This is #ThinkingCE

CEO & Cofounder at Ksapa

Farid Baddache knows how to leverage Environmental, Social and Ethical performance, to innovate and improve competitiveness of corporations. Global profile with +20 year experience in sustainability combining corporate experience (consumer sectors, industries), NGO, academic, development, consulting for 150 clients / 100 markets:
- Deep practical experience across all aspects of sustainability, HSE (Health, Safety, Environment), green, ethics, social business, sustainable products / services, impact investing, climate change, safe & secure operations, integrity, labor, human rights, CSR, responsible sourcing, resource efficiency, ESG / social & environmental reporting to design and deploy ESG / Sustainability / CSR programs across complex environments
- Deep expertise of key norms and standards driving sustainability : PRI, OECD Guiding Principles, UN Guiding Principes on Business & Human Rights, ILO conventions, SDGs ; TCFD, GRI, DJSI, ISO 14k suite, 26k 31k 50k, AA 1000, SA 8000, ETSI 305 200

Illustrative achievements:
- Validation of 50-1000 million euros industrial investments with ESG / CSR / Sustainability assessments including local stakeholders and Board / Executive Committee, working with compliance, HSE, CSR, finance, public affairs, risk, sourcing
- Inclusion of digital technologies to improve risk mitigation of global complex supply chains (100,000 suppliers, 1000 categories, 15 million smallholders)
- Development and facilitation of global multistakeholder coalitions exploring innovative approaches to improve lives of billions of consumers
- Change & transformation. Design and deploy of 3-7 year programs
- Team leadership. Creative. Strong capacity to share the need to improve processes, develop state-of-the-art practices, onboard and grow people across all levels of organisations on bold and exciting goals. Energetic. Resilient. Tenacious.

Farid Baddache is member of several stakeholder boards, think tanks, impact investment funds. Board member.