Europe Delivers is led by an executive committee comprising the CEOs of the partner companies (from left to right, descending): Peter Voser, Chairman and CEO, ABB; Svein Tore Holsether, CEO, Yara; Jochen Thewes, CEO, DB Schenker; Christian Levin, CEO, Scania; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Osvald Bjelland, Founder, Xynteo; Jonas Prising, CEO, ManpowerGroup; Huibert Vigeveno, downstream director, Shell; Mark Barnett, President, Mastercard Europe; N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons.
Founded by Scania, Mastercard, Shell, Verizon, DB Schenker and Yara in partnership with Xynteo, Europe Delivers is working towards a net zero, socially just, competitive future for Europe. We pursue this mission in three ways:
- Impact: We catalyse impact through practical projects that apply innovative commercial solutions to complex systems challenges in areas such as food, energy and the future of work.
- Narrative : We are working with this leadership community to create narratives with the intellectual and emotional power to drive the change in decisions and mindsets needed to transform our societies and economies.
- Engagement: We are actively building a European community of leaders across industries and sectors with the values, will and capabilities to break away from the current growth model and build a new one, fit for the challenges of our time.
Unleashing the bioeconomy - Scania
We’re working with Scania to build a trusted cross-sector network collaborating to grow Europe’s bioeconomy, through a shared vision and roadmap for system interventions. Together we’re aiming to enable the bioeconomy value chain to speak with a unified voice, supporting policy change and initiating collaborative projects resulting in decarbonisation, rural growth and new jobs
Building an inclusive flexible working economy for Europe - Mastercard
We're working with Mastercard to advance an inclusive flexible working economy. We are mobilising a set of stakeholders around a shared vision of what an inclusive flexible working economy could look like and how it could be achieved. We are running innovation sprints to identify business models and tools to strengthen the income security of flexible workers in practical ways.
The future of work - Verizon
We’re working with Verizon to build the desired future state of work together with a diverse group of experts and practitioners across the US and Europe, to understand the barriers preventing that future and working to tackle those barriers. Together we’re building a globally relevant community of experts and leaders and collaborating to tackle barriers to transformation
Catalysing the energy transition - Shell
We are working with Shell to accelerate the energy transition in Europe in line with Shell’s ambition to become a net zero emissions energy business by 2050, or sooner, in step with society. Shell recognises that to achieve its ambition its business plans will need to change, so together we are building a practical and scalable approach. By leveraging existing Shell strategies and initiatives we are aiming to help decarbonise road transportation, which alone contributes more than 20% of the EU’s total CO2 emissions.