Radical Truth (Robert Rubinstein)

In this week's episode of Radical Truth, Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business, will discuss her work on proving the Business Case for Sustainability.

Tensie will discuss latest research in proving the business case for embracing sustainability in the corporate strategy.

Today we're thrilled to welcome a true innovator in the impact investment space, Aunnie Patton Power. Aunnie is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, and the author of "Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey That Blends Profit and Purpose."

With her extensive experience in designing innovative financing mechanisms across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, Aunnie brings a wealth of knowledge on how capital can be deployed to address our world's most pressing challenges.

In today's episode, we'll explore how technology is revolutionizing impact investing, discuss alternative funding models for social enterprises, and uncover the radical truths about what's really working—and what isn't—in the sustainable finance ecosystem.

So whether you're an experienced impact investor, a social entrepreneur seeking funding, or simply curious about how finance can drive positive change, you're in for an illuminating conversation.

This is TBLI Radical Truth, uncovering the bold ideas and honest perspectives shaping the future of sustainable finance.

Robert's Radical Truth is part of TBLI Group.. TBLI is making the financial system work for all. We cover the wide range of ESG and Impact Investing topics. What it is? Why is it booming? How to integrate sustainability in asset management? How to create ESG or Impact Portfolio? How will climate change impact investments? There will be interview with many thought leaders, some know and some not known, but all brilliant.
Can we create an economy based upon well being? Lets make the financial system work for all.

Italian impact investing market with Filippo Addarii The country provides a unique vantage point on the real potential of impact investing in the post-COVID covid. The European Union has invested its largest stake in the recovery of the country. Italy has turned into the poster child of the European green transition and a playground for the new geopolitics. Furthermore, 2021 is a special year: Draghi at the head of a collation gov, and Italy hosting the G20 for the first time. Naturally, every major corporation has made commitments to join the green transition and contribute to the economic and social recovery. The ability to cooperate within this roadmap represents the true challenge to win for public institutions and private corporations together. TBLI Talk: Knowledge that Inspires

Gustaf Brandberg started Gullspång Invest. An early stage investor in disruptive companies in sustainability. When nobody wanted ot invest in Oatly (10 billion dollar IPO), Gullspång invested. His  new vehicle https://refood.vc/ is investing in entrepreneurs solving the foodsystem’s structural problems for generations to come.

What you will learn?

How to find the next food unicorns?

Can the present food system be repaired?

How to convince other families to get on board?

Johan Jorgensen, a leader in the global food tech movement, discusses the urgent need for transformation in the food industry. He highlights the environmental and health impacts of the current food system, which he describes as one of the most polluting industries, potentially surpassing even fossil fuels. Jorgensen emphasizes the importance of viewing food beyond just what's on the plate, advocating for a broader understanding of its value and impact.

Jorgensen advocates for policy changes and a shift in collective thinking to recognise the true costs and potential benefits of food. He discusses the role of venture capital in food tech, noting that while there was a surge of investment, the expectations were often misaligned with the realities of food production compared to software. He stresses the need for financial systems to support sustainable practices and provide fair compensation to farmers, who should be seen as caretakers of nature.

The talk concludes with a call to action for greater collaboration among stakeholders, including policymakers, investors, and educational institutions, to drive the transformation of the food sector. Jorgensen highlights initiatives like the Big Meat gathering and partnerships with academic institutions to foster innovation and awareness.

Luca Rancilio's grandfather invented the espresso machine. Cube is the family office founded by the Rancilio family in 2013, after the sale of the espresso machine company founded in 1927 by our grandfather Roberto.

He will share his journey towards Impact Investing, after the sale of that company.

Caroline Dennett is Director of CLOUT LTD and has 20+ years’ experience as a researcher and insight consultant; she has developed a sensitive understanding of the drivers of human behaviour, motivation and change.

Caroline has gained unique insights into the factors that can make and break positive safety cultures, the role Leadership plays in these dynamics and in driving change.

She recently withdrew her services from Shell because of their lack of leadership in addressing the climate challenge, and zero ambition for a genuinely green future.

Fleur Rossdale's Woodland Sprite series tackles climate issues, food security, wellbeing, and plastic waste through a fantasy world where fairies protect nature with courage and authenticity. Instead of proposals, Fleur conveys her ideas through storytelling, aiming to inspire adults to act. She also organizes events in Brussels and Westminster, uniting changemakers, specialists, and scientists to drive solutions. A fine art background earned Fleur the title "The Queen of the Decorators" in the 1980s and ’90s, where her design exhibitions drew 30,000 visitors and launched a thriving industry. In 2020, she shifted focus to ecology, fundraising for climate charities, and developing impact investment projects, some featured in her upcoming book, The Farm. Her books inspire young readers to embrace sustainability through fairy sprites guided by a wise goblin, leprechaun, and pixie prince. The first book, Taken by Storm, builds confidence and explores themes from COP26. The Journey adds surrealism and fosters critical thinking, with real-life inspiration drawn from events Fleur hosted. The Farm, releasing in 2025, continues the story with practical solutions. Fleur seeks global support to develop her ideas collaboratively for a sustainable future. What we will cover:

• What I aim to achieve through writing my books.
• How do I intend to bring about change?
• How could I speed up the process and gain support without using a sledgehammer?

With supposedly 40 Trillion being committed to ESG and Impact, one has to ask why haven't we seen improvements in society or environments. Perhaps the methodology for determinin what is a sustainable company or investment needs to be re-evaluated.

Geoff is an entrepreneur whose experience spans sustainability consulting, high-tech startups, and academic research. He holds a PhD in artificial intelligence, and has co-founded two software businesses, the second of which was acquired by a global technology company. Geoff switched careers in 2010, joining London-based think-tank SustainAbility, where he oversaw communications and advised some of the world’s biggest corporations on transitioning to sustainable business models. In late 2013 Geoff co-founded Future-Fit Foundation, a UK-based charity whose mission is to translate systems science into free tools to help companies and investors accelerate the transition to a flourishing future.

Everland is a global leader in community-led forest conservation, ensuring financial stability for projects through Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) while championing climate change mitigation. What will listeners learn: -Carbon crediting from REDD+ projects has been systematically robust, and new methodologies and safeguards continue to drive integrity.
 -REDD+ projects deliver demonstrable impact for climate, nature and communities; just the five projects Everland works for benefit more than 215,000 local people.
 -The REDD+ mechanism is ready to scale today to meet global sustainable development goals and companies’ demand for high-integrity carbon credits.

