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Speakers
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Alasdair Ross, Director, The Economist Intelligence Unit & Countries Editor, The World In... magazine
Alasdair Ross is a Director at The Economist Intelligence Unit and Countries Editor with The Economist’s annual The World In... magazine. He started his professional career as foreign correspondent for publications including The Daily Telegraph and The Independent and as a business consultant at Oxford Analytica.
Alasdair joined The Economist Group in 2001 and later took charge of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s digital services, developing and managing services on business risk, global affairs, economic forecasting and technology.
Alasdair speaks on risk, global affairs, technology and macroeconomics at venues around the world and is an author and ‘TEDx talker’.
Read Alasdair’s analysis on the geopolitical impacts of climate change in Världen Om Magazine (Article in Swedish).
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Frances Way, Executive Director of the Climate Champions team for COP26, Chief Strategy Officer, CDP
Frances Way is Executive Director of the Climate Champions team for COP26 and oversees the team's work in Sectors and Systems Transformation. She joined the Climate Champions on 1st April on secondment from CDP where she is Chief Strategy Officer. CDP is an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to measure and reduce their environmental impacts. Prior to CDP, she worked in the private finance sector, primarily at Dresdner Kleinwort's Global Equities Division. Frances sits on the board of EIRIS Foundation and holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College.
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Jan-Olof Jacke, Director General, Swedish Enterprise
Jan-Olof Jacke is, since October 2018, the Director General of Swedish Enterprise. He holds an MBA from the Gothenburg School Of Economics. After graduation he was a management consultant from 1995 to 1999. He has worked at Astra Zeneca since 1999 as chief financial officer for various units and was between 2013 and 2018 CEO of AstraZeneca Sweden.
A strong, common EU policy on the climate and environment is a prerequisite for ensuring that emissions fall. Arresting climate change requires solutions that are not restricted by national borders; the EU's joint efforts are therefore essential. For the EU to stay at the forefront of global climate action the EU must ensure not only that emissions decrease and reach net-zero by 2050 but also that businesses and societies continues to grow. Only by proving that it is possible to combine decreased emissions with economic growth will the EU truly be a role model which inspires the rest of the world to follow in our tracks.
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Katarina Ageborg, EVP Sustainability and Chief Compliance Officer, President AstraZeneca AB
Katarina was appointed EVP Sustainability in 2017, and appointed to the role of President, AstraZeneca AB (Sweden) in 2018. She has overall responsibility for the delivery, design and implementation of the Company’s sustainability programme and has responsibility for our Swedish entity.
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company whose innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. AstraZeneca recognises the strong connection between the health of patients, the business, its employees, and the planet. The company’s sustainability strategy is focused on three interconnected priorities, where it can have the most impact:
- Access to healthcare - working towards a future where everyone has access to sustainable healthcare solutions for treatment and prevention
- Environmental protection - putting sustainable practices at the heart of its work, managing its environmental impact across all activities and products
- Ethics and transparency - building trust by maintaining ethical business practices and bringing a high level of integrity to everything it does
AstraZeneca is a member of the UN's Race to Zero campaign and the Climate Group’s EV100, RE100 and EP100 campaigns.
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Dr Åsa Persson, Research Director and Deputy Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
Åsa Persson is Research Director and Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) – a world-leading think tank that tackles environment and development challenges. Dr Persson is a social scientist and expert on governance for sustainable development. In 2020, she was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to the Independent Group of Scientists to draft the 2023 UN Global Sustainable Development Report.
SEI are a founding member of Adaptation Without Borders – a new global partnership working to strengthen systemic resilience to the cross-border impacts of climate change. SEI’s research and policy work shed light on the risks climate change poses to international supply chains – and the threats this could generate to global food security and other aspects of human wellbeing – as well as the actions companies, countries and communities can take to strengthen our collective resilience.
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