On May 10, 2023 distinguished faculty, HBS alumni and other business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs convened at Harvard Business School for a groundbreaking day of discussion and interaction around what it takes to discover, develop, scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions. Through expert panels, case discussions, and networking, participants considered the role of the firm, individual business leaders, and HBS, as well as new business and investment opportunities. The conference, hosted by HBS External Relations in partnership with the Business & Environment Initiative was part of Harvard Climate Action Week.

Recordings of several of the day's sessions will be available to view on the Live from Klarman Hall webpage at the end of May.

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Agenda

7:30 a.m.	Registration & Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Welcome Remarks Srikant M. Datar, Dean of the Faculty; George F. Baker Professor of Administration George Serafeim (DBA 2010), Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Lynn Schenk, Director, HBS Business & Environment Initiative
	PART 1: REIMAGINING THE SOLUTIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
8:45 a.m.	Plenary Sessions How Climate Is Central to Every Business Faculty Moderator: George Serafeim (DBA 2010), Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Speakers: Shirley Lu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration John Macomber (MBA 1983), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management; Faculty Chair, HBS Business & Environment Initiative Gunnar Trumbull (PMD 76, 2001), Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration This session will underscore that climate is a central business issue that extends across all business disciplines. To achieve climate goals, we need business leaders to build skills across disciplines and to understand how climate change considerations are being infused into all areas of management. Faculty from different units at HBS will illustrate the connection between climate change and their discipline through examples of cases they have written or taught.
9:40 a.m.	Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits? Faculty Moderator: Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989), Baker Foundation Professor Speakers: Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007), CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988), Senior Advisor, OCGI Climate Investments Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992), Member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance Dan Stephens Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company What money do we need and what skills do we need to finance a decarbonized future? How can we–and must we–reimagine our approaches to finance to accomplish our climate goals? This session will demonstrate how financiers along the capital stack are examining climate risk, return, and opportunity to seed, pilot, and scale a wide range of impactful projects, companies, and markets.
10:45 a.m.	Rebuilding Industry and Infrastructure: The Need for a New Climate Workforce Faculty Moderator: Eleanor Laurans (MBA 2006), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Evette Ellis, Cofounder & Chief Workforce Officer, ChargerHelp! Kate Gordon, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy Gordon Jones, President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Building the workforce is critical to scaling climate ventures, to valuation, and to public uptake of climate technologies both existing and new. The current skills gap and workforce shortage could be one of the biggest obstacles to achieving our climate goals. This session will examine different approaches, from policy to trade schools to exciting new and incumbent companies putting the workforce at the core of their business models.
12:00 p.m.	Working Lunches
1:15 p.m.	Breakout Sessions Case studies and topical discussions led by faculty and staff. Deeper Dive: Gaps in the Capital Stack Presenters: Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999), HBS Executive Fellow for Climate; Founder, Probable Futures Lynn Schenk, Director, HBS Business & Environment Initiative Building on the morning finance panel, this interactive discussion will aim to shed light on gaps in the capital stack that already—or will soon—slow or obstruct progress on climate solutions. Together we will crowdsource ideas to understand themes, articulate specific needs, and begin to identify new approaches and tools that could enable finance to fulfill its potential in both stabilizing the atmosphere and making society more resilient. Measuring and Reducing Corporate Carbon Emissions Faculty Presenters: Robert S. Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus Shirley Lu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Kaplan's co-authored 2021 article, “Accounting for Climate Change,” introduced the E-liability carbon accounting system for measuring corporate supply chain emissions and won Harvard Business Review’s annual McKinsey Award. Over the past 18 months, a half-dozen global companies have successfully piloted the method, and a new HBS case written about Harvard University’s potential use of the method to quantify the benefits from sourcing a low-carbon concrete mix for new building projects. The breakout session will do a deep dive into this work, including a recent extension to the trading of carbon offsets. Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution Faculty Presenters: Juan Alcacer, James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration This case discussion focuses on Iberdrola, the world's third-largest utility, and its decisions to invest in green technologies. Iberdrola was an early investor in renewables, positioning itself as a leader driving the electric industry's role in the fight against climate change. In the case, chairman and CEO Ignacio Galán is weighing the firm's options to invest further in green technologies. Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change Faculty Presenters: Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991), Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific This case discussion focuses on Northvolt, founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs in 2016 to address climate change and bring electric battery manufacturing to Europe. The company successfully built a “gigafactory” near the Arctic Circle and was soon on track to become one of the world’s largest and most sustainable battery manufacturers. But building “the world’s greenest battery” to fight climate change was a difficult—and perhaps unrealistic—goal. How much could Northvolt really contribute to the European effort against society’s greatest challenge? Leadership and Climate Action in Cities Faculty Presenter: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Bringing climate change down to earth (and actionable) means focusing on cities in which nearly all the salient issues intersect. Metropolitan areas are beginning to ramp up actions in the four main buckets: recovery (from climate-related disasters), adaptation, mitigation, and (to an extent) innovation, while also facing issues of climate justice. By examining the highly climate-vulnerable Miami area, we can identify the leadership challenges of finding and deploying solutions in a timely, effective, and equitable manner. (Hint: it’s not about the money, or the need for more big science.) Solutions involving gray (built) or green (natural) infrastructure rely on the human infrastructure – the infrastructure for collaboration. Business leaders – from established companies to climatetech entrepreneurs – can play a role as partners in cross-sector coalitions (but are too often missing).
	PART 2: SCALING ACCOUNTABILITY AND IMPACT
2:45 p.m.	Plenary Sessions Driving Climate Performance through Accountability and Governance Faculty Moderator: George Serafeim (DBA 2010), Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Speakers: Carter Roberts (MBA 1988), President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991), Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983), Board Partner, Gradient Ventures Lauren Taylor Wolfe, Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital This panel will highlight how we can effectively build the governance mechanisms for climate action. Thousands of companies have publicly announced targets for carbon reductions, aligned executive compensation with those targets, allocated resources to achieve those targets, and built board-level sustainability committees and structures to ensure the governance of their climate strategy. At the same time, investors are increasingly engaging with companies to drive climate action privately and by exercising their shareholder votes. Meanwhile, several NGOs have built certifications and other monitoring and assessment tools to understand how companies are progressing against their targets. This panel will explore the different mechanisms and ideas that have emerged on how to drive performance through accountability and governance.
3:50 p.m.	Competition or Collaboration? Navigating a Path for Successful Climate Alliances  Faculty Moderator: Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989), Baker Foundation Professor Speakers: Angela Barranco, Executive Director for North America, Climate Group Mindy Lubber, President & CEO, Ceres Curtis D. Ravenel, Senior Advisor, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair, Glasgow Alliance for Net Zero Eric Usher, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative Typically, we think of firms as being in perpetual competition with each other. When it comes to topics like climate, we need to shift to a perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way for smart regulation. This session will focus on what (climate) alliances do, why individual firms/investors would find it difficult to act alone, the management and leadership challenges of running an alliance, and the uncertain legal status of some of the groups.
4:40 p.m.	Beyond Business as Usual: Climate Disruptors Faculty Moderator: Jim Matheson (MBA 2001), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022), Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer, Mantel Richard Needham (MBA 2002), Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems Carmichael Roberts, Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Cofounder & Managing Partner, Material Impact This session will allow the audience to draw inspiration from founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in a range of businesses who are making real change. Short presentations from each disruptor will be followed by discussion focused on their examples of rethinking and disrupting business-as-usual to accelerate climate solutions.
5:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks Your Role in the Climate Future Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989) Baker Foundation Professor
	Closing Networking Reception
6:30 p.m.	Conclusion

