Sustainability And Capital Markets
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Session Description
The global context for business is changing. Challenges such as climate change, HIV/AIDS, and poverty have reached a point where civil society is demanding a response from business. This session will explore Generation’s view of a sustainable firm and how it aims to impact capital markets through its own investment strategies.
Time & Location
Time:
18:00 - 19:15, Wednesday, March 29, 2006
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
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
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Founder & Chairman, Jeff Skoll Group
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Skoll Foundation
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Participant Media
Founder of Capricorn Investment Group
Co-founder and GP of the RISE Fund
First fulltime employee and President of eBay
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Speaker
Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management LLP (U.S.)
David Blood is co-founder and Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Previously, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs including serving as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management from 1999-2003. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is on the Board of New Forests, Dialight, SHINE, The Nature Conservancy, Ashden and Social Finance UK, as well as a Life Trustee of Hamilton College.
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Speaker
Former Vice President of the United States and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, Office of the Honorable Al Gore
Al Gore
Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate
An environmental, business, and tech visionary recognized as one of the world's leading activists, former US Vice President Al Gore was referred to by TIME magazine as “a businessman who is out to change the world.”
VP Gore is the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis, a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and a co-founder of Climate TRACE. He is also a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a member of Apple Inc.’s board of directors, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees.
VP Gore was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the US Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
The former Vice President is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers "An Inconvenient Tru