About Everland:

Joshua Tosteson joined Everland in 2019, first serving as President before becoming CEO in 2023. With a lifelong dedication to sustainability, system transformation and global prosperity, Joshua trained as an atmospheric scientist at Harvard and Columbia universities and has since worked for over two decades as an entrepreneur and change agent.

Pamela Brazier co-founded Everland in 2017 and became the company’s President in 2023. She began her career at BNP Paribas before joining Wildlife Works in 2012, where Pamela specialized in selling the Verified Emissions Reductions generated by Wildlife Works’ REDD+ projects to European companies. Five years later, she co-founded Everland to represent a wider portfolio of high-impact REDD+ projects (including Wildlife Works’).

Everland is a specialised conservation marketing organisation in the climate change mitigation business that exclusively represents the Voluntary Carbon Market's largest portfolio of high-impact, community-centered, forest conservation (REDD+) projects. Through these projects, Everland brings together communities and corporations in common cause to protect some of the world’s most important and vulnerable forests.

Sierra Gorde Alliance is a model of social entrepreneurship in Sierra Gorda, Mexico, where they correlate economic development with biodiversity conservation. They developed the skill set and economic value for the landowners whose forests provide environmental services- – scenic beauty as well as carbon and water capture. Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda I.A.P. (GESG) leads a movement of civil society organizations that form the Alliance for the Conservation of the Sierra Gorda. Together with partners they promote a living laboratory of best cultural practices, with interdisciplinary teams. Our robust analysis of social & environmental return on investment demonstrates the impact on donors Learn how Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo and her team showed that the impossible is possible. What will you learn? -Does biodiversity have a monetary value? -How to capture it? -How to monetize nature's value?

Three things that you will learn:

• The What, Why, and How of Net-Zero Procurement (NZP)
• How NZP can be the missing market force engaging companies in the race to net-zero GHG emissions.
• How the deployment of NZP with speed and global scale can fix the climate crisis

Bob Willard is a leading expert on sustainability justifications, reporting frameworks, and sustainable procurement. Bob applies his business and leadership experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities by using smart environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. Over the last 22 years, he has given more than 1,700 presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences. He has authored six books: The Sustainability Advantage (2002), The Next Sustainability Wave (2005), The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook (2009), The New Sustainability Advantage (2012), Release 1 of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark (co-authored, 2016), and the Sustainability ROI Workbook (2017). He has published two white papers: “7 Bold Strokes to Save our World” (2020) and “The 21st Century Sustainable Enterprise Force Field” (2021). His extensive Master Slide Decks and free, open-source spreadsheets, toolkits, and videos provide comprehensive capacity-building resources for sustainability champions.Bob serves on the Future-Fit Foundation board, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) board, the Whitby Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the B Corp Standards Advisory Council. He previously served on the boards of Forum for the Future U.S. (3 years), The Natural Step (TNS) Canada (12 years), Learning for a Sustainable Future (3 years), and Durham Sustain Ability (6 years).

He was also a citizen member of the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change (5 years).For the last few years, Bob has focused on Sustainable Procurement and Net-Zero Procurement as market forces to incentivize the transition to more sustainable business models and to mobilize businesses in the race to net-zero GHGs.

He co-developed the SPLC Navigator that scores how well an organization has integrated core sustainable procurement elements into its procurement system. He serves on the Canadian government’s Low Carbon Procurement Advisory Committee, is on the core faculty of the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Sustainable Procurement Fellowship program, and is an Advisor to the Mission from MaRs – Net-Zero Procurement Mission. He teaches a 4-webinar ISSP course on Sustainable Procurement which provides guidance on how to use his free, open-source Sustainable Procurement Toolkit and Net-Zero Procurement Toolkit.

INCREASE CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND REDUCE SHAREHOLDER RISK

As You Sow believes that shareholders are a powerful force for creating positive, lasting changes in corporate behavior.Over the past century, corporate power has become the most dominant force on the planet.

Of the 100 largest economic entities in the world, nearly 70% are corporations. This concentration of resources gives companies power and influence over their workers, customers, and the communities in which they operate.It is critical for corporate leaders to address the impact of their policies and actions. By ignoring this impact, they are creating risk for their customers, employees, shareholders, and themselves. Ultimately, companies that view the world not in months, but in years, decades, and generations will be able to reduce their long-term risk and ensure success.

Shareholder actions press corporations to undertake this broader risk analysis and make decisions that benefit people, the planet, and profit over the long term.

Since 1992 As You Sow has utilized shareholder advocacy to increase corporate responsibility on a broad range of environmental and social issues. As shareholder advocates,

As You Sow communicates directly with corporate executives to collaboratively develop and implement business models that reduce risk, benefit brand reputation, and increase the bottom line while simultaneously bringing positive environmental and social change.

Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow,

What will you learn:

1. The Power of Shareholder Advocacy
2. Long-Term Risk Management for Companies
3. Examples of Shareholder Action in Practice

Marko Oksanen is CEO of Coventures and an experienced product leader. Marko has been involved in building digital products and ventures his whole career. As co-founder, product manager or venture designer he has been hands-on building 20+ fast growing digital ventures in Helsinki & Berlin. Now as Coventures CEO Marko has been in the deep end of Corporate Venture Building and has seen many different approaches for building impact in cooperation with established companies and entrepreneurs.

In his talk he will share his learnings on how corporations can successfully build new ventures and which pitfalls to avoid.

What will you learn?

• What role corporate venture building can play in the impact ecosystem.
• Reasons why corporate venture building initiatives doesn't succeed.
• Different types of partners in corporate venture building ecosystem, why and when to partner with them.

Jeff Gibbs film about Renewable Energy, Growth, and Sustainability have shocked, angered and gotten critical acclaim. The premise is that Renewable Energy is carbon intensive, we can't keep growing and wind and solar will not save us. Is this true? For this episode of Radical Truth we have brought together expert panel to discuss the film and the future of the Human Race.

Johan Jörgensen is one of the Founder of the largest Food Festival (30 years old and 400k visitors), Sweden Foodtech (SFT). We will discuss how he and SFT are changing the food system that is less destructive, more healthy, more innovative and more supportive of small holder farmers.

