Sustainability and Creating ESG Impact, Global Chamber London-NYC-Dhaka

We held a globinar on sustainable finance, investment and technologies to create socially impactful business practices.

Our Sustainable Success Globinar Series brings in experts to discuss sustainable development and ESG investment from a global perspective. This program was a result of coordination between leaders across Global Chamber® London, New York City and Dhaka.

Watch the program recorded HERE.

Background: Sustainable development also gives a structure and standard language for enterprises to include sustainability data into their reporting cycles, giving investors and shareholders greater information. The goals span all aspects of social development, environmental protection, and economic growth, with the most important being guaranteeing a healthy life, access to essential amenities such as clean water and sanitation, generational development through education, and reducing economic inequalities. Changes in global economic power, urbanization, climate change, resource scarcity, inequality, and technological innovations all necessitate a corporate response. As a result, several approaches to minimize the environmental repercussions have been undertaken.

In this globinar, the panel of experts put more emphasis on the reduction of cost of obtaining timely, proper utilization of ESG funds, material factors pertaining to sustainability impacts and investment funds, risks involved, reducing complexity, and assisting government institutions in tracking sustainable development regulatory aspects more successfully in this globinar.

Objectives:

1. To draw attention to the challenges and opportunities inherent in the status quo for the private sector's investment in ESG funds.
2. To examine how technological advancement enables the flow of financial instruments and related services necessary for the development and implementation of sustainable business models.
3. To draw attention to emerging opportunities for better leveraging digital technologies for sustainable development financing.
4. To place a premium on the application of digital technologies capable of lowering the cost of data on sustainability risks and investment returns.
5. To emphasize the private sector's role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Keynote Speakers

• Dr Indranil Ghosh, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Hill Capital
• Rondi Allan, Sustainability Consultant/Director of Sustainable X
• Shazeeb Islam, Co-Founder at Impact Hub

Biographies

Dr Indranil Ghosh, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Hill Capital

Dr. Indranil Ghosh is CEO of sustainable investing firm Tiger Hill Capital, an award-winning author, and strategic advisor to global leaders. In August he launched “Impact Unicorns”, a new podcast where you meet inspirational entrepreneurs building the next generation of transformative impact companies. MIT-trained scientist Dr Ghosh partners with visionary leaders to build social impact businesses and sustainable investing platforms. He also advises governments and NGOs on economic development policy. He is the award-winning author of “Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century” which brings together a decade of experience and research at the intersection of socioeconomic development, sustainable investing, and business disruption.

Rondi Allan, Sustainability Consultant/Director of Sustainable X

Rondi Allan is the Co-founder of Sustainable X, a UK consultancy helping businesses to benefit from being more sustainable. Before founding Sustainable X, Rondi was trained as a Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountant and went on to steer international Supply Chains and manufacturing businesses. Originally from Australia, she has worked extensively on 4 continents and been a Board Member in 6 countries.

With a proven track record of enabling businesses to do well from doing good, Rondi is passionate about accelerating business contributions to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A regular contributor to media and broadcasts, including the BBC, she believes businesses can profit from mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technology and resources for everyone's benefit.

Nirjhor Rahman, CEO at Bangladesh Angels

Nirjhor Rahman is the CEO of Bangladesh Angels, the country's first angel investment network to connect innovative startups with smart capital via individual and institutional investors. An Acumen Fellow, previously he was the Country Director for gap, a social enterprise accelerator where he helped build a national venture network. He started his career in Bangladesh by leading the scale-up of a social enterprise in urban sanitation called SWEEP, which is now in 4 cities and has served 100,000s with safe, affordable sanitation services.

Moderators

Maimun Mustafa, Executive Director, GC Dhaka

Maimun Ur Rashid Mustafa is Executive Director for Global Chamber® Dhaka, one of our first three chapters in Bangladesh. Join us to reach new markets and discover new opportunities.

Optimizing people, technology and processes, Maimun Mustafa is an entrepreneur who delivers simple solutions to complex problems. With 11+ years of marketing, branding and business development experience, Maimun has gained work competencies in sectors that include CSOs, Social Businesses, Media, Communications, Trade and Technology.

Maimun believes he is successful in what he does by delivering the right information to investors; possibilities to business partners; motivation to colleagues; and the promise of uncompromising quality to end beneficiaries.

Apart from managing his personal ventures, Maimun have been associated with trade and business associations for the majority of his career. He has held top tier positions in Italy-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Indonesia-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry and now serves as the Executive Director of Global Chamber® Dhaka and Barisal .

Susan Assadi, Executive Director, GC NYC

Susan Gitensteim Assadi has her own PR practice Gitenstein & Assadi PR focused on publicizing companies that change global and national policies and innovative companies leading trends. Her practice has worked with well known financial organizations, technology innovators, governance change makers and a variety of nonprofits. For her PR Practice she is seeking companies which have proven revenue, case studies, testimonials and are companies that change global and national policies and innovative companies leading trends. Susan is the Executive Director of Global Chamber NYC. For the Global Chamber she is seeking companies from India which are relocated to the US via New York and desire exposure and connectivity to companies that can help their expansion. More about Susan's PR firm here: https://ecard.link/card/3604/1919

Kathleen Keith, Executive Director at Global Chamber® London

Meet Katie Keith, a British / Australia Citizen, originally from a small colonial town on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. Katie moved to the UK in 2016 to pursue international career exposure, and to complete her master’s degree at Henley Business School. Katie is now pleased to call the UK home. As a Thought Leader with 20 years’ experience within the Institutional and Retail Banking space, Katie has extensive exposure to corporate leadership, business growth and change management strategies within the corporate and finance sector. Katie operates her Executive Coaching & Business Consultancy practice and works closely with companies such as Equals Group Plc, and Business Networking International (BNI), focused on developing and managing business growth and corporate partnership opportunities. Katie also works very closely with prominent business networks in the UK focused on connecting decision makers and business owners into her global network. Having recently been appointed as the Executive Director within the Global Chamber, Katie’s mission is ‘to make a big world small’ one genuine and authentic business connection at a time.