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OCTOBER DAYS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Thursday 19 October 2017 & Friday 20 October

at the European Investment Bank

Agenda

October Days for Sustainable Development

Conference 19-20 October 2017

SDGs and Businesses

October 19

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch & Poster session

14:00 – 14:30

Institutional Welcome

TBC EIB Georg Mein, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg

Keynote Speech

Marc Bichler, Luxembourg Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights and Climate Change

14:30 – 16:00

Session 1. Can the SDGs create value for the enterprises?

Moderator: Aline Muller, Director, LISER

Christophe Guibeleguiet, GlobeScan Laura Cutaia, ENEA Enrica Arena, ORANGE FIBER Rachel Reckinger, University of Luxembourg Valerie Arnold - PwC

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00

Session 2. How can companies redesign production patterns in order to implement the SDGs?

Moderator: Thierry Raizer, Editor in Chief, Paperjam

Peter Saling, BASF Roberta Ventura, SEPJORDAN Christiane Wickler, PALL Center Maria Cristina Papetti, ENEL

October 20

9:00 – 10:30

Session 3. How to foster awareness and capacity development in the business world for the SDGs?

Moderator: Enrico Benetto, Head of "Life Cycle Sustainability and Risk Assessment" RDI Unit, LIST

Christoph Birkholz, IMPACT HUB Zurich Andy Schmidt, B-LAB EUROPE David Connor, 2030 HUB Cyril Fegue, , University of Luxembourg Tom Pfeiffer, Deloitte Charles-Albert Florentin, Luxinnovation

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 4. How to monitor progress towards the SDGs, including business impact on the Agenda 2030 goals?

Moderator: Daniel Byk, Advisor, STATEC

Carsten Olsson, EUROSTAT Pietro Bertazzi, GRI Anat Itay-Sarig, BBETTER Francesco Sarracino, STATEC

12:30 – 12 :45Concluding Remarks

Conchita D’Ambrosio, Professor of Economics – FNR PEARL Chair, University of Luxembourg

12:45 – 14:30 Lunch

About the conference

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly are to be achieved with the participation of all stakeholders – “governments, private sector, civil society and people.”

The business sector is a key player for sustainable development. It can contribute to the SDGs, not only through innovative production processes, new products and services, but also by promoting sustainable lifestyles and better quality of life.

The focus of the third session of the October Days for Sustainable Development will be on SDGs and Business: it will cover how private and public companies can contribute to the implementation of Agenda 2030 and ‘ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns’, as required by the 12 th

SDG.

Four major questions will be discussed:

1. Can the SDGs create value for enterprises?Implementing the SDGs can be a source of innovations and business opportunities.

2. How can companies redesign production patterns in order to implement the SDGs?Business change to incorporate SDGs can foster systemic approaches for social innovation and help revamp business processes and the value chain.

3. How to foster awareness and capacity development in the business world for the SDGs?New managerial, organisational and institutional arrangements can help innovating companies achieve the SDGs agenda.

4. How to monitor progress towards the SDGs, including the business impact on the Agenda 2030 goals?New assessment frameworks can help evaluate the real impact of business innovation on the SDGs.

The EIB Institute was set up within the EIB Group (European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund) to promote and support social, cultural and academic partnerships with European stakeholders and the public at large. It is a key pillar of the EIB Group’s community and citizenship engagement. This includes reducing inequalities, enhancing knowledge, innovation and competitiveness and ensuring cohesion throughout Europe.

We offer advice, finance research and knowledge transfer, and provide grants that support EU social cohesion goals via partnerships with local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), universities and academic networks, foundations, research institutes, corporate organisations and governmental bodies.

The Institute supports social innovation and entrepreneurs who aim to generate a social impact (targeting social, ethical or environmental goals) or seek to create and sustain social value, typically related to unemployment, marginalisation of disadvantaged communities and access to education and other basic services.

A flagship initiative, the Social Innovation Tournament, seeks to promote innovative ideas as well as to identify and reward opportunities promising substantial societal benefits or demonstrating best practices with tangible, scalable outcomes. It aims to create social value in connection with the fight against social exclusion.

