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Photo: (L-R) Kathy Wylde of the Partnership for New York City moderates the day’s first panel with GLG CEO Paul Todd; Ken Mehlman, Global Head of Public Affairs and Co-Head of Global Impact, KKR; and David Gelles of The New York Times

GLG hosted more than 100 guests for a half-day conference on the future of social impact at its global headquarters in New York on Thursday, October 24, 2019. The program featured presentations from GLG Social Impact Fellows and candid panel discussions from a wide range of thought leaders under the theme: Changing the Rules for Changing the World. Attendees included clients, Network Members, Social Impact Fellows, and other invited guests.

As companies are increasingly judged on their willingness to help contribute to social change, panelists were asked to consider what this moment means for how governments, nonprofits, foundations, social entrepreneurs, and the companies themselves collaborate to drive progress.

GLG Social Impact Fellow Julie Cordua of Thorn introduced the opening panel featuring GLG CEO Paul Todd; David Gelles, Corner Office columnist and business reporter at The New York Times; Ken Mehlman, Global Head of Public Affairs and co-Head of Global Impact at KKR; and Kathy Wylde, CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

Photo: Julie Cordua

Photo: (L-R) Ken Mehlman and David Gelles

Photo: Paul Todd

GLG Fellow Amit Paley of The Trevor Project introduced a panel discussion moderated by Director of Social Impact Jen Field and featuring Cristina Shapiro of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Erin Robert of J.P. Morgan Chase.

Photo: Amit Paley

Photo: (L-R) Christina Shapiro, Erin Robert, and Jen Field

GLG Fellow Aimée Eubanks Davis of Braven joined Cammie Erickson of LinkedIn for a conversation on how expanding access to networking opportunities can help reduce economic inequality.

Photo: (L-R) Cammie Erickson and Aimée Eubanks Davis

GLG Fellow Gayatri Datar of EarthEnable introduced the morning’s closing panel, moderated by Betty Liu, Vice Chairman of NYSE Group and former Bloomberg TV anchor, and featuring Henry Timms, CEO of Lincoln Center, and Jeremy Heimans, CEO of Purpose, co-authors of New Power.

Photo: Gayatri Datar

Photo: Henry Timms, Jeremy Heimans, and Betty Liu

The event capped off a three-day convening during which GLG welcomed its newest class of GLG Social Impact Fellows, nine social innovators from around the world. GLG’s Social Impact Fellowship provides no-cost access to GLG’s knowledge marketplace to organizations working to solve some of society’s most urgent challenges. Now entering its sixth year, the GLG Fellowship counts 54 social entrepreneurs in its worldwide community.

See below for more photos from the week.

Photo: Social Impact Fellows Sneha Sheth (Dost Education) and Shahed Alam (Noora Health) at lunch with NY GLGers

Photo: Social Impact Fellow Charles Daniels discusses his organization Fathers’ Uplift

Photo: Social Impact Fellows Tatiana Garcia-Granados (The Common Market) and Jordyn Lexton (Drive Change) answer questions from NY GLGers

Photo: Social Impact Fellow Amit Paley discusses The Trevor Project’s life-saving work.

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.