3rd Annual Sustainability Week US 2023 | Economist Impact events | 30 May 2023 | Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

This event focuses on helping businesses become sustainable, faster, while generating actual business value. In 2023 the event will be a large scale event with an exhibition, bringing the whole sustainability ecosystem under one roof.

2023 Speakers

John Podesta
Senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation, White House

David Turk
Deputy secretary, US Department of Energy

Ali Zaidi
Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor, White House

Michael Regan
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency

Mark Wiedman
Senior managing director, head of the global client business, BlackRock

Lauren Riley
Chief sustainability officer and managing director, global environmental affairs, United Airlines

Brenda Mallory
Chair, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Noel Kinder
Chief sustainability officer, Nike

Kathleen McLaughlin
Chief sustainability officer and executive vice-president, Walmart

Mikaela Shiffrin
Greatest alpine skier of all time

Ben Ratner
Executive director, sustainability, JPMorgan Chase

Andrew Mayock
Federal chief sustainability officer, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Melissa Schoeb
Chief corporate affairs officer, Nokia

Kathleen Quirk
President, Freeport

Graham Webb
Chief sustainability officer, Pratt & Whitney

Monica Medina
Assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs of the United States

James Gowen
Senior vice-president, global supply chain and chief sustainability officer, Verizon

Randall Hopkins
Global head of ESG solutions, Nasdaq corporate platforms, Nasdaq

Spencer Reeder
Director of government affairs and sustainability, Audi

Michael Okoroafor
Chief sustainability officer, McCormick and Company

Renee Morin
Chief sustainability officer, eBay

Kimberly Burnick
Director, sustainable production and content, NBCUniversal

Michael Levine
Vice-president, chief sustainability officer & managing counsel, Under Armour

Susan Anderson
Vice-president, global head of partnerships and U4B, Uber

Ann Tracy
Chief sustainability officer, Colgate-Palmolive

Richard Fruehauf
Chief sustainability officer and EVP, United States Steel Corporation

Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Global energy and climate innovation editor, The Economist

Luiz Amaral
Chief executive, SBTi

Christy Goldsmith Romero
Commissioner, CTFC

Lila Karbassi
Lila Karbassi, senior programme officer, United Nations Global Compact and chair of the executive board, SBTi

Mike Witt
Chief sustainability officer, Northrop Grumman

Sanda Ojiambo
Assistant secretary-general and chief executive, UN Global Compact

Melanie Nakagawa
Chief sustainability officer, Microsoft

Joe Rozza
Chief sustainability officer, Ryan Companies

Ganesh Iyer
Chief executive US, NIO

Jeff Merkley
Senator, Oregon

Olga Aulet-Leon
Head of ESG, Lucid Motors

Samuel Levine
Director, bureau of consumer protection, Federal Trade Commission

Michael Berube
Deputy assistant secretary for sustainable transportation, US Department of Energy (DOE)

Karen Pflug
Chief sustainability officer, Ingka (Ikea)

Marcus Eriksen
Co-founder, 5 Gyres Institute

Alejandro Moreno
Acting assistant secretary and deputy assistant secretary for renewable power, Department of Energy

Inger Andersen
Executive director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Helaina Matza
Deputy special presidential coordinator for the partnership for global infrastructure investment, US Department of State

Emma Stewart
Chief sustainability officer, Netflix

Joe Bryan
Chief sustainability officer and senior advisor to the secretary, United States Department of Defense

Jean Case
Chairman, National Geographic Society

Juliet Anammah
Executive committee chair, CGAP

Jean-Francis Dusch
Global head of infrastructure and structured finance, chief investment Officer, infrastructure debt (BRIDGE), Edmond de Rothschild

Mun Ching Yap
Chief sustainability officer, AirAsia

Jon Creyts
Chief executive, RMI

Noel Anderson
Chief sustainability officer, American Red Cross

Sarah Kapnick
Chief scientist, NOAA

Ana Hinojosa
Senior adviser, Oritain

Myles Allen
Professor of geosystem science & director of Oxford Net Zero, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Brad Crabtree
Assistant secretary, office of fossil energy and carbon management, Department of Energy

Thomas Hale
Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and co-lead, Net Zero Tracker

