Since June 2017 Amadou Diallo is CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Middle East & Africa. He is the founder of Saloodo! GmbH. He was previously CEO DHL Freight, CEO Africa and South Asia Pacific DHL Global Forwarding and prior to this Chief Financial Officer of DHL Logistics Divisions and Managing Director for the integration of Exel and DHL. Mr. Diallo has more than 25 years of experience in the tourism, banking, express and logistics industries. He is Senegalese and is fluent in several languages including English, German, French, Fulani, Wolof and Spanish. Mr. Diallo is Chairman of Amref in Germany and in the boards of Welthungerhilfe, Africa 2.0, Schiller International University

Marieme Diallo is based in UNICEF’s Supply Headquarters in Copenhagen, where she and her team are responsible for optimizing and enabling UNICEF’s logistics activities in the countries where UNICEF operates, management of the UNICEF’s 3PL freight forwarding contracts as well as carriers’ relationship, and finally how to promote sustainability across these pillars. 

Marieme has more than 17 years of experience related to supply chain management in humanitarian and emergency contexts. She has worked in various emergency responses and has a strong knowledge of humanitarian response, mostly in conflict and post-conflict contexts. In everything she has worked with her focus has been on improving goods and service delivery in a complex environment, so that supplies reach the most vulnerable despite multiple logistics challenges including access issues. 

She holds a master's degree in Human Sciences and speaks seven languages. During her professional career, she has worked with NGOs and several UN agencies across the globe.

TITLE: CFO of Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Head of MB Truck Operations
COMPANY: Mercedes-Benz Trucks
BIO: Jürgen Distl joined the Daimler Group in 2003 and worked in various functions in Finance & Controlling department for Mercedes-Benz Trucks until 2009. In 2009 he became Chief Finance Officer of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks. From 2012 to 2019, Jürgen Distl held various senior Finance positions at Daimler Truck North America, Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars and the Daimler Truck Global Powertrain division. As CFO of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Jürgen Distl has been responsible for all financial matters at Mercedes-Benz Trucks since the end of 2019. In addition to this role, he took over the responsibility as Head of Operations Mercedes-Benz Trucks in the beginning of 2023. 

TITLE: VP fleet Europe 
COMPANY: bp 
BIO: Alex is the VP of the Fleet Business, a part of the Mobility & Convenience entity in Europe. Alex’s team is managing a large portfolio of customers, focused on serving their mobility needs, supporting them in navigating their decarbonization journeys and creating integrated end to end offers to enable efficient and effective fleet management for their customers. 

He’s been with bp for 12 years, having previously led different regions or channels with Castrol, across OEM, IKAM and Distributors spaces. Within his team, Alex had owned the development of the Castrol business with Amazon before to moving to his current role. Prior to bp, he spent 10 years with Bosch across a variety of business units and has also worked for P&G. 

Dr. Michael Feindt has his dream job. A rock star in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), Michael is a physicist and data scientist who is constantly thinking about how algorithms can be developed, improved and advanced to not only benefit businesses, but improve the world. He believes that with good decisions and Blue Yonder’s solutions, companies can do more around sustainability and minimizing their CO2 imprint.

As strategic advisor, his role at Blue Yonder is to continually research how AI and machine learning can be used to improve supply chains. As a data scientist, he is relentlessly curious and enjoys gaining a deep understanding of a customer’s business and how AI/ML can help solve their problems to gain positive results.

Idoia Galindo, CEO of Transfesa Logistics, is one of the leaders and protagonists in rail freight transport throughout Europe. She has been with Transfesa Logistics for 14 years, where she began in 2008 as Director of the Corporate Legal Department, later moving on to head the Asset Management and Operations Department and the Railway School. In addition to being CEO, she is also a Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of several companies in the group. She is the first woman to head the company in its almost 80-year history.

