Sustainable Sourcing: The Business Imperative
Speakers
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Institute Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers.
Roger Martin serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles.
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon.
A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
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Chief Impact Officer, Fair Trade USA
Partnering with 800 U.S. companies, Fair Trade USA is rapidly expanding in both food and manufactured products, building sustainable supply chains that create shared value for industry, farmers and workers. With 38% consumer awareness, Fair Trade USA and its partners have helped return over $300 million in additional income to farming families in 70 countries across the globe. As Chief Impact Officer, Mary Jo ensures Fair Trade works from origin to shelf by providing producers the services they need to access markets and become better business partners; helping businesses understand the role Fair Trade can play in their sustainability strategies; and engaging consumers so they understand the difference their everyday purchases can make. Prior to FTUSA, Mary Jo was the VP of Innovation and Sustainability at the Clorox Company. She was honored by Progressive Grocers as a 2012 Top Women in Grocery; and in 2006 was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top 25 “Innovation Champions."
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Senior Vice President, Markets; Executive Director, Markets Institute, World Wildlife Fund US
Jason Clay, SVP, Markets, WWF-US is a thought leader on global issues and trends affecting food and soft commodities. He ran a family farm, worked in the USDA, taught at Harvard and Yale, and spent 15 years working with indigenous people. In 1988, he began to help 200 companies buy ingredients that support communities and conservation by making and selling rainforest products to support local economic development. He sourced all the nuts for Ben & Jerry’s Rainforest Crunch and 200 other products generating $100M in sales. The work tripled the price to gatherers and doubled nut prices to all other collectors. The Xapuri rubbertappers in Acre took political power for 25 years.
Since 1993, Clay launched WWF’s aquaculture, ag, livestock, finance, and market transformation programs. He led a 3-year program to reduce key impacts of shrimp aquaculture. He helped develop standards for the production of some two-dozen ag, livestock and aquaculture commodities. He has worked with 70 of the 100 largest food companies to improve their supply chain management.
In 2015, Clay founded the Markets Institute at WWF to spot emerging global issues and trends that will affect the production and trade of food commodities. Each year, the Institute and identifies 15 trends, issues and tools that will be important, publishes a weekly newsletter, and prepares briefs and white papers as well as 4-5 case studies documenting innovation or pilots to address key issues and trends.
Clay has authored 20 books and 700 articles and given more than 1,500 invited talks. He is currently working with companies to address ESG issues and identifying new business models and markets to address them. Clay is helping WWF explore ways to use impact investing to reduce key impacts in the food system. Clay studied at Harvard and the LSE and got his PhD in anthropology and international agriculture from Cornell.
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Physic Ventures
Will Rosenzweig is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Physic Ventures, the first venture capital firm dedicated to investing in health, well-being and sustainable living. Over the past 20 years, he has been involved in leading and growing more than 25 entrepreneurial ventures. He was the Founding CEO and Minister of Progress of the Republic of Tea, and Co-Author of ‘The Republic of Tea: How an Idea Becomes a Business’, recently named one of the 100 best business books of all time. In 2010, he was honoured with the Oslo Business for Peace Award.
