Our Events
We invite you to join BSR at the following events and engage with fellow sustainability leaders on building a just and sustainable world. Members can log into the BSR Member Portal to view the full list of other key events being hosted by other organizations and stakeholders, which will be updated regularly.
BSR Staff at BSR at UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC
Our leadership team will be in New York to connect with BSR members during this time. To schedule a meeting and see the full list of staff present, please email us at [email protected].
Laura Donnelly
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Laura Donnelly
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Laura leads BSR’s Nature team. Her focus is working with member companies to develop holistic and credible strategic approaches to address nature related impacts and dependencies. These engagements are conducted across industries, with an additional focus on understanding the linkages between nature and other areas of focus (e.g., human rights, climate, etc.).
Prior to joining BSR, Laura spent seven years on the markets transformation team at the Rainforest Alliance. Her role focused on engaging companies throughout agriculture supply chains in addressing risks and opportunities through incorporating nature-based solutions and interventions. This included working with companies from farm to market on their sustainability strategy utilizing the Rainforest Alliance program. Laura also has experience in the beauty industry, where she worked in brand management and marketing.
Laura holds a Master of Communication Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Business Administration from Boston University.
Recent Insights From Laura Donnelly
- From Scopes to Spheres: Advancing Climate and Nature Integration / September 17, 2025 / Blog
- Developing Integrated Approaches to Human Rights, Climate, and Nature / August 14, 2025 / Blog
- Is Your Company Ready for TNFD? / September 24, 2024 / Blog
- How Businesses Can Address the Water Scarcity Crisis / December 14, 2023 / Blog
- Five Ways to Activate Your Board on Nature / September 13, 2023 / Blog
David Korngold
Managing Director, BSR
David Korngold
Managing Director, BSR
David partners with corporate boards, executives, and investors to develop high-impact sustainability strategies. As part of BSR’s Transformation team, he co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.
Having previously led BSR's Financial Services team, David continues to work closely with financial companies on sustainability, ESG integration, and impact investing. David has led engagements in nearly all of BSR’s focus areas and major industry groups. This includes leading climate scenarios workshops with boards, creating net-zero road maps for investment firms, designing and operationalizing a leading impact investing fund, conducting materiality assessments, undertaking human rights impact assessments, and co-authoring research on topics like ESG for emerging public companies and responsible investment policies for private equity firms.
Before joining BSR, David worked in strategy and management consulting at Bain & Company.
David holds a BA in History from Amherst College.
Recent Insights From David Korngold
- Business Value of Sustainability: Trajectory and Strategies / February 12, 2026 / Reports
- Redesigning Sustainable Business Amid Global Realignment / February 3, 2026 / Reports
- Beyond the Business Case Debate: Reasserting the Strategic Value of Sustainability / July 30, 2025 / Insights+
- Board Oversight Amid Uncertainty: Doubling Down on Strategic Sustainability / April 30, 2025 / Blog
- CSOs Are All Business: The Role of the CSO in a New Context / January 9, 2025 / Blog
Paloma Muñoz Quick
Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR
Paloma Muñoz Quick
Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR
Paloma leads BSR’s work on Human Rights Standards, including standard-setting, knowledge management, and helping companies respond to emerging standards and regulation. She is also Senior Advisor to BSR’s Finance & Human Rights Practice.
Prior to joining BSR, Paloma was Advisor to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Senior Consultant of the UN B-Tech Project, where she developed a vision for promoting the uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights among investors and guidance on responsible investment in digital technologies. Prior to the UN, Paloma launched and led the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, where she developed thought leadership on the investor responsibility to respect human rights and supported stewardship engagements across industries. She also worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights advising companies, governments, and civil society on business and human rights.
Paloma is a member of the US government’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. She sits on the Editorial Board of Developments in the Field of the Business and Human Rights Journal of Cambridge University.
She holds a Master of International Affairs (M.I.A.) in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science, also from Columbia University.
Paloma is Chilean-American and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Recent Insights From Paloma Muñoz Quick
- EU CSDDD Finalized: Key Due Diligence Expectations Remain Intact / March 25, 2026 / Insights+
- Advancing People-Centered Climate Action in Private Capital Markets / December 17, 2025 / Reports
- EU Omnibus: Challenges and Opportunities of the Parliament’s Proposed Changes to the CSDDD / October 17, 2025 / Blog
- Developing Integrated Approaches to Human Rights, Climate, and Nature / August 14, 2025 / Blog
- Advancing a People-Centered Approach to Sovereign Debt / June 4, 2025 / Blog