Bridging the Gap:
Equipping Educators for
Sustainable Development
Sulitest official event at the United Nations
Meet the speakers
Panel 1: Quality assurance and assessment as drivers for change
Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor at Financial Times
Andrew Jack is global education editor for the Financial Times, writing on educational issues around the world and editorial lead for the free FT schools programme. He was previously head of curated content, deputy editor of the big read section, pharmaceuticals correspondent, and a foreign correspondent in France and Russia. He oversees the free FT Schools Digest and the Business School Insider newsletters. He is the author of Inside Putin's Russia and The French Exception.
Duncan Ross, Chief Data Officer at Times Higher Education
Duncan Ross is Chief Data Officer at Times Higher Education, and created the THE Impact Rankings, which now has more than 2100 universities volunteering data on their actions to further the SDGs. He was highly commended as data leader of the year in the British Data Awards, and was identified as one of DataIQ’s 100 Most Influential People in Data in 2022. He co-chairs the HESI Rankings, Ratings, and Assessment Action Group. He plays bass, badly.
Katrin Muff, President of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR)
Katrin Muff serves as President of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) and is a Director of the Institute for Business Sustainability. She is a thought leader in sustainability managementwith focus on the mindset shift of leaders and organizations to create a positive impact. She was Dean at Business School Lausanne for a decade. She consulted Swiss universities and co-founded a start-up incubator. Prior, her business career covered strategic leadership roles at ALCOA in Europe, Russia and the US, and at P&G in the Netherlands. Katrin hold a PhD in Leadership and lives in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Leigh Kamolins, Director of Analytics & Evaluation at QS
Leigh Kamolins is the Director of Analytics & Evaluation at QS, with a decade of experience working with higher education institutions globally. Responsible for rankings, evaluation frameworks, and analytics platformsat QS, Leigh has a background in performance evaluation and system design in the UK and Australia. His previous experiences include the UK Department for Education and working on public sector anti-corruption frameworks in Australia. Leigh holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Monash University in Australia, including study abroad at King’s College London and an MBA in Executive Management from Central European University in Vienna.
Lily Bi, President and CEO of AACSB International
Lily Bi, President and CEO of AACSB International. Bi brings over 30 years of experience in strategy setting, global growth and development, audit, and technology innovation. Bi has held executive positions in multiple industries, corporations, and nonprofit associations across the United States, Japan, Singapore, and China. Bi received a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida.
Susan Hart, Associate Director of EFMD Quality Services
Professor Susan Hart is an international academic leader with more than 30 years’ experience in leading institutions across Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. From 2016 until April 2022, she served as Executive Dean of Durham University Business School, following some 20 years UK of academic leadership and several academic appointments worldwide. She has served on the Board of Directors of AACSB, the European Advisory Committee and Accreditation Panels for AACSB, as well as the Executive Committee of the Academy of Marketing in the UK. Her role as an Associate Director of EFMD-Quality Services focuses on the EQUIS accreditation system, its strategic development and operations. Currently working with a variety of Higher Education Institutions, her research and leadership expertise underpins her perspectives on transformative innovation for academic institutions.
Moderated by
John North, Executive Director at Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI)
John is an integrative entrepreneur working across society, business and education to catalyse the development of global responsibility. During his undergraduate studies John founded two internet companies and went on to complete an MBA degree at the University of Pretoria's Graduate School of Management. He then worked at Discovery Health before joining Accenture's Strategy consulting division where he later set up the Sustainability practice in Dublin, Ireland. His passion to make a difference in his home country brought him back to SA in 2009 where he combines local advisory work with an international role as Executive Director of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI). The GRLI is held in strategic partnership with EFMD, AACSB International, oikos international and was co-founded with endorsement from the UN Global Compact.
Panel 2: Expanding innovative practices – the role of networks
Meghan Fay Zahniser, Executive Director at AASHE
Meghan Fay Zahniser is the Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). She has been with the organization since 2009, previously holding the positions of Director of Programs and STARS Program Manager. Prior to AASHE, Meghan worked as Sustainability Specialist at NELSON; Manager of Community at the U.S. Green Building Council, and Environmental Educator for the University at Buffalo Green Office. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, with concentrations in environmental studies and health & human services, and a master’s degree in Organization Management and Development.
Meredith Storey, Senior Manager at PRME
Meredith Storey is the Senior Manager of The Impactful Five (i5): Learning in Leadership Education workstream at the UN Global Compact – Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative. In this role, Dr. Storey leads the process of examining characteristics of playful learning experiences in business education, funded by the LEGO Foundation. Before taking this position, Meredith was the Education and Data Analytics Manager for the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) - SDG Academy. Storey completed her PhD in Business Education for Sustainable Development from the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick (IE) in 2020.