Benjamin Bingham-Benjamin Bingham is the CEO/Founder of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, focused on 100% impact portfolios across private and public asset classes (Scarab Funds).  Educated at Groton School, Yale and Emerson College (UK), his writing and work draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, and teacher. His pioneering book on Impact Investing: Making Money Matter is an important contribution to this expanding movement (www.makingmoneymatterbook.com ).

Currently Mr. Bingham is working on a second book on how investors can help the world best by transforming their own personal relationship with money and focusing on what changes are most important.

What will you learn?

1. Learn how Tiffany Fortune heir became Impact Leader.
2. What are the challenges in getting buy in from investors into impact?
3. What do investors want with respect to Impact?
4. How to achieve high returns, low risk and have full impact?

The leading Private Banks control vast sums of wealth through the management of the wealthiest families and individuals. With more and more clients wanting their money to be used for more purpose, the role of the Private Banks is critical.

Listen to three senior managers of Private Banks, share their experiences on increasing money flows in to Impact Investing

Speakers:

Rosa Sangiorgio, Head of ESG at Pictet Wealth Management 

Rashila Kerai, Head Group Sustainability, VP Bank AG 

James Purcell, Group Head of ESG, Sustainable, and Impact Investing at Quintet Private Bank

John Kluge the founder will show how Refugees are an asset not a liability and how RIN has creative financial instruments to help both society and refugees

Will Allen played 12 years in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he developed meaningful relationships with athletes, influencers, CEOs and brands.

He is now one of the founding partners of MVP-Magarac Venture Partners and is looking to invest and support small businesses in the American mid-west, with a focus on businesses run by people of color. This podcast outlines his journey going from a professional football player to impact investor.

Chrysalix Venture Capital, one of the earliest and most recognised private equity firms focused on industrial innovation, where he has helped raise more than $250M and participated in more than $1B in venture capital funding. The Founder, Wal Van Lierop will share with us his journey and experiences in building the ecosystem for Cleantech Investing. Lessons Learned. What you will learn? - Does Cleantech Offer solutions to Climate? - What are the challenges to starting Cleantech VC 20 years ago? - Failures and Successes.

Ruben Vardanyan is a Russian business leader, social entrepreneur and venture philanthropist of Armenian origin, Co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative. He and his wife Veronika invest in large-scale multifaceted projects in the sphere of global education, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and solving humanitarian problems. Ruben and his family, together with partners from various countries, have invested about $600M in projects in Armenia, developing a commercial approach that relies on involving blended financing to find solutions to social problems.

Celia Ouellette is the founder and CEO of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ), which works with companies to champion fairness, equality and effectiveness across systems of punishment and incarceration.  She has dedicated her career to representing and fighting for those most disadvantaged by broken criminal justice systems.

 She is a dual US-UK qualified lawyer who started her career in the US working on criminal defense cases. She then joined the UK human rights charity Reprieve as a Staff Attorney for their death penalty team. Before forming RBIJ, she founded and directed The Powell Project, an organization designed to empower and equip trial teams with the knowledge and skills to level the playing field in capital cases.

Mark Campanale is one of the true pioneers and champions of sustainable investing and using capital to address the climate challenge. Join us as he will show us how to move the needle in capital mobilization away from a carbon-intensive economy What will you learn? - The energy system is changing now that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. How big is the ‘carbon bubble’ and why $100 trillion of lost fossil fuel revenues means something - Manufactured energy vs commodity energy, why electrons are more important than molecules and what the future will look like - Investors lose money – and make money – when a whole system changes. Where are the risks for investors in “business as usual” with fossil fuels?

Andrea Pizziconi is the Founder & Managing Principal of the Christie Company as well as its subsidiaries, Africa Integras and Girls First Finance. An accomplished social entrepreneur and TBLI Hero.

She has worked tirelessly to address the challenges of expanding access to higher education in Africa by investing in public universities on a grand scale. She will share some of the many challenges she faces working in Africa and the education sector and how she has flipped the script on a nightmare outcome to create the most impactful venture she’s taken on yet.

What will you learn?

1. What if your political risk insurance works too well and creates a moral hazard incenting your investor to walk?
2. How do you balance investor fiduciary interests with vulnerable stakeholder interests?
3. What happens when extreme negative headlines and corruption risk prevent the parties from working things out?

Explore how sustainability-linked loans and KPI-based blended finance are advancing impact investing and driving measurable results.

Discover EBRD's High Impact Programme and development banks' evolving role in equity funds for impactful corporate growth.

Insights into pioneering work, including the Joint SDG Fund's support of ocean, energy, agriculture, and health initiatives for sustainable change.

This session will offer valuable insights for investors and sustainability leaders aiming to leverage finance for sustainable development. Massimiliano Riva (Max) is a senior sustainable finance advisor and manager with over 20 years of experience in international organizations, development banks and in the public and private sector.

He advanced impact and sustainability strategies in equity funds, public guarantee schemes, microfinance organization, export credit schemes, green/SDG bonds and designed blended finance solutions in the areas of nature, climate, agriculture, and health.

He also helped design public financial strategies and coordinated programming interventions to spur financial reforms in over 80 countries. After 15 years with the United Nations, he joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2022 as sustainability lead for equity funds and manager of the green climate fund.

In his career he facilitated a wide range of partnerships on sustainable trade and finance, providing advisory services on the ground to over 30 countries across all continents. He co-authored several publications on the same. Max is keen to meet and collaborate to unlock and invest much needed resources for the climate and nature crisis.

Olinga Taeed is Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance, the world’s leading not-for-profit think tank on the Movement of Value with over 220,000 members, and is Expert Advisor and Council Member of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s ‘Blockchain E-Commerce Committee’.

He was the world’s first blockchain professor at Birmingham City University, and is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchains (Switzerland), a peer review academic journal with 400+ editors. He is Chair of Arbor Verification Tech (ESG – Ho Chi Minh), MiMeta.Life (Metaverse), Bureau of Media Data and Ideology (Media – New York), and AizaWorld (Gaming – Hanoi); most recently he was appointed Chair of AITEA (AI - Beijing) populated by staff from tech giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.

He has spoken at The Vatican which attributed him with the “God Metric – the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world”, and is Advisor to Wildcat Petroleum Plc, a London Stock Market listed company.What will you learn:

• Expanding ESG Impact Investing Beyond Carbon Footprint
• The Role of AI in Identifying Impact Opportunities
• Quantifying the Impact of ESG Investing with AI
  

With ESG winning ground with money flows, there has been more talk of ESG failing in addressing the environmental and social challenges we face. In this podcast, futurist and Investor Hazel Henderson discussed a more science-based investing approach.

