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Guest Speakers

Yale attracts world-class speakers from all corners of the globe.

The SOM Leaders Forum attracts senior business leaders from well-known organizations.
The Yale Forest Forum provides opportunities to hear from leaders in forest management, conservation, or policy in an informal setting.
Seminars on industrial ecology, faculty- and student-led panels, and other speakers’ series draw an impressive list of thought leaders.

Following are just a few of the notable people who have spoken recently at Yale:

Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange
Sir Nicholas Stern, Economist and author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
John Elkington, Chair of SustainAbility
William Parrett, CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Michael Schellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, co-authors of “The Death of Environmentalism”
E. Stanley O’Neal, Chairman, President and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Co.
Susan V. Berresford, President, The Ford Foundation
Goran Carstedt, Former President, IKEA North America
Bill Malloch, Director of Sustainability, Nike
Ralph Cavanagh, Director, Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Stephen Sanderson, President, Wildlife Conservation Society
Motoko Aizawa, Head of Policy and Standards Unit, International Finance Corporation
Charles L. Slaughter, founder, Living Goods
Elizabeth Kolbert, Journalist and author, Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Herbert M. Allison, Chairman, President, and CEO, TIAA-CREF
William McDonough, architect and founder, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry