Climate Change, Societal Demand And Food Security
Friday, April 16, 2010
Session Description
By 2050, there will be an estimated 2.3 billion more people to feed, one third more than today. Additionally, new sources of food demand have emerged with increased use of food crops for bio fuels. Longstanding under-investment in agriculture, along with sharp increases in fuel and food prices followed by the economic crisis, have driven an estimated 100 million more people into poverty. This session brings together recognised experts and innovators in the field to outline solutions to this looming global threat.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Friday, April 16, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
CEO, ONE
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli joined the ONE Campaign in April 2024, as the first African CEO/President. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is the founder of LEAP Africa and African Food Changemakers. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd.
Ndidi serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. India, Stanbic IBTC Group, the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, and the Bridgespan Group.
Ndidi holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow.
Ndidi is a TED speaker, a Schwab Fellow and the author of Social Innovation in Africa.
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Climate Writer, University of Oxford
Mark Lynas is author of two best-selling popular books on climate change, High Tide (2004) and Six Degrees (2007), each published in more than a dozen languages. The latter became a National Geographic film seen by millions around the world and won the prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2008. He is currently a visiting academic at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and advisor on climate change to the President of the Maldives.
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Global Head of Climate Change Investment Research, Deutsche Bank
Mark Fulton joined Deutsche Bank in 2006 as Global Head of Climate Change Investment Research, DB Climate Change Advisors: New York. Prior to this, he had 29 years of investment experience in senior roles in research and management at Citigroup in the US, Salomon Smith Barney and NatWest in Sydney, Potter Partners in Melbourne and James Capel in London. He has a BA in Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University.
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Founder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures Ltd
John Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’.
John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades”.
John serves on some 30 boards and advisory boards, where a key part of his role is to channel the future into the present across a wide range of disciplines. He is writing his 19th book alongside Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team. The book is provisionally titled The Breakthrough Challenge, exploring ways to institutionalize tomorrow’s bottom
