Agenda

9-10 June, 2025


The 2025 PRME Global Forum Agenda is subject to change.

*to be confirmed

Agenda

08:00 AM-09:00 AM EDT

1

Check-In & Morning Networking

Breakfast provided

09:00 AM-09:11 AM EDT

2

Welcome to 2025 Responsible Management Education (RME) Week

Representatives from the organizer, partner, and supporting organizations of RME Week kick-off RME Week.

  • Omid Aschari, Senior Advisor, PRME
  • Lily Bi, President, AACSB
  • Andrew Karoyli, Dean, Cornell & Board Member, RRBM, PRME, and AACSB

09:11 AM-09:15 AM EDT

3

Welcome from the PRME Advisory Board

Tima Bansal, Chair of the PRME Advisory Board, welcomes attendees to the PRME Global Forum on behalf of the Advisory Board.

09:15 AM-09:30 AM EDT

4

Keynote Address

Speaker TBA

09:30 AM-10:30 AM EDT

5

Purpose and Values in Action: Advancing the SDGs through Collaborative Leadership in Academia and Business

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a shared blueprint for a sustainable and equitable future. However, achieving them requires leadership that transcends traditional boundaries, fostering collaboration between academia, business, and government. While each sector plays a critical role, systemic change can only be realized through strategic partnerships that align research, policy, and practice.

Academia generates the knowledge and talent needed to drive change, businesses bring innovation and scale, and governments create the enabling policy environments. Yet, challenges such as competing priorities, regulatory constraints, and differing incentives often hinder effective collaboration. This high-level thought leadership dialogue will explore how these sectors can work together to accelerate SDG progress, highlighting bold leadership approaches and innovative partnership models.

This session aims to move beyond discussion to inspire real action, equipping leaders with the mindset and tools needed to forge transformative partnerships for the SDGs.

  • Chigozirim Bodart, Chief of Staff, United Nations Global Compact
  • Omid Aschari, Senior Advisor, United Nations Global Compact
  • Representative from Private Sector
  • Representative from Government
  • Representative from United Nations
  • Representative from Academia
Purpose Values

10:30 AM-10:45 AM EDT

6

Break & Transition

Coffee and tea provided

10:45 AM-12:00 PM EDT

7

Breakout Tracks


Partner

AIM2Flourish: A Celebration of the Past Decade and an Invitation for the Future

This breakout session will introduce the audience to the deep impact AIM2Flourish has successfully created over the last ten years. Launched in 2015 at the PRME Global Forum, the AIM2Flourish program has transformed management education by engaging students to learn more about the power of business to do good. Using the lens of the UN Global Goals, students discover business innovations that are addressing global challenges, conduct appreciative style interviews with the business leaders/entrepreneurs to find untold stories and publish their stories on aim2flourish.com. Participants in this session can expect to learn more about how to incorporate AIM2Flourish into their classes as well as join us in the 10-year anniversary celebration of the program committed to showcasing businesses that are best for the world.

  • Megan Buchter, MBA, Director, Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit & Adjunct Faculty, Weatherhead School of Management
  • Ayushee Agarwal, PhD, Program Manager, Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit & Adjunct Faculty, Weatherhead School of Management
  • tbc


Teach

Principles for Good Practice: Preparing Students for Community Engagement on Sustainability Practices

These sessions introduce innovative teaching strategies and course materials for embedding sustainability into management curricula. Educators will explore techniques for interactive and experiential learning, including covering case studies and collaborative projects, that bring sustainability to the forefront of business education.