Hazel Henderson passed away in 2022. This podcast was one of the last interviews she gave. She will be missed.

Futurist and evolutionary economist Hazel Henderson was president of Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), author of nine books, a syndicated and author of over 200 articles in Harvard Business Review, New York Times and other publications. She was  profiled in Wired (were she was nominated as “one of the 50 people most likely to change the world”), Christian Science Monitor, Science and many international journals. She served on the advisory boards for the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Engineering and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, as well as the Calvert Group of responsible mutual funds. She founded the EthicMark Award for Advertising that Uplifts the Human Spirit and Society."

Featuring: Christoph Klink - Partner At Antler.

Antler is a global early-stage VC. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 30 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor. Christoph Klink, Partner, Antler

Christoph Klink is a partner at Antler based in Germany. Antler is the world’s leading day zero investor and the most active early-stage VC firm in Europe.

Christoph is responsible for Antler’s investments across Central Europe. Since launching its first residency for founders in Berlin in 2021, Antler has made >80 investments into tech startups, spanning multiple sectors that include climatetech, fintech and healthtech. Many of these startups are now recognised as the most promising startups in the DACH region, including NeoCarbon, clare&me and Tapline.

In the last three years, Christoph has run residencies for hundreds of founders in Berlin, Amsterdam and Munich. Antler is specifically designed to remove the barriers to entrepreneurship and to support a new generation of diverse tech founders. Founders participating in the residencies have come from 50+ different nationalities and a third of the startups have at least one female founder.

Christoph is recognised as one of the leading experts on early-stage investment trends in Germany and has published reports on the demographics of DACH unicorn founders and the rise of technical founders in Europe.

How do you get professionals doing high quality impact accounting and management quickly? with Sara Olsen SVT Group works with firms with a business metabolism and an impact focus, like Techstars’ Workforce Development Accelerator (US), Mission Driven Finance (US), Angels of Impact (Singapore), and Happiness Capital (Hong Kong), which seek to support scalable, innovative companies whose work also creates a happier, more equitable and sustainable world.  Sara champions the impact management profession including through her work as Director & Methodology Committee co-chair at Social Value International, who are "working to change the way society accounts for value."

What will you learn?

• How to measure and verify the social impact?
• Why impact accounting is essential to to drive financial performance
• How accountants might just save the world TBLI is the world's leading ESG/Impact Investing network/authority. We have been educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

Will Ruddick is a development economist focusing on currency innovation. After completing graduate school researching high energy physics as a collaboration member at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he found his analysis skills and passion drawn to alternative economics and development. Since 2008 Will has lived in East Africa and managed several successful development programs in environment, food security and economic development. He  is an advocate for, and designer of currencies for poverty eradication and sustainable development. Mr. Ruddick has pioneered Community Currency programs in Kenya since 2010 and is the founder of the award winning Sarafu and Bangla-Pesa programs.

In this episode we’re joined by Matt Moscardi, a pioneer in rethinking corporate governance and accountability. Matt is the founder of Free Float, a platform dedicated to unpacking the hidden layers of corporate power and influence.

With a sharp wit and a no-nonsense approach, Matt and his team at Free Float explore how companies make decisions that impact us all—from boardroom dynamics to shareholder influence.

In this conversation, we’ll dive into his work at Free Float, how he’s challenging traditional ESG norms, and why transparency in corporate behavior matters more than ever.

Armin Steurernagel

What will you learn?

- What are the alternatives to corporate governance?

- How does steward ownership contribute to build lasting businesses that preserve their mission?

- How does an alternative governance structure protect companies from extractive capital?

Germany has started a mega fund of fund to fund  decommissioning all German Nuclear Power Plants.  Jochen Wermuth, our next speaker on the Radical Truth podcast is on the Investment committee member of Germany's new €24bn SWF "KENFO".  He shares his solutions for using finance to address the climate challenge.

There is a lack of finance for breakthrough and disruptive innovators in Europe, with an estimated equity funding gap of about Euros 70 billion. Many European start-ups can't find high risk capital needed to get to the stage where private sector investors gets involved.To address the challenge, the EU launched the European Innovation Council (EIC), The EIC can help innovators from the stage of idea and invention to investments and scale-up of their companies.Funding up to  2.5 million in Grants and 15 million euros in equity, is availalble. TBLI has invited an expert in this field, Mauro Andriotto to explain the program and the process to apply.

What will you learn?

1. The EU has launched one of the largest startup investment fund in the world
2. What companies can apply for 2.5 m Euros in grants or 15m in equity?
3. What is the chances of getting funded by EU-European Innovation Council?

Martin Rapaport has worked tirelessly to create Fair Trade Diamonds in West Africa. Rapaport Fair Trade defines a “conflict” or “blood” diamond as a diamond which comes from a mine located in or providing profits to any of the following: civil conflict; illegitimate rebel movement; oppressive regime; or a violation of the Rapaport Minimum Human Rights Standard.

At Rapaport, it means a product which has met the following four conditions:

1. Fair wages to all those working along the supply chain
2. Community benefit to the people who live in the area of the mine
3. Do No Harm – no displacement of peoples, fully upheld labor regulation, no aiding conflict or violence
4. Monitoring of the mining and production sites

Seventy percent of the food of the world is produced by smallholder farmers and 70% of the poor are smallholder farmers. Increase soil concentration by 2% we can offset climate change. We need a multi pronged approach to address climate change, food security, rural poverty and soil restoration Regenerative Ag does all and no one does it better than Shared-X.

John Denniston, Chairman of Shared-X shares the solution that they have developed over 7 years. Absolutely brilliant and by far the cheapest way to address all of the challenges listed.

What will you learn?

-How to truly help small holder farmers get out of poverty?

-How can regen ag drawdown carbon cheaper, faster and more effectively?

-What is difference between organic ag and regen ag?

Mats Andersson, former CEO of Swedish Pension Fund AP4 will share his vision as to how asset owners and manager can de-carbonize their portfolios, and still achieve alps.

What will you learn?

1. How to de-carbonize portfolios?
2. What are the challenges for investors in de-carbonising?
3. How can we scale investment addressing climate risk?

