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Arnaud Blandin is a strategist at the intersection of sustainability, technology and impact measurement. He has dedicated his career to integrating sustainability into the core strategies of corporations, private equity firms and startups — helping them drive both profitability and positive environmental and social impact.

With over 20 years of global experience, Arnaud has worked with Fortune 500 companies, investment funds and innovation hubs, spearheading initiatives in the circular economy, energy transition, AI-driven sustainability solutions and impact finance. His engagements include ENGIE, Michelin, Johnson & Johnson, Eurofins, Oracle, Tikehau Capital, EDB and Temasek, helping them navigate ESG regulation, CSRD compliance and sustainable business transformation.

He is the author of The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company (Palgrave Macmillan), the framework that anchors every IRIS programme, and has developed pioneering methods to identify and quantify the environmental and social impacts of human activities. He is an adjunct professor at Singapore Management University and a guest lecturer at INSEAD, HEC Paris, SKEMA and CEDEP.

Agnes is a policy-wonk-turned-designer who has spent nearly three decades in the engine rooms of the Singapore Government, industry and international networks — across defence diplomacy, labour policy, community organisation and social welfare, public-service transformation, land transport and industry development. That experience gives her a first-hand understanding of what organisations actually need to build capability and confidence in tackling complex problems.

She has repeatedly done things that had not been done before: hands-on design work on attachment with IDEO in San Francisco, setting up the Singapore public service's first in-house design team, championing design-led transformation across government, and then stepping into what is possibly the world's first role of Design Ambassador for a nation. She founded MindTheSystem in 2021 to offer clear, practical approaches to change through systems thinking, futures foresight and human-centred design.

Agnes has trained over 700 executives across 13+ countries in complexity management, design thinking and systems thinking, with clients including the Singapore Government, ST Engineering, EY Design Studio (US), The Equity Initiative and CEDEP (Centre Européen d'Éducation Permanente). She sits on the Board of Directors of the School of Design, University of Cergy-Pontoise. She holds a First Class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago and an Advanced Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. She is based in Paris.

Justin is a senior advisor supporting organisations across AI education, strategy and transformation. He is an adjunct associate professor at UCL and a guest lecturer at INSEAD and AIT, working to bridge theoretical and practical applications of AI.

A thought leader and speaker on people-first technology transformations, Justin has worked with organisations including Holland & Barrett, Bupa, Merck, the NHS, Kearney, 3i Group and Caledonia Investments. He co-leads the AI build track of the IRIS Decision Lab, where participants ship a working prototype around a real sustainability question.

Sorouch leads sustainability strategy and digital solutions across Schneider Electric, a €35bn global energy-technology company. He has built circular-economy programmes and AI-powered optimisation platforms that generate measurable business value.

He teaches at INSEAD and NUS, and brings the Schneider Electric cases that anchor the Adapt / Thrive / Catalyse session of the IRIS Decision Lab.

Jayanth is an accomplished global business leader in the eye-health sector and is involved in many eye-health acceleration initiatives around the world. He is a passionate believer in business as a force for good.

After a long career with the eye-care leader Essilor International, Jayanth retired as its Chief Mission Officer and executive-committee member in 2021 — the first Chief Mission Officer in a global multinational. During his tenure he launched and developed the business in India and many other countries, and is credited with creating first-time primary eye-care access for over 500 million people in low- and middle-income countries. He is a well-known corporate intrapreneur and an expert in emerging markets.

Jayanth serves on the boards of several large global non-profits in eye care and has extensive corporate-governance experience in one of the largest CAC 40 multinationals as well as in not-for-profit and advocacy organisations.

Eduard Beltran is a lawyer, consultant and expert speaker on negotiation. In recent years he has trained over 15,000 professionals from all over the world, has been involved in negotiation processes in more than 70 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, and has advised over 400 international companies and groups.

He has worked as principal consultant to the Centre Européen de la Négociation in Paris and currently leads the Center for Negotiation (CEFNE) and International Business Trainings, based in London. He teaches at several international universities, including the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), the Complutense University of Madrid and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

As a lawyer he has worked on international investment projects, in international dispute management and for the French government as head of the Ministry of Justice's Department for International Cooperation, coordinating relationships with the European Union, international organisations and foreign governments. He holds degrees in Law (University of Barcelona), Political Science (Sciences Po) and an LLM in International Law (NYU), is a former student of the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), and has trained in negotiation at Harvard's Program on Negotiation.