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SESSION OVERVIEW
In addition, responsible investing is the trend followed by many large investors who want to consider both financial returns and social and environmental benefits in their investment decisions. This new investment approach recognizes the importance of ESG factors to the investor, as well as the long-term health and stability of the market as a whole.
ESG has quickly moved from the corporate and shareholder periphery to center stage, and the time for disclosure is now. Investor demand for ESG information has increased massively. Reporting on the company's impact on society, the environment, and overall governance is becoming an inseparable part of the business.
At the moment, only the UAE has made using the GRI mandatory for reporting, bringing more than 130 listed entities into compliance. While the majority of Middle Eastern stock exchanges and regulators have issued guidelines on how companies should report sustainability information, with Saudi Arabia issuing their guidance in October 2021. Companies from other nations have sporadically adopted GRI reporting around the Middle East.
In this session we will discuss about incorporating sustainable development goals into the business plan for listed companies in the Middle East.
ESG in the GCC: What’s important for businesses?
WHY ATTEND?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Who should attend?
Senior management from listed organisations in the Middle East whose roles and responsibilities include helping their company adopt sustainable business practices and developing and tracking activities to improve their company’s environmental and social impacts.
agenda
| 10:00 | Opening remarks |
| 10:05 | Fireside Chat: Incorporating sustainable development goals into your business strategy and plan Aruna Narayanan, Senior Advisor Sustainability & ESG, The Partnerships Advisory Thomas Jacob, Head of Strategy and Investor Relations, Mashreq Bank |
| 10:20 | Panel Discussion: Better corporate ESG reporting covering broader risks and business impact Moderator: Khulood Hindiyeh, Sustainability and Social Impact Senior Advisor Aruna Narayanan, Senior Advisor Sustainability & ESG, The Partnerships Advisory Dr. Wesam Al Madhoun, Founder-Global Ambassadors of Sustainability, Co-Founder-Middle East SDG's Academy Jana Elkova, Strategy & Impact Specialist, Expo 2020 Dubai (Former) |
| 11:00 | How to manage, track, report, and communicate your sustainable activities and ESG scores
Martin Púček, MBA, Business Development Manager, SmartHead |
| 11:15 | Q&A session |
| 11:30 | Closing remarks from session moderator |
Feedback from past programs
Thanks for the invite, occasions like this one are an opportunity to listen and to know some of the best practices out there among our peers
Mohammad Ali Paris Cayongcat, Safety Security and Sustainability Leader, IKEASupply (Middle East) DW-LLC
Thank you for the great session today, very informative
Muhammed Hassanali, Senior Manager-Energy & Utilities Research, ADQ
It’s good opportunity to understand the important of ESG disclosure and how to integrate it part of our daily business and organization scorecard
Salamah D. Al-Dhafiri, Environment , Health and Safety Corporate Director, Sadara
I think the conversation was very informative
Cristina Ungureanu, Governance Manager, Qatar Investment Authority
Thank you for hosting and inviting, very informative session
Tahani Hussain, Lead – Sustainability and Development, Tatweer Petroleum
Very interesting sessions
Ahmed Al Idrisy, Senior HSE, Qatar Free Zone Authority
our speakers
Head of Strategy and Investor Relations,
Mashreq Bank
Thomas K. Jacob is currently serving as the Head of Strategy and Investor Relations at Mashreq where he deals with matters of Corporate strategy, facilitates the development of the long term strategic direction of the Bank and drives various strategic initiatives including Sustainability. He has dual experience of strategy consulting at top firms like the Boston Consulting Group and also in heading strategy at leading regional banks. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from BITS, Pilani and has done his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad in India; he has also completed International Business and Project Management from ESCP-EAP, Paris.
Sustainability and Social Impact Senior Advisor
Khulood is a passionate Sustainability and Social Impact trainer and advisor with around 18 years of experience in developing and delivering sustainability and corporate responsibility strategies across a wide range of industries. She is well experienced in analyzing and measuring social impact, establishing sustainability frameworks and strategies, setting sustainability measurable targets and KPIs, materiality assessment, stakeholders’ mapping, and sustainability reporting.
Recently, Khulood has been working as an independent freelance sustainability and social impact advisor for organizations including: the UNDP, the Road and Transport Association (RTA) - UAE, Al Aman Fund – Jordan, Dubai Municipality - UAE, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank - UAE, EMICOOL - UAE and Mawhiba Organization - KSA. Khulood is also collaborating with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a Peer Reviewer to review and approve the translation of the updated GRI standards from English to Arabic.. Currently, Khulood is working as Social Impact Consultant for the Business Call to Action (BCtA), which is a program supported by the UNDP. At the BCtA, she is responsible of handling the IMM program, which entails holding training courses, mentorships and workshops, where she was able to reach out to around 2,000 people from global members and Country Offices such as Malesia, Philippines, Chile, Turley, Pakistan, Tunisia, Indonesia, and other microfinance Banks in Jordan and Sudan, aiming to raise their capacities and enable them to develop their IMM Framework. Moreover, she is responsible of developing online tools and resources such as an online impact lab in Arabic and tutorial videos to ease the understanding and practice of this concept. Khulood’s personal website: www.sustainability-insideout.com for more details
Recently, Khulood has been working as an independent freelance sustainability and social impact advisor for organizations including: the UNDP, the Road and Transport Association (RTA) - UAE, Al Aman Fund – Jordan, Dubai Municipality - UAE, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank - UAE, EMICOOL - UAE and Mawhiba Organization - KSA. Khulood is also collaborating with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a Peer Reviewer to review and approve the translation of the updated GRI standards from English to Arabic.. Currently, Khulood is working as Social Impact Consultant for the Business Call to Action (BCtA), which is a program supported by the UNDP. At the BCtA, she is responsible of handling the IMM program, which entails holding training courses, mentorships and workshops, where she was able to reach out to around 2,000 people from global members and Country Offices such as Malesia, Philippines, Chile, Turley, Pakistan, Tunisia, Indonesia, and other microfinance Banks in Jordan and Sudan, aiming to raise their capacities and enable them to develop their IMM Framework. Moreover, she is responsible of developing online tools and resources such as an online impact lab in Arabic and tutorial videos to ease the understanding and practice of this concept. Khulood’s personal website: www.sustainability-insideout.com for more details
Senior Advisor Sustainability & ESG,
The Partnerships Advisory
Aruna Narayanan is a sustainability enthusiast and strategic thought leader with a passion for driving prosperity through people empowerment and planet protection.
