Andrew Kakabadse
Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield University, School of Management.

His current areas of interest focus on improving the performance of top executives and top executive teams, excellence in consultancy practice, leadership, corporate governance, conflict resolution and internatinal relations.

Andrew has published 32 books, over 201 journal articles and 18 monographs. Best-selling books include: 'Essence of Leadership'; 'Politics of Management';'Working in Organisations'; 'The Wealth Creators'. His six latest books are entitled, 'Smart Sourcing: International Best Practice'; 'Governance, Strategy and Policy: Seven Critical Essays'; 'CSR in Practice: Delving Deep'; 'Leading the Board'; 'Leading for Success'; 'The Elephant Hunters'. Andrew is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development, co-editor of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and is an associate editor for Leadership and Organization Development Journal.

Andrew Hoffman
is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.

Professor Hoffman's research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues.

Professor Hoffman has written extensively about: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome.

Johan Roos
Chair of Advisory Board, President, Copenhagen Business School

Johan Roos has a PhD in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has international research experience from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, the BI Norwegian School of Management, the IMD in Lausanne and is also ”Bo Rydin and SCA
Professor of Business Administration, especially Strategy” at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Johan Roos has extensive experience in collaborating with the business community through research, teaching and advisory tasks for companies and organisations on five continents. For six years he was the Managing Director of the private research fund Imagination Lab Foundation in Switzerland, and for the past two years he has served as Dean of the MBA programmes at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Mads Øvlisen
Chairman of LEGO and member of the Global Compact Board

Mads Ovlisen has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of LEGO A/S since 1996, after becoming a Board member in 1990. He is also, since 2007, Chairman of the Danish Arts Council and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wanas Foundation, Sweden. In addition, he holds the position of adjunct professor of corporate social responsibility at the Copenhagen Business School. Mads Ovlisen served as chairman of The Copenhagen Center for Social Responsibility and was a founding Co-chair of the European Academy for Society in Business(EABIS). 2000-2007 Ovlisen also was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Danish Royal Theatre. Mads Ovlisen started his career with Novo Industri A/S in 1972. In 1975, he became a member of corporate management and was president and CEO of Novo Industri A/S from 1981-1989, then of Novo Nordisk A/S from 1989-2000. He was also a member of their boards, becoming Chairman in 2000. Mads Ovlisen was also board member of the Novo Foundation, 1982-1989, and of the Novo Nordisk Foundation starting in 1989. He decided to resign from the Board of Governors of the Novo Nordisk Foundation in April 2006 after having retired as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S.

Sandra Waddock
DBA, Boston College, Carroll School og Management

Sandra Waddock is the Galligan Chair of Strategy and Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Widely published on corporate responsibility and citizenship, she holds MBA and DBA degrees from Boston University.

Claude Fussler
Owner SARL Une Campagne en Provence and Special Advisor and Programme Director at United Nations Global Compact.

Claude Fussler is an expert on business innovation and issues management in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. He was an inaugural member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation until he stepped down in 2009.

He is a director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), where he principally acts as special advisor to the UN Global Compact. He also produced the WBCSD business book Walking the Talk in which prominent business executives demonstrate the opportunities and responsibilities in globalization.

Claude Fussler is also Programme Director of Caring for Climate (C4C), an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. C4C was launched in 2007 by the UN Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme and the WBCSD. The initiative is a voluntary and complementary action platform for Global Compact participants that seek to demonstrate leadership on climate change.

Dennis Hanno
Dean, Undergraduate School at Babson College

Dennis Hanno is the Dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson College and the President’s Endowed Professor of Accounting. Prior to joining Babson in 2006, he served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Matters in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Bachelors in Business Administration degree with a major in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame, his Masters of Science in Accounting degree from Western New England College and a Ph.D. in Accounting degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dean Hanno is on the Board of Directors of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, the leading international organization focused on creating management education models for responsible leadership and sustainability. He is Babson’s point person for the European Foundation for Management Development and the UN’s Principles of Responsible Management Education initiative. He is a member of several international business and accounting organizations, and President of The Nyansa Project, a not-for-profit focused on spurring economic development in Ghana.

Luis Neves
CSR Manager at Deustche Telekom

Luis Neves was born in Covilhã, Portugal in 1953. He finished his University degree in History and later studied law for 2 years.

Luis worked for more than 25 years for Marconi (today Portugal Telecom) as Head of Department and lately at the Corporate Office. After leaving Marconi he started an international career and developed an intensive activity at European and International levels which lasted 14 years.

During this period he participated in different international bodies. He was a permanent member of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications in the European Union and "Chair" of diverse Work groups, member of the High Level Group on the Information Society and frequently Delegate to the Annual ILO Conferences in Geneva. He was appointed as "Expert" by the European Commission to different "Working Groups" in the Telecommunications field as well as in questions related to "Information Society "issues.

Yung-Ho Suh
Dean of Kyung Hee University
Yung-Ho Suh is a professor and the Dean of the School of Management in Kyung Hee University, Korea. Graduating from Seoul National University and KAIST in Korea, he received his Ph. D from Syracuse University in 1990, USA. After completing his Ph.D, he worked for University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as an assistant professor in the area of Management Information Systems for 5 years. Currently, he is the chairperson of Korean Society for Quality Management (KSQM). He served as a chairperson of Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) during 2007-2008. He has served for many years as an examiner-in-chief in Korean National Quality Awards. He has published numerous journal articles and books in the area of quality and information.

Anthony Buono
Professor of Management
Professor of Management and Sociology
Coordinator, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility

Anthony Buono got his PhD from Boston College in 1981. His primary teaching interests are in organizational theory, organizational change and development, and the problems of management in a changing environment.

Anthony Buono is also co-author of Quality of Work Life Assessment, A Primer on Organizational Behavior, Corporate Policy, Values and Social Responsibility and The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions. Editor of the Research in Management Consulting book series, including Current Trends in Management Consulting, Developing Knowledge and Value in Management Consulting, Enhancing Inter-Firm Networks and Interorganizational Strategies, and Creative Consulting: Innovative Perspectives on Management Consulting. Has also published numerous articles and review essays in academic and professional books and journals.