Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: Why & How should you finance Climate action?

Special Guests: Laurence Li, Chairman of Financial Services Development Council (FSDC)

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Mr Laurence Li, SC is the Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). The FSDC is an advisory body to the HKSAR Government on all matters relating to the development of Hong Kong as an international financial centre. It engages the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development. Mr Li’s profession is a practicing barrister. He focuses on banking, commercial, company, and securities law. Prior to being called to the Hong Kong Bar, he served in several positions within the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong and, before that, worked in a law firm in New York.

Mr Li is a Judge of the International Court and Regulatory Tribunal in Doha, Qatar. He is also a Fellow of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at The University of Hong Kong, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee Special

Guests: Laurence Li, Chairman of Financial Services Development Council (FSDC)

Mr Laurence Li, SC is the Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). The FSDC is an advisory body to the HKSAR Government on all matters relating to the development of Hong Kong as an international financial centre. It engages the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development.

Mr Li’s profession is a practicing barrister. He focuses on banking, commercial, company, and securities law. Prior to being called to the Hong Kong Bar, he served in several positions within the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong and, before that, worked in a law firm in New York.

Mr Li is a Judge of the International Court and Regulatory Tribunal in Doha, Qatar. He is also a Fellow of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at The University of Hong Kong, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: Why & How should you finance Climate action? - July 23, 2021

Guests:

Karl-Henrik Sundström, Chairman of Climate Leadership Coalition

Prachi Shevgaonkar is Founder and CEO of Cool The Globe The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Karl-Henrik Sundström is member of the board of Mölnlycke, Vestas, AhlströmMunksjö, Boliden and NXP, chairman of CLC, TrackLib, Baffin Bay Networks and chairman of the tax delegation for Swedish Business and Commerce and member of the board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Mr Sundström was CEO of Stora Enso 2014-2019. He joined Stora Enso in August 2012 as CFO and member of the Group Leadership Team. In June 2013 he took on the role as Executive Vice President for division Paper and Wood Products. Prior to joining Stora Enso, Mr. Sundström held the role as CFO of NXP Semiconductors 2008–2012. Before that, he held several managerial positions in Ericsson, including CFO.

December 2019 Karl-Henrik Sundström was awarded the decoration of Commander, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland, by the President of Finland for long-term work benefiting Finnish interests.

Prachi Shevgaonkar is a Media Professional, Communicator and the founder of Cool The Globe – An app and a movement for climate action. Prachi has helped several sustainable initiatives & businesses craft a communication strategy. She has been mobilizing global citizens to fight climate change through technology, innovation and grassroot action.

Her journey started with a simple question: ‘What can I do about climate change?’

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: How does an Impact Investor invest?

Guest:

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M., co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital

Tim Breker is Co-founder & Managing Director of VYTAL

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Tim (34) is Co-founder & Managing Director of VYTAL, a digital and deposit-free reusable packaging system for takeout, delivery and convenience food to significantly reduce single-use packaging waste. Originally from Cologne, he studied Business at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Public Policy and Social-Cognitive Psychology before working as a consultant at BCG for two years. Tim has a strong passion for impact-driven entrepreneurship. He financed his studies by building a franchise network of student-run kiosks teaching teenagers entrepreneurship and business.

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital an independent and female powered Impact Fund Advisor based in Zurich/Switzerland. Christin is passionate about pro-actively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and a 15 year+ track record in the financial services sector, private equity, impact investing and sustainable investing; She completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude) and her Master Studies at Duke Law School; Christin has published numerous peer reviewed articles in the field of impact investing, authored and co-authored several books the latest of which is “Conscious Investing”; Christin is a lecturer at various universities on impact investing and a key-note speaker; Privately, Christin is the co-founder and president of award winning NGO Braveaurora, active in North Ghana since 2009.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: "Marriage" of impact investor and impact company. Investing in Africa.

Guest:

Johan Frössling, Managing Director at Dynamis Investment Partners

Els Boerhof – Managing Partner of Goodwell

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Els Boerhof is an investment professional with 20+ years of international experience in development finance and emerging markets investments. As a partner and co-owner of Goodwell she has led the firm’s launch in Africa and she is the managing partner for the West-Africa and the uMunthu equity funds. She is also a member of the IC and board of Goodwell’s microfinance equity fund in India. Furthermore, Mrs. Boerhof is a member of the board of Goodwell portfolio company Musoni Services in Amsterdam and board member of Credit Access India, as representative of the Asian Development Bank. Previous to her Fund Manager position at the Dutch Development Bank FMO, Mrs. Boerhof worked for MeesPierson in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Johannesburg in International Trade & Commodity Finance.

Johan Frössling is Born 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden and lives in Gothenburg area with his lovely wife, children and grand children. Commutes normally between Gothenburg, London and Johannesburg. Johan holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University in Gothenburg. Following a solid career within the petrochemicals industry (Borealis Group), he founded Confidere in 2005. Combining experiences from Borealis and as consultant in Confidere, he has decades of Project Governance Experience in various major industries in Europe & Africa, mainly within energy and other infrastructure projects, e.g. bio-energy and nuclear. In 2017, he founded Dynamis Investment Partners. He is fully convinced that sustainable good business can combine well with sustainable good lives for millions. Johan’s speciality is Energy Infrastructure Investments.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: Money with a Purpose

Guest:
Ville Korpela, Founding Partner of Impact Innovation Institute and a Senior Faculty Member at Dubai Future Academy. 
Petri Kuusisto CIO experience from 2 largest pension funds in Finland (Eur 40+ bn) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Middle East

