Richard WELFORD is one of the founders and the chairman of CSR Asia based in Hong Kong. He is also a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a director of ERP Environment, a UK-based publisher.

Richard has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been increasingly Asian focused as a result of his current position as director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including the MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas.

Richard’s work has had a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and social justice. Richard has worked with Cathay Pacific and the Swire group developing a climate change strategy. He has also worked on policies and implementation plans covering conservation and biodiversity. For Shangri-La Hotels he is developing initiatives not only covering environmental sustainability but also aspects of human rights and local community engagement. He has been an advocate of human rights auditing as a means of ensuring social justice and has undertaken assessments of the Freeport Human Rights audit in Papua.

Stephen FROST is one of the co-founders and an executive director of CSR Asia. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is in high demand as a speaker internationally, has consulted for numerous companies, governments and multilateral organisations, and is widely published. He is regularly interviewed by local and international media organisations, and he sits on the advisory boards of major corporations and CSR initiatives internationally.

Stephen has been involved in CSR in the Asia-Pacific region since 2000, when he moved to Hong Kong. Since that time, he has focused on issues surrounding supply chains and workplace standards. He has worked with numerous local and multinational companies on a host of other issues, ranging from consulting on the implementation of CSR systems to factory training and stakeholder dialogue.

He developed and taught the first CSR modules in MBA programs in Chinese universities, developed and taught the first undergraduate CSR course in Asia, and along with his co-founder offered the first public training of CSR in the Asia-Pacific. He helped develop an innovative factory training program for Chinese factories, and led a team to develop capacity building for Chinese organizations to deliver service to companies in supply chains. He is a recognised pioneer in CSR in Asia.

Erin LYON is an executive director of CSR Asia based in Singapore. Erin is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, having trained with and worked for the international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer both in Europe and Asia.. Erin has worked in Asia in a variety of roles, including as a teacher and journalist. In the UK she was a national executive representative in one of the largest unions representing the interests of students globally.

Based in Singapore Erin advises companies and other organisations and teaches Ethics and Social Responsibility at Singapore Management University and Corporate Governance at SAICSA. Erin studied in the UK acquiring an undergraduate degree from the University of Exeter and completed her postgraduate legal studies at the College of Law.

Brian Chi-kuen HO is the Director of CSR Asia’s China offices and manages business operations in mainland China. He has extensive experience in handling projects on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and focuses on stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting and management of corporate-NGO partnerships. Before joining CSR Asia, he worked as a researcher at the City University of Hong Kong and the Assistant Editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences. He is also the Vice-Secretary General and the Director of International Affairs of the Chinese Executive Committee of the Global Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GBC), the Vice-Secretary General of the Committee of Nvwa Education Project on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria supported by the Chinese government; and Executive Editor of Female Wa Magazine. He received his Bachelor of Social Sciences from City University of Hong Kong and a Master of Social Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.

Rikke NETTERSTROM is Country Director, Malaysia for CSR Asia. Rikke has over 10 years multi-sector experience in corporate responsibility strategy, stakeholder engagement and communications. She was responsible for environmental and social issues for two of the world’s sustainability leader - The Body Shop International plc and Novozymes A/S, preparing strategies for over 50 markets globally.

As an investment analyst and a public affairs consultant, she provided advisory services to multinational companies within a range of sectors, including consumer goods, agrichemicals and financial institutions. She has worked extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, delivering workshops at Board and senior management level in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the US. Rikke was closely involved in the creation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as an Executive Board member, and continues to provide advisory services to companies in the oil palm sector. She holds an MSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and postgraduate qualifications from Thammasat University, Thailand.

Jacqui DIXON is the Director of CSR Asia Hong Kong office, responsible for developing relationships with key clients, business development and leading on consultancy projects especially in the areas of benchmarking, sustainability reporting and carbon auditing. She also oversaw and managed the delivery of the CSR Asia 2007 Summit. Jacqui has a background in leadership for sustainable development and has worked with a variety of clients to affect change in their organisations. She joined CSR Asia after completing a Professional Masters Degree with Forum for the Future in the UK. During her Masters she completed sustainable development projects in the European Commission, Vodafone, the National Consumer Council and Channel 4. She has lived and worked in South Africa, Spain, the UK, and Nepal.

She has over 5 years experience in environmental policy, international development work and CSR. In the UK she worked for Green Alliance, a UK public policy/environmental think tank researching and developing their Parliamentary Newsletter. In 2004 she lived and worked in a rural Nepali village co-ordinating a community resource programme and in South Africa she led a youth-focused permaculture project in one of Cape Towns largest townships. Jacqui also holds a BSc Honours Degree in Environmental and Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town.

