The Jury is made up of representatives of the academic world, economic actors, representatives of the social profit world and the public sector, as well as journalists and registered auditors. Since a few years, the winners of the previous editions have also accepted to participate in the Jury for the next edition and have all mentioned the enriching formula of such a process in term of mutual sharing of experiences.
Sustainability reports are evaluated by the Jury in two phases:
1) during the first phase (from mid-July to end Augustus), the received reports are distributed among the Jury members, in “sub-juries” per category of organization and evaluated using the Evaluation criteria. Based on this first assessment and after discussions and deliberations in a meeting, the Jury members short-list the reports that achieve the highest ratings:
- in the three categories (large organizations, SME’s and other organizations’), for the “Best impact Sustainability Reports”;
- cross categories for the “Best 1st Sustainability Report”; the “Best SDG 2030 Agenda”, the “Best Stakeholders Inclusiveness and Engagement”; and the “Best Creativity & Originality
2) during the second phase (from mid-September to mid-October), the Jury members read all reports coming out of the first phase and re-evaluate them based on the same criteria as those of the first phase. The outcome of the evaluations for this second phase is discussed in a second meeting of the Jury. In this meeting the Jury members choose :
- a short list of 2 reports per category for the Best impact Sustainability Reports and
- the winners of the “Best 1st Sustainability Report”, the “Best SDG 2030 Agenda”, the “Best Stakeholders Inclusiveness and Engagement”; and the “Best Creativity & Originality".
President:
Mr. Marc DAELMAN (registered auditor with IBR-IRE) – with an advisory vote
Jury members:
Pascale-Marie BARRIQUAND, Luminus (Winner 2020)
Vanessa BIEBEL, FEB/VBO
Lies BOUTEN, IESEG Management School
Jo COBBAUT, FD Magazine
Bie DE KEULENAER, MVO Vlaanderen
Carlos DE SMET, Louvain School of Management
Marie d’HUART & Serge DE BACKER, Cap Conseil
Christel DUMAS, ICHEC
Christian FERDINAND & Michiel MARTENS, Federal Public Service for Economy
Deborah FISCHER, IBR-IRE
Kenny FREDERICKX, Forum ETHIBEL
Sophie HOZEE, Universiteit Gent
Fernand MAILLARD, IBR-IRE
Sofian MILAD, IBR-IRE
Serge PATTYN, ABAF/BVFA
Kateryna PODKALENKO, Antwerp Management School (Winner 2020)
Julie STUCKENS, IBR-IRE
Luc VAN LIEDEKERKE, Antwerp Management School
Anouk VAN DE MEULEBROECKE, Slidingdoors
Katherina WALLYN, FIDO/IFDD
Ignace WILS, Olivia & Julius bvba
