About our conference
Doing Good Doing Well (DGDW) is an annual conference at IESE Business School, organized and promoted by the school's Responsible Business Club. Since its inaugural year in 2001, it has grown to be the largest student-run conference covering responsible business and sustainability in Europe.
Agenda for the 25th February 2026
Speaker highlights
Professor Michael Posner
Director - Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern
Professor Posner has spent 40+ years embedding human rights into business practice and policy, from shaping U.S. foreign policy to founding the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. As a member of the White House Apparel Industry Partnership Task Force in the mid-'90s, he helped found the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization that brings together corporations, local leaders, universities, and NGOs to promote corporate accountability for working conditions in the apparel industry. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization.
Rocio Alocer
Managing Director - Norrsken Barcelona
With +14 years of experience at the crossroads of sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation, Rocio has co-founded and scaled several impact ventures, such as TAPP Water, Muoki and Barrabes Earth, advised corporate organizations on their impact strategies (incl. Deloitte, Barclays and Fundacion Telefonica among others) and is currently Managing Director of Norrsken Barcelona, Europe’s largest hub for technology and impact. Rocío holds an MSc in Sustainability & Social Innovation from HEC Paris, a Double BA in Global Business by DCU and ICADE, and is passionate about leveraging business and technology to drive positive global change.
Christopher Adamo
Head of Global Sustainability Impact & B Corp - Danone
Chris has over 20 years of experience working on a variety of environmental & climate issues across the corporate food sector, non-profit advocacy, academia, and government. He currently helps Danone build sustainability strategies and policies to implement its Danone Impact Journey and leads the development of partnerships to help accelerate and scale progress across priority topics such as climate change and regenerative agriculture. Prior to joining Danone, Chris spent over a decade in the U.S. federal government leading strategies on topics such as agriculture, natural resources, and climate change. He served as chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Barack Obama, co-leading strategies to implement the U.S. climate action plan, and previously led the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry helping shape the U.S. government’s domestic agriculture and food policies.
Sylvia Scheurer
Innovation & Sustainable Finance Consultant
With years of experience at UNICEF and the UN World Food Programme, Sylvia now works as an independent consultant on recovery and reconstruction financing in Ukraine, with a focus on how cities rebuild in a war context. Her work examines how financing constraints, limited administrative capacity, and sequencing shape what municipalities can realistically access and implement when assumptions about stability, markets, and risk no longer apply. She focuses on the practical conditions that shape the rebuilding of cities and infrastructure under extreme constraints, and on why early financing decisions matter for the physical future.
Paul Polman
Business Leader, Investor, Philanthropist
Paul Polman is an internationally recognised leader in sustainable business and a co-architect of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As CEO of Unilever (2008-2019), he proved that purpose-driven strategies deliver exceptional results. Through board roles, impact investments, and his bestselling book Net Positive, Paul continues to inspire responsible leadership and drive global progress towards a sustainable future. Thinkers50 named Paul and his co-author Andrew Winston 1st in its 2025 Ranking, recognising their lasting influence on business and management.
Sebastian Kind
Founder and CEO
With two decades of experience in the energy sector, Sebastian Kind is the Founder and CEO of RELP, where he leads the organization’s mission to accelerate renewable energy transitions worldwide. Formerly Argentina’s Undersecretary of Renewable Energy, he designed and implemented the RenovAr Programme, which mobilized over US$11 billion and 9.8 GW of clean energy investments. His work bridges policy, finance, and innovation to create scalable models for clean energy deployment under real-world constraints. A mechanical engineer with postgraduate studies in renewable energy and executive training at Harvard, Sebastián continues to shape global energy discussions through his leadership and academic contributions.
With thanks to this year's lead sponsor
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