Moderators
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Aksel Mjøs
Head of Department of Finance at NHH Dual career, multitasking, finance professional as academic researcher and board member applying knowledge from previous roles as investment banker and asset management CEO. Research focus on applied finance research on corporate bank financing, entrepreneurial finance, and asset management incentives. Skilled in combining experience from banking, entrepreneurship aswell as national policymaking tasks, with formal financial economics into wiser research, teaching and advice. |
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Calum Revfem
Director at The Governance Group Calum is an internationally recognised GRI sustainability reporting expert with over 10 years’ experience as a GRI report advisor and certified trainer. His ESG reporting expertise covers both recognised and emerging frameworks, including the Future-Fit Business Benchmark. He has advised and written sustainability reports for many of New Zealand and Norway’s leading listed and private companies. He joined The Governance Group in 2020 after establishing specialized sustainability consultancy Proxima. Calum frequently writes and speaks on the topic of sustainability reporting, its purpose and future direction. He holds an MSc in Environmental Systems Analysis from Wageningen UR in The Netherlands. |
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Fredrik Fogde
Senior Consultant at Transcendent Group Fredrik is passionate about sustainable development and tackling the climate crisis. Fredrik is a experienced leader within the field of ESG strategy, product development and data management. An achievement of his being that he grew South Pole Group's investment analysis offering from start-up to a leader within the space of climate risks analysis at ISS ESG over a period of 8 years. In his career he has extensive knowledge within Corporate Social Resposibility, Project Management and Public Speaking. |
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Espen Daae
Investment Chief, Social Investments at Ferd Sosiale Entreprenører Espen is passionate about developing solutions for the major societal problems. Supporting great social entrepreneurs in developing and scaling their businesses. Graduating from University of Surrey, with a focus in Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology. Currently Espen is a Board Member at a few different companies, as well as Investment Chief at Ferd Sosiale Entreprenører. Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing and Mergers & Acquisitions are among some of his skills. |
Speakers
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Ulla Luhtasela
Nordic Sustainability Manager at Nestlé A positive and energetic natural scientist, who has worked around food more than 15 years; as a researcher, as a public authority and currently at private sector. Ulla believes that the green transition has truly began and we are living exciting times! Sustainability is no longer just for nature lovers, it is part of the business strategies, ensuring both economic growth and better environmental impacts. |
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Dimitar Vlahov
Executive Advisor, Integrate / Sustainable Brands Dimitar is a senior sustainability expert, working with companies to chart their path to becoming truly sustainable and/or regenerative. He co-designed and lead the work on Sustainable Brands' Brand Transformation Roadmap, an orientation and navigation tool that guides brands with practical next steps and recommended resources at every stage of their sustainability journeys. Dimitar is currently working as the Global Partnership Lead at Quantis to contribute to global strategy development with an eye toward boosting transformative influence and impact. |
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Annie Bersagel
Portfolio Manager ESG at Folketrygdfondet At the Government Pension Fund - Norway, Annie is responsible for driving integration of material environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors in our investment process and ownership strategy. This includes engaging with board leaders and executive management on the ESG topics most relevant to portfolio companies´ ability to create long-term sustainable value. Annies expertise lies at the intersection of corporate governance, sustainability, and finance. Annie holds a JD from Stanford Law School and am an Authorised Financial Analyst (AFA) with an executive MBA in finance from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). |
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Jon Fredrik Vassengen
Manager at Argentum Asset Management Jon Fredrik joined Argentum in 2010, after he finished his master’s degree in economics at the Norwegian School of Economics. He has been responsible for developing the company’s ESG practices and reporting. As of today, Jon Fredrik acts as Argentum’s compliance officer and oversees the firm’s ESG strategy and DD processes. Now a manager at Argentum he works conducting analysis of the Nordic private equity market. This includes investment trends, fundraising and transaction financing as well as reporting on ESG issues. |
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Hanne Thornam
Partner / Nordic Head of Climate Change and Sustainability Services at EY Experienced sustainability consultant specialized in supporting companies and investors in identifying, managing and reporting on strategic climate and sustainability risks and value drivers. Hanne has gathered extensive experience of supporting leading companies in the Nordics and internationally over the last 15 years. Hanne has also worked with leading investors to develop their approaches to integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors as part of their investment strategies. My experiences span across sectors including private equity, banking and finance, retail and consumer goods. |
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Snorre Gjerde
Interim Head of Environmental Initiatives ESG & Responsible Investment at NBIM Snorre Gjerde is Interim Head of the Environmental Initiatives team in the Corporate Governance department of Norges Bank Investment Management. He leads the fund's ownership activities on environmental topics, including climate change and nature risk, and engages with companies in close collaboration with portfolio managers. Previously, Snorre worked as an equity analyst in the fund's Sector Strategies department, covering a number of global consumer companies. He has also been seconded to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Equity Research division, where he focused on European banks. Snorre holds an MBA from London Business School, a Master's degree in Financial Economics from NHH - Norwegian School of Economics, and a CEMS Master's in International Management from NHH and the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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Julie Hamre
VP ESG Reporting & Strategy at Scatec Julie Hamre is the Vice President of ESG Reporting & Strategy in Scatec and has been with the company for nearly 8 years. She has established and developed the Company’s ESG reporting field over the last 5-6 years. Prior to that she was working at Deloitte within business development and audit and advisory. She holds a master's degree in business economics, specialized in strategy, from BI Norwegian Business School. |
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Lars Aa. Løddesøl
Group CFO, Executive VP, Storebrand ASA Graduating from BI Norwegian Business School, Lars earned a MSc in General Finance. Lars also Graduated from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a Master of Business Administration. Lars is Group CFO & Executive Vice President in Storebrand ASA, and has worked at Storebrand in various roles since 2001. Before Storebrand, Lars was VP at Citibank. |
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Ulrika Hasselgren
Chief Sustainability Officer Senior business leader and certified board member with 20+ years in the finance industry working together with investors and asset managers in the Nordics, Europe and North America, as CEO of Ethix, Global Head of RI Strategy at Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS), and Global Head of Sustainability & Impact Investment at Danske Bank As Global Head of Sustainability & Impact Investment and Member of Danske Bank Wealth Management Leadership team, created a vision and strategic roadmap to embed sustainability into the core of the investment business, and led the journey for ESG integration and active ownership across investment processes, products, and advisory. |
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Hussnain Bashir
Ph.D, Centre for Sustainable Business, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) Hussnain is a PhD research scholar at the department of accounting, auditing & law at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Business. His research is focused within the areas of: The design and innovation of sustainable business models, field experiments on human decision making, with a particular emphasis on socially and/or environmentally behaviors and sustainability & ESG reporting practices of firms. |
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Kees Klomp
Professor of Applied Science, Rotterdam University Kees Klomp (1968) studied Political Science and Communication at the University of Amsterdam. After working for 25+ years as a business consultant, Klomp now works as a professor of applied science in education; researching and teaching Existential Economics. Klomp wrote 7 books about his existential approach of economics. |
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Charlotte Aschim
Founder & CEO, TotalCTRL - B Corp Reporting for SMEs Charlotte Aschim is the CEO & Founder of TotalCtrl, a top global food waste prevention software company that helps consumer-facing businesses optimize their operations, cut costs and prevent food waste. Since late 2017, Charlotte has managed to get TotalCtrl on rankings alongside Amazon and Walmart, be one of Europe's most inspiring food waste changemakers, a Norwegian Food Mentor, ranked among the top 10 best leaders within sustainability in Norway for 2020, among the top 80 Norwegian leaders under 35 in 2019, one of the amazing Fairforce 100 Environmental Data Entrepreneurs, a European Green Capital Ambassador and so much more. |
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Ralph Thurm
