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Dr. Yasin Rofcanin

Dr. Yasin Rofcanin
Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management
Co-Director of the Future of Work Research Centre
School of ManagementUniversity of Bath, the UK

Professor Rofcanin works as a professor of human resource management and organizational psychology at the University of Bath School of Management. He earned his PhD from the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, and his BA from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. His research focuses on the intersection of work and nonwork life, with implications for employees, employers, and organizations. The overall theme of his research adopts a critical lens to the bright and the dark side of various HR practices and proactive work behaviours. Some of the current projects focus on leisure crafting, playful work design, idiosyncratic deals, proactivity, well-being, exhaustion, burnout, and flexible work practices. He has published across a wide range of prestigious journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management (USA), the Human Resource Management Journal, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. He has edited three books on a) idiosyncratic work deals, b) human flourishing, and c) healthy relations at work. He sits on the editorial boards of the major peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Victoria Hurth

Dr. Victoria Hurth
Independent Pracademic and Project Leader: ISO 37011 Purpose-Driven Organisations

Dr Victoria Hurth is an Independent Pracademic, executive advisor and a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Victoria advised the UN on the methodology for SDG 12.6.1 (sustainability reporting), co-led the 5-year development of the global ISO standard in Governance of Organisations (ISO37000), was Technical Author for the first national standard in Purpose-Driven Organisations and is currently Project Leader of the development of an equivalent ISO (ISO37011). Her forthcoming book: Beyond Profit: Purpose-Driven Leadership for a Wellbeing Economy outlines a holistic frame for governing long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). She is a non-executive Director for the Soil Association Certification Ltd and on the governance advisory board for Planet Mark. Victoria is an advisor for UnaTerra Venture Capital and SACE (Italy's national export credit agency). She has over 25 years' global experience in business transformation, previously working for 3M and Accenture and developing cutting edge theory, through practice, as an Associate Professor of Sustainable Business and Marketing.

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy, University of Cambridge; Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

Professor Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, PhD (ad eund, Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) FRSC FRSA WIJA is a world-leading scholar and jurist in the field of sustainable development law and governance. She serves as Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy in the University of Cambridge where she is also law fellow, director of studies and programme director in Lucy Cavendish College. Further, as senior director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, executive secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and chair of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative, she lectures and leads global collaborations for climate law and governance, biodiversity and natural resources stewardship, human rights, indigenous peoples rights and future generations, trade and investment law and other international law contributing to the global Sustainable Development Goals.

She has published over 24 books and over 160 papers in five languages, edits a series of volumes on international treaty regimes for sustainable development with Cambridge University Press, and serves on editorial/review boards of five international law journals, having co-founded three. She serves as Vice-President of the International Law Association of Canada, chair of the bit.bioEthics and Sustainability Board, chair and arbitrator of trade and sustainable development accords, councillor of the World Future Council, and chair of several award and scholarship juries, and is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, also a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the Centre for Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Governance and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge; a Fellow of the Balsillie School for International Affairs and the Waterloo Climate Initiative, as well as Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria and the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) in the University of Waterloo, both in Canada, among other commitments. She also holds over 20 years of international treaty negotiations, executive and capacity-building experience spanning over 80 countries as senior advisor to UN treaty negotiations, international organizations and countries on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. For instance, she has served as Senior Legal Counsel to the UNFCCC Presidency and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Senior Legal Expert to the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) during the drafting of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, and a senior official in the Canada's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and she helped found the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of Canada. In 2022, she was elected Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a Fellow of Royal Society of the Arts in the UK and laureate of the prestigious HE Judge CG Weeramantry International Justice Award, the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum and the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship of the University of Cambridge (2020-22), among other international honours.

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