In the area of microfinance, the Institute complements the actions of the EIB Group through both its Social and Knowledge activities – mainly through grants and sponsorships – by organising conferences and other initiatives and supporting higher education and research enabling the development of microfinance in Europe and beyond.

Financial education is one of the cornerstones of the EIBI’s strategy for reducing inequalities. We believe that effective promotion of financial education contributes to social and economic development and are actively expanding our activities in this area.

The University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003. It is a multilingual international university with 6 000 students coming from 100 countries and has a strong focus on research. It is located at the centre of Europe, close to the EU institutions and Luxembourg’s financial centre. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FLSHASE) of the University of Luxembourg brings together expertise from the humanities, linguistics, cognitive sciences, social and educational sciences. Specialists from across 20 disciplines are working within the Faculty. Alongside this discipline-based approach, a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has been developed. Sustainable development in the broadest sense is one of the University’s key research areas and a research priority within FLSHASE via its Multidisciplinary Area of Research on Sustainability (MARS).

The University of Luxembourg views sustainable development as “a process of change, where the use of natural resources, the structure of economic investment, the orientation of technological improvements and institutional structures have to be consistent with future and current needs.”

MARS goes beyond environmental concerns in sustainability, including in its analysis issues such as creating efficient lifelong education systems, and the personal and social impact of rapidly changing economies and cultures.

Prof. Conchita D’Ambrosio and Prof. Markus Hesse coordinate this key research area within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Opening Session

Welcome address:Georg Mein, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg

Georg Mein has since 2006 been a Professor of Modern German Literature and Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. He obtained his PHD at the University of Bonn. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, he was an assistant professor of German Literature and Literary Didactics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, where he also obtained his ‘Habilitation’. He is the founding editor of

the journal "Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik”.

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Keynote Speech

Marc Bichler, Luxembourg Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights and Climate Change

Marc Bichler is a lawyer by training and a diplomat by choice. The topic of sustainable development runs as a common thread through his professional career. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg in 1990 and has consecutively served as Deputy Director for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action (1995-2000), Deputy Permanent Representative of

Luxembourg to the United Nations in New York (2000-2005), and Director for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action and Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal with residence in Luxembourg (2005-2012). From November 2012 to April 2014, he was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in New York and has been serving since August 2014 as Luxembourg’s Ambassador-at-Large for climate change. In his successive functions, Mr Bichler has gained extensive expertise and experience in the field of sustainable development, in general, and of financing for sustainable development, including innovative financing in the fields of microfinance, financial inclusion and climate finance, in particular.

Can the SDGs create value for enterprises?

Moderator:Aline Muller, Director, LISER

Aline Muller is CEO of LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research). With research spanning three departments (Living Conditions, Labour Market and Urban Development & Mobility) LISER is an interdisciplinary publicly-funded research institute devoted to applied empirical research in economic, social and spatial sciences. Aline is also Affiliated Professor of the University of Luxembourg, and Finance Professor of the HEC Management School at the University of Liège in Belgium.

Aline’s work has been presented at numerous leading international conferences and has been published in various top-ranked journals.

Ms Muller is a member of the Advisory Board of the Belgian Ministry of Cooperation focusing on the Coherence of Development Policies. In Luxembourg she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Fund (2010-2014).

At an international level Aline is a member of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as well as member of many renowned academic finance associations.

Speakers:

Christophe Guibeleguiet, CEO, GlobeScan

Christophe is a public affairs thought leader and strategist. He has over 20 years’ experience of advising Fortune 500 companies, global NGOs, and governments on reputation and stakeholder management. Christophe has proven expertise in strategic planning for stakeholder engagement in complex and challenging markets.

As CEO for GlobeScan, Christophe leads international multi-disciplinary teams of seasoned researchers and senior advisors to help organisations align policies and programmes with their corporate purpose and unique stakeholder ecosystem.