Co-Founder & Managing Director R3.0 Ralph Thurm is a leading professional in sustainable innovation and strategy, operational sustainability, sustainability change management, sustainability reporting, transformation and ThriveAbility. With about 30 years of experience working for major corporates, industry federations, governments, NGOs and advisory services globally, Ralph adds value as an advisor, trainer, facilitator, moderator and writer on a huge variety of sustainability topics. He is the Founder & Managing Director of A|HEAD|ahead, a management advisory focused on sustainable transformation and strategic positioning. |
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Janicke Scheele
Head of Responsible Investments at DNB Asset Management AS and Chair of Norsif Janicke earned her MBA in Finance from NHH, focusing within Portfolio Management. Throughout her career she has worked for several large banks, such as Nordea and DNB. Currently she is working at both Norsif as Chair of the board and DNB as Head of Responsible Investments. She has acquired strong skills within Financial Markets, Fixed Income and Bonds over the last decade. |
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Nicolai Lundy
Chief of Market Relations at Value Reporting Foundation At Value Reporting Foundation, Nicolai works with overseeing outreach, partnerships and communications teams. Wokrking with companies and investors to apply VRF resources for for sustainable financial performance. Before this Nicolai attended various different universities such as University of Oslo and Stanford University. Over the years he has built up skills in leadership, public speaking and program development. |
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Petter Reistad
Chief Executive Officer at Celsia Petter graduated with a Bachelors degree in Finance from University of Colorado Boulder. Throughout the years he has worked at various different jobs such as a freelance columnist, Project Manager at Cognite and now as the CEO of Celsia. Celsia works with developing Europes fastest and simplest taxonomy scoring solution. His skills include Tech management, Sustainability and Business Development |
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Titus Fossgard-Moser
Head of Environment and External Reporting at Equinor Titus attended various different universities and graduating with both an MBA from McGill University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Throughout the years Titus has worked at different companies such as Shell, Statoil and now Equinor, where he has been for 6 years. From these jobs he has worked up skills within Energy, Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder management. |
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Bente Sverdrup
Director of Sustainability at Gjensidige Bente started out her career as an accountant, worked her way to understanding risk and business opportunities for 25 years. Bente started off as a director of finance in Løvenskiold Handel, and continued as chief of Internal Audit in Gjensidige. She made a shift in her career in 2016 taking the position as HR director in Gjensidige. Through the years Bente has gained experience in many different industries and areas, s.a. Insurance, energy, retail and public sector. Acquiring experience in risk management, internal and external audit, international experience, project management, change management, HR processes, competence development, sustainability. |
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Kirsten Hovi
ESG Advisor to the CFO at Norsk Hydro Kirsten is a ESG professional dedicated to further developing and improving reporting frameworks. Graduating with a masters degree in Chemical Engineering from NTNU she went on to work at Norsk Hydro. Here she is currently working as VP & ESG Advisor as well as Head of Extra-Financial Reporting. Through her years of experience at Norsk Hydro she has built up skills within Corporate Social Responsibility, Change Management and Risk Management. |
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Rune Larsen
Managing Director Industry X Nordics Accenture Rune has 25+ years of experience within Consulting, Data Analytics & High Technology and Manufacturing industries. He has been working with global and Nordic corporations having responsibilities of Project and Concept Development. He has a deep understanding of the implication on the use of Digital Technologies for new business models and creating competitive advantage. Rune has been managing and developing teams as CEO, COO and Practice Lead in the fields of Data Analytics, AI and Industry 4.0 technologies. He has a M.Sc and MBA, graduated from BI Norwegian Business School. Rune also has Executive courses from MIT on IOT and digital strategy. |
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Siri Rosenblad
Leader ESG reporting Deloitte A&A at Deloitte Siri is a Leader ESG reporting Deloitte Audit & Assurance and part of the Assurance service line. She advises clients in a range of industries in areas such as IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standard), IPO readiness and financial and sustainability reporting. Starting off at NHH and BI Business School, she has since been working at Deloitte. Throughout the years at Deloitte she has built up skills within IFRS, Auditing and Financial Reporting. |
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Kiran Aziz
