ABIS Annual Colloquium 2015

Global Sustainability Strategy: New models and approaches to achieve sustainable living

Prof. Bruno Busacca

Prof. Bruno Busacca is the Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University. He is Full Professor of Corporate Economics and Management and holds a chair in Marketing at Bocconi University, Department of Marketing.

In 1990, he was Research Associate at the University of California at Berkeley, School of Business Administration. He has been President of the Master Committee and Rector Delegate for cultural activities and relationships with Institutions at Bocconi University.

He directed the Marketing Department (1999-2003) and the Executive Education Custom Programs Division (2004-2008) at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Since 2008 he has run the Masters Division of the School.

His research is mainly focused on consumer behavior, marketing strategy and shareholder value, customer-based pricing strategies, strategic brand management. On these topics he published many articles in academic journals and several books.

Prof. Filippo Giordano

Filippo Giordano is professor of Public Management and Policy at SDA Bocconi School of Management Milano and Assistant Professor of Management at LUMSA University in Rome. He is teaching fellow of Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing at Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University.

He is Chair of Strategic Interest Group (SIG) in Local Governance at IRSPM – International Research Society of Public Management and Track chair of “Accountability, Sustainability and Ethics in public and non profit organizations” at EURAM – European Academy of Management.

He holds Laurea Degree in Management of Public Administration and International Institutions from Bocconi (Milan-Italy)PhD in Public management at University of Parma.

His research interests are in the area of social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, public and non profit management.

Prof. Francesco Perrini

Francesco Perrini is Head of Sustainability Research Lab at CDR – Claudio Demattè Research, SDA Bocconi School of Management and Senior Professor of Corporate and Real Estate Finance. He is Full Professor of Strategy and SIF Chair of Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy at the Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.  He was Director of Bocconi CSR Unit at the Department of Management, Bocconi University and Coordinator of CSR activities at SDA Bocconi. 

He was also Director CLEAM - Bachelor of "Business Administration and Management", Director CReSV - "Center for REsearch on Sustainability and Value", Director MAGER - Master in Sustainability, Green Management, Energy and CSR, at Bocconi University

He was the Founder of the Finetica Observatory with the Pontificia Università del Laterano, Vatican City, and Vice-Chair of Academy of Business in Society -ABIS. He was External Collaborator of the ‘Multinational Enterprises Program’ at International Labour Organization (ILO), Ginevra.

He holds Laurea Degree in Business Administration from Bocconi (Milan-Italy); PIM at ESADE (Barcelona-Spain); Specialisation Course in "Stock Exchanges and other Regulated Markets" and “Prevenire gli illeciti d’impresa” (Preventing Corporate Unlawfulness), Bocconi (Milan-Italy); ITP-International Teachers Program, NYU Stern School of Management, New York.

He spent the academic year, 2004-05, at the Business Ethics and Legal Studies Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Since 1990 he has been a researcher at Bocconi, focusing on strategic management & technology; Corporate Finance and Real Estate; Valuations of investments, firms and start-ups; Crisis and corporate restructuring; Financial strategies for development, stock-exchanging listings, project financing, financial communication; Economic analysis for corporate decisions; Corporate social responsibility; Sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy.

Prof. Jacques Attali

Professor, writer, Honorary Member of the Council of State, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, founder and first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London from 1991 to 1993, Jacques Attali (www.attali.com) is currently President of Positive Planet (new name of PlaNet Finance, www.planetfinance.org), an international non-profit organisation assisting microfinance institutions all over the world.

Cédric Baecher

A graduate of the ESSEC Business School, Cédric Baecher is the co-founder and managing partner of Nomadéis (www.nomadeis.com), a consulting agency based in Paris and specialised in sustainability, CSR and international cooperation issues. Since 2002, he has been leading 400+ assignments in 50+ countries, working for governments, international institutions, companies and NGOs. His key areas of expertise include green economy, sustainable urbanisation, corporate social responsibility and new business models (circular economy, collaborative economy, positive economy). As a permanent member of the international reflection group on positive economy chaired by Jacques Attali, he currently serves as general rapporteur for the positive economy indexes. Registered by the European Commission as an independent expert on green innovation, he is a fellow of the young leaders programs of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, the American Swiss Foundation and the Council for the US and Italy. He is also a member of the Board of the Solucom corporate Foundation and one of the co-founders of the ScenaRio project, the first global research on youth and sustainable development.

