Focus panel 11 – Designing businesses in a future-fit economy

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Summary

This panel will focus on the integration of sustainability concerns into business conduct. How can small and large companies take up their social and environmental responsibilities when dealing with customers and suppliers? What can corporate leaders do to integrate SDGs into their business strategies? How can regulation create a fair and sustainable environment for businesses that want to go beyond growth? Academics, legislators, social entrepreneurs and company representatives will discuss the way towards a new corporate DNA.

Chair

  • Pascal Durand - MEP (S&D), Beyond Growth Conference organiser

Speakers

  • Isabelle Ferreras - Research Professor, Belgian National Science Foundation/University of Louvain & Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School
  • Judith Kirton-Darling - Deputy General Secretary of IndustriAll European Trade Union
  • Eva Sadoun - co-chair of Impact France, CEO of Lita.co and Rift
  • Erinch Sahan - Business & Enterprise Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab
  • Véronique Willems - Secretary General of SMEunited

Speaker

Pascal Durand
Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Beyond Growth Conference organiser

Isabelle Ferreras
Research Professor, Belgian National Science Foundation/University of Louvain & Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School

Judith Kirton-Darling
Deputy General Secretary of IndustriAll European Trade Union

Eva Sadoun
co-chair of Impact France, CEO of Lita.co and Rift

Erinch Sahan
Business & Enterprise Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab

Véronique Willems
Secretary General of SMEunited