Co-chairs

 

John Manzoni

 

Group Managing Director & Chief Executive, Refining & Marketing, BP

 

Since Joining BP in 1983 John has held a variety of roles - Head of Investor Relations, Head of Strategy, VP, Prudhoe Bay, Regional President for the eastern United States, EVP President and the Chief Executive for Gas, Power and Renewables, the post he held until his current appointment in 2002. Appointed to board of BP plc in January 2003. Other Boards include the Stanford Advisory Board, the Accenture Energy Advisory Board and the SABMiller Board.

 

Nandan Nilekani

 

Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies

 

Nandan, founder director of Infosys, has been the CEO since 2002. He is on the Board of World Economic Forum and Reuters. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2006, one of the highest civilian honors awarded in India. He is on a number of committees for Government of India advising on public policy.

 

 

Inquiry Team members

 

Gary Steel

 

Executive Vice President and Head of Human Resources, ABB

 

Gary Steel is Executive Vice President and Head of Human Resources at ABB, the Swiss-based power and automation technology group. He joined ABB in 2002 from Shell International where he held a series of senior executive positions. At both companies he has been responsible for a range of business change programmes.

 

Daniel Gagnier

 

Formerly Senior Vice President, Corporate and External Affairs, Alcan

 

Daniel Gagnier was Alcan’s senior vice president, Corporate and External Affairs from 2000 - 2006. Prior to joining Alcan in 1994, he held a number of positions with the governments of Canada, Ontario and Saskatchewan. He is Chair of the International Organization for Standardization’s technical committee on Environmental Management (ISO/TC 207) and was the past Chairman, Board of Directors, for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. In 2005, Daniel was nominated Chairman for the Canadian Standards Association, and Chairman for International Institute for Sustainable Development.

 

Ron Nielsen

 

Director, Sustainability and Strategic Partnerships, Alcan

 

Ron Nielsen, Director, Sustainability and Strategic Partnerships, Alcan is developing and implementing sustainability within Alcan. Previously Ron was Director of the Air Programme for Pollution Probe and Senior Policy Advisor for the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy. Ron is active with other organisations including WBCSD, BLIHR, the Canadian Water Network and the Canadian Technical Committee to the climate change standard ISO 14064. He has a degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

 

Mark Moody-Stuart

 

Chairman, Anglo American

 

Mark Moody-Stuart is Chairman of Anglo American. He was formally Chairman of the Shell Group 1998- 2001. He is a Director of HSBC, Accenture, the Global Reporting Initiative, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Nuffield Hospitals and President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is also Chairman of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS and a member of the Global Compact Board.

 

GV Prasad

 

Vice Chairman and CEO, Dr. Reddy’s

 

GV Prasad leads the core team that is driving Dr. Reddy’s growth and transformation to achieve the vision of becoming a discovery-led global pharmaceutical company. As CEO, Prasad has championed the globalization of the company and has played a vital role in the company’s evolution. He has been the architect of the company’s global generics strategy. He has also helped create new platforms of growth for the company, in the Custom Pharmaceutical Services, Discovery Services and Specialty Pharmaceutical segments.

 

Dr. Wolfgang G. Schneider

 

VP-Legal, Governmental & Environmental Affairs, Ford of Europe

 

Wolfgang is Vice President, Governmental, Environmental & Legal Affairs of Ford of Europe and has held this position since January 1, 2000. He also leads on Automotive Safety policy and Corporate Citizenship, and he provides a single co-ordinating focal point for all regulatory matters, both in terms of compliance and strategy. He is based at Ford's European headquarters in Cologne. In his spare time, he is active in Environmental and Human Rights organisations.

 

B.G. Srinivas

 

Senior Vice President (EMEA), Infosys Technologies

 

BG Srinivas is the senior VP EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) with Infosys. The EMEA region contributes a quarter of Infosys’ revenues and is growing at +60 %. BG is also a board member of Infosys BPO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys. BG has + 20 years of experience in Operations & Consulting environments across multiple geographies and industries.

 

David Runnalls

 

President, International Institute for Sustainable Development

 

David is President of IISD. He has served as Co-Chair of the China Council Task Force on WTO and Environment. He was the Leopold Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a member of the federal External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation (EACSR). He serves as Chair of the Adjudication Panel for the ALCAN Prize for Sustainability. He is a member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Partnerships to the Minister for International Cooperation; a member of the Environment Canada Cross-Cutting Issues table and a member of the Advisory Council for Export Development Canada.

 

Ian Barlow

 

Senior Partner, KPMG (London Office)

 

Ian joined KPMG in 1973, was appointed partner in 1985 and is now Senior Partner, London, and UK Board member, having previously served as Head of Tax and Legal for eight years. He is the lead partner for a wide variety of clients across a number of industries. Away from KPMG he chairs the London Business Board and Think London, the official inward investment agency for London. His community activities include: Chairman of Safer London Foundation, a member of the Sense Corporate Development Board and Board member of the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, which has been created to help improve the management skills of charities.

