AI Governance: The Role of Sustainability Leaders

By Invitation Only

Paris

November 26, 2026

8:30 - 10:30 am CET

AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to systemic integration across business functions—often faster than the governance, due diligence, and accountability mechanisms needed to manage its impacts, which cut across a range of sustainability issues, including human rights, supply chains, environmental and energy impacts, and labor rights. Sustainability leaders report that they often do not have a seat at the table when it comes to shaping how companies govern AI.

In partnership with ChangeNOW, this intimate breakfast with CSOs and senior sustainability leaders will explore a fundamental question: what is the role of sustainability leaders in the governance, deployment, and scaling of AI within companies?

Join us for an interactive discussion with your peers, where you’ll have the opportunity to share questions, challenges, and emerging practices. Together, we will examine where sustainability leaders bring distinctive value, the challenges sustainability functions face, and what it takes to move beyond principles and policies to embed responsible AI into business decisions, incentives, and accountability structures.

Stay tuned for more information as speakers will be announced shortly.

Event Partners

Scheduled Speakers

Santiago Lefebvre, Founder & CEO, ChangeNOW

Richard Wingfield, Managing Director, Responsible Tech, BSR

Managing Director, Responsible Tech, BSR

London

Richard leads BSR's Responsible Technology team and portfolio, working with companies across sectors to take a responsible approach to the design, development, use, and governance of technology, aligning innovation with international human rights and environmental standards.

He brings deep expertise on the relationship between technology and society, with a particular focus on translating international human rights law and standards into practical approaches for the development and governance of AI and other emerging technologies. He has supported companies with human rights due diligence of new technologies and high-risk markets, the development of AI governance, and impact and risk assessments.

Drawing on his background as a practicing lawyer, Richard has particular experience helping companies understand and address the impacts of emerging technologies while navigating evolving regulatory requirements. He has worked with many companies undertaking risk assessments required under the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act.

Prior to joining BSR, Richard led the legal and policy team at Global Partners Digital, an international human rights organization focused on the impacts of digital technologies on human rights.

Richard holds an LLB in Law and European Law from the University of Nottingham and is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales.