ABIS Knowledge Into Action Forum 2018

Business Model Innovation in the SDG Era

Nancy Bocken

Nancy is Professor in Sustainable Business Management and Practice at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden. She is also Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology where she was awarded the TU Delft Technology Fellowship. Her research focuses on sustainable business models, and design and innovation for a circular economy.

Nancy’s main areas of interest are sustainable business models, business experiments for sustainability, sustainable innovation, scaling up sustainable business and closing the 'idea-action' gap in sustainability.

At Lund University she coordinates research in Sustainable Business. She is responsible for H2020 project CIRCUSOL, which is about Circular Business Model Innovation and Experimentation for the Solar Industry and is involved MISTRA REES; a Swedish research programme on circular economy.

At Delft University of Technology, she coordinated the H2020 Innovative Training Network on Circular Economy Research (Circ€uit) and ERN on creating a European Remanufacturing Network and several other projects on sustainable business models.

Previously Nancy worked as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she coordinated project REDRESS on diverting fashion waste from landfill and was involved in FP7 project SustainValue. Nancy has led several collaborative research projects and has been supervising and teaching at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the Cambridge Department of Engineering and Judge Business School. In 2013 she was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where she was lecturing on Corporate Environmental Strategy, while continuing her work on sustainable business models.

Interwoven with her academic work, Nancy regularly advises organisations across sectors and continents and various sustainability start-up initiatives. She co-founded HOMIE, who develop and test circular business models, starting with pay per use home appliances.

Before going into academia, Nancy held positions in the logistics, banking and consulting sectors. Originally from the Netherlands, she has lived and worked in France, the UK, the USA and now Sweden. Nancy holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Anthony Carey

Anthony Carey is a partner and leads the board practice in the UK. He also takes an active role in thought leadership issues and public interest issues related to the profession especially in the areas of corporate responsibility and human rights.

Anthony is actively involved in Mazars’ Business. For Good initiative, is co-author of Mazars’ Board Charter for Sustainable Success and co-developed the firm’s Board Polarities model. He is also a lead for the Centre for Audit Committee and Investor Dialogue, a joint initiative between Mazars and a number of leading institutional investors.

Anthony is a chartered accountant and chartered director and is an experienced facilitator of board effectiveness reviews across a range of sectors, including financial services.

He is a member of the FRC Financial Reporting Lab Steering Group and also serves on the executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance. He is a past member of the FRC’s Financial Reporting Review Panel and was project director for the original Turnbull Report dealing with risk management and internal control.

Dominique Debecker

Maryline Fiaschi

After six years managing EU education programmes with the European Commission, Maryline entered the media business in 2007. She held business development positions at Shanghai Daily and EU affairs media company EurActiv. She joined Science|Business in 2011 where she now leads the company’s operations and growth strategy. She is also an external evaluator for several EU higher education and research and innovation programmes. Maryline holds degrees from Université La Sorbonne, Università di Bologna and Université de Louvain.

Nynke Haardt

Nynke Haardt holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has worked in the banking industry for nineteen years in a diverse range of departments, with a focus on arranging and advising clients on financing structures in both the Structured Finance and Corporate Banking divisions. After 8 years within ABN AMRO, Nynke joined ING Bank in 2008.

Currently, she is leading an ING initiative to develop a methodology that will support ING and the wider banking sector to measure the climate impact of their lending portfolios and benchmark this against the (well-below) 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement. While there is currently no accepted market standard or methodology for banks, ING has partnered with 2DII to develop a method that would allow for both measurement and science-based target setting. 

Patrick Hull

Florian Lüdeke-Freund

Florian Lüdeke-Freund is Lecturer at ESCP Europe Berlin, where he also holds the Chair for Corporate Sustainability. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University, and the Governing Responsible Business Research Environment at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Prior to joining ESCP Europe in October 2017, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Hamburg and earned a PhD in social sciences and economics in 2013 at Leuphana University. His main research interests are corporate sustainability, sustainable entrepreneurship, business models, and innovation.

