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Make our planet a thriving place for current and future generations. The Swiss Impact with Banerjis show offers up interviews with celebrities, thought leaders, investors, politicians, activists, and business leaders to inspire and encourage you to take actions towards 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Millions listen in and start building a better future for all. Check out the most impactful podcast! For more information, visit https://iisolutions.ch/
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Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Restitution: Returning stolen assets
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Restitution: Returning stolen assets
Guest: Katherine Mulhern CEO of Restitution
Katherine is a senior lawyer with significant experience on transparency, accountability, governance and anti-bribery and anti-corruption. A former investigator for an African TRC, Katherine was a senior law firm partner in private practice, the Chief Executive Officer of three leading development organizations based in West Africa, the UK and the United States, and a consultant for sovereign governments (including donor governments) on transparency, anti-bribery and anti-corruption and governance.
In her role as Chief Executive Officer and as a consultant, Katherine has provided legal advice and support to emerging democratic governments (including Iraq, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, The Gambia, Kenya and others) on a variety of technical legal issues, including in relation to anti-bribery and anti-corruption.
Restitution is a first-in-market global litigation impact fund which works with emerging, transparency-focused governments in the Global South in the recovery of assets stolen through kleptocracy and corruption.
Billions of dollars of assets are stolen annually from the Global South through bribery, corruption, fraud and theft. Often these flows come to rest in identifiable and recoverable assets that include securities, real estate and cash. These assets and claims relating to misappropriation, corruption, fraud, tort and breach of contract, as well as non-performing loans and related judgments are an asset class that can be identified, valued and realized. Restitution is an impact litigation fund which, in partnership with government partners, donors and investors, identifies, quantifies, develops and realizes these portfolios for the benefit of the governments (and the people) who are victims of corruption.
Restitution realizes claims portfolios relating through kleptocracy and corruption side-by-side with victim governments, donors and investors (many of whom wish to invest in a “G” (governance)-focused ESG investment). Restitution ensures that the country receives the majority of the returned assets in a way that is transparent and accountable, while also ensuring that investors receive a strong return.
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
The world’s oldest lake’s dark secret
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: The world’s oldest lake's dark secret
Guests: Mikhail Granin, Vice President of NEM.io foundation; Ilya Aslamov, The Head of the Laboratory of Hydrology and Hydrophysics, Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generations.
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.
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Swiss Impact for Ukraine
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Swiss Impact for Ukraine
Guest: Natasha Korotkina, Professional Dance Artist, Choreographer, International Master Teacher
The show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generations.
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.
Monday Oct 03, 2022
How to build faster, safer and greener homes
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Hosts: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: How to Build faster, safer and greener homes
Guests: Sanna Silfverberg, CEO of Block Solution
Markus Silfverberg, Founder of Block Solution
Sanna is the CEO of the Block solutions Oy who wants to promote the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in everyday life. Especially gender equality and reduced inequalities are on top of her list of important things to achieve in business.
Sanna has en extensive background in Human Resources but she knows almost every detail of Block solutions technology including injection moldingand she is even a great builder when it comes to building with the Blocks.
Sanna´s vision is to disrupt the entire construction industry with our innovative solution and material. We are creating a better tomorrow by creating sustainable communities around the world.
Markus is an international serial entrepreneur with an extensive background in the production technology sector of large scale.
He is the founder and inventor of Block solutions. Markus has a passion for sustainability and environmental actions and fighting the climate change.
Due to the wide expertise in different positions, Markus has a thorough understanding about business culture and knows how to bring up successful businesses around the world.
Block solutions is an affordable, sustainable, environmentally friendly and easy way of building homes.
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Zero Emission Safe and Fun Mobility
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Zero Emission, safe fun Mobility
Guests: Pekka Ketola, CEO of Scouter Mobility Oy
Jaakko Pitkäjärvi, COB of Scouter Mobility Oy
Pekka is a practitioner for human innovation, bringing together user experience, innovation, co-creation and business development.
From 1995 to 2011 he worked for Nokia in multiple innovation management roles developing communicators, smartphones and mobile services. At Nokia he was a strong advocate for open innovation and collaborative development. His doctoral thesis (2002) explored how usability engineering can be integrated in complex concurrent development processes.
In 2012 Pekka co-founded innovation company Ideascout to bring the power of collaborative development and user innovation to SMEs and industries. This led him to the path of exploring the biggest opportunities in the society and translating those into new businesses.
Scouter Mobility Oy was born in 2014 from translating urban development megatrends and emerging problems into an industrial scalable solution, a disruptive light electric vehicle.