Head of Responsible Investments at KLP Asset Management Kiran holds a masters of Law from BI Business School, however her areas expertise range from areas such as Law all the way to Investing. Kiran has spent the better part of a decade building up strength within Law and has acquired skills within Corporate, Contract and International Law. The last three years she has been with KLP working at various different roles, most recently as Head of Responsible Investments. |
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Ita Demyttenaere
Director of Client Relations at Sustainalytics Director in Sustainalytics’ Client Relations team, leading both the Benelux and Nordics Advisory teams that advise Sustainalytics clients their use of Sustainalytics’ products and on integrating ESG considerations into their investment processes. Since joining Sustainalytics in 2014, Ita has worked with several large financial institutions in both regions, across all business lines from asset managers to lending departments. Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Ita worked for several financial institutions including Deutsche Bank and Euroclear in both operational and commercial roles. Ita is a CFA Charterholder and holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Finance from the University of Amsterdam. |
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Sussanne Gløersen
Deputy Head of Sustainable Banking at SEB Norway SEB Green Tech VC and Deputy Head of Sustainable Banking in SEB Norway. One of the leading voices in sustainability and finance, having worked with sustainability and finance for more than a decade. Previous experience as sustainability strategist in Formuesforvaltning, own consultancy company, Nordeas team for sustainable investments and Carnegie. Passionate about bringing capital to scaling green tech solutions. Active in the venture ecosystem, Susanne sits in several green tech start-up boards, mentor in accelerators and jury member in clean tech competitions. Co-established Norsif (Norwegian Association for Responsible and Sustainable investments) Lastly Sussanne holds a Master degree from Norwegian School of Economics |
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Karoline Bakka Hjertø
Head of Sustainability at Sparebank 1 - Østlandet Karoline has been working with sustainability issues and human rights in different aspects for most of her working life. As well as having worked with social entrepreneurs, responsible for building and structuring the business side of the companies. Furthermore Karoline has been chairperson at CSR Norway, a business network, created by businesses, where sharing knowledge and good practice among business, academic and governmental institutions is key. |
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Linn Anker Sørensen
Attorney at Law at EY Linn holds a PhD in Law on multinational group structures, and a certificate in global management from INSEAD. Linn is a member of ESMAs expert group on innovative finance, where we focus on sustainable finance and decentralized finance. She has been with EY since 2019, where she works with both heading the sustainable finance team from EYs Tax & Law department and functioning as Nordic Head on Decentralized Finance. Linn frequently writes academic papers in these two legal domains, alongside advising clients in the interconnectivity between regulatory requirements in sustainable finance and tech-based solutions, including tokenization of assets. |
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Maria Kringlen Halvorsen
Sustainability Director at Vow ASA Maria is a Sustainability Director with working experience from auditing and financial controlling before going into the sustainability field. MSc in Economics with specialization in environment, climate and energy from NMBU and master in Accounting and Auditing from BI. |
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Peter Paul Van De Wijs
Chief External Affairs Officer at GRI As the Chief External Affairs Officer, Peter Paul van de Wijs is responsible for driving effective advocacy for GRI around the world and maintaining the external relations. Peter Paul has over 20 years of professional experience in communications and sustainability. In addition to leading his own business, Peter Paul has held executive positions at the LEGO Foundation and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). |
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Anne Worsøe
Head of Investor Relations and Communications at Ultimovacs Head of Investment Relations at Ultimovacs ASA (OSE:ULTI), a clinical stage biotech company developing immunotherapies against cancer. 20+ years of experience within strategy, business development, and communication from the investment industry, and served on the boards of several early-stage companies, venture capital funds, private and public limited companies. Board member and advisor for ESG matters at Photocure ASA and Kron AS, Chair of the board at First Seed, Venture Partner at Antler, angel investing through Farmhouse Capital. |
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Delphine Gibassier
