André Hoffmann is our Chairperson of the Board, Vice Chairman of Roche Holding, Switzerland and serves on the board of the fully owned subsidiary Genentech Inc. in California (USA).

Alongside his non-executive roles in the family business, Mr. Hoffmann has a distinguished cursus in nature conservation and sustainability. He has served among others on the board of WWF International as Vice-President. He is the President of Fondation MAVA and of Fondation Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France.

Mr Hoffmann has joined the Board of SystemIQ to help positively disrupt critical economic systems; the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, as well as of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. He has also been instrumental in establishing the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society (HGIBS) at INSEAD, his Alma mater, and chairs its Advisory Board.

Mr. Hoffmann studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Previously, Mark led the Natural Capital Coalition and was on the board of the Social and Human Capital Coalition. He championed and delivered the bringing together of these two communities, creating a unified, systemic, collaborative approach.

Mark has worked extensively in the private sector, leading programs and strategy for the Crown Estate and Reed Elsevier (now RELX), as well as advising many more.

Among other board and advisory positions, Mark is on the Advisory Board for TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations CEO Water Mandate and an advisor on the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

With more than 25 years of experience as policy maker for the Netherland’s government, Martin has worked in several policy domains, including environmental policy, international nature policy and green growth policy.

He is co-author of several national policy documents and has led public-private collaborative actions on natural capital in the Netherlands from 2014. In 2018 Martin initiated and led the global Government Dialogue on Natural Capital.

An independent director, John retired from The Crown Estate in September 2016 where he held the position of Finance Director. John is now a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committees’ of The Environment Agency and The Covent Garden Market Authority. He is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Finance Committee of Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust.

John was the Chair of The Natural Capital Coalition from July 2016 to July 2019, and is now a Management Board Member of the Capitals Coalition. He is also Chairman of the ACCA Global Sustainability Forum, a Member of HRH The Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Advisory Council and is an International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) ambassador.

Peter Bakker is President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Mr Bakker has led WBCSD since 2012. WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. WBCSD member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and with 19 million employees.

Mr Bakker is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, served as CFO and then CEO of TNT NV, the global transport and logistics company. He has been recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009) and the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010). Mr Bakker serves as a member of several corporate sustainability advisory boards.

He received the royal order Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2018 in recognition of his long-lasting commitment to engaging business in tackling global sustainability issues.

Dr. Naoko Ishii has joined University of Tokyo on August 1st 2020 as professor, executive vice president, and inaugurating Director for Center for Global Commons. She will lead this newly established center with the mission to catalyze systems change so that human can achieve sustainable development within planetary boundaries. It is needed to mobilize movements of multi-stakeholders, including business, policy makers, cities, CSOs, and citizens as consumers and investors towards a shared goal of nurturing stewardship of Global Commons, that is the critical earth system for human’s survival. Her belief is that academia can and should play a much more active role in this endeavor.

Prior to joining the university, she served the GEF (Global Environment Facility) as CEO and Chairperson from 2012 to 2020. During her tenure, she formed GEF’s first mid–term strategy, GEF 2020, with strong focus on transformation of key economic systems, and delivered two successful replenishments.

She entered Ministry of Finance, Japan, in 1981 and worked for finance, tax and international finance bureaus, and served as Deputy Vice Minister of Finance, Japan for 2010-2012. She also worked at the IMF and the World Bank and was stationed in Sri Lanka as Country Director for the World Bank during 2006-2010.

She is currently serving as council member for China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, member to Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, commissioner for Food Systems Economic Dialogue, Ambassador for FOLU (Food and Land Use Coalition), member of the Board of PACE (Platform for Accelerating Circular Economy), co-chair of Advisory Network for High Level Panel for Ocean, and co-founder and principal for Global Commons Alliance.

She published papers and books, two of which were awarded by Suntory Prize (1990) and Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research (2004). She obtained BA in economics and PhD in international development, both from the University of Tokyo.

