Anna is a corporate lawyer with experience both in law-firms and as in-house legal counsel in Italy and Germany, where she advised on several M&A transactions. She strongly believes in the necessity of a more sustainable economy and equitable society. She recently joined Purpose to use her expertise to pursue a change in this direction. At Purpose she supports the development and spread of steward-ownership structures internationally with a focus on Latin America. Anna is also associate of On Purpose, the purpose-before-profit leadership programme.

I am an entrepreneur, coach, trainer and visionary. After selling my last commercial company and after going through private bancruptcy, I label myself as someone who met the boundaries of our systems and the end of its functionality. As a public speaker, I offer thoughtful content and as a focus: transformation on all levels. I do not go for information exchange - I go for impact, moving the audience and leaving a footprint.

A security and foreign policy expert turned sustainable business and development innovator, Jessica Berlin helps governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations to tackle global challenges with sustainable, scalable solutions. As founder and Managing Director of CoStruct, she designs innovative PPP, CSR, and economic development programs that drive both business growth and societal impact. Her work is grounded in 12+ years of cross-cutting experience in foreign policy, security, economic development, entrepreneurship, and tech innovation in Africa, Asia, Europe, MENA, and the US. She is a frequent panelist and keynote speaker on foreign affairs, policy innovation, Tech4Dev, and the future of aid. Her TEDx talk on the transatlantic democratic crisis has been described as “brilliant”, “moving”, and “one of the most powerful and inspiring TED talks” (https://youtu.be/vi91VI71Nj8). Jessica holds an M.Sc. in Political Economy of Emerging Markets from King’s College London, a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University, and speaks five languages.

Dirk Philipsen teaches economic history at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He also serves as Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, co-director of the Duke Sustainability Engagement Certificate, Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, and founding associate of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. His research and writing is focused on sustainability, wellbeing economics, and the history of capitalism. His latest work is published by Princeton University Press under the title The Little Big Number – How GDP Came to Rule the World, And What to Do About It (2015/17). His current work is focused on alternative economic performance indicators, the nature and logic of economic growth, and the moral imperative of decoupling material throughput from human development.

As a political and business analyst with 15 years of experience, has spent the last five years working on the transformation to a low-carbon economy in line with the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit, Juan Pablo coordinates Greenpeace’s global climate political work across issue areas and its national and regional organisations. He provides quality strategic advice to global program planning, enabling the organisation to influence the political environment and challenge power. Formerly with Ecofys as a consultant on energy efficiency, Juan Pablo has also worked at the European Climate Foundation and was a lead on strategic alliances at the International Council on Clean Transportation. He has been with Greenpeace since July 2017 and is based in Berlin.