Anna Simpson Iles – Supporting business and civil society organizations across the world to think long-term

Anna Simpson Iles joined sustainability consulting firm Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), based in Hong Kong in 2021. Earlier she has been director of the strategic futures and innovation agency Flux Compass, supporting business and civil society organizations across the world to think long-term and thrive in change. Her engagements include a design lab for … Continued

Fernanda Matsuoka – “After travelling the world as my job, I saw the eminence of the climate crisis with my own eyes”

Fernanda Matsuoka says that she is originally from Brazil. Currently Fernanda is based in the French Riviera. “My formation is in business, hospitality and tourism. After travelling the world as my job, I saw the eminence of the climate crisis and the environmental collapse with my own eyes. This led me to make a complete … Continued

Omar Caboni – Extensive experience in coaching and supporting multidisciplinary energy design

Omar Caboni has 10+ years of experience as energy efficiency and sustainability consultant in building design. “I have worked on planning, interior design and architectural engineering, through building physics, energy modelling, thermal-energy dynamic simulation, of both new and existing buildings, in order to build sustainable zero-energy buildings.” He has extensive experience in coaching and supporting … Continued

Johanna Liipola – Helping to create concepts, innovations, and ways of working that increase sustainability

Johanna Liipola is a generalist, service and concept designer with a Peter Pan attitude. Johanna uses her experience in concept design, design thinking and system thinking in her projects. She has worked in large corporates in different roles, in design, in purchasing and product development. “My motivation is creating small impact to change the world … Continued

Dilara El-Assaad – Achieving excellence and equitable programs for livable cities and the built environment

Dilara El-Assaad is a multi-disciplinary and multilinguist strategist in infrastructure and environment. “I am also a sustainability advocate, consensus-builder to achieve excellence and equitable programs for livable cities and the built environment.” Dilara is proficient with environmental policy development, research investigation, project management and programming for all modes of environmental engineering; infrastructure and transportation and … Continued

Ryan Christopher – Specialized in urban and transport planning and infrastructure

Ryan Christopher Sequeira is an urban and transport planning and infrastructure project finance specialist. He is Senior Urban Mobility Expert at UN-Habitat where he oversees the 18 mobility projects of the Global Future Cities Programme. Ryan advises GFCP projects under the UN Cities Investment Facility, an upstream project development endeavour to prepare bankable, SDG-compliant projects, … Continued

Nektar Baziotis – Combining e-learning and artificial intelligence

Nektar Baziotis has a deep background in artificial intelligence, e-learning, technology, cognitive science, product, UI/UX, and business strategies. Nektar is a co-Founder of ENKI Inc. and Apogee Information Systems, and he is also the Head of Technology at ExpertDojo. Nektar has more than 20 years of experience in international business development, IT project management, IT … Continued

Daniel Itzamna Avila Ortega – Working on industrial ecology related topics in Mexico and Latin America

Daniel Itzamna Avila Ortega has worked as an Associate Consultant at Perspectives for GHG accounting, SBTi, data analysis and geospatial modeling related projects. He was also the backend Sustainability Data Analyst for Metabolic and Climate Consultant for South Pole on climate change, carbon footprint, and SBTi related projects. “My primary motivation comes from inequality, climate … Continued

Kate Rushton – Building and managing online communities for big brands

Kate Rushton currently works as a community strategist building and managing online communities for big brands. “Before that I created challenges and managed communities around challenges design to test people’s skills and solve big global challenges.” Kate is a former Energy Analyst covering renewables and non-renewables for PA Consulting, ElectraLink, and NRG Expert writing market … Continued

Tapani Jokinen – Integrating design thinking with life cycle thinking – “Fall in love with the problem, not the solution”

Tapani Jokinen is an internationally recognized strategic and ecodesign expert. “I am a designer and design is by nature about solving problems. Design thinking is a creative systematic problem-solving process. It is a collaborative, iterative, explorative way of working. Identify, define the problem and find the creative solution. It’s human-centered creativity with purpose, but today … Continued