Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: From Sink to Sea
Guest: Haaziq Kazi
           Founder of Ervis Foundation

Haaziq is 16 years old and is currently studying in Grade X in The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in the United States. He is passionate about the oceans and tackling the plastic problem afflicting oceans and marine life. He created a ship called Ervis, which is a smart ship that can clean the oceans. He established the Ervis Foundation, wherein he is working with the youth of today to bring a generational change in the way they interact with plastic. The foundation focuses on educational initiatives such as educational workshops on the perils of plastic, and digital platforms which offers an alternative to plastic. The foundation also works with many other movements to bring a change. He regularly speak at various forums, highlighting the perils of the plastic issue plaguing the generation, and my solutions for it. He is also passionate about math, science, computers and arts, and love learning how the world works and asking questions, whether big or small.

The goal of the Sustainable Nation Group is to excel in innovation by building up new analytic capabilities related to climate change transformation. 

We translate the scientific realisations into detailed socioeconomic implications, and assist others in articulating actionable solutions. We provide perspective and implicative detail, and embed risk management into the strategic planning, as well as new analytic capability for governments, companies, investors and individuals to use.

Sirpa Juutinen is a 17 years veteran in charge of sustainability in PwC Finland.
* Member of PwC Global Sustainability Steering Board in 2018-2020
* Board Member of Baltic Sea Action Group
* Chair of Sustainability Council of the Finland Chamber of Commerce.
* Member of Outokumpu ESG Advisory Council
* Member of Equilibrium Sustainable Finance Committee in Singapore.

Mika Aaltonen, PhD in Economics, is an Associate Professor (Foresight & complexity) authoring of 16 books and 100 + articles on foresight, decision-making and societal change with some of the best experts and for some of the most prestigious organisations in the world.
* “Mika Aaltonen is one of the new leaders in strategic thinking and research.” - Tarja Halonen
* Former President of Finland, 2015
* Since the time immemorial, the search for a reliable problem-solving strategy has occupied some of mankind’s finest minds. Mika Aaltonen is one of those minds.” - The Royal Society of Arts Journal, August 2007.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Real News and Action on Climate Change
Guest: Professor Petteri Taalas Secretary-General of the World Meteorological
            Organization

Prof. Petteri Taalas is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He was appointed to serve as Secretary-General in 2015 by the World Meteorological Congress, the supreme body of the Organization. He took up his position in January 2016 for an initial four-year period and was duly re-elected in 2019 by Congress to serve for a second term of four years. Prior to his appointment as WMO Secretary-General, Prof. Taalas was Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. during this period he represented Finland at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has a PhD in Meteorology from the Department of Physics at the University of Helsinki and is the author of around 50 peer-reviewed papers on satellite technology, global change, climate and atmospheric chemistry as well as numerous other publications and presentations.

The 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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Decarbonizing mobility. How can every car become electric?
Guest: Federico Restrepo Sierra Founder of Energía Vectorial

Entrepreneur and social innovator, Federico has traveled to more than 60 countries. +10 years of experience in sustainability and international development. Founder of Vector Energy, electric mobility StartUp; and Impact Hub Medellín, innovation laboratory for entrepreneurship and Sustainability. Federico is a SocialGood Connector of the United Nations and chosen by DTU and C40 as a high-impact entrepreneur to free the streets of carbon.

Energía Vectorial decarbonizes mobility by converting Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (ICEV) in Electric Vehicles (EV). With a very simple process we can make any vehicle electric from a VW Beetle to a bus or a truck can now become electric.

The 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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Your Choice shapes the future
Guest: Bart Van Coppenolle Co-founder and CEO Choice.be
           Philip Vandormael Co-Founder Choice.be

The 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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: The Invisible Economics of Nature
Guest: Pavan Sukhdev Founder & CEO, GIST Ex-President, WWF-International; UNEP Goodwill Ambassador

Pavan Sukhdev is a scientist by education, an international banker by training, and an environmental economist by passion. Years of work in sustainability and the invisible economics of nature led to his appointment to head the United Nations’ “Green Economy Initiative” and to lead the G8+5 study TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity).