From the very beginning as CEO of the company, one of her priorities has been to ensure that more and more freight travels by rail. In this line, she is in charge of the campaign "Freight belongs on rail" in Spain, which aims to make visible the advantages of the railway as a more sustainable means of transport as it releases up to 80 % less CO2 than its equivalent by road, reduces external costs by up to 50 %, helps to decongest roads, reduces accidents and noise and, furthermore, it consumes 6 times less energy.

www.linkedin.com/in/idoiagalindo/

Biotic envisions a world where plastic is not a concern. A world in which the consumer purchases the product in the exact same manner, and after use, tosses it to any trash without the need to sort or recycle, while the product fully biodegrades, no matter to the environment. Costs stay the same, corporations can seamlessly fulfill consumer demands, align with current consumer habits, all while restoring the planet. Biotic is a fully bio-based polymer commodity manufacturer. Our vision is to replace all fossil-fuel-plastics with a scalable, circular, fully biological, environmentally friendly process, contributing towards reducing greenhouse gases emission, reducing energy costs, and rehabilitating marine life.

Christine is a global leader in agri-food-tech innovation, an energizing community-builder & an activator of breakthrough ideas that create lasting change in food and agriculture.

As the Founder & CEO of Thought For Food, she has galvanized a community of 30,000+ Millennial & GenZ entrepreneurs in 180+ countries who are dedicated to transforming food systems, for good. The programs she has developed have generated 8000+ breakthrough business ideas and helped to launch 70+ startups, who have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, formed partnerships with industry leaders, improved the lives of 500,000+ smallholder farmers & created 500+ new jobs. In her previous roles, Christine has led external affairs, public policy, & corporate affairs functions for leading multinationals, fast-growing startups, think tanks & industry associations. She helped to establish the world’s first open-licensing platform for patented vegetable traits while working in a large agribusiness, which eventually led to a shift across the whole industry.

In 2021, she was appointed by the UN Deputy Secretary-General to serve on the Advisory Committee for the UN Food Systems Summit. Her work has been featured in MIT Tech Review, Forbes, BBC & The Economist. Christine is the author of "The Change-makers Guide to Feeding the Planet,” the producer of 2 docu-films about next-gen agri-food-tech solutions, and has spearheaded global events in Berlin, Lisbon, Zurich, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and New York

Erik Grab is Vice- President in charge of Strategic Anticipation and Co-Innovation for the Michelin Group since 2012. He also founded MOVIN’ON in 2017, a strategic anticipation and co-innovation ecosystem gathering over 300 international private corporations and public entities as well as academics and international organizations, based in Paris and Montreal.

Erik is a strategic anticipation and innovation unconditional enthusiast and regularly speaks on university campuses and international forums on the future of mobility and more generally on innovation processes and methodologies.

He is also a member of the Futuribles International Board, Vice President of the “Mobility Factory” created with Ademe in France, Canada and Africa. He is one of the four qualified personalities in France who are advising the Defense Innovation Agency and is a member of the innovation steering committee of the French Army.

As part of the German Management Board, Jutta Graefensteiner is leading the global Program “Deutschland Digital”, which has the ambitions to accelerate the country digitization in Germany. In addition, she signs responsible for the Country plan and Sustainability in Germany.

From August 2015 until February 2021, she has been leading the German Partner Organization where she owned the strategic direction of the partner landscape while leading the partner organization in the country. Since 2000 she covered several different leadership roles in Cisco, including the Central Europe marketing team across 17 countries. With more than 24 years of experience in marketing, advertising and communications she builds on a strong marketing and communications qualification. With her strong capabilities to lead diverse, multi-national teams and to engage talents she is a proven People Leader in Cisco. From 2012 until 2016 she led the Inclusion & Collaboration activities for Central Europe.

Before joining Cisco she worked in the Distribution and Photography industry.

Jutta Graefensteiner studied at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising and Marketing Nuremberg with the examination as Master for Marketing- and Communications (BAW) and finished several leadership programs i.e. EMEAR Accelerated Development Program (ADP), EMEAR Conscious Leadership Program and the Strategies for Leadership Program at IMD Business School Lausanne, Switzerland. In January 2020 she finalized the global ORSC™ Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching Certification.

TITLE: Global Procurement Sustainability & Advocacy Leader
COMPANY: DOW 

In her position as the Head of Global Logistics, Lorie is responsible for the development of Sanofi’s global logistics strategy including transportation, warehousing and procurement. Before that, she has worked in various logistics, procurement and marketing functions for leading companies in the auto mobility and energy sector.

