of skills needed to thrive in today’s world through the power of learning through play. During his tenure as CEO, The LEGO Foundation was established as a leading figure in early childhood development and alternative pedagogical approaches to whole child development.

Jury Gualandris

Director, Network for Business Sustainability

Jury aspires to create scientific knowledge that inspires and enables organizations to do better for their societies and the natural environment. He is also passionate about supply chains as complex forms of collective organizing. His research and teaching thus focus on how sustainability can be integrated in supply chains and the implications for competitiveness. Jury has been studying these dynamics in two empirical settings: ESG disclosures in global supply chains and, more recently, emergent circular agri-food systems. His commitment to impact has led him to take on leadership roles at Ivey’s Building Sustainable Value Centre (BSV) and its sister organization, the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS). BSV shapes pathways of systems change towards a fairer and ecologically sound future through innovative research and impact programming. NBS connects researchers with managers to advance business sustainability. My work has been featured in popular media including Corporate Knights, The Conversation, The Toronto Star, The Financial Post, B the Change, Eco-Vadis, and the Peggy Smedly Show. During his career, Jury has received over $400,000 CAD in funding from both industry and research councils for his research and currently collaborates with federal agencies such as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and innovation platforms like “Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad.” Jury’s research has been published in premier journals including the Journal of Operations Management and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He serves on these and other editorial boards. Jury has received several awards including the Distinguished David G. Burgoyne HBA Teaching Award (2022) and Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2021), for instance.

Lerzan Aksoy

Dean of Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Lerzan Aksoy is Dean, George N. Jean Ph.D. Chair and Professor of Marketing at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. From 2015 to 2022 she served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Strategic Initiatives. She is the 2022 recipient of the American Marketing Association’s Christopher Lovelock Career Contributions to the Services Discipline Award for teaching, research, and service that has had the greatest long-term impact on the development of the services discipline. This is the highest award presented in the field of service marketing. She is author of the NY Times bestseller The Wallet Allocation Rule and author/editor of four other books on customer loyalty. Her research has been published in top tier journals in marketing (e.g., Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Interactive Marketing), strategy (e.g., Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review) and service research (e.g., Journal of Service Research and Journal of Service Management). Her research has received more than a dozen prestigious awards. She currently serves on the Academic Council of the AMA (American Marketing Association) which oversees the academic programming of the association. She will serve as president of the Academic Council beginning in 2024. Professor Aksoy served as co-chair of AMA SERVSIG (American Marketing Association - Service Special Interest Group) from 2014 - 2018 and worked with Filene Research Institute from 2012 - 2016, and 2021 to present conducting research with US credit unions.

Levent Yarar

Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for Wharton Interactive

Levent Yarar is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships for Wharton Interactive, the EdTech arm of the Wharton Business School. Before Wharton Interactive, he was Wharton Executive Education’s Regional Business Development Director for four years. He created partnerships for impactful learning journeys for corporations and executive learners. Levent spent from 2011-2017 in Turkey working for executive education centers in Turkey and the MENA region. As a certified consultant for the International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO), he has worked with SMEs throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, providing competitive analysis using Business Management System. He was born in Ankara, Turkey, but has lived in the United States for 40 years. He has an undergraduate degree in Management from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and an MBA from Ohio University. He is a certified Pearson BTEC trainer and qualified Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) assessor. His passion is to transform and democratize education globally, where anyone has access to high-quality knowledge to upskill for better job opportunities and living standards.

Dr. Mette Morsing

Head of PRME

Professor Mette Morsing, PhD, Head of PRME Principles for Responsible Management Education, UN Global Compact, New York, USA. PRME has a mandate from the United Nations' Secretary General to transform management education. Today, PRME is the UN's largest global initiative on sustainability in leadership education for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals. Morsing’s research focuses on sustainability, governance and communication. She has published extensively in international academic journals and books in these issues, and she has received awards and honours for her research. Morsing has served as the director of several research programs funded by grants from the MISTRA Foundation, EU Commission, the Danish Strategic Research Council, the Villum Foundation, Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), FUHU, and Novo Nordisk A/S among others. Her research is closely engaged with practice across different sectors of society, and she has supervised industrial PhD students funded by companies such as TDC, VELUX and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Michael Pirson, Ph.D.

Director of Center for Humanistic Management at Fordham University

Michael Pirson, Ph.D., is the chair of the Leading People and Organizations Area within the Gabelli School of Business. He is the James A. F. Stoner Endowed Chair in Global Sustainability and is a full professor with a focus on global sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Pirson is a research associate at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program (HFP). He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is founder and president of the International Humanistic Management Association. He is the editor in chief of the Humanistic Management Journal. Pirson’s research spans various areas in the field of humanistic management, including psychological and social psychological work on individual differences in mindfulness, trust, and well-being; organizational research on corporate governance, stakeholder trust, and social innovation; and conceptual and philosophical research on freedom, dignity, and well-being. He is actively exploring the role of higher education in positive change-making and social innovation, leading global efforts to transform business education (including with the Jesuit Network, Ashoka, UN, etc.). Pirson is a full member of the Club of Rome, leads the Humanistic Management working group at the UNPRME, and advises a number of social enterprises. He has won numerous awards for his work including from the Academy of Management and the Association of Jesuit Universities.

Nicholas Igneri

Senior Vice President and Global Chief Product Officer of AACSB

As global chief product officer, Nicholas Igneri leads the strategic direction for learning and development, data, and product innovation. He brings over 20 years of senior executive experience to AACSB. Previously, Igneri served as senior vice president of education for the American Management Association International (AMA), where he led the strategic direction of educational content distributed in classroom, virtual classroom, and on-demand modalities. In addition, Igneri led the direction and strategy for AMA’s learning technology ecosystem, including the learning management system and the synchronous learning, evaluation, and support platforms. He also led the customer experience strategy at AMA. More recently, Igneri led the research and development of a new Certification in Management. Prior to serving at AMA, Igneri was vice president at Vitesse Learning, where he led the learning solutions team and client consulting on web-based content development and was director of professional services at SumTotal Systems. He holds a BS in psychology and computer science from SUNY Cortland and an MA in industrial psychology and organizational development from Brooklyn College.

