The Paris Roundtable 21 June 2019

Biographies of Participants

Supported by

With special thanks to Banque de France | Paris Peace Forum and hospitality provided by Australian High Commission, London | Australian Embassy, Paris Mr Daniel ARLAUD Former Chief Executive Officer, Villepin International Ltd

Daniel Arlaud is historian and advisor on international relations. After a PhD in European History, and being engaged in research and teaching in French and American universities, he was CEO of the advisory firm Villepin International, founded by former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

Mr Bertrand BADRÉ CEO, Blue Orange Capital

Bertrand Badré is CEO and Founder of Blue served in the French Ministry of Finance where he Orange Capital, an investment fund with led a number of control, audit, and consultancy the objectives to finance the Sustainable missions for the French National Audit Office. Development Goals with market level financial returns. He is chair of the Global Future Council on International Governance, Public-Private Previously, Mr. Badré was Managing Director of Cooperation and Sustainable Development and the World Bank Group and Chief Financial Officer. an advisor for the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 2013, Bertrand was the group chief financial officer at He is the chair of the Audit Committes of FIA Société Générale. (Federation of International Automotive) and of WealthSimple, a leading Canadian Fintech. He is He also served as group chief financial officer of a board member of GETLINK (Eurotunnel). Crédit Agricole from 2007 to 2011. Between 2004 and 2007, Bertrand was a managing director of He just published “Can finance save the world? Lazard in Paris. In 2003, he was invited to join How to regain control over money to to save President Jacques Chirac’s diplomatic team and common good” and reference to own Global was closely involved in the preparation of the G-8 Foundation work. summit in Evian. In that capacity, he served as the president’s deputy personal representative Bertrand is a graduate of ENA (Ecole Nationale for Africa and as a spokesman for the working d’Administration) and Institut d’Etudes Politiques group on new international financial contributions de Paris. He also studied history at Paris IV to fight poverty and fund development, which University (La Sorbonne), and graduated from produced the Landau Report. HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris) business school. In 2002, he was a member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure chaired by Michel Camdessus. In 1999 Badré joined Lazard, in London and New York. From 1995 to 1999, he

In this capacity Ms Boarini advises the OECD and the project on Business and Well-Being. In her Secretary-General and the Chief of Staff on previous roles she was working as an economist Inclusive Growth issues. She heads the OECD the in both the Economics Department and in the Inclusive Growth (IG) Initiative, the largest OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, horizontal programme involving more than 10 carrying out research on structural issues as well OECD Directorates, and she is in charge of the as country-specific policy analysis. Business for Inclusive Growth Platform. Before joining the Office of the Secretary-General, Romina Before joining the OECD in 2005, Ms. Boarini was has worked as Deputy Head of the Well-Being a post-doctoral fellow in Sustainable Development Division of the Statistics Directorate and the Head (Chaire EDF-Ecole Polytechnique) and worked as a of the Well-Being and Progress Section, where she consultant to the French Ministry of Social Affairs. was responsible for OECD Better Life Initiative, Ms. Boarini, an Italian national, holds a PhD in the statistical pillar of the OECD Inclusive Growth Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) Initiative and the OECD Pilot Study on SDGs. She and her Research Interests include: Well-being, also led the Statistics Directorate’s contributions Poverty, Education and Behavioural Economics. to SDGs-related National Development Strategies

Mr Dennis BRACY CEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum Dennis Bracy counts himself fortunate to hold two Combining a long-time commitment to fascinating jobs simultaneously: 1) heading Avatar strengthening US-China relations and a passion Studios, a media production company in the US, for finding solutions to global energy and and 2) spearheading the team organising the US- environmental issues, Bracy has led the US team China Clean Energy Forum. for the US-China Clean Energy Forum (www. cleanenergyforum.org) since the inception of the As Chairman of Avatar Studios (www.avatar- organisation in 2007. studios.com), he heads a company that produces television programs, videos and websites for Over the past 20 years, he has served as a clients around the world. In the 1990s, Bracy key advisor to CEOs, Senators, Governors and led the team that developed (for Microsoft) the Members of Congress and is considered a leading first prime-time television series co-produced by strategist on public affairs issues. foreigners in China (My Computer Family) and he continues to produce several documentaries and His previous professional positions include videos every year. president of Hill & Knowlton Technology, vice president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, and press secretary for the Watergate trials.

