Date and Time
Thursday June 21, 2018
8:30 am-12:30 pm
EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
Location
New York
Topics
#Financial Services, #Supply Chain
Join BSR for a half-day convening to learn how embedding environmental, labor, and human rights considerations into supply chain finance mechanisms can help achieve business and sustainability goals by rewarding and incentivizing sustainable behaviors in global supply chains. Sustainable supply chain finance offers benefits to suppliers, global buyers, and finance providers and has the potential to transform supply chains.
The event will bring together global buyers, trade finance providers, and other relevant actors to demystify supply chain finance mechanisms, explore sustainable supply chain finance solutions, and catalyze action. BSR will present the outcomes of our upcoming research report, Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity. The report and event are supported by Humanity United.
Who Should Join
- Treasurers, procurement professionals, and sustainability professionals of global buyers
- Trade and supply chain finance teams at banks and other finance providers
- Providers of IT solutions and supply chain sustainability data
Agenda
- 8:30-9 a.m.: Welcome
- 9-9:30 a.m.: Why Sustainable Supply Chain Finance (findings from the report)
- 9:30-10:30 a.m.: Panel Discussion: Sustainable Supply Chain Finance in Practice
- 10:30-10:45 a.m.: Networking Break
- 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Moderated Breakout Sessions on Key Themes
- 12:15-12:30 p.m.: Meeting close
Speakers
- Nevin Turk, Principal Investment Officer, IFC
- Dan Viederman, Managing Director, Humanity United
- Suresh Subramanian, Head of Trade and Treasury Americas, BNP Paribas
- Mark Kaplan, Co-Founder and Partner, Eachmile
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Charlotte Bancilhon,
Manager, BSR
With strong project management skills and a background in CSR analysis, Charlotte supports companies in the financial services, consumer products, transport and logistics, and information and communication technology industries with advice on sustainability strategy, supply chain, and human rights.
Charlotte leads BSR’s financial services practice in Europe. Before joining BSR, Charlotte was an analyst for nearly five years at Innovest and Vigeo, two socially responsible investment rating agencies. Through her work as an analyst, Charlotte covered the energy, automobile, retail, and software sectors. Charlotte is bilingual in French and English.
She holds an M.A. in CSR Management from the University of Paris XII and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado.
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Tara Norton,
Managing Director, BSR
Tara leads BSR’s global supply chain sustainability practice and directs BSR’s operations in Europe.
She advises chief procurement officers and senior directors at leading global companies on the development of sophisticated supply chains that create business value and address urgent and long-term risks and opportunities. She drives strategy and implementation projects across industry sectors including consumer products, retail, financial services, technology, manufacturing, and transportation, covering sustainable procurement, supplier engagement, collaboration, traceability, climate change, human rights, and labor rights. She serves on the United Nations Global Compact Advisory Group on Supply Chain Sustainability.
Before joining BSR, Tara directed supply chain work at 2degrees and was the general manager of Sedex, where she ran and significantly grew the world's largest not-for-profit sustainable supply chain membership organization and database. Previously, Tara worked in sustainable procurement at BAA, was project manager at the World Trade Center Association Los Angeles, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kherson, Ukraine. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom and speaks fluent French.
Tara holds an M.B.A. from London Business School and a B.A. with Honors in French and International Studies from Northwestern University.