Phoebe Koundouri

Professor & Founder of the NEXUS Cluster

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is a world-renowned environmental economics professor and global leader in sustainable development. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. She is listed in the 1% of most-cited women economists in the world, and she is included within the official Stanford University list of the Top 2 % of world scientists, with 15 published books and more than 500 published peer reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, research and policy reports. Prof. Koundouri is member of the Nominating Committee for the Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienceis, elected fellow of Academia Europae and elected fellow and trustee of the World Academy of Arts and Science and member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Board. In 2020 she received the prestigious European Research Council ERC Synergy Grant, entitled: “Smart Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems”, currently the biggest research project in the world on urban water systems. In 2023, she received the Academy of Athens Award in Sciences, which is given every our years and considered the epitome of scientific recognition in Greek acedemia. Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is the Elected President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), the biggest scientific association of Environmental Economists in the world.

Raj Sisodia

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

Raj was born in India and spent parts of his childhood in Barbados, California and Canada. He was educated as an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS, Pilani). He pursued an MBA in Marketing from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai after which he earned a Ph.D. in Marketing and Business Policy from Columbia University. Until 1998, he was the Director of Executive Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. From 1985 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor of Marketing at Boston University. He also spent 15 years at Bentley University as Trustee Professor of Marketing, Department Chair and founder/director of the Center for Marketing Technology. Raj is a trustee of Conscious Capitalism Inc. and a member of the board of directors of The Container Store. He has consulted with and taught executive programs for numerous companies, including AT&T, Nokia, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart, Rabobank, McDonalds and Southern California Edison. Raj is an American citizen residing in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Rumina Dhalla

Associate Professor at the University of Guelph

Rumina Dhalla, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics and the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph. She has also accumulated over 20 years of industry experience, much of it in the the Canadian banking industry. An accomplished teacher in both the undergraduate and graduate programs, she was awarded the MBA Distinguished Professor Award and received the 2019 United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education NA Excellence in Service Award. She holds several positions with the UN including Vice-Chair, PRME Chapter North America; Honorary Consultant, UNITAR; Board Chair, UN Global Compact Network Canada as well as Guardian with the Global Responsible Leadership Initiative and serves on the Network for Business Sustainability SCC Advisory Board. Originally from Tanzania, with an East Indian Heritage, resident in Canada, Rumina aims to be a global citizen contributing to the UN SDGs. The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics is proud to be a long-time PRME Champion School.

Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim

Associate Prof. at the American U in Cairo & Chair of PRME Chapter Africa

Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim is a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University's School of Public Policy and International Affairs, as well as an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the American University in Cairo's (AUC) School of Business. She is Chapter Chair and founding member for PRME Chapter Africa, and was previously the Director of the MBA and EMBA programs AUC. She has published multiple research on Africa sustainable development, global value chains, and supply chain resilience. Sherwat also teaches courses in Operations and Technology Management, including Supply Chain Management and Operations Strategy. She is a Partner & Senior consultant at Innovety, an innovation management consulting firm, and is an expert on SMEs' business growth and development. Sherwat serves on several advisory boards, including the executive board of Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), the advisory board of the PRME Impactful Five (i5), and the advisory board for the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain–Africa (CARISCA).

Dr. Siara Ruth Isaac

Scientist at Centre for Learning Sciences of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Siara is a Scientist at Centre for Learning Sciences of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She is also a Teaching Advisor at the Teaching Support Centre and Lecturer. Her work is focused on the epistemological development of engineering students, on how undergraduate students develop transversal skills (project management, team work, equity, inquiry) as well as on pedagogical skill development for doctoral teaching assistants.

Sylvia Grewatsch

Assistant Professor at Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Sylvia Grewatsch is an Assistant Professor for Strategy at the Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Canada. Her research focuses on how organizations can tackle complex, large-scale socio-economic issues through systems change, emerging from social and technological innovations. Inspired by her fieldwork as organizational ethnographer, she is also interested in supporting early-career organizational scholars to become impact researchers. Therefore, she founded the Impact Scholar Community, which includes more than 850 members from across the world. Sylvia’s research has been published in Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Strategic Organization, among others.

Tima Bansal

Vice-Chair of PRME Board and Incoming Chair of PRME Board

Tima Bansal is a Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hamburg and the Université de Montréal. She is also affiliated with the University of Cambridge and Monash University. Tima leads Innovation North, which is reimagining business innovation to create better businesses and a more prosperous society. Tima also founded the Network for Business Sustainability and Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value. Tima is currently the Vice Chair of United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Education and is on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Tima has received significant accolades for her scholarship. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Academy of Management; she holds the Hellmuth Prize from Western University, the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Organizations and Natural Environment; and, was the first Canadian to be named a Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership by the Aspen Institute, a global forum for business and society headquartered in Washington, D.C. Tima’s research investigates the interplay between business strategy and sustainability. She has published in several top research journals, has co-edited two books about business and the natural environment and contributes to her own column in Forbes.com. Her research has also been cited in the popular press, including The Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Independent.

Tung Tung Chan

Coordinating Manager for PRME Commons

Tung Tung Chan is a Research Intelligence Advisor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is responsible for enabling and opening up the strategic dialogue between faculty management teams and the university board on the basis of responsible research output analysis. She was a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University and served as project leader for the Leiden Madtrics blog team between 2018 and 2019. Tung Tung remains affiliated to the CWTS as a visiting researcher through the following research areas: Research Intelligence, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science. Tung Tung first joined CWTS as an intern in the summer of 2017, for her master thesis on China Scholarship Council (CSC)-funded PhDs in the Netherlands. Her research has informed ScienceGuide, and sparked discussions on the internationalization of doctoral education in the Netherlands via NOSop3. She graduated summa cum laude from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) in 2018. Tung Tung is passionate about teaching as she shared in this TEDx video, and has a track record in consulting and teaching in various educational institutions (Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Netherlands). She obtained her bachelor’s degree in communication and media at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Wilfred Mijnhardt

Policy Director at Rotterdam School of Management

Previously, Wilfred Mijnhardt has been Executive Director of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) (1999-2014). ERIM is the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) an institute with over 300 management researchers in five research programmes and an advanced Doctoral Programme (MPhil & PhD) in Business and Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since ERIM’s start in 1999, Mr. Mijnhardt has been instrumental in its development into one of the largest and prominent research institutes in Research in Management in Europe. In particular, he has been an innovator of academic business development & the impact support organization within the institute with a strong drive to strengthen the quality, productivity, viability, impact of ERIM research and the academic career-paths of ERIM researchers. Currently his institutional development is focused on the fundamental change from a research driven towards a dual impact driven strategy process within the ERIM research community, in both academic and managerial ways, benefiting of a new generation of web based facilities to support research, dissemination and use along the lines of web 2.0 and semantic web concepts to enhance quality, raise visibility and increase impact. As frontrunner on these issues Mr. Mijnhardt also acts as a special advisor to the Executive Board of EUR and serves in several national committees that aim to drive innovation in universities. Internationally he is an active member in networks like EIASM, CEMS and EUA. Mr. Mijnhardt holds a bachelor degree in Economics, a master’s degree in Public Administration (both from Erasmus University) a postgraduate certificate in Management of Change and participates as presenter in the joint ABS/BAM Development Programme for Directors of Research. He also contributes to the EFMD/EURAM development programme for research directors ‘Creating Research Leadership in Europe’.

