Boards Oversight of the Circular Value Chain: WCEF2025 accelerator session

Board Oversight of Sustainability for Value Creation

📅  Date: May 15, 2025
🕐 Time: 10:30 – 12:00 BRT | 14:30 – 16:00 CET
📍 Online

Join us for this session taking place at the World Circular Economy Forum, in partnership with Chapter Zero Brazil. Discover how corporate boards can lead the shift to a circular economy by integrating sustainability into governance and supply chain oversight. This session provides practical tools, case studies, and strategies to help boards drive resilience, compliance, and long-term value creation. Gain insights into board-level leadership and actionable steps to accelerate circularity in your organization.

This session will explore how corporate boards can drive the transition to a circular economy by strengthening oversight of sustainability and supply chain practices.

Key questions include: How can boards integrate circular economy principles into governance and strategy? What role do boards play in ensuring supply chain resilience and sustainability? And how can they address risks and opportunities arising from resource constraints and shifting regulations?

The session is highly relevant to the global transition, as board-level leadership is critical for embedding circularity into business models and ensuring alignment with ESG goals and regulatory frameworks. It highlights how boards can champion circular strategies that not only reduce waste and emissions but also enhance competitiveness and long-term value creation.

Confirmed speakers: 

• Beatriz Luz (BR), Exchange 4 Change Brazil and founder Instituto Brasileiro de Economia Circular IBEC

• Minna Halme, Professor of Sustainability Management at Aalto University School of Business, where she heads Sustainability in Business Research. 
• Katarina Lindstrom, Non-Executive Board Director, COO Hempel

This webinar is an accelerator session at the World Circular Economy Forum 2025. On social media, you can follow the event with #WCEF2025. Read more about other Accelerator Sessions and the World Circular Economy Forum at: https://wcef2025.com/