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Don’t miss the European CSO Awards 2025
The Top 20 European CSOs were just announced by the Futur/io Institute, the organizers of the 2025 CSO Awards to take place during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The final winners will be announced during the awards ceremony, selected by a Grand Jury of esteemed sustainability voices. Don’t miss the event if you are in Davos, and if you’re not, you can learn more about the winners through interviews posted here on We Don’t Have Time after the event!
The Futur/io Institute just released its list of Europe's Top 20 Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) who are nominated for the CSO Awards 2025. These nominees were drawn from the Top100 CSOs of Europe list, compiled by Futur/io using an extensive database including all the major European companies, selected for their excellence in corporate sustainability based on a four-quadrant model.
The four-quadrant model criteria are developed by Futur/io and scientific partner the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College Business School, and supported by knowledge partners Denominator, specialized in human-centric data, Rainforest Partnership, focused on biodiversity and ClimateGPT by Erasmus.ai adding a balanced public sentiment on the Top 100 CSOs.
“With the CSO Awards, we want to create a tradition of celebrating the most prominent Chief Sustainability Officers of the world, highlighting the importance of championing change within corporations. That’s a tough challenge, but key to building desirable futures and a sustainable world,” says Harald Neidhardt, CEO & Curator of the Futur/io Institute.
“The purpose of having a Jury in our CSO Awards is to integrate the human factor into the evaluation criteria for our CSO Awards, helping to identify and promote CSOs who are not only effective sustainability leaders, but also empathetic, innovative, and capable of fostering positive change within their organisations and beyond,” added Harald Neidhardt.
Now, the Top 20 CSOs will be evaluated by a Grand Jury representing a diversity of influential and inspiring sustainability voices. The final winners will be announced at the CSO Awards Ceremony during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on January 20th, 2025. Interviews from the ceremony will be posted on We Don’t Have Time Play, so stay tuned!
The 20 CSO Awards Nominees are, in alphabetical order:
- Anna Celsing Klingberg - Alfa Laval
- Christoph Nabholz - Swiss Re
- Claire Lund - Gsk
- Cléa Martinet - Renault Group
- Constance Chalchat - BNP Paribas Cib
- Elena Valderrábano - Telefónica
- Ingrid De Ryck - Ab Inbev
- Karin Reiter - The Adecco Group
- Katharina Stenholm - DSM-Firmenich
- Katie McGinty - Johnson Controls
- Lena Hök - Skanska
- Linda Freiner - Zurich Insurance
- Márcia Balisciano - Relx
- Melanie Kubin-Hardewig - Deutsche Telekom
- Nicolas Mounard - Barry Callebaut Group
- Noémie Bauer - Pernod Ricard
- Pascal Brun - Zalando
- Petra Wicklandt - Merck Gruppe
- Rajita D'Souza - STMicroelectronics
- Saskia Günther - Swisscom
The Grand Jury:
- Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of the Club of Rome; Author & Chair of Earth4All
- John Elkington, Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans, known as “the Godfather of Sustainability”
- Claudia Malley, President and Managing Director of Partnerships at Economist Impact
- Livio Scalvini, co-founder and executive director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College London
- Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO and founder of Competent Boards
- José Manuel Gomes, Business Development Director at Medialivre, Portugal
- Chris Luebkeman, Head of the Strategic Foresight Hub at ETH Zürich and founder of [y]our2040
- Isabelle Grosmaître, Author and Founder and CEO at Goodness & Co.
- Harald Neidhardt, CEO and Curator of the Futur/io Institute, as the Chair of the Grand Jury
About Futur/io Institute
The Futur/io Institute is a pioneering organisation to serve the most impactful network of Chief Sustainability Officers dedicated to transforming businesses to drive positive impact for people, planet and prosperity. We do this through publications, podcasts and convening at inspiring locations like Davos, Basel, Lisbon, Venice and New York.
With a mission to inspire ambition, action and cross-pollination to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the institute provides a platform for thought leaders, innovators, and change-makers to shape the futures of business and society.
Futur/io works with organisations like the UNFCCC or corporations in leadership training and curates Executive Programmes to inspire future leaders in sustainable innovation. Each year in Davos, the institute organizes executive receptions and recently debuted the annual CSO Awards to shine a light on the leadership role of Chief Sustainability Officers.
Futur/io is based in Hamburg and works as a think-tank with a selected international and diverse faculty of 100+ leaders in sustainability. The most recent book “Leadership for Sustainable Futures” was published in May 2024 with Murmann Publishers. CEO & curator Harald Neidhardt hosts the CSO Impact Podcast.
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The initiative of Futur/io is going to inspire many CSOs to strive for higher achievements fuelling the means to sustainability.
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Lookin forward to this new edition of the CSO awards!
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@sarah_chabane_874 Will be a masssive event in davos