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Food 2 Lead The Future

Food 2 Lead The Future

Written by: Xander Beks
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Sharing stories on Xander's journey unlocking potential of learning networks for transitional challenges, starting with future proof agriculture.

Xander is driven by his passion for creating new paths in complex issues in a multistakeholder environment.

Simultaneously taking further steps in transition or transformational processes with these players brings him satisfaction.

Certainly and especially if that happens together with new generations.

Xander is amongst others a Nuffield 2023 Scholar and designing the future of the dairy farm he and his wif will run in the future.

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  • Future of grain is sunny-bright with Rogier Scherpbier

    Future of grain is sunny-bright with Rogier Scherpbier
    May 3 2025

    Look for more info about Rogier's company on www.zonnespelt.nl/ and link with Rogier www.linkedin.com/in/rogier-scherpbier-757a5aa7/


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    41 mins
  • A global view on sustainability and fitting values

    A global view on sustainability and fitting values
    Mar 31 2025

    It was a privilege to tap Georg's mind on his journey leading the future on a global governance scale at UN and other roles. We share the mission to have children and youth at that heart of sustainability transition. Georg is doing amazing work now, next to his distinguished career.

    Georg Kell established the Global Compact as the foremost platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible and sustainable corporate policies and practices. In a career of more than 25 years at the United Nations, he also oversaw the conception and launch of the Global Compact’s sister initiatives, on investment, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and on education, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), together with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (SSE).

    Georg is Chairman of Arabesque Partners, an Anglo-German ESG Quant fund manager that uses self-learning quantitative models and big data to assess the performance and sustainability of globally listed companies. Its investment technology processes over 100 billion data points to select an investment universe of equities with the aim of delivering superior returns, integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sources across 15 languages.

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    34 mins
  • Leading the future is yours by choice

    Leading the future is yours by choice
    Mar 10 2025

    Lely is a company that is leading to facilitate farmers globally in leading the future in farming. Talking to André we explored the edge of the future of farming and what it means for a new generation and for a leading country in the world being based in the Netherlands.

    What does the sector need to do to learn for taking the lead in future proof agriculture? Is this transforming from the past? And how does learning and knowledge sharing take a role in this?

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    31 mins
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