Position: Founder - CEO

Structure: Be-linked

Jérôme Auriac is the founder and CEO of Be-Linked, Business & Community Intelligence. After five years in sales and marketing for the editorial group Wolters Kluwer, Jérôme became the commercial director of Novethic (a resource center for CSR issues and Sustainable Development) in 2001. In 2003, he joined the agency Manifeste as associate director. Specialized in sustainable development and business-NGOs partnerships, he created the website wwo.fr, the first online database with information about NGos to facilitate public-private partnerships. In 2008, he founded Be-linked, Business & Community Intelligence, a consultancy firm specialized in business and civil society organizations relationship strategies.

Position: Chief of section for Sciences Technology and Innovation (STI) policies

Structure: UNESCO

Sonia Bahri obtained a Ph.D in Economics from Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She also graduated in Political Sciences from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and has an advanced degree (DEA) in 20th Century History, more specifically focused in the area of Educational Policies of France during the colonial period.

Before joining UNESCO as staff member in 1990, she worked with different research and development institutions, on projects and studies in developing countries. From 1990 to early 2001, she worked in and subsequently headed the Preventive Education Section in UNESCO (HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse). She was then appointed Chief of the Section for General Secondary Education from 2001 to 2006 and promoted international and regional policy dialogue especially on the importance of Secondary Education expansion and renewal for the achievement of Education For All goals.
Since July 2006, she has been heading the Section for International Cooperation in Higher Education, which is responsible for the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme.
Sonia Bahri has directed several publications and is author of numerous articles on development and educational issues.

Position : Director of Communications and Sustainable Development

Structure : Mobivia Groupe

Biography : Bénédicte BARBRY, 43 years old, has been Director of Communications and Sustainable Development of the NORAUTO GROUPE since 1998.
Creator of the auto centre concept in France in 1970, NORAUTO GROUPE is a family owned international group, whose occupation is to offer the best products and services delivering effective mobility to the widest possible audience. NORAUTO GROUPE is made up of four activities:
• The auto centres, made up of a store and a workshop are, in most cases, located in shopping centres: NORAUTO, MAXAUTO, AUTO5
• The rapid car repair centres, located in town centres under the MIDAS brand name
• The stores selling parts and car equipment at low prices called CARTER CASH
• The business to business sales represented by SYNCHRO DIFFUSION
Located in 12 countries, NORAUTO GROUPE has over 1,100 centres in Europe and in Latin America, 8,700 direct employees and a turnover excluding VAT of 1.3 billion Euros.

Bénédicte BARBRY is a graduate of the IESEG School of Management.
Joining NORAUTO in 1989 as head of market studies, she was appointed marketing director between 1992 and 1998 and has been group director of communications since 1998.

Particularly involved personally as well professionally in the challenges connected with sustainable development since the beginning of the 1990s, she is now in charge of communications and sustainable development for the NORAUTO GROUPE and is a member of the advisory board of the NORAUTO Foundation.

Bénédicte BARBRY is chairperson of RECYVALOR, interprofessional association dealing with the task of eliminating all of the tyre stocks recorded throughout the countryside of France. She is a member of the College of Sustainable Development Directors (C3D).

Position: Head of Corporate Sustainability

Structure: HSBC France   

Marine de Bazelaire was born on November 13, 1970 and is the mother of two children.
Within HSBC France, she is responsible for Corporate Sustainability and head of the Fondation HSBC pour l’Education.
She has a BBA in finance, a Master of Arts and Science in Publishing, a pre-doctorate degree in Museology and is an Auditor of the 13th session of the College des Hautes Etudes en Environnement et Développement Durable (ESCP/Agro/Centrale).
In 1994, she began her professional life at the Ministry for Agriculture, to conduct a study on digitization of Burgundy museum collections and on line distribution.
In 1996, she was appointed project manager in a communication agency.
In 1998, Marine de Bazelaire was Multimedia Director of a Press Group.
In 2000, she was appointed Editorial Director of an Internet Service Provider, before proposing to implement and lead a Corporate Sustainability policy within the company
Prior to her position within HSBC she worked for a year at the Bureau of Public Information at UNESCO in Paris.
Marine de Bazelaire is also a member of the C3D (Collège des Directeurs du Développement Durable), member of the advisory board of IMS- Entreprendre pour la Cité. Philanthropically wise she is a member of the executive board of les Petits Riens and member of the Executive Committee of Fondation des Amis et Mécène de l’Opéra Comique

HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Holdings plc serves over 128 million customers worldwide through around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of some US$2,354 billion at 31 December 2007, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.

Position: Chair, Department of Finance and Business Management

Structure: Brooklyn College, City University of New-York

Robert Bell, Ph.D. Professor of Management and Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Management, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, is the author of, most recently, The Green Bubble - Waste Into Wealth - the New Energy Revolution, Abbeville Press, N.Y. 2008.
The book was originally published in Paris in 2006 along with a French language edition, La Bulle Verte - La Ruée vers l’or des Energies Renouvelables. His previous books include : Beursbedrog (The Stock Market Sting), De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 2003, Les peches capitaux de la haute technologie (The Capital Sins of High Technology), Seuil, Paris, 1998, Impure Science, Wiley, N.Y., 1992.

He has been the keynote speaker or a panelist at numerous international conferences in Europe. Most recently he was the Keynote Speaker on Moral Leadership and Green Redemption at the G20 Universal Ethics Summit, Seoul, Korea, November 9, 2010.

Position - Structure :
President of ACIDD and president of Comité 21, French Committee for Environment and Sustainable Development   

Gilles Berhault quitted studying after graduating from high school to dedicate himself to the protection of the environment and the practice of drama. After five years, he skipped to communication and organisation of major events and projects aiming at promoting interactivity and tourism. For insistence, he designed the first Minitel site dedicated to the people of the music industry, created a network of interactive terminals for the protection of the environment, organized the bicentenary party of Polytechnique school and the thirty-years-old birthday party of the Regional Nature Parks (www.parcs-naturels-regionaux.tm.fr).
 In 2000, he created, ACIDD (www.acidd.com), a non-profit organization. They conceived and organized major events such as summer meetings on communication for sustainable development (www.uecdd.com), international forum TIC21, European forum “sharing initiatives for a green and connected city”, which gathered thousands of people. In the meantime, he also published different articles and a book entitled “Developpement Durable 2.0” (ed. de l’Aube).
 Today, he shares his time between voluntary work for President of ACIDD and president of Comité 21, French Committee for Environment and Sustainable Development (www.comite21.org). He is also board member of Cluster Green and Connected Cities, European Partners for the Environnement (www.epe.be), World digital solidarity agency (www.dsa-asn.org), Clean Tuesday (www.cleantuesdayparis.fr) and FING (www.fing.org).
 Businesswise, he is in charge of sustainable development for the scientific department of the Telecom Institute (www.institut-telecom.fr) where he coordinates a chair.

Position - structure:
Writer and Prospectivist; member of the Club of Rome;
Former Director of the Office of the Futurology, UNESCO

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Agrégé de l'Université ( France), he was a Senior Lecturer of history of ideas at the Ecole Polytechnique ( France ) and a journalist  at several leading French newspapers.

At UNESCO, which he joined in 1984, he served in particular as Deputy Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, Director of the Office of Foresight, Director of the Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences, Director of the Division of Anticipation and Prospective Studies, Director of the Analysis and Forecasting Office, Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development ( WCCD ), ex-officio member and Director of WCCD, and Secretary-General of the Council on the Future. He retired from UNESCO in 2010.

