SPP honored to receive the CEF CK Prahalad Award 2024

CEF presented the 2024 C.K. Prahalad Award for Business Sustainability Leadership to Thomas Udesen and Bertrand Conquéret, Chief Procurement Officers for Bayer and Henkel, and the powerful collaboration they founded together: The Sustainable Procurement Pledge. The award was announced in connection with the 2024 CEF Annual Leadership Retreat, attended by senior executives representing CEF member companies with combined revenues of over $5.5 trillion.
With the recognition of the power of collaboration that this award brings, the Sustainable Procurement Pledge extends a warm and continued thanks to our growing number of SPP Ambassadors around the world, working together to improve the sustainable sourcing practices.
In taking the Pledge each individual stands up to become change agents, together we are united in a mission to make sustainable procurement the only type of procurement.
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ABOUT CEF
Corporate Eco Forum (CEF) is an invitation-only forum for senior executives representing large, influential companies that demonstrate a serious commitment to sustainability as core to business strategy. With combined revenues of over $5.5 trillion, member companies span all major industries and have a global presence. CEF empowers its members to deliver a sustainable future by cultivating a high-trust, neutral space for candid, closed-door, peer-to-peer discussions that catalyze meaningful connections, focused insights, and bold action.
ABOUT THE C.K. PRAHALAD AWARD FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP
The C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership, created in 2010 to honor founding CEF Advisory Board member C.K. Prahalad, recognizes exceptional, globally significant private-sector action that exemplifies the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. Honorees may be either (1) individual executives, (2) notable corporate actions/initiatives, or (3) collaborations involving the private sector that have produced globally significant results. Winners are determined through private votes cast by CEF’s advisory board, which includes representatives from government, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. The voters chose from a roster of finalists selected following an open nomination process. Past award recipients include:
• 2010: Walmart Brazil CEO Hector Nuñez
• 2011: Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca-Cola
• 2012: Neil Hawkins, Dow Chemical Corporate Vice President and CSO ; The Sustainable Apparel Coalition; Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever
• 2013: Vidal Garza Cantú, Director, FEMSA Foundation; Hannah Jones, CSO and VP of the Innovation Accelerator, Nike; Kurt Kuehn, CFO, UPS
• 2014: Robert B. Carter, CIO, FedEx Corporation; Global Water Challenge (GWC); Tamara “TJ” DiCaprio, Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft
• 2015: David Crane, CEO, NRG Energy
• 2016: Joe Kaeser, CEO, Siemens
• 2017: Urs Hölzle, SVP for Technical Infrastructure, Google; Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA)
• 2018: Lisa Jackson, VP for Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple; The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
• 2019: TerraCycle’s Loop Shopping Platform; Posthumous honors to former Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers
• 2020: Douglas M. Baker, Jr; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President and Vice Chair Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa
• 2022: Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate
• 2023: First Movers Coalition
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