Previous events
The GIC members gather for biannual impact conferences. Below you can find an overview of previous keynote speakers and start-ups that have presented at the GIC:
Keynotes:
- Jeremy Oppenheim, SYSTEMIQ ltd.
- William Sarni, Water Foundry
- Michael Beutler, Kering
- Tamela G. Noboa, Impact(Ed) International (formerly Discovery Learning Alliance)
- Christian Dreyer, Impact Investor
- Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen
- Marc Hauser, Swiss Entrepreneur and Skydiver
- Roy Steiner, The Rockefeller Foundation
- Gary Vaughan-Smith, Silverstreet Capital LLP
- Jamie Butterworth, Circularity Capital
- Caroline De Bruin, World Economic Forum
- Edward Pollard, The Biodiversity Consultancy
- Stuart Orr, Freshwater Leader, WWF
- Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, WWF
- Kay Firth-Butterfield, Senior Research Fellow at The University of Texas
- Dieter Huber, Artist
- Arun Sundararajan, NYU Professor; Author and Expert
- Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Professor, University of Copenhagen & columnist, Berlingske
- Ravi Shankar Sreenath, Co-founder at Ripple Research and Accelerated
- Mark Frankel, Communications Leader, Digital Media Consultant and Lecturer | Harvard Nieman Fellow
- Ross Douglas, Founder and CEO
- Emma Mawdsley, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cambridge and Founding Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies
- Olof Gränström, Senior Advisor and key note speaker
- Christian Friis Bach, former Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, UN Under-Secretary-General, and Secretary General of the Danish Refugee Council
































