Radical Truth

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Arthur Wood, Founding Partner of Total Impact Capital — one of the world's most original and rigorous thinkers on the structural failures of development finance and the urgent need for a fundamentally new approach. Arthur is the "sheriff of impact investing": the person who will tell you exactly what is not working, why, and what needs to replace it.

In this episode:

• Why we are 20% below where we started in 2015 on the SDGs — and what $3.2 trillion of backward progress tells us about the current system
• The twin demographic pillars driving global instability: ageing populations with unfunded liabilities in the West and China, and exploding youth populations in the developing world
• Why humanity is currently consuming 1.7 times the planet's ability to replenish — and what that means for the financial system
• Why the Bretton Woods system, the foundation sector, impact investing, and green bonds are all individually insufficient — and what integration looks like
• How to turn social need into market demand — making the problem the economic opportunity
• The new legal and technological framework required to mobilise "Billions to Trillions" for the SDGs
• What Equity4Humanity is building — and why it may represent the most serious attempt yet to close the SDG financing gap

The key insight: The problems of the 21st century have already been solved somewhere. The challenge is scaling those solutions. The current fragmentation of capital — foundations, DFIs, impact investors, green bonds — each working in isolation — guarantees failure. The new paradigm requires integration, legal innovation, and technology working together at civilisational scale.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — The SDG financing crisis: $3.2 trillion spent going backwards
• 0:X:XX — The demographic pincer: ageing West and youth populations in the developing world
• 0:X:XX — 1.7 planets: the existential arithmetic of resource consumption
• 0:X:XX — Why the current financial system cannot deliver the SDGs
• 0:X:XX — The new paradigm: turning social need into market opportunity
• 0:X:XX — Legal and technological tools for mobilising billions to trillions
• 0:X:XX — Equity4Humanity: what a real systems solution looks like

👤 About Arthur WoodArthur Wood is a co-founder of Total Impact Capital and Founding Partner of Equity4Humanity — a new integrated four-systems paradigm hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, involving over 20 organisations and focused on Impact Investment v.2, aiming to mobilise "Billions to Trillions." Total Impact Capital He is credited with conceptualising the Social Impact Bond, co-creating one of the first layered financing structures (the Eye Fund with Deutsche Bank), and engaging JP Morgan into the impact market. Rfisummit He wrote the UN's report on Impact Investing and the move to Outcome Models for UNESCAP in 2013 and has served as expert adviser to the OECD on the G8 Impact Investing Report, Metrics, and the implications of Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology. Greengrowthknowledge He holds a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics and an MBA from SDA Bocconi and Groupe HEC. Total Impact Capital He is a Sorenson Foundation Global Impact Fellow and TBLI Global Impact Hero.

Whether you are a development finance professional, an impact investor, a policymaker, or a philanthropist who suspects the current system is not working, this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Filippo Addarii, Co-founder and Managing Partner of PlusValue — one of Europe's leading experts in social impact finance and socio-economic transformation. With Mario Draghi at the head of a national coalition government, Italy hosting the G20 for the first time, and the EU deploying its largest-ever recovery stake in the country, Filippo argues that Italy offers a unique and timely vantage point on the real potential of impact investing in the post-COVID era.

In this episode:

• Why Italy has become the poster child of the European green transition — and what that means for investors
• How the EU's unprecedented recovery investment in Italy is reshaping the conditions for impact capital
• The new geopolitics of sustainability — and why Italy sits at its crossroads
• Why corporate commitments to the green transition are necessary but insufficient — and what true public-private cooperation actually requires
• How impact investing can bridge the gap between policy ambition and investable opportunity in the Italian market
• The structural challenges and hidden strengths of the Italian impact ecosystem
• What Italy's unique combination of social capital, industrial heritage, and reform momentum means for international investors

The key insight: Every major corporation has made commitments to the green transition. But the ability to cooperate within a shared roadmap — between public institutions and private corporations — is the true challenge. Italy, at this particular moment, is the most important test case in Europe for whether that cooperation is possible.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why Italy is Europe's most important impact investing laboratory right now
• 0:X:XX — The EU recovery plan: unprecedented capital, unprecedented opportunity
• 0:X:XX — Italy as poster child of the European green transition
• 0:X:XX — Corporate green commitments: rhetoric vs reality
• 0:X:XX — The real challenge of public-private cooperation
• 0:X:XX — The Italian impact investing ecosystem: strengths and gaps
• 0:X:XX — What investors need to know about the Italian opportunity