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Ville Korpela is a professional futurist and impact strategist. He is a Founding Partner of Impact Innovation Institute and a Senior Faculty Member at Dubai Future Academy. Ville has worked extensively with emerging markets, previously he has been Head of European Operations at Vunani Capital (South Africa) and Business Development Director at Christofi Group (Cyprus). Ville started his professional career at a Finnish public affairs consultancy Eurofacts and later with Ernst & Young and the leading Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital in Moscow, as part of their corporate finance and M&A teams. Currenty, Ville resides in Dubai.
Ville is a member of several World Economic Forum projects, such as the Nature Action Agenda, Inclusivity Quotient, African Growth Platform and Global Plastic Action Partnership. Ville is passionate about impact investing, systems thinking and social entrepreneurship. In his spare time Ville likes to travel, write poetry and listen to the Blues.

Petri Kuusisto has 30+ years of direct CIO experience from 2 largest pension funds in Finland (Eur 40+ bn) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Middle East. 

During last 10+ years he has been a serial entrepreneur/investor having among other things launched and sold 2 asset management companies, one being the first global timberland management company. He has also acted as a consultant for several institutional investors on investment strategy and financing issues.

Recently he co-founded Impact Innovation Institute, a for benefit research and advisory think tank. He is currently writing series of academic articles on Impact Investing and has coined the term Sustainable Portfolio Theory, a needed extension to Modern Portfolio Theory and current Strategic Asset Allocation thinking. His ongoing action research is focusing on Blended Finance.

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: How is does the future of Fossil Fuel look like?

Special Guests: Mika Anttonen. Chairman of the Board of ST1

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Mika Anttonen M.Sc.(Tech.) is the founder and principal shareholder of the energy company St1. He began his career as a private entrepreneur in the fuel trade in 1996 and rapidly built up a diverse Nordic energy company which today pursues its vision to become a leading producer and seller of CO2-aware energy. The company is investing heavily in renewable energy research and production, ranging from industrial wind power to advanced biofuels and geothermal heat. Mika is currently Chairman of the Board at St1. www.st1.com

Host - Ben & Sveta Banerjee

Topic: Are the UN SDGs enough?

Special Guests: Vibhav Kant Upadhyay, Architect of modern India-Japan Partnership and the newly established Alternative Development Model (ADM)

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Vibhav Kant Upadhyay is a development leader known for his statesmanship, macro-vision and pragmatism. A prolific outof-the-box thinker, he strongly believes that the current development model needs a foundational change and has dedicated his life towards manifesting this thought process into visible and tangible results through the Alternative Development Model (ADM). His leadership successfully catalysed the India-Japan Global Partnership (IJGP) initiative which was announced in year 2000 by leaders of India and Japan. With relentless persuasion, he has nurtured and strengthened the strategic relationship between the two nations. This has led to mega-initiatives like the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), which was formed to re-establish the industrial culture of India. Therefore, he is widely regarded as the architect of the modern India-Japan relationship.

Vibhav is the Founder and Chairman of various organizations including the Alternative Development Organisation (ADO) in Oslo, Norway, India-Japan Foundation (IJF) Tokyo, Japan and India Center Foundation (ICF) New Delhi, India. He is also the Founder Chairman of Global Partnership Summit (GPS), a platform to take forward the Alternative Development Model (ADM) framework and initiatives based on it by manifesting unique ideas into tangible outcomes by empowering G2G, G2B and B2B interaction.

Host - Ben & Sveta Banerjee

Topic: POP Movement

Special Guests: Dr. Ash Pachauri, Senior Mentor, POP Movement

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Dr. Ash Pachauri has a PhD in decision behavior and master’s degree in international management. Having worked with McKinsey & Company before pursuing a career in the social development arena, Dr. Pachauri’s experience in the fields of public health and management emerges from a range of initiatives including those of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, UNDP, IPPF, and CDC program interventions in the US.

Dr. Pachauri has been engaged with the use of information technology for development, education, and geo-informatics. A master trainer in behavior change communications and strategic leadership, Dr. Pachauri has led over 20,000 workshops, events, and activities globally to outreach to youth and communities to promote health and sustainable development.

Widely published, winner of the prestigious Overseas Research Scholarship, awarded for advanced studies in the U.K. and recognized for his academic achievements, Dr. Pachauri pursues interests in research and teaching through ongoing collaboration with universities and institutions. Dr. Pachauri has been recognized by the United Nations for his dedication and leadership in their flagship publication “Portraits of Commitment”. He is an Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Dr. Pachauri serves on the Boards and Advisory groups of several organizations worldwide.

Host - Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee

Topic: Renewable Energy with Tidetec and Global Strategic Capital

Special Guests: Daniel Brühwiler, Chief Executive Officer – Global Strategic Capital AG. Arne Kollandsrud, CEO and owner Tidetec AS

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Arne has been working as CEO in Tidetec since 2013 and is also a co-investor in Tidetec. He has been Member of the Board in Tidetec since his father Per Kollandsrud founded the company in 2000. Arne also represents family office Kollan AS, the main shareholder in Tidetec. Arne is co-writer of the book called “Innovasjon i praksis” “Practical innovation. When Arne is not working on Tidal Power, he is often playing his trumpet.

Daniel Brühwiler is Global Strategic Capital AG. CEO. He has 8 years Head of Investment Management Credit Suisse, 8 years Head Portfolio Management Bank Vontobel, 4 years CEO of Banque Pasche, and 7 years CEO of Global Strategic Capital. He launched first Solar Fund in 2008.