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Conference
Thursday
03
September
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2nd Annual Flagship Conference

Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
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Conference venues: The Flagship Conference takes place across Domaine Barton. Keynote sessions on 3 September will be held in the Jacques-Freymond Auditorium, while Track Sessions on 4 September will take place in Villa Barton (Rooms B12 & B22).

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Following a defining first year of global convening, the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability will bring together leading scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and finance leaders once again for its second Flagship Conference. Held at Domaine Barton in Geneva, Switzerland, the 2026 gathering will continue to foster interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of sustainability, governance, economics, climate, and global systems transformation.

Featured Speakers

The conference will feature contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, including (listed alphabetically by last name):

  • Liliana Andonova — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Johannes Böhm — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Patrick Bolton — Imperial College London
  • Julia Cajal-Grossi — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Estelle Cantillon — Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Tommaso Colussi — Catholic University of Milan
  • Mark Dincecco — University of Michigan
  • Nives Dolsak —Georgetown University
  • Douglas R. Eger — Intrinsic Exchange
  • Rui Esteves — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Harald Fadinger — University of Vienna
  • Katja Gentinetta — Foundation Board of the Geneva Graduate Institute
  • Yuriy Gorodnichenko — University of California, Berkeley
  • André Hoffmann — Roche Holding Ltd. & World Economic Forum
  • Akanksha Khatri — World Economic Forum
  • Jean Lacroix — Université Paris-Saclay
  • Mirabelle Muûls — Imperial College London
  • Quynh Nguyen — Wyss Academy for Nature
  • Mathieu Parenti — Paris School of Economics
  • Dominic Rohner — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Marie-Laure Salles — Geneva Graduate Institute
  • Zacharias Sautner — University of Zurich
  • Robert Staiger — World Trade Organization
  • Francesco Tripoli — Harvard Business School
  • Beatrice Weder di Mauro — Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability
  • Catherine Wolfram — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Yuan Zi — Geneva Graduate Institute

Additional speakers and session participants will be announced as confirmations are received. The programme remains subject to change.

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