Dr. Kim Hak-Su, Undersecretary General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary, UNESCAP

United Nations Under Secretary-General Mr. Kim Hak-Su, a national of the Republic of Korea, assumed the post of Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on 1 July 2000, following appointment by the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Kim, a prominent economist, had served as the Republic of Korea's Ambassador for International Economic Affairs.

Mr. Kim began his distinguished professional career in 1960 as an economist with the Republic of Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea.

In 1969, Mr. Kim served as Secretary to the Minister of Commerce and Industry and was the London Representative of the Bank of Korea between 1971 and 1973.

In 1977, he moved into the private sector, joining Daewoo Corporation as Executive Director and President of DAEWOO International Steel Corporation in New York in 1979.

Mr. Kim joined the United Nations system in September 1981 as Chief Planning Officer and Chief Technical Adviser under the United Nations Department for Technical Cooperation and Development in the Pacific island states of Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

In 1989, after eight years of United Nations duty, Mr. Kim accepted a position as Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, researching and publishing on many substantive issues regarding international economic cooperation.

Mr. Kim served as President of the Hanil Banking Institute before taking up the post of Secretary-General of the Colombo Plan, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1995-1999), where he revitalized the 24-member country’s intergovernmental Colombo Plan in Asia and the Pacific, stressing human resources development and focusing on South-South cooperation.

Married with three children, Mr. Kim was born in Wonju, Republic of Korea, and studied as an undergraduate at Yonsei University. He later earned a master's degree from Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina, in the United States of America.

Mr. Narayana N.R. Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies, India

N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY is the Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited NASDAQ (INFY), a global Information Technology (IT) consulting and software services provider, headquartered at Bangalore, India. He served as CEO of Infosys for twenty years, handing over the reins to a fellow co-founder in March 2002.

Mr. Murthy is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank, Singapore. He is also a director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, as the co-chairman of the Indo-British Partnership, as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry, as a member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications plc.

He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Cornell University Board of Trustees, Singapore Management University Board of Trustees, the Board of Advisors for the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities.

The TIME magazine “Global Tech Influentials” list (August 2004) identified Mr. Murthy as one of the ten leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. He was voted the World Entrepreneur of the Year - 2003 by Ernst and Young. He was one of the two people named as Asia's Businessmen of the Year for 2003 by Fortune magazine. In 2001, he was named by TIME/CNN among the twenty-five most influential global executives. He was the first recipient of the Indo-French Forum Medal (in the year 2003), awarded by the Indo-French Forum, in recognition of his role in promoting Indo-French ties. In 1999, BusinessWeek named him one of the nine entrepreneurs of the year and he was also featured in the BusinessWeek’s ‘The Stars of Asia’ (for three successive years – 1998, 1999 and 2000).

H.E. Mr. Hamid Yar Hiraj, Minister of State for Commerce, Pakistan

Minister of State for Commerce, Mr. Hamid Yar Hiraj brings with him a vast experience of International Finance, Economics, Immigration Law and Politics. Born on December 10, 1972 in Khanewal, Mr. Hamid Yar Hiraj studied at Aitchison College Lahore and Government College Lahore and then he did his B.A. Economics/Political Science from College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He got his B.S.C. degree in Finance/Economics from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA in 1995. In 1997, he did his M.A. in Legal Studies from Columbia, Pacific University Novato, California, USA with concentration in International Finance and Taxation. He is Chairperson of Secondary School, Alumni Committee, University of Pennsylvania, Pakistan.

Mr. Hamid Yar Hiraj was elected as Member National Assembly from Khanewal in the general elections of 2002. He has also served as Minister of State for Health. Mr. Hiraj is Member, ABA & AILA, Member of the American Bar Association and American Immigration Lawyers Association, USA. He is a Director/Partner, American School of International Academics as Anderson Immigration Consulting, USA.

Mr. Hiraj is Winner National Open Tent Pegging Competition at the National Horse and Cattle Show, Lahore, Pakistan (1990) and was a Member, Pakistan Equestrian Team. He enjoys reading in his free time.

Tan Sri Dato' Azman Hashim, Chairman, AmBank Group and Vice Chairman, Pacific Basin Economic Council, Malaysia

He has been involved in banking since 1960, when he returned from Australia having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, joined Bank Negara Malaysia, then practised as a Chartered Accountant in Azman, Wong, Salleh & Co. and subsequently the Board of Malayan Banking Berhad in 1966. He was its Executive Director from 1971 to 1980, appointed Executive Chairman of Kwong Yik Bank Berhad (now "RHB Bank Berhad") in 1980 till 1982 when he became Chairman of the AmBank Group until today.