Besides publishing numerous journal articles and book chapters on these topics, he is guest editor of journal special issues with Organization & Environment, Business & Society, and the Journal of Business Models. Florian Lüdeke-Freund is serving on different advisory boards, including the Journal of Business Models and the annual International Conference on New Business Models. He is an active member of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, and has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Jakob Thoma

Jakob Thomae currently works as the Director for the 2° Investing Initiative (2°ii), where he manages the London and Berlin office and leads the SEI metrics and ET Risk projects. Jakob has authored and co-authored a number of studies for 2°ii, including on 2°C portfolio methodologies, benchmark index investing, stress-testing long-term and carbon risks, artificial short-termism, the role of financial regulatory policies in shifting private capital to climate-friendly investments, and financed emissions methodologies. He contributed research as part of the 2014 IEA World Energy Outlook Special Report on Investments and lead a Sub Working Group on “Landscaping carbon risks for financial intermediaries” as part of the UNEP-Fi/GHG-Protocol financial sector guidance on measuring GHG-emissions.

Jakob graduated with a Masters cum laude degree from Sciences Po Paris and Beijing University and is currently pursuing his PhD at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers on the implications of climate change for financial portfolios.

Emmanuel Verhoosel

Emmanuel Verhoosel (1968, Belgian) graduated in law and political science from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1991. He is holder of a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and a Master in Finance from the London Business School.

He began his career with law firm Linklaters in 1992. He subsequently turned his focus to the financial sector in 1994, working for the Brussels and London offices of JPMorgan bank. He went on to leave the company in 2008 after a career path in various sectors of the investment bank (his last position was as Head of Real Estate Structured Finance for Continental Europe) in the United Kingdom. At this point, he joined the ING Group as Head of Real Estate Finance Americas, Western Europe and Structured Products for ING UK.

2012 marked his return to Belgium where he took up the role of Head of Wholesale Banking and Corporate Clients for Continental Western Europe within the Wholesale Banking department of ING Belgium SA/nv, a department he will head from 1 November this year.

Patricia Vangheluwe

Dr Patricia Vangheluwe graduated from the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1984 with a PhD in Organic Chemistry, followed by a post-Doctorate at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). She also holds a master degree in Controllership from the Vlerick Management School (Ghent, Belgium).

She joined Shell in 1989 and held various positions from manager to Senior Vice President in Shell, Montell, Basell and LyondellBasell in the fields of research, marketing, strategy, communications and human resources. She worked in Belgium, Germany, South America and South Africa and travelled extensively around the world.

In October 2010 she joined PlasticsEurope to lead their pan-European Technical Department. Together with expert teams, she manages and coordinates the scientific content to support the association’s mission. 

Wayne Visser

Prof. Dr Wayne Visser holds the Chair in Sustainable Transformation and is Professor of Integrated Value at Antwerp Management School. He is also Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. His work as a strategy analyst, sustainability advisor, CSR expert, futurist and professional speaker has taken him to 74 countries in the past 30 years to work with over 150 clients.

Dr Visser is the author of 28 books – including The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise and Sustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change through Business, Leadership and Innovation. He has published over over 320 chapters, articles and reports and is a guest columnist for The Huffington Post and The Guardian. As a professional speaker and academic lecturer, Dr Visser has delivered over 330 keynote speeches, lectures, courses and workshops in over 50 countries. 

In addition to his academic roles, Dr Visser is Director of Kaleidoscope Futures, Founder of CSR International and Board Member of Migrant Entrepreneurs International. He previously served as Director of Sustainability Services for KPMG and Strategy Analyst for Capgemini in South Africa. Dr Visser has been recognised a Top 100 thought-leader in trustworthy business and a Top 100 global sustainability leader. He is also the recipient of the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award.

Léon Wijnands

Léon has held various senior positions at ING, most recently as director of Sales & Service Call at ING Netherlands.

Léon has a track record in sustainability-related activities at ING. Between 2005 and 2009, he was chairman of ING Microfinance Support. From 2009, Léon took on the role of ING Sustainability ambassador and in 2011 he became a member of the board and treasurer of ING’s employee charity fund in the Netherlands.