Building a more stable and just world after Covid-19

In episode 1, host Peter Tufano, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School is in conversation with Paul Polman. Paul is the founder of Imagine, he’s vice-chair of the UN Global Compact and was the iconic CEO of Unilever for a decade. More recently, he’s been writing about the role of business in the Coronavirus crisis.

They discuss what leaders are doing during this global pandemic and ask is it enough? How do businesses deal with the immediate impact of Covid-19 while not losing sight of longer-term goals, such as the climate emergency, and what might be the fallout for society at large?

'This crisis is a direct result of us playing around with planetary boundaries.'