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Date and Time

Wednesday October 11, 2017
9:00 am-12:00 pm CET

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Location

Stockholm

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Topics

#Womens Empowerment

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This year, progress on bridging the gender equality gap has been reported as “far too slow” by the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. In order to accelerate the pace of progress, a number of companies are making top-level commitments to women’s empowerment and gender equality, but few of them have matched commitments with concrete plans integrated throughout the business.

Lindex and BSR are organizing a networking event on the opportunities for companies to make concrete strides on the advancement of women in the value chain. This event will be the opportunity to:

• Learn how Lindex is integrating gender equality into supply chain management systems through its recently launched “WE Women by Lindex” initiative.
• Find out about the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) that aim to advance and empower women in the workplace, marketplace, and community, and the WEPs Gender Gap Analysis Tool, which enables companies to identify strengths and areas where further action can be taken toward achieving gender equality.
• Hear from organizations such as Sodexo on how they are actively contributing to women’s empowerment.

 

Event Partner:

Speakers

• Magali Barraja, Former Associate Director, BSR

Magali Barraja

Associate Director | Paris



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Magali oversees a three-year project funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focusing on catalyzing private-sector action for women’s empowerment. 

Prior to joining BSR, Magali was part of the sustainability team at Kering. She has also worked for several European supply chain initiatives, including the Ethical Trading Initiative and the Business Social Compliance Initiative, advising companies on design and implementation of ethical trade strategies that deliver impact for supply chain workers. Through her work in the consumer products sector, Magali has gained extensive experience in social audit protocols, ethical strategy design and implementation, and impact evaluation. She speaks English, French, and German.

Magali holds an advanced Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from the University of Geneva and a Master’s in International Affairs from the Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. She also holds a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) of Aix-en-Provence. 

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• Ingrid Porss, Social Sustainability Manager, Lindex

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• Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, Former Senior Vice President, BSR

Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen

Senior Vice President | Copenhagen



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Peder Michael leads BSR’s work with grant funders and partners as well as development and management of business and multistakeholder collaborations. A member of the BSR executive team, he co-leads BSR’s relationship management activities and provides executive guidance on BSR’s women’s empowerment work.

An experienced sustainability executive, Peder Michael works with the world’s leading companies in the consumer, financial services, transportation, healthcare, and energy sectors on business strategy and operations to help them manage sustainability risks and opportunities. He is a member of several sustainability advisory boards—including the Melton Foundation Advisory Board and the Stakeholder Advisory Panel of BAT—and he is a member of the UN Women/UNGC Women’s Empowerment Principles Leadership Group.

Prior to joining BSR, Peder Michael was a key player in growing PricewaterhouseCoopers' sustainable business solutions practice in Copenhagen. He also spent five years with the Danish Foreign Service, where he worked on human rights in international development and foreign policy and served on the board of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Peder Michael served on the Danish Government’s Council on Corporate Responsibility from 2009-2012.

He speaks English, French, Danish, and Swedish, and holds an international M.B.A. and a B.S. in business administration, both from Copenhagen Business School.

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• Karin Vierma, Operations Director for Schools and Universities, Sodexo

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