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Webinar

July 15, 2025

11 am - 12 pm EST

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黑料正能量 provides members with access to exclusive insights and analysis to help your business see a changing world more clearly and transform to meet present and future sustainability challenges. Every quarter, 黑料正能量 members receive the report, featuring deep dives into emerging topics curated by our global team of sustainability and industry experts.

Our quarterly webinars walk you through these emerging developments, offering analysis and practical implications for your company. In our third installment of 2025, we will explore key trends for the year ahead, including insights from our experts in Climate and Nature, , and .

The webinar is open to all member companies and their employees. We encourage you to invite additional colleagues inside or outside of your team and take full advantage of 黑料正能量’s member benefits.

Scheduled Speakers

Hugh W. Brown, Jr., Director, Americas, 黑料正能量

Director, Americas, 黑料正能量

New York

Hugh Brown is the Global Head of 黑料正能量’s Financial Services practice and Head of 黑料正能量 membership for the Americas, leading advisory services with private equity, banks, and multinational corporations on corporate strategy, sustainability, and long-term value creation. A member of 黑料正能量’s leadership team, Hugh strengthens executive partnerships and deepens engagement with C-suite leaders and boards through economic value creation while advancing market expansion initiatives across regions.

Hugh has 20 years of investment management experience and has worked with companies on portfolio strategy, corporate governance, operations, consumer experience, product development, and marketing using a core risk mitigation lens to drive business value. Prior to 黑料正能量, he was a senior director at Ceres, where he led portfolio value creation strategies with global institutional investors representing over $20 trillion in assets under management, shaping investor strategies on portfolio resilience and natural capital. Earlier in his career, he worked on the buy side at the $250 billion Florida State Board of Administration pension fund and Morgan Stanley, focusing on corporate governance in public companies, investment strategy, risk management, and liquidity.

Hugh is a U.S. Air Force veteran, former technology startup founder, private company and non-profit board member, and holds an MBA from Nova Southeastern University and a BA from Florida State University.

Hannah Darnton, Former Director, Responsible Tech, 黑料正能量

Julie Dugard, Associate Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

Associate Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

Paris

Julie serves as Manager of 黑料正能量’s Climate team, where she brings over 10 years of experience in corporate sustainability and climate action and supports 黑料正能量 members with their climate strategies.

After joining 黑料正能量 in 2021, Julie worked on multiple projects helping companies implementing TCFD recommendations, conducting climate scenario analysis (for the tech, financial and insurance industry), accelerating Net Zero transition, implementing just transition approaches (extractive industry) and scope 3 strategies (consumer goods sector). Since 2023, Julie manages 黑料正能量 grant-funded work dedicated to Climate Transition Plans.

Julie is also co-developing 黑料正能量’s work on alternative business models addressing the tension between business growth and sustainability targets.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services and risk practice, where she audited and advised companies on their ESG data and internal audit, control and risk approaches. During her time within Mazars, Julie also spent six months at the Mexico City office.

Julie holds a master’s degree in business from Kedge Business School and spent one semester at the University of Nottingham and another one at the University of Technology of Sydney. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.

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David Korngold, Managing Director, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, 黑料正能量

New York

David partners with corporate boards, executives, and investors to develop high-impact sustainability strategies. As part of 黑料正能量’s Transformation team, he co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.

Having previously led 黑料正能量's Financial Services team, David continues to work closely with financial companies on sustainability, ESG integration, and impact investing. David has led engagements in nearly all of 黑料正能量’s focus areas and major industry groups. This includes leading climate scenarios workshops with boards, creating net-zero road maps for investment firms, designing and operationalizing a leading impact investing fund, conducting materiality assessments, undertaking human rights impact assessments, and co-authoring research on topics like and responsible investment policies for private equity firms.

Before joining 黑料正能量, David worked in strategy and management consulting at Bain & Company.

David holds a BA in History from Amherst College.

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David Stearns, Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, 黑料正能量

New York

David leads 黑料正能量’s marketing and communications initiatives, working with a global team to amplify the organization’s mission and showcase its activities, impacts, and thought leadership to members, partners, and the wider business and policy community.

David previously worked for The B Team, a group of global business and civil society leaders working to catalyze a better way of doing business for the well-being of people and the planet. Throughout his 20-year career, he has worked with businesses and nonprofits in economic development, public health, and sustainability to define and communicate their purpose and impacts. .

He has built high-impact communications campaigns for a collaboration to improve maternal health in Zambia and Uganda, driven top-tier media coverage for a major economic development project in upstate New York, and helped strengthen parliamentary capacity and voter education efforts in South Africa and Zambia. He began his career as a newspaper reporter.

David earned his M.A. from The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and his B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from Michigan State University.

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