Tan Sri Azman is Chairman of the Association of Merchant Banks in Malaysia, the National Productivity Corporation, the Malaysian South-South Corporation Berhad, the Pacific Basin Economic Council Malaysia, the Malaysia-Japan Economic Association, Malaysia South-South Association, Non-Aligned Movement's (NAM) Business Council, East Asia Business Council and Co-Chairman of Malaysia-Singapore Roundtable. He also serves as the Treasurer for the Malaysia-US Private Sector Consultative Group and the Malaysia-Australia Foundation, Vice-Chairman of Malaysian Business Council and recently PBEC International. He is a member of the National Economic Consultative Council II, the Business Advisory Council of APEC ("ABAC") and the Trilateral Commission (Asia-Pacific Group). He is also the Leader of the ASEAN-Japanese Business Meeting (Malaysia Committee, Keizai Doyukai) and a Member of the Malaysian-British and Malaysian-China Business Councils.

Besides being a Chartered Accountant, he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers Malaysia.

Prof. Jean-Christophe Iseux, People's University of China and Adviser on Foreign Economic Cooperation to the CPC Central Committee

Jean-Christophe Iseux is currently Director of China Studies at the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford (since May 1998); and Professor of International Economics at the People's University of China in Beijing (since September 2001). He is also Specially Invited Member of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference (Changchun delegate since December 2000) and Adviser for Foreign Economic Cooperation to the CPC Central Committee (since April 2005).

He also holds several other positions as China business consultant to a dozen of the large multinationals all members of Fortune 500 and non-executive member of the board of five firms; guest speaker at the Central Party School; investment adviser to 14 Chinese local governments including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Chongqing, Shenzhen etc...; honorary professor of the Beijing Institute of International Strategic Studies (member of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences); honorary adviser to the Investment Research Department of the National Development and Reform Commission (since 2002); research fellow of the State Council Leadership Selection Committee (since 2002); adviser on the "Go-Out Strategy" of the Ministry of Commerce Research Center (since 2003) and special adviser to the National Economic Research Institute (since 2001). Since 2002 he has been involved in the training of leaders of State Owned Enterprises in cooperation with the CPC Organization Department and the Large Enterprises Working Commission. Outside the PRC he is also China Adviser to the US Coalition of Services Industries (since 2002) and the Asian Strategic and Leadership Institute (since 2003)?

Professor Iseux was the recipient of the Lei Feng Medal (1999) and the Friendship Award (2000). He also received the "Global Leader of Tomorrow" Award from the World Economic Forum (Davos 2003).

Prior to his current positions, Professor Iseux was a lecturer on leadership management to the International MBA class of Tsinghua University (1999-2000), permanent representative to the World Trade Organization and the UN Conference on Disarmament (1996-1997), vice-president for Eastern Europe and China of Oxford Analytica (1994-1996) and research associate at the Oxford School of Management Studies (1992-1995). He received his master's degree in management studies from Templeton College, Oxford University in 1991 and his BSc., MSc., DEng. degrees from the University of Strasbourg.

He has been invited as speaker at several international conferences such as World Economic Forum, APEC Ceo Summit, Business Week Ceo Forum, Asia Business Forum, Wilton Park, etc... and has also written several articles on China's current economic and social development as well as one book entitled : China Reform for the New Century. His current two main fields of research are : China Model of Corporate Governance; and, China Leadership Structure and Developments.

Mr. Satit Sirirangkamanont, Secretary General, Office of the Board of Investment, Thailand

1971-1991Engineer, Industrial Textile Division, Department of Industrial Promotion
1992Director, Industrial Productivity Division (Thailand Productivity Center)
1996Director, Bureau of Industrial Sector Development
1997Deputy Directors-General, Department of Industrial Promotion
2000Inspectors General, Ministry of Industry
2001Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry
2003Deputy Secretary General, Office of the Board of Investment
2004Secretary General, Office of the Board of Investment

Mr. Alexandre Trepelkov, Chief, Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Outreach Branch, Financing for Development Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations, New York

Mr. Trepelkov has worked in different functions within the United Nations for over 15 years. He is currently working as the Chief of the Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Outreach Branch of the Financing for Development Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations, New York. Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Trepelkov worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

Mr. Trepelkov has a Ph. D in International Economics from the Moscow Institute of International Relations. He has written several articles on current issues and policies in international relations and development cooperation, made numerous contributions to various United Nations publications and reports on economic and social issues, including Financing for Development, as well as presented at several international conferences, symposiums and workshops.

Dr. Narhari Rao, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank

Mr. Rao is currently working as a Principal Economist in the South Asia Regional Department of the Asian Development Bank. In ADB, Mr. Rao has also worked in the Strategic Planning Office, Economics and Research Department, ADB's Bangladesh Resident Mission, and the South Asia Regional Department. Mr. Rao has written several significant publications on trade, economic development and international finance.

Mr. Rao has a M.A. (Economics and Politics) and M. Phil (Economics) New College, Oxford University U.K. and D. Phil (International Economics) St. Antony's College, Oxford University U.K. Prior to joining the ADB, he worked as an Advisor in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce in the Government of India.

