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Hello INDEVOR Alumni!

We will be holding the INDEVOR alumni global club Annual General Meeting on Saturday, June 10th, from 5 to 6:30 PM, CET.

(NYC – 11 AM / London – 4 PM / Paris – 5 PM / Singapore – 11 PM)

We hope you can join us!

Please register for the virtual meeting by Wednesday, June 7th so that we can send you a Zoom invite and the background documents.

The event is EXCLUSIVE TO MEMBERS of the Global INDEVOR Club. If you want to join the Club, please sign up through your MyINSEAD profile.

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REGISTER HERE!

Meeting Agenda:

1. Meet the 2023 INDEVOR Executive Committee and ratify appointees since the last AGM (in orange).

2. Discuss the nomination and election process to fill three ExCo positions that will become vacant in 2024.

3. Review finances & membership and brainstorm how we can best collaborate with and promote sustainability events at other clubs.

4. Review and discuss 2023/24 activities and the 2nd annual Sustainable Biz Summit.

5. Review and discuss organizational partnerships, including CIC partnership and student club partnership.

If you are unable to join the meeting, we welcome you to email [email protected] with your thoughts and suggestions. We look forward to seeing all who can attend.

Kind regards,

Your INDEVOR Alumni Club Executive Committee,

Katie Smith Milway, MBA’93D. President

Carla Belitardo, MBA’07D. Vice-President / Communications
Ebru Carter, EMBA’18Dec. Secretary
Ashish Agarwal, MBA’06D. Treasurer
Arnaud Bertrand, EMBA’18Dec. CIC Liaison
Philippe Dongier, MBA’93D. NAA Liaison
Joanne Schanté, MBA’13D. Student Liaison
Jai Karia, EMBA’18Dec.
Cintia Tavella, MBA’07D.

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Please join the summit on Fueling our Future: Rethinking Food and Energy in conjunction with the INSEAD Alumni Forum Europe

This hybrid, interactive convening will take place on March 23rd, 2-5 p.m. at 40 Strand, London, and feature overviews, expert talks, and networking around the sustainable future of food and energy production and delivery. All are welcome as learners, idea contributors, and solution co-creators

Sponsored by INDEVOR Global Impact Club, the Energy Club, and the Community Impact Challenge and hosted by Bain & Company, the event marks the 30th anniversary of INSEAD’s INDEVOR Global Impact Club and the 3rd anniversary of the Community Impact Challenge.

SPEAKERS

Rethinking Energy Fireside Chat:
Julian Critchlow: Former UK Dir. General Energy Transformation & Clean Growth, U.K. Government. Energy Carbon & Transition Center, Bain & Company.

Tom Delay: CEO, UK Carbon Trust

Rethinking Food Fireside Chat:

Henry Dimbleby: Author of Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape, co-founder of Leon restaurants and director of the Sustainable Restaurant Association.

Katell le Goulven: PhD Agricultural Economics,  Executive Dir. of INSEAD’s Hoffman Global Institute for Business & Society.

BIOS

Henry Dimbleby

UK author of The National Food Strategy, The School Food Plan and Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape, co-founded the Leon restaurant chain. He is also co-founder and Director of The Sustainable Restaurant Association and of London Union, which runs some of London’s most successful street food markets. He was appointed lead non-executive board member of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2018.

Henry previously worked as a Strategy Consultant at Bain & Company (1995-2002) where he advised businesses on strategy, performance improvement and organizational design.

Julian Critchlow
Julian is an advising partner at Bain & Company’s Energy and Carbon Transition Center and the former head of the firm’s global Utilities and Alternative Energy practices. He served as the UK Government Director General of Energy Transformation and Clean Growth, leading cross-government action to deliver Net Zero domestically and internationally, including integrated and inclusive governance for climate action. His commitment to clean propulsion extends to swimming the English Channel – four times so far.

Katell le Goulven
Katell is the Executive Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society. Previously with UNICEF, she founded a Policy Planning unit to analyze global trends and emerging issues and inform UNICEF’s strategic positioning, and led UNICEF’s corporate engagement with International Financial Institutions. Katell holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics, an MS in Tropical Agronomy, and an Engineering degree. She recently moderated food industry discussions at Davos.

Tom Delay
Tom is CEO of the UK Carbon Trust, a world leader in advising businesses and governments on Net Zero and developing low-carbon technologies, markets, and businesses. He has taken the company’s unique capabilities to China, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa, extending its mission to accelerate decarbonization. Prior to Carbon Trust, Tom worked for Shell for 16 years in commercial and operations roles in Africa and Europe before moving into management consultancy with McKinsey and A.T. Kearney. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton and has an MBA from INSEAD. In 2018, he was awarded a CBE by the Queen for services to sustainability in business.

Date / Time:
March 23, 2023

2 PM – GMT

Hybrid event
Online attendance:
The link will be distributed closer to the event date.

In-person attendance:
Bain & Company
40 StrandLondon, England,
WC2N 5RW

Limited spots available!

REGISTER HERE!

Dear webinar panelists and registrants,

Thank you for your interest in  “Riding the energy transition.”  We were grateful to an interested audience and panelists for sharing their valuable knowledge.

