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PROFILE OF SPEAKERS
Charlie has worked for IKEA UK for 13 years and was a member of the Armed Forces and has worked in Security and Risk. Within the IKEA organisation Charlie worked in the Risk and Health and Safety area before his interest in Environmental matters brought him into Environmental management for IKEA UK.
Charlie has worked in the environmental field for nine years with main focus being store operations including waste management, Energy conservation and resource efficiency. Current areas of key focus are implementation of renewable energy into IKEA UKs units. Implementation of Green travel plans for all units. He has a Diploma in Environmental Management.
Key achievements in 2008:
Title of presentation: "Low cost but not at any cost"
The Institute of Community Cohesion provides a new approach to race, diversity and multiculturalism focussing on building positive and harmonious community relations.
iCoCo is a unique partnership of academic, statutory and non-governmental bodies, who combine the experience and expertise of four universities with practitioners from a range of diverse backgrounds and professions.
The Environment Agency is a UK government agency. Its vision is of a rich, healthy and diverse environment for present and future generations. It is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. Its job is to make sure that air, land and water are looked after by everyone in today's society, so that tomorrow's generations inherit a cleaner, healthier world.
The African Human Security Initiative 2 (AHSI2) is a follow-up to AHSI1, a regional programme that used the system of peer review to monitor the extent of compliance of eight African countries with their commitments to democracy, good governance and civil society participation.
AHSI2 uses the peer review concept to complement the formal NEPAD/APRM (New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development / Africa Peer Review Mechanism) process by focusing on the criminal justice system in selected countries identified for APRM review.
Through local partnerships, AHSI2 intends to build the capacity of an expanded membership to undertake research on security issues in order to facilitate the work of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union.
Julian joined Wessex Water in 2003 and was appointed Director of Environment, Science & Sustainability in April 2004. A microbiologist, he studied for his Ph.D. whilst with the Public Health Laboratory Service at CAMR Porton Down.
Later, in 1988, joining Thames Water where he was appointed Chief Scientist in 1999. He has published 58 research and review papers and contributed to several textbooks and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Microbiology. He has been a convenor and member of BSI technical committees and convenor of ISO committees.
He is a Director of UKWIR and is currently a Trustee and Chairman of Sustainability South West (a Bristol based sustainability charity). His personal interests include the development and implementation of sustainability accounting and the application of Corporate Social Responsibility principles into business processes.
The Eden Project is wholly owned by the Eden Trust, an educational charity (charity number 1093070). The Eden Project uses exhibits, events, workshops and educational programmes to remind people what nature gives to us and to help people to learn how to look after it in return. All money raised goes to further the aims of the Trust.
Welcoming over a million people every year to join in our events and learn from our exhibits. The work includes programmes and projects with schools, colleges and universities, but we also try to ensure everyone who comes to our site leaves knowing something more about their connections to the world.
As an organisation that believes in "learning by doing" and we try to run our operations in ways that help address some big questions. Questions like: How do we ensure the economic benefits of our work go back into the local economy? How do we manage food supply and waste? Or how do we construct buildings in a way that reflect the needs of the 21st Century? Overall the Eden Project believes the world we live in is facing radical change – and our aim is to help find positive futures in the face of that change.
To get in shape for the challenges of the future we need a culture that knows how to sustain the things that sustain us and at the same time nurtures creativity, imagination and adaptability.
Richard worked for 12 years in industry and then 20 years in two development agencies, Intermediate Technology and Tradecraft plc. He was responsible for developing the methodology for the UK's first independently audited social account (Tradecraft plc, 1993) and set up ethics etc… as an independent consultancy in 1997.
He was a founding member of AccountAbility and chair of its board and has been involved in developing sustainability accounting and auditing methodologies and standards with AccountAbility and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) since 1990.Richard has an MBA from Newcastle University, is a Special Professor of Nottingham University Business School and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has published a variety of books and papers on corporate accountability and CSR auditing.
Owen Greene is the author or co-author of 9 books and over 180 research articles, reports or book chapters, plus editor or co-editor of over 15 books, on questions relating to: arms export controls and supplier regimes (including EU, Wassenaar Arrangements, MTCR and NSG) and non-proliferation regimes; arms transparency and confidence-building measures; small arms and light weapons; conflict prevention; democratic governance, security, international assistance and co-operation in conflict-prone regions; security sector reform; regional security (especially Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia); and the development, implementation and effectiveness of international and regional co-operative arrangements relating to international security and international environmental problems.
He has directed and co-directed numerous research projects relevant to this field, and is the Director of the Consultancy contract on 'Conflict, Security and Development' (CSD), between the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and Bradford University's Centre for International Cooperation and Security, the major framework contract for providing DFID (and the other 'conflict prevention pool ministries - FCO and MoD) with expert advice and research consultancies on issues relating to conflict, security and development, including conflict reduction and prevention, small arms reduction and control, security sector reform, post-conflict peace-building, assistance to war-torn regions, confidence-building measures and illicit trafficking.
