Friday October 9 - 9AM to 5PM

Campus of ESSEC in Cergy

 10:00-11:00 SESSION 1 - How Can Consumers Catalyze Societal and Environmental Transitions? 

• Eric Arnould, Emeritus professor, Aalto University - Toward a Collaborative Consumer Culture  

• Hunter Jones, Assistant professor, ESSEC Business School - Catalyzing a socially sustainable transition away from the American debt system: the Debt Collective and Debtor Activism in America 

 11:30-13:00 SESSION 2 – Can we make environmental policy effective, fair, and popular? 

• Adrien Fabre, Researcher, CNRS - CIRED - ITMO Regulations to Ratchet Up Ambition 

• Tobias Kruse, Economist, OECD - Effectiveness of climate policies – insights from evidence synthesis 

• Aurélien Saussay, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics - Will green innovation augment or automate labor? 

14:15-16:15  SESSION 3 – Corporate Activism : In a period of ESG backlash, should companies take a stance?

• Georg Wernicke, associate professor, HEC Paris - When Silence Becomes Complicity: Why and How Firms Act to Sustain Eroding Democratic Institutions

• Ilze Kliveniece, associate professor, INSEAD - The Cost of Speaking Out: The Impact of CEO Activism on Lobbying Effectiveness 

• Aharon Cohen Mohliver, assistant professor, London Business School - How Social Upheaval Shaped DEI Hiring Practices 

• Rodolphe Durand, professor, HEC Paris - Stance, ESG, Purpose: what's the difference and does it matter?