Michal Kulak
Deputy Head of Sustainable Investment Research at Robeco|IPBES Business and Biodiversity Expert
Michal Kulak co-leads the Sustainable Investment Research team at Robeco. His team integrates environmental, social and governance factors into equity and credit investment decisions.
He was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment (2023–2026), leading the chapter on methods for measuring business impacts and dependencies on biodiversity. He holds a doctorate in environmental systems science from ETH Zurich and spent five years as a sustainability scientist in Unilever's R&D division before moving into asset management in 2019.
He developed Robeco's Biodiversity Investment Framework and is a certifying expert for the Solar Impulse Foundation.
Indy — an independent navigator for biodiversity measurement methods
Start from the question you actually need answered — a product, a site, a portfolio, a target — and Indy narrows the field of methods, sets out what each one can establish, and is explicit about where it stops.
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Open IndyMichal writes for illuminem on nature, measurement and capital markets.
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Dec 2025
Heating homes with wastewater, data centres and hockey rinks: lessons from Zurichilluminem
Michal speaks on ESG integration, sustainable finance and biodiversity.
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21 Aug 2026
Swiss IPCC/IPBES meetingBern
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1–4 Sep 2026
Swiss Green Economy SymposiumWinterthur
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6–8 Oct 2026
Building BridgesGeneva
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19–30 Oct 2026
CBD COP17Yerevan, Armenia
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