26th Sustainability Executive Roundtable

Business and Biodiversity: The Next Sustainability Challenge

September 23, 2011 INSEAD Europe Campus

Guest Speakers and Contributors’ Backgrounds

Marco Albani

Senior Practice

Expert, Sustainability

and Resource

Productivity (SRP)

Practice

McKinsey & Co.

Marco is a Senior Practice Expert in the Sustainability and

Resource Productivity (SRP) Practice of McKinsey & Company.

Marco joined the Firm in 2005 as an associate in the Toronto

office, from where he transferred to SRP in 2009. Marco serves

leading public, private and social sector clients on sustainability

topics, with focus on climate change mitigation strategies,

bioenergy, forest carbon and land-use.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Marco worked at Harvard University

as a research scientist and postdoctoral fellow in the field of

ecology, specializing in carbon sequestration in forest

ecosystems. Marco is the author of several scientific journal

articles and book chapters in the fields of forest ecology, global

change biology, and resource economics. Marco holds a Ph.D. in

Forest Sciences from the University of British Columbia

(Canada), and a Baccalaureate degree in Forestry from the

University of Florence (Italy).

John Atkin

Chief Operating

Officer

Syngenta Crop

Protection AG

Member of the

Steering Board of the

Sustainability

Executive

Roundtables

John Atkin was Chief Operating Officer Crop Protection for

Syngenta since its foundation until February 2011. Prior to that,

he was Chief Executive Officer (1999–2000), Chief Operating

Officer (1999), Head of Product Portfolio Management (1998),

and Head of Insecticides and Patron for Asia (1997–1998) of

Novartis Crop Protection. Prior to 1998, he was General Manager

of Sandoz Agro France (1995–1997) and Head of Sandoz Agro

Northern Europe (1993–1995). In 2008 he was appointed Visiting

Professor at the Institute for Research on Environment and

Sustainability (IRES) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He

is also Chairman of CropLife’s Crop Protection Strategy Council

(global industry association). He was appointed as a non-

executive Director of Driscoll’s in 2011.

He graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a

PhD and a BSc degree in agricultural zoology.

John Atkin is a Member of the Steering Board of the Sustainability

Executive Roundtables.

Alan Bernstein

INSEAD MBA’88

Chief Operating

Officer

Sustainable

Forestry

Management Africa

Ltd.

Alan Bernstein is a businessman specialising in emerging

markets and conservation development. He has served as senior

executive and founding investor in businesses involving large

scale resources project management, real estate development,

financial engineering and trading, agri-business, eco-tourism

and resort development in Southern and East Africa, Europe and

South-East Asia.

Qualifications:

-BSc Civil Engineering (University of Witwatersrand) 1980

-MSc Engineering ((University of Witwatersrand) 1982

-MBA (INSEAD) 1988

Alan Bernstein joined the JHI Property Group in 1984 and served

as Group Property Development Director until 1987. Alan was

involved in significant commercial property projects throughout

Southern Africa during this period, prior to attending INSEAD

and obtaining and MBA in 1988.

Alan established JHI International Ltd in London in 1989, a

boutique financial advisory business that specialised in

structuring Sovereign Debt/Equity swaps and trading Emerging

Market Debt and served as Executive Chairman until 1993.

During this period, Alan co-founded Conservation Corporation

Africa Ltd (“CC Africa”) and served as its Deputy Chairman and

joint CEO until 1997, establishing the company as the leading

eco-tourism organisation in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1992, CC

Africa successfully completed one of South Africa's first

international private placements in the post apartheid era. Under

his leadership the company pioneered private sector/state

partnerships in eco-tourism and conservation development and

grew to over 3,000 employees, operating 40+ eco-tourism

businesses and related conservation development programmes

across 5 African countries.

Alan served as CEO of SFM Limited, a pioneer in sustainable

forestry management and terrestrial carbon offset development,

from its formation in late 1999 until July 2009 when he led a

buyout of SFM Africa Limited, which he continues to serve as

Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Alan currently serves as Executive Chairman of SFM Africa

Limited and is the Founder & Principal of Sustainable Investment

Enterprises Ltd.

Maria Besiou

Postdoctoral

Research Fellow,

Humanitarian

Research Group and

Sustainability

Research Group

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Maria Besiou holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. She

completed her doctoral degree in 2009 on the economical and

environmental sustainability of closed-loop supply chains

(CLSC). CLSC focus on the collection / take back activities of

used products from the customers and their recovery. The used

the methodological tool of System Dynamics to cope with the

complexity and the multiple actors of the supply chains. Maria

joined INSEAD in 2009. Her main research interests are in

strategic closed-loop supply chains management, system

dynamics, decision-making and humanitarian logistics. She is

working with the Humanitarian Research Group and the

Sustainability Research Group where she uses System Dynamics

to study the operations of supply chains and to help the decision-

making process.

Eric Dugelay

INSEAD MBA’90

Sustainability and

Climate Change

Services Leader

Deloitte

Eric Dugelay has 25 years of working experience including 15 in

consulting and 9 with Schneider Electric where he was country

director, Malaysia, for four years. He is currently leading

Deloitte Climate Change & Sustainability Services for France. He

belongs to Deloitte Climate Change & Sustainability Services

global leadership group and coordinates such services at an

EMEA level. He is also the Partner in charge of Risk

management, Internal Audit and Internal Control Services for

Deloitte France and North Africa. Eric is finally in charge of the

China Desk of Deloitte France and Africa. He is a member of the

Project Advisory Panel (PAP) for the IAASB project “Assurance

Engagements on Carbon Emissions Information”. He is the

sherpa of Deloitte Vice Chairman at the World Business Council

for Sustainable Development. He represents Deloitte in EPE

(Entreprises pour l’Environnement) and is a board member and

treasurer of the France-China Committee of Medef International.

He develops the relationship of Deloitte with the Deauville

Women’s Forum and is a steering committee member of Deloitte

France Gender awareness working group.

Eric Dugelay earnt an MBA at INSEAD, an Engineering MS at the

Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supelec) and a BA in Chinese at

INALCO. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), a Certified

Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Control Self-

Assessment (CCSA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Franz Fischler

Former EU

Commissioner

for Agriculture, Rural

Development and

Fisheries

President of the

Eco Social Forum

Europe

Franz Fischler, Austria´s former Commissioner for Agriculture,

Rural Development and Fisheries of the European Union, is the

President of the Eco Social Forum Europe since December 2004.

He also runs his own consultancy business and is a lecturer in

great demand. Franz Fischler is currently one of the six

candidates for the post of Director-General for the Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO).

He started his career in 1979 in the extension service and served

as Austrian Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry from

1989 - 1994. In his role as Minister, Franz Fischler led the

negotiations on agriculture issues for Austria´s accession to the

European Union. For nearly a decade (1995 to 2004) Franz

Fischler then successfully shaped European Agricultural Policy

as the Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and

Fisheries of the EU.

A native of Tyrol, Austria, Franz Fischler holds a PhD from the

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Juan

Gonzalez-Valero

Head of Public Policy

and Partnerships

Syngenta

International AG

As the head of Public Policy and Partnerships at Syngenta, Juan

develops and implements the company’s corporate public policy

agenda. In this role, he envisions Syngenta going beyond

corporate responsibility to the next level of building meaningful

private-public partnerships and helping shape key global policy

debates.

He directs much of the company’s stakeholder outreach and

engages frequently in public forums. Previously, as head of

corporate responsibility, he initiated programs to strengthen

Syngenta’s contribution to addressing global challenges through

its products and people.

Central to these efforts, Juan and his colleagues are focusing on

how to empower farmers with the innovation and knowledge to

grow more food from less of the valuable natural resources such

as land, soil, water, and biodiversity.

His keen belief that Syngenta can offer solutions to the world’s

most pressing needs stems from his years working in Sustainable

Use, Stewardship and Ecology. This involved integrating

sustainable agriculture and product stewardship programs into

regional and country business strategies.

Juan joined the company in 1990 and previously held several

leadership positions in Environmental Sciences and Risk

Assessment across Europe and the USA.

He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Hamburg

where his research focused on marine ecology and

environmental toxicology.

Miranda Helmes

Communications

Manager

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Miranda Helmes is a Communications Manager with over 10

years’ experience. She joined INSEAD in March 2008 as head of

Communications for the newly inaugurated Social Innovation

Centre. She manages communications for five different

disciplines that make up a highly diverse and challenging

portfolio, translating and summarising complex world-class

academic materials into communicable products that are widely

understood by a broad audience of stakeholders.

Prior to joining INSEAD, Miranda held the position of

Communications Manager- External Communications for La

Chambre d’Agriculture de Seine et Marne. Before that, Miranda

was a Communications Manager for the Gâtinais Parc Naturel

Régional.

Miranda holds a Masters Degree with specialisation in

Communications and Public Relations from the Hogeschool van

Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch national, mother of two

children, with passion for beekeeping; she loves spending time

in her vegetable garden and is fond of journalism and social

media.

Mark Lee Hunter

Adjunct Professor

and Senior Research

Fellow

INSEAD

Mark Lee Hunter’s career has been divided between

investigative journalism and scholarly research. He is currently

an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD,

based in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, where he is a

founding member of the Stakeholder Media Project. Its goal is to

map the power and operating principles of media controlled by

communities that aim to influence organisations.

His manual for investigative reporters, Story-Based Inquiry

(UNESCO 2009), is the most widely-distributed reporting method

in the world. He is the author of five other books, on subjects

ranging from the French extreme right to a case-cracking inquiry

into a murder. Dr. Hunter has won two Investigative Reporters

and Editors Awards, along with the H.L. Mencken Free Press

Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for research on journalism,

the National Headliners and Clarion Awards, and two EFMD

Awards for case-writing. His articles have appeared in The New

York Times Magazine, Corporate Reputation Review, Harvard

Business Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard

International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Business Ethics

and elsewhere.

He was a founding member of the Global Investigative

Journalism Network in 2003, and serves on its board as well as

the board of the German journalism review, Messages. He

speaks regularly at international journalism conferences, to

multinational corporations, and to news organizations about

finding and using information.

Hans Joehr

Corporate Head of

Agriculture

Nestlé Ltd.

Hans Joehr is the Corporate Head of Agriculture at Nestlé in

Vevey, Switzerland. As such, Mr Joehr is responsible for

providing technical and strategic leadership in the groups'

world-wide agricultural raw material supply chain. This includes

the agricultural policy, the raw material quality control and R&D.

Mr Joehr joined Nestlé in April 2000. Prior to moving to Nestlé,

Mr Joehr served as CEO of AFC Consulting in Brazil engaged in

agribusiness & forestry consulting and management.

Mr Joehr is a member of the Board of IPC (Intl. Policy Council on

Agriculture Food and Trade) and a member of the Advisory

Council of the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (seco).

Recently, he joined IITA’s board (International Institute of

Tropical Agriculture) and became Director of Board of CATIE

(Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) in

Costa Rica. Mr Joehr is a former president of IAMA (Intl. Food

and Agribusiness Management Association) and past president

of the Swiss-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Sâo Paulo, Brazil.

Mr. Joehr is a co-founder and former president of the SAI

Platform (Sustainable Agriculture Initiative of the food industry).

Mr Joehr has a formal education in agricultural economics,

completed with a doctorate degree in economic science with

complementary management programmes at INSEAD (l'Institut

Européen d'Administration des Affaires, Fontainebleau, France)

and IMD (International Institute for Management Development,

Lausanne, Switzerland). Based on further practical experience

and a wide range of international business contacts, Mr Joehr

conducts a very hands-on approach to sustainable development.

Active in all facets of agribusiness, and having grown up on a

family farm, Mr Joehr has extensive experience based on several

long-term international assignments and additionally has

consulted in over 40 countries. He is the author of more than 30

publications in Brazilian and international news-papers. He is

married and his hobbies include literature, foreign languages

and cultures.

Marc Le Menestrel

Associate Professor

of Business

University Pompeu

Fabra

Visiting Professor of

Ethics

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

I am a decision scientist who works on rational behavior, the

foundations of measurement and ethical business. I am specially

interested in the articulation of economic values with subjective

values such as ethical values, aesthetic feelings, cultural tastes or

spiritual concerns.

In my teaching, I like to unveil and analyze the multiple roles of

values in decision-making, empowering participants and

companies to align their decisions and strategies with their

values.

I am Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and

Business of University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and

Visiting Professor of Ethics at the Social Innovation Center of

INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). I am also affiliated to the

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.

I have been launching the Foundation for a New Ethical Business.

John D. Liu

Director

Environmental

Education Media

Project for China

John D. Liu is an American who has lived in China for more than

30 years. Mr Liu helped to open the CBS News bureau in Beijing

at the time of normalization of relations between the U.S. and

China. He worked for CBS News for more than 10 years leaving

in 1990. He also worked as a photo-journalist for Radiotelevisione

Italiana (RAI Italian Television) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

(ZDF German Television).

Since the mid-1990’s Mr Liu has concentrated on ecological film

making and has written, produced and directed films on

Grasslands, Deserts, Wetlands, Oceans, Rivers, Urban

Development, Atmosphere, Forests, Endangered Animals,

Poverty Reduction for various broadcasters including the EARTH

REPORT and LIFE series on the BBC World. In 2003, Mr Liu wrote,

produced and directed “Jane Goodall – China Diary” for National

Geographic.

Since 1997 Mr Liu has directed the Environmental Education

Media Project, which uses television to deliver ecological,

sustainable development and public health messages in China

and other countries. Mr Liu was also the driving force in the

creation and development of the China Environment and

Sustainable Development Reference and Research Centre

(CESDRRC), the China HIV/AIDS Information Network (CHAIN),

and the Environmental Education Media Project (Mongolia). For

many years, Mr Liu has studied and worked to promote

“EARTH’S HOPE” with specific films including “The Lessons of

the Loess Plateau” and “Hope in a Changing Climate”.

Mr Liu is a foreign expert at the International Cultural Exchange

Audio/Visual Publishing House. In 2006 Mr. Liu was named the

Rothamsted International Fellow for the Communication of

Science by the Rothamsted Research Institute under the Biotech

and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK. Mr Liu has

held Fellowships in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Faculty

of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England

(UWE) and is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading in the

UK. Currently is a Senior Research Fellow with IUCN and is

working with various development agencies including the World

Bank, DFID, EU, UNEP, CDKN and others, filming and

communicating on “Integrated Poverty Eradication and Large-

Scale Ecosystem Rehabilitation” in Africa and around the world.

Julian Rode

Researcher,

Department

Environmental

Politics, Helmholtz-

Centre for

Environmental

Research - UFZ,

Leipzig

Visiting Scholar

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Julian Rode does academic research, teaching, and consulting on

sustainable behavior of individual and business actors, and on its

implications for policy. He is particularly interested in decision

making related to environmental sustainability and the valuation

of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Julian has worked as post-doctoral researcher at University of

Mannheim, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and INSEAD

(Fontainebleau), and as independent researcher and consultant

associated with Median SCP (Barcelona). Since August 2011 he

works with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research -

UFZ in Leipzig as researcher and member of the scientific

coordination team of The Economics of Ecosystems and

Biodiversity (TEEB). Julian holds a PhD in Economics from

University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

James Edward

Rushworth

Vice President

Environment and

Public Affairs,

Aggregates and

Concrete Division

Lafarge

James Edward has a honors degree in minerals processing

(Birmingham University) and a Master of Business Administration

(Warwick Business School).

He started his career in the gold mining industry in South Africa

and has 28 years experience in the cement, lime and aggregates

industries in both technical and operational roles. These have

included being Head of Sustainability in UK, Head of Emissions

Trading and leading the waste fuels program in UK for Lafarge.

He was on the board of BCSD-UK and Emissions Trading Group

(ETG) and chairman of the Minerals Product Association Climate

Change working group, ETG Monitoring & Reporting working

group and UK representative on Climate Change for Cembureau

(European Cement Association).

James Edward joined the Sustainable Development and Public

Affairs department in Lafarge Corporate office in Paris in

September 2010. He is responsible for implementation of

quarry rehabilitation and biodiversity across the Lafarge Group

globally and for Sustainability and Environmental management

with the Aggregates & Concrete Division globally. He chairs the

Cembureau Taskforce for Biodiversity and the Lafarge

International Biodiversity Panel and is a member of the

Biodiversity working groups for WBCSD-CSI and UEPG

(European Aggregates Association).

Uwe G. Schulte

Executive Director

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Uwe is a former Vice President of Global Supply Management at

Unilever. After finishing his PhD in Chemistry, Uwe joined Lever

Sunlicht in Mannheim as a development chemist in 1980.

From 1983 to 1985 he worked in Port Sunlight England as a

research scientist.

From 1986 to 1987 he was responsible for product development

for Lever Germany and in the following two years, Uwe worked

as head of production for detergent powders and liquids.

