Friday May 28, 2010
19:50 – 20:50, CICG Auditorium

Profit margins are no longer enough to define success in business today. The notion of sustainable business is not only attracting more and more investors, but also contributing to fundamental changes in the current socio-economic system.  Integrating the three pillars of sustainability:  People, Planet and Profit is a new opportunity for businesses to better engage with society.  This panel will explore how organizations can go beyond CSR campaigns and look at how they can integrate social, environmental and economic measures to their bottom line and business models.

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Meet the Panel

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Randall Krantz

Associate Director, Head of Sustainability Initiative

World Economic Forum

Randall has worked with the Environment Team of the World Economic Forum for the past five years, currently leading the Forum’s multi-stakeholder Sustainability Initiative. After helping build the foundations of the climate change work at the World Economic Forum, Randall has shifted to forging new ground exploring opportunities for business and business models in sustainable consumption. As head of Sustainability Initiative at the Forum, Randall works with business leaders and experts to explore the transformational changes required to dematerialise business models, shift from products to services, and innovate on the production side to decouple consumption of energy and natural resources from environmental degradation. Randall is interested in exploring how public-private partnerships can offer entrepreneurial solutions to global environmental issues, and how well-designed and innovative business strategies can create positive change through better business choices.

Randall joined the World Economic Forum with the inaugural class of Global Leadership Fellows in 2005. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona where he focused on responsible business, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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Gregory Hess

Adjunct Professor

IOMBA, University of Geneva

Gregory is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Geneva’s International Organizations MBA (IOMBA) program, where he teaches courses and mentors students in the areas of strategy, value creation, business models and organizational performance.

As a strategy and management consultant to governments, international companies and aid organizations, Gregory has assisted a wide range of leading actors at headquarters and in the field.  He has worked on some of international development’s most pressing challenges including: re-establishment of the food supply system in Iraq; coordination of pharmaceutical supplies in Africa; development of global pandemic preparedness strategies; establishment of coordination systems in the Palestinian territories; and peacebuilding and reconstruction strategy development in southern Sudan. Prior to focusing his career on improving strategy and management capabilities in the international development system, Gregory worked for eight years managing emergency assistance programs of the World Health Organization (Bosnia, Kosovo, Central Asia).

Gregory holds a MPH degree in International Development from Yale University and a BA in Sociology from Harvard University.  He is a Canadian national and resides in Geneva, Switzerland with his wife and three children.

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Daria Cibrario

Co-founder

HUB Geneva

Daria is a practioner in the field of social and labour rights with a focus on the world food system. Her specialties include corporate research and policy analysis of the agro-food and retail industries and global supply chains.  Her prior assignments included work in the delivery of tripartite education in international labour standards, decent work and globalization at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) and a research position at the International Institute for Labour Studies (INST-ILO)  in Geneva.  She is a co-founder of HUB Geneva, a space where entrepreneurs and social innovators from the different Geneva local communities can come together to realize and share their ideas for a sustainable society.

Daria holds a MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and BA in International Relations from the University of Turin.

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Moderated by:

Jeya Wilson

PhD, IOMBA Ambassador

Jeya Wilson currently works as a researcher for international organizations and a debating teacher at the international school in Geneva. Previously she worked in several sectors and countries including CEO of the World Heart Federation, Director of Business Partnerships, UNDP, Vice President Global Alliances, CBM, CEO, Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry and New Zealand Honorary Consul in South Africa. She has a doctorate in international relations from Oxford where she was President of the Oxford Union. Jeya is an Obama acolyte having joined his presidential campaign at its inception. She is also interested in learning about spiritual traditions, deep space and particle physics.

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IOMBA Coordinator:  Tina Santiago