Roberto Barbieri

Roberto Barbieri, MSc in Economics, has twenty years of professional experience in development. He has worked with Unicef in Central America as Education and Child Rights Officer. He had various experiences with Italian consulting firms working on international development issues. Barbieri also spent four years coordinating the Secretariat of social and educational services of six municipalities in Tuscany, before joining the Italian NGO Ucodep in 2002.  In Ucodep he has been the International Programme Director for six years, following the affiliation process to Oxfam International. He became Oxfam Italy’s Executive Director in 2012. He also teaches Project Cycle Management at the University of Florence, in the Faculty of Economics.

Ernesto Ciorra

Ernesto Ciorra was born in Rome in 1971 and he is married with two children. He graduated in Business Administration at Bocconi University in Milan and he began his career as a partner at consulting firm Busacca & Associati, helping telecommunications businesses in a number of innovative projects. In 2003 Mr. Ciorra founded the consulting firm Ars et Inventio, which he headed up until taking up his current position. He supported the planning of the Chief Innovation Officer Function at leading firms around the world, coming up with innovative ideas that have since become popular worldwide.

The most important companis with whom he worked are: Enel S.p.A ed Enel Green Power, Nokia Italia e Finlandia, Telecom Italia, Wind Infostrada, Vodafone, Fastweb, Abbvie, Zodiak Group, Poste Italiane, ENI, Gaz de France, A2A, Edison, GSE, Angelini Farmaceutica, Unilever, RCS, Sole 24 Ore, BNP, UBI Banca, Unicredit, ABI, American Express, Sisal, SAS, Euler Hermes (Allianz Group), EY, Fater e Fameccanica (Procter & Gamble Joint Ventures).

Mr. Ciorra taught Innovation Management at a number of Italian and Spanish universities and was the scientific coordinator of the Masters in Innovation Management ran by Italian newspaper Sole24Ore's Business School. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Master in Innovation Strategy at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and the director of the Advanced Innovation Management Programme at the IE Business School in Madrid.

He is also the author of three collections of poems and a play that has been performed in a number of Italian theatres.

Ernesto Ciorra was named Head of the Enel Group's Innovation and Sustainability Function in September 2014.

H.R.H. Princess Abze Djigma

CEO AbzeSolar S.A.

Initiator and leader of the ‘MAMA-LIGHT^® Initiative for Sustainable Energy’   

Member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of UNISDR  

Energy Focal Point for UNISDR

President Senior Advisor External Relations and Gender for the Center Region Council of Burkina Faso (C.R.C)

H.R.H. Princess Abze Djigma is a Mossi Princess from Burkina Faso and a direct descendant of Princess Yennenga, considered the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso and a famous warrior in the 12th century.

After studying in Europe and working in KPMG, she went back to Africa to use her skills and experience to help and to empower her people. 

H.R.H. Princess Abze Djigma is the founder and the CEO of AbzeSolar S.A. She initiated and is leading the ‘MAMA-LIGHT^® Initiative for Sustainable Energy’. This worldwide program empowers the bottom of the pyramid by making MAMA-LIGHT^® off grid solar systems available for people who have no access to modern energy and accelerates sustainable economic growth for youth and women. The initiative has been recognized by the Dutch Government as an inclusive Green Growth Business Model and is selected by the United Nations as one of the 14 global breakthrough solutions for achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals.

“The MAMA-LIGHT^® Initiative for Sustainable Energy” together with traditional authorities and local governments forges building unity, supports creating a good environment for implementation and pays attention on gender equality in the implementation of the SDG’s framework. It includes the development of relevant sector policies and standards, monitors mechanisms and strengthens capacities, through clear and focused programs to fulfil the post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. 

