Date and Time
September 22-September 27, 2024
Location
New York
Event Resources
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.
Scheduled Speakers
- Ameer Azim, Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
- Charting the Course: Navigating the Climate Transition Plan Landscape / February 20, 2025 / Reports
- Climate Scenario Analysis: It’s about More than CSRD Compliance / July 3, 2024 / Blog
- The Environmental Impacts of AI / June 4, 2024 / Audio
- A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
- Scenario Analysis Learnings: Three Big Implications of Climate Risk to Business / December 7, 2022 / Blog
- Ouida Chichester, Director, Energy, Extractives, Transport, and Industrials, BSR
- Stakeholder Engagement in the Transition Context: Guidance for Practitioners / October 15, 2024 / Reports
- Advancing a Just Transition: Lessons from Company Practices / June 12, 2024 / Blog
- Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Company Risk Registers / February 27, 2024 / Blog
- Just Transition and Modern Slavery / November 28, 2023 / Reports
- The Just Transition Planning Process for Business / September 11, 2023 / Reports
- Laura Donnelly, Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
- 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
- Decoding Nature’s Soundscapes / April 5, 2023 / Blog
- Back to Nature: A Call to Action / March 28, 2023 / Insights+
- David Korngold, Managing Director of BSR Innovation Group, BSR
- CSOs Are All Business: The Role of the CSO in a New Context / January 9, 2025 / Blog
- Sustainable Business in Context: US Politics and Global Impacts / November 21, 2024 / Insights+
- Racing Past the Crossroads: How Sustainability Leaders Can Reassert Ambition / October 31, 2024 / Blog
- The CSO at a Crossroads: Three Paths Forward for Sustainability Leaders / October 17, 2024 / Reports
- An Impact-Based Approach to Responsible AI / October 10, 2024 / Blog
- Paloma Muñoz Quick, Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
- The EU Omnibus: What’s at Stake for Business, People, and the Planet / January 28, 2025 / Blog
- Sustainability Strategy in the Age of Regulation: Don’t Lose the Plot / October 3, 2024 / Blog
- CSDDD: A De Facto Climate Due Diligence Law That Safeguards People / September 23, 2024 / Blog
- The CSDDD: Implications for the Finance Industry / September 4, 2024 / Blog
- How Financial Institutions Can Manage Reduction of US Reproductive and LGBTQI+ Rights / July 9, 2024 / Blog
Ameer Azim
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Washington, D.C.
Ameer leads BSR’s climate work in the US and works closely with BSR’s Technology sector companies.
Ameer helps BSR members develop strategies to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and enhance business resilience through climate risk assessment using climate scenario analysis and planning. He also works with BSR member companies on developing resilient and sustainable value chains.
Ameer was previously working with BSR’s Financial Services sector companies and led the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions, a BSR carbon markets collaborative initiative now known as the Beyond Alliance.
Prior to joining BSR, Ameer was the chief financial economist at Climate Advisers Trust and Orbitas, where he conducted research on climate scenario analysis and financial research for the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector and engaged institutional investors on deforestation risks in investment portfolios. Ameer also brings over a decade of capital markets experience at financial institutions like ABN Amro, Citi, and Barclays Bank.
Ameer holds a MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BA in Economics and Government from College of William and Mary
Recent Insights From Ameer Azim
Ouida Chichester
Director, Energy, Extractives, Transport, and Industrials, BSR
San Francisco
Ouida leads BSR’s Energy and Extractives practice. She applies her experience in international development to her work at BSR, where she advises global corporations across industries, but particularly extractives companies, on human rights; sustainable communities; inclusive economy; diversity, equity and inclusion; and women’s empowerment.
She also previously supported BSR's HERproject.
Prior to joining BSR, Ouida worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Belize, where she developed and contributed to projects on water governance, gender equality, and disability rights. She also has worked at Community Partners International, a nonprofit dedicated to the well-being of the people of Myanmar. Ouida helped build New Global Citizens, an organization dedicated to engaging U.S. youth in global philanthropy and activism. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador, she worked closely with youth, women, and grassroots organizations. She is fluent in Spanish.
As a Rotary World Peace Fellow, Ouida obtained an M.A. in International Relations from the Universidad del Salvador. She also holds a B.A. in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.
Recent Insights From Ouida Chichester
Laura Donnelly
Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
New York
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
David Korngold
Managing Director of BSR Innovation Group, BSR
New York
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
Paloma Muñoz Quick
Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
New York
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.