Georg Kell is the founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative and Chairman of Arabesque Partners.
Kell, along with Herman Bril and Andreas Rasche, are the co-editors of Sustainable Investing: A path to a new horizon, a unique combination of perspectives from academics and practitioners on how corporate sustainability and sustainable investing are converging and driving change in markets.
In a discussion with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Kell discusses the role of the corporate world and finance in making progress on sustainability, and shares his thoughts on how COVID-19 has impacted how we think about long-term challenges and resilience.
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