Dr Greene is an internationally recognised expert on issues of conflict and security, and is in high demand as a consultant or special advisor for the UN, OSCE, EU, UK and many governments and multilateral policy negotiations and meetings on such issues.
Recent research and responsibilities have included Consultant to the UN, EU, and OSCE on small arms, leader of EU Council mission to Cambodia on co-operation in tackling small arms; Team leader for FCO scoping study on conflict prevention in the Western Balkans; Scoping Study on Security Sector reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Wessex Water Services Ltd is part of YTL Power and provides water to 1.2 million people and waster water services to 2.5 million people in the south west of England. Wessex Water is committed to becoming a sustainable water company.
Following a degree and PhD in geography, Dan completed a work-based Masters based at the UK sustainability think-tank, Forum for the Future. Dan‟s work at Wessex Water has been very broad-ranging, including:
His current focus is on embedding the Wessex Water‟s sustainability strategy into its business planning, including the company‟s Strategic Direction Statement and its submission for the 2009 Price Review.
Jane recently beat off fierce competition to win a free place on ARCHS new MA programme. Her winning essay explores the transition to a sustainable enterprise economy through her quest for ethically mined silver, taking her on a journey through Bolivia to what may soon be the world's first Fairtrade accredited gold mine.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.
Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 65,225 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies.
Dr Alan Hunter is Professor of Asian Studies at Coventry University, where he is also Associate Director of the Applied Research Centre in Human Security, and (from December 2008) Director of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies. His publications include Protestantism in Contemporary China (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Wild Lily Prairie Fire (Princeton University Press, 1995); Contemporary China (Macmillan, 1999); Peace Studies in the Chinese Century (Ashgate, 2006). A review of this book concludes that:
His most recent publications include „China and the New International Security Agenda‟ in Brauch (ed) Globalization and Environmental Challenges (2007); "Peace and Conflict Resolution Teaching in Chinese Higher Education‟ in Stephens (ed) Higher Education and International Capacity Building (2008); "Sustainability and Energy Debates in China‟ in the International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability (2007). A new article Chinese soft power and cultural influence is currently under review. Alan also publishes on Indian and Sino-Indian issues.
Daniel Irurah is a Kenyan architect who has been a Permanent Resident of South Africa since June 1999. He is a registered architect both in South Africa and Kenya. He is a Senior Lecturer (teaching, research and postgraduate supervision) in Sustainability and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand.
He is also one of the directors in Syn-Consult Africa (Pty) Ltd: a consultancy firm working on sustainability and the built environment. He holds a PhD in Architecture (University of Pretoria), Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) and Master of Urban Planning (MUP) (University of Oregon, USA). He holds a Bachelor of Architecture, First Class Honors (University of Nairobi, Kenya).
His main consultancy work focuses on both the "green" and "brown" issues of sustainable cities, architecture and housing with emphasis on developing country cities and socio-political economies. In particular, he has special interest on energy/environmental as well as job/entrepreneurial impacts of construction materials in terms of production, distribution and specification in construction projects.
Tarak is working as he Director of an NGO named DHARAMITRA (which literally means 'Friends of Earth'), situated in a town called Wardha located in Maharashtra state of India. The place is well known because of a very long association of Mahatma Gandhi who stayed here almost for two decades of later part of his life and stewarded the independence movement in the country from here.
Dharamitra has been founded by a group of scientists and social activists committed to Sustainable Rural Development. Dharamitra is engaged in generation and propagation of eco-friendly technologies based on judicious use of locally available resources. Sustainable agriculture, organic recycling, soil and water conservation, watershed management and agrowaste utilization are the major areas of intervention.
Dharamitra has also been engaged in applied research, training and extension activities. It has developed a close liaison with about 1000 small, marginal and resource poor farmers and helped them to enhance their incomes through introduction of a non-chemical and eco-friendly package of agricultural techniques tuned to local agro-climatic conditions. It has also organized a large group of rural women into 'Self Help Groups' and helped them to improve nutritional status of their families through development of courtyard nutritional gardens and also involved them in various income generating enterprises. Dharamitra has been disseminating the technologies evolved to rural masses through interaction with grass root level NGOs in the region.
The European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) is a unique alliance of companies, business schools and academic institutions that is, with the support of the European Commission, committed to integrating business in society issues into the heart of business theory and practice in Europe. EABIS continues to expand and counts over 75 members including international companies and organisations and leading business schools across Europe, South Africa and New Zealand.