  • Andrew Karolyi, Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Global Vice-Chair of the PRME Advisory Board
  • Richard Kiely, Associate Vice Provost for Engagement and Land Grant Affairs and Director, Academic Initiatives, Cornell Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
  • Niti Parikh, Director, Learning Spaces and Maker LABs, Cornell Tech
  • Dan LeClair, Chief Executive Officer, Global Business School Network


Practice

Champions for Climate Leadership (C4CL): Feedback and Feedforward towards Future Knowledge Mobilisation

Join us for a collaborative session to advance the Champions for Climate Leadership (C4CL) pedagogical initiative in support of the SDG 4 Manifesto. The session will focus on key deliverables for 2025, including transforming the C4CL Playbook from a static book into an open-access education resource, developing a conceptual framework for teaching and learning, expanding subject-specific teaching resources, and preparing a pedagogical paper for presentation at RMER 2025. Participants will join breakouts to discuss how we can leverage our networks effectively, integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), connect this work to the PRME Commons Platform, and mobilise knowledge to expand, sustain, and enhance the Playbook’s impact. Your insights and ideas will be invaluable in shaping these deliverables and ensuring their long-term relevance in responsible management education.

  • Jill Bogie
  • Amanda di Battista
  • Geri Mason
  • Ana Simaens
  • Fara Azmat
  • Colin Dey
  • Laura Steele
  • Joya Kemper


Research

Building a Sustainable Future: Storytelling, Business Cases, and Learning Through Play

This interactive session explores how storytelling and experiential learning can enhance sustainable business education. Using the winning cases from the PRME Sustainability Case Writing Awards, participants will see how real-world business dilemmas help students and executives develop responsible leadership skills.
In addition, the discussion will highlight the role of sustainability and playful learning, drawing connections between hands-on engagement and case-based learning. Educators will gain insights on integrating business cases and play-based methodologies to create more engaging, action-oriented learning experiences.

  • Violetta Gallagher
  • Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • tbc
Teach Research Partner Practice

12:00 PM-01:00 PM EDT

8

Lunch provided

01:00 PM-02:00 PM EDT

9

Accreditation, Rankings, and the SDGs: Aligning Business Education with Societal Impact

This session would highlight a panel of expert speakers to allow a fruitful and engaging roundtable of discussions surrounding recent shifts in accreditation & ranking standards. PRME will share a unique lens on how to achieve societal impact through the usage of the SDGs as a framework in reporting to the PRME network. Here you will hear from experts in accreditation & ranking institutions on how to navigate these shifts of standards in the industry. Furthermore, we will highlight examples of best practices in the intersections between the PRME community, PRME Programmes, and reporting standards.

  • Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • Sat Sharma, Chief Revenue Officer at Poets& Quants, Times Higher Education
  • Eileen McAuliffe, Executive Vice President, Chief Thought Leadership Officer, and Managing Director, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
  • Alfons Sauquet, Director, Quality Services & EQUIS at EFMD Global, European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
Purpose Values

02:00 PM-02:15 PM EDT

10

Break & Transition

Coffee and tea provided

02:15 PM-03:30 PM EDT

11

Breakout Tracks


Teach

Be the Tipping Point Initiative (BEtp)

Be the Tipping Point (BEtp) is working with educators globally to transform business education for a sustainable future. Our partners include the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, oikos international, global movement initiative, as well as many others. The session will demonstrate our approach - empowering educators to update their courses while also providing a community of like-minded change makers with the resources necessary for change – and give participants concrete tools for transforming their own teaching.

More here: https://grli.org/Tipping-Point/

  • James Weichert, project manager gmi.org
  • Dayle Smith, dean CBA, Loyola Marymount University
  • John North, Executive Director GRLI
  • Darija Miletic, GRLI
  • Michael Winter, co-president oikos
  • Patricija Zizyte, co-president oikos
  • Melissa Fitzpatrick, LMU
  • Jeff Thies, LMU
  • Trevor Zink, LMU


Research

Turbo-Charge Your Research: Tapping the Potential of the Global Academy of Management Networks

This session will foster the research community building by strengthening PRME’s role as a bridge between prestigious academic research, teaching, and practice communities. With a focus on developing institutional alliances, the session will explore opportunities to deepen collaboration between PRME and leading academic associations, networks, and management scholars worldwide. Participants will engage in interactive discussions on advancing responsible management research, shaping impactful scholarship, and integrating sustainability into management education. By identifying shared research priorities and fostering cross-regional connections, this session aims to build sustainable partnerships that elevate the role of management research in addressing global challenges and advancing the UN SDGs.

  • Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • Sherwat Elwan, Deputy Program Chair, Africa Academy of Management
  • Mairead Brady, Chair, Academy of Management-Management Education and Development Division
  • Xavier Castaner, Advisory Counsel, International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management


Partner

From Global to Local: Advancing PRME at the Local and Regional Levels

This workshop introduces PRME Chapter UK and Ireland’s Local Networks, seven regional fora where PRME Signatories collaborate, share best practices, and engage with the PRME Principles and UN SDGs at a more localised level. The Local Networks’ success shows how PRME Chapters and individual Signatory schools can partner with academic institutions, business leaders, policymakers, and students to respond to local needs and challenges. Participants will gain (1) understanding of the benefits of addressing the Principles of PRME at more localised levels; (2) inspiration from examples of the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Local Networks; (3) opportunities to share their stories of localising PRME and generate ideas for future development; and (4) post-workshop blog collating key insights from our session

  • Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Chair PRME Chapter UK & Ireland
  • Laura Steele, Vice Chair, PRME Chapter UK & Ireland
  • Rachel Welton, Local Networks PRME Chapter UK & Ireland


Practice

Designing and Implementing the PRME Manifesto for SDG 4: Challenges, Opportunities and Next Steps

Globally about half of the SDGs are severely or moderately off-target, and SDG 4 – Quality Education has yet to show significant achievement. The PRME Champions have drafted a Manifesto to reaffirm their commitment to accelerate the implementation of SDG 4 through research, education and advocacy. We believe that the PRME Manifesto could be the catalyst to help identify collaborative strategies to amplify the achievement of SDG 4: Quality Education. This workshop is to (1) consult and obtain feedback on the current PRME Champions Manifesto; (2) identify potential revisions suggested by the PRME Signatories; and (3) examine how to implement the Manifesto in the PRME Community.

  • Rumina Dhalla, Director, Institute for Sustainable Commerce and Associate Professor, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics
  • Alex Hope, Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Co-Chair PRME Climate and Environment Working Group, Chair Elect of AACSB Responsible Management Education Affinity Group, Northumbria University, Newcastle
  • Margaret McKee, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Academic Director, Halifax Directors Education Program, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University
  • Swati Nagpal, Snr Lecturer, Management/HRM, Management and Human Resources, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Alexandra Grammenou, ZHAW School of Management and Law
  • Vivek Kumar Jha, Assistant Professor - Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Chairperson - International Affairs and Collaborations, T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Teach Research Partner Practice

03:30 PM-03:45 PM EDT

12

Break & Transition

Coffee and tea provided

03:45 PM-05:00 PM EDT

13

Simulation Champions: Student Leadership in Action

Celebrate the achievements of the winners of the MarketPlace Real World Challenge from the 2nd African Research Initiative Conference (AfRIC) and the finalists and winners of the 2025 PGS Sustainability Awards while also providing a platform for them to demonstrate and inspire leadership in sustainability.

05:00 PM-05:30 PM EDT

14

Day 1 Closing & Reflections from the Audience

08:00 AM-09:00 AM EDT

1

Check-In & Morning Networking

Coffee and tea provided

09:00 AM-09:10 AM EDT

2

Welcome to Day Two of the PRME Global Forum!

Announcement of the 2026 PRME Global Forum location and venue.

09:10 AM-10:30 AM EDT

3

Advancing Education with PRME’s Programmes

The PRME Secretariat is excited to announce that we are expanding our programmatic work to reflect a more comprehensive and aligned approach to education. In this session we will explore various programmatic offerings that aim to advance education in the responsible management education (RME) space. We will introduce new resources in curriculum, pedagogy, research, and communities of practice available to our Signatory members. Join us in exploring these various opportunities and how you can implement them at your institution!

  • Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • Garrett Jaeger, Founder and Director, winded.vertigo
  • Kevin Radigan, Founder and Director, Reacht Education
  • Alex Brewer, Manager, Data Science, PRME
  • Laura Steele, Vice Chair, PRME Chapter UK & Ireland
Teach Research Share

10:30 AM-10:45 AM EDT

4

Break & Transition

Coffee and tea provided

10:45 AM-12:00 PM EDT

5

Breakout Tracks


Teach

A Deep Dive into PRME’s Programmes

This session will dive deeper into the pedagogical and curriculum efforts of PRME. Here, participants will be able to engage with the various innovative resources in curriculum, pedagogy, research, and communities of practice that are launching in 2025. Expect to hear more about PRME’s programmatic offerings and engage with the PRME Secretariat to ask questions after the plenary session on programmatic work is presented. If you have interest in learning more about pedagogy, curriculum, Commons & reporting, or the other programmatic streams of PRME, join us to explore how you can implement these programmes in your praxis!

  • Meredith Storey, Senior Manager, Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • Garrett Jaeger, Founder and Director, winded.vertigo
  • Kevin Radigan, Founder and Director, Reacht Education
  • Alex Brewer, Manager, Data Science, PRME


Teach

Education Awards Roundtables: Learning with and from the 2025 Award Winners

This session will offer an opportunity for those recognized in the six education award categories to present their work and follow up in community with a deep dive and knowledge sharing exercise at roundtables. The aim will be to share local practices that are relevant for PRME’s global audience, and offer inspiration for other educators, staff, and leadership. The categories of presentations and roundtables are Teaching & Pedagogy, Research, Outreach & Partnership, Student Engagement, Leadership, and Organizational Practices.

  • Jill Bogie, Director, GIBS Sustainability Initiatives Africa
  • Alexander Herzner, Head, Institute for Sustainability and Ethics & Lecturer Weiden Business School
  • Melia Famiola, Assistant Professor, Institute Teknologi Bandung


Partner

The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) Summit: Sharing Best Practices on Achieving Societal Impact Across the B-School

The Summit covers two topics: (1) How to best use PIR results in reporting on societal impact to PRME, AACSB and EQUIS; (2) What are effective ways to improve the societal impact of a business school across the institution, education, local engagement and research. PIR focuses on sharing practical insights from schools globally, and provides a space for participants to explore relevant solutions for their school. All PRME Signatory institutions are invited to join this session and to network with PIR schools. The PIR survey consists of a student and a faculty survey and takes place between September and March.

  • Katrin Muff
  • Thomas Dyllick
  • Danette Keane


Practice

Reporting with Purpose: Learnings from SIP with the PRME Champions

Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting is a key commitment for PRME Signatory schools, as well as an important vehicle for engaging stakeholders. This session will present the initial findings from a PRME Champions project analysing the contents of over 150 SIP reports submitted in 2024 under the new reporting framework (“SIP 2.0”). It will draw attention to the strengths of the new approach, highlight areas for development, and seek to stimulate discussion on what makes for an “excellent” SIP report according to different stakeholder perspectives. A focus will be placed on offering actionable insights for the PRME community.

  • Petros Vourvachis
  • Laura Steele
  • tbc
Teach Partner Practice

12:00 PM-01:00 PM EDT

6

Lunch to be provided

01:00 PM-02:00 PM EDT

7

PRME Working Group Meet-Ups

Deepen your engagement with the PRME community by connecting with our Working Groups. Each Workign Group will have their own room where attendees can meet with the Chairs and get to know others involved. This will be an informal chance to move room to room, network, and learn to how get involved.

Research Share

02:00 PM-03:15 PM EDT

8

Breakout Tracks


Teach

Internationalization & Interdisciplinarity: The Key to a Collaborative Approach for Responsible Management Education

Panelists will discuss internationalization practices that foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas between Global North – Global South PRME Signatory Members. Discussions on interdisciplinarity will include complementarities and collaboration across different business disciplines (e.g. Marketing, Finance, etc.) and other domains (e.g. Design, Arts, etc.). The session will discuss some key questions related to fostering collaboration in business schools between departments and disciplines to sensitize and solve pressing problems of sustainability. The application of existing methods (e.g. case method) and methods that are transferrable in cross-cultural contexts (e.g. business tournaments, experiential methods, social immersion, etc.) for creating collaborative learning experiences will be discussed.