👤 About Filippo AddariiFilippo Addarii is Co-founder and Managing Partner of PlusValue, a leading European expert in social impact finance and socio-economic transformation. During his career he has collaborated with institutions including the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the British Cabinet Office, the United Nations, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. PlusValue He has been an independent advisor on innovation and impact finance to the European Commission since 2007 and co-founded Euclid Network in 2007, serving as its first CEO. Euclid Summit As a member of the Impact Advisory Board of Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, he was an expert adviser on the €1.25 billion programme financing otherwise unbankable clients. Euclid Summit He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna and has completed programmes at INSEAD, Cass Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School. THE ORG He is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, a part-time UCL Industrial Professor, and a European Commission EIC expert.

Whether you are an institutional investor, a corporate sustainability leader, a policymaker, or an impact entrepreneur looking at European opportunities — this episode is essential listening.

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ABOUT TBLI RADICAL TRUTHReal experience. Real results. No greenwashing. TBLI Group is the world's leading ESG and impact investing network — educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

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In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo — the extraordinary founder of Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, a woman who left a comfortable life as a musician and music teacher in Querétaro City, moved her family to the remote mountains of Sierra Gorda, and built a grassroots movement that has become one of the world's most celebrated models of biodiversity conservation, social entrepreneurship, and natural capital valuation.

Her story is, simply, proof that the impossible is possible.

In this episode:

• Does biodiversity have real monetary value — and what does the evidence from Sierra Gorda prove?
• How to capture the economic value of ecosystems — from carbon and water to scenic beauty and cultural heritage
• How to monetise nature's value in ways that benefit communities, not just investors
• How GESG built a conservation economy that turned landowners into environmental service providers
• Why payments for ecosystem services can transform rural poverty — and what Sierra Gorda has achieved in practice
• How Pati and her team designed the first forest carbon project validated by the Rainforest Alliance in Mexico
• What robust social and environmental return on investment analysis reveals about the true impact of conservation

The key insight: The Sierra Gorda model proves that protecting nature and reducing poverty are not competing goals — they are the same goal. When communities own the land and are paid for its ecological services, conservation becomes an economic strategy, not a sacrifice.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Does biodiversity have a monetary value?
• 0:X:XX — How to capture nature's value: the Sierra Gorda model
• 0:X:XX — How to monetise ecosystem services for communities
• 0:X:XX — The conservation economy: turning landowners into stewards
• 0:X:XX — Carbon credits, water, and the Basket of Ecosystem Services
• 0:X:XX — Social and environmental return on investment: the evidence
• 0:X:XX — Replicating the Sierra Gorda model globally

👤 About Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz CorzoA former music teacher, Pati moved her family to the rural Sierra Gorda from Querétaro City in the 1980s, and in 1987 co-founded Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda with Roberto Pedraza Muñoz and local citizens to build a grassroots movement for the conservation and regeneration of the region. Sierragorda In 1997, GESG successfully led civil society efforts for Sierra Gorda's declaration as a protected area by President Zedillo — the only protected area in Mexico created through civil society action. Ruiz Corzo was named its Federal Director and served until 2009. Sierragorda She has engaged more than 34,000 people in community environmental education, soil restoration, and conservation, while hundreds of families receive over $2 million annually from the sale of carbon credits. Sierragorda Her awards include the 1996 Ashoka Fellowship, the 2002 Rolex Award, the 2012 National Geographic-Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation, and the 2013 UNEP Champions of the Earth Award for Empowering Poor Communities and Spearheading the Green Economy. Grokipedia

Whether you are an impact investor, a conservation finance professional, a philanthropist, or a policymaker — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the true value of nature.

