Strategic ESG Guardianship for Values-Driven Transformation an Opportunity for Professional Services

Lawrence Hutter

Lawrence brings more than 35 years of experience working with some of the world’s best-known consumer-facing businesses on a range of strategic business performance improvement initiatives across retail, food, beverage, tobacco, electronics, durables, publishing, and travel. He started his career with Andersen Consulting, then set up and built his own consumer products & retail advisory firm, which was eventually acquired by Deloitte. He led Deloitte’s global Consumer Business practice for almost a decade and, around 7 years ago, was asked to start Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M’s) now thriving Corporate Transformation practice in Europe. He introduced the MCA methodology and analytics engine to A&M as a platform for improving clients’ demand generation spend productivity and transforming their commercial operating models. On stepping down from his full-time A&M role, Lawrence accepted the invitation to become Chairman of BXG – The Brand Experience Group. Lawrence earned a first-class honors degree in chemistry from Balliol College, Oxford.

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Richard Threlfall

Richard is KPMG’s Global Head of Infrastructure and Global Head of KPMG IMPACT covering sustainability, climate change, and economic and social development. He has over 25 years of experience in policy, governance, strategy, and financing, advising both public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas. He has a long-standing reputation for leading clients through complex and politically high-profile transactions and providing strategic, financial, and governance advice in relation to the delivery of infrastructure services and projects. He has a particular interest in climate change and sustainability, in supporting the impending mobility revolution, promoting dialogue between the public and private sectors globally to maximize the social and economic benefits of autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, and mobility as a service.

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Dr. Deborah Gallagher

Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Chair of the Business and Environment program at Duke University’s Nicholas School of Environment. She is a leading scholar of environmental leadership. She studies public policies to promote sustainable business practices and has critically examined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) as an international environmental governance mechanism to promote business sustainability. Recent work focuses on responsible business engagement in climate policy, and ESG data quality. Dr. Gallagher received her Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from UNC-Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. Dr. Gallagher has also held a series of environmental leadership positions in the public and private sectors. Dr. Gallagher co-authored Innovation in Environmental Leadership in 2019 that focuses on innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological standpoint.

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