She is a highly accomplished results driven professional with two decades of corporate experience. She focuses on sustainability, ESG, impact investing, innovative waste management and recycling, marketing communications and corporate social responsibility. With previous leadership positions at organisations including Purecog Holdings, Dulsco, Accenture and Ocwen Financial Corporation, she is adept at supporting companies and their clients on sustainability journeys with lasting positive impact across multiple stakeholders.
Presently Aruna serves on the advisory board for various companies guiding them on embedding sustainability into their businesses by leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves as the President of the Alumni Network of Harvard Women (UAE Chapter).
She is a highly accomplished results driven professional with two decades of corporate experience. She focuses on sustainability, ESG, impact investing, innovative waste management and recycling, marketing communications and corporate social responsibility. With previous leadership positions at organisations including Purecog Holdings, Dulsco, Accenture and Ocwen Financial Corporation, she is adept at supporting companies and their clients on sustainability journeys with lasting positive impact across multiple stakeholders.
Presently Aruna serves on the advisory board for various companies guiding them on embedding sustainability into their businesses by leveraging the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves as the President of the Alumni Network of Harvard Women (UAE Chapter).
Strategy & Impact Specialist,
Expo 2020 Dubai (Former)
Jana has led Expo 2020 Dubai’s USD 100mill global impact grant fund financing and scaling impact ventures across all sectors. The fund identified 11,000+ ventures and created a portfolio of 142 social enterprises in countries positively impacting 6+ mill lives. In conjunction with advising KSA government on development of an impact investing, Jana has significantly influenced cultivation of an impact ecosystem in the region.
She acts as a jury forUNDP SDG Finance, UNICEF, Sankalp, Reflect Impact Awards, and Unbound.
Jana was also dedicated to strategy & policy framework at Dubai Holding Dubai World and Food Tech Valley.
She possesses an MBA, MA in Social Sciences and BA in Communication.
Jana is from the Slovak Republic and has lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates for the past 15+ years.
Founder-Global Ambassadors of Sustainability,
Co-Founder-Middle East SDG's Academy
Dr. Al Madhoun is a Global Climate and Sustainability Leader, he is the founder of a global initiative “Global Ambassadors of Sustainability '' which has more than 13000 members from 130 countries. Dr Al Madhoun holds A fellowship on Sustainable Cities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) and a PhD of Environmental Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
He has 15 years of working experience (teaching, training, research and consultancy), where he had assignments in Brunei, Canada, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, South Korea and USA and He was a Research Professor at University of Seoul, a visiting scholar at University of Windsor and he was a guest speaker at Harvard University, MIT and IIT.
Dr Al Madhoun conducted several international training programs on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Air Pollution and Environmental Assessment. He also was appointed as a consultant for projects funded by USAID, UNICEF and UNEP. In terms of publications, he has more than 55 papers published at international peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the Co Founder of Middle East SDG's Academy and Dean of Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research at Gaza University.
He has 15 years of working experience (teaching, training, research and consultancy), where he had assignments in Brunei, Canada, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, South Korea and USA and He was a Research Professor at University of Seoul, a visiting scholar at University of Windsor and he was a guest speaker at Harvard University, MIT and IIT.
Dr Al Madhoun conducted several international training programs on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Air Pollution and Environmental Assessment. He also was appointed as a consultant for projects funded by USAID, UNICEF and UNEP. In terms of publications, he has more than 55 papers published at international peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the Co Founder of Middle East SDG's Academy and Dean of Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research at Gaza University.
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SmartHead is a cloud-based software tool for companies of all sizes to manage, track, report, and communicate their sustainability activities and ESG in one place. Publicly accessible company Sustainability Profiles ensure stakeholders have easy access to sustainability information. Optionally companies can keep their Sustainability profile in private mode only for internal purposes. SmartHead is currently in the process of certification by GRI (GRI Software & Tool Partner) and is trusted by companies such as Dell Technologies, EY, Tesco, McDonald’s, Wolt, Kaufland, IBM, Henkel, BMW, and others.
The Carbon Collective Team collaborates with businesses to support them in working towards bringing positive impacts on climate change, ecosystems, and communities worldwide. We work with our clients to remove the complexity out of their decarbonisation journeys.
We create and plan decarbonisation goals and strategies for organisations to achieve their objectives at the various phases of their decarbonisation journeys, allowing our clients to continue operating efficiently, effectively and most importantly, sustainably.
Playing a crucial role in making business sense of ESG for business owners, investors and C-suite executives across all sectors, we make sustainability a common practice among organisations to curb climate change globally.
We create and plan decarbonisation goals and strategies for organisations to achieve their objectives at the various phases of their decarbonisation journeys, allowing our clients to continue operating efficiently, effectively and most importantly, sustainably.
Playing a crucial role in making business sense of ESG for business owners, investors and C-suite executives across all sectors, we make sustainability a common practice among organisations to curb climate change globally.
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ARJUN CHANDRAN
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Jacqueline Rossinni
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Quratul Ain
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