 

Ulf Karlberg

 

Human Rights Activist, Founding Chair – Amnesty International Business Group, Sweden

 

Ulf is Co-chair and Trustee of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London, an international non-profit organisation with research staff based in UK, USA, Hong Kong and Africa. He is also the founding Chair of Amnesty International Business Group in Sweden. Previously he worked as Executive Vice President with the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

 

Fields Wicker-Miurin

 

Co-founder and Partner, Leaders’ Quest

 

Fields is Co-founder and Partner of Leaders’ Quest, a social enterprise that brings together and inspires leaders interested in making a positive difference to the world. She is also active in business, policy development, education and the arts, and serves on the boards of the CDC Group, Savills, the Carnegie Group, the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry, and King’s College London. She was previously the Chief Financial Officer of the London Stock Exchange. She has been recognised for her contributions as a leader by Euromoney, Newsweek, Time Magazine and the World Economic Forum.

 

Jeremy Oppenheim

 

Partner, McKinsey & Company

 

Jeremy is a Director at McKinsey & Co. His main professional interests are in climate change, energy and international development/public policy. He currently leads the Special Initiative on Climate Change, whose mission is to advise the world’s leading institutions on the business impact of climate change and on the role that markets/private sector can play in accelerating the shift to a global low carbon economy.

 

Mervyn Davies

 

Chairman, Standard Chartered

 

Mervyn was appointed Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC in November 2006 having previously been Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC since November 2001. He was awarded a CBE in June 2002. A Non Executive Director of Tesco, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Fleming Family & Partners, Mervyn is also Chairman to the Appeal Fundraising Board of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and a Trustee of the Sir Kyffin Williams Trust.

 

Kate James

 

Global Head of Government Relations and Business Strategy, Standard Chartered

 

Kate is Standard Chartered’s Global Head of Government Relations and Strategy for the Americas. Prior to her move to the US in March 2007 she was Group Head of Public Affairs. Kate joined the bank from GlaxoSmithKline in 2004. A Director of Standard Chartered Pakistan, she is also a Director of Vital Voices and a trustee of Trade Plus Aid.

 

Gérard Lamarche

 

Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, SUEZ

 

Gérard Lamarche graduated from University Louvain-la- Neuve Administrative and Management Section with a Bachelor’s degree in Economic Science. He has also completed the INSEAD Management Training (Program for Suez Group executives) and the 1998-99 Wharton International Forum-Global Leadership Series. In February 2003, he was appointed SUEZ Executive Vice President - Finance until March 2004 when he became Senior Executive Vice President - Finance (CFO).

 

Gérard Sussmann

 

Corporate Vice President for Development and Strategy, SUEZ

 

Gérard Sussmann has been Corporate Vice President for Development and Strategy of Group SUEZ since 1997. His previous assignments within the Group led him to various responsibilities in the International Department, in Communication Operations and in the Environment Branch of the Group. He holds a Master of Law from Paris University, a diploma from Institut des Etudes Politiques and an MBA from UCLA.

 

John Elkington

 

Founder & Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility

 

John Elkington co-founded SustainAbility (www.sustainability.com) in 1987 and has been active in the sustainability field since 1972. In 2004, BusinessWeek described him as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades.” John has authored or co-authored 17 books; the latest, with Pamela Hartigan of The Schwab Foundation, is ‘The Power of Unreasonable People’, due out in 2008. John’s personal website: http://www.johnelkington.com

 

 

 

Members of the Research Faculty

 

André Bastos

Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company

 

Graham Baxter

VP Corporate Responsibility, BP

 

Edward Bickham

Executive VP, External Affairs, Anglo American

 

Hugh Clayton

Group Vice President, ABB

 

Prof David Grayson CBE

Director: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management; and a director of Business in the Community

 

Wayne Henderson

Telos Partners

 

Peter Lacy

Executive Director, European Academy of Business in Society

 

Adam Popat

Group Public Affairs, Standard Chartered

 

Bhuvaneshwari Ravi

Head of Sustainability, Dr Reddy’s

 

Jon Rhodes

Partner, Brunswick

 

Tom Rotherham

Head of Corporate Responsibility, Radley Yeldar

 

Richard Sharman

Director of Enterprise Risk Management, KPMG

 

David Thomas

Director of Business Improvement, Collaborative Working Centre UK Ltd.

 

Stewart Wallis

Executive Director, New Economics Foundation

 

Tobias Webb

Founding Editor, Ethical Corporation magazine

 

The International Advisory Panel

 

David Aikman

Former Senior Correspondent for Time Magazine

 

Frances Cairncross

Rector of Exeter College, Oxford (former senior editor of the Economist)

 

Professor Prabhu Guptara

Director of Executive and Organisational Development for the Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre, a subsidiary of UBS AG

 

Mervyn King

Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative and Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance

 

Peter Lorange

President IMD Lausanne

 

Robert Monks

Author, leading shareholder activist and founder of Lens Investment Management

 

Kai Peters

Chief Executive, Ashridge Business School

 

Jean-François Rischard

Former Vice-President for Europe, World Bank

 

Lord Simon of Highbury