Laurel Peacock is a director of sustainability for NRG Energy, a U.S.-based integrated power company that brings energy to more than three million residential and commercial customers and focuses on delivering value to all stakeholders. Peacock drives strategy creation and execution of company-wide sustainability initiatives. She also leads all voluntary reporting processes to foster industry leadership and create shareholder value. Over the past six years at NRG, she has helped set industry-leading, science-based carbon reduction goals and led practical, innovative initiatives that address key societal and environmental issues.

Sarah Hill is Associate Director, Global Sustainability at BD. In this role, Hill leads key programs within the Office of Global Sustainability, including stakeholder engagement, publication of BD’s annual sustainability report, and ongoing strategy development for the function. She also represents BD in BSR’s Future of Reporting working group. Prior to joining BD in March 2016, she was product stewardship and sustainability program manager at Covidien (now Medtronic) for over 15 years. Hill is a Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.

David leads BSR’s climate practice to maximize the impact of our applied research, collaborative initiatives, and work with individual companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience. He is also the international policy lead for the We Mean Business coalition.

Before joining BSR, David was a climate diplomat for the Marshall Islands with the advisory group Independent Diplomat and led on transparency issues in the UN climate negotiations for the Alliance of Small Island States. As an international lawyer with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, David built up the environmental treaty expertise of countries across the globe. He began his career as a securities litigator with Fried Frank in New York before focusing on climate change and energy.

David holds a LL.M. in International Law from New York University, a J.D. and M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University.

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Jacob leads BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining BSR, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago. 

Follow Jacob @jacobpark.