ABOUT TBLI RADICAL TRUTHReal experience. Real results. No greenwashing. TBLI Group is the world's leading ESG and impact investing network — educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt — founder of KUNO Leadership Community, former international CEO of global brands including IKEA and Georg Jensen, and one of the most compelling voices on the urgent need to transform how we think about leadership, purpose, and value creation in the 21st century.

Her radical truth: you cannot be a great leader in 2026 by optimising for profit alone. Purposeful leadership — aligned with all stakeholders, sustainability, technology, and globalisation — is not an ethical choice. It is a business imperative.

In this episode:

• Why the current leadership framework is no longer fit for purpose — and what needs to replace it
• What purposeful leadership actually means — and how it connects economic growth with positive impact on the world
• How to build trust at scale — within organisations, across industries, and for the next generation of leaders
• The three forces every leader must integrate today: sustainability, technology, and globalisation
• Why "humans before machines" remains the most important principle in the age of AI and digital transformation
• Lessons from 30+ years leading global organisations across Japan, Europe, China, and the US
• How KUNO's philosophy and storytelling methodology help leaders unlock their purpose and align their organisations

The key insight: In a fast-changing world, it is no longer enough to aim to be the best in the world. Leaders must aim to be the best for the world. That requires a new value proposition — and a new kind of trust.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why the current leadership framework must be transformed
• 0:X:XX — What purposeful leadership actually looks like in practice
• 0:X:XX — Building trust at scale: lessons from 30 years of global leadership
• 0:X:XX — Sustainability, technology, and globalisation: the three forces reshaping leadership
• 0:X:XX — Humans before machines: leadership in the age of AI
• 0:X:XX — The KUNO philosophy and why storytelling is its core methodology
• 0:X:XX — The next generation of leaders: what they need and how to develop them

👤 About Eva-Lotta SjöstedtEva-Lotta Sjöstedt founded KUNO Leadership Community in 2019 to build a global sense of trust for the next generation of leaders, drawing on 30 years of experience as an international leader, CEO, and board member. Kunolc She has served as CEO for global brands including IKEA — where she led digital transformation across 38 countries — and Georg Jensen, with experience spanning Sweden, Japan, the Netherlands, and Europe. LinkedIn She currently sits on the boards of Metro AG in Düsseldorf, Elisa Corporation in Helsinki, and is Chair of the ESG Committee at Alliance Pharmaceuticals. Kunolc She holds an Executive Leadership Programme qualification from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of The Movement of Trust, published in 2021. Entity 247

Whether you are a CEO, a board member, a next-generation leader, an impact investor, or anyone who believes business must be a force for good — this episode is essential listening.

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ABOUT TBLI RADICAL TRUTHReal experience. Real results. No greenwashing. TBLI Group is the world's leading ESG and impact investing network — educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

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In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Simon Clark and Will Louch — the two Wall Street Journal investigative journalists whose reporting brought down Abraaj, one of the world's largest impact investment firms, and whose book The Key Man became one of the most celebrated financial exposés of our time.

Their story is not just about one man's fraud. It is about the entire impact investing ecosystem — its promise, its vulnerabilities, and the urgent questions every investor and policymaker must now ask.

In this episode:

• How Arif Naqvi built a billion-dollar impact empire by telling the global elite exactly what they wanted to hear
• How Bill Gates, Western governments, the World Bank, the UN, and dozens of elite institutions were deceived
• What the Abraaj scandal reveals about the structural weaknesses of the impact investing sector
• How an anonymous whistleblower led Clark and Louch to one of the biggest financial frauds in modern history
• What hundreds of documents and interviews with 150+ people — including 70 former Abraaj employees and a Vatican cardinal — revealed
• What the Abraaj case means for due diligence, governance, and accountability in impact investing going forward
• Whether "capitalism for good" is a genuine force for change — or a cover story for the same old greed

The key insight: Arif Naqvi separated billionaires and institutions from their wealth by appealing to their private belief that they could make money while doing God's work. The Abraaj scandal does not prove that impact investing is impossible. It proves that without rigorous governance, transparency, and genuine accountability, good intentions are not enough.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairy tale
• 0:X:XX — Who was Arif Naqvi and how did he build his empire?
• 0:X:XX — The whistleblower: how the investigation began
• 0:X:XX — What the documents revealed: fraud, theft, and racketeering
• 0:X:XX — The role of elite institutions: due diligence failures exposed
• 0:X:XX — What the Abraaj scandal means for impact investing today
• 0:X:XX — Can capitalism truly be a force for good?