Cristina Bruce is a Government Relations and expertise in Anglo American’s operations in Latin policy professional. She has experience in America as well as their work on climate change, assessing political risk, developing political gender and inclusion, the future of work and networks and stakeholder engagement, innovation. international advocacy and public affairs campaigns. Areas worked on include business Former roles have been as an account manager in development, political network/ influence international advocacy and business development development, and political assessment in the at Portland and at the British Foreign Office, in the Middle East, Europe, Southern Africa and Latin South America and Middle East teams. She was America. She has direct experience of working with Vice Chairman of Canning House, the UK-Latin the extractive, NGO, multilateral and governmental America think tank in the UK for six years. sectors. BSc in Politics from University of Bristol and an She is currently Head of International Relations at MSc in International Relations and History from Anglo American, a multinational mining company LSE. She lives in London and has two young headquartered in London. She has particular children.

Mr James BUNN Media producer and individual member of the Global Foundation

James Bunn was the founding CEO of the ground James has delivered initiatives with a particular breaking Fox Sports Australia and the former focus on international trade at scale across Chairman of TXA (the technology arm of Channels sectors including sports; not for profit; education; 7, 9 & 10) where he delivered the world’s membership organisations; broadcasting / largest network digitisation project. He Chaired the telecommunications; property / real estate; pre-Netflix Channel Networks streaming technology/engineering; construction; venture with France Telecom in the UK and manufacturing / food processing; digital media launched the Digicel Play platform (ex-Dublin) production; aged and child care; be that locally, across 18 Pacific countries. nationally or globally.

As a serial Chief Executive, Director and James presently divides his time between Sydney Management Consultant / Advisor he has and London, and travels frequently to the Asia delivered strategic leadership in sectors dealing Pacific, EMEA region and the USA. with specific operational challenges or embedding transformational change in the face of disruption.

Pratik Desai leads strategic engagement efforts The White House, and the Council on Foreign for the WBA, working to grow and strengthen Relations. A native of Gweru, Zimbabwe, Pratik is a a diverse, balanced, and inclusive community graduate of Boston University, where he earned a of global allies and partners who believe in and B.A. in international relations and political science. understand the potential of benchmarks to drive He is passionate about the power of cross-sector transformative change. Previously, he managed partnerships and strongly believes that business private sector engagement and policy efforts has a critical role to play in advancing progress on for the United Nations Foundation and held the Sustainable Development Goals. positions in program development, operations, and communications and outreach with TechnoServe,

Mr Alexandre ESCORIA Acting Head, Centre d’Analyse, de Prèvision et de Stratègie, the French Policy Planning Staff

Alexandre Escorcia is a French career diplomat first secretary in charge of defence and security with almost 15 years’ experience in political- issues. He then served as an advisor to French military and security issues. He joined the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on security Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005 as a desk issues, Russia and the CIS (2016-2017). He was officer on European foreign and security policy and subsequently appointed Deputy Head of Policy subsequently on NATO matters. Planning in June 2017.

In 2009, in the wake of France’s reintegration Alexandre Escorcia has authored several into the NATO military structure, he joined the publications on European foreign and security Headquarters, Allied Command Transformation policy, information manipulation and NATO. A in Norfolk, Virginia, as Deputy Political Advisor graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de to the first French Supreme Allied Commander Paris and the Sorbonne and an alumnus of the Transformation, General Stéphane Abrial. Ecole normale supérieure (rue d’Ulm), his foreign languages include English, Spanish, German, In 2012, he was transferred to Berlin where he Italian, and a smattering of Russian. He is married spent a few months as an exchange diplomat with two children. at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs before moving to the French Embassy to Germany as a

Chris is a partner at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney has been a sessional lecturer at the University of where he sits on the firm’s board, and heads the Western Australia. His views on energy security energy and international law practices. and international law have been sought by global He advises government and private clients in media (including the BBC World Service, Reuters, energy, energy security and public international law Bloomberg and News Corporation). internationally. He has worked in over 55 countries. This includes advising East Timor on certain He holds a Master of Letters from the University aspects of its maritime boundary dispute with of St Andrews (in International Relations) as a Australia, Papua New Guinea on energy security Chevening Scholar, a Master of Laws (International related matters, two Asian states on their claims Law) from the University of Sydney and Bachelor in the South China Sea and a Middle Eastern degrees in Law (Honours) and Commerce from authority on its maritime entitlements. Griffith University. He was an Ambassadorial Pro bono, Chris helped to secure the freedom Scholar to the University of Salamanca. of journalist, Peter Greste, from jail in Egypt. He provided support to counsel assisting to resist the He is a member of the Legal Advisory Task Force capital punishment of Chan and Sukumaran in to the Energy Charter Treaty in Brussels and a Indonesia. founding director of the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom. Chris has guest lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews, and