Prof. Christof E. Ehrhart

Christof Ehrhart is Head of Corporate Communications & Responsibility and Executive Vice President at Deutsche Post DHL Group, with about 470.000 employees in more than 200 countries and territories the world´s leading mail and logistics Group.

Prior to joining Deutsche Post DHL Group in 2009, he was in charge of Corporate Communications at European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the mother company of Airbus. Ehrhart looks back on more than 15 years of experience as professional in international communications for major global players such as America Online (Internet), Bertelsmann (Media), Schering (Ethical Pharma) and JT International (Tobacco).

Besides his corporate career Ehrhart has been continuously engaged as visiting lecturer in the academic discipline of Corporate Communications. His teaching assignments in the last ten years include the Free University Berlin, the University of Zurich and the University of Leipzig. Until 2011 he was heading the Board of Trustees of the newly founded private Quadriga University Berlin for post-graduate studies in communications. Ehrhart has published a number of articles on media and communications in magazines and scientific books.

Ehrhart studied Poltical Science, Economic History and German Literature at the University of Saarland (Saarbrücken) and at the University of Wales (College of Cardiff). After having earned his Ph.D. in Political Science for a study on the transformation of political systems he worked as research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Saarland before je joined corporate business.

Since 2013 Christof Ehrhart is Honorary Professor for International Corporate Communications at the Institute Communications- and Media Science of the University of Leizpig.

Prof. Frank Geels

Frank Geels is Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, which is an inter-departmental institute at The University of Manchester. Prof. Geels is also chairman of the international Sustainability Transitions Research Network, and one of the world-leading scholars on socio-technical transitions, which entail co-evolutionary interactions between technology, consumer practices, firms, markets, policy, cultural meaning, and infrastructure.

Working in the field of innovation studies, Geels practices an inter-disciplinary style, which makes crossovers between evolutionary economics, Science and Technology Studies, neo-institutional theory, sociology, history of technology, and cultural studies. Geels is particularly well-known for his conceptual work on the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and Strategic Niche Management (SNM), which respectively address socio-technical transitions and radical innovations.

He is also well-known for historical and contemporary case studies in various empirical domains, such as water supply, renewable energy technologies, and transportation. The latter shaping international debates about sustainable development.

His work on transitions is shaping international debates about sustainable development and has been embraced by the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Prof. Geels has extensive experience in research management, acting as PI and Co-I in research proposals funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, European Research Council, Dutch Research Council.

Didier Hamon

Didier Hamon was born on 5 September 1951. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, completed master's studies in law, and studied at the École Nationale de la Magistrature. Didier Hamon was deputy state prosecutor of two French departments, first Val-d'Oise and then Hauts-de-Seine; Secretary General of the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle; and Programme Director for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. He was also senior lecturer at Sciences Po for eight years and professor at the University of Versailles. Didier Hamon was Chief of Staff and adviser for two ministers—Jack Lang and, later, Jean-Louis Bianco—over a period of five years. Didier Hamon joined Aéroports de Paris in 1993 as Communications Director, thus becoming the company spokesman. In 2003 he was appointed Environment and Sustainable Development Director. Since May 2013, he has held the position of Secretary General of Aéroports de Paris. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Andrea Illy

Andrea Illy is Chairman and CEO of illycaffè S.p.A., a family-established business founded in Trieste, Italy in 1933, with the singular mission of producing the world’s highest quality coffee.

From 1999 to 2013, he has served as President of Paris-based Association Scientifique International du Cafè (A.S.I.C.), the premier international research organization for the global coffee industry. Since 2001 he has served on the executive board of Altagamma, a foundation dedicated to promoting the excellence of the Italian industry and was appointed President in 2013.

From 2003 to 2006, was a member of the Advisory Board of SDA Bocconi.

In 2004, Andrea Illy was named “Imprenditore dell’Anno” (Businessman of the Year) by Ernst & Young Italia.

In 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the Promotion and Market Development Committee of ICO (International Coffee Organization), under the auspices of the United Nations. Chief among his duties are promoting coffee consumption at the global level by communicating its positive values.

Also in 2012, Andrea Illy joined the Reflection Group of LH Forum, the movement for a positive economy created by leading French economist Jacques Attali.