Mr. Sok Siphana, Secretary of State for Commerce, Cambodia

Mr. Sok Siphana was appointed as Secretary of State for Commerce (Vice-Minister) in May 1999. Since his appointment he has worked extensively on trade policies development and trade negotiation, commercial legal framework, trade promotion, and economic integration. He is the deputy chief negotiator for Cambodia’s accession to the WTO and the focal point for the Integrated Framework for Trade Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries (IF) initiative for Cambodia. He traveled extensively around the world and is a renown speaker in the field of WTO, trade mainstreaming and the IF, law and development, and poverty reduction strategy.

Mr. Sok Siphana received his Juris Doctor from Widener University School of Law in Delaware, USA in 1992 and is admitted to both the Cambodian and the Pennsylvania Bars. Recently he was proposed to serve as an Executive Committee member of the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation (AITIC) – an inter-governmental agency in Geneva – representing beneficiary countries in Asia.

Dr. Victor Fung, Group Chairman, Li & Fung, Chairman, Hong Kong Airport Authority, Hong Kong, China

Dr Victor K Fung is the Group Chairman of the Li & Fung group of companies, which includes major subsidiaries in Trading, Distribution and Retailing, including publicly listed Li & Fung Limited, Integrated Distribution Services Group Limited and Convenience Retail Asia. He also is Chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council, the Hong Kong Airport Authority and the Hong Kong University Council.

Dr Fung holds a number of civic and professional appointments. He is a member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and the Hong Kong Government Judicial Officers Recommendation Committee. He also is Chairman of Hong Kong - Japan Business Co-operation Committee. From 1991 to 2000, Dr Fung was Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and from 1996 to 2003, he was the Hong Kong representative on the APEC Business Advisory Council.

Dr Fung is Chairman, Asian Advisory Board of Prudential Financial Inc and a non-executive Director of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, PCCW Ltd, Orient Overseas (International) Ltd and Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

In 1995, Dr Fung was voted Businessman of the Year under the Hong Kong Business Awards Scheme for his success as an entrepreneur and for his contribution to Hong Kong’s economic development. He also was chosen Hong Kong Leader of the Year in 1998. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1993 in recognition for his commitment to public service. In 1997, the University of Hong Kong conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Laws and in 2001 he was awarded the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to Harvard University. In 2003, the Hong Kong Government awarded Dr Fung the Gold Bauhinia Star for distinguished service to the community.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Dr Fung holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctorate in Business Economics from Harvard University. He also taught as a professor at the Harvard Business School for four years before returning to Hong Kong in 1976.

Dr Fung is married with three children.

Mr.Thamrong Mahajchariyawong, Deputy Secretary General, Thai Board of Investment, Thailand

Education B.A. (Finance), Thammasart University
M.B.A (Marketing) State University of New York
Work Experience
1977–1988Economist (Investment Promotion Officer), Planning Division,
Thailand Board of Investment
1989–1991Director, Thailand Board of Investment Northeastern Region Investment
and Economic Center, Nakhon Ratchasima
1991–1992Acting Director, Planning Division, Thailand Board of Investment
1992–1996Minister Counsellor (Economic and Investment) Royal Thai Embassy,
Tokyo, and concurrently Director of Thailand Board of
Investment Tokyo Office, Japan
1996–1998Director, Investment Services, Thailand Board of Investment
1998–1998Assistant Secretary General, Thailand Board of Investment
1998–2003Minister (Economic and Investment) , Royal Thai Embassy, Tokyo,
and concurrently Director of Thailand Board of Investment Tokyo
Office, Japan
2003–2005Assistant Secretary General, Thailand Board of Investment
2005–PresentDeputy Secretary General, Thailand Board of Investment

Dr. John Hewson, Chairman, The John Hewson Group, Australia

John is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system. His academic career has included 11 years as Professor of Economics, four years as Head of the School of Economics at the University of NSW, and 2 years as Dean, Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Professor of Management at Macquarie University.

His political career included eight years as the federal member of Wentworth, several Shadow portfolios and four years as Leader of the Liberal Party and Federal Coalition in Opposition.

Since leaving politics in 1995, John has run his own investment banking business and is an active director on the boards of many public and private companies as well as serving as chairman or patron for several not-for-profit organisations. He also writes a weekly column for the Australian Financial Review.

Qualifications/Directorships
Bachelor of Economics (Honours) (University of Sydney)
M.A. (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
M.A, Ph.D., (The Johns Hopkins University, USA).

Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact, New York

Georg Kell is the Executive Head of The Global Compact Office, overseeing a network that includes several hundred companies, international labour, nongovernmental organizations and other civil society groups. Mr. Kell was one of the chief architects of The Global Compact initiative, launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July 2000 to promote good corporate citizenship and responsible globalisation.

Mr. Kell joined the executive office of the Secretary-General in 1997 as a senior officer responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector to advance broad UN objectives.

Mr. Kell has extensive experience in international trade and development issues. In 1990, he joined the New York office of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where, from 1993-97, he served as office head, closely interacting with delegations and the UN General Assembly. Mr. Kell began his career at the UN in 1987, spending three years in Geneva with UNCTAD.

Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Kell worked as a financial analyst in developing countries in Asia and Africa, appraising industrial projects for banks and multilateral institutions.

Mr. Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University in Berlin. Following his postgraduate studies at the Fraunhofer Institute, he spent two years in Tanzania where he helped establish an industrial research institute.

Mr. Mark Daniell, Chairman, The Cuscaden Group Pte Ltd, Singapore

Mark Daniell is Chairman of The Cuscaden Group, an advisory and investment business based in Singapore. He is also currently a Director Emeritus of Bain & Company, a former President of publicly listed investment company k1 Ventures, and a former Director of Wasserstein Perella.

His second book has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan, entitled Strategy: A Step-by-Step Approach to the Development and Presentation of World Class Business Strategy. Mr. Daniell’s first book, World of Risk: Next Generation Strategy for a Volatile Era, was selected as a Sunday Times (London) Business Book of the Week and is available in six languages.

Mr Daniell is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor.), Oxford University (University College, B.A./M.A.), Amherst College (B.A.), and the Phillips Exeter Academy. He has also attended the Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne (D.E.F. 1er and 2e degrees) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (C.E.P.). He is a regular expert guest commentator on business strategy and economics for the BBC, CNBC, CNN and Channel News Asia.

Mr. Loke Chi Teh Stephen, President, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Singapore

Mr Stephen Loke is currently the President of the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, a not for profit organization that promotes awareness of corporate social responsibility in Singapore since May 2003.

The Centre has spearheaded the Asia Pacific CSR Group last July 2004 and is networked amongst others to the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, the Social Venture Network (SVN) and the Business and Community of the United Kingdom. The regional centres are from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Mr Loke has spoken in several regional seminars and forums on corporate social responsibility. Mr Loke was invited and participated as an expert to the APEC Workshop on "In pursuit of Asian CSR under the global economy" in Tokyo from 19 to 20 January 2005. He was appointed as an Advisory Committee Member of a new NGO-Corporation Cooperation Network launched this February and supported by the Asian Development Bank and GSK Bio and for which Kenan Institute Asia in Bangkok has been selected as its secretariat.

Mr Loke is also participating in the Development of the CSR Guide for Canadian Firms as a "sounding board" stakeholder from a developed country. Mr Loke is also a liaison member for the ISO/ TMB/ WG on Social Responsibility which met in March 2005.

Mr Loke is a lawyer and partner at Loke and Seah. He has been practising for over 18 years and is active in areas such as Codes of Practice, Corporate Governance and Community and Business Development.

Ms. Ros Harvey, Chief Technical Adviser, Better Factories, Cambodis Project, ILO, Cambodia

Ros Harvey is the Chief Technical Advisor for the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia.

Better Factories Cambodia is a unique programme of the International Labour Organization. It monitors and reports on working conditions in Cambodian garment factories according to national and international standards. The monitoring function is combined with industry support services designed to improve working conditions, productivity and quality. Better Factories Cambodia is supported by the Government, the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia and unions.

Better Factories Cambodia grew out of a trade agreement between the United States and Cambodia. Under the agreement the US promised Cambodia better access to US markets in exchange for improved working conditions in the garment sector. In the post-quota environment ongoing support for Better Factories Cambodia is strong with many international buyers looking to improve working conditions in their supply chains.

Ros has worked for 20 years on labour, development and social justice issues – the last 10 years at the international level. Prior to joining the ILO Ros worked for her own consultancy firm Outcome Partners. Based in Australia, she provided consultancy services in the Asia-Pacific region for a range of clients including the ILO and the Australian aid agency, AUSAid. Ros worked for 5 years for Public Services International (PSI) based in Geneva where she held the position of Executive Officer.

Mr. Tariq Rangoonwala, Chairman, Rangoonwala Group of Companies, and Chairman of ICC Pakistan

Tariq M.A. Rangoonwala is the Chairman of ICC Pakistan and Chairs the Rangoonwala Group of Companies in Pakistan. He has diverse business interests in warehousing & storage services, packaging, distribution and trading. He is an executive trustee of philanthropic organizations, educational institutions and youth programmes. He also serves as a Director of Forums, Associations, Public Committees and both publicly listed and private companies which include banks and insurance companies.

His business expertise has been in foreign trade and has in the past worked closely in the effort towards the deregulation of the Export Trade in Pakistan. He has been active in public sector divestment in trade and industry and a strong advocate of market-based reforms in Pakistan.

He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Chamber of Commerce besides serving on committees of other international organizations.

Dr. Jae Hyuck Auh, Director, International Logistics Center, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF), Republic of Korea

Dr. Jae H. Auh is currently the Director of International Logistics Center at the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF), Republic of Korea. He has done a key role in developing a national strategic vision for promoting “Korea as a logistics hub of northeast Asia” since July 2003.

