Services
Consulting
I empower my clients to be perceived as credible and effective players in ethical issues in their core business.
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Experience
My clients come from different industries and, at first glance, have different concerns. But they have one thing in common: the desire to take an in-depth look at ethics, sustainability and responsibility. My contribution becomes evident by the selection of consulting projects across all subject areas.
- Consulting, interviews and workshop on the topic of sustainable investment (ESG) for a large corporate pension fund (>15 billion CHF AuM) as well as one of the largest pension funds in Switzerland (>15 billion CHF AuM)
- ESG strategy for securities for a public pension fund (>8 billion CHF AuM)
- Position paper climate change for a private bank
- ESG Ratings Assessments: Advising a large public pension fund (>20 bn CHF AuM) on the choice of a rating.
- Around 30 engagement dialogues with global listed companies on ESG issues, together with an investment fund
- Code of Responsible AI for a Swiss AI company
- Developing an audit system for contact tracing in light of the Covid pandemic as a ForHumanity Fellow.
- Report on digitization and ethics at Alternative Bank Switzerland
- Data protection analysis for a start-up in the field of e-health. Implications of the GDPR.
- Workshop on cryptocurrencies, blockchain & ethics (context: internal workshop at a retail bank).
- Workshops on Digitalization, Fintech & Ethics (context: expert lab for representatives of various European banks)
- multi-tiered sustainability training concept for a retail bank with >600 employees
- Sustainability strategy for an insurance company with >500 employees, incl. values discussion, materiality assessment, stakeholder survey
- Sustainability strategy for a software company with >500 employees, with a specific focus on reconciling expectations from a private equity investor with the company's distinctive culture
- Stakeholder community engagement strategy for international pharmaceutical company, adapted to the Swiss location
- Numerous in-depth analyses of sustainability reports from global companies
- Expert for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) (>19'000 employees)
- Stakeholder survey plus strategy report for a multi-stakeholder initiative.
- The Corporate Social Responsibility Story of Chiquita
- Strategy workshop “Sustainability in investment promotion” for an investment promotion agency
Topics
Value strategy for players in the financial industry. Advising investors and other players in the financial industry on sustainable investments.
Advising companies on integrating ethics in the design, promotion and deployment of new technologies.
Advising companies to make CSR and sustainability credible components of their business model.
Rainwater Harvesting in Bangladesh
In 2017 I visited various NGO projects in Bangladesh and India in my role at the time as a board member of the Buchi Foundation.
Robinhood: democratized finance on shaky ground
More than 900 years after the heroic figure Robin Hood set out to steal from the rich and give to the poor, two American entrepreneurs borrowed his name to establish a fintech company that claims to “democratize finance for all”. But the new Robinhood’s claim of ‘democracy’ is on shaky ground. Just as the company can make financial markets accessible to everyone, it can also deny access within a split second. This is what happened when they shut down Gamestop trading on January 28, 2021. Thousands of investors were presented with a fait accompli.
Pension funds, climate change and the value of future pensions
Climate youth have a long-term horizon – they have that in common with pension funds. Anyone who invests in companies that promote climate change is wilfully depreciating the value of pensions.