Nadya Zhexembayeva is the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in Slovenia, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability.

As a business owner, Nadya oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment and consulting industries.

Her recent client engagements include The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC Plc, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf, and Vienna Insurance Group. She also serves as Vice-President of Challenge:Future, a global student think tank and innovation competition.

In her speech with the title "Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World" she shows us an alternative to our throwaway-economy, which has no future anymore. A new innovative idea, like this concept of a sustainable economic system is exactly what our resource-deprived world needs right now.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)