For implementing this logistics hub vision, he developed and executed the detailed marketing plans for promoting international logistics business via Free Trade Zones (FTZs) of Korea, inducing the investment by Mitsui & Co., the largest Japanese trading company, in Busan FTZ in August 2004. He is now managing the overall promotional activities for marketing Korean FTZs to global shippers, carriers, and 3PLs worldwide.

Prior to this current position, he has performed strategic planning and financing arrangement for several port development projects in Korea at Port Development Bureau of MOMAF since 1993. He has also worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton and Successful Supply Chain Systems Limited as a consultant for the international supply chain management projects.

Dr. Auh received a BS in civil engineering and MS in coastal engineering from the Seoul National University, and finished a Ph.D. in ocean systems management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Noke Kiroyan, President, International Chamber of Commerce, Indonesia

Noke Kiroyan has spent more than three decades as an international business executive. Joining Siemens Indonesia as Management Trainee in February 1974 he was assigned to Germany for 2½ years six months later to acquire professional qualifications in Accounting & Commerce as Industriekaufmann, and eventually became President Director of PT Siemens Indonesia before resigning in 1991.

After six years in top executive positions with Salim Group companies in the U.S., Germany, and Australia he repatriated in 1997 to assume president-directorship of Rio Tinto Indonesia. In 2001 he was reassigned as President Director of Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), a major world-class coal mining operation then jointly owned by Rio Tinto and BP. Following transfer of ownership of KPC in October 2003, he returned to Rio Tinto Indonesia as Chairman.

In addition to his native Indonesian, Noke Kiroyan speaks English, German and Dutch. He graduated in Communications Science at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, and Liberal Arts at Syracuse University, New York, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

Noke Kiroyan is a frequent speaker on Good Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and other topics concerning business and society. He co-founded Indonesia Business Links in 1999 that has emerged as an acknowledged resource center for corporate citizenship in Indonesia and currently chairs its Board of Founders.

His civic duties include serving in the Board of Trustees and Audit Committee of the Bandung Institute of Technology, and in the Sub-Committee for Corporate Governance of the National Committee for Governance Policy. He chairs the Commission for Economic Recovery at the Supervisory Council of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KADIN), and is President of the International Chamber of Commerce – Indonesia. He has recently been appointed as a member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

Ms. Ambreen Waheed, Executive Director, Responsible Business Initiative, Pakistan

Ms. Waheed Founder and Executive Director of RBI (1998), is among the country’s first qualified social auditors. Founding member of the SAARC Alliance for Responsible Business and the Asia-Pacific CSR Center Group. She serves on the Stakeholder Council and Board Nominating Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the national Steering Board of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), and the Securities & Exchange Commission’s joint task force on NGO Governance, CSR expert for ICAP Corporate Governance Committee and juries of the Asian Forum Corporate Social Responsibility Awards and the ACCA-WWF Environmental Reporting Awards.

Ambreen is invited on United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-International Standard for Accounting and Reporting (UNCTAD-ISAR) Review Committee on “CSR indicators for Corporate Reporting” , “Stakeholder Engagement manual” (Accountability-UNEP) and GRI Consultative group for GRI’s own first Sustainability Report. Ambreen Represent RBI on (EFMD-Global Compact) “Globaly Responsible Leaders”. She developed an on-line Social Audit System for the Canadian Small Projects Office, and drafted the first non-food product-specific sourcing and monitoring guidelines for Rattvisemarkt (Swedish Fair-trade) and Fair Trade Labeling Organization International (FLO). Involved in Management/Social audits for Nike inc. and Fair Labor Association (FLA). She served as MIS Specialist/Technical Advisor to the European Union Mission. Developed PCI concept paper as working group member for initiating “Pakistan Compliance Initiative”.

Her thesis at Cambridge University outlined a Framework for assessing Socially Responsible Behavior in Pakistan’s sports industry (1997). She has developed and introduced CSR as a teaching subject to Pakistani Business Schools. She is steering Pakistan’s first CSR benchmarking research in 12 Industrial sectors, with SECP-UNDP.

As UNIDO’s national CSR Expert for Pakistan she led a pioneering triple bottom-line (TBL) demonstration project that established effective methodologies for enhancing enterprise profitability through tracking and improving financial, social and environmental performance. Her work with the textile, leather and sporting goods export sectors was included in UNIDO’s TBL report prepared for the World Summit on Social Development at Johannesburg in 2002. She has taught the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and the Business School University of Michigan.

Ambreen has a masters’ degree in Computer Science from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, an MPhil in Management from the University of Cambridge, UK respectively, and post-graduate academic work at the Speed Scientific School, USA.