Ms Lauren GIMENEZ Crisis Prevention and Migrations Programme Manager, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

Ms. Lauren Gimenez is post graduated in Law the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked and Political administration (Paris 1-Panthéon for the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Sorbonne). She has an extensive experience peacekeeping operations in New York. in the fields of international cooperation and multilateral relations, especially on issues related She has joined the Department for political affairs to democratic governance, state fragility and crisis and democratic governance of the International management. organization of La Francophonie in 2010, where she manages peace and security programs. She has served since 2002 as political advisor to heads of national administrations – including the French largest local government - and international organizations; notably, she took part in the negotiations founding the Mediterranean Union for

At the World Benchmarking Alliance, I facilitate My fieldwork consisted of a qualitative study conversations around our benchmarks, of environmentally displaced communities in research and core narratives. My role focuses Bangladesh, visiting temporary migrant camps on the development of our public policy and surrounding Dhaka and conducting a series communications strategy, as well as strengthening of interviews on the personal experiences of core narratives to support stakeholder displacement. In the past I have worked for engagement, branding and outreach at events. a number of different NGOs and charities in Prior to joining the WBA, I completed my master’s Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Bangladesh and UK. degree in Anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Mr Steve HOWARD Secretary General, the Global Foundation

Steve Howard is a global strategist and business In 1998, he co-founded and has since led the advisor. Global Foundation, for which an early centerpiece was the restoration of relations between Australia As Secretary General of the non-profit Global and the European Union and France in particular. Foundation, Steve has led the necessary global push for the adoption of ‘co-operative Steve is respected in China for his contribution to globalisation’, a positive strategy for inclusive, China’s global engagement over the past 20 years. ‘win-win’ economic development and a sustainable Highlights have included: his role in bringing China, global economy. Many world leaders, including the US and Australia together on global climate Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, change policy; and more recently, his integral role Christine Lagarde, Pascal Lamy and Mark Carney, in the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure have personally participated in and endorsed this Investment Bank, the first international institution and related initiatives. led by China. He visits China regularly for high- level dialogues embracing security, international Through this unusually collaborative and low-key relations and multilateral economic development. approach, Steve has helped to shape global affairs with practical outcomes over the past 20 years. He studied in Australia and then London, under a British Government scholarship. Steve was He led the successful renaissance strategy for awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Merit for his Melbourne, in Australia in the 1990’s, including a contribution to France-Australia relations in 2004 national strategy for private sector investment in public infrastructure, now adopted as a business model, worldwide. He continues to advise on complex infrastructure projects and funds in emerging markets.

Sue Kench is the Global Chief Executive of King & Her leadership was recognised by the Financial Wood Mallesons. She leads the development and Times when she received the ‘Australian innovative implementation of the firm’s international growth leader award’ at the FT Asia Pacific Innovative Law strategy and is responsible for integrating the firm’s Firm awards in 2018. She was also named in the international operations. 2018 Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. Together with the Global Chairman, Sue oversees the firm’s International Management Committee Sue was appointed Global Chief Executive in 2017 and the Global Executive team which are following four years as Chief Executive Partner responsible for setting the firm’s strategic priorities Australia where she led a very successful growth and international business agenda. plans.

Sue has a reputation for driving positive change, aligning and engaging diverse groups around a shared vision and creating a culture where everyone has a voice.

Mr Pascal LAMY President, Paris Peace Forum; former Director General, World Trade Organisation

Widely respected as one of the world’s leading partnership. He has also been a mentor to the thinkers, Pascal Lamy continues to enjoy a high- recently elected President of France, Emmanuel profile career, following his leadership of the WTO Macron. for 8 years, until 2013 and, earlier, as European Union Trade Commissioner. Pascal Lamy is a recipient of the Global Achievement Award of the Global Foundation and Among other interests, he presently chairs the a leading contributor to the Foundation’s annual Paris bid for Expo 2025, represents France in the Rome Roundtable and related activities over many Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and is a years. member of Chatham House’s group on EU-China

