BSR Insights Series: Understanding Sustainable Business Trends and Issues Shaping 2023 (Asia Pacific)

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

February 28, 2023
10:00 am-11:00 am Singapore Time

Location

Webinar

Event Resources

Event resources are for BSR members only. Members, please log in to access the resources.

BSR provides members with access to exclusive insights and analysis to help your business transform to meet existing and emerging sustainability challenges.

Every quarter, BSR members receive the ‘Quarterly Member Insights’ report with news and insights from our global team of sustainability and industry experts. 

This year, we are introducing the ‘BSR Insights’ series of webinars (and hybrid events in select locations) for all members. The goal is to walk you through these emerging developments and explore their implications for your company and its key stakeholders. 

In our first installment, you will hear from our climate, human rights, supply chain experts and more as they share highlights on:

• Developments in human rights due diligence and modern slavery
• Evolving supply chain expectations and our latest work on reporting and engaging Boards of Directors
• Climate risk, transition, and mitigation strategies as well as key updates after COP27 and the Global Biodiversity Framework

You also will have the opportunity to learn about our grants-funded work and other BSR collaborations.

The webinar is open to all member companies and their employees. We encourage you to invite additional colleagues inside or outside of your team and take full advantage of BSR’s member benefits.

Scheduled Speakers

• Eileen Gallagher, Director, Climate Change, BSR
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Eileen Gallagher
Director, Climate Change, BSR
Hong Kong
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With nearly 20 years of experience, Eileen works with multinational companies to address climate change. She specializes in improving business strategy to consider how climate change and its solutions affect society, the environment, and the economy. 
Eileen directs BSR’s advisory and grant-funded work where climate intersects with human rights and equity, inclusion, and justice. She also supports companies with climate risk and scenario analysis, emissions reduction targets, and net-zero roadmaps. ​Eileen is BSR’s climate lead in the Asia-Pacific region, where she analyzed how climate change affects vulnerable nations, its people, and global supply chains. ​
Prior to joining BSR in 2017, Eileen served as a sustainability consultant, supporting companies on sustainability strategy development, strategic stakeholder engagement, and environmental management. While working at a public policy organization, she gained experience in international development, climate policy analysis, and effective communications. ​
Eileen holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. ​
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• Francesca Manta, Director, Membership and Human Rights, BSR
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Francesca Manta
Director, Membership and Human Rights, BSR
New York
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Francesca brings more than 12 years of experience in human rights, sustainability management, and responsible supply chains to her work with companies in the infrastructure, financial services, and consumer products sectors. After spending her first years at BSR with the human rights team and successfully leading numerous engagements as Nordics lead in Copenhagen, Francesca is now based in New York City and leads our global membership team. 
Prior to joining BSR, Francesca worked at a global Danish retailer, where she was responsible for human rights programs at the corporate and local level. Francesca has also previously worked with the Danish Institute for Human Rights as well as Vestas and Maersk, where she was part of their sustainability teams and helped to establish social compliance systems and managed broader sustainability initiatives such as materiality, reporting, and ethics. She has done field work in East Africa, India, Myanmar, China, and South Korea.
Francesca holds a M.S. in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from LUISS University Rome. She speaks Danish, English, and Italian.
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• Roberta Pinamonti, Associate Director, BSR
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Roberta Pinamonti
Associate Director, BSR
Singapore
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With more than 14 years of experience in the field of sustainability, Roberta supports companies in translating social and human rights expectations into management practices. In particular, she focuses on supporting companies in the energy and utilities sectors in navigating regulatory trends as well as investor and other stakeholder expectations when it comes to human rights management. She is passionate about renewable energy and leads BSR's work in renewable energy and human rights.
She has experience with human rights due diligence and impact assessments, code of practice and policy development, sustainability strategy and integration, sustainability reporting, and materiality assessments.
Prior to joining BSR, Roberta spent six years with Enel, a multinational electric utilities company, as a CSR specialist. She managed projects across various countries, particularly in Latin America, focusing primarily on integrating sustainability into business operations and developing the company's human rights approach. 
Roberta holds a MA in Economics and CSR and a BA in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento in Italy. An Italian native speaker, Roberta also speaks English, Spanish, and French fluently.
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