Pavan was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship (2011) by Yale University. At Yale, he taught a graduate course on TEEB and wrote his book “Corporation 2020-Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World”. In this book, he advocates four changes in micro-policy and regulation which can rapidly transform today’s corporation to deliver tomorrow’s green and equitable “economy of permanence”. This led to his ongoing campaign (launched at Rio+20, 2012) on transforming business for tomorrow’s world. Pavan promotes tomorrow’s corporation, “Corporation 2020”, one with positive rather than negative externalities as the engine of tomorrow’s inclusive green economy. As founder and CEO of GIST, which delivers impact valuation and analytics, Pavan works with asset managers, C-suite executives and senior government officials on transition techniques, with an emphasis on metrics for sustainability.

Pavan has served on the boards of Conservation International (CI), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), and on the TEEB Advisory Board and has won several awards for his work including the Blue Planet Prize (2016) and the Tyler Prize (2020).


The 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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: 1st Step Toward Net-Zero Emissions
Guest: Joshua Campbell, President & CEO of Bridgeway Solutions.

Mr. Campbell is an experienced C-Level executive with an extensive background in the Operations, IT, Telecom, Management, and Business Development areas. He possesses a very unique background and skill set that combines business, operations, and IT expertise and has led several business plans, business development initiatives, start-up projects, new buildout of departments, and revamping of several IT and Operations teams.

His vast experience includes leading technology departments, operation teams, and setting policies & procedures. He played a key role in the initial technical components of a business plan that raised $3MM in startup capital. He also successfully implemented the network infrastructure for a Retail Electric Provider which successfully billed out over $15 million per month. He also assisted with the expansion plans and roadmap for entering new markets. This company eventually sold for $350MM.

Over the past 5 years, Mr. Campbell was asked to guide a publicly traded company through the Chapter 11 process which took just over 18 months to complete. He was successfully able to accomplish this task in a manner in which all stakeholders bought into his exit strategy.

Today, in his capacity as President & CEO of Bridgeway Solutions, he is responsible for ensuring the firm’s long-term stability and liquidity as well as ensuring that the day-to-day operations run smoothly, including implementing both long-term and short-term strategic objectives and key initiatives.

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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Impact Revolution
Guest: Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman of the Global Steering Group for the Impact Investment

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is recognized as the father of impact investment and European venture capital, and is driving forward the global Impact Revolution. He serves as Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School, and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, a global private equity firm. He is also a co-founder of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel, co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and former co-founding Chair of Big Society Capital. Oxford and Harvard educated, Ronnie was born in Egypt and left as a refugee at the age of 11, when his family came to the UK. He is now based in Tel Aviv, London and New York. He is the author of IMPACT: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change, which was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House and is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller.

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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Are we measuring the Social Impact?
Guest: Juan J. Alarcon, Project Director of the Limmat Foundation

Juan J. Alarcon has a Master’s degree in Economics (Barcelona, 1976) and in Financial Investment (Geneva, 1978). He has also a Diploma for Development Cooperation - NADEL of the ETH (Zurich, 2002) and completed the Advanced Management Program of the IESE Business School (Barcelona, 2008).

From 1980-1985 he was the financial director of an international trading company in Geneva.

From 1985 -2018, J. Alarcon has been the project director of the Limmat Foundation, and has directed more than 450 social projects in 40 different countries.

He has lectured at numerous seminars in developing countries for managers and project developers from NGOs and development cooperation institutions.

In 2002, he developed the methodology of the Socio-Economic Welfare Index (SEWI), applying and improving it within the Limmat Foundation.

From 2012-2021 he was a Lecturer for Impact Evaluation at the CEPS (Center for Philanthropy Studies) at the University of Basel.

Since 2013 he is the CEO of Swissocial and is responsible for all operational activities.

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.

Host: Ben Banerjee & Sveta Banerjee
Topic: Where it really matters
Guest: Jasper Bhaumick, CEO of bizpando AG and UMa Soft GmbH

Bizpando is a platform, that allow small medium and large companies to participate for free or with increased services with a very small amount subscription fee of 60 € per year, We want to give the poorest in the supply chain the chance to participate.

Bizpando can positively impact societies in many ways, from reducing pollution and child labor to preventing potential wars. Stay tuned to know how!

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.