Sheridan is the founder and principal of Shed Coolabah Capital, Sanaka Capital Investment Enterprises, a specialised third-party marketing Managers and Octopus Investments Ltd. consultancy operating in the Australian institutional financial markets. She is a shareholder in and a board member of Shed Connect Pty Ltd, a multimedia Sheridan started her working life as a journalist communications business, which runs media and launched Super Review in the early days of campaigns for financial services businesses. Shed occupational superannuation. Connect publishes two mastheads which have a combined distribution of 80,000 subscribers. As a Business Development Manager she worked with Swiss Bank Corp (now UBS) and Alliance Sheridan served for six years on the board of the Capital. Sheridan pioneered third party marketing charity SecondBite – which ‘rescues’ surplus food in Australia and in 1996 set up Shed Enterprises from across the retail network in Australia and Pty Ltd. redistributes it to local charities who provide food relief to people in need. Clients have included Adveq Management AG, Neuberger Berman LLC, Bridgewater Associates, Sheridan was a NSW Finalist (Entrepreneur) in the Old Mutual plc, CDC Ixis Asset Management, 2015 Telstra Business Women’s Awards. Standard Life Group,GAM, Axa Rosenberg Investment Management Ltd, Acadian Asset She holds a Bachelor of Economics from the Management and Challenger International. Current University of Sydney. clients include Amundi Asset Management,

Mr Hans VAN LEEUWEN Europe correspondent, Australian Financial Review

Hans van Leeuwen is the London correspondent During his 20-year career he has also been an for The Australian Financial Review, covering economics correspondent for Bloomberg, the politics, business, economics and markets across associate editor of The Diplomat magazine, and Europe. He rejoined the paper last September, an editor and journalism trainer at Vietnam News following 10 years as a senior policy adviser at the in Hanoi. He has a BA in philosophy, politics and Australian High Commission in London, where his economics from Oxford University and an MA in briefs included national security issues and British international studies from Sydney University. domestic politics.

During earlier stints at the AFR in Australia his roles included federal press gallery reporter, financial services writer, leader writer and sub-editor.

Sylvie LEMMET is an economist, specialist of the World Bank, and the Director of the Economic climate change, energy and the environment. She Division of the United Nations Environment graduated from the Kennedy School as well as the Program. Before COP21, she became the Director French School for Public administration (ENA) and for International and European affairs in the French holds an MBA from HEC. ministry for environment where she created the “action agenda”, coordinating the mobilization and She started her carrier with the private sector, concrete commitments of the private sector and before moving to humanitarian programs in Asia. the local authorities worldwide for COP21. She then became the CFO of Doctors Without Borders. She has supervised and written several reports on environment policies, including a strategy for She has been Team Leader for sustainable climate finance in 2017. development in the Latin America Department of

Mr Brian LOUGHNANE Business Advisor; former Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia

Brian Loughnane was Federal Director of the Brian has extensive international political Liberal Party of Australia from 2002 until February experience with major centre-right parties 2016. In that time he ran four national campaigns around the world. In 2016 he was asked to as Coalition Campaign Director. He is currently a conduct a review of campaign operations for the business and political strategic advisor. Brian was Conservative Party of Canada. He is Assistant previously State Director of the Victorian Division Chairman of the International Democrat Union and of the Liberal Party from 2000-2003. a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Republican Institute. He commenced his business career with Shell Australia in 1982 and worked in the oil and gas In January 2018, Brian became an Officer in the industry for 14 years until the mid-1990’s. Order of Australia.

HE Angus MACKENZIE Deputy Australian Ambassador to France and Australian Ambassador to UNESCO

Angus Mackenzie is the Australian Ambassador Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Australian to UNESCO and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy Rome (2003-2006), First Secretary, Australian Embassy Paris. He also serves as non- Australian Embassy Paris (1995-1999) and Consul, resident Ambassador to Chad. Australian Consulate-General Noumea (1988- 1991). Angus is a senior career officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Angus holds an Honours degree in Arts from Previous positions have included Assistant the University of Sydney and a Masters degree Secretary, Consular Policy and Assistant Secretary, in Applied Linguistics from the University of Parliamentary and Media. He has held postings as Newcastle. He speaks French and Italian.

Jean-François Di Meglio, 63, has been President He co-edited two books on China at Routledge’s of Asia Centre a not-for-profit think-tank dedicated (China and the global financial crisis, 2012 and to Asia since 2009. He contributed creating it China’s energy security : a multidimensional together with several academics and business approach, 2017) and wrote numerous articles on people in 2005. China’s economic and financial situation. His main area of interest are energy, commodities and Prior to this, JFDM has been a banker in France, monetary affairs. He lectures at Paris Dauphine North America, Greater China and had followed University PSL and Sciences po (PSIA) Chinese affairs for more than 40 years. He graduated from Ecole normale supérieure in Paris and Beijing University.