Dr. Wren Montgomery

Assistant Professor at Ivey Business School

Dr. Wren Montgomery’s research, teaching, and impact work focuses on environmental and social organizing, how it changes norms and institutions, and how it interacts with corporations. She is primarily interested in unique forms of collaboration and unconventional coalitions with the potential to overcome obstacles to solving many of the world’s most pressing challenges, with a focus on the intersections of climate change, water crises, soil degradation, and social justice. Her research integrates and contributes to theories of change across institutional theory, social movements, economics, and entrepreneurship. Wren’s multi-year research project on water access and affordability – with a focus on Detroit, Michigan – has received several prestigious honours including a best dissertation (ONE, 2016) and best paper award (OMT, 2016) at the Academy of Management. The first publication from this project, Water Wars in Detroit: Custodianship and the Work of Institutional Renewal (AMJ, 2020) also won both the IACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management and the NBS-ONE Research Impact on Practice Award in 2020. Other research interests include corporate greenwashing and environmental and social entrepreneurship. Dr. Montgomery is also deeply committed to doing research that has both academic significance and a more immediate impact on the world around us. She does this by helping students to understand the roots of problems and identify leverage points for change, by working with organizations to raise awareness of these challenges, by highlighting successful approaches and tools, by engaging and working collaboratively with impacted communities, and by serving on government and corporate boards. Wren is also an experienced management consultant and senior government policy analyst and is always happy to collaborate with organizations, entrepreneurs, and students doing the vital work of making change.

Chris Purifoy

CEO, Cofounder at Learning Economy Foundation

He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Learning Economy, a 501c3 non-profit with a global mission to translate leading edge technologies into transformative learning and economic systems that promote equity, mobility, privacy, and individual agency to radically improve lives throughout the world. Since its announcement at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, the Foundation has aligned a global community of policy makers, standards committees, research organizations, employers, and developers that are committed to ensuring the next iteration of the world wide web is more equitable and addresses many of the social ills that plague the globe. Chris is an entrepreneur, author, and technology architect. He speaks and writes about creativity, AI, Web3, and the future of education and employment. Over the last decade he has built several startups and led tech collaborations for organizations like the LEGO Foundation, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and others. Chris is a senior editor for the Diplomatic Courier, with bold ideas about the war on democracy, the social media brush fire, and how to solve global sustainable challenges. He also sits on various global policy councils and fellowships and co-founded the Web3 Education Alliance with the World Bank. He is also an author of poetry and fiction.

Bruno Roche

Founder of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation

Bruno Roche is the founder of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) school of thoughts – a pioneering management methodology that equips companies to shift their focus from extracting financial value to creating mutual value. As the Chief Economist at Mars Incorporated (2006-2020), he spearheaded the development of the Economics of Mutuality. He co-created EoM centers in partnership with Oxford Saïd Business School (UK), CEIBS (Shanghai, China) and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Rotterdam School of Management, NL) – where he is a visiting lecturer. In 2020, he established the Economics of Mutuality as a structurally independent public interest foundation in Geneva (Switzerland) with a management consultancy arm He co-edited the Oxford University Press book called Putting Purpose into Practice: the Economics of Mutuality with Oxford Saïd Business School’s Professor Colin Mayer. He also co-authored the book “Completing Capitalism – Heal Business to Heal the World”. Both books are translated in China. He is a board member of the UN Global Compact PRME, a member of the S&P Global Sustainable Finance Scientific Council, an expert to the World Economic Forum and a founding board member of the China Impact Investment Network.

Fernanda Carreira

Head of the Integrated Education Program, Center for Sustainability Studies, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fernanda Carreira, Education for Sustainability Program Coordinator at FGVces (Center for Sustainability Studies of FGV EAESP). Brazilian, Brazil. PhD candidate in Organizational Studies at FGV EAESP, where I hold a Master's Degree in Management, with emphasis on Sustainability, and a degree in Business Administration. My academic research focuses are learning and teaching sustainability in Business Schools, Anthropocene and Imaginary. At FGVces (Center for Sustainability Studies of FGV EAESP), I coordinate the Education Program for Sustainability, with undergraduate and graduate courses, including immersion disciplines in the Amazon Forest. Prior to the Center, I have worked in consultancies such as PwC and Edelman Significa, always focusing on strategy and sustainability. I have also worked in the third sector (NGOs). I am the mother of Pedro and Olivia.

Leandro Pongeluppe

Assistant Professor at Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania

Leandro "Leo" Pongeluppe is a specialist in socio-environmental impact. Currently, Leo is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Leo holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and his main research interest is understanding how organizations' management can contribute to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Garrett Jaeger

Evidence Specialist, LEGO Foundation

My research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand links between play and creativity. I previously studied exploratory play in children’s museums as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz and as the Thomas Murphy research fellow at the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. My work at the LEGO Foundation includes the transformation of paper-and-pencil tests into behavioral measures of what occurs in situ as children are learning through play. These measures are paired with activities and are introduced in numerous geographic contexts; bolstering the need for co-creation to overcome deficit thinking as we introduce our learning through play interventions. As a former teacher in preschools, secondary schools, and universities, I continue designing and facilitating playful experiences where children inspire adults, ideas lead logistics, and evidence checks intuition.

Leisa Sargent

Dean of The University of Sydney Business School

Leisa Sargent is Dean of the Business School at the University of Sydney since December 2022. Leisa studied at the University of Toronto and obtained her PhD from the Rotman School of Management. Prior to her appointment at the University of Sydney, Leisa held the position of Senior Deputy Dean at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School (2016-2022). She also held positions as Co-DVC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (2019-2022), Professor Head of School Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne (2012-2016) and held several academic program director and University committee roles at the University of Melbourne (2003-2011), Cornell University (2002), and Queensland University of Technology (1991-2001). She has conducted numerous Faculty and academic program reviews and has served on several advisory and governance boards of Australian University bodies, as chair or as a member, including the Centre for Social Impact and UNSW Global. Her research impact roles include expert witness, Senate inquiries, and Government advising. Leisa's research has been published in the leading international journals, including Personnel Psychology, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Education,Journal of Human Resources Management, Journal of Organisational Behavior,Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Work and Stress, Small Group Research and British Journal of Industrial Relations. She has held editorial board memberships including the Journal of Management Studies and Human Relations. Leisa has consulted to large complex organisations both in Australia and North America, including companies such as Nortel, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Telstra, Incitec, Canada Life, Comcare, Arnott's, and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. A nationally awarded educator, Leisa was named the Pearson Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management innovative educator of the year. Leisa's current research spans an evidence-based approach to leadership development, new perspectives on retirement, workday design, restorative experiences, and green infrastructure. Her research has been competitively funded through the Australian Research Council grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Australian Learning and Teaching Council, The Academy of Management and Hort Innovation Australia.

