Filippo Veglio

Filippo Veglio is Managing Director, Global & Social Impact at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The Council is a CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that works toward accelerating the transition to a sustainable world by making more sustainable business more successful. Engaging senior representatives of member companies across various industry sectors, business organizations, multilateral institutions, NGOs and academia, Filippo is responsible for the WBCSD’s work on the topics of Social Impact and the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, he manages the Council’s relationship with its Global Network of more than 60 partner organizations around the world. Filippo, who joined the WBCSD in 2005, is a Swiss national and is fluent in six languages. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He has been a professional tennis player and was a member of the Swiss Davis Cup team.

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Sinta Kaniawati

Sinta Kaniawati was born in Bandung - Indonesia, and has a degree in Agronomy from Bogor Agriculture Institute. She started in 1990 at Unilever Indonesia as a management trainee, followed by various roles in Marketing for international/national brands and Customer Development and was assigned as senior level at Unilever Indonesia Foundation in 2007 which focuses on improving health-hygiene-nutrition, reducing environmental impact and improving livelihoods through sustainable socio-economic community programmes. The Foundation obtained many recognitions between 2007 – 2015 including the Energy Globe Award, Indonesian MDG Award as well as Indonesian CSR Award, Sustainability Business Award and Finance Asia Award. These achievements have also made Unilever Indonesia one of the leading organisations in CSR/Sustainability in Indonesia. She is a LEAD Indonesia Fellow (cohort 15), and held several roles in professional organization on Sustainability, Business Inclusiveness, Corporate Responsibility, Disaster Risk Reduction/Humanitarian issues as well as Cultural Exchange program.

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Shoichi Ando

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Haruhiro Tsubota

Mr. Tsubota began working at Komatsu Ltd. in 1979. In the 30 years since then, he has been engaged in the development of construction machinery in the design and research departments. From 2009, he has been managing environmental improvement projects for the entire Komatsu Group in the Environmental Management Department. He took up his current work in 2013 as a supervisory position. He participated in the annual meeting in Montreux, Switzerland as a liaison delegate at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). As well as serving as secretary and member of the Sound Material-cycle Society Committee of the Japan Machinery Federation, he also holds positions at the Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation, and on the Environment and Energy Policy Roundtable, at the Japan Center for Economic Research. He is looking forward for a future path for Komatsu Ltd., quickly picking up on global and national trends.

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Seiji Yamagishi

Born in Kyoto in 1965. After graduating from Keio University with a Bachelor of Economics in 1988, he joined the Taiyo Kobe bank, Ltd（current Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation). He was appointed General Manager of Corporate Planning Dept. of Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd. in 2012. Since 2014, he has served as General Manager of CSR Dept. of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and General Manager of CSR Dept. of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc..

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Hikaru Kobayashi

After graduating from Keio University, Prof. Dr. Kobayashi joined the present Ministry of the Environment (formerly the Environment Agency) in 1973. From 1995, he was in charge of inviting to Japan the 3rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He also handled domestic and international negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and helped draft Japan’s first law to promote countermeasures against global warming. He was appointed to Vice Minister of the Environment in July 2009, after serving in various other posts including Director-General of the Environmental Policy Bureau where he was in charge of polices related to Minamata disease. Mr. Kobayashi retired in January 2011 and took up a position as professor at Keio University from April 2011 to March 2015. Currently, he serves as a project professor, as well as a senior fellow of IGES. He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees at Tokyo University. He studied for two years in France as a government student of Japan at Institut d’ Urbanisme de Paris. For contribution to local administration, he was Director of the Industrial Waste Management Division, City of Kitakyushu. For “green economy”, he has authored a number of books on Japan’s pollution experiences as well as those on eco-housing, based on his own experience in his home.

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