Cornis van der Lugt is based in UNEP‟s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE). He is responsible for corporate environmental and social responsibility (CESR), the Global Compact (UNGC), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and UN-business partnerships.
Since 2000 he has represented UNEP and the UNGC at various international conferences and in GRI expert working groups. He is also a UNGC-nominated expert in the current ISO 26000 process to develop an international standard on social responsibility. His work includes working with partner organisations in organising learning events with company presentations of case studies, developing CSR-related guidance materials for managers and analytical reports on emerging good practices and standards.
Outputs include publications such as the biennial "Global Reporters Benchmark Survey" by UNEP / Sustainability / Standard & Poors, the "Carrots & Sticks" overview of mandatory and voluntary reporting standards by UNEP and KPMG, as well as the Stakeholder Engagement manual by UNEP / Accountability / Stakeholder Research Associates. He is also coordinator of the annual UNEP Consultative Meeting on Business and Industry, which recently produced the "Class of 2006" Report Cards by 45 business and industry organisations.
Dr Mary Martin is Research Fellow and co-ordinator of the Centre’s Study Group on Human Security. She completed her PhD on British and German discourses about the War on Terrorism at the University of Cambridge. She was previously European director of Citigate Dewe Rogerson and European Business Editor for The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and New York correspondent of The Guardian.
Her research interests are in European foreign policy; security and the European public sphere; security discourses post 9/11; European identity; transnational media and political communication.
He is founder of the international, transdisciplinary, multistakeholder Roundtables on Sustainable Enterprise investigating moves towards a low carbon sustainable enterprise economy for the 21st Century, and, with Alan Hunter, ARCHS‟ new MAs in Sustainable Enterprise and Human Security run in partnership with The Eden Project, Cornwall, England; the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and, the UN University, Tokyo, Japan.
He was the Founding Editor in 1999 and is currently General Editor of the peer reviewed academic Journal of Corporate Citizenship. He is Professor Extraordinary at the Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and was the Founding Chair in 1993 and is currently a Trustee of envolve.co.uk - partnerships for sustainability in Bath. He is a Member of: the British International Studies Association's Human Security Working Group; the Conference Board‟s European Council on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability; the UK Sustainability Development Commission Panel; the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network; and represents Coventry University at the European Academy for Business In Society (EABIS). ARCHS is also currently a partner in an ESRC funded seminar series on Human Security in partnership with the
London School of Economics, Bradford University Department of Peace Studies, International Development Studies at Sussex University, and the UK Defence Academy.
In 2007 Malcolm was highly commended in the Lifetime Achievement Awards as a Faculty Pioneer by EABIS and the Aspen Institute and he is listed as a "social and institutional entrepreneur" who have „created the corporate responsibility movement‟ in ‘The Difference Makers’ by Sandra Waddock (Greenleaf 2008). He was a Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General‟s Global Compact from 2000 to 2005.He has significant experience in consultancy, teaching, project management and film-making on corporate responsibility and sustainability with global corporations and institutions since 1980 including the UN, BP, Shell, BBC, Pfizer, ABB, INSEAD, Harvard, Warwick & the UK Government. He was also a current affairs film producer and journalist for BBC TV from 1985 to 1995. Malcolm has a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford which was published as The Management of Britain’s Defence (Macmillan 1990).
His MA dissertation was also published as Japan Re-Armed (Pinter 1989). His other publications include: Corporate Citizenship in Africa: Lessons from the Past, Paths to the Future with Wayne Visser and Charlotte Middleton (Greenleaf: 2006); Learning To Talk: Corporate Citizenship & The Development of the UN Global Compact with Sandra Waddock and Georg Kell, with a Foreword by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General (Greenleaf: 2004); Living Corporate Citizenship: Strategic Routes to Socially Responsible Business with Ruth Thomas, Deborah Leipziger and Gill Coleman. (Financial Times / Prentice Hall 2003); Corporate Citizenship & The Evolving Relationship Between NGOs and Corporations with Ruth Thomas with a Foreword by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chair Royal Dutch/Shell. (British-North American Committee 2003); Raising A Ladder To The Moon: The Complexities of Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility (Palgrave Macmillan 2003); Perspectives On Corporate Citizenship with Jorg Andriof (Greenleaf 2001); Corporate Citizenship: Successful Strategies for Responsible Companies with Deborah Leipziger, Gill Coleman & Keith Jones (Financial Times / Pitman Publishing 2001 – also in Chinese (2006), Portuguese (2004), Japanese (2004) and Korean (2005); and Good Business? Case studies in CSR (Centre for Social Management / New Consumer / Policy Press 1992).
Mahabir Pun was elected Ashoka Fellow in 2002, and given the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 by the Global Ideas Bank (aka the Institute for Social Inventions) based in UK.
