How does sustainability work in the insurance sector and what about the importance of stakeholders in this context? Prof. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and her guest Belén Barona, Sustainability Manager at Allianz, discuss these and more questions. Belen offers an insight into her expertise and talks about how she helps integrate the ESG goals into the business processes at Allianz. Belén talks about materiality analysis at Allianz as well as their risk assessment. She explains how the company makes sure to involve and engage stakeholders and why meeting their goals is so important. She says climate change is the biggest challenge for the insurance sector but sees the current hype around ESG as a sign that we are moving into the right direction. Laura and Belén also discuss in how far the wishes and demands of employees have shifted towards topics like diversity, mental health, and occupational safety.
