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26th Sustainability Executive Roundtable
Business and Biodiversity: The Next Sustainability Challenge
September 23, 2011 INSEAD Europe Campus
Guest Speakers and Contributors’ Backgrounds
Marco Albani
Senior Practice
Expert, Sustainability
and Resource
Productivity (SRP)
Practice
McKinsey & Co.
Marco is a Senior Practice Expert in the Sustainability and
Resource Productivity (SRP) Practice of McKinsey & Company.
Marco joined the Firm in 2005 as an associate in the Toronto
office, from where he transferred to SRP in 2009. Marco serves
leading public, private and social sector clients on sustainability
topics, with focus on climate change mitigation strategies,
bioenergy, forest carbon and land-use.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Marco worked at Harvard University
as a research scientist and postdoctoral fellow in the field of
ecology, specializing in carbon sequestration in forest
ecosystems. Marco is the author of several scientific journal
articles and book chapters in the fields of forest ecology, global
change biology, and resource economics. Marco holds a Ph.D. in
Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia
(Canada), and a Baccalaureate degree in Forestry from the
University of Florence (Italy).
John Atkin
Chief Operating
Officer
Syngenta Crop
Protection AG
Member of the
Steering Board of the
Sustainability
Executive
Roundtables
John Atkin was Chief Operating Officer Crop Protection for
Syngenta since its foundation until February 2011. Prior to that,
he was Chief Executive Officer (1999–2000), Chief Operating
Officer (1999), Head of Product Portfolio Management (1998),
and Head of Insecticides and Patron for Asia (1997–1998) of
Novartis Crop Protection. Prior to 1998, he was General Manager
of Sandoz Agro France (1995–1997) and Head of Sandoz Agro
Northern Europe (1993–1995). In 2008 he was appointed Visiting
Professor at the Institute for Research on Environment and
Sustainability (IRES) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He
is also Chairman of CropLife’s Crop Protection Strategy Council
(global industry association). He was appointed as a non-
executive Director of Driscoll’s in 2011.
He graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a
PhD and a BSc degree in agricultural zoology.
John Atkin is a Member of the Steering Board of the Sustainability
Executive Roundtables.
Alan Bernstein
INSEAD MBA’88
Chief Operating
Officer
Sustainable
Forestry
Management Africa
Ltd.
Alan Bernstein is a businessman specialising in emerging
markets and conservation development. He has served as senior
executive and founding investor in businesses involving large
scale resources project management, real estate development,
financial engineering and trading, agri-business, eco-tourism
and resort development in Southern and East Africa, Europe and
South-East Asia.
Qualifications:
-BSc Civil Engineering (University of Witwatersrand) 1980
-MSc Engineering ((University of Witwatersrand) 1982
-MBA (INSEAD) 1988
Alan Bernstein joined the JHI Property Group in 1984 and served
as Group Property Development Director until 1987. Alan was
involved in significant commercial property projects throughout
Southern Africa during this period, prior to attending INSEAD
and obtaining and MBA in 1988.
Alan established JHI International Ltd in London in 1989, a
boutique financial advisory business that specialised in
structuring Sovereign Debt/Equity swaps and trading Emerging
Market Debt and served as Executive Chairman until 1993.
During this period, Alan co-founded Conservation Corporation
Africa Ltd (“CC Africa”) and served as its Deputy Chairman and
joint CEO until 1997, establishing the company as the leading
eco-tourism organisation in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1992, CC
Africa successfully completed one of South Africa's first
international private placements in the post apartheid era. Under
his leadership the company pioneered private sector/state
partnerships in eco-tourism and conservation development and
grew to over 3,000 employees, operating 40+ eco-tourism
businesses and related conservation development programmes
across 5 African countries.
Alan served as CEO of SFM Limited, a pioneer in sustainable
forestry management and terrestrial carbon offset development,
from its formation in late 1999 until July 2009 when he led a
buyout of SFM Africa Limited, which he continues to serve as
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Alan currently serves as Executive Chairman of SFM Africa
Limited and is the Founder & Principal of Sustainable Investment
Enterprises Ltd.
