Foreword from the Chief Sustainability Officer

“The Corporate Index List has been released and we’re glad to have achieved this first evaluation process. Now we can move our focus on SMEs, which represent 93% of EU companies. With a team of senior experts and analysts, we started to develop the Impakter index methodology back in 2018. After four years and many lessons learned, we are finally getting there. The Index is just how we designed it to be: intuitive and transparent and yet rigorous and and objective, with SDG targets as its compass and industry certificates as its guidelines and pillars.
The primary goals of the Index are transparency and democratisation for the sustainability reporting sector. With the Index, we are making sustainability compliance and sustainable finance approachable for SMEs, but generally struggle to meet expensive reporting and transformation requirements. Even if we know that the journey for a global sustainability is still in progress and there’s a long way to go, we are proud of the work we are doing for people, companies and the planet.”
Raffaele M. Maiorano. Co-Founder, Chief Sustainability Officer – Head of Index

Team and Contributors

Raffaele M. Maiorano

Chief Sustainability Officer & Co-Founder

Raffaele M. Maiorano was president of the Italian young farmers association, ANGA for six years and now leads the SDGs and sustainability programs at Confagricoltura, the oldest farmer’s union in Italy and Europe. A freelance journalist, Raffaele has worked for many political agencies and national newspapers. He was also the interim Chairman of Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) at FAO. Raffaelle is also a professor of Agribusiness Management at Camerino University; designed and runs the Agribusiness Management’s master’s program at Rome Business School. Furthermore, he is a consultant for several startups and agribusiness companies. Raffaele has agriculture businesses in Calabria and le Marche. Sits as a member of the Fondazione Patrimonio Italia’s advisory board and IQDMedias.

Camilla Ponte

Project Coordinator and Communication

Camilla is Italian and passionate about science and scientific communication for sustainability. She spent the past 11 years based between the Netherlands and a bunch of other countries around the world. From these international experiences she learned to make clarity, kindness and understanding the backbone of her work with international teams. She also learned that there’s nothing like a simple answer to a complex question, but that one can always try to answer in a simple way.

She graduated in 2016 from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, with a MSc in Technology, Communication and Policy and a minor in sustainable agriculture. She worked within several sustainable agriculture initiatives, and as a project manager in software production for the past three years.

Claude Forthomme

Sr. Editor

Claude Forthomme is a writer and an economist. A graduate of Columbia University, Claude held a variety of jobs before starting a 25-year career at the United Nations (Food and Agriculture), ending as Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia.

She authored many fiction books under various pen names in both English and Italian; she is considered a prime exponent of Boomer literature and has founded the Boomer Lit Group on Goodreads. Her poetry has been included in “Freeze Frame”, an international poetry anthology curated by British poet Oscar Sparrow (Gallo Romano Media, 2012).

Anamaria Tanase

Sustainability Analyst

Anamaria is a Sustainability Analyst for Impakter where she is applying sustainability related regulations such as standards, frameworks and certificates to build sustainability assessments. Also, as a Master Student in Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Social Change at Linnaeus University in Sweden, Anamaria is interested in gaining a deeper knowledge about how companies manage sustainability requirements to generate economic, social and environmental value. Furthermore, in her professional career, Anamaria has been taking different roles within organizations such as marketing, product management and supply chain where she has developed strong expertise in business development, customer acquisition and supplier management. Anamaria is based in Stockholm, Sweden and her interest in sustainability evolved from a strong connection with nature that developed during hikes, walks and simply playing outside growing up.

Peter Wright

Data Scientist

Alessandra de Seenen

Sr. Technologist

Alessandra de Seneen is Secretary General of the National Institute of Rural Sociology (INSOR), a non-profit organization for the study of Italian rural society. She is also a partner of business transformation consultancy, 4changing. Alessandra regularly collaborates with BAICR Cultura della Relazione and has taught business management at several Italian Universities.

In 2020, Alessandra worked with a team of researchers to publish a guide for companies in the agri-food sector to create sustainable business models. Alessandra got her professional start at IBM where she rose to Senior Executive for Business Consulting Services before joining Accenture as Executive Partner in the Information Management division.

Roberto Reali

Sr.Data Scientist

Roberto Reali is a technologist at Italy’s National Research Council (CNR). He currently collaborates with the Department of Bio-Agri-Food Sciences for studies on the agricultural landscape and rural history. He was in charge of the CNR’s “Cultural Landscape” project and coordinated the operations of CNR’s project for the scientific program of Palazzo Italia at the 2015 World Expo in Milan.

Roberto is a lecturer at the University of Rome where he teaches a Tourism Sciences degree course on the History of Tourism in the Contemporary Age.

Pelin Kasap

Sustainability Analyst Trainee

I studied computer engineering in İstanbul and gained professional experience in several companies both in Turkey and in Europe during my studies.

I am currently about to finish my MSc in Economics. At the same time I am training at Impakter, working as a sustainability analyst. I also love travelling and learning new things!

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