Laura Cutaia, Head of the Laboratory for the Efficient Use of Resources, ENEA

Laura Cutaia, researcher at ENEA, is an Environmental Engineer (1996) with a PhD in material engineering, raw materials and metallurgy (2002). Her main research topics are industrial ecology, industrial symbiosis, technology for raw and secondary materials treatment, resources management, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), environmental certification and end-of-life management,

developed over 20 years of professional activity.

Currently she is the Head of the Laboratory for the Efficient Use of Resources in the Department for Sustainability. Its main activities are: circular economy and resource efficiency, industrial ecology and symbiosis, LCA, environmental certification schemes (currently PEF/OEF in particular), REACH regulation and sustainable industrial areas.

In the past, she worked at ISPRA (Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) in the Environmental Certification Department (2006-2010); at the Ministry of Environment in the Department for Soil Protection; and at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in the Raw Materials Engineering Department (2002-2003). From 1996 to 2006 she also worked as a freelance engineer collaborating, in particular, with Friends of the Earth Italy.

Enrica Arena, Co-founder, ORANGE FIBER

Orange Fiber is a company creating sustainable, vitamin-enriched textile from citrus products. We started from Italy, where every year more than 700 000 tonnes of industrial waste are generated by the citrus transformation industry, which is costly both for the industry and for the environment. We transform this by-product into innovative yarns and textiles for fashion and we wish to replicate the model in every country where citrus juice is produced. Our textile represents a valid and more sustainable alternative to cellulose fibre from wood, for which demand is expected to increase in the coming years (due to oil and cotton price volatility).

Enrica Arena is the Co-founder and CMO of Orange Fiber. Born in Catania, Sicily, she holds a degree in International Cooperation and Communication. Enrica has worked in the communication field for the non-profit sector and as project manager for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and UNDP-Egypt, where her passion in social entrepreneurship as a driving force for growth and development started. She joined the Orange Fiber project at the very beginning of its development, and now she is in charge of project management, communication and participation at national and international events and contests. She partners with Adriana Santanocito, Co-founder and CEO.

Rachel Reckinger, Senior Researcher, University of Luxembourg

Rachel Reckinger is a cultural anthropologist and a sociologist who joined the University of Luxembourg in 2008. Her research topics focus on food cultures and sustainable food practices. Her current transformative research project (https://food.uni.lu) is hosted by the University of Luxembourg and co-financed by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure in Luxembourg.

She studied at the Universities of Aix-Marseille 1 in Aix-en-Provence, La Sapienza in Rome and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseilles, where she obtained her PhD in 2008, while working at an ethnobotany museum (Musée-Conservatoire ethnologique de Haute-Provence, Salagon). Her current research project “Sustainable Food Practices” consists in researching the transition processes towards a more sustainable food culture and its potential optimization, by focusing on the actors concerned from the four interdependent spheres of governance, production, diffusion and consumption – both at established mainstream level and in innovative niches. The aim is to document, accompany and foster sustainable changes of practices that would have a positive effect on the national climate and energy efficiency as well as on social and environmental justice. The in-depth understanding of chances and challenges as well as the barriers within food transition is a suitable tool to help overcome lock-in situations and ultimately contribute to enhancing political, economic, ecological and societal consolidation.

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How can companies redesign production patterns in order to implement the SDGs?

Moderator:

Thierry Raizer

Thierry Raizer is the chief editor of Paperjam, Luxembourg’s leading economic and financial journal. Hailing from the Luxembourg region of Belgium, he is interested in cross-border dynamics. He has lived in Luxembourg since 2015 and has been involved in various Maison Moderne projects since joining the media group in 2012, mainly for the online version of its flagship title Paperjam, its twice-daily newsletters and monthly

magazine.Thierry is passionate about media and has more than 15 years’ experience both in journalism in Belgium – written and audiovisual – and in press relations in Luxembourg. He is a graduate of ISFSC Brussels with a degree in journalism and communication.