As Product Manager for Climate Transparency, Beth leads the technology related aspects of driving Scope 3 transparency at PACT. PACT (Partnership for Carbon Transparency), hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), brings together stakeholders from across the public and private sectors to enable targeted decarbonization action and drive corporate accountability through the sharing of emissions data across value chains. Prior to joining WBCSD, Beth managed software products in the supply chain analytics and sustainability space, including corporate carbon footprint solutions and automated warehousing software. A graduate of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with a Bachelor’s and Master's of Computer Science, Beth brings an inherently data-driven approach to product management and tackling the Scope 3 challenge.

Nikola Hagleitner became CEO of the Post & Parcel Germany division and a member of the Board of Management of DHL Group in July 2022. She has been responsible for Sales within the Post & Parcel Germany division as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) since April 2021.

Nikola Hagleitner came to DHL Group in 2005 and has held various positions involving consultancy and strategy in Florida, USA, and in Bonn, Germany. In 2013, she assumed the position of CEO, Industrial Projects, in the DHL Global Forwarding division in London, UK, before she became responsible for DHL Global Forwarding’s worldwide sales and marketing as Global Head of Marketing & Sales in 2019.

Nikola Hagleitner has a Magistra of Law and an MBA in International Management.

Eric Hannon is a Partner based in McKinsey's Frankfurt office, and is a long time leader in McKinsey’s Sustainability practice. He has supported clients in large scale sustainability transformations across industry sectors, but has focused in recent years on hard to abate industries such as industrial and automotive sectors. Eric has over twenty years of consulting and industry experience.

Elsa Homann is Client Business Partner for the Mobility Industry including Logistics. In this position, she is serving clients from the logistics sector and therefore has a broad knowledge of the industry.

In her 7 years at GfK, Elsa has worked on many consulting projects including sustainability topics. She is also personally very interested in sustainability and is involved in the Sustainability Community at GfK.

In her presentation "Green ambitions, golden opportunities - Sustainability in times of instability", Elsa will highlight the relevance of sustainability in times of instability and show differences between industries and different stages of the product life cycle.

Elsa will also explain how consumer habits are changing in recent times and what drivers and barriers need to be considered.

The results of the GfK Consumer Life study will be enriched with practical case studies.

Dr. Klaus Hufschlag is Senior Vice President for Sustainability Reporting & Controlling at DHL Group. In his role, he is responsible for the Group’s external and internal ESG reporting, including the Non Financial Statement, EU Taxonomy Reporting, as well as the Customer Carbon Reporting and the monthly internal reporting and controlling of ESG KPI. Contributing over 14 years of experience in developing ESG reporting processes in Finance, he has been appointed a member of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Technical Expert Group (SR TEG) in 2022, who works on the upcoming European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).

TITLE: Vice President, Customer Experience
COMPANY: Everstream Analytics
BIO: Shehrina Kamal leads Everstream Analytics’ Global Customer Experience function, where she is responsible for customer support, training & adoption, advocacy & listening, and special projects. Prior to Customer Experience, she led Everstream’s product capabilities around risk identification, monitoring, and alerting for 9 years. In this capacity, she managed a global team across 3 continents and was responsible for product development & strategy, intelligence coverage, and strategic partnerships. Shehrina has 14 years’ of logistics industry experience and a background in international development consultancy and communication. She studied Economics at North South University, Bangladesh and holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School, Germany.

Abbey McDougald, Business Operations Manager, is the lead for the ESG space in the Logistics Sourcing & Strategy team at Cisco. In her 8+ years at the company, she has gained experience across many Supply Chain functions as sustainability SME & transformational leader, including new service offers for Cisco circular economy IT asset disposition, reverse logistics optimization, trade compliance, packaging sustainability, life cycle assessment, and ecolabeling. She holds a Master of Engineering in Sustainable Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and proudly hails from Buffalo, NY, the city of good neighbors.  She currently lives in Raleigh, NC and teaches & competes on the national level as an Irish step dancer.

TITLE: CEO
COMPANY: Michelin
BIO: Florent Menegaux joined Michelin in 1997. Over the past 22 years, he has held several key executive positions
in various divisions around the world. Florent Menegaux became member of the Group Executive Committee in
2008, before being named COO in 2014, then Senior EVP in 2017, and Group General Managing Partner in
2018. He was appointed CEO of Michelin in May 2019.
His other past positions at Michelin include Commercial Director for truck tires in the UK and the Republic of
Ireland, Sales Director for Truck Tires Original Equipment and Replacement markets for North America, Head of
Truck Tires for South America, Head of the Africa – Middle East Zone and EVP for the Passenger Car and Light
Truck worldwide activities.
Before joining Michelin, Florent Menegaux worked for PwC, Exel Logistics France and Norbert Dentressangle.
Florent Menegaux holds a Master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Université Paris‐Dauphine.