Jérôme Bindé set up the foresight program of UNESCO to look ahead to future global trends or scenarios and headed it for fourteen years. Coordinator of the “21st Century Talks” and the “21st Century Dialogues”, he is the editor and co-author of the three anthologies based on these scientific talks : Keys to the 21st Century, The Future of Values, and Making Peace with the Earth. Director of the UNESCO World Report Towards Knowledge Societies, he is also the principal co-author, with Federico Mayor, of the world, forward-looking report The World Ahead : our Future in the Making, dealing with twenty global issues ( in French : Un monde nouveau ). These five books have been published in fifteen languages.

He has also contributed to numerous TV and radio programs and to op/ed pages of about one hundred leading newspapers from the different regions of the world.

Position - structure:
Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid;
UN economist and international senior advisor to governments and international organization

Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1955, he is Professor of International Economics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and Coordinator of the Master on Economic and Competitive Intelligence at the University of Barcelona (Spain). He was for 24 years development economist and UN permanent staff at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva (Switzerland). He has also been professor of the Universities of Geneva and Nebrija in Madrid.

Juan A. de Castro field of expertise is sustainable development and the knowledge economy. He conceived, launched and managed, in the 1990’s, with the aim to transform biodiversity into a tool for sustainable development, the “UNCTAD BIOTRADE Initiative” under the UN Convention on Biodiversity. As senior advisor on Green competitiveness in the Mediterranean, for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Barcelona, he designed and launched the “GRECO Initiative”.

He is today international senior advisor for governments and international organizations on “Nation-branding” and communication for development, energy, sustainable development and on economic and competitive intelligence. He is presently introducing the semantic web for the new University 3.0 based on collective intelligence and the new semantic web in Spain. He has been involved on the new technological convergence (NBIC) with the Spanish government, autonomous governments, CSIC and the EOI in Madrid. He has also participated and developed foresight models and tools for, among others, UNCTAD, the World Bank and the IDB in Washington, the Madrid Autonomous Government (“Madrid 2015”) and the Moroccan Government and UNDP (“Morocco 2030”).

In 1990, he was appointed Deputy-Director of the Economic Research Department of the Banco Santander-Central Hispano in Madrid. In 1994, the UN Security Council appointed him as the Economist and specialist on economic reconstruction of the UN Special Peace Mission to Afghanistan. He is Commissioner of the Commission on Globalization of the State of the World Forum, CEO of Metaeconomics, member of the Board of Directors of the Nile Development Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the Sanofi-Espoir Foundation in Paris, an institution actively engaged in Health and sanitary relief projects for Africa. He has lectured and published widely.

Position: Head of Sustainability

Structure: Atos

Sophie Chambon-Diallo is Sustainable Director of Atos Origin France and in charge of leading the Group's environmental strategy. She leads the development of the Sustainable Portfolio offering in France and supports its promotion worldwide. Before joining the CSR program of Atos Origin, Sophie Chambon-Diallo worked nearly 10 years in consulting. She was previously director of operations of a telemarketing company. Sophie Chambon-Diallo graduated with a Master of Science in Economics from La Sorbonne (DEA ès Sciences Economiques).



Atos Origin
Atos Origin is a leading international information technology (IT) services company, providing hi-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed operations to deliver business outcomes globally. The company's annual revenues are EUR 5.1 billion and it employs 49,000 people. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.
As part of its commitment to the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Atos Origin is implementing sustainable best practices into its organization and its business. Drawing on its own experience, the Group accompanies its clients on their transformation towards sustainability and helps them optimize their environmental efficiency through innovative and sustainable IT solutions.

Position: General Manager Nature Groupe Danone

Structure: Danone

Myriam COHEN-WELGRYN, 43, was educated at ESSEC, top 2 leading business school in France.
In 1997, After 9 years in different marketing positions in Procter & Gamble and Pepsico, she entered the Danone Groupe as a Health Marketing International Overlay in the Biscuits division.
In 1999 she was appointed Marketing Director of the Lu business in Spain, and in 2001, became the Worldwide Biscuits Marketing Director.
In 2004, Mrs COHEN WELGRYN was promoted General Manager of the Lu Biscuits Business Unit and participated to the turn over of the company. She was also the vice president of the biscuit professional association.
On Sept 2007, she took the General Management of the Irish Dairy business.
Since March 2009, she has been promoted to a newly created position: Nature General Manager of the group, with the mission of bringing Danone’s true commitment to protecting the environment in the heart of the business.

