INDEVOR Global Impact Network June 2023 Newsletter

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June 2023

Thanks to the small but mighty group of INDEVOR Global Impact Network Members who made our Annual General Meeting on June 10th.  We took care of the following business as the global “umbrella” club for engaging alumni and promoting events and resources around all things related to sustainability, a role that saw us formalize a tight collaboration with Community Impact Challenge (CIC) this year and spur a robust and growing membership:

  1. We voted unanimously to amend INDEVOR club’s charter to: focus on sustainable development – both social and environmental impact; collaborate closely with all INSEAD clubs and initiatives that care about sustainability; and explicitly invite NAAs and Global Clubs that want to formalize collaboration with INDEVOR to invite their members to join INDEVOR’s mailing list through MyINSEAD.  See amended Charter here.
  2. We ratified by large majority the appointments of Ebru Carter (Secretary), Ashish Agarwal (Treasurer) and Arnaud Bertrand (Community Impact Challenge Liaison) to the INDEVOR-GIC Executive Committee, all of whom are both CIC and INDEVOR members and have been filling critical ExCo roles that were vacated during COVID.
  3. We provided updates on our collaborations with: CIC on annual sustainability summit and StartNOW challenge, shared back office services and merger exploration; with student clubs and HGIBs on sustainability careers mentoring; and with NAAs & GCs on joint programming.
  4. We planned our late fall ExCo election to fill three seats vacating at year end and agreed election with be open to all members, with promotion across the INDEVOR/Sustainability reps within each NAA or Global Club to surface nominations.  Election date TBD in late November or early December.
  5. We brainstormed ideas for our May 2024 second annual Sustainable Business Summit and agreed it will start with a morning nature plunge in the Fontainebleau forest to ground ourselves in the stakes of biodiversity before we meet for panel discussions.  Please send more ideas to [email protected].
  6. Looking forward, this Saturday, we’ll co-sponsor a summer jobs/internships kiosk before and after HGIBS Summit (see below), and roll out more programming with NAAs, and other GCs on creating social and environmental impact, starting with our next webinar July 6th co-sponsored with NAA Brazil on using tech to eradicate poverty (See announcement below.)

June 17th
SUSTAINABILITY JOB/INTERNSHIP CORNER ON CAMPUS

HGIBS will celebrate 5 years of its Force for Good actions on Saturday 17th June from 2-6 pm in Fonty with panels (featuring some of our dear classmates) and a cocktail at the Château (line up here), and a jobs corner for sustainability internships and full-time roles for students, co-sponsored by INDEVOR global club and INDEVOR and Environment & Business student clubs.

The jobs corner will be held during the following times (and its exact location posted at the Summit):

  • one hour before (1-2 pm)
  • one hour after (6:15-7:15 pm)
  • during the mid-conference break (3:50-4:10 pm)

Why? To meet potential employers / INSEAD Alumni in the “business & society” sphere in person who have available opportunities for students.

Please fill in the following survey here to let us know of your presence and the areas in which you’re looking for an internship or a job.

Webinar July 6th
Using Tech to Eradicate Poverty: The 3D (Dignity, Development& Digital) Approach That’s Working in Brazil’s Favelas

REGISTER NOW  for this fireside chat with globally acclaimed social entrepreneur Edu Lyra on using tech to eradicate poverty.  Sponsored by INDEVOR-GIN, NAA Brazil, HGIBS.  Time 10 am NYC/ 4 pm Paris/ 10 pm Sing.
Biographies

EDU LYRA (Speaker)
Founder & CEO @Gerando Falcões*

Edu Lyra, 34, is the founder and CEO of Gerando Falcões, an NGO that makes social impact projects possible in the peripheries and favelas of Brazil. It is a reality that he knows from his own experience and seeks to transform through globally recognized actions.

One of the country’s most active and admired social entrepreneurs, Lyra is also a sought-after speaker, having been invited to speak at universities such as Harvard and Babson College and at companies such as Google, Ambev, and Accenture.

The World Economic Forum selected Edu Lyra as one of the fifteen young people who can change the world, thus joining the Global Shapers team. He wrote the book “Jovens Falcões” and contributed to the film “Na Quebrada” screenplay.

Recently spoke at the UN to present the Favela 3D project at the invitation of the UN Global Pact in Brazil.

 

KATELL LE GOULVEN (Moderator)
Executive Director @INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business & Society

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 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, an MS in Tropical Agronomy, and an Engineering degree. She recently moderated food industry discussions at Davos.

 

RAFAEL BREVIGLIERI, MBA’19D (Moderator)

NAA Brazil INDEVOR Club Leader
Director @ LALA Brazil Hub

Rafael is an economist from Unicamp and MBA from INSEAD, 19D cohort. He started his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company, where he worked across a wide range of industries and practices, and spearheaded social impact initiatives within the São Paulo office. He also worked at Fundação Lemann and is currently the Brazil Director at Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA), a leadership development non-profit that aims to build the next generation of principled and purpose-driven leaders for Latin America.

 

Kind regards,

Your INDEVOR Alumni Club Executive Committee,

Katie Smith Milway, MBA’93D. President

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

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