CoLab Progress Report: Mobilizing the Collective Power of Business

Authors

• Angie Farrag-Thibault

  Former Director, Collaborative Initiatives and Transport and Logistics, BSR

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  Nicolas Ronderos

  Associate Director, Collaboration, BSR

  

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  Nicolas Ronderos

  Associate Director, Collaboration, BSR

  

  Paris

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  Nicolas leads BSR's incubation of private-sector collaboration, mobilizing the collective power of business to solve some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges. He supervises the financial performance and pipeline of new initiatives in BSR’s collaborations portfolio.

  He has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 20 years, engaging multi-company and multi-stakeholder collaborations in pursuit of shared business and societal outcomes globally. Previously, he consulted for companies, governments, and civil society organizations on the positive environmental, social, and economic impacts of their activities. Before that, he was a consultant working on social issues.

  Nicolas holds a DBA (ABD) in Business Administration from the École des Ponts Business School, a MS in Economic Evaluation from Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, a MS in Policy Analysis and Management from the New School University, and a BA in Anthropology from Los Andes University. He speaks English, Spanish and French.

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  • Introducing The Fast Forward: BSR’s Emerging Issues Update / October 1, 2020 / Blog

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From the climate crisis to a rise in employee activism, many factors are contributing to the creation of a new climate for business. These new challenges will not be solved by any one actor: no single government, business, or NGO acting alone can address the issues of today. What the world needs are new collaborations of unprecedented scale and ambition to create a future in which both societies and companies thrive.

To that end, at our 2018 Conference, BSR launched CoLab, an incubator and accelerator of private-sector collaboration, to mobilize the collective power of business to solve some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges. Our 2019 progress report, Mobilizing the Collective Power of Business, highlights our accomplishments over the past year and outlines opportunities for engagement with CoLab in 2020.