Mr. Richard Welford, Director, Corporate Environmental Governance Programme, University of Hong Kong

Richard Welford is Director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly Professor of Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Huddersfield and Professor of Sustainable Management at the Norwegian School of Management. He has considerable expertise of international business and has lived in both Europe and Asia. He has worked for the Samsung Corporation in Korea and carried out research for the UN in South East Asia. He currently advises the Swire Group and Cathay Pacific and has worked as a consultant to the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong. He has written 15 books and over 100 articles relating to globalization, international business, environmental management, human rights and social responsibility. He has carried out a number of surveys on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development across the world giving him unique insights into the current state of play of CSR with regard to Asia. He is a founding director of a major think tank initiative, CSR Asia.

Ms. Shalini Mahtani, CEO, Community Business, Hong Kong, China

Shalini is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Community Busiiness- a Hong Kong based non-profit organisation working with member companies in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Founded in January 2003, Community Business is today the Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility in Hong Kong and works with over 23 member companies, comprising some of the world’s largest. She has also produced research on Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Volunteering, Women in Leadership and Work-life balance. Shalini has been instrumental in putting Hong Kong on the world map of CSR and today Community Business is the Hong Kong CSR representative on a number of international networks.

Shalini Mahtani, born and raised in Hong Kong, started her career in the private sector where she worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Senior Associate in their Business Advisory Services division and Banque Nationale de Paris as Assistant Vice President in the Private Banking Division. Shalini is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate from the London School of Economics.

In a personal capacity, Shalini remains actively involved in a number of non-profit organisations in Hong Kong and abroad. Her focus remains on issues of gender, race, youth and education.

Mr. Richard Sauer, Associate General Counsel Law and Corporate Affairs, South Asia Pacific Region

Richard Sauer is Associate General Counsel and Senior Director of Microsoft’s Law and Corporate Affairs department for South Asia Pacific. Sauer oversees all of the Corporation’s legal and government affairs activities in Southeast Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to his current assignment in Singapore, Sauer was a Senior Litigation Attorney at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, USA, and was responsible for a variety of litigation matters pending against the Corporation, including antitrust claims, employment-related claims, class action lawsuits and complex commercial matters.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Sauer worked for the New York City based law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from the American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. from the Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is admitted to practice law before various state and federal courts in the United States and is a member of the American and International Bar Associations.

Mr. Junichi Inoue, Managing Director, Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore

1976After graduated from Kushu University, he joined Toshiba Corporation in Japan

1986General Manager of Toshiba Corporation in Toshiba de Panama S.A.

1992Manager of International operations Consumer-products to work for
Western Europe and Russian market

1996Vice President/General Manager of Latin America Division of
Toshiba America Consumer Products Inc

2001General Manager of Toshiba Corporation, Secretariat Office

2004Corporate Representative - Asia of Toshiba Corporation Managing
Director of Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Ms. Jeanette S. Carrillo, Brand Manager for IT and IT-enabled Services and Officer-in-Chare, ICT Division Board of Investments, Philippines

Ms. Carrillo handles Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) public relations in the promotion and development of Philippine Business Process Outsourcing / Information Communication Technology Services Sector (BPO/ICT) in her capacity as the Brand Manager. She represents the country in bilateral and multilateral negotiations concerning outsourcing services in the IT and IT-enabled Services Sector both in the Philippines and abroad. She is a frequent resource person during due diligence/courtesy call visits of investors into the country.

Ms. Carrillo’s extensive familiarity with investment laws/regulations and procedures is acknowledged both by the government and private sectors, hence she is often invited to talk on the current policy/regulations governing investments in the Philippines.

Mr. Djordjija Petkoski, Lead Enterprise Structuring Specialist and Head of Private Sector Development team, World Bank Institute

Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr. Petkoski has worked in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990s and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 120 articles. He has delivered lectures at leading universities and international organizations around the world. 

Mr. Petkoski received MPA at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal, Group Executive Director, Farlim Group, Malaysia

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal, aged 61, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London. He obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree with Honours in 1971 and a Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1973, both from the University of Malaya. In addition, he holds a Certificate in Education from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, obtained in 1964; the International Management Teacher's Programme (ITP) certificate from the joint programme organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and the Centre D'Enseignment Superior Des Affairs (CESA), France obtained in 1978; Doctorate in Management in 1993 from the La Salle University, USA.

In 1977, he led a team that won the Malaysian Young Managers Competition for work done to promote entrepreneurial management in Malaysia. The Malaysian Team led by him also won the Asian Young Managers Competition in the same year. In further recognition of his entrepreneurial skill and programmes he was awarded the Sir Frederick Gallahan Memorial Award by the Australian-Malaysian Association of Australia in 1976. In 1995, he was conferred the award "Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang", which carries the title "Dato" with his name.

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal has served in the past as Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration, University of Malaya; Corporate Finance Officer of Malaysian International Merchant Bank; Executive Director of Institute of Bankers Malaysia; Executive Chairman of Arab Asian Group in Malaysia; Council of the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM) and concurrently held the position of MIM's Vice-Chairman and Chairman of its Management Committee; adviser to the Peace and Happiness through Prosperity (PHP) Institute, Japan and Japan's Foundation for Asian Management Development.