In 1990, Uwe moved with his family to Brazil where he became

responsible for the development department and quality assurance of Lever Division a Household Products and

Personal Care Market Leader.

In October 1992, Uwe moved from Sao Paulo to

Buxtehude/Germany to become the works manager of the Elida

Gibbs Personal Care factory.

At the end of 1996, Uwe joined the Elida board in Germany as

Technical Director.

With the beginning of 1997 he took over the position of Supply

Director Personal Wash and Skin for Europe.

In March 2001 Uwe started in the new role of Vice President Supply Management in HPC Division in London.

In October 2005 his responsibilities were extended to leading

procurement for both Foods and HPC in Unilever globally.

At the beginning of 2009, Uwe founded Prosolvo GmbH. Focal

areas for his new company are Corporate Social Responsibility,

Risk Management and Procurement Optimization for small and

medium sized companies.

As of October 1, 2010, Uwe has been appointed Executive

Director of the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre.

Marjo Siltaoja

Visiting Scholar

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Assistant Professor

University of

Jyväskylä

School of Business

and Economics,

Finland

Ms Marjo Elisa Siltaoja (PhD) is working as a post-doctoral

researcher in WINCSR project, in which she examines the use of

corporate responsibility related information in stakeholder

relations and in strategic knowledge creation. She is currently on

leave from her post as an assistant professor of management and

leadership at the Jyväskylä University School Business and

Economics, Finland (www.jyu.fi/jsbe). Her research has focused

on corporate social responsibility, reputation, business ethics

and values. She uses qualitative research approaches and her

recent publications can be found in e.g. British Journal of

Management, Journal of Business Ethics and Scandinavian Journal

of Management.

Paul Smith

Head of the

Millenium Seed Bank

Kew Gardens

Paul Smith, 47, was born in the U.K., but spent his childhood in

South-central Africa. He now lives with his family in Heathfield,

East Sussex, UK.

Dr Smith is a specialist in ecology and plant diversity in southern,

central and eastern Africa. He has extensive experience in seed

conservation, ecological survey, botanical inventory, vegetation

mapping, and environmental monitoring.

He has published numerous papers in this field, and is the author

of two field guides to the plants of south-central Africa. He edited

the Ecological Survey of Zambia (2001) and the Vegetation Atlas of

Madagascar (2007), both published by Kew. He has also worked

in land planning and ecotourism in Zambia’s Luangwa valley.

In 2000 Dr Smith was appointed Southern Africa and Madagascar

Co-ordinator for Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB). In that role

he developed and managed the MSB’s activities in Botswana,

Malawi, Madagascar, Namibia and South Africa.

In August 2005, Dr Smith became Head of the MSB and leader of

the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, a network of >120 plant

science institutions in 54 countries.

In October 2009, the Partnership achieved its first milestone of

storing seed from 10% of the world’s plant species both in the

MSB and in the countries of origin. Over the next 10 years, the

Partnership will seek to secure 25% of the world’s flora in seed

banks and to enable the use of that seed for human innovation in

agriculture, horticulture, forestry and habitat restoration.

James Spurgeon

Director

Sustain Value

Main Author

of the Corporate

Ecosystem

Valuation Guide of

the WBCSD

James Spurgeon is a consultant with 20 years applied experience

valuing biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability

issues for both private and public sector clients. His current focus

is to assist the private sector (such as oil and gas, mining, food

and drink, chemicals and manufacturing companies, as well as

banks and law firms) to evaluate and manage risks and

opportunities associated with these issues.

He is the principal author of the WBCSD's 'Guide to Corporate

Ecosystem Valuation' and the IPIECA/OGP 'Ecosystem Services

Guidance' for the oil and gas industry. He has a BSc, MSc and

MBA (Warwick Business School) with a special focus

on corporate sustainability, environmental valuation and

environmental markets. For the past four years he has led the

environmental economics team at ERM, and he is now Director of

a sustainability consultancy firm, Sustain Value.

Sybille

van den Hove

Director

MEDIAN

Scientific Committee,

European

Environment

Agency

Sybille's expertise is in sustainability governance, science-policy

interfaces, decision-making and policy formation under

conditions of complexity, integration of natural and social

sciences research, environmental research strategies and

corporate environmental strategies. Today, she mainly applies

her research to the areas of biodiversity policies at international

and EU levels, and socioeconomic aspects of biodiversity

change. She has also worked in areas such as: climate change,

radioactive waste management policies, the EU chemical and

pesticides policies, and sustainability strategies of corporations.

