Dr Chitwan Malhotra: Healthcare Hands Meet Across the Waters in Push for Rebuild

The global pandemic has exposed the flaws and inequalities of the world’s healthcare systems. But doctor Chitwan Malhotra, the executive director of the UNSDG Health Partnership in Geneva, believes it also represents an opportunity to build back better. “I believe

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World Bank on COVID-19: The Road Back Must Be Green, Resilient, and Inclusive

By Axel van Trotsenburg World Bank Managing Director of Operations COVID-19 has imposed a deeper, more widespread shock than the global community has faced in many decades. The pandemic is causing illness and death, disrupting livelihoods, and potentially pushing an

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Dame Helena Morrissey: Women Rising to the Top and Helping Business to Flourish

Dame Helena Morrissey understands how isolating and intimidating it can be for women in the male-dominated financial sector. She’s a seasoned expert with over three decades of experience in the financial services sector. During her 15-year tenure as CEO of

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Convergence Partners: Impact Investing, and the Metrics Needed to Ascertain the Benefits

It’s possible to fudge the definition of ‘impact’ in one’s favour – and that’s just not acceptable for South Africa’s Convergence Partners.  Business owners, communities and the environment must – as a precondition for sustainability, inclusion and prosperity – participate

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Shishir Poddar & Tirupati Graphite: Sustainability is the Buzz Word

Increasingly, investors want their cash to have a real impact on efforts to combat climate change; they want to see positive and measurable social and environmental effects, along with a financial return.  While some businesses are scrambling to rethink their

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Chaiwat Kovavisarach – Green Values Take Bangchak From Refinery to Icon Status

Chaiwat Kovavisarach, president and chief executive officer of Thailand’s Bangchak Corporation, is a man on a mission. Under his guidance, Bangchak has grown from a Thai refinery into a transnational energy corporation. Kovavisarach brought a quarter-century of experience in engineering,

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Inter Seguros: We Need to Talk about Insurance, Brazil

A silent revolution is helping thousands of Brazilian families to plan and take care of the things that matter most Revolutionising markets and simplifying the lives of its customers are the foundations of the culture of Banco Inter, the first

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Inter Seguros CEO: Paulo Padilha

Chief executive Paulo Padilha is proud of the people driving the company forward, and their sense of purpose. “We are a team highly committed to the experience of our customers,” he says, “and we are aware of our mission to

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Carole M. Laible: Chief Executive Officer, Domini Impact Investments LLC

Carole M. Laible is on a mission: to harness the power of finance to build a better world. Since joining Domini Impact Investments in 1997, she has contributed to making that ideal a reality. Under her leadership as CEO, the

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Amy Domini: Founder & Chair, Domini Impact Investments LLC

Amy Domini’s career began with a question: Can you do good by buying stocks? Thirty years since posing that thought and launching the first socially and environmentally screened index, the Domini 400 Social Index, Domini has proven that not only

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