In 2013 he was named an inaugural member of the Sustainable Business Leadership Council of Menus of Change, an initiative of the Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health. Also in 2013, 2014 and 2015 Andrea Illy’s leadership in responsible business practices was recognized when illycaffè was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute.

In 2013 Andrea Illy was appointed top Advisor of the Bank of Italy, for the seat of Trieste.

Andrea was born in Trieste, Italy in 1964.  He earned a Master Executive degree from at SDA-Bocconi in Milan in 1993, and earned an advanced degree in chemistry from the University of Trieste in 1994. In 2012 he completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and in 2014 the Executive Program at the Singularity University of Silicon Valley (California). He is married, and has three daughters. 

Prof. Ioannis Ioannou

Prof. Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). More specifically, he seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organization contributes towards building a sustainable future. His academic work evolves around two main themes: a) understanding how investment analysts, and the public equity markets, perceive, evaluate and react to corporate engagement with, and integration of, environmental and social issues into strategy and b) understanding the multiple factors (e.g. institutional, regulatory, behavioural) that may affect, drive or hinder, the corporate decision to adopt environmentally and socially responsible strategies.

Prof. Ioannou regularly publishes in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science and the Journal of International Business Studies and he is on the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal. He is also active on social media and a frequent contributor to articles in the popular and managerial press including outlets such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Forbes. In further recognition of his impactful work, Prof. Ioannou has been shortlisted for the Future Thinker Award of Thinkers50, the first-ever global ranking of management thinkers whose mission is to recognize ideas that have the power to change the world.

Visit ioannou.us to view the full profile.

Prof. Andrew A. King

Professor Andrew A. King is an authority on environmental performance and innovation. His research has clarified whether and when firms can find ways to profitably reduce their impact on the environment. His empirical tests of the efficacy of industry self-regulation have helped change both private and public policy. Some of his current research explores open source innovation and knowledge sharing. 

Professor King was an early advocate of rigorous research on what is now called "sustainability," and his findings and methods have influenced scholars in many disciplines. With students and colleagues, he helped found some of the most important research institutions in the field, culminating in the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability.

In recognition of his contribution to research and teaching, Professor King has received a Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute and a Marvin Bower Fellowship from Harvard University. In 2015, he received the second ever Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organizations and the Environment division of the Academy of Management.  

Professor King has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University, a Masters of Science in the same discipline from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Management from the Scloan School of Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis won MIT’s Zannetos Prize for scholarship.

Peter Lacy

Peter Lacy leads the Sustainability practice at Accenture Strategy.

He has worked for 15+ years with CEOs and top management of a range of Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, European Union and national governments, helping to solve complex strategy and sustainability challenges. 

Before Accenture, Peter worked for McKinsey and Co, Andersen Consulting and the Academy of Business in Society, where he was founding executive director. He has advised top executives and boards for companies such as GSK, Diageo, BP, Coca-Cola, M&S, Exxon-Mobil, Vodafone, General Electric and Motorola.

He has three times led the world’s largest study on CEO attitudes to sustainability for the United Nations Global Compact and was a founding signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education.

In 2010 Peter was voted a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is lead advisor to WEF’s Digital Transformation of Industries project, chairs it Circular Economy YGL Taskforce and sits on it Meta-Council for Circular Economy and Global Agenda Council for the Future of Real Estate. Peter’s latest book “Waste to Wealth – Creating Advantage in a Circular Economy” is co-authored with Jakob Rutqvist and published by Palgrave-Macmillan, August 2015.

Mario Monti

Mario Monti, former Italian Prime Minister and EU Commissioner and the current President of Bocconi University has been confirmed as one of our keynote speakers at this year’s Annual Colloquium.

Born in Varese, Italy, in 1943, Mr. Monti graduated from Bocconi and pursued graduate studies at Yale University. Prior to joining the European Commission, he had been Professor of Economics and Rector at Bocconi.

Mr. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Next to being appointed for his 2 year term as Prime Minister of Italy (2011-2013), he also served as Minister of Economy and Finance (2011-2012).