Consultant-Researcher and International Expert in Accounting for Sustainability Delphine Gibassier is a consultant-researcher and international expert in accounting for sustainable development, with 20 years’ experience in both practice and academia. She is also the director of the Research Centre "Multi-capital Global Performance". She has worked with the UN Global Compact, EFRAG, IIRC, WBCSD, R.3.0, Capitals Coalition and CDSB, as well as the French government on various topics such as non-financial reporting, carbon accounting and integrated reporting. In practice, she has developed and implemented carbon accounting, SDG accounting and integrated reporting for large companies. Before joining academia, she worked as a management controller for large multinationals in Paris, USA and Asia. She is an associate editor of the academic journal Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. |
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Marta Nevoy Bjørkestrand
Sustainability and ESG Manager at Kongsberg Marta graduated from Yale University with a focus in Sustainability and Leadership. Before working at Kongsberg, she worked for Statoil / Equinor where she built up her career, eventually landing the job of ESG Manager, Investor Relations. Currently Marta is working at Kongsberg as a Sustainability and ESG Manager. |
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Frank Dixon
Founder at Global System Change Frank is a Harvard MBA graduate with multiple years of experience within sustainability. Managing Director of Research of largest ESG research firm (Innovest/MSCI), Advise Walmart, US EPA and others on sustainability, and wrote Global System Change books. |
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Ben Powell
Head of Sustainable Banking at SEB Ben graduated from Cardiff University and proceed to work in the area of Finance. Throughout the last two decades, Ben has worked at various different companies, currently working at SEB as head of sustainable banking and global head of sustainable DCM. Bens expertise encompass areas such as Capital markets, Fixed Income and Derivatives. |
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Christian Jebsen
Partner at Verdane Christian joined Verdane’s Oslo office as a partner in 2018. He has experience from a number of executive management positions in both listed and unlisted companies that include those as CEO of Kebony AS, CEO of Vmetro ASA, CEO of Stavdal ASA and CFO/COO of Opera Software ASA, a former Verdane portfolio company. Christian’s previous experience further includes investment banking, and he has worked with Verdane in an advisory capacity since 2012. Christian holds a BSc in Economics and a BA from Copenhagen Business School. Currently he is a board member at various companies such as Farmasiet, Napatech, Femz and a few others. |
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Nora Backer Malm
Manager at EY Nora graduated from Rotterdam School of Management with a Masters in Business Administration. She also graduated from University of St Andrews with a Master of Arts in International Relations. Through her career she has worked at various companies in the greater Oslo region. More recently however she has had various roles at EY, currently as Manager. Nora is skilled at International Relations, English and Research. |
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Pauline K. Øien
Director of Business Development at Cognite Pauline is passionate about technology, innovation and industrial digital transformations. Graduating from NTNU with a Master of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Throughout her career she has worked at various companies such as BW Offshore, where she worked on projects such as steel renewal projects, hydrodynamics and structural analysis. Currently she is working at Cognite as Director of Business development. Pauline is empowering industrial companies to unlock the value of data. |
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Jeanett Bergan
Sustainability Director at Aker Horizons Jeanett Bergan is Sustainability Director at Aker Horizons, a planet-positive investment company developing and scaling technologies and companies within among others renewable energy and climate solutions. Prior to that she held the position as Head of Responsible Investments in KLP for 13 years. At KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, with over US$81 billion in AuM, Jeanett spearheaded the development of responsible investing through active ownership and ethical filtering of its investments in securities. Jeanett has more than 20 years’ experience in asset management, responsible investments, active ownership, corporate governance, corporate reporting, sustainability and responsible business conduct both as an industry professional and management consulting. Former employers also include PwC, Storebrand and KPMG. Jeanett is also a triathlete who has completed the Norseman Xtreme Triathlon. |
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Charlotte Ekanger
CFO at Equip Capital CFO at Equip from February 2019, including responsibilities across compliance, risk, ESG and investor reporting. 10 years of private equity experience and 10 year of operational experience across the telecom, media and consulting industry of which 5 years at Telenor and 3 years at Deloitte. Holds a Master in Business and Economics from the Norwegian Business School BI. At Equip, I engage with our investment teams, top management of our portfolio companies and our investors to ensure that Equip delivers on our mission to build better companies - for shareholders, employees, customers and society - as we believe this creates the most value for all stakeholders in the long run. |
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