👤 About Simon Clark & Will LouchSimon Clark is a journalist and author based in London, whose investigative reporting has taken him to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, the copper mines of Congo, and the banks of the City of London. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. Amazon Will Louch is a finance reporter at Bloomberg News in London, previously a Wall Street Journal reporter covering private equity in London and New York, and before that a European politics correspondent in Brussels. Amazon Together, they gathered information from more than 150 people, including 70 former Abraaj employees, business chiefs, politicians, and a Vatican cardinal. Kirkus Reviews The Key Man was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year and named one of The Economist's best books of 2021.

Whether you are an impact investor, a fund manager, a philanthropist, a policymaker, or anyone who wants to understand the real vulnerabilities at the heart of sustainable finance — this episode is essential reading.

ABOUT TBLI RADICAL TRUTHReal experience. Real results. No greenwashing. TBLI Group is the world's leading ESG and impact investing network — educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

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Could accountants save the world — and why haven't they already?

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Sara Olsen, founder of SVT Group and one of the most influential practitioners in the global impact management profession. Sara has spent over two decades doing something the broader impact sector says is impossible — measuring, managing, and verifying social and environmental impact rigorously, at scale, and in ways that actually drive business decisions and financial performance.

Her radical truth: the tools exist. The profession exists. What is missing is the will and the skill to use them.

In this episode:

• How to measure and verify social impact — practically, rigorously, and at scale
• Why impact accounting is not just an ethical framework but an essential driver of financial performance
• How accountants might just save the world — and what that requires of the profession
• How to get professionals doing high-quality impact accounting and management quickly
• What SVT Group's work managing $9.9 billion+ in assets has revealed about what actually works in impact management
• How Social Value International is working to change the way society accounts for value — and what that means for ESG standards globally
• What firms with a genuine impact focus — like Techstars, Mission Driven Finance, and Angels of Impact — do differently from the rest

The key insight: We do have the tools to understand the impact of the global capital marketplace in all its diverse and complex reality. Those who claim we don't are either uninformed — or giving investors and businesses a convenient excuse to keep ignoring what matters.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why impact accounting is the missing lever in sustainable finance
• 0:X:XX — How to measure and verify social impact in practice
• 0:X:XX — Why impact accounting drives financial performance
• 0:X:XX — How accountants might just save the world
• 0:X:XX — What 7,000+ professionals trained in impact management have learned
• 0:X:XX — Social Value International: changing the way society accounts for value
• 0:X:XX — How to build the impact management profession at speed and scale

👤 About Sara OlsenSara Olsen is the founder of SVT Group, a pioneering impact management advisory firm whose work has been used to manage the impact of $9.9 billion+ in assets. She has trained over 7,000 individuals in impact measurement and management skills. Impact Entrepreneur A champion of the emerging impact management profession, she serves as board member and methodology co-chair of Social Value International — the international standards body working to change the way society accounts for value — and as SVI's liaison to the Impact Management Platform, which harmonises leading ESG and impact disclosure and management standards. Impact Entrepreneur She has been recognised twice as one of America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs by Bloomberg Businessweek. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Sara founded SVT Group in 2001, has taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MSW from the University of Chicago. SVT Group

Whether you are an impact investor, an accountant, a CFO, a nonprofit leader, or anyone who believes that what gets measured gets managed — this episode is essential listening.

ABOUT TBLI RADICAL TRUTHReal experience. Real results. No greenwashing. TBLI Group is the world's leading ESG and impact investing network — educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.

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Is "financial inclusion" the fintech industry's biggest lie — and who is really paying the price?

Emmanuel Daniel, award-winning founder of The Asian Banker and Wealth and Society, and author of The Great Transition — the personalization of finance is here, delivers a verdict that will unsettle the fintech world: "financial inclusion" as the industry describes it is a lie. The term was requisitioned by platform players because it suited their model — onboard millions, then monetise them. Not a single technology-driven financial inclusion model today is designed to pass savings to the poor or allow them to generate wealth.