Apart from that, Mr. Monti chairs the Council on the Future of Europe of the Berggruen Institute on Governance and is Honorary Chairman of Bruegel, the European think-tank he founded in 2005 and is also a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques since 2014. Since February 2014 he has been Chairman of the High-level Group on Own Resources of the European Union. 

Letizia Moratti

Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi Moratti is one of Europe's best-known businesswomen thanks to her 25 years of international activities in finance, insurance and risk management, communications services and the new media. In addition to her achievements in business, she has held important positions in public institutions: in 1994 she was the first woman ever assigned President of RAI- Radio Televisione Italiana; in 2001 she was appointed Minister for Education, University and Scientific Research in the Italian Government; from 2006 until 2011 she has been the first woman elected Mayor of Milan and in 2008, after Mrs Moratti Campaign, the City of Milan was awarded to host Expo 2015.

Since 2012 she is President of the Ethics Committee of the Guarantors for the projects between Microfinance National Institution and San Patrignano Foundation ONLUS.

In 2013 she became member of the Italian Advisory Board – Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8 of the International Board of Women for Expo 2015 and of the International Board of the Movement for the Positive Economy of Jacques Attali.

Since 2015 she is member of the Advisory Board of the Pubblicità Progresso Foundation.

She received the Honorary Citizenship in Seoul (South Korea), Banjoul (Gambia), Dajabon (Dominican Republic) and Belize.

Among the international awards she has received, in 2008 she was awarded the “Légion d'honneur; in 2008 President Uribe appointed her Grand Official of the Order of San Carlos and conferred her Colombian Citizenship; in 2010 she received from the Japanese Government the Order of the Rising Sun, Silver and Gold Star and in January 2014 she was awarded, by the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, the honours of Grande Ufficiale al merito della Repubblica Italiana.

Janos Pasztor

Janos Pasztor is currently Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations in New York. He joined the UN on February 2015 after taking a leave of absence from WWF International. A national of Hungary (and later also of Switzerland), he received his MS and BS degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

(for further details see Janos Pasztor's LinkedIn profile)

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Alessandra Perrazzelli was appointed Italy Country Manager of Barclays in September 2013 with responsibilities across the Retail, Wealth and Corporate & Investment Banking activities.

Previously, she was Head of International Regulatory and Antitrust Affairs of Intesa San Paolo Group in Brussels, a position she held for ten years. She was CEO of Intesa San Paolo Eurodesk, a group firm dedicated to financing innovative companies.

Alessandra started her career as a lawyer in Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts in New York and Brussels, where she opened their European practice. She specialised in M&A, Antitrust and Competition Law, in the financial and banking industry. She worked as a lawyer in the merger between Irving Trust and The Bank of New York in the US. In Italy, she assisted in the merger between Intesa BCI and San Paolo IMI, where she was responsible for all regulatory aspects of the merger. She worked for Olivetti, where she participated to the creation of Omnitel Pronto-Italia and Infostrada. As a lawyer in Poste Italiane she worked at the turnaround of the company.

Until 2013 she has been President of Valore D, an association of more than a hundred companies that foster women’s talent in Italy. Barclays is a member of Valore D.

Alessandra is a Board member of Azienda Trasporti Milanese since October 2011, member of the Council of the Italian Banking Association since July 2014 and this year she was appointed member of AIBE, Italian Association of Foreign Banks.

She graduated in Corporate Law at the New York University Law School and Law at the University of Genoa Law School. She is admitted to both the Genoa and the NY State Bars. 

Amb. Sergio Piazzi

Amb. Piazzi served as Political Officer at the US State Department in the early 1980’s. He coordinated UN relief operations in Northern Ethiopia from 1985 to 1988. He conceived and managed the UN Programme on the use of international Military and Civil Defence Assets in Disaster Relief from 1989 to 1995. In 1996 he was appointed Head of the UN/DHA Regional Desk for Europe and CIS. From 2001 to 2006, he was responsible for UN/OCHA’s External Relations. In January 2007, he was appointed Senior Adviser on European Affairs. He has been inter-alia, responsible for policy cooperation with the Council of the European Union, European Commission, NATO, Arab League, G77, G8, OIC, Council of Europe and OSCE, and their Parliamentary Assemblies. In April 2007, Amb. Piazzi was appointed Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.