Pekka is CEO of Scouter Mobility. Pekka is well connected with global innovation networks. He brings value to all areas of development by inspiring people for collaboration, by translating ideas to insights, and by developing tangible business possibilities.
Jaakko Pitkäjärvi is an investor focused on start-ups related to sustainability and energy saving. He holds a medical doctor degree from the University of Tampere and has worked in various healthcare companies for over 20 years. Moreover, his stages of keen activity span from aviation to maritime and automotive fields, both in form of professional certificates and personal interests in aforementioned areas. The investments he has done are spread in different technology sectors mainly outside medicine.
Mr. Pitkäjärvi has been involved with Scouter since 2013 and seen the project progress from basically zero to the current status. The main driver to invest and chair the company has been the revolutionary change the company can offer. Scouter has already proven how different city traffic can be instead of current solutions. And there is an enormous potential in bringing this to global awareness.
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Why empowering girls can change the world?
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Why empowering girls can change the world?
Guest: Dr. Vibeke Riemer and Lars Kolind, Founders of World Guide Foundation
Dr. Vibeke Riemer (a Danish citizen), is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, board chair and philanthropist, has over 30 years of experience from public and private sector management and philanthropy. Specialized in Public Health with additional business education from Copenhagen Business School and the Wharton School, Dr. Riemer joined the National Board of Health (Ministry of Health) where she was engaged in developing and designing future structure and standards for the Danish public health service. Later she joined the Ministry of Finance, to work with similar challenges in other sectors. Realizing the importance of the human factor Dr. Riemer co-founded PeopleTools A/S, a management consultancy providing psychological assessment tools for public and private corporations, with the scope of improving leadership and social skills.
Dr. Riemer has been a volunteer Scout/Guide leader throughout her career. She has held numerous positions at local, regional, national and world levels. She has served as President of the Olave Baden-Powell Society, supporting the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). Dr. Riemer’s passion is to develop tomorrow’s leaders with focus on girls and young women. She is a major contributor to this work, and she has been engaged in leadership development projects and social entrepreneurship around the world. She has received awards for her work including the Princess Benedikte Award and the Regal Circle Award from the World Scout Foundation, and she is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. Dr. Riemer attended the Clinton Global Initiative in 2012.
Lars Kolind (a Danish citizen) is a mathematician, serial entrepreneur, bestselling author and philanthropist. He has started more than 25 businesses and he is a thought leader on leadership and strategy. He has written five books about leadership and strategy that have been published in nine languages.
Kolind has been a pioneer in organizational design. He created one of the world’s first paperless and truly knowledge-based organizations in 1991 where he demonstrated how an organization can simultaneously become more innovative, more flexible, more responsive, more efficient and more meaningful to employees.
Kolind’s philanthropic work focuses on enabling young people throughout the world to be active citizens leading positive change in their communities. This is the vision of the World Scout Movement where Kolind has been engaged for four decades. He has received numerous awards including Denmark’s Man of the Year, the Bronze Wolf, The BSA Silver World Award, The Silver Fox, the Princess Benedikte Award, the Regal Circle Award, and he is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. He currently serves as chairman of the World Scout Foundation.
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Tackling Food Insecurity
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Tackling Food Insecurity
Guest: Eero Pisilä MD Perunamestarit Oy, MD Tanzanice Agrofoods Ltd, Chairman Luonnosta Finland Ltd.
Eero Pisilä
- Enterpreneur and founder of Perunamestarit Oy since 1987. Company has built on 90's seedpotato production and marketing model from finnish farms to global market, volumes over 10milj kg of certified seedpotatoes before business was sold to Dutch company HZPC.
- Chairman of Luonnosta trading company since 2005, building efficient international trading model for potatoes, fruits and vegetables. Network to over 20 countries.
- Founder and MD of Tanzanice Agrofoods Ltd since 2017.
- Investor and chairman of Pohjolan Peruna Oy, Finland biggest potato processing factory 2007- 2021,when shares were sold.
- Chairman of Seed Traders association of Finland on 2000's.
- Studies of Agrotechnology 1974-1978 in Helsinki University.
- Potato farm enterpreneur in Finland 1976 - 2014.
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Sustainable Supply Chain
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Sustainable Supply Chain
Guest: Carolina García Arbeláez Global Sustainability and Innovation Director for ABInBev and Co-lead of the 100+ Accelerator.
Carolina García Arbeláez is a leader with over 10 years of experience working for a more equitable and sustainable world . She is a One Young World Ambassador and one of the 88 women around the world chosen for the Homeward Bound leadership program and its Antarctic Expedition in 2019. She is the founder of Still New, a sustainable fashion for children start up. Currently, she works as Global Sustainability and Innovation Director for ABInBev and is the Co-lead of the 100+ Accelerator. She has been working for ABInBev over the past four years in Sustainability at a local, regional and global scale. She graduated as a lawyer from Los Andes University and later from a specialization in Economics from the same university. She is a fellow from the Aspen Institute Early Movers Fellowship. She has published several articles in national and international media. For more than 3 years she worked in WWF in the international climate negotiations (from COP19 to COP22) and in local climate advocacy. She has taught international environmental law courses at Rosario and Externado University. She is the author of the climate change book “Cambio climático: lo que está en juego” and author of the booklets “El Acuerdo de París: así actuará Colombia frente al cambio climático”, among others.
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Soil Scout Underground Weather
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Soil Scout Underground Weather
Guest: Jalmari Talola - Soil Scout CEO and partner
Soil Scout provides the most advanced fully buried underground wireless soil sensor and monitoring solution for professionals in Agriculture, Golf and Sports turf maintenance.
Several golf courses and sports fields worldwide, including such iconic venues as the Wembley Stadiumand Philadelphia Phillies, use Soil Scout to maintain their turf in tip-top shape while reducing maintenance costs and water consumption.
Farmers and agriculture professionals around the world use Soil Scout to understand their fields, optimize soil conditions for better growth and improve crop production, also reducing operational costs and water consumption.
Soil Scout is the first-ever soil sensor system that allows you to place any number of fully buried wireless sensors all across an area, giving you a complete real-time underground weather map to your fingertips. It is the most advanced and cost-efficient soil monitoring solution for professionals in agriculture, golf and sports turf maintenance.
By using Soil Scout, hundreds of farms and other agriculture professionals worldwide become even better in their data-driven agronomy. The system enables learning and controlling of soil conditions for optimized growth, as well as savings in operational costs and inputs. Golf courses and sports fields use Soil Scout to improve turf quality, minimize quality variations, and reduce maintenance costs, chemical usage and water consumption.
The Soil Scout Hydra sensor has the most outstanding battery lifetime on the market – up to 20 years. The maintenance free sensors operate completely autonomously in the ground, which is why once installed, the solution provides you with an unmatched perennial measurement consistency, also leading to a superior cost efficiency over the years.
CEO Jalmari Talola
Jalmari Talola (Master of Engineering in Business Informatics) is a result driven business leader with analytical mindset and tools for driving growth through business development, navigating continuous changeand leading people.
Born and raised on a dairy and cereal farm at Hauho, Southern Finland where Jalmari spent the 20 first years of his life doing various farming activities. High interest in technology led to engineer studies that later on took him working with location technologies; optical, GPS, machine control ja softwares. After finishing his Masters, Jalmari ran the world leading GIS and mapping software provider Esri’s sales operations in Finland.
Now Soil Scout combines Jalmari’s roots in agriculture, technology and management expertise with passion in sports; a perfect fit to build up the next big thing from Finland. CSO Johannes Tiusanen CSO Johannes Tiusanen, (PhD, docent in AgTech (University of Helsinki) ) is a 19th generation farmer , well-known innovator and thought-leader; and a sought-after lecturer in all topics combining agronomy, electronics and soil management. He is the Chief Scientific Officer, co-founder and board member at Soil Scout.
Moving to the family farm at the age of 12, he got a front seat view into his engineer and chemist parents taking over and renovating the farm operations, leading to a voracious process of doing thing even better than before. Their need for better soil monitoring tech, combined to his academic studies lead to the breakthrough science that became the basis and international patent for underground radio communication.
His present focus is on simplifying complicated data, turning invisible agronomic problems into tangible and manageable actions, giving all soil experts the information they need to become better at what they do.
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Nature: the most important stakeholder
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Nature: the most important stakeholder
Guest: Satish Kumar Founder of Schumacher College Connect with Satish through the Resurgence Trust
Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Inspired by Gandhi, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back in the world and soon undertook a peace-pilgrimage, walking without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. An acclaimed author and international speaker, Satish appears regularly on podcasts, radio and television shows. He has been interviewed by Richard Dawkins, Russell Brand and Annie Lennox, appearing as a guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Thought for the Day and Midweek. Satish presented an episode of BBC2' s Natural World documentary series, which was watched by 3.6 million people. Satish's autobiography 'No Destination' sold over 50,000 copies, inspiring change around the world. Through his writing, teaching and international talks, Satish passionately shares visions of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Satish co-founded Schumacher College and founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity's changemaking magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue.
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