Lemma Senbet

Professor at University of Maryland, College Park

Lemma W. Senbet is the William E. Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park. While on an extended leave from the University, Prof Senbet served as Executive Director/CEO of African Economic Research Consortium, 2013-2018, the largest and oldest economic research and training network in Africa. Prof Senbet is a founder of the Center for Financial Policy (CFP) at the Smith School of Business/Maryland and served as its Founding Director, 2009-2013. Prior to his arrival at the University of Maryland, Prof Senbet held an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and taught as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, University of California – Berkeley, and New York University. He spearheaded the transformation of the Maryland/Smith Finance and also served as Chair of the Finance Department, 1998-2006. The Maryland Finance department rapidly became a world class center of research in corporate finance and investments. It is now recognized as among the top finance departments in the world. In 2005, an investment educational program at Maryland was named “The Lemma Senbet Fund” in recognition of Professor Senbet’s signature contributions. Prof Senbet is internationally recognized for his widely cited contributions to corporate and international finance, which have appeared in such top journals as Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Review of Finance, etc. He has published on wide-ranging issues, including agency conflicts and financial contracting, financial distress and financial crisis, banking regulation and incentives, corporate governance, and valuation effects of multinational corporate diversification, etc. The 1986 survey ranked him third among world-wide contributing authors to the Journal of Finance for the period 1976-1985. In 2009, Senbet was cited among the most prolific authors in the finance literature based on the Journal of Financial Literature survey of a half century of contributions. He was ranked # 24 among 8975 authors contributing to the leading finance journals over the 50-year period, 1959-2008. Professor Senbet has received numerous honors and recognitions for his impact on the profession. He has been elected twice to the board of directors of the American Finance Association and is a past president of the Western Finance Association. In 2000, Prof Senbet was inducted into the Financial Economists Roundtable, a distinguished group of world-wide financial economists who have made significant contributions to finance and seek to apply their knowledge to current policy debates. In 2005, he was awarded Honorary Doctorate degree: Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia’s oldest institution of higher education (and his alma mater). In 2006, Professor Senbet was inducted Fellow of Financial Management Association International for career-long distinguished scholarship and professional service. In 2012, he was awarded the Ethiopian Diaspora (SEED) award for exemplary life-time achievements and community service. The added impact of Senbet’s research program has been numerous highly successful doctoral students who studied under him and then later became professors at leading institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Florida, and Minnesota. Among his students are former Dean at Carnegie Mellon and former Chief Economist of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Professor Senbet has been a member of over a dozen editorial boards, including Journal of Finance (10 years), Financial Management (20 years), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (6 years), etc. He also served as Executive Editor of Financial Management, the official publication of Financial Management Association International, 1998-2005 and has been Editor (Finance), the Journal of International Business Studies, the official publication of the Academy of International Business, 2005-2011 and 2017- Present. Professor Senbet has performed policy work and consulting for a variety of institutions, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, African Development Bank, and various governmental and private agencies in USA, Canada, and Africa on issues relating to capital market development, financial sector reforms, banking regulation, and financial crisis. He is a member of the Brookings AGI Distinguished Advisory Group and a member of the Advisory Panel of G20 Compact with Africa. In 2021, Prof Senbet was appointed to the newly established Council of Independent Economic Advisors by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Finally, regarding his role in the US financial industry and Board governance, Prof Senbet was a Director of Fortis Funds and is currently an independent Director for the Hartford Funds.

Mark B. Milstein

Director, Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Dr. Mark Milstein is clinical professor of management and director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He conducts applied research in and oversees the center's work on market and enterprise creation; business development; clean technology commercialization; and sustainable finance. Dr. Milstein specializes in framing the world's social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs which can be addressed effectively by the private sector through innovation and entrepreneurship, thereby allowing companies to achieve financial success by creatively addressing problems such as climate change, ecosystem degradation, and poverty. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation the S.C. Johnson Foundation, SEvEN, the World Bank, the University of Queensland, and the Water Resources Institute. Over the past decade, Milstein has worked with more than 100 firms across a range of industries, including renewable energy and carbon markets, life sciences and sustainable agriculture, consumables, food and nutrition, health care, tourism and hospitality management, as well as finance and international development. At Cornell, Milstein serves on Cornell's Academic Programs and Policies Committee (CAPP), the faculty advisory board of Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the advisory board for Engaged Learning + Research at Cornell, Cornell's Public Engagement Council, and Cornell's Senior Leadership Climate Action Group. Milstein's writings have appeared in Science, Academy of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, PLOS-ONE, FACTS, Case Research Journal, Environmental Finance, and Value, as well as various edited books. He is an award-winning author of several popular teaching cases. Milstein has taught strategy, innovation, and sustainable enterprise to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Milstein specializes in teaching experiential and engaged learning courses that provide students the opportunity to apply strategy, decision making, and critical thinking skills to business development, technology commercialization, and innovation in the context of sustainability. Milstein's work and perspectives have been featured in the New York Times, MSNBC, CNBC, Forbes, The Guardian, and GreenBiz. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of strategy, organizational change, and innovation related to business and sustainability. He also consults with a number of multinational firms, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and NGOs. He currently serves on the board of directors of Livelihood Basix International and as a board member for Johnson & Johnson's Earthwards Program. Previously, Dr. Milstein was the business research director for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank located in Washington, D.C. where, he oversaw a number of projects and initiatives in the U.S., Latin America, and China related to strategy and innovation in the private sector. He also served on the faculty of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directed research and strategy for the school's Center for Sustainable Enterprise. Milstein earned a BA in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan. He later earned both an MBA in general management and an MS in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan's dual-degree Corporate Environmental Management (now Erb) Program. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sanda Ojiambo

Assistant Secretary-General, CEO & Executive Director of United Nations Global Compact

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Sanda Ojiambo of Kenya as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Global Compact in April 2022. For the past two years, Sanda Ojiambo served as the CEO & Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanda Ojiambo launched an ambitious new UN Global Compact Strategy to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. During her tenure, she has also promoted stronger business engagement with UN partners to deliver and finance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sanda Ojiambo brings to the UN Global Compact more than 20 years’ experience in the public, multilateral and private sectors including as Head of Sustainable Business and Social Impact, Safaricom Plc in Kenya; and capacity development work in CARE International and United Nations Development Programme Somalia. Throughout her career, she has cultivated and managed relationships with key business entities and civil society organizations and led the implementation of several public-private partnership initiatives. Sanda Ojiambo holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota, USA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Development from McGill University, Canada. As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. With more than 15,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and 69 Local Networks, the UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative — one Global Compact uniting business for a better world.