Dato' Mohamed Iqbal is presently Group Executive Director to the Farlim Group of companies, a public company listed in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange; and Chairman of Iqrah Holdings Sdn. Bhd. He is also extensively involved in regional trade and investment promotion activities. The major ones are:- Secretary-General of the Asean Business Forum and Secretary of Malaysia-Japan Economic Association ("MAJECA").

Recently, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific has appointed him as a member of its Business Advisory Council.

Mr. Sabur Ghayur, Director, Labour Policy Division, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation, Singapore

Sabur Ghayur, a Pakistani national, is Divisional Director, Labour Policy Division of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions-Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation (ICFTU-APRO).

Besides the coordination of national, sub-regional and regional education and training programs related to the Labour Policy Division, currently he is also responsible for the ICFTU-APRO’s work on:i) unions regional dialogue with IFIs, ii) trade union work on IFIs & PRSPs, iii) coordination of the trade union work related to the ASEM & APEC, iii) unions work on cooperatives, iv) employment protection, and v) corporate social responsibility.

He acted as “Secretary” of the workers’ group on the committee on “promotion of cooperatives” at the ILO’s international labor conference, June 2001 & 2002 – Geneva.

Sabur served as President of the APRO Staff Association (2002-March 2005); elected unopposed.

He acted as Honorary Advisor, All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions (APFOL) during 1995-1998.

He has to his credit over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of: administration and coordination, research and training/teaching with increasing responsibilities.

Increasingly, focus of his work is in the direction of: advocacy, lobbying, campaigning, monitoring and policy dialogue.

Since January 1995, major focus is on: i) trade unions, ii) good governance, iii) issues related to workers especially in the wake of globalization, iv) policies of international financial institutions (IFIs), v) regional/sub-regional groupings (APEC, ASEM, etc), and vi) social dimensions of development.

In addition to seven books, five edited books and four reports, Sabur has over sixty published research papers/articles as well as more than hundred newspaper articles. The areas covered are: working conditions, child labour, trade unions, HRD, manpower development, employment generation & poverty alleviation, international migration, labor market information system, governance, regional cooperation, social dimension of regionalization/globalization and IFIs’ policies.

Sabur has been doing voluntary civil society work that among other also include: i) Convenor and founding Secretary General, Development Form (DF) that was launched in March 1998 in Islamabad – Pakistan; left the DF on leaving Pakistan to join ICFTU-APRO in Singapore; and ii) Founding Secretary, Singapore-Pakistan Development Forum (SPADE Forum), 2002-March 2005.

Mr. Albert Lai, Chairman, Hong Kong People's Council for Sustainable Development, Hong Kong, China

Mr Albert Lai is the current Chairman of the Conservancy Association. The Conservancy Association, established in 1968, is an environmental non-governmental organisation with the longest history in Hong Kong. He was the leader of a 37-member Hong Kong NGO delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.

Following the inauguration of the Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development in 2003, Mr Lai was elected as the chairman of this first ever cross-sector organization dedicated to the pursuit of sustainable development in Hong Kong. In this capacity he also serves as the Convenor of Citizen Envisioning @ Harbour, a coalition of 18 professional bodies, universities and community groups devoted to consensus building and citizen participation in harbour development.

Upon the invitation by the Hong Kong Government’s Council for Sustainable Development, Mr Lai was the Convenor of a Solid Waste Management Strategy Support Group in a pioneering exercise to develop a sustainable development strategy for Hong Kong. . He is also a member of the Stakeholder Council of Global Reporting Initiative, an UN-sponsored, Amsterdam-based NGO dedicated to the promotion of corporate social responsibility through sustainability reporting.

Mr Lai was a co-founder of The China Water Company Limited (“CWC”), one of the leading pioneers in water infrastructure investment in Mainland China set up in 1996. He is now a Principal Consultant in infrastructure business for Kerry Properties Limited, a listed company in Hong Kong.

Mr Lai is a Chartered Civil Engineer and he attained a B.Sc. (Engineering) degree and a M.Soc.Sc. (Urban studies) degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Peter Moore, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director - Public Sector, Microsoft Asia Pacific

Peter Moore currently holds the combined responsibilities of Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director for Microsoft’s Public Sector business across the Asia Pacific region. On March 1st 2003, Mr. Moore was appointed as the Chief Technology Officer, for Microsoft Asia Pacific and on Feb 1st 2004, he was promoted to the role of Managing Director for Public Sector. In this role Mr. Moore is responsible for Public Sector (government and education) sales, marketing and services efforts for the Asia Pacific Region and developing and leading new strategies around citizenship, intergovernmental organizations, licensing, emerging markets and a variety of other new initiatives.

Prior to March 1st, Mr Moore was the Director of the Developer and Platform Strategy Group for Microsoft Australia. In this role, he led a team of developer evangelists and architects responsible for assisting customers and partners realize the value of moving to to the .NET platform. Mr. Moore was with Microsoft Australia since April 1995 when he started as the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Developer Tools.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr Moore was the Business Development Manager for a Microsoft Solution Provider, which marketed a broad range of Windows NT based solutions and services. His 10 years with this company saw him responsible for the transition of these solutions from a VAX/VMS base to Unix and finally Windows NT.

