Speaker | r3.0 Conference 2024 (2024)

As an internationally recognized expert on Sustainability Context (Thresholds & Allocations), Thriveability, and Online Stakeholder Engagement, Bill Baue catalyzes systemic transformation. As a serial social entrepreneur, he has co-founded and instigated several enterprises: r3.0, Science Based Targets, Sustainability Context Group, Sea Change Radio, and Currnt.Baue has worked with prominent organizations across the sustainability ecosystem, including Audubon, Cabot Creamery Coop, Ceres, GE, Harvard, several United Nations agencies (UNCTAD, UNEP, UNGC, UNRISD, etc…), Walmart, and Worldwatch Institute.

Jem Bendell is an emeritus professor with the University of Cumbria and the co-Founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. He worked for over 20 years in corporate sustainability, helping launch or develop many international initiatives. That led to his recognition as a Young Global Leader.His 2018 paper “Deep Adaptation“was downloaded over a million times and is widely credited with helping inspire the growth of the Extinction Rebellion movement. That marked a departure, whereby he concluded the field of sustainability had failed. His new book “Breaking Together”goes further by outlining a collapse-based political framework.

Sahana Chattopadhyay is the Founder of a boutique consulting firm Proteeti, a Sanskrit word meaning “wisdom that transforms”. She is a certified Coach, Facilitator, Learning Design Architect, and an Organization Development and Change professional. She spent more than two decades in multi-national corporations. As a regeneration catalyst, coach, and facilitator, she currently partners with organisations to guide them on their transformation journeys. She works at the intersection of human potential, narratives and meaning making, systems sensing, technology, and sensemaking. As the economic monomyth of infinite growth collapses, it is critical for organisations to prepare for emerging futures that will essentially be beyond-growth, post-hegemonic, and life-affirming. Those organisations that are futures ready will become the Wayfinders–‘islands of sanity’ and ‘imaginal cells’ of the future. However, this will require dedicated building of capacities, becoming containers for the development of facilitative leadership, and designing infrastructures of imagination. Sahana specializes in designing and co-creating such Transformative Learning Pathways that foster such Emergent Learning (EL) in uncertain, chaotic times. She uses her EL model to facilitate the journey of transformation, to build the capacities necessary to step into emerging futures, and to enable organizations to be regenerative.

Mahlet Getachew, Managing Director of Corporate Racial Equity, works to ignite new norms in corporate America that value people and our planet just as much as the bottom line, leading a portfolio of strategic initiatives, including co-founding the Corporate Racial Equity Alliance with FSG and JUST Capital and leading a multi-year effort to develop corporate performance standards advancing equity, inclusion, and the best of socially responsible business. As a former corporate lawyer, she comes to PolicyLink with extensive experience advising public and private corporations across various industries as external legal counsel and in-house counsel. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Mahlet was General Counsel, Head of HR and Business Operations at Suki AI, Inc., and previous to that, she was Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary at GoPro, Inc. Mahlet started her career as a corporate attorney at an international law firm, where she represented large and small tech companies on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters in the software, internet, renewable energy, media, education, and semiconductor industries. She also serves on the B Lab Global Board and is a member of the B Lab Standards Advisory Council. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Lewis & Clark College and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include “The making of a catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian economy,” Aleph Books forthcoming 2022; “When governments fail: Covid-19 and the economy,” Tulika Books and Columbia University Press 2021 (co-edited); “Women workers in the informal economy,” Routledge 2021 (edited); “Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India,” Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2009; co-edited “Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2014; co-edited “After Crisis,” Tulika 2009; co-authored “Demonetisation Decoded,” Routledge 2017. She has received several prizes, including the 2015 Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India; the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2011; and the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010, Italy. She has advised governments in India and other countries, including as Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005-09). She was the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org), an international network of heterodox development economists, from 2002 to 2021. In 2023, she was awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith award by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, “in recognition of breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research and service.” She has consulted for international organizations including ILO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UNRISD and UN Women and is member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Commission on Global Economic Transformation of INET, the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). In 2021 she was appointed to the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired by Mariana Mazzucato. In March 2022, she was appointed to the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, mandated to provide a vision for international cooperation to deal with current and future challenges. She also writes regularly for popular media, including newspapers, journals and blogs.

Gaya Herrington is Vice President Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric (voted most sustainable corporation in the world in 2021). She studies how environmental, social, behavioral and economic trends interact and what systems changes are needed for achieving true global sustainability. Previous positions include sustainability consulting at KPMG and policy advisor to the Dutch government on economic and financial issues. She published an article about the first systems model of the world in Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology, as well as a book with MDPI publishing. Gaya has given keynote speeches and guest lectures around the world on fora like the United Nations, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and many universities including UCLA, the Victoria University of Wellington, Cambridge, and Berkeley. She is also an Advisor to the Club of Rome, an international 100-member club of scientists, economists, and other thinkers. Gaya has a Master’s degree in Econometrics from the Liberal Amsterdam University and another Master’s in Sustainability from Harvard University.

Jennifer has been teaching yoga and meditation for over 25 years. She’s trained in Hatha, Prana, and Taoist Yoga, as has taught all ages and all levels of practice. She’s a massage therapist and is trained in Herbalism-both Chinese and Western- Non-Violent Communication, trauma recovery, emotional release therapy, and Ayurvedic health.

Ting is the Manager of Sustainability for the City of Nanaimo, one of the fastest growing municipalities in Canada. She advances environmental sustainability and climate action through innovation and collaboration across the organization and with the wider community. Her professional experience ranges from green building consulting, renewable energy and climate policy development, change management to public engagement.

Alison Shaw is a scientist and practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience in pioneering climate change and sustainability research-to-practice approaches. As Executive Director of ACT (Action on Climate Team) at Simon Fraser University, Canada, Dr. Shaw advances low carbon resilience approaches and nature-based solutions to ensure that “climate action that multi-solves” is mainstreamed into policy, planning, strategy, and operational decisions in both public and private sectors. She and the ACT team co-create with forward-thinking partners to innovate, test, and evaluate practical and effective approaches that build toward climate resilience; promote decarbonization; and advance other social, environmental, and economic goals, such as equity, biodiversity, and clean economic development. Dr. Shaw earned a PhD in sustainability from the University of British Columbia.