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US MAP with social progress index
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Green city
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The Social Progress Imperative provides data and insights that is important for governments, businesses and civil society organisations. Our experts have spoken at events around the world, offering unique local and global insights on measuring the success of a society.

Our CEO, Michael Green, is a three-times TED speaker whose talks have been viewed more than 6 million times. He has delivered the annual Kapuscinski Lecture organized by the European Commission and UNDP, spoken at the NITI Aayog annual lecture in India, and delivered the keynote for the annual meeting of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, and regional travel and tourism industry events. And has address the role of business in supporting social progress at events hosted by UBS, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Deloitte, Mastercard, AWS, and many others.

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Michael is available to speak about:

  • Sustainable and inclusive growth
  • Getting beyond GDP
  • ESG investing
  • Corporate Social Responsibility strategy
  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Green growth and the just transition
  • Socially sustainable tourism
  • Social responsibility for extractive and agriculture sectors
  • Social determinants of health
  • And other geographic and topical issues related social progress

Contact us to request Michael or one of our other experts to speak at your event.

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