Many in the financial sector are well compensated, but often asked to push product that are not in line with their values. Dr. Giulio Franzinetti will explore these personal challenges and torments. Dr. Franzinetti is a 30 year financial services veteran. He worked at Banca Intesa, he worked on trying to rationalise the Catholic Church portfolio. In addition, he created the Gum Arabic Fund, to create a fair trade for this essential commodity fund. For the past few years, Dr. Franzinetti is a personal coach for those in the corporate and financial sector.

Most pension funds have realised that they need to look at all risks in their investment strategy; i.e. financial, environmental, social and governance risk.  Brunel Pension Partnership Limited (Brunel) is one of eight national Local Government Pension Scheme Pools, bringing together more than £30 billion of investments of 10 likeminded funds. Denise Le Gal, Chair of Brunel Pension Partnership will share her experience as a thought leader in the responsible investing space. TBLI is the world's leading ESG/Impact Investing network/authority. We have been educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

Christopher White joined Conservation International as a strategist in 2021, specializing in building solutions in complex and challenging environments. He has dedicated the past two years to studying the various fiscal and operational interventions employed to facilitate international conservation efforts.

He is currently working on developing a new approach to funding conservation work that generates economic and natural returns for both people and the planet. Points to Cover:

1. Lessons Learned: Financing nature is no different than financing any other business. It is about understanding what combination works best for the unique situation.

2. The Opportunities: There are more opportunities for investors and investees than we realize once you start blending funding.

3.Africa Conservancy Facility: How it started, where it is, what could be the next and upcoming fundraising round.

John Elkington is an award winning world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief-pollinator of Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock the potential of their organisation. Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors move from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration through strategic advisory work. John's thought leadership is brought to bear in Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry and the Green Swans Observatory. John will share his vision of the future.

The current chasm between the rhetoric of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the capital available for development leads to why a new financial paradigm is now needed.

UNCTAD projects that we are now 20% below where we started in 2015 - ergo we have spent 3.2 trillion to have gone backwards.

The context cannot be ignored: the twin pillars of demographics – ageing populations in the West/China with substantive unfunded liabilities in health and pensions on the one hand and the pincer of youth populations in the developing world on the other hand – exacerbate instability.

The existential threats of world resource usage now estimated by the World Resources Institute at 1.7 times the planet’s ability to replenish. Arthur Wood is leading authority on New Financial paradigm that addresses UNSDGS.

Speaker: Arthur Wood - Founding Partner, TOTAL Impact Capital

Learn how ING Group approaches Sustainble Investment in Infrastructure (Green Bonds). Leonie Schreve, Managing director, Global Head Sustainable Finance will share her thoughts and discuss the risks and opportunities.

Dr. Raj Thamotheram is a pioneer in responsible investing. He worked for 12 years inside the system in senior management roles at a large pension fund (USS) and a global fund manager (AXA IM), before becoming a freelance consultant in order to start Preventable Surprises. He is a recognized thought leader on how companies and investors can adapt to put people and the planet on par with profit and so deliver long-term value and has been nominated twice by Global Proxy Watch as “one of the 10 most influential figures in the corporate governance field”. He is one of the co-founders of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and a former trustee of Friends Provident Foundation, where he played a key role in the organization’s decision to become an “active and engaged investor”.

Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty.

Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale.

Most fellows become part of the Mulago Solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago.

He and his team now work with 50 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America

What will you learn?

- What is a high-impact organization? - Can you achieve true impact with few restrictions for the grantee? - Which is more effective grant or an investment?

Wayne Silby founded Calvert Investments, a $15 billion investment management group in Bethesda, MD noted for their leadership in the area of socially responsible investment. Though he is no longer active in most of the day-to-day business of Calvert Investments, he supervises its private equity activities.

Mr. Silby also co-founded Social Venture Network, a group of socially oriented entrepreneurs and investors, and Calvert Social Venture Partners, one of the first socially oriented venture capital funds. He also started the Emerging Europe Fund for Sustainable Investment, a $60 million OPIC private equity fund focused on Central Europe.

Mr. Silby chairs ImpactAssets, a $200 million donor advised fund, and SynTao, Ltd., a CSR consulting firm in Beijing, China.

What will you learn?

- How to start an Impact Investing Fund management

- What will be the next iteration of impact and ESG?

- How to build the Impact Ecosystem in China?

The term “financial inclusion” as described by the fintech industry is a lie, says Emmanuel Daniel, in his recent book “The Great Transition – the personalization of finance is here”. Emmanuel Daniel is the award-winning founder of The Asian Banker and Wealth and Society. He argues that the phrase was forcibly requisitioned by the platform players because it suited their business model of onboarding millions of customers and then monetizing them. He points out that the way that technology players are funded by venture capitalists today does not allow them to create a viable business model to succeed in financial inclusion. What will you learn: Why is Financial Inclusion a lie? What are the potential consequences of financial inclusion that is wrongly applied? What then should be the goal of “financial inclusion”

Social entrepreneurship on steroids.

Thierry Sanders is one of the most successful social entrepreneurs. Having worked on several continents having set up a global crowdfunding platform, Indonesia's 1st online lending company, an impact fund and now a waste management company. In this podcast, we will discuss his experiences as a social entrepreneurs and key lessons learned.

What will you learn?

-How to convince a billionaire to fund a Social Enterprise Bank?

-How to build a large scale Social Enterprise in Emerging Markets?

- How & when to pivot?

- Case study of financing of financing Social Entrepreneurs in Indonesia and starting a waste management company with waste pickers.

ESG and Impact Investing has become the buzz words for the investment community. With tens of trillions pouring into this pace, have we made any real progress with adressing environmental and social challenges (climate, food, water, poverty, inequality, etc.)

Regenerative Investment attempts to achieve social and environmental balance as well as financial returns.  We will discuss this with B. Lorraine Smith, a thought leader in this space.

Through a regenerative portfolio, Barney Swan accelerates ecosystem protection, carbon drawdown and leadership expeditions. He is currently in Far North Queensland, Australia, leading a project to restore 450 acres of the world’s oldest rainforest: Daintree. Prior to Founding the charity, ClimateForce Limited, Barney skied 1000km over 60 days to the South Pole, pulling a sledge with supplies and shelter. Surviving off clean technologies including a NASA-designed solar ice melter, biofuels made from waste products, vacuum flasks, and solar batteries. With a spirit of collaboration, he connects audiences to better understand their environmental footprint and the responsibility to do more about it. Open-sourcing solutions and making sustainable development inclusive to businesses, students and families.

Barney Swan will share his solutions of Regenerating Nature in Australia.

Despite the increased demand for private alternatives, investing in top venture capital funds still remains often exclusive to large institutions and a small group of hyper-connected wealthy individuals.  Because of this, most investors continue to be locked out of the best opportunities. A new segment of managers is however, becoming increasingly appealing to family offices and fund of funds - that of the emerging manager. Join this session with Emerging Manager, R3i Capital GP Leesa Soulodre and learn: - How Emerging Managers are outperforming benchmarks - How ESG in Venture is delivering returns - How Microfunds are delivering outperformance

Often called The “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America.

Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets.

Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this powerful book, Waste, she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.

Isabel Hilton is a London-based international journalist and broadcaster. She will share her vast insight into China and its future relations with the rest of the world.

She studied at the Beijing Foreign Language and Culture University and at Fudan University in Shanghai before taking up a career in written and broadcast journalism, working for The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, and the New Yorker. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC’s flagship news program, “The World Tonight,” then BBC Radio Three’s cultural program “Night Waves.”

Simon Clark and Will Louch

THE KEY MAN tells the story of a man who raised billions of dollars for investment by vowing to end global poverty through capitalism but ended up arrested on fraud, theft and racketeering charges and facing up to 291 years in jail.  Arif Naqvi, the founder of Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj, was a pioneering impact investor who claimed to seek out ways to make money and do good in the emerging markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Bill Gates invested $100 million in Arif's $1 billion fund to build hospitals and clinics in poor countries. The World Bank and the American, British, and French governments also invested in this fund. The UN, Interpol, McKinsey, Harvard, LSE, KPMG, Bank of America and the World Economic Forum were among the elite organizations which backed Arif. TBLI Talkt: Knowledge that Inspires

Multigenerational business and legacy families seek family engagement and alignment to maximise their legacy and impact.  Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Founder & Legacy Aesthete, The Legacy Atelier™ shares her insights in achieving these goals.  What will you learn?

• Discover How to Enhance Your Family Engagement and Alignment via Your Family Legacy

• Explore Why Your Family Legacy is Your Competitive Advantage, a Complexity Premium
• How You Can Map, Understand, and Thrive via Your Intertwined Family Legacy Layers for Generations to Come

Shen Tong Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He was a Chinese dissident who was exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Shen was one of the People of the Year in Newsweek 1989. and he became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor in the late 1990s.He founded business accelerators FoodFu tureCo in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, the latter of which is recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food He serves on the board of Food Tank.

As one of the original Tiananmen Square dissidents, Shen Tong, has incredible insight into the politics of China. How will relations with the west develop and is people's democracy still a possibility. We will also cover the future of food. Shen is one of the leading investors and thought leaders in the food technology space.

Post Growth—Life After Capitalism

Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability—and left us ill prepared for life in a global pandemic. Weaving together philosophical reflection, economic insight and social vision, Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism—a place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.

Prof. Tim Jackson will share his vision for a Post Growth Economy

Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt founded KUNO Leadership Community to build a global sense of trust for the next generation of leaders. Sjöstedt is passionate about connecting and inspiring people to develop strong, meaningful businesses through purposeful leadership. After more than 30 years’ experience as a global business leader and CEO, she has led thousands of people in organisations worldwide. KUNO Leadership Community is composed of leaders who share our philosophy. Our fundamental beliefs, values and ideas act as guiding principles for purposeful leadership. Our philosophy encompasses our way of thinking about the world, business, leadership, sustainability, technology and globalisation and the connection between them. As a purposeful leader you cannot separate economic growth from a positive impact on the world. You must consider your impact on all stakeholders. This is essential for long-term success. “It’s time to transform the value proposition. It’s time for a new leadership framework."

Clara Miller writes and speaks about sustainable finance, impact investing, business models and accounting in the nonprofit and for-profit arenas, and advises projects and individuals working for progress on same. She is President Emerita of the Heron Foundation (2011-2017), and was Founder and President/CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund (1984-2011).

Miller was named seven times to the Nonprofit Times “Power and Influence Top 50,” (2006-2017), to Inside Philanthropy’s “50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy for 2016 and 2017 and as Social Innovator of the Year by the University of New Hampshire in 2017.

In October 2005, Paul Watchman, working at Freshfields Law Firm,, published a paper called, for the United Nations Environmental Program The Freshfields Report. This report title was A Legal Framework for The Integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment. This report profoundly changed the landscape and laid the basis for ESG Investment.

In this episode of Radical Truth, we've invited Paul Watchman for a discussion on his insights regarding the development of the ESG space since his report has been published.

Father Séamus Finn OMI has been one of the most vocal and active in getting the Catholic Church to allocate their financial resources towards responsible investments. For the past 3+ decades, he has actively engaged the Church and mobilized capital for investments that addressed poverty and climate change.

Often looked at as the rock star of the Catholic Church with regards to changing the mindset of the Church on investment

C. Hoare & Co. is the United Kingdom’ s oldest privately owned bank, founded in 1672. Founded in 1672 by Sir Richard Hoare, C. Hoare & Co. is still owned and led by 10th and 11th generation members of the Hoare family. Alexander S. Hoare is a family member and on the Board of Directors. Alexander will share his personal journey that led him to launch Snowball, an Impact Investing Initiative for sophisticated investors.

Marlene Engelhorn (29) comes from a family of wealth. She has been active in campaigning and raising societal awareness about the dangers of wealth concentration is a few hands.

There is nearly 4x more wealth than there is GDP. This vast wealth is concentrated in very few hands who often use that wealth to avoid paying taxes and influence the political process at the detriment of society. This needs to change.

What will you learn?

1. You can't abolish poverty without abolishing uber-wealth
2. Why is a wealth tax critical to society?
3. Why are seven digits in private wallets more important than the common good?

Audrey Selian serves as Director of Artha Impact (Rianta Capital Zurich), a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust and is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform that has been licensed to various ecosystem-building organizations working to support investment discovery and collaboration across various sectors and geographies.

Audrey’s focus within the Artha portfolio has been on the deployment of private capital to high impact businesses serving the underserved in India in the agri, health and education sectors, among others.Audrey has served as an advisor to Halloran, is co-founder of ImpactforBreakfast.com, a network of over 3,500+ people across 33+ cities, and is also co-founder of Impact Hub Yerevan in Armenia and of Baraka Impact (an emerging market focused health-focused investment platform).