Speaker Bios

Juan Alcacer
James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration

Angela Barranco
Executive Director for North America, Climate Group

Angela Barranco
Executive Director for North America, Climate Group

Angela Barranco has over two decades of political and policy management experience, including several years in problem-solving, campaign-driven, solutions-focused work on climate, clean energy, clean cars, and protecting natural resources, most recently as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (CRNA). Before CNRA, Barranco was chief executive for River LA, deputy chief of staff at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and associate director for Public Engagement of the White House Council of Environmental Quality.

Danielle Colson (MBA 2022)
Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer, Mantel

Danielle Colson (MBA 2022)
Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer, Mantel

Danielle Colson has over eight years of engineering, business operations, and startup experience. Colson spent the majority of her career managing natural gas combined-cycle plants at NextEra Energy. She also worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on managing sustainability-related projects, and in commercialization at Malta, a clean energy storage startup. In 2022, Colson was competitively selected as a Breakthrough Energy Fellow, and she is a member of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy Class.

Srikant Datar
Dean of the Faculty; George F. Baker Professor of Administration  

Evette Ellis
Cofounder & Chief Workforce Officer, ChargerHelp!

Evette Ellis
Cofounder & Chief Workforce Officer, ChargerHelp!

Evette Ellis is a performance-driven leader in workforce development with over fifteen years of experience, including her current role at ChargerHelp!, a technology company that enables on-demand diagnostics, data collection, maintenance, and repair of electric vehicle charging equipment. Ellis’s previous experience with the US Department of Labor’s Job Corps, where she served as a career transition and outreach specialist, has given her both an internal and external understanding of how to develop a workforce. Ellis is an impactful, thought-provoking, and candid industry expert, focused on technology, innovation, and eco-conscious workforce development.

Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999)
Founder, Probable Futures

Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999)
Founder, Probable Futures

Spencer Glendon is working to make the consequences of climate change more vivid, intuitive, and useful. Collaborating with scientists, designers, technologists, and other concerned generalists like him, Glendon founded Probable Futures, a nonprofit initiative that aims to change how we think about, talk about, and plan for the future of our society and our planet. Probable Futures offers frameworks, tools, and storytelling to help people understand, prepare for, and choose between the futures that the climate offers us. Glendon is also a pro bono consultant to many institutions, including McKinsey and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, and previously directed research at Wellington Management.

Kate Gordon
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy

Kate Gordon
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy

Kate Gordon has spent the past two decades working at the intersection of climate change, energy policy, and economic development. Most recently, Gordon served under California Governor Gavin Newsom as the Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor on Climate. Before being appointed OPR Director, Gordon was the founding director of the Risky Business Project, which focused on quantifying the economic impacts of climate change on key US regions and sectors. Gordon has served in senior leadership positions at several nonpartisan think tanks, including the Henry M. Paulson Institute, the Center for the Next Generation, the Center for American Progress, and the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Gordon got her start on energy and climate issues at the national Apollo Alliance, where she ultimately served as co-executive director until the merger with the Blue-Green Alliance in 2011.

Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007)
CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital

Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007)
CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital

In 2014, Scott Jacobs cofounded Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform delivering affordable, reliable resource solutions to companies, communities, and cities. Prior to Generate, Jacobs cofounded the global clean technologies practice at McKinsey & Company, advising companies, institutional investors, NGOs, and governments around the world on the economic imperatives of resource productivity and climate solutions. Prior to that, he spent over a decade in technology and venture capital, helping start and grow several companies. Jacobs has dedicated much of his professional life to the “resource revolution” and is a regular writer, keynote speaker, and conference panelist on the topics of thematic investing and risk management, climate- and resource-related innovation, and building values-based and people-centric businesses.

Gordon Jones
President, College of Western Idaho (CWI)

Gordon Jones
President, College of Western Idaho (CWI)

Gordon Jones leads Idaho's largest comprehensive community college, providing an affordable, high-quality, and accessible education to more than 30,000 students. CWI’s primary focus is delivering affordable, high-quality, and accessible education. Jones is passionate about promoting affordable higher education that translates to enhanced employment and life opportunities for all students. Prior to CWI, from 2015–2021, Jones served as the founding Dean of the College of Innovation + Design at Boise State University, and from 2010–2015, he worked at Harvard University, serving from 2011 as the Evans Family Foundation Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs. Jones has several years’ experience teaching as an adjunct professor at Bentley University in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. His higher education career has focused on innovating and maximizing the value proposition of public higher education in serving students and communities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration

Robert S. Kaplan
Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus  

Shirley Lu
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Mindy Lubber
President & CEO, Ceres

Mindy Lubber
President & CEO, Ceres

Mindy Lubber leads the executive leadership team and more than 200 employees at the sustainability nonprofit Ceres, working to mobilize the most influential investors and companies to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. As a well-known global thought leader on climate change, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders, including global coalitions of institutional investors, corporate boards, and executives, to factor environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices into their overall strategies. Her regular columns for Forbes.com strengthen the economic and financial case for sustainability action and she speaks regularly to high-level world and national policymakers on the need for stronger clean energy and water policies and regulations. In 2015, Lubber helped catalyze the necessary business support to get the historic Paris Agreement across the finish line, leading Vogue Magazine to name her a “Climate Warrior.”