Speakers:

Peter Saling, BASF

Peter Saling is currently Director of Sustainability Methods at BASF. Peter studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen and after his PhD thesis in 1993, he joined BASF. He worked in the research department focusing on dyestuffs and was a specialist in toxicological issues associated with dyestuffs. In 1997 he moved within BASF to the Environment, Health and Safety Division. He started there by developing the Eco-Efficiency Analysis in collaboration with the German Consultant Roland Berger and Partners. As senior scientist he was involved in

the process of implementing more than 60 Eco-Efficiency studies. He was project leader for the development and integration of social aspects into the sustainability analysis known as SEEBALANCE. From 2007 to 2013 he was Director of Eco-Efficiency Analysisand Sustainability Evaluation within the Sustainability Strategy Department of BASF. In 2011he finalised the development of the new AgBalance methodology. Since 2014 he has been Director of Sustainability Methods for BASF worldwide with centres inthe US, Brazil and Asia. In 2014 he received a lectureship at the Environmental Managementand Accounting Department of the Technical University of Dresden and is a member of theboard of the PRISMA Center in Dresden. Since 2017 he has been Chairman of the ISO CommitteeTC 207/SC 5 Environmental Management – Life Cycle Assessment.

Roberta Ventura, CEO, SEP Jordan

Roberta is based in Geneva. She left her 20-year career in investment banking and asset management in October 2016 to run the social enterprise she founded, SEP Jordan, on a full-time basis. Roberta graduated with an Honours degree in Business Administration at Bocconi University in 1997, with the thesis ''Public-Private Relationship in the Reconstruction of the Beirut Central District after the Civil War in Lebanon''. She is an

advocate of refugees' right to employment, education and empowerment – the key instruments to attain confidence, determination and self-sufficiency. Roberta sits on the Board of Kofi Annan's Swiss Cartooning for Peace Foundation and on the UNHCR Livelihoods Advisory Board. She is President of the association Friends of the FIFDH (International Human Rights Film Festival, Geneva).

Christiane Wickler, CEO, PALL Center

Born in Diekirch, Christiane Wickler is an entrepreneur, who in 1982 took over a small petrol station in Oberpallen that her father had entrusted to her.

She developed PALL Center, a cheerful business close to people, and is owner of a group of supermarkets and grocery stores in Luxembourg as well as businesses in Belgium that she has been managing for 35 years.

Co-founder of the citizens’ collective 5fir12, she entered politics in 2013 running for the legislative elections on the Déi Gréng (Green Party) list in the north of Luxembourg. Six months after taking oath and juggling her political career with managing her hectic business, she stepped down from her political position to dedicate herself to her group.

In addition, Christiane has been President of the Federation of Women Business Leaders in Luxembourg since 2012. In 2003 she co-initiated the creation of the Luxembourg purchasing group INCOM and is chairperson of the purchasing group ALVO and a member of its Board of Directors.

Maria Cristina Papetti, Director, Sustainability Projects and Practice Sharing Unit, ENEL

Born in Milan, she studied Foreign Languages and Literature first at the Silvio Pellico School for Interpreters and then at IULM University.

She worked in Edison, Ferrovie dello Stato and Trenitalia before joining Enel in September 2007. She has been in charge of Executive Education, Executive Education and Cross Cultural Center, International Internal

Communication and in January 2012 she was appointed Head of External Relations of Enel Green Power and started to deploy the ‘creating shared value’ approach within the company.

Since October 2014, she has led the Sustainability Projects and Practice Sharing Unit, within the Innovation & Sustainability Division of Enel Holding, and among other things is in charge of the definition and deployment of the Creating Shared Value model throughout the business value chain of the entire Group.

How to foster awareness and capacity development in the business world for the SDGs?

Moderator:

Enrico Benetto, Head of the "Life Cycle Sustainability and Risk Assessment" RDI Unit, LIST

Enrico Benetto, Head of the "Life Cycle Sustainability and Risk Assessment" RDI Unit, LIST

Enrico has 18 years’ operational and managerial experience in RDI institutions in the field of environmental sustainability and risk assessment of products, technologies and policies, to support decision-making in industry and public policy. He has developed a style of evidence-based leadership, focused on the alignment and engagement of collaborators through trust, transparent communication and business agility and on the definition and successful implementation of factual strategies. His RDI

vision in this area is built around the smart integration of computational approaches from sustainability science into innovative (software) tools to address today’s socio-economic and business challenges, particularly in the fields of Smart Manufacturing (composites, industry 4.0), Circular Economy (business models, demonstrators), Smart Cities (connected and electro-mobility, BIM) and Green Finance. The research unit he built and currently manages has positioned itself among the best European R&D actors in the sustainability field.

