Business Ethics Week 2025 - The Role of ESG in Driving Corporate Responsibility and Integrity
Overview
The Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business invites you to join us for our 2025 Business Ethics Week events from April 7-11, 2025!
Topic: The Role of ESG in Driving Corporate Responsibility and Integrity
Guest Speaker
Chris Librie
Head of ESG, Corporate Sustainability and Reporting at Applied Materials
Chris Librie is Applied Materials Head of ESG. In that role, Chris is responsible for accelerating the company’s environmental, social and governance programs and engaging with external stakeholders.
During his tenure, Chris has driven Applied’s climate strategy by joining RE100, setting 2030 science-based targets (SBTs) for Scopes 1, 2 & 3 and launching the Net Zero 2040 Playbook™. He represents the company regularly in public forums and meetings with investors.
Prior to Applied, Chris led ESG and corporate sustainability programs at eBay, Hewlett Packard, and S.C. Johnson, helping these organizations improve their sustainability performance while achieving the highest recognition from leading external organizations such as CDP.
Chris holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Lam Family College of Business welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you would like reasonable accommodations for this event, please contact the Center for Ethical & Sustainable Business at cesb@sfsu.edu as soon as possible so your request may be reviewed.