  • Anindo Bhattacharjee, Assistant Dean (Sustainable Business Research) and Associate Professor, Woxsen University, India
  • Agnieszka Chidlow, Professor & Chair of International Business, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Maha Mourad, Professor and Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies), Heikal Department of Management, American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • Anindo Bhattacharjee, Assistant Dean (Sustainable Business Research) and Associate Professor, Woxsen University, India
  • Noemi Sinkovics, Professor of Sustainable and Responsible Business, Newcastle University Business School, U.K.
  • Ying Wu, Associate Professor, School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
  • Renu Girotra, Director, Education, Woxsen University, India
  • Aditi Saxena, Dean, School of Art & Design, Woxsen University, India
  • Aurora Diaz Soloaga, Vice Chair of Education, PRME Eurasia Chapter & Senior Lecturer, Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan


Research

Shaping Impact: Connecting Responsible Research and Education through Strategic Unity

This session will explore how the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) global network and its strategic partners are advancing credible and impactful research to strengthen responsible management education in alignment with PRME’s Teach and Research Principles. It will also discuss how business schools can balance academic rigor with societal impact while navigating pressures from rankings and marketization. By aligning research and education with appropriate incentives, Business Schools can reinforce their role as knowledge producers, enhance their societal contributions, and foster greater trust in management research and education within their ecosystem.

  • Agnieszka Chidlow, University of Birmingham (UK), Working Board Member of RRBM
  • Andrew Karolyi. Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University (USA), Chair of RRBM
  • Alfons Sauquet, Director Quality Services & EFMD (EQUIS), Working Board Member of RRBM
  • Lily Bi, President and CEO of AACSB, Working Board Member of RRBM
  • Morris Mthombeni, Dean of the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Board Member of AMBA, Working Board Member of RRBM


Partner

The Potential of PRME Signatories and UN Global Compact Country Network Collaboration

This session explores concrete examples of successful collaboration between PRME Signatory Members, PRME Chapters and UN Global Compact Country Networks, alongside the launch of a new report that dives into these collaboration models. Panelists representing PRME, PRME Chapters, UN Global Compact and Country Networks will share key insights from their experiences and discuss practical ways to strengthen future collaborations. Attendees will gain practical insights and fresh ideas to foster meaningful collaboration within their own networks.

  • Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim, Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo & Chair, PRME Chapter Africa
  • Anna Czerwinska, Coordinator of the PRME / UNGC Collaboration Taskforce & BI Norwegian Business School
  • Sophie Kacki, Manager of Programmes & Engagement, PRME
  • Brendan Duprey, Associate Professor, Narxoz University & Chair, PRME Chapter Eurasia
  • Antonio Hautle, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Country Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein
  • Herve Lado, UN Global Compact Africa Regional Head
  • Tolulope Lewis Tamoka, Chief of Intergovernmental and Africa Programmes, UN Global Compact


Practice

Decolonising Business Schools in Context: From Theory to Practice

This workshop aims to contribute to the development of decolonising practice in situ within the global PRME community. It builds on the approach that the organisers have developed in implementing a decolonisation project in a British Business School in the last three years, summarised in a SAGE report which will be available at the event. It will offer participants the opportunity to concretely experience how creative methods can be used to come-up with a set of individual and collective actions towards decolonisation. The objective is also to springboard a formal community of practice to support the commitment of the PRME community to this global agenda.

  • Caroline Chapain, Associate Professor, Business School, University of Birmingham
  • Anita Lateano, Research Fellow, Business School, University of Birmingham
  • Rweyemamu Ndibalema, Associate Professor, Business School, University of Birmingham
  • Emma Surman, Associate Professor, Business School, University of Birmingham

Teach Research Partner Practice

03:15 PM-03:30 PM EDT

9

Break & Transition

Coffee and tea provided

03:30 PM-04:00 PM EDT

10

PRME Global & Regional Strategy Mapping

Purpose

05:15 PM-05:30 PM EDT

11

Day Two Closing & Commitments from the Audience

07:00 PM-09:00 PM EDT

12

Responsible Management Education (RME) Week Award Reception at the UN Headquarters

Featuring PRME and RRBM's annual awards