More than four million Ukrainians have fled the scourge of war to take refuge in neighboring countries since Russia’s invasion February 24th, and two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have been displaced, according to UNICEF officials.  Sadly, Ukraine’s is the fastest growing refugee crisis in recent history.  INSEAD faculty, alumni and NGO friends are close to and involved in humanitarian response.  Join our webinar April 25th at 11 am EDT/ 5 pm CEST / 11 pm SGT to learn about “Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine: Challenges and Breakthroughs” and best ways to help as individuals.  Sponsored by INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, INDEVOR Global Alumni and Global INSEAD Women in Business clubs.

Register HERE

N.B.  This event follows April 21st INSEAD Careers Zoom: “Support Ukrainians in Finding Jobs,  9 -10 am CDT, to form a coalition of employers 

Moderator:  Katell Le Goulven, Executive Director, Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society (and former UNICEF official)

Panelists: 

Professor Luk Van Wassenhove, head of INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group

CEO Jocelyn Wyatt, Alight (formerly American Refugee Committee) and trustee of airbnb.org

Jean-Cedric Meeus, Chief of Global Transport, UNICEF

Katell Le Goulven:

Katell Le Goulven joined INSEAD in April 2018 as the Executive Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society. Previously with UNICEF, she founded a Policy Planning unit to analyse global trends and emerging issues and inform UNICEF’s strategic positioning, and led UNICEF’s corporate engagement with International Financial Institutions.

Katell has held senior positions with high-level commissions that defined the policy implications of the data revolution, climate change, and global public goods for the development agenda. She has 19 years of professional experience at the interface of research and decision-making designing policies and strategies, and advising senior executives in international organizations and governments.

Katell holds a PhD in agricultural economics, a Msc. in tropical agronomy, and an engineering degree.

Dr. Luk Van Wassenhove:

Professor Van Wassenhove currently focuses on aligning business models and new technologies with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, e.g. closed-loop supply chains, circular economy, and disaster and health logistics. He recently co-edited special issues on humanitarian operations for the Journal of Operations Management, the Production and Operations Management Journal and the European Journal of Operational Research.

Professor Van Wassenhove is Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS 2005). In 2006, he received EURO’s Gold Medal. He is Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society (MSOM 2009), and Honorary Fellow of the European Operations Management Association (EUROMA 2013). In 2018 he was elected Fellow of INFORMS and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki.

At INSEAD Emeritus Professor Van Wassenhove holds the Henry Ford Chair in Manufacturing, as emeritus. He created the INSEAD Social Innovation Center and acted as academic director until 2010. He currently leads INSEAD’s Humanitarian Research Group and its Sustainable Operations Initiative.

Jocelyn Wyatt

Jocelyn Wyatt is a social innovation thought leader and an entrepreneurial executive with more than 20 years of experience. In her role as CEO, Jocelyn leads Alight’s 3,000-person team across 19 countries. She spends her time developing the vision and strategy and overseeing the implementation of Alight’s programs to serve displaced communities around the world. 

She works closely with Alight’s Board of Directors, partners, affiliates, and donors and oversees a $65 million annual operating budget. Prior to Alight, Jocelyn was the co-founder and CEO of IDEO.org, a nonprofit design studio with a mission to design a more just and inclusive world. Jocelyn grew IDEO.org to become a 75-person, global organization with studios in Nairobi, New York, and San Francisco.  She has served on the boards of organizations such as Airbnb.org and Marketplace.

Jean-Cedric Meeus, Chief of Global Transport, UNICEF

Jean-Cedric Meeus’s work since 2001 has focused on improving UNICEF supply chains. He is currently Chief of Global Transport at UNICEF Supply Division based in Copenhagen and covering offshore and inland transport. Since 2001, Jean-Cedric has held different supply chain roles with UNICEF, based in Mozambique, HQ New York City  (Supply Emergency Response Officer), HQ Copenhagen (Chief Emergency Supply Manager), Dakar Regional office (RO) of Western and Central Africa (RO Supply Chain manager).

Prior to UNICEF, Jean-Cedric worked as a supply and program technical specialist with Medècins Sans Frontière over nine years in different countries. He has led and managed emergency operations and supply chain teams in a wide range of global humanitarian crises and development programs over the past three decades. He strives to improve delivery of humanitarian aid by influencing and implementing practical, innovative changes. Through Jean-Cedric’s different positions he managed supply of pharmaceuticals, immunization, health, education and WASH commodities to participants in UNICEF and government programs.

Sustainability, no longer a marketing hype but an integral part of every major business and industry, supported by metrics, new ESG standards and the UN Sustainability Goals. A lot of initiatives, investments and innovative actions are being taken by both smaller and larger enterprises. However, driving so called “radical sustainability” across multiple dimensions and getting the results is a much more difficult task, especially when it comes down to the actions taken and communication towards your customers and suppliers.

