Speakers

Peter Lacy
Managing Director - Accenture Sustainability Services

Peter Lacy leads Accenture’s Sustainability Services business in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. Peter is a senior executive partner based in London and a member of Accenture’s Global Markets and Corporate Strategy leadership teams.

Peter has worked for over a decade with the CEOs and top management of a range of Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, European Union and public sector organizations on sustainability and climate change strategy and execution.

Peter has advised stakeholder panels and boards for companies such as GSK, BP, Coca-Cola, Exxon, Vodafone, Unilever, GE and Motorola and government bodies like the UN, the EU Commission and the UK government.  He is currently a board member of Nottingham University Business School, a board member of Cranfield School of Management Doughty Centre, an advisory board member of Ethical Corporation and an editorial advisory board member of the Corporate Governance Journal.

Before Accenture, Peter worked for McKinsey and Co, Andersen Consulting and the European Academy of Business in Society, where he was founding executive director of a partnership set up by Shell, Unilever, J&J, IBM and Microsoft with INSEAD, LBS, IMD and the EU Commission to develop research and executive education for top current and future leaders on sustainability.

Peter writes, blogs and speaks around the world on sustainability and climate change and is regularly quoted in publications such as the FT, Business Week, Fast Company, The Times. He is currently leading the world’s largest study on CEO attitudes to sustainability for the United Nations Global Compact to be published in June.

Peter is an alumnus of the INSEAD Executive Programme; the University of Cambridge BEP; and the University of Nottingham, where he won the Elizabeth and David Marsden ‘University Prize’. 

In 2010 Peter was voted as an outstanding ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum.


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Honorary Key-Note Speaker
Professor Johan Rockström
Planetary Boundaries

Environmental Links to Disease, Economic Inequality, and Social Injustice

Dr. Mathias Bergman
Programme Director, Baltic Sea Action Group
Baltic Sea Action Summit Commitment Process


Mr. Sten Björk
Political Environmental Strategist, Trelleborg County, Sweden
Clean Shipping


Professor Lars Bylund
Professor, Energy Management Bergen School of Architecture , BAS, Bergen Norway Vice President, eCity Consulting Ltd.
Climate Active Building and Infrastructure –seminar

Dr. Mercy Dikito-Wachtmeister
Network Officer, GWP Southeast Asia / GWP South Asia / the Caribbean
Global Water Partnership Secretariat

Global and Local Water Challenges

Mr. Greger Flodin
Executive Director, Carbon Origination & Structuring
Global Financial Markets, Robobank International (London)
Climate and the Role of Financing: Does Carbon Financing Work?

Mr. Bengt-Olof Grahn
Project Leader, Technical Department of the Municipality of Gotland
CASE: Isle Pact

Mr. Ilkka Herlin
Ph.D. (history), Chairman of the Board, Cargotec Corporation & BSAG
Baltic Sea Environmental Strategies -seminar

Dr. William Hogland
Professor in Environmental Engineering and Recovery (PhD)
The School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University

Mr. Hannu Hoviniemi
Director, CAREI
Business Opportunities in the Rural Energy Market of China

Mr. Niclas Ihrén
Sustainability Expert, Advisor to Tällberg Foundation, Global Utmaning and the World Ecological Forum
Thrivability and Innovation 

Mr. Fredrik Jaresved
Head of Quality Assurance and Sustainable Development, Swedavia, Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
Sustainability work at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

Mr. Mart Jüssi
Member of Parliament, Estonia, Estonian Green Party
Baltic Sea Environmental Strategies –seminar

Mr. Björn Karlström
Business Development Consultant, Electroengine Sweden
Chairman of the Zero & Low Emission Vehicles –seminar

Ms. Saara Kankaanrinta
Secretary-General of BSAG, Content Leader of Baltic Sea Action Summit 2010
Baltic Sea Environmental Strategies -seminar

Dr. Samuli Korpinen
Project Manager, Helsinki Commission
Intergovernmental Co-operation for a Healthy Marine Ecosystem

Mr. Peter Lacy
Managing Director, Accenture Sustainability Services
Global Compact CEO Study 2010 - what is needed to reach a tipping point?

Mr. Nils Lannefors
Regional Sales Director, Global Power Sales Nordic & Baltic, Alstom Power Sweden AB
Climate and Technology: Clean Power Solutions

Mr. Lars-Erik Liljelund, Ph.D.
Director General, The Swedish Prime Minister Office
Climate Change - Greenhouse Emissions Containment

Mr. Andreas Lindström
Project Officer, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
CASE: Kaliningrad Oblast: Water Management Project

Mr. Johan Ljungberg
Senior Director, Nordic Investment Bank 
Environmental protection of the Baltic Sea through Financial Instruments

Peter Lund
Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University of School of Science and Technology
Sustainable Energy Paradigm

Mr. Tomas Otterström
Deputy CEO at GreenStream Network Plc
Chairman of the Climate Strategies and Invements –seminar
Climate Strategies and Invements –seminar: Climate and investment opportunities: how can you invest in climate?

Ms. Susanna Perko
Consultant, Kestävä, Sustainable Business Concepts 
Building a Sustainable Business Culture - Sustainable Strategy

Mr. Aape Pohjavirta
CEO, Sendandsee Ltd.
Role of technology in enabling sustainable development: Case Afganistan – elementary education to everyone through mobile learning

Mr. Marcus Püttmer
Managing Director of Ingenieugesellschaft Püttmer mbH and Ventury GmbH Energieanlagen
Energy Paradigm and Climate Active Building and Infrastructure –seminars

Dr. Anna-Maija Raeste
Eco- philosopher, surgeon, entrepreneur
Bottom of the Pyramid - green tech solutions for the rural and poor areas – case study of an ecological mobile hospital

Mr. Hans Rosling, Ph.D..
Participating through video presentation

Ms. Simone Ruiz
European Policy Director at the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Towards a Climate Deal: Binding and Global?

Mr. Bill Russo
President Synergistics Limited and Senior Advisor, Booz & Company
Automotive Green Technologies -seminar: “China - will the largest automotive market in the world take a green tech leap?”

Mr. Pasi Rutanen
Columnist, Former Ambassador of Finland to OECD and to the Peoples Republic of China
Global Green Wave: Governments and Business

Professor Derek Shearer
Former US Ambassador to Finland and professor at Occidental University
Chairman of the Plenary Sessions

National and Regional Environmental Policies:
From National to Regional: USA-California-Los Angeles-Santa Monica

Mr. Trevor Sikorski
Director,, Commodities Research, Barclays Capital, London
Green IT Climate and market access: products and trading developments

Andrew Skinner
The Global Lead for Green IT Community, Accenture
Green IT

Ms. Sabrina Soussan
Global Head Marketing, Business Unit Building Automation, SIEMENS
Climate Active Building

Mr. Henrik Tegnér
Senior Director, Sustainable Services Nordic, Accenture
Role of Green Innovations in a Corporate Strategy

Mr. Jens Thomassen
Associate Director, HgCapital
Climate Strategies and Invements –seminar: Climate and financial investors: requirements and expectations

Ms. Sue Toigo
Chairman of Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates
Social Entrepreneurship - How do we create sustainable business models?

Mr. Kai Wartiainen
Creative Director, Professor, Architect
Climate Active Building and Infrastructure

Dr. Petri Vasara
Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting Oy
Energy: More – and less – than meets the eye?

Professor, Dr. Markku Wilenius
Senior Vice President, Allianz
Professor, Finland Futures Reseach Centre, Turku School of Economics
Sustainable Leadership

Dr. Yi WANG
Professor, Deputy Director-General of the Institute of Policy and Management (IPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Deputy of the National People’s Congress of China
Balance between Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

Mr. Po Chi Wu, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor and Co-founding Executive Director of the Global Innovation Research Center, Peking University and Co-founder and Managing Director of DragonBridge Capital, California, USA
Venture Capitalism, Green Tech and Environment
Chairman of the Green Business Innovations and Investments –seminar
Green Business Innovations and Investments –seminar: “Venture Biosphere”

Ms. Sarah Wu
Director-General, Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office
National and Regional Environmental Policies - seminar

Professor, Dr. Matthew Yuen
Professor, Vice President for R&D Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Green Manufacturing