Maria Besiou
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow,
Humanitarian
Research Group and
Sustainability
Research Group
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Maria Besiou holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. She
completed her doctoral degree in 2009 on the economical and
environmental sustainability of closed-loop supply chains
(CLSC). CLSC focus on the collection / take back activities of
used products from the customers and their recovery. The used
the methodological tool of System Dynamics to cope with the
complexity and the multiple actors of the supply chains. Maria
joined INSEAD in 2009. Her main research interests are in
strategic closed-loop supply chains management, system
dynamics, decision-making and humanitarian logistics. She is
working with the Humanitarian Research Group and the
Sustainability Research Group where she uses System Dynamics
to study the operations of supply chains and to help the decision-
making process.
Eric Dugelay
INSEAD MBA’90
Sustainability and
Climate Change
Services Leader
Deloitte
Eric Dugelay has 25 years of working experience including 15 in
consulting and 9 with Schneider Electric where he was country
director, Malaysia, for four years. He is currently leading
Deloitte Climate Change & Sustainability Services for France. He
belongs to Deloitte Climate Change & Sustainability Services
global leadership group and coordinates such services at an
EMEA level. He is also the Partner in charge of Risk
management, Internal Audit and Internal Control Services for
Deloitte France and North Africa. Eric is finally in charge of the
China Desk of Deloitte France and Africa. He is a member of the
Project Advisory Panel (PAP) for the IAASB project “Assurance
Engagements on Carbon Emissions Information”. He is the
sherpa of Deloitte Vice Chairman at the World Business Council
for Sustainable Development. He represents Deloitte in EPE
(Entreprises pour l’Environnement) and is a board member and
treasurer of the France-China Committee of Medef International.
He develops the relationship of Deloitte with the Deauville
Women’s Forum and is a steering committee member of Deloitte
France Gender awareness working group.
Eric Dugelay earnt an MBA at INSEAD, an Engineering MS at the
Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supelec) and a BA in Chinese at
INALCO. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), a Certified
Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Control Self-
Assessment (CCSA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Franz Fischler
Former EU
Commissioner
for Agriculture, Rural
Development and
Fisheries
President of the
Eco Social Forum
Europe
Franz Fischler, Austria´s former Commissioner for Agriculture,
Rural Development and Fisheries of the European Union, is the
President of the Eco Social Forum Europe since December 2004.
He also runs his own consultancy business and is a lecturer in
great demand. Franz Fischler is currently one of the six
candidates for the post of Director-General for the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO).
He started his career in 1979 in the extension service and served
as Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry from
1989 - 1994. In his role as Minister, Franz Fischler led the
negotiations on agriculture issues for Austria´s accession to the
European Union. For nearly a decade (1995 to 2004) Franz
Fischler then successfully shaped European Agricultural Policy
as the Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and
Fisheries of the EU.
A native of Tyrol, Austria, Franz Fischler holds a PhD from the
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
Juan
Gonzalez-Valero
Head of Public Policy
and Partnerships
Syngenta
International AG
As the head of Public Policy and Partnerships at Syngenta, Juan
develops and implements the company’s corporate public policy
agenda. In this role, he envisions Syngenta going beyond
corporate responsibility to the next level of building meaningful
private-public partnerships and helping shape key global policy
debates.
He directs much of the company’s stakeholder outreach and
engages frequently in public forums. Previously, as head of
corporate responsibility, he initiated programs to strengthen
Syngenta’s contribution to addressing global challenges through
its products and people.
Central to these efforts, Juan and his colleagues are focusing on
how to empower farmers with the innovation and knowledge to
grow more food from less of the valuable natural resources such
as land, soil, water, and biodiversity.
His keen belief that Syngenta can offer solutions to the world’s
most pressing needs stems from his years working in Sustainable
Use, Stewardship and Ecology. This involved integrating
sustainable agriculture and product stewardship programs into
regional and country business strategies.
Juan joined the company in 1990 and previously held several
leadership positions in Environmental Sciences and Risk
Assessment across Europe and the USA.
He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Hamburg
where his research focused on marine ecology and
environmental toxicology.
Miranda Helmes
Communications
Manager
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Miranda Helmes is a Communications Manager with over 10
years’ experience. She joined INSEAD in March 2008 as head of
Communications for the newly inaugurated Social Innovation
Centre. She manages communications for five different
disciplines that make up a highly diverse and challenging
portfolio, translating and summarising complex world-class
academic materials into communicable products that are widely
understood by a broad audience of stakeholders.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Miranda held the position of
Communications Manager- External Communications for La
Chambre d’Agriculture de Seine et Marne. Before that, Miranda
was a Communications Manager for the Gâtinais Parc Naturel
Régional.