Join industry experts Cope Willis and Bill Weil for their insights and thoughts on how to drive true sustainability across domains and dimensions and what this really means for organizations and their customers in terms of profits loss and how to navigate through this fairly new and unknown field with confidence. Under the guidance of prof. Craig Smith, INSEAD Chair in Ethics and Social Responsibility, who has done extensive research on this topic resulting in numerous case studies, they will deep dive and discuss the bottlenecks, pitfalls and opportunities for driving radical sustainability in your organization.  Sven Fischer, founder of INDEVOR’s US Alumni Club will introduce the panel, and INSEAD Women In Business (WiB) Global Club co-president Liana Slater will moderate questions.

About the speakers:

Cope Willis is Vice President of Sustainability and Environmental Solutions at Harsco Corporation and has over 17 years experience in sustainability, business strategy and operations. He is leading the global sustainability and environmental program for Harsco Corporation, a global leader in environmental solutions operating in more than 30 countries. Before his current role, Cope worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) advising Fortune 500 companies on how to leverage sustainability to minimize operating costs, mitigate risks, increase revenue and enhance reputations. His clients have included some of the world leaders in financial services, industrial products, energy, healthcare and consumer goods industries.

Bill Weil is focused on catalyzing market-based solutions to climate change. His experience spans Private Equity investing and working with major multinational corporations on renewable energy, recycling and energy efficiency. He has served as an active director on more than a dozen boards, led teams of investment professionals, worked on operational turnarounds and been directly responsible for hundreds of million of dollars invested to date. Amongst others, he has served as lead funder for the Climate Action 100+ initiative to bring together companies and investors to drive investment in and reporting on climate reduction initiatives.

Moderator:

Professor N. Craig Smith has been on the INSEAD faculty for the past ten years as the INSEAD Chair in Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He is also the Academic Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethics Research Group in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, with a focus on Radical Sustainability. Prof. Smith’s research is at the intersection of business and society, encompassing business/marketing ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability strategies. He is the author, coauthor or coeditor of seven books and numerous academic articles in journals such as, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review, a regular public speaker, and serves on the Scientific Committee of Vigeo, the corporate social responsibility rating agency.

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9pnBWSabSOym85V93OsUXg#the-main-content

Make an Impact! Eliminating Gender & Racial Bias In The World.

Empowering Change Through Education.

Wednesday, 27th October, 9AM ET / 3PM CEST / 9PM SGT

Leslee Udwin is one of the most extraordinary people some of us have had the privilege of meeting and this is your chance to meet her too!

Join us for this global INSEAD Alumni event, co-created by INDEVOR (INSEAD Global Impact) Club, USA INSEAD Alumni Association, INSEAD Women in Business Global Club and the ThinkEqual organization.

The making of the BBC documentary film India’s Daughter, based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh on a moving bus in Delhi, changed Leslee’s life dramatically. Making the documentary brought her face to face with Jyoti’s rapist-killers, the police, lawyers, members of the legislature and government, and the murdered rape victim’s her parents. Her experience of the ubiquitous and entrenched gender bias against women and girls shook her. The exposé was banned and never released in India and saw her unable to re-enter the country.

This month we’re bringing this exciting conversation and opportunity for the INSEAD Alumni community, to learn more about this global issue, get involved in a global movement to end discriminatory mindset and make an impact! Sign up for the event today and join the conversation! Come prepared for an interactive and eye opening session!  

For more information and to register, click here

Tuesday July 6^th 2021 – 17:00 – 18:00 CEST

Register here

“The impact of the measurement and reporting movement has been oversold. During this same 20-year period of increased reporting and sustainable investing, carbon emissions have continued to rise, and environmental damage has accelerated. Social inequity, too, is increasing. It turns out that reporting is not a proxy for progress.”

So argues Kenneth P Pucker, former COO at Timberland in a Harvard Business Review article.

In this online event organised in collaboration with the Radix Centre for Business, Politics and Society, Ken will share his views on the state of play and what might be needed for real ‘progress’ to happen. We will explore whether pressure from the investor community provides a credible route to change in a low return environment. Does public policy need to go further and is there any evidence that there is any appetite for that at the European level?

Panel

Kenneth P. Pucker is a senior lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He is an advisory director at Berkshire Partners and was formerly the chief operating officer of Timberland.

Joanne Kellermann is the chair of Pension Fund Zorg & Welzijn, the pension fund for the care and welfare sectors of The Netherlands. She currently also chairs the board of supervisory directors of NWB Bank NV, the board of the University of Utrecht and Aflatoun International, an NGO that empowers 10 million children annually worldwide through social and financial education.

Willem Vriesendorp is the founder of Brussels-based #SustainablePublicAffairs, the first Public Affairs firm to only take on cases that have a positive impact on the environment. Qualified as a lawyer he moved into public affairs, specialising in competition and environmental issues. Previously, Willem was a partner with FIPRA International as co-head of the competition practice and head of the environment practice.

Moderator

Fritz Lietsch is the founder of the sustainability portal www.forum-csr.net. As editor-in-chief of the decisionmaking magazine “Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften” he is a co-designer of the transformation of economy and society. Fritz Lietsch is author of numerous books and magazine contributions, moderator and speaker in matters, CSR, shaping the future and sustainability. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious B.A.U.M. Environmental Prize.