Witold Henisz
Vice-dean and faculty director, ESG initiative, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Mitch Toomey
Vice-president, sustainability and responsible care, American Chemistry Council

Carol Jeppesen
Head of the US, UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Costis Maglaras
Dean, Columbia Business School

Meghna Tare
Chief sustainability officer, University of Texas at Arlington

Angel Hsu
Assistant professor of public policy and environment, energy and ecology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and co-lead, Net Zero Tracker

Justin van Fleet
Executive director, Global Business Coalition for Education

Dave Duncan
Vice president sustainability, PTC

Mahesh Ramanujam
Chief executive, The Global Network for Zero

Mark Campanale
Founder & executive chair, Carbon Tracker Initiative

Michael Sadowski
Executive director, The Circulate Initiative

Sally Uren
Chief executive, Forum for the Future

Karen Skelton
Senior policy advisor, office of clean energy innovation, White House

Jahi Wise
Acting director, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), Environmental Protection Agency

Bob Teasley
Bob Teasley, director new product development, supply management, MillerKnoll

Archie Deskus
Executive vice president and chief information officer, PayPal

Demetrios Papathanasiou
Director for energy global practice, World Bank

Susan Uthayakumar
Chief energy and sustainability officer, Prologis

Josh Henretig
Managing director, RMI

Kate Maloney
Executive director, Infosys Foundation USA

Carol O’Donnell
Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center

Adam Whinston
Global head of ESG, SHEIN

Josephine Tucker
Managing director clean energy and infrastructure advisory, JLL

Leah Thomas
Founder, Intersectional Environmentalist

Justin Winters
Co-Founder and executive director, One Earth

Emy Kane
Managing director, Lonely Whale

Oleksiy Tatarenko
Head, Green Hydrogen Catapult

Irving Fain
Chief executive and founder, Bowery Farming

Catherine Coleman Flowers
Founding director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice

Tim Fitzgerald
Chief sustainability officer, American Seafoods

Torey Carter-Conneen
Chief executive, American Society of Landscape Architects

Rohitesh Dhawan
President, ICMM

Brian O’Hanlon
Managing director, climate-aligned finance, RMI

David Nicholson
Chief climate officer, Mercy Corps'

Rich Powell
Chief executive, ClearPath

Elizabeth Yeampierre
Co-chair, Climate Justice Alliance

Alan McClay
Chief executive, Better Cotton

Ben Jealous
Chief executive, Sierra Club

Darren Van’t Hof
Managing director, environmental finance, US Bank

Franklin Carrero-Martínez
Director, global development and science and technology for sustainability (STS), The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)

Thibaud Hug de Larauze
Chief executive, Back Market

Peter Templeton
President and chief executive, US Green Building Council

Gina Bocra
Chief sustainability officer, New York City Department of Buildings

Eric Mittenthal
Chief strategy officer, North American Meat Institute

Ann Mukherjee
Chairman and chief executive, Pernod Ricard North America

Cecilia Martinez
Principal advisor for resilience and communities, Bezos Earth Fund

Aliya Haq
Vice-president, US policy and advocacy, Breakthrough Energy

Camilla Guiguer
Director, sustainability and responsibility, North America, Pernod Ricard

Gene Rodrigues
Assistant secretary of energy for the office of electricity, US Department of Energy (DOE)

Sarah Wilkin
Chief executive, Fly Green Alliance

Chandra Shekhar Sinha
Global lead for carbon markets and finance, World Bank, World Bank

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez
Chief executive and chairperson, Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

Elizabeth Small
Head of policy and general counsel, CDP North America

Manish Bapna
President and chief executive, NRDC

Mario Molina
Executive director, Protect Our Winters (POW)

Rob Edwards Jr
Managing director, HamiltonClark

Abigail Ross Hopper
President and chief executive, Solar Energy Industries Association

Josh Tsui
Chief executive, Floship

Marco Taricco
Co-chief investment officer, Bluebell Capital Partners

John Ferguson
Practice lead, Economist Impact

Nicolás Daher
Lead energy analyst, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Gernot Wagner
Climate economist, Columbia Business School

Renaud Guidée
Chair, UN Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, group chief risk officer, AXA