Mr. Moore entered the computer industry in 1985 after 9 years with the Australian Air Force where he worked as an engineer on computer guidance systems for aircraft and missiles.

Mr. Hoang Van Dung, Vice Executive President, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Mr. Hoang Van Dung
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)
Date of Birth:     18th Jan., 1954
Place of Birth:    Vietnam

Education
1971 - 1976: Hanoi Foreign Trade University (B.A)
1979 - 1980: Post graduate study at Thames University London U.K
1984 Diploma in Int’l trade promotion in Finland
1987 Diploma in Int’l marketing in Holland
1997 - 2000: Hochiminh National Political Institute (B.A)

Career
1976 -1979: Trade promotion officer, VCCI
1980 - 1984: Deputy Director of Int’l Relations Dept., VCCI
1985 - 1986: Director of General Dept., VCCI
1987 - 1988: President and CEO of Trade Service Co. (T.S.C.)
1989 - 1993: Commercial Counsellor, Vietnam Embassy in London, UK
1993 - 2000: Deputy Secretary General in charge of Int’l affairs, VCCI
April 2001: Secretary General, VCCI
Jan. 2002: Vice President, VCCI

Married with one daughter and one son

Foreign language   English (Excellent)

Ms. Tessa Tennant, Executive Chair, Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia, Hong Kong

Tessa Tennant co-founded the UK’s first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. She is now Chair of ASrIA, The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia based in Hong Kong. She is a Board member of Calvert World Values Fund, Washington DC and recently became an adviser to the Robeco Sustainable Private Equity Fund in the Netherlands. In 2003 she received the Sustainability Leadership Award by SAM/SPG of Switzerland and in 2004 was joint winner of the City of Goteborg International Environmental Leadership Prize. She is an Ambassador for Worldwide Fund for Nature UK. She was Chair and co-founder of the Carbon Disclosure Project and previously served on environmental advisory panels for the UK Government and HRH The Prince of Wales.

Ms. Sandrine Tesner, President, Renaissance Strategy, Inc.

Sandrine Tesner is President of Renaissance Strategy, Inc., a consulting firm specialized in globalization advisory services. Renaissance Strategy works with global corporations, governments, and multilateral and non-governmental organizations in the areas of corporate social responsibility (CSR), public-private partnerships, corporate governance, and financial transparency. As outlined in her book The United Nations and Business: A Partnership Recovered (St. Martin’s Press, August 2000), Tesner believes that the multiplication and the diversity of power centers in the context of globalization implies a redistribution of public roles from the public to the private sector. To “structure” their business and institutional environments and develop tomorrow’s emerging markets, today’s corporate and government leaders must be pro-active in adopting transparent corporate practices as well as sponsoring partnerships with stakeholders in such areas as social and economic development, conflict prevention, post-conflict rehabilitation, and environmental management.

Prior to founding Renaissance Strategy, Tesner created and managed the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), a United Nations agency based in New York. In May 2000, her team organized “The UN and Business: A Partnership for the New Millennium”—the first conference on UN-business relations held in the United States, which attracted 5,000 participants from business, governments, and NGOs. At UNOPS, Tesner and her staff negotiated 11 partnership agreements in their first nine months of operation with companies in the United States, Brazil, and Russia, among other countries. Under these partnerships, projects were developed in such countries as Guatemala, Mali, and Mozambique to promote the use of IT, distribute knowledge about HIV, and support artisans in zones recovering from protracted conflicts. She assisted the head of UNOPS in the creation of the UNOPS Business Advisory Council—the first board of business advisers established at the UN.

Prior to joining UNOPS, Tesner was Director of Corporate Affairs at the United Nations Association of the United States of America, the nation’s foremost research center on the United Nations, where she designed programs on the United Nations for business executives. While at UNA-USA, she created the first edition of How to Do Business with the United Nations, the first international guide to the UN procurement system, a book which she wrote three years in a row. With two groups of CEOs and non-profit leaders, she visited the UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Angola, and Rwanda, and wrote two reports that were distributed to members of the US Congress. Ahead of the signing of the ban against anti-personnel landmines in 1997, Tesner created various projects on the global landmine crisis and contributed to the creation of UNA’s Adopt-a-Minefield program. From 1988-1992, Tesner sold French equity to US and Canadian institutional investors for Crédit Commercial of France-International Finance Corp (CCF-IFC).

Tesner obtained a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from New York University in 1987. She graduated from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 1994 with a Master’s degree in International Affairs, having specialized in Russian and Soviet Studies at the Harriman Institute. Her languages include French, Spanish, and Russian. Tesner practices jazz and contemporary dance and maintains an interest in interior architecture and design, which she once practiced on a free-lance basis.