In this episode:

• Why "financial inclusion" as marketed by fintech is fundamentally dishonest
• How VC funding structures make genuine financial inclusion structurally impossible
• The real consequences when financial inclusion is wrongly applied — and who pays
• What financial inclusion should actually mean
• Why digital inclusion offers what fintech-driven inclusion cannot
• How the shift from platform finance to personalisation changes everything

The key insight: Platform fintech was never designed to serve the poor — it was designed to populate platforms and monetise them. Making finance cheaper is not the same as making it work for people. The radical shift ahead is personalisation: finance built around the individual, not the institution.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why financial inclusion is fintech's biggest lie
• 0:X:XX — How VC structures make genuine inclusion impossible
• 0:X:XX — Consequences of financial inclusion wrongly applied
• 0:X:XX — What financial inclusion should actually mean
• 0:X:XX — Digital inclusion vs financial inclusion
• 0:X:XX — From platforms to personalisation: The Great Transition

👤 About Emmanuel DanielEmmanuel Daniel founded The Asian Banker in Singapore in 1996 and Wealth and Society, a global programme tracking impact investments and philanthropy. A top 10 global Fintech Power50 influencer in 2021 and 2022, and winner of the Citibank Excellence in Business Journalism Award for Asia, his book The Great Transition draws on decades of global consulting to map the finance industry's evolution from platforms to personalisation. Forewords by former US Congressman Barney Frank and Richard Sandor, father of financial futures.

If you work in fintech, impact investing, or financial regulation — this episode is essential listening.

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#FinancialInclusion #Fintech #EmmanuelDaniel #TheAsianBanker #TheGreatTransition #PersonalisationOfFinance #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #FutureOfFinance #VentureCapital #BankingReform #DigitalInclusion #FinancialServices

The carbon bubble is real, it is enormous — and most investors are still not paying attention. Why?

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Mark Campanale, one of the true pioneers of sustainable investing and the founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative. Mark coined the "unburnable carbon" thesis, gave the world the concept of stranded assets, and has spent over three decades redirecting capital away from fossil fuels. His radical truth: the energy system is already changing — and investors still treating fossil fuels as business as usual are sitting on a $100 trillion time bomb.

In this episode:

• Why renewables being cheaper than fossil fuels changes the entire investment calculus
• How big the carbon bubble really is — and what $100 trillion in lost fossil fuel revenues means for portfolios
• Manufactured energy vs commodity energy: why electrons are displacing molecules
• How investors lose — and make — money when a whole system changes
• Where the real risks lie for investors clinging to fossil fuel business as usual
• How to move the needle on capital mobilisation away from a carbon-intensive economy

The key insight: The transition is not coming — it is already here. Renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels, making billions in planned fossil fuel projects economically unviable. Investors who miss this shift don't just damage the planet. They destroy their own returns.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why the carbon bubble matters now
• 0:X:XX — Renewables cheaper than fossil fuels: the investment implications
• 0:X:XX — The $100 trillion lost fossil fuel revenue question
• 0:X:XX — Manufactured vs commodity energy: electrons vs molecules
• 0:X:XX — How whole-system transitions create investor risk and opportunity
• 0:X:XX — Moving capital: what investors can do today

👤 About Mark CampanaleMark Campanale is the founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the author of the "unburnable carbon" capital markets thesis. He co-founded some of the first responsible investment funds, including Jupiter Asset Management's Ecology Funds, NPI's Global Care, AMP's Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investors' Industries of the Future Funds. Investing for Impact He was awarded the 2021 Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets by Ceres and Trillium Asset Management, and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge's sustainable finance programme. Ceres He is also co-founder of Planet Tracker and advises financial institutions including Tribe Impact Capital and Consilium Capital. Planet Tracker

For anyone serious about climate finance, energy transition, and where capital needs to go next — this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Marko Oksanen, CEO and co-founder of Coventures, a Helsinki-based venture builder that bridges the gap between established corporations and entrepreneurial talent. With 20+ digital ventures built across Helsinki and Berlin, Marko has seen every flavour of corporate innovation — the bold bets, the missed opportunities, and the avoidable mistakes. His radical truth: corporations are full of top talent, but they consistently miss the one ingredient that makes ventures succeed — the entrepreneur.