Doug Johnson
Vice-president, emerging technology policy, CTA

Steve Harbick
Chief information security officer, AirAsia

Charles Goddard
Editorial director, Economist Impact
Economist Impact
Samuel Dreith
Public policy research analyst, Economist Impact

Michael Posner
Director, center for business and human rights, NYU

Wendy Barahona Savage
Senior director, social impact & transparency, Patagonia

Sarah Repucci
Policy lead, Economist Impact

Jenny Ahlen
Managing director, net-zero, We Mean Business Coalition

Nancy Mahon
Chief sustainability officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

Grant Cochrane
Chief executive, Oritain

Pratima Singh
Principal, policy and insights, Economist Impact

Albert Douer
Executive chairman and co- chief executive, UBQ Materials

Kurt Harrison
Founder and co-head of the global sustainability practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

Kathleen Harrington
Public policy and insights analyst, Economist Impact

Phillip Cornell
Principal for energy and sustainability, Economist Impact

Evan Belser
Policy strategist and managing counsel, Ford Motor Company

Eve Labalme
Senior analyst, Economist Impact

Nicole Rycroft
Founder and executive director, Canopy

Santiago Gowland
Chief executive, Rainforest Alliance

Kim Marotta
Global vice-president, environmental sustainability, Beam Suntory

Jonathan Winer
Chief executive, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

Terrence Keeley
Chief executive, 1PointSix

Stacey Hoppe
Vice-president, social responsibility and sustainability, Warner Bros. Discovery

Jorge Fontanez
Chief executive, B Lab

Jojo Mehta
Co-founder, Stop Ecocide

Ashley Nunes
Director, federal policy, climate and energy, Breakthrough Institute

Jon Powers
Chief executive, Clean Capital

Diana Wilkinson
Director and global lead, supply chain, BSR

Robert Kaplan
Professor emeritus, Harvard Business School

Kate Heiny
Vice-president of sustainability, Booking Holdings

Katherine Stewart
Principal and team lead - policy and insights, Economist Impact

Allison Nyholm
Vice-president of government affairs, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

Todd Malan
Chief external affairs officer and head of climate strategy, Talon Metals Corp

Dawn Rodney
Chief external affairs officer, NPF

Sofia Economopoulos
Research manager, Economist Impact

Ashley Gill
Chief strategy officer, Textile Exchange

Rick Fox
Actor and former basketball player, chief executive and co-founder, Partanna

Edward Dehnert
Manager, policy and insights, Economist Impact

Ashiss Kumar Dash
Executive vice president and global head services, utilities, resources and energy, Infosys

Alex Menotti
Vice-president, government affairs, policy, and sustainability, Lanzajet

Katharina Beumelburg
Chief strategy and sustainability officer, SLB

Alex Cullen
Director, Soil Association

Gayle Schueller
Senior vice-president and chief sustainability officer, 3M

John Powers
Vice-president global renewables and cleantech, Schneider Electric

Kenneth Cukier
Deputy executive editor, The Economist

Julia Jackson
Founder, Grounded, Keystone Species Alliance

Kerry Cesareo
Senior vice-president for forests, WWF-US

Lori Captain
Executive vice-president of global sustainability, US Dairy

Viviana Sanchez
Board advisor and Independent consultant, sustainability and corporate strategy, Centre for Responsible Business at Berkeley Haas

Martina Chow
Senior analyst, policy and Insights, Economist Impact

Kaitlin Yarnall
Chief storytelling officer, National Geographic Society

Edward Glanville
Head of sustainability events programming, Economist Impact

Meredith Berger
Assistant secretary of the navy (energy, installations, and environment), (chief sustainability officer), US Navy

Abby Bertics
Science correspondent, The Economist

Dave Williamson
Chief science and technology officer, Modern Meadow

2023 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Infosys

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Innovation Center for US Dairy
• Oritian
• Shein

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SPONSOR:
• Schneider Electric

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Floship
• Protein PACT
• UBQ
• US Green Building Council
• JLL
• Booking Holdings
• PTC
• SLB

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Russell Reynolds Associates
• Nasdaq

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY PARTNER:
• United Nations Global Compact