The Ramon Magsaysay Foundation of the Philipinnes honoured Mahabir Pun with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership 2007; and in December 2007 the University of Nebraska, USA invited Mahabir Pun for the winter commencement speech and awarded him the Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, for his outstanding work for Nepal. Mahabir is Director of 'Nepal Wireless'.
He works across several developmental and environmental disciplines in the mountain villages of Nepal. His projects have included tree-planting, environmental regeneration, literacy and skills training, and sustainable provision of ICT to remote villages.
David is a Lecturer in International Politics and has been at Magee College since 1999. He is also a British Research fellow at the Centre for Governance and International Affairs, University of Bristol. He has also worked for the American Red Cross in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
David Roberts' main research field is human security and global governance. His latest monograph is on Human Insecurity and Global Structures of Violence. His second research field is in democratization, statebuilding and global peacebuilding. He is a member of the Carnegie-funded RPPS - Research Partnership on Postwar Statebuilding (state-building.org), based in the US and with affiliations to the United Nations and the International Peace Academy, New York.
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. He will talk about questions of governing a more global world.
In particular, since the start of 2008, he has been convening the Building Global Democracy programme, together with colleagues in Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, Russia and Tonga which involves some 60 academic researchers, 180 other workshop participants, and several thousand correspondents in an exploration of the conceptual, pedagogic, institutional, distributional and cultural aspects of 'rule by the people' in relation to global affairs.
He is the author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction; Civil Society and Global Democracy; and International Relations of Social Change amongst many books. In 2008-11 he is coordinating a major international project on 'Building Global Democracy', with a large grant from the Ford Foundation, together with co-conveners in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The project will generate half a dozen volumes on subjects such as civic education for global democracy, including the excluded in global policymaking, and intercultural constructions of legitimate global governance.
Miho joined the ARCHS as a funded site-split (with the UN University, Tokyo) PhD student in October 2007. Coming from Japan and having a BA in Education (from Japan), an MA in Third World Studies from Coventry University and Master of Public Administration from Warwick Business School.
Miho has various living and working experiences from Japan, England, Sweden and Rwanda. Her recent work has been with NGOs, and she worked in Rwanda between 2001 and 2005 as Country Director of a NGO to promote peace and reconciliation there. Miho has become more interested in issues such as civil society, local communities, basic human rights, global governance, social justice, international development and the roles of the business sector.
Her research looks at the natural resource extraction and human security in Africa, particularly the case of Coltan extraction in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, she is interested to see the roles of local people, NGOs, global governance, and business, and how they can collaborate to enhance human security in the area.
Ruth has over 12 years experience working on sustainable development policy, strategy, reporting, assessment and evaluation across the public and private sectors. As Sustainable Development Principal at Enfusion Ruth works with a range of public & private sector clients on developing sustainability strategies & providing sustainability appraisal, strategic environmental assessment and habitats regulations assessment of Local Development Plans and national planning policy statements. She specialises in strategy & methodology development and is leading the development of appraisal and assessment tool kits supported by training, with regional planning bodies.
Ruth previously worked for the Ministry of Defence where she was Head of Sustainable Development Policy and Strategy for Defence Estates, delivering MOD’s first sustainable development strategy and sustainable development report; strategies to support the Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate programme; and the acknowledged best practice Sustainability Appraisal Handbook for the Defence Estate.
Ruth sits on the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability special interest steering group for the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and is also an Associate Membership Assessor for the Institute. She has published on a wide range of environmental management, sustainability and corporate citizenship issues and is a Visiting Research Fellow to ARCHS at Coventry University.
He has held positions at: the Council on Foreign Relations, The Partnership for New York City, the U.S. Department of State, The New York Times, and The Associated Press. David is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fulbright Scholar, and a White House Fellow.
The Conference Board is the world's preeminent business membership and research organization. Best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators, The Conference Board has, for over 90 years, equipped the world's leading corporations with practical knowledge through issues-oriented research and senior executive peer-to-peer meetings.
MMU was awarded University status in 1992 and is part of the largest higher education campus in the UK and one of the most extensive education centres in Europe. With a history dating back 150 years, we have a combination of the traditional and the contemporary that sets MMU apart and gives us our distinctive character.
Offering subject areas that service industry, commerce and the professions, the University has built up an enviable reputation for providing work-ready graduates that employers want. Some 92 per cent of our graduates go straight into work or further study within six months of graduation.
WaterAid is an international charity. Our mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. Their vision is of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation. Their mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. aterAid enables the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
These basic human rights underpin health, education and livelihoods and form the first, essential step in overcoming poverty. They work with local partners, who understand local issues, and provide them with the skills and support to help communities set up and manage practical and sustainable projects that meet their real needs. They also campaign locally and internationally to change policy and practice and ensure water and sanitation’s vital role in reducing poverty is recognised.