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TOSCA is a Tribe of sustainability professionals. The founding partners of TOSCA are Ulrike de Jong and Nicolette Loonen. TOSCA’s vision is that businesses can be a force for good and must play a key role in the transition towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The partners in TOSCA have broad experience as consultants, managers and directors. Their expertise ranges from sustainability reporting to change management and business development and from marketing to stakeholder engagement and community building.
Impact Centre Erasmus is a knowledge institute that focuses on measuring social impact. Impact Centre Erasmus aims to encourage organizations to make the greatest possible social contribution through impact thinking, measuring, and management. This ensures that people and resources are deployed consciously and effectively to achieve economic, social, and ecological ambitions. Impact Centre Erasmus works with and for the business community, government, NGOs, and charities to support them in making informed choices.
I am convinced that organisations can only be successful in the long term if on balance they are making a positive contribution to society. With my experience as an adviser, accountant, director and supervisor I want to contribute to the transition towards a sustainable society. Everybody can make their own contribution. No matter how small the pebble is that you throw in the pond, together we can make a giant wave.
By combining my background in marketing & strategy with sustainability I want to help organisations to make REAL impact on their way towards a green, open and inclusive economy. I am convinced that companies can only be and remain successful if they look at all three pillars of sustainability: so not just the economic pillar, but certainly also the social dimension, and taking care of our planet.
Rob van Tulder is full professor of international business-society management and academic director of the Partnerships Resource Centre. His academic and consulting work focuses on multinational enterprise strategies, corporate social responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is also the founder of Scope, an expert centre at Erasmus University in International Business and Sustainable Development. Together with UNCTAD, Scope compiles the widely-published lists of the largest Transnational Corporations worldwide from developed and developing countries, published annually in the World Investment Report.
Prof. Karen Maas is Academic Director and founder of Impact Centre Erasmus. She is also Professor of Accounting and Sustainability at de Open Universiteit. Her research focuses on impact, economics, and sustainability. She is actively involved in both academia and practice and sits on various boards. Her work is published in scientific journals, books, and media, and she regularly contributes to the public debate on impact and sustainability.