Audrey holds degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (PhD, MALD), the L.S.E. (MSc) and Wellesley College (BA). In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard in 2004-5. In 2022, she co-edited a book called “The Business of Building a Better World" with Prof. David Cooperrider from Case Western Reserve, published by Berrett Koehler Publishers in 2022.

Three things people will learn from this podcast:

1. What not to do in the impact finance sector
2. How to find the good people who get s*** done
3. How to avoid the posers and the imposters

“Global sustainable finance volumes will approach $425 billion in 2020 after a strong third quarter,” says Matthew Kuchtyak, AVP-Analyst in Moody’s Investors Service’s ESG Group. “We now forecast around $250 billion of green bonds, $100 billion of social bonds and $75 billion of sustainability bonds for the full year.”

What are Green or Climate Bonds? Are they really green or low to ero carbon? How will the new EU taxonomy impact the growth of Green Bonds. Sean Kidney one of the thought leaders in this secot and  the CEO at Climate Bonds Initiative will share his vision and thought of a climate bonds and a net zero economy.

Claudia Segre is the driving force behind the Global Thinking Foundation. Her story as to how Global Thinking Foundation was started, funded and its purpose is absolutely brilliant and inspiring Global Thinking Foundation is among the most active foundations in the organization of citizenship events and socially useful projects on the national and international scene. They promote initiatives related to the quality of education (Goal 4), gender equality and the prevention of violence and economic abuse (Goal 5) and the promotion of decent work and sustainable economic growth (Goal 8).

Their goal: to be a resource for the social promotion, culture and enhancement of women’s work, scientific research, education and health.

Today we're honored to welcome Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which he co-founded with George Soros, William Janeway, and James Balsillie in 2009. Rob stands at the forefront of efforts to reshape economic theory and practice for a more equitable and sustainable world.

Under his leadership, INET has become a powerful catalyst for fresh perspectives that address our most pressing economic challenges - from inequality and climate change to financial instability and democratic erosion.

In this episode, "Reimagining Economics for a Just Future," we'll explore how new economic thinking can help create financial systems that serve humanity rather than the other way around. Rob brings insights from his decades of experience challenging economic orthodoxy and building bridges between academia, policy, and real-world practice.

TBLI Radical Truth brings you the visionaries and thought leaders who are redefining how we understand value, impact, and prosperity in the 21st century.

Peta Milan is the Principal of single family office Henmil Group Family Office, at the forefront of Regenerative Investing, and CEO of the first regenerative venture studio Transcendent Media Capital. Peta takes some Executive Management roles in her portfolio companies to establish their regenerative capabilities and is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board Member.

Lead designer of Henmil's professional certification for executives and board members, investment leaders and family offices and leaders of multilateral organisation and government in regenerative investing, business and governance, The Embodied Regenerative Leaders Certification, Peta is respected for her foundational thinking on Regenerative Investing, Finance and Governance

Her influence extends well beyond her bases in Dubai and Europe. Her work is a reflection of her broader vision for a thriving global ecosystem and healthy world, setting a precedent for other investors and policymakers to follow. Peta is also an international speaker, award winning filmmaker and author

Impact Investors struggle to find, do due diligence,  invest, report, and support impact opportunities For many it is a new initiative. Audrey Selian, Head of Artha Impact (Hindi for goal, sense, purpose) will discuss how she has been able to address many of these challenges and dramatically increase interest and money flows.

What will you learn?

-What is Artha network technology about?

- How is this more 'than just another platform'?

- Can discovery and dilligence scale impact investing

Africa is a fast growing continent, in population and economically. With this prosperity, comes great wealth. The Family Office industry is quite nascent and only starting to evolve. Are these successful entrepreneurial families interested in Impact Investing.  

This episode of Radical Truth will be a deep dive with Tsitsi Mutendi, the co-Founder of African Family Firms. Founded in 2019 by family business owners to create a safe and non-solicitous environment where they could get together to talk openly about their challenges and share their experiences to help others. As a not-for-profit organisation they put the needs of our members at the heart of everything they do. 

 AFF provide the family businesses with the support, tools, knowledge and environment to help them survive and thrive. In addition, they offer membership to family businesses and hold the space for families, managers, experts and relevant organisations to come together as a community. Exclusive networking following the Talk.

Michael Madden is an experienced investor in emerging and frontier markets. He will share his experience operating in various countries going through turmoil and upheaval, including coups, genocide and insurrection.  His latest investment is in Myanmar.

Michael is the Chairman and Founder of Ronoc and Chairman of Teneo Capital & Restructuring (New York). Michael was the founding CEO of Renaissance Credit – a Russian bank start-up which grew into a hundreds of millions dollar lending business. He established the American Express card business across the former Soviet Union, and served as Director for a portfolio of franchise markets and as Vice President for the American Express franchise business in EMEA. He is a board member of XacBank and TenGer in Mongolia.

Dr. Melanie Rieback is a leading cybersecurity and social entrepreneur working to show how business can be an effective for of activism. During this talk she will expose the failings of the steroid induced silicon valley model of artificial growth, and alternative models

"Business can be one of the most effective forms of Activism. Business can be one of the most expressive forms of Art. " Dr. Melanie Rieback, a successful Social Entrepreneur and Professional Hacker, will talk about nonprofit businesses, Post Growth thought, and alternatives to the Silicon Valley model.

Patricia Ricard

Oceans are dying. The combination of pollution, climate change, over fishing are creating death zones destroying plant and other life forms. Coral reefs are disappearing.

Can this be turned around? What opportunities are there to address this environmental disaster and create opportunities for mobilising action and investment?

Where are the climate solutions for investors? Jacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam based climate fintech company Carbon Equity. Carbon Equity seeks to connect next generation capital to the world’s most impactful climate investing opportunities.By enabling small ticket access to climate private equity funds. She worked as private equity investor at HAL investments and more recently as a general partner at Venture Capital fund Peak Capital. She spent the other half of her career to date building and leading companies, including De Kleine Consultant, one of the largest European student-run strategy consultants. What will you learn?

- What is climate technology and key trends? - ESG vs. climate impact investing - How to invest in climate technology through angel investments, funds, and funds of funds?  

Peter S. Goodman is the global economic correspondent for The New York Times, based in New York.

He is the author two books, the best-selling DAVOS MAN: How the Billionaires Devoured the World (HarperCollins, 2022), and PAST DUE: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy (Times Books, 2009), which was named one of Bloomberg’s top 50 business titles.