Éliane Ubalijoro, PhD, is the Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age and the Global Hub Director in Canada for Future Earth. Her decades of experience span academia, science-policy and the non-profit and international development sectors. She is a Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, where her research interests focus on innovation, gender and sustainable development for prosperity creation. Her teaching over the last decade has focused on facilitating leadership development. She is a member of Rwanda’s National Science and Technology Council and has been a member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Rwandan President Paul Kagame since its inception in September 2007. She is a member of the Expert Consultation Group on the Post COVID-19 Implications on Collaborative Governance of Genomics Research, Innovation, and Genetic Diversity. Éliane is a member of the African Development Bank’s Expert Global Community of Practice on COVID-19 Response Strategies in Africa. Éliane teaches and advises in Leadership programs to help equip executives in science, innovation and international development with tools that support inner and outer sustainable transformation towards global prosperity.

Clara is Senior Partner at Just Climate. Previously, Clara was Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project (IMP) and led the IFRS Foundation’s project to establish the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), under the direction of the IFRS Foundation’s Trustees. Clara’s public interest work with the IMP was made possible through a secondment from her role as a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, where she led the firm’s sustainable and impact strategies across fund types. Prior to Bridges Fund Management, Clara worked for Acumen’s Capital Markets team and later co-led the Acumen renewable energy portfolio, investing in India and East Africa.

Clara received a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Appointed Chief Executive in 2006, Michael’s leadership has seen ICAEW embrace a vision of ‘a World of Strong Economies’, transforming itself into a professional accountancy body with a truly global identity and reach.

Michael regularly meets ministers, policy-makers and regulators around the world, and is a frequent media commentator on economic and business issues. He passionately believes that the emerging forces which are already changing the very nature of work – such as technological disruption – present ICAEW Chartered Accountants with many more opportunities than threats. He is committed to helping the profession evolve to meet that challenge successfully.

Michael qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant in 1986 with Coopers & Lybrand after graduating in law from Durham University, where he was also president of the student union. He has served as a school governor for eleven years and is a trustee of several charities, including Moorfields Eye Charity, supporting London’s world class Moorfields Eye Hospital. Prior to joining ICAEW, he spent four years at Spring Group, where he was managing director of several businesses and group finance director. From 1989 to 1996 he worked for the Canadian company, John Labatt Ltd., latterly as managing director of its retail arm.

Patrice Matchaba, M.D., has been Group Head of Global Health & Corporate Responsibility for Novartis since October 2017.

Dr. Matchaba most recently served as Global Head of the Cardio-Metabolic development unit at Novartis, where he led the global clinical development of the cardio-metabolic portfolio. He joined Novartis South Africa in 2000 as the Country Pharma Organization Chief Scientific Officer. Since moving to Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in the United States in 2002, he has held several roles of increasing responsibility, such as Therapeutic Area Head for Immunology and Infectious Diseases; Global Head of Drug Safety and Epidemiology; and Global Head of the Integrated Development Functions and Regions, which include Global Clinical Operations, Global Clinical Submissions, Integrated Information Sciences, Development Informatics, Development Diversity and Inclusion, and all Medical Country Pharma Organization regions.

Dr. Matchaba completed his medical training at the University of Zimbabwe, and is a fellow of the College of Obstetrics and Gynecology South Africa. In addition, he is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

Robin Millington is the founding Executive Director for Planet Tracker. Based in London, Planet Tracker is a non-profit financial think tank aligning capital markets with planetary limits.Planet Tracker identifies the disconnect between financial markets and environmental boundaries, connecting investment decisions with often distant ecological and social realities.

With senior management experience in both philanthropic roles and in industry, she brings her knowledge of working on systemic global issues to Planet Tracker. Robin has extensive experience in the climate change field having spent many years with the European Climate Foundation. She has headed organisations including Wetlands International and the Centre for European Policy Studies. Earlier in her career, Robin worked in the IT industry for ICL, the British computer company where she served as lead negotiator on the largest computer technology transfer into the former Soviet Union during perestroika, which today is the largest IT services company in Russia.

Currently she serves as Vice-Chair of the Gold Standard Foundation Supervisory Board.Having worked across six continents she is a dual American/Dutch national. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in International Relations and her MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Cherie Nursalim is Vice Chairperson of Giti Group, a diversified group with real estate development, manufacturing and consumer lifestyle presence partnering with the world’s renowned brands throughout the Asia Pacific region. She is also a special advisor in the government of the Republic of Indonesia.

