Chair | Board Director | Senior Strategic Advisor | Educator | Sustainable Finance | Impact | Strategy | Venture Capital
Congratulations to the Geneva Graduate Institute and André Hoffmann for the launch of the new Hoffmann Center for Global Sustainability | Geneva Graduate Institute. Also congrats to André and Peter Vanham for their book “The New Nature of Business”. Great discussions at the launch of the Center about the systems change needed to value all capitals (human, social and natural), not just financial capital, and to integrate externalities into decision-making by creating common language and frameworks to value impacts and dependencies. Also important discussions about the need to stronger “build bridges” between the private sector, public sector, academia and civil society. Several big questions were raised: How to implement this type of systemic change in the most effective way? What are the key levers? Who needs to be engaged and pull those levers? How can incentives be changed in the system? And, very importantly, how can urgent priorities be addressed now? All these topics and more will be worked on at the new Center, building upon great work done by many players over the years including Capitals Coalition, Impact Management Platform, OECD - OCDE, UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub, GSG Impact and so many more. Thank you all for this important continued work! Marie Laure SALLES, Beatrice WEDER DI MAURO, Dominic Rohner, Patrick Odier, Building Bridges Mark Salway #systemchange #value #externalties #capital #collaboration #leadership
Wonderful launch yesterday @Geneva Graduate Institute of our new Hoffmann Center for Global Sustainability | Geneva Graduate Institute. I would like to thank André Hoffmann for his generous support. We urgently need to change paradigm - and to redefine value creation, success and progress as necessarily integrative of an environmental, social and therefore peace dimension. The Hoffmann Center for Global Sustainability | Geneva Graduate Institute is well placed to become a leading research and policy hub in Europe dedicated to promoting integrated sustainability that is both nature positive and socially equitable. Great discussion between André Hoffmann, Patrick Odier, Mark Salway, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Dominic Rohner, Peter Vanham