Thomas Dyllick

Professor Emeritus at University of St. Gallen

Dr. Thomas Dyllick is Professor Emeritus at University of St. Gallen; President and Director, The Institute for Business Sustainability (IBS), Lucerne, Switzerland; Co-founder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Co-founder and member of the Supervisory Board, Positive Impact Rating Association, and Co-founder and Director, Executive Diploma in Advanced Sustainability, endorsed by UN Global Compact Switzerland and Liechtenstein, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and WWF Switzerland. He was Professor for Sustainability Management 1994 – 2019, Co-founder and Managing Director 1992-2019 at Institute for Economy and the Environment, Dean School of Management 2001-2003, Vice-President for Teaching and Quality 2003-2011, and University Delegate for Responsibility and Sustainability 2011 – 2020, all at University of St.Gallen. He has been practically engaged, speaking, and publishing broadly in the areas of sustainability strategy and management as well as responsible management education.

Lauriane Dietrichs

Vice-President of oikos International

Lauriane Dietrichs is Vice President of oikos international, she was elected to the 2023 board with 5 other young leaders. She has been part of oikos since 2018 when she joined the Lille chapter, and has since been supporting various working groups at oikos international. Lauriane is currently involved with measuring impact, developing communications strategies and strengthening the oikos community. For over 6 years I’ve been growing organizations’ 360 communication, developing my skills in the following areas: organic & paid social management, event & influencer management, trade marketing, emailing, crowdfunding, fundraising, non-profit management etc. Currently looking for opportunities for a nonprofit or sustainable/social company in marketing, communications or fundraising.

Betina Szkudlarek

Deputy Dean Research, International Management at the University of Sydney Business School

Betina Szkudlarek is Deputy Dean Research and Professor of International Management at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research and consulting expertise lies at the intersection of cross-cultural management, international human resource management, and management of diversity. Her pioneering work on refugee workforce integration has been recognized with multiple awards, including the International HRM Scholarly Research Award and the Research Impact on Practice Award (Academy of Management, 2022). She is the lead editor of the Sage Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management, and her work featured widely in national and international press. Betina lectured and trained across four continents and has worked with several multinational corporations and not-for-profits on developing intercultural competence and fostering global leadership excellence. She also holds the post of Strategic Sustainability and Grown Consultant with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

Christiane Molina

PRME Global Chapter Council Member; Research Professor, EGADE Business School

Dr. Christiane Molina is Research Professor in the Strategy and Leadership Department at EGADE Business School. She currently teaches corporate sustainability to MBA students and courses on strategic planning, innovation and sustainability, and planning models and processes at the State of Mexico Campus. Dr. Molina is a prominent coach of the Best Mexican Companies program at Deloitte, Banamex and Tecnológico de Monterrey. She has also provided advice to family businesses in the Family Business Value Creation Program in the metropolitan area of ​​Mexico City. She is certified as an Independent Director by the Institute of Best Practices and as “Multiplicador B” by the B Corp organization in Mexico.

Christian Schott

Associate Professor at Victoria University Wellington

Christian is Associate Professor in Tourism Management and at faculty level holds the role of Chair of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Steering Committee. Christian's research interests cover three broad areas. Firstly, he is interested in sustainable tourism development and tourism’s interrelationship with climate change. This area of work has seen him engaged in research projects in the Sub-Antarctic, South America, the Pacific and New Zealand. Secondly, he studies the ‘youth’ life stage in the context of travel, exploring aspects such as self-development of young travellers and long-term youth mobility practices in different cultures; this has led to fieldwork in Central America, South East Asia and Europe. Christian’s third research interest evolved from merging the above two research themes by developing a strong interest in education for sustainability. This includes research on pedagogies for sustainability education as well as a passion for research-driven teaching innovation which has seen him teach Sustainable Tourism Development in Canada, French Polynesia, and Vanuatu. Christian was recently recognised with a 2022 Te Whatu Kairangi National Teaching Excellence Award and the research-driven VR-for-sustainability project he leads was awarded the prestigious Gold Award Sustainability at the QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards 2020. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Tourism Futures and Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, serves on the editorial boards of four tourism journals and was awarded Research Article of the Year 2018 in Tourism Recreation Research with Sochea Nhem.

Bob Chapman

Chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller

Recently named the Tharseō CEO of the Year by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the #3 CEO in the world in an Inc. article, and a Top 10 Social Capital CEO by International Business Times, Bob Chapman is very intentional about using his platform as a business leader to build a better world. Chapman is Chairman and CEO of St. Louis, MO-based Barry-Wehmiller, a $3.3B global capital equipment and engineering solutions company with more than 12,000 team members. He became the senior executive of Barry-Wehmiller in 1975 at age 30 when the 90-year-old business had $20 million in revenue, outdated technology and a very weak financial position. Despite the obstacles, Chapman applied a unique blend of strategy and culture over the next 45+ years in leading Barry-Wehmiller through more than 120 successful acquisitions. Over the past two decades, a series of realizations led him away from traditional management practices to Truly Human Leadership--a people-centric approach where his team members feel valued, cared for and integral to the company’s purpose. At Barry-Wehmiller, they have a unique measure of success: by the way they touch the lives of people. Chapman’s experiences and the transformation he championed were the inspiration behind his 2015 WSJ bestseller Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family. The book is co-authored by Raj Sisodia, founder and co-author of Conscious Capitalism. The book has been translated into eight languages. In 2016, Harvard Business School released a case study featuring Barry-Wehmiller’s unique approach to business, which is now taught at 70+ business schools around the world. In 2013, Bob and his wife Cynthia launched a nonprofit, Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities, to bring the company’s groundbreaking Listen Like a Leader training to communities. And, in 2015, the Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute was founded to bring Barry-Wehmiller’s trademark culture transformation and leadership training to for-profit organizations. In recent years, Bob has focused on teaching caring leadership to tomorrow’s leaders through programs in K-12 schools and universities. In 2021, Bob and his team partnered with Fordham University and other business schools to launch the Humanistic Leadership Academy which helps professors and students become more human-centered. A sought-after speaker for a variety of industries, Chapman’s speaking engagements include the United Nations Global Compact Transforming Education Summit, Brazil’s Virtuous Leadership Conference, China Organizational Evolution Forum, Healthcare Burnout Symposium, Aspen Ideas Festival, Conscious Capitalism events, TEDxScottAFB, 2016 US Congressional Retreat, Manufacturing Excellence Conference, HERO Forum for Employee Health Management, and numerous others. Chapman shares his story whenever he can, as it is an example of what’s possible at the intersection of great business strategy and profound care for people. He wants everyone to see that caring for people and giving them meaning, purpose and fulfillment through their work is not in disharmony with creating value. Chapman has a BA from Indiana University and an MBA from Michigan.