Miranda holds a Masters Degree with specialisation in
Communications and Public Relations from the Hogeschool van
Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch national, mother of two
children, with passion for beekeeping; she loves spending time
in her vegetable garden and is fond of journalism and social
media.
Mark Lee Hunter
Adjunct Professor
and Senior Research
Fellow
INSEAD
Mark Lee Hunter’s career has been divided between
investigative journalism and scholarly research. He is currently
an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD,
based in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, where he is a
founding member of the Stakeholder Media Project. Its goal is to
map the power and operating principles of media controlled by
communities that aim to influence organisations.
His manual for investigative reporters, Story-Based Inquiry
(UNESCO 2009), is the most widely-distributed reporting method
in the world. He is the author of five other books, on subjects
ranging from the French extreme right to a case-cracking inquiry
into a murder. Dr. Hunter has won two Investigative Reporters
and Editors Awards, along with the H.L. Mencken Free Press
Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for research on journalism,
the National Headliners and Clarion Awards, and two EFMD
Awards for case-writing. His articles have appeared in The New
York Times Magazine, Corporate Reputation Review, Harvard
Business Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard
International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Business Ethics
and elsewhere.
He was a founding member of the Global Investigative
Journalism Network in 2003, and serves on its board as well as
the board of the German journalism review, Messages. He
speaks regularly at international journalism conferences, to
multinational corporations, and to news organizations about
finding and using information.
Hans Joehr
Corporate Head of
Agriculture
Nestlé Ltd.
Hans Joehr is the Corporate Head of Agriculture at Nestlé in
Vevey, Switzerland. As such, Mr Joehr is responsible for
providing technical and strategic leadership in the groups'
world-wide agricultural raw material supply chain. This includes
the agricultural policy, the raw material quality control and R&D.
Mr Joehr joined Nestlé in April 2000. Prior to moving to Nestlé,
Mr Joehr served as CEO of AFC Consulting in Brazil engaged in
agribusiness & forestry consulting and management.
Mr Joehr is a member of the Board of IPC (Intl. Policy Council on
Agriculture Food and Trade) and a member of the Advisory
Council of the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (seco).
Recently, he joined IITA’s board (International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture) and became Director of Board of CATIE
(Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) in
Costa Rica. Mr Joehr is a former president of IAMA (Intl. Food
and Agribusiness Management Association) and past president
of the Swiss-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Sâo Paulo, Brazil.
Mr. Joehr is a co-founder and former president of the SAI
Platform (Sustainable Agriculture Initiative of the food industry).
Mr Joehr has a formal education in agricultural economics,
completed with a doctorate degree in economic science with
complementary management programmes at INSEAD (l'Institut
Européen d'Administration des Affaires, Fontainebleau, France)
and IMD (International Institute for Management Development,
Lausanne, Switzerland). Based on further practical experience
and a wide range of international business contacts, Mr Joehr
conducts a very hands-on approach to sustainable development.
Active in all facets of agribusiness, and having grown up on a
family farm, Mr Joehr has extensive experience based on several
long-term international assignments and additionally has
consulted in over 40 countries. He is the author of more than 30
publications in Brazilian and international news-papers. He is
married and his hobbies include literature, foreign languages
and cultures.
Marc Le Menestrel
Associate Professor
of Business
University Pompeu
Fabra
Visiting Professor of
Ethics
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
I am a decision scientist who works on rational behavior, the
foundations of measurement and ethical business. I am specially
interested in the articulation of economic values with subjective
values such as ethical values, aesthetic feelings, cultural tastes or
spiritual concerns.
In my teaching, I like to unveil and analyze the multiple roles of
values in decision-making, empowering participants and
companies to align their decisions and strategies with their
values.
I am Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and
Business of University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and
Visiting Professor of Ethics at the Social Innovation Center of
INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). I am also affiliated to the
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
I have been launching the Foundation for a New Ethical Business.
