Mr Pepijn Rijvers is Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Product and Technology Officer and a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Pepijn joined WBCSD in September 2022.
In his role, Pepijn focuses on scaling digital solutions to help business accelerate their journey to become net zero, nature positive and equitable.
Pepijn is a senior growth, transformation and strategy leader with deep global expertise in supply, technology, product, marketing, platforms & business model innovation in online B2C and B2B environments.
He has a culture & mission first mindset and a passion for inspiring communities and building talents. He has served in the leadership team of Booking.com for almost thirteen years where he held various positions including three years as the Head of Supply leading a team of 3,000 professionals across 125+ offices, and five years as SVP & Chief Marketing Officer overseeing one of the world’s largest advertising budgets. In his last role at Booking.com, he served as SVP and Managing Director of Booking. com’s 10B+ global accommodations business.
Earlier in his career Pepijn founded a web development company geared towards e-commerce and e-business applications and a minority ownership in a large B2C financial services company where he held mostly marketing and field sales leadership roles.
Roundtable Room 1 (Level 2)
Elevating ESG
This roundtable furthers Elevandi’s focus on overcoming the limiting factors preventing scaling of practices serving the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2023 Point Zero Forum considered the needs for interoperability, access and verification to track and finance net zero ambitions, which deepened into an examination of Project Savannah, a global initiative by UNDP, MAS, and GLEIF, at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The Japan Fintech Festival continued this in considering the value of a global common for climate data.
Operating under the theme of Elevating ESG, this roundtable brings together the right stakeholders to 1) share progress, insights and challenges; 2) specify the root cause of poor data quality hindering reporting efforts; and 3) shape a proposal for trusted, scalable market arrangements to mobilise granular, machine-issued data for ESG indicators and financial market innovations. Attaining granularity in data collection and consistency in reporting can drastically reduce the cost of assuring the integrity of disclosed ESG indicators, increasing information usability for strategic decision-making, financial products and data market while reducing the impeding reputation risk that arises from opaque reporting.
Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- How to build trust in ESG data and disclosures
- Reference Materials for "Laying foundations for scalable markets in trusted and granular data for green reporting"