Sustainability disclosure: red tape or strategic tool for the future of business?
SDA Bocconi School of Management and the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi seek to foster a constructive dialogue among companies, public authorities, and regulators
SDA Bocconi - Via Sarfatti 10, Milano
24/06/2025, 08:30 - 24/06/2025, 17:30
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The past ten years have witnessed a global effort to enhance the disclosure of sustainability-related data.
However, concerns about its relevance have recently emerged, prompting the European Commission to propose a ‘simplification’ of the CSRD legislation through its omnibus proposal.
In this context, SDA Bocconi School of Management and the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi seek to foster a constructive dialogue among companies, public authorities, and regulators.
Keynote Speeches
Mary Schapiro, ex-chair SEC, ex-chair TCFD, Bloomberg
Sabine Mauderer, Vice President of the Bundesbank, NGFS Chair
Confirmed Speakers
David Craig, TNFD
Chiara Del Prete, EFRAG
Pascal Durand, former MEP and rapporteur of CSRD at the European Parliament
Taylor Francis, Watershed, US company providing data computing for CSRD reports
Hirotaka Hideshima, Norinchukin Bank, TNFD
Andrea Illy, Chairman illycaffè co-Chair Regenerative Society Foundation
Kathrin Madl, Alperia
Alessia Mosca, Crédit Agricole
Alessandra Perrazzelli, Banca d’Italia
Veronika Pountcheva, IFRS
Lucia Silva, Generali
Martin Stuchtey, CEO, Landbanking Group
David Vaillant, BNPP
Jean-Roch Varon, CEO EY
France Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Deloitte EU affairs
Sylvie Goulard
Sylvie Goulard is President of the Deutsch Französisches Institut (Ludwigburg, Germany) and Vice President of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (Milano, Italy). She is also Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi.
In June 2023, she was designated co-chair (with Dame Amelia Fawcett) of a Franco British initiative aiming at creating nature related financial instruments to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.
From January 2018 to December 2022, she was deputy governor of the Banque de France / Eurosystem with a portfolio comprising international issues, research, public financial education and financial stability issues, including those related to climate and the monitoring of the secretariat of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) that coordinates the work of around 120 Central Banks and supervisors committed to tackle climate related financial risks and encourage sustainable development. Within the NGFS, Mrs Goulard co-chaired the Task Force on nature-related risks.
After the presidential election in 2017, Mrs Goulard was Minister of Defense in the first Edouard Philippe Government.
From 2009 to 2017, she served as a member of the European Parliament (ALDE group / Econ committee).
She was before a political advisor to Romano Prodi during his time as President of the European Commission and Chair of the French European Movement.
In 2009 she received an award (Prix du livre Européen) for her book L’Europe pour les Nuls.
The IEP@BU Mission
Founded by Bocconi University and Institute Javotte Bocconi, the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University combines the analytic rigor of a research institute, the policy impact of a think tank, and the facts-based effort of raising public opinion’s awareness about Europe through outreach activities. The Institute, fully interdisciplinary, intends to address the multi-fold obstacles that usually stand between the design of appropriate policies and their adoption, with particular attention to consensus building and effective enforcement.
The Institute’s mission is to conduct, debate, and disseminate high-quality research on the major policy issues facing Europe, and the EU in particular, its Member States and its citizens, in a rapidly changing world.
It is independent of any business or political influence.
The IEP@BU Management Council
Catherine De Vries, IEP@BU President
Daniel Gros, IEP@BU Director
Sylvie Goulard, IEP@BU vice-President, Professor of Practice in Global Affairs at SDA Bocconi School of Management
Silvia Colombo, IEP@BU Deputy Director
Carlo Altomonte, Associate Professor at Bocconi University and Associate Dean for Stakeholder Engagement Programs at SDA Bocconi School of Management
Arnstein Assve, Professor in Demography at Bocconi University
Valentina Bosetti, professor of Environmental and Climate Change Economics at Bocconi University
Elena Carletti, Dean for Research and Professor of Finance at Bocconi University
Eleanor Spaventa, Professor of European Union Law at Bocconi Law School