TITLE: Member of the Board of Management
COMPANY: DHL Group

7/2022: Deutsche Post AG: Member of the Board of Management, Global Business Services

2019 – 6/2022: Deutsche Post AG: Member of the Board of Management, Post & Parcel Germany

2018 – 2019: Deutsche Post AG: Chief Operation Officer & IT (COO), Post & Parcel Germany

2015 – 2018: Deutsche Post AG: Chief Operation Officer, DHL Global Forwarding

2013 – 2015: Deutsche Post AG: Executive Vice President, Corporate Development

2001 – 2013: McKinsey & Company Inc.: Consultant / since 2010 Partner (Frankfurt and Singapore)

Dr. Andreas Mündel is SVP of Group Strategy and responsible for strategic projects in the area of production. This includes the Clean OPS teams, the lead of the Sustainable Fuel project, the Center of Excellence Automation of Operations, the Group OHS team and Corporate Patent Management.  In addition, Mr. Mündel coordinates the agenda of the Operations Board, which includes the divisional board members for Operations in addition to the CEO.

Dr. Andreas Mündel has been in various strategic roles in the consulting and logistics industry for 20 years. After studying physics, he initially worked for the management consultancy McKinsey and moved to DHL in 2004 as Head of Strategy of DHL Express Europe.

TITLE: Lead, Resource Circularity
COMPANY: World Economic Forum
BIO: Anis Nassar is a seasoned environmental sustainability and international affairs economist with experience in the private, academic, and international organizations sectors. Anis started his career in brand management in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. At Procter & Gamble he led the global design of marketing strategies for Gillette Mach3 a multi-billion-dollar brand. He also delivered implementation in over 50 countries for Braun, spanning from Latin America to eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and ASEAN. Anis then pursued a PhD in Economics at the University of Fribourg, publishing peer-reviewed research on private innovation and public policies designed to safeguard our environment. Anis is now bringing this academic and private perspective to Resource Circularity at the World Economic Forum, leading the engagement with private organizations.

Tomas is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s office in Stockholm and the global leader of McKinsey’s Sustainability Practice which he founded in 2006. Tomas invented the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve concept and scaled up multiple green start-ups such as H2 Green Steel and Northvolt. Tomas authored various wide-spread articles such as the recent “Playing Offense” and spoke at numerous fora such as COP26/27 or McKinsey’s Green Business Building Summit. Tomas specializes in large-scale corporate transformations with industrial clients.

TITLE: Head of Global Idea Center Program
COMPANY: Indeed
BIO: Ute Neher is Head of Global Idea Center Program at Indeed. She and her team focused on implementing global executive briefings to shape the Future Workforce. Jointly with local Talent Strategy Advisors from the countries, all individualized data-driven briefings are designed on topics such as: recruiting performance & automation, employer branding, sustainability, diversity & inclusion, and the Indeed universe.  Previously, Ute Neher worked for Telekom AG for 16 years in various HR roles, most recently as Head of Global Talent Acquisition. She is also a board member of the Queb Federal Association for Employer Branding, Recruiting, and HR Marketing.

Dr. Ole Nordhoff is Chief Marketing Officer of the business unit Post & Parcel Germany (P&P) at DHL Group. Ole is responsible for the product portfolio of P&P as well as for all digital and physical consumer touchpoints (incl. retail network). He reports to Nikola Hagleitner, CEO Post and Parcel Germany, board member of DHL.

Ole Nordhoff has been part of the Group since 2012 and worked in different roles until he became a member of the divisional board of P&P in 2016.

Before joining DHL Group, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. in Cologne. In particular, he advised clients from logistics and tourism industries with functional deepening in strategy, operations and marketing.

Ole Nordhoff, born in 1978, studied mathematics and computer science and holds a doctorate in business administration.

Title: Expert Partner

Bio: Dr Robin Nuttall is an Expert Partner in the London office of McKinsey & Company. Robin is a global leader in McKinsey’s ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and Regulatory service line, and serves clients on these topics across a range of sectors. Robin is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, based at the Centre for Corporate Reputation within the Said Business School.