For CEOs and Board members only +10 FTE
October 7 // November 3 // November 25
3 sessions to think about business within planetary boundaries
Onboard program
Day 1
Planetary boundaries, systems thinking and innovation
Date: October 07
Location: UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Time: 2:00-9:30 pm
Dinner: included
Speakers
Eric Lambin
Professeur à l’UCLouvain et à Stanford.
Sybille van den Hove
Executive Director, Bridging for Sustainability.
Deep Time Walk
The Sprouts.
Ressource exclusive
Sarah Cornell (vidéo 2030)
Coordinatrice de recherches au Stockholm Resilience Center.
Day 2
Growth and post-growth approaches
Date: November 03
Location: UAntwerp (Antwerp)
Time: 5:30-9:30 pm
Dinner: included
Speakers
Tom Bauler
Professor of ecological economics at ULB.
Aurélien Acquier
Professor at ESCP Business School.
Ressource exclusive
Tim Jackson & Emmanuel Faber (video 2030).
Renowned economist and author of Prosperity withour growth, a major figure in post-growth thinking.
Former CEO of Danone, now Chairman of the ISSB, he campaigns for sustainable and responsible corporate governance.
Day 3
BCorp, Doughnut Economics and business models
Date: November 25
Location: Solvay (Brussels)
Time: 5:30-9:30 pm
Dinner: included
Speakers
Géraldine Thiry
Member of the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Belgium.
Olivier Legrain
CEO, IBA s.a.
Alexandre Helson
Co-CEO of Maison Dandoy.
Ressource exclusive
Jacques Crahay (video 2030)
ex-CEO de Cosucra, ex-Président de l’UWE (AKT).
The speakers
Eric Lambin
PhD, Professor at UCLouvain and Stanford University
Eric is a geographer and environmental scientist working at the interface of natural and social sciences. His research focuses on understanding the causes and impacts of land-use changes globally and in critical environmental "hot spots." Eric's work continues to inform sustainable land-use governance and contributes to solutions that address the interconnected challenges of land change, ecosystem health, and socio-economic development.
Sybille van den Hove
Executive Director, Bridging for Sustainability
Sybille has been exploring sustainability issues for over 3 decades, in science, at the science-policy interface, and with businesses. She has a degree in particle physics and a PhD in ecological economics. She is an independent director of Ion Beam Applications (IBA) and is one of the co-founders of 2030. She is a member of several advisory boards and juries in the field of sustainability. She was the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency until 2016.
Aurélien Acquier
Full Professor at ESCP Business School
Aurélien is a Full Professor in sustainability at ESCP Business School, Paris Campus. His work explores how sustainability and planetary boundaries impact management research and practice. In particular he explores how sustainability related concepts impact the corporation and the management of complex organizational forms (transnational corporations, network organizations, platform capitalism or sharing economy).
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He is the author of several articles and various volumes, chapters and books. At ESCP Business School, he has been Dean for Sustainability Transition between 2018 and 2022, has co-directed the Deloitte ESCP Chair in Circular Economy between 2020 and 2023, and is now the Scientific Director of the ESCP Sustainability Institute.
Tom Bauler
Professor at ULB
Tom Bauler holds the Chair "Environment & Economics" at ULB, where he teaches and works in an ecological economics perspective. He is also co-director of the Interfaculty Institute for Socio-Environmental Transformations and Research Advisor to the Vice-Rector for Sustainable Development at ULB.
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After being trained in economics (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg-FR) and a postgraduate in Sciences-Technology-Society in Lausanne (EPFL, CH) & Strasbourg, Tom invested some time into research on the governance of alternative indicators to GDP (PhD in Sciences, ULB, 2007). He has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University (Boston, USA) within the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS).
Starting from a Political Economy tradition and a transdisciplinary base in Ecological Economics, his research mixes approaches from economic and political sociology with the sociology of science and technology and analyses interdependencies between environmental and economic governance. Lately his research projects evolve on questions related to Socio-ecological Justice, Social-Ecological Protection as well as Ex- and Innovation Studies.
Alexandre Helson
Co-CEO of Maison Dandoy
Together with his brother, Alexandre represents the 7th generation to take over and lead Maison Dandoy, an iconic institution founded in 1829 and a Belgian reference in speculoos and artisanal biscuits.
Alexandre invites us to rethink business through the lens of planetary boundaries, balancing tradition and transformation. He explores how to evolve a family legacy into a model aligned with the economic, social, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Olivier Legrain
CEO IBA
After four years as auditor with Didier Claes and Associates, Olivier joined IBA SA in 1996 as Controller and was particularly involved in the IPO of the company. In 1998 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Scanditronix Medical AB Sweden, the new subsidiary of IBA’s dosimetry activities.
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He returned to the Belgian headquarters for a period of two years before taking the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wellhöfer Scanditronix AB from 2001 to 2003 in Sweden. After having successfully managed the dosimetry branch of operations, Olivier Legrain took control of IBA Molecular in 2003 as President. IBA Molecular used to be the radiopharmaceuticals branch of IBA Group. These activities were sold in 2015 in line with the company’s strategy to divest non-core assets to focus on proton therapy and associated technologies.
In 2011, he became the Group's Chief Strategy Officer, then CEO in May 2012.
In 2020, he co-founded the Collectif 2030 alongside Jacques Crahay, Sybille van den Hove and Pierre Mottet: an alliance of CEOs and directors committed to a more sustainable economy, through the role of the company.
Géraldine Thiry
Director, National Bank of Belgium
Géraldine is an economist and social scientist with a multidimensional professional experience encompassing research, teaching, and governance. Driven by a sense of justice (intra- and intergenerational), she strives to engage students, collaborators and the public in critical thinking and active citizenship.
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As an ecological economist, Géraldine examines the purpose, driving forces and limits of economic systems based on GDP growth at various levels (macro, meso and micro). Her research focuses on new wealth indicators, the links between poverty and the environment, sustainable business models and the Doughnut economics. Since September 2023, she has been an executive board member of the National Bank of Belgium, in charge of data analytics, micro-data management, statistics and bank resolution.
Since September 2023, she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Belgium, in charge of data analysis, micro-data management, statistics and banking resolution.
For CEOs and Board members only
+10 FTE
Onboard
october 07 // november 03 // november 25
1400€ EXCL. VAT
We’ll welcome alumni in 2030’s community with a 50% gift on their membership fee!
For interested active members, please contact the staff directly
This program is supported by professors Valérie Swaen (Louvain School of Management, UCLouvain), Marek Hudon (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, ULB), Luc Van Liedekerke (UAntwerpen) and PhD student Sabrina Courtois (LSM, UCLouvain).
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Admission criteria
Be CEO or President of a company with more than 10 employees, or members of boards of directors with more than 50 employees.
Be benevolent, open to dialogue and an active listener.
Be comfortable in English (listening).