Mr Jock MURRAY AO Chairman, the Global Foundation

Mr Murray operates a private consulting firm over the last 20 years. He is currently Chairman of specialising in infrastructure development. Latrobe Magnesium Limited. He recently completed appointments as Chairman of Omni In this capacity he is a consultant at King &Wood Tankers Pty Ltd and of St Aloysius’ College, Sydney. Mallesons, a global law firm. He has been Mr Murray is also Chairman of the Board of The an executive consultant at the leading engineering Global Foundation, having been a member of the consultancy GHD Pty Ltd, where he was Project Foundation’s Advisory Council for more than fifteen Director for the master planning of Sydney’s new years. international airport. He was involved with the master planning for the Beijing 2008 and London He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute 2012 Olympic Games. of Logistics and Transport and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a graduate Mr Murray is a former Director General (Secretary) of The Royal Military College, Duntroon, The Royal of the New South Wales Department of Transport Military College of Science in the UK, Deakin in Australia, prior to which he was Executive University, and of The Australian Management Director Transport for the Sydney 2000 Olympic College, Mt Eliza. Games. Mr Murray resides in Sydney with his wife and has His early career comprised 28 years in the two adult children. Australian Army; this service involving a number of overseas-based roles at the strategic level. He has held a number of corporate directorships

Born in Australia to Malaysian parents, Selena grew to constructing very large (~1600 MWe) nuclear up in rural Victoria where her fascination with the power plants in France, Finland and the UK. universe led her via Monash University to a PhD in string theory at the University of Cambridge. Her Selena is a keen advocate of systems thinking and focus on “where do we come from?” and “what will “cross-everything” working: cross-discipline, we become?” soon turned into “what do we want cross-sector and cross-culture! In addition to to become?” and “how do we make that happen?”. coaching her teams at Areva, she has volunteered An MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs led to a 15- in strategic planning and organisational change year career at the Areva group, a global leader in for grassroots associations in rural Benin and the nuclear power industry where her activities Malaysia, financial planning for domestic workers ranged from leading a France-US technical in Singapore, and increasing self-esteem for collaboration on nuclear non-proliferation to less privileged teenagers in France. Her guiding creating a regional office in Singapore to advise aspiration is to create sustainable and positive South-East Asian countries on developing nuclear change in all that she does: situations and people, power safely and sustainably, and more recently profit and nonprofit, big and small.

Ms Alexandra PALT Executive Director, l’Oréal

A lawyer by training, Alexandra Palt specialized sets commitments for 2020 addressing the in human rights. She began her career at a law company’s impact across its value chain. firm and then worked for Amnesty International in Germany. For the next ten years, she worked at In 2017, she was appointed Chief Corporate organizations specializing in CSR, diversity, change Responsibility Officer, becoming the Executive management and sustainability. Vice President of the L’Oréal Foundation in addition to her role as head of the CSR & Sustainability In 2012, Alexandra Palt joined L’Oréal as Chief Department. Sustainability Officer, launching “Sharing Beauty With All”, L’Oréal’s sustainability program, which

In 2018, Philippe was Alternate Director (EAC for external economic relations. Deputy-Director constituency) of the Asian Infrastructure for trade promotion. 1991: French Embassy in Investment Bank (AIIB). In 2017, the Ministry Budapest. Economic counsellor. 1988: Ministry for the Economy and Finance, Paris. Directorate of Economy, Paris. Directorate for external General of Treasury. Project manager, in charge of economic relations. Head of desk for « European the relocation of the European Banking Authority Single Market. In 1985: French Consulate-General in Paris. In 2014, French Ambassador in Iceland. in New-York; deputy Economic counsellor. In In 2010: French Embassy in Madrid. Minister- 1982: Ministry of Economy, Paris. Directorate Counsellor for economic affairs; head of the for external economic relations. Deputy Head French economic services in Spain and Portugal. of desk for economic relations with countries In 2006: French Permanent Representation to the of Middle and Near East. Mr O’Quin has a BA in European Union (Brussels). Minister-Counsellor History (Paris-Sorbonne-1976) and public Law for economic affairs, in charge of trade policy. (Paris-Sorbonne-1978); is a graduate of “Sciences 1998: French Embassy in London. Minister- Po Paris” (1977) and of « Ecole Nationale Counsellor for economic affairs. 1996: Ministry d’Administration” (1982). of Economy, Paris. Directorate for external economic relations. Deputy-Director for resources. 1994: Ministry of Economy, Paris. Directorate

Dr Leah PISAR President, Aladdin Project

Leah Pisar is Chair of the Aladdin Project, which She served on the staff of President Clinton’s seeks to combat extremism by teaching the National Security Council and at the Department of universal lessons of the Holocaust and building State and U.S. Embassy in Paris. Her book “Orage bridges of knowledge among Jews, Christians sur l’Atlantique: la France et les Etats-Unis face à and Muslims. An expert in transatlantic relations, l’Irak” was published in France in 2010. she also writes, teaches and is a frequent news commentator. She holds a BA from Harvard College, a masters from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and a PhD Currently writing a family memoir, she also from the University of Paris. She serves on regularly narrates, with her mother, the text written the boards of the Franco-American Fulbright by her late father, one of the youngest survivors of Commission, the French Institute/Alliance Auschwitz, for Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony no. 3 Française, the Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship “Kaddish,” with leading world orchestras. and the National Security Network.