John D. Liu
Director
Environmental
Education Media
Project for China
John D. Liu is an American who has lived in China for more than
30 years. Mr Liu helped to open the CBS News bureau in Beijing
at the time of normalization of relations between the U.S. and
China. He worked for CBS News for more than 10 years leaving
in 1990. He also worked as a photo-journalist for Radiotelevisione
Italiana (RAI Italian Television) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
(ZDF German Television).
Since the mid-1990’s Mr Liu has concentrated on ecological film
making and has written, produced and directed films on
Grasslands, Deserts, Wetlands, Oceans, Rivers, Urban
Development, Atmosphere, Forests, Endangered Animals,
Poverty Reduction for various broadcasters including the EARTH
REPORT and LIFE series on the BBC World. In 2003, Mr Liu wrote,
produced and directed “Jane Goodall – China Diary” for National
Geographic.
Since 1997 Mr Liu has directed the Environmental Education
Media Project, which uses television to deliver ecological,
sustainable development and public health messages in China
and other countries. Mr Liu was also the driving force in the
creation and development of the China Environment and
Sustainable Development Reference and Research Centre
(CESDRRC), the China HIV/AIDS Information Network (CHAIN),
and the Environmental Education Media Project (Mongolia). For
many years, Mr Liu has studied and worked to promote
“EARTH’S HOPE” with specific films including “The Lessons of
the Loess Plateau” and “Hope in a Changing Climate”.
Mr Liu is a foreign expert at the International Cultural Exchange
Audio/Visual Publishing House. In 2006 Mr. Liu was named the
Rothamsted International Fellow for the Communication of
Science by the Rothamsted Research Institute under the Biotech
and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK. Mr Liu has
held Fellowships in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Faculty
of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England
(UWE) and is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading in the
UK. Currently is a Senior Research Fellow with IUCN and is
working with various development agencies including the World
Bank, DFID, EU, UNEP, CDKN and others, filming and
communicating on “Integrated Poverty Eradication and Large-
Scale Ecosystem Rehabilitation” in Africa and around the world.
Julian Rode
Researcher,
Department
Environmental
Politics, Helmholtz-
Centre for
Environmental
Research - UFZ,
Leipzig
Visiting Scholar
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Julian Rode does academic research, teaching, and consulting on
sustainable behavior of individual and business actors, and on its
implications for policy. He is particularly interested in decision
making related to environmental sustainability and the valuation
of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Julian has worked as post-doctoral researcher at University of
Mannheim, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and INSEAD
(Fontainebleau), and as independent researcher and consultant
associated with Median SCP (Barcelona). Since August 2011 he
works with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research -
UFZ in Leipzig as researcher and member of the scientific
coordination team of The Economics of Ecosystems and
Biodiversity (TEEB). Julian holds a PhD in Economics from
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
James Edward
Rushworth
Vice President
Environment and
Public Affairs,
Aggregates and
Concrete Division
Lafarge
James Edward has a honors degree in minerals processing
(Birmingham University) and a Master of Business Administration
(Warwick Business School).
He started his career in the gold mining industry in South Africa
and has 28 years experience in the cement, lime and aggregates
industries in both technical and operational roles. These have
included being Head of Sustainability in UK, Head of Emissions
Trading and leading the waste fuels program in UK for Lafarge.
He was on the board of BCSD-UK and Emissions Trading Group
(ETG) and chairman of the Minerals Product Association Climate
Change working group, ETG Monitoring & Reporting working
group and UK representative on Climate Change for Cembureau
(European Cement Association).
James Edward joined the Sustainable Development and Public
Affairs department in Lafarge Corporate office in Paris in
September 2010. He is responsible for implementation of
quarry rehabilitation and biodiversity across the Lafarge Group
globally and for Sustainability and Environmental management
with the Aggregates & Concrete Division globally. He chairs the
Cembureau Taskforce for Biodiversity and the Lafarge
International Biodiversity Panel and is a member of the
Biodiversity working groups for WBCSD-CSI and UEPG
(European Aggregates Association).
Uwe G. Schulte
Executive Director
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Uwe is a former Vice President of Global Supply Management at
Unilever. After finishing his PhD in Chemistry, Uwe joined Lever
Sunlicht in Mannheim as a development chemist in 1980.
From 1983 to 1985 he worked in Port Sunlight England as a
research scientist.
From 1986 to 1987 he was responsible for product development
for Lever Germany and in the following two years, Uwe worked
as head of production for detergent powders and liquids.
