Join Social Value International in our month-long series of discussions about what we can do to go "Beyond ESG"!
Joined by an expert panel, this webinar will explore how businesses across the world are grappling with the Impact Management and ESG landscape, what this actually means for businesses, and how social value practitioners are responding to this changing landscape to support businesses and organisations optimise the impact they create.
Speakers:
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Global Senior Manager, B Corp & Business for Inclusive Growth
Alexandra Heaven is the Senior Global Manager for B Corp and Business for Inclusive Growth. She has worked at Danone in the B Corp team for 6 years currently focusing on how B Corp is a lever of positive transformation for the business and how it can be effectively embedded into the heart of the company. On the Busines for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) side, Alexandra manages the internal team’s engagement with the coalition and sits in the working groups on living wage as well as impact measurement, where she represents Danone as working group co-lead alongside BASF.
Alexandra has a background in political science and psychology and has worked in public affairs, sustainability, and social enterprise in emerging economies. She is originally from New Zealand and is currently living in London.
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Impact Measurement & Management Lead, UNDP
Belissa has over 15 years of experience in the international development sector, advising private sector organizations, impact investors, development banks, and foundations on how to professionalize their management and measurement practices. Belissa is currently working with the UN SDGs Impact Team to advance the adoption of universally agreed upon standards for SDG- enabling investments and enterprises and catalyze private capital to further the achievement of the SDG. Belissa has extensive experience advising investors on how to measure and manage their environmental and social impacts. Belissa is the CEO and founder of Impacto-consulting and focuses primarily on strategic planning, general management, sustainability, and impact measurement and management. Her projects included working with IDB Lab on the design of an ESG & impact measurement and management (IMM) tool for early-stage ventures with the potential to generate impact on a large scale, assessing ES Risk reporting best practices for DFIs, co-leading an initiative to support venture capital funds in the development of their IMM practices with IMP Impact Frontiers initiative, among others. She is also leading an initiative with On Think Tanks (OTT) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to bring cross-sector knowledge, policy, and economic expertise from local think tanks to the impact investing industry in Latin America and Africa.
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Director of Planning and Institutional Development, Amman Stock Exchange
Director of Planning and Institutional Development at Amman Stock Exchange, work on preparing the ASE’s strategic plan and submitting related reports, preparing statistics for Amman Stock Exchange, following up, updating and developing indices continuously in line with the latest international practices, preparing the annual report for the stock exchange, studies and reports, in addition to managing the risks that the stock exchange may be exposed to. Had a professional certificate in Sustainability, in which considered an accredited trainer in sustainability accredited by Social Value International.
Dr Dayyat hold a PhD degree in finance from Coventry University/ UK. Masters and Bachelors in Economics. Former Assistant Professor in Finance specializing in monetary policy and capital markets. Former advisor to IMF Executive Director to the Middle East region. Held different administrative and leadership positions at Princess Sumaya University for Technology and Mutah University including Vice- Dean and Head of department. Dr. Dayyat was an economic consultant at European Union who drafted the Public financial management report.
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Partner, Embedding Impact
Reinoud is a highly experienced Impact Measurement & Management expert, being the first SROI practitioner in South Africa (2010). Under Behold SA, and from 2019 onwards under Embedding Impact, he has lead and been involved in a variety of SROI and Social Impact Measurement and Management assignments across different industries in South Africa and abroad for clients including Sibanye, Sasol, Distell, Anglo American Coal, Thungela, Mineworkers Investment Trust, GreenSource and within the renewable energy sector with among others Engie, Scatec and Dorper Wind Farm.
Reinoud holds and MSc in Business Administration, with specialisation in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands). His career spun from brand management to CSR for European and South African companies.
In 2014, Reinoud started ‘The Experience Factory’ (TEF) to address the pressing and acute social problem of graduate unemployment in South Africa. TEF is a social enterprise, which leverages the power of experience to benefit unemployed graduates in the country, in a completely self-sustaining way.
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Economist/Policy Analyst, OECD WISE Centre
Vincent Siegerink is an Economist/Policy Analyst in the OECD WISE (Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity) Centre. He has a background in research on well-being and progress measurement, including subjective well-being, trust, and the intersection between the digital transformation and well-being. He was also previously an advisor in the Office of the Secretary General of the OECD.
He is currently responsible for the WISE Centre’s substantive work on the measurement of the non-financial performance of firms. In this capacity, he works to align official statistics of stakeholder well-being with business measures of their own non-financial performance. He also supports the OECD’s contributions to the Business 4 Inclusive Growth (B4IG) Coalition and other business groups, and coordinates to OECD’s contributions to the Impact Management Platform (IMPlatform).