In this episode:

• What role corporate venture building can play in the impact ecosystem
• Why most corporate venture building initiatives fail — and the structural reasons behind it
• Why internal staff, however capable, are rarely the right people to build new ventures
• The different types of partners in the corporate venture building ecosystem, and when to work with each
• How to combine corporate assets and know-how with genuine entrepreneurial skill
• What the Coventures co-venturing model reveals about building new businesses that actually matter

The key insight: Corporations have assets, distribution, and domain expertise — but they routinely underestimate how different the skills of a builder are from those of a manager. Outsourcing to consultants doesn't solve this. Bringing in battle-tested entrepreneurs does.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why corporate venture building so often fails
• 0:X:XX — The role of corporate venture building in the impact ecosystem
• 0:X:XX — Why internal staff struggle to build new ventures
• 0:X:XX — The right partners: who, why, and when
• 0:X:XX — What successful ventures from corporates actually look like
• 0:X:XX — Lessons from 20+ ventures across Helsinki and Berlin

👤 About Marko OksanenMarko Oksanen is CEO of Coventures, a company that partners with established organisations to enhance their capabilities for innovation and growth. Coventures connects entrepreneurs with corporate assets and know-how to build meaningful, impact-driven ventures. THE ORG Marko has delivered more than 40 different innovation projects, giving him extensive insight into different types of companies and industries, and is considered one of the top product management experts in Finland, teaching at Aalto University and coaching in leading incubator programmes. Coventures Oy He holds a Master of Science in Knowledge Intensive Business from Aalto University. THE ORG

For anyone working in corporate innovation, impact investing, or entrepreneurship — this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Johan Jörgensen, founder of Sweden FoodTech and the man widely known as "Mr. FoodTech." Johan co-founded the Smaka Good Food Festival — one of the world's largest food gatherings — and has spent over a decade building the Nordic foodtech ecosystem into a global reference point for what a healthier, more innovative, and less destructive food system actually looks like. His radical truth: our current food system is built on false mathematics — and the real cost of food is three times what we pay at the checkout.

In this episode:

• How Sweden FoodTech is transforming the food system to be less destructive, healthier, and more supportive of smallholder farmers
• Why the current food system is based on false mathematics — and what the real cost of food actually is
• How data, technology, and innovation are driving the shift from industrial-age food to next-generation food
• What role foodtech plays in addressing climate, biodiversity, and health simultaneously
• How the Nordic approach — without entrenched food traditions — creates space for bold systemic change
• What investors and entrepreneurs need to understand about the food system transformation

The key insight: Just twelve plants and five animals account for 75% of the planet's calories. That monoculture made the planet and all of us acutely ill. The next food system starts from what we can actually produce and eat without bringing harm with it — and the technology to get there exists today.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why the food system must change — and why now
• 0:X:XX — The false mathematics of food: the real cost is three times the price
• 0:X:XX — How Sweden FoodTech is building the next-generation food system
• 0:X:XX — Supporting smallholder farmers through innovation and data
• 0:X:XX — What investors and entrepreneurs need to know about foodtech
• 0:X:XX — The Nordic advantage: no food traditions, no constraints

👤 About Johan JörgensenJohan Jörgensen is the founder of Sweden FoodTech and coaches nations, cities, corporations, and entrepreneurs on strategic business-building in the transforming food sector. An internet entrepreneur turned investor with over 20 years of experience, he started his career in the tech sector in the early 1990s and focused on foodtech from 2011, when he was named venture capitalist of the year. Menub In 2015 Johan ran the innovation programme for the USA Pavilion at the World Expo in Milan, where he concluded that the next-generation food system would be born in dynamic, health-focused, sustainability-oriented places — like the Nordics. Menub Sweden FoodTech hosts the Smaka Good Food Festival and the Big Meet foodtech conference, and runs the leading foodtech community FoodTechVillage.com. Johanjorgensen

For anyone working in food systems, impact investing, or sustainable innovation — this episode is essential listening.

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