Margot supports companies in sustainability management and the use of strategic foresight as part of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with BSR members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot also advises companies on climate change and women’s empowerment. Her experience spans sustainability management, climate risk and resilience, gender equality, communications, employee engagement, innovation management, and learning and development.  

Prior to joining BSR, she was an innovation manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry, enabling supply chain innovation and sustainability through design thinking and rapid prototyping approaches. Margot previously worked on climate change adaptation projects using nature-based solutions to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities. She has worked on women’s empowerment programs both professionally and as a volunteer strategic advisor for The Women’s Foundation. 

She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch. 

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Anna leads BSR’s work on emerging issues, including our publication The Fast Forward, as part of the Sustainable Futures Lab. 

Before joining BSR, she worked for Forum for the Future, first as editor of its sustainable solutions magazine Green Futures and then as founding curator of the Futures Centre, a horizon-scanning and sensemaking platform. She went on to lead her own foresight and innovation agency, Flux Compass, working with business and global bodies, such as Swire Group, Kering, UNICEF, and UNDP, as well as youth groups and educational institutions.

Publications include a paper in the Journal of Futures Studies (2020) on using futures to build dialogue in conflict and two books with Springer, The Innovation-Friendly Organization (2017) and The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire (2014). 

Anna holds a BA in English and French from Oxford University and a MA in Gender Studies from SOAS, London University, and is a certified life coach. 

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Jacob leads BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining BSR, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago. 

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Nicolas manages BSR’s work on collaboration. He leads CoLab, BSR's incubator and accelerator of private-sector collaboration, mobilizing the collective power of business to solve some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.

He is an expert at engaging multi-company and multi-stakeholder collaborations in pursuit of shared business and societal outcomes. Previously, he consulted for companies, governments, and civil society organizations on the positive environmental, social, and economic impacts of their activities. He was also a director at a nonprofit, contributing to member engagement and the economic development agenda of the organization. Before that, he was an anthropology consultant working on public participation.

Nicolas has a Master’s in Economic Evaluation from Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris and a Master’s in in Policy Analysis and Management from the New School University in New York City. He holds a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from Los Andes University in Colombia and is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.