John D. Macomber
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988)
Senior Advisor, OGCI Climate Investments

Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988)
Senior Advisor, OGCI Climate Investments

Girish Nadkarni is a thought leader in venture investing and energy transition and is a frequent speaker at VC and industry conferences. Recently retired as CEO of TotalEnergies Ventures, Nadkarni has served as advisor to the World Economic Forum and was on the selection committee for the WEF Technology Pioneers for several years. In 2021, Nadkarni and Air Liquide led the creation of a €2 billion clean hydrogen infrastructure fund (HY24) to kickstart the global hydrogen ecosystem. In addition to serving on the board of Gentari Sdn Bhd, he is an advisor to OGCI Climate Investments, Siemens Energy Ventures, and Clean Energy Ventures. He is also a venture partner at Alchemist Carbon Removal Fund and serves on the board of advisors of the Institute of Carbon Management at UCLA.

Richard Needham (MBA 2002)
Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Richard Needham (MBA 2002)
Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Rick Needham became the chief commercial officer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a fusion power company spun out of MIT, in 2022. Prior to CFS, Needham was a partner and the energy sector lead for TPG’s Rise Funds and a founding member of the TPG Rise Climate Fund. Before joining TPG, Needham was the director of energy and sustainability for Google, where he led teams that invested in transformative, large-scale, renewable energy projects; explored ways to help accelerate energy access in emerging markets; and catalyzed actions to address climate change. He also spearheaded Google’s renewables project investing, deploying more than $2.5 billion into renewable energy projects around the world. Prior to Google, Needham was at DEKA Research, where he led business development and program-managed projects in clean energy, medical products, and robotics.

Curtis D. Ravenel
Senior Advisor, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair of Glasgow Alliance for Net Zero

Curtis D. Ravenel
Senior Advisor, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair of Glasgow Alliance for Net Zero

In addition to his role at GFANZ, Curtis Ravenel is a founding member of the secretariat for the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a distinguished fellow in sustainable finance at ClimateWorks Foundation, a board member of Context Labs BV, and a strategic advisor to Persefoni AI and Apollo Global Management. Ravenel founded the Sustainable Business & Finance Group at Bloomberg LP and served as its global head, reporting directly to the chairman, from 2007–2019. Under his leadership, Bloomberg integrated sustainability considerations into its operations globally and developed a full range of sustainable finance products to evaluate sustainability-related risks and opportunities for finance professionals. He was awarded a David Rockefeller Fellowship with the Partnership for New York City in 2011, was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the US chapter of the G8 Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013, and received the Columbia Business School Exemplary Leadership Award in 2016.

Carmichael Roberts
Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Cofounder & Managing Partner, Material Impact

Carmichael Roberts
Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Cofounder & Managing Partner, Material Impact

Carmichael Roberts co‐leads the investment committee at Breakthrough Energy, a mission‐oriented group committed to changing the world by creating and building companies that address the threat of climate change and the long‐term sustainability of the planet. Roberts is also cofounder and managing partner of Material Impact, a fund that builds resilient technology companies developing products to solve real‐world problems using innovative materials. He was selected by the Aspen Institute to participate in the Finance Leaders Fellowship program as a senior leader in the venture capital industry and was recently selected as the Edison Achievement Award winner for his contributions to innovative technology solutions. He was ranked #1 on the Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list in 2022. 

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988)
President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988)
President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Carter Roberts leads the World Wildlife Fund in the United States, which oversees WWF’s work in the United States and in 15 countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Under his leadership, WWF has built strategies and partnerships to scale up the production of sustainable food and renewable energy; double the population of tigers; shut down global ivory markets; and protect singular ecosystems such as the Amazon, the Himalayas, the Okavango Delta, the Arctic, the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean. Roberts serves on the boards of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy at Duke University, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, and the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recently served on the International Finance Corporation’s Advisory Panel on Sustainability and Business and the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Advisory Board.

Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992)
Member of the Indian Parliament; Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Parliament of India

Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992)
Member of the Indian Parliament; Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Parliament of India

Jayant Sinha is a second-term Member of Parliament and chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, where he leads the 31-member Parliamentary panel that has oversight of the Ministries of Finance, Corporate Affairs, Statistics & Program Implementation, and the Niti Aayog (the government planning agency). Sinha previously served on India’s Council of Ministers from 2014 to 2019: first, as the Minister of State for Finance and then as the Minister of State for Civil Aviation. Prior to his public service, Sinha was partner at Omidyar Network and the managing director of Omidyar Network India Advisors. Before that, he was a managing director at Courage Capital Management and a partner in the Boston and Delhi offices of McKinsey & Company, where he co-led the Global Software & Services practice. As a global thought leader who has been featured in many prominent news outlets, he has introduced new thinking on platform-based businesses, innovation-driven entrepreneurship, climate change, and sustainable development.

Debora L. Spar
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Dan Stephens
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Dan Stephens
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Dan founded and leads McKinsey’s Sustainable Finance practice in the Americas. In this role, he works with banks, insurers, asset managers, investors, and public finance agencies to build financing businesses in the context of the climate transition, to understand climate risks, to track and improve climate and environmental impacts, and to create public disclosures. In addition to his work on sustainable finance, Dan also serves public sector entities and commercial firms to improve their operational performance and better deliver service to customers. Previously, Dan co-founded our practice in customer experience and design in financial services, which serves clients on improving their customer delivery and using those improvements to drive enhanced financial results. Dan has especially deep expertise in B2B customer experience. Prior to that, Dan led our public finance practice, which serves public financial agencies and state owned enterprises on mission delivery and performance improvement. Since joining McKinsey in 2007, Dan has worked across numerous industries and sectors, developing expertise in how organizations can improve results through strategic, operational, digital, and organizational improvements. He has particularly deep experience in sustainability, housing, financial services, education, and customer-experience topics. Beyond his work at McKinsey, Dan is a founding board member of Foster America, a national not-for-profit that serves at-risk youth and child-welfare agencies.

Bonita C. Stewart (MBA 1983)
Board Partner, Gradient Ventures

Bonita C. Stewart (MBA 1983)
Board Partner, Gradient Ventures

Bonita Stewart has extensive consumer technology and operational experience, as her career spans over four decades of digital transformation across multiple industries. Stewart joined Google in 2006, driving adoption of digital technologies within the C-suite in the United States and globally, and is now board partner for Google’s Gradient Ventures. Before Google, Stewart led Chrysler Group Interactive Communications for DaimlerChrysler AG, Dodge Passenger Cars and Minivans brand management, and Chrysler brand advertising. She also enjoyed a 10-year management career with IBM. As an entrepreneur, she served as president, COO, and cofounder of Nia Enterprises and as the founder and CEO of One Moment in Time, a formalwear rental company for women. Her leadership accolades include appearances in the Power 100 (Ebony, 2012, 2019) and Most Powerful Women (Crain’s NYC, 2019). She is the co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive and annual Women of Color in Business Cross-Generational Survey.

Michael W. Toffel
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management; Faculty Chair, HBS Business & Environment Initiative

Gunnar Trumbull (PMD 76, 2001)
Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration

Eric Usher
Head, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Eric Usher
Head, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Eric Usher heads the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), a global partnership bringing together the United Nations with a global group of banks, insurers, and asset managers working to develop sustainable finance and responsible investment agendas. Usher oversees governance, strategy, and day-to-day management of UNEP FI’s work program and global network development. Since joining the UN in 2015, he has focused on accelerating the deep integration of sustainability risks into financial practice, including addressing climate change, natural capital loss, and human rights abuses, as well as building out the frameworks for positive impact finance needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is a UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment and a member of the governing boards of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, the Investor Agenda, and the impact fund REPP Africa.

Lauren Taylor Wolfe
Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital

Lauren Taylor Wolfe
Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital

Lauren Taylor Wolfe cofounded Impactive Capital, a $3 billion active impact investing firm, in 2018. Impactive Capital helps companies allocate capital effectively and ethically to drive more sustainable, profitable, and valuable businesses over the long run. Previously, Taylor Wolfe was a managing director at Blue Harbour Group, where she led investments in the technology, consumer, and business and health care services industries, and a portfolio manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies. She has been active on various public and private boards, including Envestnet Inc, HD Supply, and the 30% Club steering committee, and as an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance.

Who Should Attend

Accelerating Climate Solutions is intended for alumni business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs who lead organizations or otherwise have a strong professional or personal focus on sustainability, innovation, and climate solutions.

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