Abraham (Abe) Radkin is the Executive Director of initiative under the patronage of UNESCO to teach the Paris-based Project Aladdin and International the universal lessons of the Holocaust in Africa, Coordinator of the Global Hope Coalition. He the Middle East and Asia, and also promote better is a special advisor to UNESCO on intercultural ties among Jews and Muslims. Abe Radkin was dialogue. appointed as the executive director of the new organization, the Aladdin Project. In July 2013, After education at Repton School and Bristol Abe Radkin received a medal from then Israeli University, Abe worked for the United Nations and President Shimon Peres for his efforts to promote later became diplomatic advisor to Lord Russell Holocaust education and awareness in the Muslim Johnston, then President of the Parliamentary world. He also received the 2014 Daniel Pearl Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He Award of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at the was invited by Lord Slynn of Hadley to act as his National Conference of the ADL in Los Angeles in advisor while he worked on human rights and November 2014. judicial reform in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Abe has been invited as guest speaker or expert witness by the European, Commission, the In 2008, Simone Veil, King Mohammed VI of European Parliament, and the United States Morocco, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder Congress. and Prince Hassan of Jordan spearheaded a new

14 Copyright© 2019 The Global Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Ms Isabella SALBURG former Chief of Staff, Order of Malta; Directeur de projet international Isabella Salburg is a European-based specialist in and the general functioning of the managing key partnerships and high-level projects chancery. within multicultural environments. From 2001 to 2010 she worked in finance: first at During her university studies and subsequent JPMorgan Private Banking in Geneva and London professional life, she developed a particular covering UHNW individuals and family-owned interest in issues of sustainable development businesses; followed by Investment Banking at – including being awarded by the French Société Générale in Paris, as Head of Marketing of Chamber of Commerce for her Research Paper Structured Alternative Investments; joining Lyxor as on «Environmental Performance Indicators» in Senior Investment Advisor for major institutional collaboration with the World Business Council for clients such as pension funds, insurance Sustainable Development, Switzerland. companies, and banks.

From 2010 to 2019, she was the Chief of Cabinet She did a first degree in Law at the Leopold- of the Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Franzen-University (Innsbruck, Austria) before Order of Malta in Rome (Italy) working with completing a three-year “European Master in governments and international organisations to Management” at the ESCP Europe (Oxford, develop social programs, negotiating cooperation Madrid, Paris). agreements, and identifying opportunities for project financing through institutional and She is Austrian and Swedish, speaks 6 languages private donors. She also organised joint and holds various national decorations. She international conferences to address topics of lives in Paris where she is married to a Frenchman common concern and was responsible for issues and has three daughters. related to communications, administration, finance,

Mr Philippe SAUQUET President of Gas, Renewables & Power and President of Strategy-Innovation, Total

Philippe Sauquet began his career in 1981 as a civil He was appointed President of Gas & Power on engineer at the French Ministry of Infrastructure. July 1, 2012, in which capacity he also sat on the He subsequently worked at the French Ministry of Group Management Committee. the Economy and Finance. On October 29, 2014, Mr. Sauquet was named President, Refining & Chemicals and joined Total’s He joined chemical company Orkem in 1988 as Executive Committee. Vice President, Strategy before being appointed Senior Vice President, Acrylics Sales & Marketing. On September 1rst, 2016, Mr Sauquet was named He moved to Total in 1990 as Vice President, Anti- President Gas, Renewables & Power and President Corrosion Paints and was subsequently named Strategy-Innovation. Vice President, Chemicals Strategy. Born in 1957, he is a graduate of France’s Ecole In 1997, Mr. Sauquet transferred to the Gas & Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts Power Division, where he was successively Vice et Chaussées engineering schools and of the President, Americas; Vice President, International; University of California, Berkeley in the United Senior Vice President, Strategy & Renewables; States. Senior Vice President, Trading & Marketing, Gas & Power, based in London.