In his career, Amb. Piazzi served, inter-alia, also as UN Representative in Romania in 1989-90, UNDRO delegate in Persian Gulf Region in 1990 as Special Assistant to Mr. Matti Ahtisaari; Policy Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq in 1991-92; as UN Representative to Operation Turquoise in Rwanda in 1994; he negotiated the cease-fire in Georgia in 1994, and coordinated international assistance to Poland in 1997 and Turkey in 1999. He developed the UN NATO policy framework in relation to cooperation in civil emergency management in the context of Partnership for Peace (PfP). In 2000, Amb. Piazzi organised the Fribourg Forum, the UN Ministerial Conference on European Cooperation and Coordination in Crisis Management. In 2001, he finalised the UN-Greek-Turkish trilateral cooperation protocol. In 2004, he negotiated the UN / EC agreement on cooperation in emergency operations. In 2005, he was offered the position of NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations.

Patrizia Rutigliano

Patrizia Rutigliano is Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications at Snam since December 2009. She is also President at Ferpi, the Italian Federation of Public Relations, since June 2011. 

Between April 2004 and November 2009, she was Director of Communications at Autogrill, where she was involved in the development and diversification of the Group's business in Italy and abroad.

Since January 2001 to March 2004, she was Head of External Relations at Fastweb and Manager of e.Biscom Press Office, playing a key role in the start - up of the company from its listing onwards. 

Between October 1997 and January 2001, she was Spokeswoman for Milan City Council, during the privatization phase of the major local utilities.

A professional journalist, she began her career at Mondo Economico, before moving onto Fininvest and Euronews. 

Patrizia Rutigliano is also lecturer at the High School of Communication (Master in Media Relations) of the Catholic University of Milan and member of the Steering Committee of the Department of Political Scienceat the University LUISS Guido Carli in Rome.

She is also member of the Council of Assolombarda and of the Committee for the Brand Milano Expo 2015.

She is member of the Boards of Directors of Fiera Milano (Milan City Trade Fair), where she is also part of the Audit and Risk Committee, and Toscana Energia.

Dr. Paolo Santi

Paolo Santi is a Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab where he leads the MIT-Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility initiative, and he is a Senior Researcher at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR. His research interest is in the modeling and analysis of complex systems ranging from wireless multi hop networks to sensor and vehicular networks and, more recently, smart mobility and intelligent transportation systems. In these fields, he has contributed more than 100 scientific papers and two books. Dr Santi has recently been recognized as Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Dr. Christina Scocchia

Rajendra M. Shende

Mr. Rajendra M. Shende is Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre, a not-for-profit think-tank and act-forum. Former Director at the United Nations Environment Programme-UNEP, he is IIT-alumnus and leading expert engaged as strategic advisor in transfer and development of the sustainable technologies and policies. He has advised 146 developing countries’ governments in developing and implementing their country strategies and management plans to eliminate use of Ozone Depleting Substances and contribute to the mitigation of climate change. 

Through UNEP’s five offices world wide i.e. Paris, Bangkok, Nairobi, Bahrain, and Panama city he built his programme from scratch. It has been considered as the most creative programme that contributed to the success of stabilising the Stratospheric Ozone Layer and preventing the global catastrophe by enabling the developing countries to comply with the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol has been globally considered as the single most successful example of international   environmental agreement so far.

Mr. Shende was Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore. He is proud recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize certificate shared with other coordinating lead authors.

He was awarded USA’s prestigious Climate Protection award in 2009. The OzonAction Programme led by him assisted all the developing countries to implement the Montreal Protocol, the most successful international environmental agreement so far. The programme  became the first ever programme in UN system to win Stratospheric Ozone Layer Protection award from USA in 2005.  He also won the special appreciation from the Heads of the State of Senegal, Mongolia, Bangladesh and Maldives. In 2010 all the 53 African countries together felicitated him for his efforts to assist them in building their capacity to implement the Montreal Protocol.