Elisabeth Fröhlich

PRME Board Member & Chair of Chapter DACH

Prof. Dr. habil. Elisabeth Fröhlich studied business administration at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich and at the University of Cologne. After her dissertation on the subject of "Supplier Evaluation", she continued her professional career at the seminar of Prof. Dr. U. Koppelmann at the University of Cologne and completed her habilitation on the subject of "Modelling Requirement Profiles in Procurement". Since, Elisabeth Fröhlich has been a professor at the CBS International Business School (former Cologne Business School) responsible for the field of strategic procurement management. From May 2013 to November 2022, she has been managing the CBS in her function as president. She is a board member of several scientific organisations, e.g. the PRME (Principles Responsible Management Education) Board, Chair of the PRME Nomination and Governance Committee and PRME DACH Chapter Chair, Rotary Club Köln Römerturm or BME e.V. Region Köln. She is an Expert Advisor of CEEMAN, and leading the AOM MED Ambassador Program as a vice-chair. She is the spokesperson of the "Kölner Wissenschaftsrunde" (Cologne Scientific Circle), member of the advisory board of KölnBusiness, and business ambassador for the City of Cologne. She is leading the Board of JARO Institute for Sustainable Procurement and Digitalisation and in this context offering online trainings in the field of sustainable procurement. Her current research focuses on sustainable supply chain management and green procurement, qualification in purchasing and strategic supplier management. Procurement 4.0 as well as organizational, personal challenges of an "agile purchasing" and new, innovative teaching formats of Responsible Management Education are further main areas of research. She has published several books and articles on the above-mentioned topics and supports several journals as an external reviewer.

Robert Hales

Sustainability Lead, Griffith Business School

Robert Hales is the discipline lead for sustainability and management in the Griffith Business School. He was the Director of the Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise in the Griffith Business School from 2016 to 2023 The Centre oversaw the sustainability strategy and initiatives of the Griffith Business School. He was also the co-chair of the Griffith's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Working Group which oversaw the SDG Strategy and Times Higher Education Impact ranking processes of the university. His research interests focus on the governance issues around the grand challenges of our time. In particular, his research focusses on SDGs in business and government, a business case for climate change, climate change policy, carbon management, sustainable tourism and working with First Peoples on consent processes and climate change. He has completed many research consultancies for business and government throughout Australia in the above research areas. He has been the lead, or teamed up with colleagues, in projects worth over $1.4 million in research income. He created and was the first program director of Griffith University’s Master of Global Development. He teaches in the Department of Business Strategy and Innovation including the MBA program. He has convened masters level courses such as Leadership for Sustainable Business, Research Methods for Policy Makers and Sustainability and Systems Thinking. He supervises PhD students in the areas of collaborative governance, sustainability transitions and climate change. Prior to joining academia, he taught outdoor and environmental education in high schools and also ran an adventure tourism business.

Duncan Ross

Chief Data Officer for Times Higher Education

Duncan Ross has been a data scientist since the mid-1990s. As chief data officer at THE, he oversees a team that generates university rankings and related data products. In 2019 he launched the THE Impact Rankings, the first global university rankings that focus on delivery of the UN SDGs. He has been working with the UN HESI on the area of assessment of sustainability in higher education.

Maya Fischhoff

Knowledge Manager for Network for Business Sustainability

As the Knowledge Manager for NBS, Maya develops and oversees NBS’s knowledge products (including systematic reviews, executive reports for business leaders, and applied guides and tools).

Abby Litchfield

Community Manager at the Network for Business Sustainability

Abby supports many of NBS's activities, especially related to strategy, communications and partnerships. Always open to new ideas and opportunities, Abby builds relationships with NBS stakeholders, ultimately driving to expand the Network for Business Sustainability.

Mathias Falkenstein

Professor at Luiss Business School

Mathias Falkenstein is Professor of Practice in Higher Education Management. Mathias is also the managing director of XOLAS, a higher education consultancy based in Berlin, Germany. XOLAS assists international universities and business schools in the design and implementation of institutional change, with particular attention to the topics of sustainability and responsibility, quality management and internationalization. Mathias has worked as Director of Business School Services at the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) in Brussels, Director of International Relations at the IÉSEG School of Management in Paris and Lille and Director of the International Summer University at the Free University of Berlin. He began his career as a Program Officer at the North American headquarters of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in New York. Mathias currently serves on several business school advisory boards and is chair of the supervisory board of Positive Impact Rating. Mathias is also a researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the International Center for Higher Education Management (ICHEM) at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Petra Molthan-Hill

Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University

Prof Dr Petra Molthan-Hill, PhD, MBA, MDiv, PFHEA, is Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at Nottingham Business School and Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) working group on climate change and environment. Professor Molthan-Hill is an international multi-award-winning expert for Climate Change Mitigation Tools in Business, Climate Change Education and Carbon Literacy. She leads the ‘Carbon Literacy Training for Business Schools, Universities and beyond’ (CLT4BS), a training programme developed by her team at Nottingham Business School in collaboration with the UN PRME Champions, the international student organisation ‘oikos International’ and The Carbon Literacy Project and distributed worldwide in collaboration with UN PRME, for example as part of a global social movement to coincide with the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference Train the Millions - The Carbon Literacy Chain .