Copyright© 2019 The Global Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 15 Ms Elaine SCIOLINO Writer, The New York Times Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former between France and the United States. She is Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, based a member of the Advisory Board of Reporters in France since 2002. Her new book, The Seine: Without Borders, the international advocacy The River That Made Paris, will be published by organisation promoting freedom of the press. She W.W. Norton & Company on November 5, 2019. holds several honorary degrees, including, most Her previous book, The Only Street in Paris: Life on recently, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree the Rue des Martyrs, was a New York Times best from the University of London. seller. In 2010 and 2017, Sciolino taught as a Professor At the New York Times, she held several posts, of Journalism at Princeton University’s Council of including United Nations’ bureau chief, Central the Humanities. In 2015 she served as the expert Intelligence Agency correspondent, culture lecturer on the first New York Times-led tour to Iran correspondent, chief diplomatic correspondent, and has led six New York Times’ tours to Iran. She and European investigative correspondent currently is an expert lecturer on New York Times- covering terrorism and Iran’s nuclear program. led tours to Provence.

Sciolino was decorated chevalier of the Legion of She lives in Paris with her husband, Andrew Plump, Honor, the highest honor of the French state, in an attorney. They have two daughters 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship

Ms Vicky SINS Climate Benchmark Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance

Vicky Sins is responsible for leading the Responsibility strategy for ABN AMRO Clearing Corporate Climate Action Benchmarks to support forcing industry dialogue to increase transparency the decarbonisation of the economy and the to support safe and orderly capital markets. Energy transition. She believes in private sector contribution and responsibility by demonstrating She was part of the Investor Working Group of how companies in high carbon-emitting industries the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative and are contributing to the Paris Agreement and instrumental in setting up partnerships between SDG 13, with the aim to enable the required ABN AMRO Clearing and Frontclear (a developing transformation to a low carbon economy. country capital market infrastructure builder). She has a Master degree in Financial Management and Vicky joined on May 1st 2019 after spending the is an alumni to the Prince of Wales’ Cambridge past 14.5 years working for ABN AMRO Bank and Institute for Sustainable Leadership. the last 7 years with ABN AMRO Clearing Bank in charge of Energy & Commodity clients. Besides this she was heading up the Corporate Social

Former advisor to Emmanuel Macron at the French She is graduate from the French National School Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Digital of Public Administration (ENA, class of 2008), Affairs, Dorothée Stik is currently working for the Sciences-Po Paris (2005) and Ecole Normale French Merger & Acquisition advisory firm Messier Supérieure (Ulm, 2002). Maris & Associés. She spent 10 years in the public sector, mostly at the French Treasury (dealing with Dorothée Stik is also member of the Board of the international affairs, G20 and financial regulations) Théâtre national de l’Odéon (Paris) and of the and in ministerial cabinet, where she was notably Institute of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. in charge of the privatizations and the liberalization of the coach transportation, as well as cultural affairs.

HE Mr François VILLEROY de GALHAU Governor, Banque de France

François Villeroy de Galhau has been Governor tax Directorate in 2000, he became CEO of Cetelem of the Banque de France since 2015. An ENA in 2003, then headed the retail banking activities of graduate and a former Inspector of Finance, BNP Paribas in France (2008) and served as COO he joined the French Treasury in 1988 and held of BNP Paribas Group, from December 2011 until various posts in ministerial cabinets, at the French May 2015. At this date, the French government Treasury, then at the Permanent Representation entrusted him with an assignment on corporate of France in Brussels, before becoming Chief of investment financing. Staff to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry in 1997. Appointed Head of the General

LLouise Watson has over 25 years’ experience in one of Australia’s leading boutique financial corporate reputation management and leadership communications advisory firms. Previously, communications. Louise’s work is recognized as Louise had established the Corporate and Finance innovative and leading-edge. practice of The Rowland Company (then owned by Saatchi & Saatchi PLC) in 1989 and developed Louise developed the blueprint for privatization the practice to be the largest and leading financial communications and mass-market float public communications practice in Australia. Rowland relations in Australia as communications adviser to was acquired in 2000 by Edelman of New York Australia’s first privatization, The Commonwealth and Louise became Chairman of its Corporate and Bank of Australia in 1991. Finance Division.