In 1990, Uwe moved with his family to Brazil where he became
responsible for the development department and quality assurance of Lever Division a Household Products and
Personal Care Market Leader.
In October 1992, Uwe moved from Sao Paulo to
Buxtehude/Germany to become the works manager of the Elida
Gibbs Personal Care factory.
At the end of 1996, Uwe joined the Elida board in Germany as
Technical Director.
With the beginning of 1997 he took over the position of Supply
Director Personal Wash and Skin for Europe.
In March 2001 Uwe started in the new role of Vice President Supply Management in HPC Division in London.
In October 2005 his responsibilities were extended to leading
procurement for both Foods and HPC in Unilever globally.
At the beginning of 2009, Uwe founded Prosolvo GmbH. Focal
areas for his new company are Corporate Social Responsibility,
Risk Management and Procurement Optimization for small and
medium sized companies.
As of October 1, 2010, Uwe has been appointed Executive
Director of the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre.
Marjo Siltaoja
Visiting Scholar
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Assistant Professor
University of
Jyväskylä
School of Business
and Economics,
Finland
Ms Marjo Elisa Siltaoja (PhD) is working as a post-doctoral
researcher in WINCSR project, in which she examines the use of
corporate responsibility related information in stakeholder
relations and in strategic knowledge creation. She is currently on
leave from her post as an assistant professor of management and
leadership at the Jyväskylä University School Business and
Economics, Finland (www.jyu.fi/jsbe). Her research has focused
on corporate social responsibility, reputation, business ethics
and values. She uses qualitative research approaches and her
recent publications can be found in e.g. British Journal of
Management, Journal of Business Ethics and Scandinavian Journal
of Management.
Paul Smith
Head of the
Millenium Seed Bank
Kew Gardens
Paul Smith, 47, was born in the U.K., but spent his childhood in
South-central Africa. He now lives with his family in Heathfield,
East Sussex, UK.
Dr Smith is a specialist in ecology and plant diversity in southern,
central and eastern Africa. He has extensive experience in seed
conservation, ecological survey, botanical inventory, vegetation
mapping, and environmental monitoring.
He has published numerous papers in this field, and is the author
of two field guides to the plants of south-central Africa. He edited
the Ecological Survey of Zambia (2001) and the Vegetation Atlas of
Madagascar (2007), both published by Kew. He has also worked
in land planning and ecotourism in Zambia’s Luangwa valley.
In 2000 Dr Smith was appointed Southern Africa and Madagascar
Co-ordinator for Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB). In that role
he developed and managed the MSB’s activities in Botswana,
Malawi, Madagascar, Namibia and South Africa.
In August 2005, Dr Smith became Head of the MSB and leader of
the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, a network of >120 plant
science institutions in 54 countries.
In October 2009, the Partnership achieved its first milestone of
storing seed from 10% of the world’s plant species both in the
MSB and in the countries of origin. Over the next 10 years, the
Partnership will seek to secure 25% of the world’s flora in seed
banks and to enable the use of that seed for human innovation in
agriculture, horticulture, forestry and habitat restoration.
James Spurgeon
Director
Sustain Value
Main Author
of the Corporate
Ecosystem
Valuation Guide of
the WBCSD
James Spurgeon is a consultant with 20 years applied experience
valuing biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability
issues for both private and public sector clients. His current focus
is to assist the private sector (such as oil and gas, mining, food
and drink, chemicals and manufacturing companies, as well as
banks and law firms) to evaluate and manage risks and
opportunities associated with these issues.
He is the principal author of the WBCSD's 'Guide to Corporate
Ecosystem Valuation' and the IPIECA/OGP 'Ecosystem Services
Guidance' for the oil and gas industry. He has a BSc, MSc and
MBA (Warwick Business School) with a special focus
on corporate sustainability, environmental valuation and
environmental markets. For the past four years he has led the
environmental economics team at ERM, and he is now Director of
a sustainability consultancy firm, Sustain Value.
Sybille
van den Hove
Director
MEDIAN
Scientific Committee,
European
Environment
Agency
Sybille's expertise is in sustainability governance, science-policy
interfaces, decision-making and policy formation under
conditions of complexity, integration of natural and social
sciences research, environmental research strategies and
corporate environmental strategies. Today, she mainly applies
her research to the areas of biodiversity policies at international
and EU levels, and socioeconomic aspects of biodiversity
change. She has also worked in areas such as: climate change,
radioactive waste management policies, the EU chemical and
pesticides policies, and sustainability strategies of corporations.
