Speaker

Daniel Kruse

Daniel Kruse is co-founder and CEO of Nest, an agency for online campaigning.
The Berlin based company focuses on (eco)social issues, clients include Amnesty International,
Caritas or the Green Party in Berlin. Together with Oxfam Nest has founded re:campaign,
the German conference on NGO online campaigning. Formerly Kruse was in the management of
droppingknowledge.org, an initiative that gathered 112 thinkers from all over the world to answer
100 questions collected via the web. In 2008 he led a media camp with 100 volunteers to film,
photograph and blog the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, which turned into the documentary "Trouble",
winner of the Cinema for Peace award as "most valuable documentary".
During his studies in Cologne he was responsible for the PR of the World Business Dialogue,
a student-run business conference bringing together international execs like Josef Ackermann,
Mark Fields(Ford) or John Naisbitt (author "Megatrends").
webpages: www.nest.im

Peter Price-Thomas

Peter Price-Thomas is interim CEO of the Natural Step Sustainability Network.
For the last decade, in senior roles with the Natural Step and Forum for the Future,
Peter has worked with some of the global leaders in the sustainability arena.
Organizations have included Interface, the Co-operative Bank, Whistler, Nike, Rohm & Haas,
Starbucks, Carillion, ICI (now Akzo Nobel), Givaudan & Skanska. Working at the cutting edge
of strategic sustainability thinking worldwide, Peter has developed prize-winning sustainability
tools such as the TNS Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment. He has also worked and written with
many of the leaders in the field including Jonathon Porritt, George Basile, Karl-Henrik Robert and Dan Esty.
Prior to becoming Interim CEO of TNS, Peter was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Centre for Environmental
Law and Policy, where he helped to deliver the Green to Gold Playbook – a 'how to' guide for businesses.
The Playbook was published by Wiley in April 2011.
Peter is a Fulbright Scholar and holds Masters Degrees from the University of Edinburgh in Geography
and Yale University in Environmental Science. He is currently based in the UK, is married to Annalise and
has a baby daughter.

webpage: www.naturalstep.org
www.greentogoldplaybook.com

Norbert Kunz

Norbert Kunz is a German social Entrepreneur and has been dedicated to advise and support entrepreneurs, companies, and non-profit organizations in developing their business models for more than 20 years. He focuses on the development of financial plans and organizational structures.
As CEO of iq consult Norbert contributed to a number of pilot projects, including the development of the German car-sharing system, the modularization of professional training in Germany, integrated start-up advice services for marginalized target groups (the handicapped, young unemployed people, and minorities) as well as the first German microfinance model, which was the inspiration for the development of the German microfinance system.
Norbert Kunz has been Ashoka Fellow since 2007. The Schwab Foundation awarded him Social Entrepreneur of the year 2010 in Germany and in 2011 Social Entrepreneur of Europe. Numerous projects of iq consult received awards from public authorities as well as foundations.
Over the past two years, Norbert Kunz and iq consult have intensively cooperated with Ashoka and other partners to promote Social Entrepreneurship in Germany. In Berlin, iq consult offers a comprehensive programme of start-up advice, individual coaching, qualification and a shared working space for Social Entrepreneurs. In the Federal State of Brandenburg, iq consult supports local initiatives and people who are dedicated to social change and thereby contributes to regional development.

webpage: www.iq-consult.com

Inderpaul Johar

Inderpaul Johar is an architect and Director and Co-founder of 00:/, a London based co-operative practice, establised in 2005. Inderaul is leading several architecture, research and strategy projects and directed a series of large scale design projects. He is a shareholder in the HUB King's Cross in London, a social entrepreneur's club and incubator which paid particular attention to physical and social methods to foster interaction and cross-disciplinary innovation. Before setting up 00:/ Inderpaul has lectured on a variety of subjects at Demos, the European Parliament, LSE, Columbia University, the Technical University of Berlin, UE -Dublin, the University of West England, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

webpage: www.architecture00.net

Guido Fiolka

Guido Fiolka, CEO and co-founder of the European Leadership Academy, is one of the top executive coaches in Germany. He is also Founder/CEO of Coaching Center Berlin, and is looking back on leadership experience for more than 20 years. His special fields include: new leadership approaches, leadership development, teamcoaching, career development and transformational change. Beside modern science and systems theory, he has been studying eastern and western wisdom traditions extensively during the last 15 years. Guido is member of the Club of Budapest and the Senate of BWA.

webpage: www.european-leadership-academy.com

Shamim Rafat

Shamim Rafat works at SecondMuse, an international boutique digital agency that provides impactful experiences and solutions. SecondMuse works with multinational companies, governments and non-profit organizations and uses highly collaborative approaches to create environments which produce and cultivate innovation. In this capacity Shamim leads Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) -- a partnership between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank that facilitates a global community of innovation building practical open technology to solve development problems -- in Berlin. Furthermore he is engaged with projects in open innovation and collaboration for multinational companies. Previously, Shamim worked as a strategic consultant in the Public Sector at an international management consultancy and was responsible for transformation projects of the German federal government. He studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and holds a PhD from the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In his thesis he did extensive research on moral and ethical standards in political consulting and developed an ethical codex. In his personal time he is passionately
engaged in human rights work particularly on Iran and serves as an executive board member of “Transparency for Iran”, which runs an independent website to create transparency about political and socio-economical developments in Iran. Shamim is married and lives in Berlin.

