European Boards Growth & Resilience Series

Boards Impact Forum and Chapter Zero Netherlands are pleased to host the second webinar in the European Boards Growth & Resilience Series, developed in collaboration with the Chapter Zero Alliance and several European Chapters, namely Chapter Zero France, Chapter Zero Brussels and Climate Governance Initiative Greece.

The session will combine keynote insights, board-level discussion and interactive breakout conversations among participants. Insights gathered during the webinar will contribute to the development of the European Boards Growth and Resilience Roadmap, a cross-European initiative aimed at strengthening board leadership for sustainable competitiveness.

European companies are operating in an era of rapidly escalating disclosure expectations. Regulatory frameworks such as the CSRD are reshaping how organizations report on sustainability, risk and long-term value. Investors continue to expect material climate- and nature-related risks to be disclosed with clarity and consistency, as this provides confidence that the organization is navigating complex, long-term challenges. At the same time, broader stakeholders are demanding greater transparency on how boards govern these risks and opportunities — and how they are integrated into strategy.

For supervisory boards, the challenge is no longer simply to ensure compliance with reporting obligations. Boards must promote transparency, integrity and accountability through disclosures that fairly inform investors and stakeholders — overseeing systems that enable true and fair reporting of how changes in climate and nature affect financial performance and long-term prospects. When approached with rigour and intent, disclosure becomes a forward-looking discipline: one that surfaces critical gaps, reveals emerging risks and opportunities, and signals how effectively an organization is building resilience. This session, taking place on 28th of May from 08:00 – 09:30 AM CET, focuses on the Transparency and Disclosure principle of the Chapter Zero Alliance governance framework and explores how boards can move from compliance-driven reporting toward strategic transparency that strengthens trust, informs capital allocation and drives long-term value creation.

The discussion will address how supervisory boards can:

• Safeguard the accuracy, credibility and consistency of climate- and nature-related disclosures, aligning them with the organization’s strategy, commitments and legal obligations
• Apply consistent methodologies, metrics and frameworks that enable stakeholders to benchmark performance over time and across peers
• Oversee robust systems, expertise and assurance processes that underpin the integrity of data, assumptions and disclosures
• Use disclosure as a strategic lens to assess organizational preparedness, surface gaps in capabilities, and evidence competitive advantage
• Move from compliance-driven reporting to strategic transparency that builds trust with investors and stakeholders and improves access to and cost of capital

The webinar will feature insights from leading board members and governance experts and will be moderated by Liselotte Engstam, Chair of Boards Impact Forum.

Speakers include:

• Jaap Winter, Partner of Phyleon Leadership & Governance and one of Europe’s foremost authorities on corporate governance. He is Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at INSEAD and Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Behaviour at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2001 he has been actively engaged in shaping corporate governance systems across Europe, including as Chairman of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts set up by the European Commission. He chairs the Supervisory Board of Royal Schiphol Group, the Board of the Van Gogh Museum, and the Board of Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
• Gaudiana Giusti, lawyer and independent board director with deep expertise in corporate governance, capital markets, ESG strategy and regulatory compliance. She serves as an independent director and member of the Risk Committee at A2A S.p.A. and as independent director at Geox S.p.A. She is a Steering Committee Member of Chapter Zero Italy, the Italian chapter of the Climate Governance Initiative developed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, and an occasional lecturer at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and Università LUISS Guido Carli on corporate governance matters.
• Stéphanie Capdeville, independent board director and climate finance expert with a career spanning capital markets, ESG investment, carbon trading and development finance. She serves as Independent Director at the Green for Growth Fund (nominated by IFC), a Luxembourg-domiciled fund investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency across Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Northern Africa, and as a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial. Since 2021 she has served as an independent expert for the European Commission, reviewing EU blended finance investment projects under the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus.
• Maria Psillaki, Professor of Economics at the University of Piraeus and independent board director with expertise spanning corporate finance, corporate governance, risk management and ESG standards. She has held research and teaching positions at leading institutions including the University of Chicago, Rutgers University and Birkbeck College, University of London. She directs the Laboratory of Financial Markets, Risk Management and Corporate Governance at the University of Piraeus, serves on the Advisory Committee to the Capital Market Commission of Greece, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Investors Association. She has deepened her expertise in sustainability governance through executive programmes at Harvard Business School and IMD.

The session will combine keynote insights, board-level discussion and interactive breakout conversations among participants. Insights gathered during the webinar will contribute to the development of the European Boards Growth and Resilience Roadmap, a cross-European initiative aimed at strengthening board leadership for sustainable competitiveness.

A collaborative event organized by Boards Impact Forum, Chapter Zero France, Chapter Zero Netherlands, Chapter Zero Brussels and Climate Governance Initiative Greece.