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World Water Week 2024

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August 25, 2024 - August 29, 2024

Join Roland Berger during World Water Week 2024!

Collaboration is critical in addressing global water challenges at scale and ensuring a water-resilient future

With the threat of water scarcity growing worldwide, businesses are taking action to improve their water resilience. But improvements to internal processes can only go so far.

Join Roland Berger's Water Team as we bring together experts in water strategy, technology, conservation, and finance together with a household brand name to examine how collaborative action could mitigate water risk in high-stressed water basins, while also generating real business and community benefits.

Our session is titled: "Thinking ‘outside the fence’: Maximizing benefits through collaborative action" and takes place on Tuesday, 27 August, 16:00-17:00 CET

This interactive virtual panel session hosted as part of the official World Water Week program will focus on real collaborative actions being taken in high-stressed basins, particularly across Central and South America, with learnings on how to make a lasting, positive impact in other regions around the world.

The session will:

  • Demonstrate how water-related risks manifests in businesses and local communities
  • Inspire strategic thinking on water, highlighting the varied benefits businesses can realize by thinking 'beyond the fence'
  • Support leaders to be more successful in implementing water strategies in partnership with relevant stakeholders

Featured speakers
Moderator
Portrait of Bill Malarkey, Partner, Roland Berger
Bill Malarkey, Partner, Roland Berger
A US-based Partner in Roland Berger's global Water practice, Bill brings over two decades of experience in international water and infrastructure markets, with a focus on areas such as strategy development, water risk, M&A, public-private partnerships, and corporate and project finance. Bill is a seasoned speaker, panelist, and moderator. Over the last year, he has led several expert panel discussions on topics including industrial water risk, water reuse and water innovation and investment at events including the Global Water Summit, Sciens Rethinking Water and The Roth Conference, among others. He brings a deep understanding of issues related to water scarcity and the growing threats of water risk to large industrials.
Panelist
Portrait of Nathalie Dörfliger, Watershed Sciences & Stewardship Director, Danone
Nathalie Dörfliger, Watershed Sciences & Stewardship Director, Danone
Nathalie has a scientific background in hydrogeology (PhD in 1996 of Neuchâtel University in Switzerland) and integrated water resources management, with more than 25 years as scientist in a public research institute in France (BRGM, French geological survey). Now in charge of Water Stewardship of watersheds located in high physical risk areas for Danone, Nathalie brings support to different country business units to set up collective actions of watershed preservation with local stakeholders, focusing in particular in nature-based solutions, related to land conservation and agriculture.
Panelist
Portrait of Victoria Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder, FIDO
Victoria Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder, FIDO
Victoria is founder and CEO of FIDO, a pioneering tech company whose quantifiable AI is revolutionizing the management of water networks in the face of climate change-induced scarcity. A passionate believer in collaboration, she plays a pivotal role in a growing number of new unconventional partnerships which link utilities with forward-thinking corporations and other non-traditional stakeholders in stressed river basins around the shared goal of water replenishment. Victoria is a charismatic thought leader and passionate speaker on the power of disruptive technologies to drive positive social, climate and economic outcomes. She also co-chairs the Indian digital working group, set up by the UK Department for Business and Trade.
Panelist
Portrait of Anaïs Julienne, Senior Investment Officer, Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Anaïs Julienne, Senior Investment Officer, Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Anais is a Senior Investment Officer in the global water team at the IFC, based in Washington DC. She previously served as Senior Investment officer for urban infrastructure and Sustainable Cities Program Lead for Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining IFC Anais was an Advisor to Macquarie Capital Infrastructure and Energy division, supporting investment sourcing and execution in Latin America. She also served as Investor Relations advisor to the Colombian National Infrastructure Agency’s president, focusing on private capital mobilization and stressed projects turnaround. She was a director for strategy and new product development at the Colombian National Development Bank (FDN) and worked at Citibank, covering the Andean region.
Panelist
Portrait of Alejandra López Rodríguez, Director, Water & Climate Solutions Program: The Nature Conservancy
Alejandra López Rodríguez, Director, Water & Climate Solutions Program: The Nature Conservancy
Alejandra López Rodríguez is the Water and Climate Program Director at TNC México. She is a public policy professional with a focus on freshwater and gender equity. Before joining TNC, Alejandra worked in international development at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, at the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India, and most recently in Mexico City’s Secretariat of Environment, where she led the Rainwater Harvesting Program and technical teams focused on Waste Management and Circular Economy. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Panelist
Portrait of Ana Laura Elizondo Quintanilla, Water Security Project Manager, FEMSA Foundation
Ana Laura Elizondo Quintanilla, Water Security Project Manager, FEMSA Foundation
Ana Laura is responsible for FEMSA Foundation’s water security initiatives including the Lazos de Agua Program and Water Funds, which includes the Latin American Water Funds Partnership. Prior to this role, she served as Sustainability Executive for Coca-Cola FEMSA focusing on water, waste and energy issues. Prior to that, she was a consultant at CO2 Solutions and Sustainable Solutions in charge of greenhouse gas accounting and verifications. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering and Administration from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and a diploma in Project Management from the IT Institute.

View the full event program here .

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