webpage: www.secondmuse.com

Harveen Singh
Harveen is a technology entrepreneur. Presently, he is Director of Strategy at GreenPost, a leader in the electronic bill presentment and payment field, which builds on his earlier experience with a high-tech telco technology research and development startup. In his previous life as Advocate and Solicitor, he spent five years with prestigious city law firms in Singapore. During that time, he worked on several cases that have added to the body of case law in Singapore as well as led to a Parliamentary debate on National Service. From 2006 to 2008, Harveen also served as a Legislative Assistant to a prominent Member of Parliament in Singapore, assisting him in key debates that among others, led to the introduction of a social safety net in Singapore and reforms to banking legislation. Harveen has also adjunct-lectured for seven years in the Aviation Law and Policy course at the National University of Singapore, as well as guest lecturing at the Singapore Hotel Association, the local hotel industry academy.

webpage: www.gogreenpost.com

Giselle Weybrecht

Giselle Weybrecht is the author of ‘The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green Business’(www.thesustainablemba.com) which introduces sustainability as it relates to the core topics in a business degree. Prior to this she worked for many years with the United Nations internationally in sustainable development. Today she works with government, universities, NGOs, business and with social entrepreneurs in sustainability around the world. She is committed to ensuring that the next generation of business leaders fully understand sustainability by working with business schools and businesses to embed these issues into their programmes. She is an advisor to several business schools and networks such as the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education. Giselle writes on sustainability and business issues for a variety of publications including the Economist and Forbes and is a frequent speaker and conducts a range of innovative workshops aimed at getting individuals excited about the potential of sustainability and how to implement it regardless of what kind of job you have. Giselle has recently been chosen as a London Leader for 2011, working with the City of London to make the capital a more sustainable city.

Fields of expertise:

- entrepreneurship and sustainability

- innovation and sustainability, examples from around the world

- bringing sustainability into any job/career

- mainstreaming sustainability into business education

- communicating sustainability

webpage: www.thesustainablemba.com
www.unprme.org/participants/coconvening-organisations-steering-committee/grli.php
www.unprme.org/resource-docs/PRME.pdf

The Dark Horse

What do an architect, a psychologist, an engineer and a political scientist have in common?

A method! Design Thinking.

The Dark Horse is a team of 30 young minds coming from different professional and educational backgrounds, dedicated to develop unconventional solutions and practical innovations through a creative process: Design Thinking.

Design Thinkers uncover latent needs, behaviors, and desires of people to develop new products, services, processes, and strategies that will improve our social, ecological and economic environment. As human-centered, design-based approach Design Thinking aims to provide organizations in the public and private sectors with solutions that will enable them innovate and grow. It develops solutions that combine what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable.

A framework of seven steps will give space to inspiration, ideation and implementation by combining empathy to understand the context of a problem, creativity to generate ideas and rationality to analyze the suitability of solutions within the given context.

The success of Design Thiking is based on diversity of thought and a common set of values: curiosity, creativity and teamwork. On a daylong workshop you will find out how Design Thinking can be applied to your project or idea in the field of sustainability. The Dark Horse will provide you with skills that make your project innovate and grow.

webpage: www.thedarkhorse.de

Ulrich Merkes – Managing Director Vineta GmbH

Ulrich is an experienced management consultant and project manager with a strong international background in strategic management and IT consulting. He is Managing Director of “Vineta GmbH – Realising Sustainability” (www.vineta-solutions.com), a ‘think & do-tank’ and international network of senior freelance experts focusing on the aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business modeling and NGO management. Vineta is convinced that doing economically well and doing good can be two sides of the same coin in the customer’s ecosystem. Driven by a social business mindset, Vineta dedicates its profits to a social venture funds.

Since 2007 Ulrich has been working as a freelancer for leading non-profit organizations and public entities to leverage his varicolored background as a ‘social entrepreneur’ in a sustainable economic and social development context. In particular with Swisscontact (www.swisscontact.ch), one of the key international non-profit organizations and development agencies, he has established a long-term partnership towards market-driven private sector development for the poor. He acts as Swisscontact’s topic leader for “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Innovative Projects for the Underprivileged” with a particular focus on micro-finance, remittances and mobile banking. Ulrich is co-author of various publications, e.g. GTZ’s and Swisscontact’s study “TransferPlus – Value-adding remittance services to better leverage the development potential of money transfers”.

Before starting his freelance career as a ‘social entrepreneur’ Ulrich studied Business Administration and spent ten years in Deloitte Consulting’s and Siemens’ global management consultancies. Throughout this period he has been responsible for various multinational projects within different industries. His focus has mainly been on strategy definition and strategic alignment, organizational development and business development – thus combining solid business, sales, conceptual and program management skills with a strong technology spin. In 2003 Ulrich successfully graduated as a Master in International Business Management in Barcelona. He is currently preparing his PhD on Corporate Social Responsibility.