Her background is high-energy physics and ecological
economics. She is Director of MEDIAN, a small research,
teaching and consulting company, and Visiting Professor at the
Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the
Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Sybille is involved in several European FP7 research projects
including HERMIONE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s
Impact on European Seas), SCALES (Securing the Conservation
of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial,
temporal, and Ecological Scales) and she is the co-coordinator of
SPIRAL (Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity: Research,
Action, and Learning). Under FP6 she contributed to HERMES,
Rubicode, GoverNat and BioStrat.
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European
Environment Agency (EEA). From 2003 to 2009, she was the vice
chair of the steering committee of the European Platform for
Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS). She also chaired of the
Scientific Advisory Council of the European Distributed Institute
of Taxonomy (EDIT) network of excellence.
Francis Vorhies
Executive Director
Earthmind
Francis is the Executive Director of Earthmind. He has over 20
years of international experience as a sustainability economist. In
2006, Frank followed his wife’s career back to Geneva,
Switzerland, and set up Earthmind as a not-for-profit professional
sustainability association.
Since then he has worked on a variety of sustainability issues
primarily related to the interface between business, the economy
and biodiversity. In this regard, he has partnered with public,
private and not-for-profit organisations including the CBD
Secretariat, Credit Suisse, Danone, EC, EIB, EON, GEF, the
Global Mechanism, the Governments of the Netherlands and
Kuwait, ILO, ITC, IUCN, PERSGA, Shell, the Stockholm
Convention, UNDP, UNEP, UNCTAD, UN/ISDR, the World Bank
and Yemen LNG.
Previous experience includes:
• in Oxford, serving as the chief executive officer of the European
affiliate of the Earthwatch Institute, managing a unique
partnership programme with a group of 40 large multinational
corporations
• in Geneva, establishing new global programmes on economics
and business for IUCN, including undertaking joint feasibility
studies with the IFC on investing in biodiversity business in
Africa and Central Europe
• in Nairobi, working for the African Wildlife Foundation under a
UNDP/GEF grant to build biodiversity economics capacity in the
forestry sector in East Africa
• in Johannesburg, setting up Eco Plus, an innovative consultancy
focused on business, economics and the environment, and also
ran the first MBA course in the country on environmental
management
Frank has a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of
Colorado at Boulder and a diploma in integrated environmental
management from the University of Cape Town.
Hans Wahl
Executive Director
Social
Entrepreneurship
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Hans joined the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative in
2007. He has a background as a human rights activist, educator,
and trainer based in Paris, with more than 30 years of experience
in economic and political development. He recently designed
and led a programme of training and capacity building for
Paralegals working in post-conflict settings in Africa and
established UNESCO's Poverty and Human Rights Programme
that brought agency’s multi-disciplinary resources to bear on the
task of poverty eradication. Previously, he directed an
international penal and criminal justice reform training
programme for Penal Reform International and held senior staff
positions at Amnesty International and regional community
development organizations. He has worked as a consultant on
strategic planning and organisational change with clients
ranging from Siemens, AT&T, Corning, to numerous small & mid-
sized organisations in the US and internationally.
Mr. Wahl has founded several organisations and small
enterprises and is currently co-founder and owner of a
community-based tourism enterprise and in the High Caucuses.
He has studied, written and worked on issues of civil society
development, human rights, and capacity building in over 50
countries worldwide. He is Austrian-American and holds a
Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.
Benjamin Warr
Senior Research
Fellow
Sustainability Group
INSEAD Social
Innovation Centre
Benjamin Warr is Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability at the
INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, Fontainebleau, France. His
research is concerned with the biophysical dimensions of
economic activity and the development of sustainable society
through eco-positive business innovations. A complete list of his
publications can be found on his homepage. Dr Warr trained as
an environmental soil scientist, specializing in the use of
remotely sensed data for the measurement of soil properties, and
the use of spatial statistical modeling for the prediction of soil
properties. His research interests are diverse and include:
industrial ecology, payments for ecosystem services, inclusive
growth and participatory development, eco-innovation strategy