Speakers:

Christoph Birkholz, CEO and founder, Impact Hub, Zurich

Dr. Christoph Birkholz (33) is an entrepreneur based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-founder and managing director of Impact Hub Zurich as well as Inyova.com. He has co-founded several spinoffs and initiatives in the Impact Hub network, such as Viaduct Ventures and the Global Impact Hub Fellowship. Christoph also leads Kickstart Accelerator, Europe’s largest multi-corporate tech accelerator set up by digitalswitzerland and operated by Impact Hub Zurich. He has received a PhD in impact investing from

University of St.Gallen, and teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and intrapreneurship at University of St.Gallen, Business School Lausanne and AdSchool Zurich. He is an alumnus of Witten/Herdecke University and INSEAD, as well as the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Sandbox Network and one of the 100 Digital Shapers of Switzerland. Christoph serves on the board of Panter AG, an international technology and engineering company.

Andy Schmidt, B Leader, B Lab Europe

Andy Schmidt has been trained by B Lab to be an advocate for the B Corp movement, and is recognised as a B Leader. He is also a Partner at Pearl Consulting, where he leads the firm’s B Corp services globally. As a social impact consultant, Andy regularly advises organisations on effectively leveraging B Lab’s impact assessment tools to better understand and improve their impact in the world. As a B Leader, Andy also contributes to organising

workshops and events and communication activities which raise awareness of the B Corp movement across Europe and Asia.

Andy has 20 years’ experience helping multinational organisations achieve their goals, and has in recent years dedicated his professional activities solely to contributing to a fairer, more stable and healthy world for future generations. He regularly provides social impact programme and partnership consulting services to global technology brands like Facebook, Microsoft and Huawei. Prior to focusing on consulting, he was in-house at Skype for nearly a decade and looked after its Social Good programme around the globe. He holds an MBA and a Master’s degree in Strategic Public Relations.

David Connor, Founder, 2030hub

David Connor is the Founder of the 2030hub, a pioneering and UN-endorsed ‘Local2030 Hub’, and Coethica, a specialist CSR/sustainability consultancy focusing on strategy development and communications.

David is also the UK Regional Voice Lead for IMPACT2030, a private sector-led initiative in collaboration with the UN aligning the Sustainable Development Goals with human capital.

Cyril Fegue, Researcher, University of Luxembourg

Cyril Fegue is a Political Scientist and an Urban Planner affiliated with the International Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) and the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on the social sustainability of urban transformations in the Global South, on the governance of urban competitiveness and the promotion of ‘liveable cities’ through private-sector sustainability management. Cyril has been actively involved in the post-MDGs process towards sustainable urban development. He was a member of the

academic caucus of the first United Nations Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) in Caserta, in October 2014. He participated in the Seventh Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF7) in Colombia, the Urban Age Conference held in India under the sponsorship of Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society, and the bi-decennial United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (HABITAT III) in Quito, Ecuador.

Cyril studied Urban Planning at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, Political Science at the Free University Berlin’s Otto-Suhr Institute and Development Programme Management at the University of Turin and the ILO-ITC’s Turin School of Development. He holds a PhD in Urban Development and Governance from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and in Political Science from the University of Luxembourg. His academic publications have appeared, among others, in the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning.

Tom Pfeiffer, Partner, Deloitte

Tom Pfeiffer is a Partner at Deloitte with over 20 years’ experience in audit and advisory in the commercial, industrial and public sectors.

Apart from financial and internal auditing, Tom is trained in performance audit and project evaluation as well as in GRI reporting.