Her background is high-energy physics and ecological

economics. She is Director of MEDIAN, a small research,

teaching and consulting company, and Visiting Professor at the

Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the

Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Sybille is involved in several European FP7 research projects

including HERMIONE (Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s

Impact on European Seas), SCALES (Securing the Conservation

of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial,

temporal, and Ecological Scales) and she is the co-coordinator of

SPIRAL (Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity: Research,

Action, and Learning). Under FP6 she contributed to HERMES,

Rubicode, GoverNat and BioStrat.

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European

Environment Agency (EEA). From 2003 to 2009, she was the vice

chair of the steering committee of the European Platform for

Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS). She also chaired of the

Scientific Advisory Council of the European Distributed Institute

of Taxonomy (EDIT) network of excellence.

Francis Vorhies

Executive Director

Earthmind

Francis is the Executive Director of Earthmind. He has over 20

years of international experience as a sustainability economist. In

2006, Frank followed his wife’s career back to Geneva,

Switzerland, and set up Earthmind as a not-for-profit professional

sustainability association.

Since then he has worked on a variety of sustainability issues

primarily related to the interface between business, the economy

and biodiversity. In this regard, he has partnered with public,

private and not-for-profit organisations including the CBD

Secretariat, Credit Suisse, Danone, EC, EIB, EON, GEF, the

Global Mechanism, the Governments of the Netherlands and

Kuwait, ILO, ITC, IUCN, PERSGA, Shell, the Stockholm

Convention, UNDP, UNEP, UNCTAD, UN/ISDR, the World Bank

and Yemen LNG.

Previous experience includes:

• in Oxford, serving as the chief executive officer of the European

affiliate of the Earthwatch Institute, managing a unique

partnership programme with a group of 40 large multinational

corporations

• in Geneva, establishing new global programmes on economics

and business for IUCN, including undertaking joint feasibility

studies with the IFC on investing in biodiversity business in

Africa and Central Europe

• in Nairobi, working for the African Wildlife Foundation under a

UNDP/GEF grant to build biodiversity economics capacity in the

forestry sector in East Africa

• in Johannesburg, setting up Eco Plus, an innovative consultancy

focused on business, economics and the environment, and also

ran the first MBA course in the country on environmental

management

Frank has a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of

Colorado at Boulder and a diploma in integrated environmental

management from the University of Cape Town.

Hans Wahl

Executive Director

Social

Entrepreneurship

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Hans joined the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative in

2007. He has a background as a human rights activist, educator,

and trainer based in Paris, with more than 30 years of experience

in economic and political development. He recently designed

and led a programme of training and capacity building for

Paralegals working in post-conflict settings in Africa and

established UNESCO's Poverty and Human Rights Programme

that brought agency’s multi-disciplinary resources to bear on the

task of poverty eradication. Previously, he directed an

international penal and criminal justice reform training

programme for Penal Reform International and held senior staff

positions at Amnesty International and regional community

development organizations. He has worked as a consultant on

strategic planning and organisational change with clients

ranging from Siemens, AT&T, Corning, to numerous small & mid-

sized organisations in the US and internationally.

Mr. Wahl has founded several organisations and small

enterprises and is currently co-founder and owner of a

community-based tourism enterprise and in the High Caucuses.

He has studied, written and worked on issues of civil society

development, human rights, and capacity building in over 50

countries worldwide. He is Austrian-American and holds a

Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Benjamin Warr

Senior Research

Fellow

Sustainability Group

INSEAD Social

Innovation Centre

Benjamin Warr is Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability at the

INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, Fontainebleau, France. His

research is concerned with the biophysical dimensions of

economic activity and the development of sustainable society

through eco-positive business innovations. A complete list of his

publications can be found on his homepage. Dr Warr trained as

an environmental soil scientist, specializing in the use of

remotely sensed data for the measurement of soil properties, and

the use of spatial statistical modeling for the prediction of soil

properties. His research interests are diverse and include:

industrial ecology, payments for ecosystem services, inclusive

growth and participatory development, eco-innovation strategy