Patrick Paul Walsh, Vice President of Education and Director of the SDG Academy at SDSN
Patrick Paul Walsh is the Vice President of Education and Director of the SDG Academy at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is on secondment from University College Dublin where he remains a Full Professor of International Development Studies, Director of the UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development in partnership with the SDG Academy and President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society (SSISI) of Ireland. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Government of Ireland Fellow, Marie Curie (Brussels) Fellow, IZA (Bonn) Fellow, RSA (London) Fellow, EIIR (Brussels) Fellow and REPOA (Tanzania) fellow. Besides academic positions in Trinity College Dublin, K.U. Leuven, Harvard University and Columbia University, he has also held positions in the United Nations, European Commission, IMF and World Bank. His current focus is on Sustainable Development Education than is informed by Science, Practice and Policy.
Quinn Runkle, Director of Education at SOS-UK
Quinn is SOS-UK’s Director of Education. She leads the Education Directorate’s work to embed sustainability through all aspects of learning and to transform our educational institutions in response to the climate and ecological crises. Quinn holds a Masters in Education from the UCL Institute of Education and a BA in Geography and Political Science with a concentration in Sustainability from the University of British Columbia. Quinn is part of the 2017 class of ‘Top 30 Under 30’ Environmental Educators, named by the North American Association of Environmental Education and in 2022 was named a Fellow of the UK National Association of Environmental Education.
Moderated by
Kathleen Ng, Director of Strategic Initiatives at McGill University, Ambassador of Sulitest & HESI
Kathleen brings breadth and depth of knowledge from almost 25 years working at McGill University, with over 16 years of experience working in campus sustainability; a diverse academic background ranging from science and humanities to the prestigious International Master’s Program in Practicing Management; and an extensive network of collaborators from the local to international levels. She is Sulitest’s official liaison to UNESCO contributing to such initiatives as the UNESCO NGO Oceans Taskforce and UNESCO Greening Education Program Working Groups; co-chair of the HESI Action Group on Ratings, Rankings and Assessments (temporarily on leave); and longtime HEASC Fellow. She leads the Strategic Initiatives team at McGill’s University Advancement unit, formulating complex, cross-Faculty projects for creation of structured opportunities to collaborate with academic leaders towards transformative impact for the future we want.
Other contributions
Jean-Christophe Carteron, Co-Founder of Sulitest
Board Member of different NGOs, Foundations, and Social enterprise, he is a leading actor in working groups mainly focused on social responsibility for higher education institutions (UN PRME, Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, SDSN…). In charge of the international projects of the SD commission of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, he was the French representative of higher education at the Rio + 20 summit in 2012 and became special advisor of what will become the most important voluntary contribution of this summit: HESI. Passionate about systemic approaches and convinced of the central place of education, he co-founded Sulitest.
Aurélien Décamps, Co-Founder of Sulitest
Aurélien Décamps is a social entrepreneur in the field of education for sustainable development, co-founder of Sulitest, which develops online tools to mainstream sustainability literacy. PhD in Economics, he is an affiliate professor at KEDGE Business School and an affiliate researcher at the University of Bordeaux. Deeply convinced of the need to transform systems and organizations through the lenses of sustainability, he is active in academic, professional and UN-based networks such as HESI (Higher Education Sustainability Initiative), UNGC's PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) or SDSN (Sustainable Development Solutions Network).
Gabriela de Carvalho Bezerra, Content and R&D Lead at Sulitest
Gabriela is the Content and R&D Lead at Sulitest, overseeing operations and strategy for teams within the Learning division. She brings 10 years of experience from various nonprofit organizations and innovative companies across three different countries. Gabriela holds an undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Colgate University (USA), and postgraduate degrees in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Environmental Studies from EHESS Paris (France).
Estela Castelli Florino Pilz, Account Manager & Project Manager at Sulitest
Estela develops international partnerships across a network of universities, aiming to elevate sustainability practices in education and operations. In her capacity of Account Manager, she extends crucial support to universities in implementing Sulitest's assessment tool, TASK, while forging key partnerships. As Project Manager for the PRME i5 (Impactful 5) project, Estela is responsible for defining and managing the Sulitest milestones, roadmap and reporting in close collaboration with PRME and other project partners. Estela holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Hult International Business School (USA/UK).
About TASK™
TASK™ provides higher education institutions (HEIs) with a common international framework for measuring, monitoring and advancing students' sustainability knowledge.
In practice, TASK is an online "exam" consisting of around 100 multiple-choice questions, covering a wide range of sustainability topics.
Its results offer HEIs a comprehensive diagnosis of sustainability knowledge!
About Sulitest
Over the last 10 years Sulitest has offered universities tools with one mission at heart – to mainstream sustainability literacy worldwide!
Sulitest is a movement recognized by accreditation bodies and academic networks.
Sulitest launched TASK™ in March 2023, and already has over 30 HEIs part of the Change Leader community.
