Quarterly Member Insights: Understanding Sustainable Business Trends Shaping 2023 (Asia-Pacific)

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

May 18, 2023
9:00 am-10:00 am Singapore Time

Location

Webinar

Event Resources

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BSR provides members with access to exclusive insights and analysis to help your business see a changing world more clearly and transform to meet present and future 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. Our quarterly webinars walk you through these emerging developments and explore their implications for your company and its key stakeholders.  

In our second installment of 2023, you will hear from our experts as they share highlights on: 

• Human rights under threat, from rising child labor to AI and its human rights implications 
• ESG backlash and navigating the evolving reporting space 
• The latest IPCC Synthesis Report, a stark warning on global water shortages and release of the updated (v4) beta for TNFD 
• 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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Recent Insights From Eileen Gallagher
• Ten Guiding Principles for Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions / January 29, 2024 / Blog
• Co-creating Climate Justice Interventions between Business and Communities / January 17, 2024 / Reports
• Three Business Initiatives That Advance Climate Justice / December 21, 2023 / Blog
• COP28: Tackling Fossil Fuels, and a Final Push to Keep 1.5 Alive / November 29, 2023 / Insights+
• Advancing a Just Transition Across Sectors / July 6, 2023 / Blog
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• Ogi Kanaya, Associate Director, Financial Services, BSR
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Ogi Kanaya
Associate Director, Financial Services, BSR
Tokyo
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With deep experience as researcher and consultant, Ogi advises companies in Japan on a range of sustainability topics to promote business practices that are aligned with global and forward-looking perspectives. Within her sustainability management consulting work, she focuses on materiality analysis, sustainability strategy development, and stakeholder engagement.
Prior to joining BSR, Ogi worked for a research consultancy for 20 years. She focused on a wide range of environmental issue areas, including climate change, circular economy, disclosure, and communications to governments and the private sector.
She holds an M.A. in Policy Science from Doshisha University Graduate School of Policy and Management.
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Recent Insights From Ogi Kanaya
• European Union Sustainability Reporting Directive / May 3, 2021 / Blog
• BSR18 Participation Report (for Japanese Newsletter) / December 17, 2018 / Blog
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• Lale Tekişalp, Associate Director, Technology Sectors, BSR
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Lale Tekişalp
Associate Director, Technology Sectors, BSR
San Francisco
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Lale works with BSR member companies across industries to incorporate human rights into business operations and strategy. She focuses on the intersection of human rights and technology, and she leads the Tech Against Trafficking collaborative initiative.
Prior to BSR, Lale worked with the Partnership on AI to help build its AI for Social Good strategy. Previously, she held several different marketing roles at Microsoft, where she played a key role in establishing the company's cloud business across Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa.
Lale holds a MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where she focused on responsible business and social sector leadership. She received a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Recent Insights From Lale Tekişalp
• A Launchpad for Action: Key Tech and Human Trafficking Priorities in 2025 / December 19, 2024 / Blog
• An Impact-Based Approach to Responsible AI / October 10, 2024 / Blog
• Responsible and Sustainable AI / June 4, 2024 / Audio
• Building an Effective Supply Chain Data Ecosystem to Prevent Forced Labor / April 24, 2024 / Blog
• A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
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