Rachanna Haffner is Global Academic Solutions & US Government Lead in the Market Development division of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Full Bio

Rachanna Haffner is Global Academic Solutions & US Government Lead in the Market Development division of S&P Global Market Intelligence. With over 17 years’ experience working with Public Sector clients, she focuses on delivering & enhancing financial data and tools for research and learning  at Universities and Government agencies through product development, thought leadership and market growth. Minimize

Rochelle March is Manager, ESG Innovation and Analytics at Trucost, part of S&P Global Full Bio

Rochelle March is Manager, ESG Innovation and Analytics at Trucost, part of S&P Global where she leads product development of innovative financial tools such as Trucost’s SDG Analytics that determines the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals impact of financial portfolios. She also leads analysis for companies and financial institutions, such as portfolio and supply chain foot printing, climate scenario analysis, gender wage gap analysis and science-based targets for water and carbon emissions. Joining Trucost in 2017, Rochelle specializes in building and scaling ESG products. She is experienced at data visualization, risk assessment and applying machine learning to ESG analysis.

Prior to joining Trucost, Rochelle was a Manager, Project Design and Innovation, at bespoke consulting firm SustainAbility (now part of ERM), designed a green construction restaurant plan for Dunkin’, consulted for Lockheed Martin on socially responsible investing and for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on public health effects related to climate change. Prior to entering the sustainability field, she conducted cancer research at Weill Cornell Medical College and founded a graphic design company.

She holds an MBA and MS in Environmental Policy from Bard College and a BA with honors from New York University in Individualized Study: Landscape Architecture. She is also a LEED AP in Building Design and Construction and is GRI certified. She is the recipient of several scholarships and awards, including an EPA grant, and is the winner of the 2014 EDF Climate Corps Pitch Competition. Minimize

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Director of NYU Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.  Full Bio

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Director of NYU Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability. As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to work with Rainforest Alliance. She transformed the Rainforest Alliance frog into an internationally recognized and credible brand. Her previous work included serving as Executive Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, Managing Editor of Ambio, a journal of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a journalist in Latin America.

Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics, was the Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern in 2015 and has served on numerous nonprofit boards and corporate advisory boards such as the Unilever Sustainable Sourcing Advisory Board and the Nespresso Innovation Fund Advisory Board. She was most recently appointed as a member of the Board of Directors for Aston Martin and GlobeScan, to the newly created Global Advisory Council for Odebrecht and as an Advisor to the Future Economy Project for Harvard Business Review. Tensie holds a B.A. from New York University, an M.A from American University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management (OPM) Program.

 

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Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, has extensive experience in local government, environmental and sustainability consulting and in the voluntary sector in the UK. He Full Bio

Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, has extensive experience in local government, environmental and sustainability consulting and in the voluntary sector in the UK. He holds a a Ph.D. in Urban Studies/Environmental Education from the University of London, an M.A. in Conservation Policy from Middlesex University, UK, and a B.Sc. (joint honors) in Geography and Botany from Durham University, UK.

He is the originator of the increasingly influential concept of just sustainabilities, the intentional integration of social justice and sustainability defined as: the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now, and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems. He centers his research on critical explorations of the complex and embodied relations between humans and the urban environment, whether mediated by governments or social movement organizations, and their effects on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly in relation to notions of justice and equity. For example, are we, as urban planners, as good at fostering belonging (recognition, reconciliation, difference, diversity, inclusion) as we are at developing prescriptions for what our cities can become (smart cities, sharing cities, sustainable cities, resilient cities)? His conviction is that just sustainabilities, which foregrounds belonging and becoming, can help us think through both, together. Minimize