Luciana Echazú

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at University of New Hampshire

Luciana Echazú (Lu) is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Associate Professor of Economics at Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics at the University of New Hampshire (a PRME signatory), where she joined in August 2020. Originally from Argentina, her background is in economics, and her research interests are in the area of law and economics, with a specific focus in corruption and criminal behavior. She also conducts research in industrial organization, new trade theory and lately she has been working in the area of risk and uncertainty. Prior to that, she was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Operations at the David D. Reh School of Business, Clarkson University, where she was also Associate Professor of Economics and Financial Studies. Since becoming an associate dean in 2018, Lu has been an active volunteer for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International. At AACSB she is well known for her work in the steering committees for Women Administrators in Management Education (WAME), and Responsible Management Education (RME). At Paul College, Lu has been working on advancing sustainability in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals through in areas of research, curricular and co-curricular activities, partnerships and organizational practices.

Anna Young-Ferris

Academic, University of Sydney Business School

Dr. Anna Young-Ferris is an ESG, sustainability and climate accounting specialist bringing over two decades of academic and corporate experience. In 2022, Anna and her team were awarded the prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability. Her award-winning research examines the integration of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) information in mainstream investment decisions, and she continues to focus and publish her research in the fields of responsible investment and responsible management education. Anna is the Business School’s Academic Lead for the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and the strategic integration of the SDGs into teaching, research, and organisational practices. Anna consults regularly to industry on leading practice ESG and sustainability reporting global developments. Previously, she helped build the climate change and sustainability business at Ernst & Young, Sydney.

Halla Tómasdóttir

CEO & Chief Change Catalyst, The B Team

Halla Tómasdóttir is the CEO of The B Team, a global collective of business and civil society leaders catalyzing a better way of doing business for people and planet. Halla started her leadership career in corporate America, working for Mars and Pepsi Cola. She was on the founding team of Reykjavík University, where she established the Executive Education Department, founded and led a successful women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment initiative and was an assistant professor at the Business School. She was the first female CEO of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and later co-founded an investment firm with the vision to incorporate feminine values and ESG into finance. The company successfully survived the infamous economic meltdown in Iceland. In 2016 Halla was an independent candidate for the presidency of Iceland. She entered a crowded field of candidates and finished as the runner-up with nearly 30% of the vote.

Kerry Bodle

Academic Director (Indigenous) at Griffith Business School

Associate Professor Kerry Bodle is the Academic Director (Indigenous) for the Griffith Business School. She has a PhD in business failure and has active research in Indigenous business success, commercial and financial literacy and business education. Kerry's contribution to teaching has been to provide build First Peoples curriculum designed for tertiary level that is relevant to solving fundamental social issues, such as Reconciliation, Indigenous Education and Employment (Closing the Gap Report) and to provide students the graduate attributes and employability skills to be ‘culturally capable when working with First Australians". Kerry has enhanced student engagement and learning through effective curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment strategies in a number of ways: • Indigenisation of curriculum. Kerry creates and designs curriculum for the business undergraduate, postgraduate and Master courses that values and recognises individual diversity and various levels of knowledge by adapting different teaching styles based on Principles to Promote Excellence in Learning and Teaching Practices at Griffith University.

Jill Bogie

Director of GIBS Sustainability Initiatives for Africa, Gordon Institute of Business Science

Dr Jill Bogie is the Director of GIBS Sustainability Initiatives for Africa and she also holds a responsibility for championing the PRME activities at GIBS. PRME is an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact that focuses on the Principles for Responsible Management Education and integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the activities of business schools and universities. Her teaching portfolio has a focus on strategy, strategic foresight and sustainability and she teaches on the core courses of the MBA and the MPhil (Corporate Strategy) programmes. The topics include the environment of business; business purpose; business models; creating shared value; tackling complex global challenges; complexity and systemic thinking; futures thinking; multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnerships. Dr Bogie also teaches research methodology. With 40 years of business experience, more than 25 of those at executive level, she has a range of experience from large corporates with international operations to small businesses and in sectors ranging from financial services, manufacturing, direct selling, FMCG and professional services. Dr Bogie has travelled around the world to present executive training programmes in several African countries as well as Russia, the Middle East, Iberia, and the UK. By combining her business experience and research, Dr Bogie’s current focus is on developing innovative approaches to building the sustainability agenda into core business strategy to address the complex global challenges of the 21st century.

Klaus Weber

Professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Klaus Weber is an Professor of Management & Organizations, and currently serves as faculty director for Sustainability and Social Impact at Kellogg. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the Northwestern Institute for Sustainability and Energy. His research concerns the dynamics of organizational and institutional sustainability transitions; the interactions between social movements, corporations, and markets; and economic globalization. He specializes in cultural and institutional forms of analysis and methodologies. Klaus' research has been widely published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and many others. His work has won best paper awards at the American Sociological Association, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the SYNTEC Conseil en Management. He was a senior editor at Organization Science and has guest edited volumes for Organization Studies and Organization Science. Klaus teaches courses on environmental sustainability in Kellogg's MBA program and ISEN's MS Energy & Sustainability; and doctoral seminars on organization theory, cultural analysis, and research methods. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and joined the Kellogg faculty in 2003.

Jorge Andrés Rodriguez

Member, PRME Climate Change Guidelines Task Force; Assistant Professor at ESPAE Graduate School of Management

Jorge A. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of business sustainability and supply chain management in ESPAE, Graduate School of Business, ESPOL. His research has focused on how managers can contribute to the sustainable development through value chains initiatives, including the involvement with stakeholders such as civil society organizations, local communities, and the government. This research has led Jorge to collaborate on impact assessment, action research, and participatory projects to explore and evaluate solutions to sustainability issues such as poverty alleviation, incubation of agroecological enterprises, and food security. Jorge also collaborates in partnerships to co-create narratives for undertaking collective action on sustainable development goals. In 2021, in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Chapter of the World Business for Sustainable Development, started a diffusion center to make business sustainability information accessible to a broader audience and raise awareness about the role that local enterprises and industry associations should have for a more direct impact on macro-level issues. Since 2017, Jorge is member of the sustainability board of Guayaquil American Chambers of Commerce, in this organization he supports the diffusion of sustainability practices among the affiliated companies of this chamber. Finally, since 2022 Jorge leads the PRME initiatives within ESPAE, and direct the taskforce for the business school societal impact.

Paul Polman

Co-Author of "Net Positive"

Paul’s book, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take is out in October 2021. He is Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE. A leading proponent that business should be a force for good, Paul has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade”. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance. Paul was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel which developed the Sustainable Development Goals and as an active SDG Advocate he continues to work with global organisations and across industry to push the 2030 development agenda. He is Chair of the B Team and Saïd Business School, Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact and honourary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, which he led for two years.