As Sustainability Leader, Tom is involved in sustainability-related assurance and advisory projects. He develops together with his team the sustainability services offering of Deloitte Luxembourg. Tom has led his team to recently become an approved verifier to the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme.

As CSR Leader, Tom is in charge of the internal initiative to map Deloitte’s activities in respect of the SDGs to ensure the firm creates impact that matters.

Charles-Albert Florentin, Eco-Innovation Cluster Manager, Luxinnovation

Charles-Albert Florentin joined Luxinnovation as Eco-Innovation Cluster Manager in September 2017. Charles graduated in International Business from Neoma Business School in Reims.

Charles has held senior positions in leading European companies such as Regional Manager for Veolia and General Manager for Tessenderlo group in China.

He is a confirmed environmental consultant with over 20 years of experience overseeing operations, projects and business service. In his current role, Charles’ main goal is to create cross companies projects and foster Circular Economy in Luxemburg.

How to monitor progress towards the SDGs, including the business impact on the Agenda 2030 goals?

Moderator:

Daniel Byk, Advisor, STATEC

Born in 1948, Daniel Byk followed the French track to become a qualified statistician (preparatory classes for the “Grandes Ecoles” entry competition and studies at ENSAE). He joined INSEE’s “Conjoncture” (short-term trends) unit in 1972. He joined the European Commission in 1974 and, later that year, its Statistical Office, Eurostat.

His career in the European statistical agency involved different activities: statistical database management, publication and dissemination, business statistics, statistical cooperation, etc. He was a Director there from 1998 to 2003. Since 2004 he has been seconded to the Government of Luxembourg and has worked as a Special Adviser to Minister Nicolas Schmit since then. He has also acted as an advisor to STATEC, the Luxembourg Statistics Office. A member of ISI since 2000, Daniel Byk is very active in fields related to the better use of data for evidence-based policy (communication, well-being indicators and SDGs).

Speakers:

Carsten Olsson, Head of Unit for "Innovation and Information Society", Eurostat

Carsten Olsson has a background in the intersection between software and statistics (MSc) and a PhD in statistics. After some years in the private sector, he joined the European Commission in 1993. He took up his first post with Eurostat in the field of consumer prices in 1997. Subsequently, he has been involved in statistics on unemployment, government finances, and macroeconomic indicators. Currently he is Head of Unit for R&D, Innovation, and Information

Society statistics.

Pietro Bertazzi, Deputy Director, GRI

Pietro joined the GRI Secretariat in 2010. As Deputy Director, Policy and Global Affairs, his primary focus is to proactively contribute to GRI’s full grasp and mastery of the policy field of sustainability reporting. He ensures strong and dynamic resource mobilisations with policymakers, capital markets operators, regulatory bodies and international organisations. He has led GRI activities related to major global and regional policy processes such as the Rio+20 Conference, the EU directive on Non-Financial Reporting and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Before joining GRI, Pietro worked for the Italian Section and the EU Institutions Liaison Office of Amnesty International on the issues of corporate accountability for human rights violations and International Financial Institutions’ impact on human rights. Before moving to Amsterdam he worked in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team of a large Italian multinational company, contributing to the definition of the Group Sustainability Policy and the Sustainability Report.

Pietro grew up in the south of Italy and has lived in Rome, Strasbourg, Milan, Brussels and Amsterdam. He graduated in Public European and International Law at LUISS University in Rome, Italy. He holds a Master’s degree in Management and Governance of Non Profit (LUISS University) and a Master’s degree in Corporate Citizenship (Fondaca, Sant’Anna di Pisa, Boston College).

Anat Itay-Sarig, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, BBetter

Dr. Anat Itay-Sarig is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of BBetter, a technology and data science company that generates strategies to boost well-being. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and was affiliated with the School of Public Policy at the University of London, UK. Anat has played a substantial role in developing Israel's well-being indicators for

public policy and regional development. She serves as a consultant on well-being indicators to global and local entities, including the OECD.