Ms Nursalim is the Vice Chairperson of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), serves on the ICC Academy and Research boards. She is a board member of Publicis Groupe, IMAGINE, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission Global Blended Finance Taskforce, the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) and the Women’s World Banking Southeast Asia Advisory Council.

She chairs the Southeast Asia Chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and the Tsinghua University Southeast Asia Center both to be based in Kura Kura Bali. Ms Nursalim has championed the United in Diversity Foundation and the Tri Hita Karana Forum with global partners. She is developer of Kura Kura Bali, an island project that aims to respect the Balinese Tri Hita Karana philosophy of happiness aligned with harmonies of people, planet and spirit.

Ms Nursalim serves on the Asia and International Advisory Boards for MIT Sloan School of Management and Columbia University respectively and the advisory board of the Research Center for Climate Change for University of Indonesia. She also serves as a board member of the Singapore Science Center, the World Green Building Council, and the Global and Asia Philanthropic Circle. She also joined the UN Global Compact Platform for Action and the Friends of the Oceans global initiative advisory council.

Cherie Nursalim is a recipient of the Ministry of National Development award from the Singapore Government and Baiyulan Award from the Shanghai Government. Ms Nursalim initiated initiatives for HIV AIDS awareness in Indonesia for GT organization which won awards from Indonesian government UNAIDS and International Labor Organization. She was once featured among Forbes’ 48 heroes of philanthropy.

Ms Nursalim receives her Bachelor in Engineering Science and Economics from Oxford University, her Master in Business Administration from Columbia Business School, and is an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She has earlier worked as a research associate at the Harvard Business School. Ms Nursalim published an award‐winning book on the world famous architect and was co‐author in the book, Indonesia Matters, published by the World Economic Forum.

Sonja Stuchtey is a serial start-up entrepreneur, advisor & investor, ethical tech advocate, and a sector–shaping social entrepreneur in Germany. After several years as strategic consultant with Booz. Allen & Hamilton in areas such as digitization and telecommunication, she has modernized science teaching with her award-winning social franchise Science-Lab. Her books are bestsellers.

As Senior Advisor, Investor, and Board Member she supports Tech and Civic Tech start-ups. Her focus lies on responsible business models, long-termism, ethical tech and inclusive metrics. Building coalitions is part of her DNA, i.e. in the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center which encourages global tech collaborations, evaluates good tech choices as well as measurable policy alternatives to pursue the responsible use of new technologies and data.

She has been initiator and founding member of Alliance4Europe, the analytical and intelligence backbone for an ever growing body of civil society groups and movements within Europe, and still serves the institution as Chair of the Supervisory Board.

Sonja has studied Busines Administration at WHU (Germany), IAE (France), UC Berkeley (USA), International Education at Bath University (UK), Data Sciences at UC Berkeley (USA) and holds a PhD of TU Munich (Germany). She is married and the mother of six children.

Derk Loorbach is director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Derk is one of the founders of the transition management approach as new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker in and outside Europe.

Delphine Gibassier is an associate professor in accounting for sustainable development at Audencia, and a recognized expert in non-financial accounting and reporting with 18 years’ experience. She is also the director of the Research Centre “Multi-capital Global Performance“, and the academic director of the MBA Chief Value Officer (the 1st MBA worldwide, on the topic).

She has worked with the Global Compact, IIRC, WBCSD, R.3.0 and CDSB, as well as the French government on various topics such as carbon accounting and integrated reporting. In practice, she has developed and implemented carbon accounting, SDG accounting and integrated reporting for large companies. Before joining academia, she worked as a management controller at GE Healthcare, Danone and Syngenta, in Paris, USA and Asia. She speaks four languages and has lived in China, Japan, USA, UK, Canada and Germany. She is passionate about linking research to teaching and practice, with a goal to impact on society. Delphine Gibassier interacts with accounting organizations and firms to help develop a shared interest into accounting for sustainable development. Her work includes public and business engagement and dissemination of her research and practice through reports, articles, online and social media.