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Florian Hoos is Professor of Sustainability and ESG Accounting, Program Director of Measuring and Managing Sustainability Impact, and Managing Director of the Enterprise for Society Center (E4S). He is an award-winning teacher, innovator, and writer who was selected by Poets&Quants as one of their World’s Top 40 Business School Professors Under…

Jean-Philippe Bonardi is a Professor of Strategic Management and Business Economics, and the former Dean of the HEC Lausanne, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne. He earned his PhD and a Master from HEC School of Management (Paris, France), as well as a Master in Economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence, and was previously an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario (Canada). He also held visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, Tulane University (USA) and the University of New South Wales (Australia). Professor Bonardi is also currently co-Managing Director of the ‘Enterprise for Society’ (E4S) center, jointly created in 2020 by the University of Lausanne, the Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Institute for Management Development (IMD). The goal of this center is to help shape and accelerate the transition towards the economy of the upcoming industrial revolution, an economy that will have to be more sustainable and inclusive. His research focuses on Strategy Formulation in general, with a focus on the relationships between firms’ strategies and public policies, including technology and environmental policies. He studies not only how firms are impacted by these policies, but also how firms devise innovative strategies to participate in the development of these policies and how they manage the relationships with external stakeholders (media, NGOs, activists, consumer groups, etc.) in order to do so. His research has been published in major international research outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal or Management Science. He also served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review, one of the leading academic management journal, between 2008 and 2011. Professor Bonardi has also acted as a consultant to various companies in Europe and North America, and has taught and designed Executive education programs for companies and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), the RBC Royal Bank, Threadneedle, La Poste, SSL International, UPM, Veolia, DSM, Air France, UEFA or the International Olympic Committee, among others.

Michaël Aklin is Associate Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPFL, which he joined in 2023 and where he holds the Chair of Policy & Sustainability. He is also co-managing director of Enterprise for Society (E4S), a center jointly founded by EPFL, IMD, and the University of Lausanne. Prior to joining EPFL, Michaël was Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his PhD at New York University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Michaël studies the economics and politics of sustainable and steady development and the policies to achieve it. His work has been published in interdisciplinary outlets (Nature Energy, PNAS, Science Advances) as well as specialized journal in economics (Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics), political science (American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly), and public policy (Journal of Public Policy). He has also (co)written two books, both published by MIT Press.