Maxime Lakat

Executive Director of Re_Generation

Maxime Lakat is the Founder and Executive Director of Re_Generation, Canada’s largest organization dedicated to advancing sustainable business by amplifying youth perspectives and providing youth with skills-building and career resources. Re_Generation aims to re_imagine schools, re_purpose careers, and re_model companies to be aligned with regenerative principles. In 2021, their “Our Future, Our Business” Manifesto campaign became Canada’s largest youth-led movement to change the way business is done and taught. Prior to this role, Maxime was the Co-President of the Desautels Sustainability Network (DSN) at McGill University. DSN helped co-organize the Montreal Youth Summit on Sustainable Business and many other events that reached thousands of students. DSN also worked at the academic level to improve McGill’s business curricula and mainstream sustainability across all programs by working with professors, faculty leadership and professionals. Maxime graduated from McGill University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Commerce in Sustainable Business Management & Social Entrepreneurship.

Clémentine Robert

Sustainability Curriculum, University of St Gallen

Clémentine Robert joined the Sustainability & Responsibility team of the University of St Gallen (Switzerland) in August 2021. In her new position as Project Manager for Sustainability Curriculum Development, she is working closely with Prof. Walls to embed sustainability into courses across programmes and education levels. Clémentine will contribute to the University of St Gallen vision and Roadmap 2025 to “inspire people acting in an ethical and socially responsible manner” and “take up a leadership position in finding solutions to socially-relevant problems”. Clémentine’s aim is to ensure that the University of St Gallen prepares the next generation of business leaders and citizens to solve the current and upcoming social and environmental challenges. As former president of oikos International, Clémentine leverages her local and international experiences as well as her network in the field of sustainability in higher education to help transform the curriculum. She does so by collaboratively working with and supporting all its stakeholders. In parallel, she pursues her studies as a PhD. student at the University of St Gallen in the field of sustainability management at Institute for Economy and the Environment under the supervision of Prof. Walls. In addition, Clementine has also been engaged in the Positive Impact Rating since its launch and is a member of its advisory board. As for my personal statement, please find it below (feel free to modify it). your commitment to responsible management education mission and how are you already (or aiming to) contributing to a more connected world to generate meaningful impact. Responsible management education requires to connect different internal and external stakeholders to integrate sustainability and system thinking into the curriculum in an engaging way that properly equips students to be cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally ready to tackle the Grand Challenges in a VUCA environment. At the University of St Gallen, we do our best to try out new ways to support this integration in collaboration with diverse stakeholders, and scale up successful initiatives.

Dr. Aurélien Decamps

CEO and Co-founder of Sulitest

Aurélien DECAMPS is a social entrepreneur in the field of education for sustainable development, co-founder of SULITEST, which develops online tools to strengthen and massify education for sustainable development. With a PhD in economics, he is also an affiliate professor at KEDGE Business School and a researcher affiliated to the University of Bordeaux, France. Deeply convinced of the need to transform systems and organizations through the lens of sustainability, he is active in several academic, professional and UN networks such as HESI (Higher Education Sustainability Initiative), UN PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) of the Global Compact, or SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network).

Amarpreet Singh

Columbia University, MS Sustainability Management candidate

For the past seven years, Amar has dedicated himself tirelessly to advancing waste management practices. He established over 100 food waste composting installations across four countries and played a key role in scaling a zero-waste products start-up in India. Recognizing that waste goes beyond the environment, Amar advocates for fundamental changes in human behavior, perception, and policies. An INSEAD social entrepreneurship program alumnus, he is currently pursuing an MS in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. His expertise has led him to speak on waste at esteemed international conferences, including the UN World Urban Forum and World Eco-Design Conference. Amar currently works as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow with the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, shaping a food waste prevention policy roadmap for the state. In addition to his waste-related work, Amar indulges in a secret passion. For the past eight years, he has quietly penned poetry and graced weekly readings, capturing the essence of everyday moments often overlooked and inviting us to appreciate their beauty.

Hunter Lovins

President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions

L. Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more regenerative practices profitably. A professor of sustainable business management at Bard MBA, and Fordham University, Hunter teaches entrepreneuring and coaches social enterprises around the world. A Managing Partner of NOW Partners, she is also Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing firm. A board member of Aquion and several non-profits, she has worked in energy, regenerative agriculture, climate policy, sustainable development and resilience for 55 years. A consultant to industries including International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and Clif Bar, Hunter has briefed heads of state, the UN, and the US Congress, leaders of the numerous local governments, the Pentagon, and officials in 30 countries. Author of 16 books, including the recently released A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life. which won a Nautilus Award, Hunter has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award, and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon.

Tatiana Fraser

Co-Founder and Director at The Systems Sanctuary

Tatiana has spent her career starting up and growing ecosystems and networks for systemic change. She co-founded the Girls Action Foundation, which became a network supporting the empowerment and leadership of girls and young women, scaling it nationally across Canada before stepping away and letting it fly. She was selected as an Ashoka Fellow for her work and recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network. A thought leader, she coined the phrase ‘Scaling Deep’ in juxtaposition to the silicon valley-esq frameworks ‘Scaling-up’ and ‘Scaling-out’. This came from her own experience working with feminist groups who were creating significant impact at root level; personal, relational and cultural change. Her work around feminist systems change bring together intersectional feminist practices with the frameworks of systems change and offer a fresh perspective on how systemic change happens by centering lived experience and shifting power. With significant expertise in running a not-for-profit and an MBA from McGill University, Tatiana is well versed in setting up collaborations and governance structures for success. She has chaired the Board of CKX for four years and Chaired the Stewardship Group of Illuminate, an international network designed to cultivate the field of systems practice, in the first year of its life. She has served on numerous Boards and Advisory Committees including The UN Commission on the Status of Women, The Carold Institute, Food Secure Canada, Exeko and Actua among others. Much of her work has been to advance the leadership and social justice of girls and women and she co-authored Girl Positive (Random House 2016) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women Studies. Tatiana is a mother of 2 and lives in Montreal, Canada.

Heather Ranson

Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Director Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation

Heather Ranson (Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Director Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation) is part of the teaching team that delivers a Business and Sustainability course to undergraduate and graduate students at the Gustavson School of Business. As Associate Director of CSSI Heather runs programming at the Gustavson School of Business that supports achievement of the UN SDGs. Heather is also responsible for reporting on CSSI’s goals to the UNPRME. Heather’s research interests lie in sustainability management, as well as teaching sustainability in higher education.