Francesco Sarracino, Senior Economist, STATEC

Francesco Sarracino is senior economist at STATEC, Luxembourg’s Statistics Office, and an associate member of the scientific network of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research – Higher School of Economics, Russia. His work aims at identifying policies to make economic growth compatible with people’s well-being and to pursue sustainable development. His research focuses on developed and developing countries and is based on within- and cross-country empirical evidence.

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Caroline Schuler, Ocean Visuals

In graphic recording and facilitation, Caroline Schuler combines her passion for visualisation, creativity and design with a keen eye, an open ear and a good sense for group dynamics. She translates stories, strategies and ideas into images that are not just beautiful, but, more importantly, serve processes of clarification, transform complication into complexity, and enhance collective memory. Caroline commits to tasks with a deep ‘head,

heart and hand’ presence.

Concluding Remarks

Conchita D’Ambrosio, Chair Professor, University of Luxembourg

Conchita D’Ambrosio is Professor of Economics at Université du Luxembourg, and holder of a PEARL Chair. She is an economist, with a Ph.D. from New York University (2000). Her research interests have revolved around the study of individual and social well-being and the proposal of various measures that are able to capture its different aspects. She has published in Economica, Economics Letters, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Choice and Welfare, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Review of Income and

Wealth among other academic journals. She has been a member of the editorial board of the Review of Income and Wealth since 2001 and editor of the same journal since 2007. She joined the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Inequality in 2013.

Support Partners

Caritas Luxembourg is committed to combating poverty and social exclusion in search of a more equal and better world. Caritas Luxembourg seeks to

contribute to a world where economic and social justice, ecology and culture inspire actions and relationships amongst human beings, encouraging dignified life and full participation in society for all.

Caritas Luxembourg works in both the national sphere and internationally. Caritas Luxembourg raises awareness on the structural causes of poverty and unequal trade relations between countries and regions and calls for a coherent sustainable development policy.

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A catalyst for social innovation, IMS is the network that accompanies organisations in their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility by enhancing dialogue with their stakeholders.

IMS Luxembourg supports its members through collaborative and federative projects by encouraging dialogue with stakeholders (private, public, associative). In this framework, IMS brings expertise (publications), offers concrete solutions, raises awareness and provides information (campaigns, Forum, training, clubs, workshops, etc.).

This network accounts for 15% of the workforce in Luxembourg and is the national representative of the European organisation CSR Europe. IMS is an independent, non-political and recognised association of public utility.

LISER is a Luxembourgish public research institute, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. LISER’s research focuses mainly on the fields of social and economic policies, including their spatial dimension.

Through its empirical and theoretical work, the institute’s mission is to provide the scientific community and society with clear, relevant and solid answers. The objective is to develop a sharp understanding of socio-economic mechanisms and their spatio-temporal dimensions in order to contribute to the development of better policies and lay the foundations for a future strategic vision for our society. LISER is composed of three research departments: “Labour Market”, “Living Conditions”, “Urban Development and Mobility”.

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a mission-driven Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) that develops advanced technologies and delivers innovative products and services to industry and society. As a major engine of the diversification and growth of Luxembourg’s economy through innovation, LIST supports the deployment of a number of solutions to a wide range of sectors, including energy, IT, telecommunications, environment, agriculture, and advanced manufacturing at national and European level. Thanks to its location in an exceptional, collaborative environment, namely the Belval Innovation Campus, LIST accelerates time-to-market by maximising synergies with different actors, including the University, the national funding agency and industrial clusters.

STATEC is the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Economy, the Institute produces and disseminates official statistics in

compliance with Luxembourg and European statistical legislation. STATEC’s main mission is to provide high quality statistical information to decision-makers and citizens. STATEC endeavours, through studies and analysis, to illustrate Luxembourg’s society in a detailed, reliable and objective manner.

STATEC’s Research Division performs high quality research in the field of applied economics. This research focuses on drivers of countries’ economic growth, such as entrepreneurship and productivity, and on the conditions that make growth inclusive, sustainable and compatible with people’s well-being. The Division is currently undertaking the project PIBien-être, which presents a system of indicators to measure and monitor the quality of life of Luxembourg’s residents.

Under the auspices of