THIS MASTERWORK OF REPORTING IS THE FIRST BOOK TO EXPOSE HOW THE WEALTHIEST LEFT OUR HEALTHCARE, ECONOMY, AND GOVERNMENTS VULNERABLE TO THE PANDEMIC—AND HOW THEY HAVE EXPLOITED COVID-19 TO MULTIPLY THEIR FORTUNES WHILE THE WORLD SUFFERS

Many in the financial sector are well compensated, but often asked to push product that are not in line with their values. 

Dr. Giulio Franzinetti will explore these personal challenges and torments. Dr. Franzinetti is a 30 year financial services veteran. He worked at Banca Intesa, he worked on trying to rationalise the Catholic Church portfolio. In addition, he created the Gum Arabic Fund, to create a fair trade for this essential commodity fund. For the past few years, Dr. Franzinetti is a personal coach for those in the corporate and financial sector.

Peter Koenig, a global expert on the meaning of money. In this episode of Radical Truth, we invite Peter to discuss what he has learned, in educating thousands about what is money.

Relationship, to self, other, Nature and money is at the heart of this, not as philosophy or a nice-to-have but as a hands-on practice.  Aside from the usual exchange and discussion in these sessions, Peter is offering to give a practical demonstration to any participants who would like to try his system out in situ.

James Arbib will share his vision on addressing the Climate Challenge in an effective, uplifting manner. 

Jamie is the co-Founder of RethinkX, a not-for-profit think tank that analyzes and forecasts technology disruptions and their impact on society, using a complex systems-based framework. He is co-author of the book Rethinking Humanity. He is also the founder of Tellus Mater, a grant-making foundation that supports work on issues related to sustainability, with a focus on the finance system.  Jamie is Chairman of a family office based in London and specializes in clean tech venture capital.  What will you learn?

1. Are we doomed?
2. What solutions are there in the short term?
3. Do we need to focus only on adaption?

Bhutan is not that Shangri-la that many perceive. In this talk, Dr. Rieki Crins, one of the world's leading authorities on Bhutan discusses the massive human rights abuses in the Himalayan country. There are over 120.000 Refugees.

When there was no ESG or Impact Investing ecosystem, Amy Domini started Domini Social Investments and the Domini Index. ESG and Impact has grown significantly in the past 3 decades, and going mainstream. Nearly all financial institutions are offering their clients Responsible Investing products. How has the industry evolved? Has ESG and Impact improved things? What will the industry look like in the next 30 years. Pioneer Amy Domini will share her thoughts and vision for taking Impact to the next level.

Nadine B. Hack, known internationally for pioneering engagement leadership work using a proprietary framework called Strategic Relational Engagement. Creating connectedness is at their core. Her firm, beCause helps individuals and organizations connect to their core purpose, connect across silos in their organizations, and connect with external stakeholders, friendly and even adversarial, all based on building and sustaining trust. “When I was in prison it was very good to know that I had powerful friends like Nadine Hack working on behalf of South Africa’s freedom. ” — THE HONORABLE NELSON MANDELA Everyone will learn: - How cultivating deep relationships improves your work - What obstacles you face in sustaining such relationships - Why it’s worth the effort to overcome those challenges TBLI is the world's leading ESG/Impact Investing network/authority. We have been educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of his private investment firm, Apeiron Investment Group 

With USD 3.5+ billion under management and 50 FTEs across five international locations, Founded by Christian in 2018. Atai is already making significant headway towards unlocking innovative treatments  for the one billion plus people worldwide suffering from mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Atai currently has multiple projects underway to investigate the potential of psychedelic compounds like “magic mushrooms” / psilocybin, DMT and Ibogaine, and establish these as approved  treatments.

What will you learn?

• Can depression be cured?
• Drivers for investing in mental health
• Can you invest in happiness?

Prior to resignation in 2008, Wendell Potter was vice president of corporate communications for the health insurance company CIGNA. He was one of the main forces to prevent the Clinton Administration to pass health care legislation. During his tenure, he was instrumental in preventing the health care system to work for those who were ill.

Potter is the first and only "health insurance insider" to have publicly criticized the industry's stance on the Obama health care reforms. A supporter of the Affordable Care Act, Potter correctly predicted in 2010 the final version of the law would increase health insurance industry profits and argued they would find a way to "game the system." He became a vocal advocate for Medicare for All in 2018, saying in September 2019 that "it's time to move to a program that makes a lot of sense economically as well as morally"

We are thrilled to welcome back Wendell for another discussion on how to break from the destructive healthcare system in the USA

Terry Mollner is one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing as a new asset class in the professional investment community. He is a founder and member of the board of the Calvert Family of Socially Responsible Investment Funds, the largest such family of funds with over $7 billion under management. Dr. Mollner is founder and chair of Stakeholders Capital, Inc., a socially responsible asset management firm in MA and CA and the Massachusetts-based Trusteeship Institute, Inc., an economic and social policy think tank since 1972. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Calvert Social Investment Funds and Calvert Impact Capital. In 2000, he also took the lead that resulted in Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. being bought by Unilever, Inc. so it legally sustained its ability to be a socially responsible company and afterwards served on its board for eighteen years. He is the author of 12 Self-Evident Truths About Truth: And, Recommended Priorities for 2020 US Presidential Candidates, Common Good Capitalism Is Inevitable, and The Love Skill: We Are Each Mastering the 7 Layers of Human Maturity. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and a member of the Social Venture Network. Academy Articles by Terry Mollner Thoughts on How to End Terrorism Economic Maturity Beyond Capitalism: What will define the next stage?

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Allison Sesso is President & CEO of Undue Medical Debt, a national non-profit whose purpose is to strengthen communities by abolishing burdensome medical debt.  Undue Medical Debt has eliminated over 7 Billion Dollars and received $ 50 million from MacKenzie Scott (billionaire philanthropist) for their great work. What will you learn?

1. Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have medical debt.
2. RIP Medical Debt (RIP) uses donated dollars to buy and relieve medical debt across the country for those in financial need.
3. RIP's one-of-a-kind model turns $1 donated into $100 of medical debt relief.
   

Former Group Sustainabilty Officer of DWS, Desiree Fixler discusses if ESG is doing anything, other than making fees for fund managers.

What will you learn?

- Are ESG funds actually addressing the climate challenge?

- What do many of the institutional investors feel about ESG?

- It is all greenwashing?