Louise is recognised as a leading adviser to Louise is a Non-Executive Director of CARE Australian companies and their Chairmen, CEOs Australia. Previously, she was an Advisory Board and Executive Teams. She has advised some member of boutique investment bank, Grant of Australia’s largest corporations on leadership, Samuel and Associates, for seven years; a non- corporate reputation management, issues executive director of the Odyssey House McGrath management and strategic positioning and Foundation charity for nine years and a committee investor relations. member of the Prime Minister’s Supermarket to Asia Council Communications Working Group. In 2002, Louise established Symbol Strategic Communications, which is recognised as

Charles was one of the founders of Blueprint across business, government, an economic think and a key contributor to the thinking behind the tank and, latterly, policy for a major faith institution Blueprint approach which asserts that people has helped make this a reality. He qualified as a are not solely self-interested and that business is Chartered Accountant at KPMG in London and not solely driven by profit. Under his leadership holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy and a Blueprint has moved from being a small initiative Postgraduate Diploma in Theology from Merton launched in 2012 with a conference that looked College, Oxford. Charles worked as a senior at how corporate purpose and personal values research officer at the Institute for Fiscal Studies could be united to serve society, to an independent and as a Clerk at the House of Commons where charity – underpinned by The Blueprint Trust - he was Clerk to the Trade and Industry select that is engaged with a growing number of major committee. He went on to become assistant global companies and whose ambition is to help general secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ corporates be truly purpose driven, acting to deliver Conference of England and Wales, where he was clear benefits to society as well as delivering long principal advisor to the Bishops on domestic public term sustainable performance. policy issues. Charles is married with four children and lives in Brighton. From the outset Blueprint has sought to bring together all strands of society. Charles has worked

Professor Lebin WU Chairman, Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co. Ltd

Mr. Wu has been the Chairman of the Board of from April 1998 to June 2005. He was also Directors of CAS Holdings Co., Ltd. since June President of Biosino Bio-Technology and Science 2014. He has also been the Chairman of the Board Corporation from September 2003 to July 2014. of Directors and the Executive Director of Biosino Mr. Wu obtained his Master’s Degree in Science Bio-Technology and Science Corporation, a HKEX and completed the EMBA program at the University listed company, since January 2007. He served of Wisconsin-Madison. as the Vice Chief of the Vision Office of the CAS Planning Bureau from November 1991 to October 1992. From October 1992 to April 1998 he was the Chief of the Public Relations Coordination Office of the CAS General Office. He then served as the Deputy Head of the CAS Institute of Biophysics

Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Professor He has been an independent board member of of China Business and Globalization at Cheung a number of companies listed in Hong Kong, Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). mainland China and the US (including two Global CKGSB is China’s first privately-funded and faculty- Fortune 500 companies). He is also a member of governed business school with headquarters in boards of trustees for United Way Worldwide (US) Beijing, teaching sites in Shanghai and Shenzhen and Asia House (UK), as well as a member of the and representative offices in Hong Kong, London International Advisory Council of Fundação Dom and New York. Cabral (FDC).

Prior to joining CKGSB, Dr. Xiang was a Professor Dr. Xiang has served as keynote speaker or at Peking University’s Guanghua School of panelist at some of the most influential forums Management, where he pioneered the school’s and conferences in China and around the world. Executive MBA program. He was also one of the Recent speaking engagements have included seven founding faculty members of China Europe Sydney China Business Forum, World Economic International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Forum, Asia Society, Committee of 100 (US), Previously, Dr. Xiang served on the faculty of the Deutsche Bank, The Conference Board, Yale Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. CEO Summit, Harvard Kennedy School, The Economist, Financial Times, Global Pension Forum, He is a leading authority on the reform of state- Boao Forum, Asia House (UK), Saint Petersburg owned enterprises, the role of the private sector, International Economic Forum and APEC Global China business, innovations in China, globalization Innovator Conference. of Chinese companies, and global implications of China’s transformation.

Ms Silvia ZUCCHINI Special Assistant to Director, International Monetary Fund

Silvia Zucchini is the Special Assistant to the the Italian Export Credit Agency. Silvia holds an Director of the IMF Europe Office, where she is in MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins charge of communication activities. In her career University, USA, and a BA in Political Sciences from spanning almost 20 years, she has established a the University of Bologna, Italy. She is fluent in strong track record in building, coordinating, and English, French, Italian, and Spanish. executing communications strategies on complex issues. Prior to the IMF—where she has served in several capacities in the Communications Department, the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, and the Secretary’s Department— Silvia worked for the OECD, the World Bank, the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance and

INTEGRATING ACHIEVING AUSTRALASIA GLOBAL FOOD & OCEANIA SECURITY

WORKING INVESTING WITH CHINA TO ADDRESS AS IT GOES CLIMATE GLOBAL CHANGE

BUILDING BUILDING ASIA’S GREEN SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITIES AROUND MINING ERADICATING HUMAN EMPOWERING TRAFFICKING AND WOMEN FORCED LABOUR ECONOMICALLY

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