Position: Directeur de recherche

Structure: CNRS, France

Docteur d’Etat (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Masters of Theology (Institut Catholique de Paris, comparative religion and philosophy pertaining to the three monotheisms) and former member of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Hispaniques (Madrid), Dominique de Courcelles is presently Director of Research, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Etudes en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon). She is member of the Collège International de Philosophie.

She teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique (Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, course: “Belief Systems and Economic Ethics of Cultures and Religions”). She teaches also at Paris Dauphine University (“Economic Ethics”, Masters in Islamic Finance). She is regularly invited by foreign Universities: in the USA, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Lebanon, etc.

She is member of the Académie de l’Eau and founder member of the Institut Français de la Finance Islamique. She is member, Administrative Counsel, NGO “Transparency International (France)”.

Her latest book: Globale Diversité: pour une approche multiculturelle du management (Global Diversity: A Multicultural Approach to Management), Ecole Polytechnique Press, 2009.

She is the Author and Director of the Film Entre le Feu et l’Eau-Le développement durable d’une mégalopole: Mexico, et la question de l’eau (Between Fire and Water –Sustainable Development of a Megalopolis: Mexico City and the Issue of Water), which was presented at the UNO in New-York the 5th june 2009, Environnment World Day.

Position: Deputy Company Secretary

Structure: Bolloré Group

Magistrate, she has been successively Conciliation magistrate at Versailles, then Office Chief at the DGCCRF, sub-manager of the continuous training at National School for the Judiciary , technical adviser at Cabinet of French Minister of Justice. Then she has been Delegate of Parliamentary Commissioner before being nominated Company Secretary du Parquet de Paris Court of Appeal. Paris sub-prefect until october 2005, she has since joined Bolloré Group as Deputy Company Secretary, where she works on Ethic and Sustainable Development matters.

Position: Associé | Partner, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs   

Structure: Publicis Consultants   

Pierre-Samuel is Associé | Partner at Publicis Consultants. He is in charge of Public Affairs and Corporate Communication programs for several clients. At Publicis Consultants, he is specifically leading the account of one of the major actor in Energy and Environment fields. His responsibilities include brand positioning, corporate communication, CSR, influence regarding sensitive issues, crisis communications and internal communication that involves change management issues.

Pierre-Samuel Guedj led Publicis Consultants' Public Affairs team in Brussels and Paris. He has been involved on sanofi-aventis public affairs program, has managed crisis communications for SFR, has counseled Nestlé France on corporate & public affairs issues and has developed the positioning of the Conseil régional de Lorraine on global communication.

He was previously Director of the Public Affairs and Crisis Communication practice department of Burson-Marsteller Paris and member of the Burson-Marsteller European Crisis Committee. During its seven years at Burson-Marsteller, he was in charge of public affairs, crisis communication or issue management program for companies such as McCain, Aventis international, Alstom, Bristol Myers Squibb, Nestlé, Nestlé Waters, Coca-Cola & Philip Morris.

At Burson-Marsteller he led the international network of crisis communication agencies that covered more than 60 countries and 5 continents. This network has been developed for one of the major player in bottled water market, providing issues management, public affairs and crisis communications counsel around the world.

He also developed issue management, corporate social responsibility, stakeholders and public affairs programs for environmental actors such as Suez Environnement or Saria Industries.

During the last 15 years, he has been involved in several major crisis linked with political, legal, social or environmental issues, from product recall to natural disaster such as the Tsunami in Asia (2004).