Marie MORICE is the Director of CSR Asia Singapore office, responsible for developing relationships with key clients, business development and leading on consultancy projects especially in the areas of benchmarking, environmental and climate change services. Marie joined CSR Asia from ACTE, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, where she was heading its Global CSR Program, to encourage the take up of more responsible and sustainable practices in the business travel industry. She brings an experience of five years working in the corporate sector and five years in the environmental NGO / Governmental sector.

Marie started her career in the IT industry, working for a range of start ups and larger software companies, overseeing the overall business development, lead generation and sales processes as Marketing and Communication Manager. In 2004, after a year travelling in Asia, Marie joined WWF-UK to coordinate high profile lobbying and advocacy campaigns on public health issues, climate change regulation and corporate carbon disclosure, in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project. She then joined Campaigns for Better Transport to develop and head a Business Network Program for the UK Department for Transport, as part of ACT on CO2, the cross-governmental climate change campaign, to engage large companies on sustainable travel issues.

Marie has a BA in European Economics and an MSc in Environmental Management, Imperial College, London.

Mabel WONG is the Community Investment Project Manager, based in Singapore, responsible for the Community Investment Round Table (CIRT) and other Community Investment related projects in South East Asia.

Mabel has over 7 years experience in the NGO sector focusing on children’s issues, in particular, children in need of special protection such as street children, children in conflict with the law (juvenile justice) and child soldiers. Her last four years was spent in an Asia-Pacific regional role networking with senior government representatives, NGOs, corporates and UN bodies, providing technical assistance to countries starting up national child protection initiatives.

Mabel holds a BA (Political Science and Psychology) NUS and a MPA (Policy, Public and Non-Profit Program) from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University.

Jolly CHENG is a Project Manager based in Hong Kong. She has been involved in research and projects focussing on corporate community investment and sustainability in China, Cambodia and Hong Kong. Jolly has conducted stakeholder dialogue in factories in the supply chain and local communities in need. Before joining CSR Asia, she worked as the Production Coordinator for the Asian Film Awards, organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited. She holds a BA from the University of Hong Kong, majoring in history and sociology.

Anita WONG is a Project Manager in the Hong Kong office. Anita has extensive experience in managing projects on sustainable development, CSR and capacity building in China and has developed a wide business network with multiple stakeholders. She has been involved in a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded program to help British companies understand local stakeholders in China and in a corporate-NGO partnership programme to improve labour conditions in the Chinese supply chain for brands such as Nike, adidas, and HP. She also manages projects on sustainability in Greater China; including stakeholder engagement and sustainability reporting. She holds a degree in China Business Studies.

Poland LI is a Project Manager in the Shenzhen Office where she is responsible for coordinating projects, especially on the Chinese supply chain. Before joining CSR Asia, she was responsible for Social and Environmental Affairs in a factory supplying to the adidas Group. She has a degree in Safety Engineering.

Helen LANGENHORST ROETH is a Project Manager in the Hong Kong office responsible for conducting corporate carbon audits and developing climate change strategies for companies. She is further involved in CSR Asia’s climate change research services and in advising companies on environmental matters including EHS reporting.

Helen joined CSR Asia from the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in Jakarta where she advised organisations and companies in community-based disaster risk management. Before UNESCO she had been working with an Institute of Urban Water Management and the environmental consultancy IFOK in Germany. She has experience working on sustainable water resources management projects in China dealing with the impact of climate change on groundwater resources and had been involved in developing a community water project for a multinational mining company with operations in Africa. During her studies she volunteered for six months at a local NGO in Surabaya, Indonesia, where she helped develop a decentralised waste management system and organise public education campaigns.

Helen is a graduate engineer in spatial planning from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.

Gabriel CHONG is a Project Manager based in Malaysia.

Prior to joining CSR – Asia, Gabriel was the Communication Officer at the Malaysia office of Wetlands International (WI). He represented WI at the development of the Malaysia National Interpretation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Principles & Criteria. He communicated WI’s position and concern on greenhouse gases emissions from palm oil on peatlands through various stakeholder engagement meetings, raised awareness at conferences and exhibitions, and organized technical workshops to engage stakeholders to work towards consensus.

Gabriel has also managed projects addressing social issues ranging from mental healthcare, urban poverty to HIV/AIDS while living in the US, UK and Malaysia. He also taught social work at a Malaysian university, conducted and published research papers. Gabriel took a brief sabbatical from the NGO community and spent two years in the corporate sector.

Gabriel holds a Bachelor in Communications and a Masters in Social Work

Yoshi KO is the Knowledge Manager in the Hong Kong office, responsible for editing the CSR Asia Weekly, managing the websites under CSR Asia and all IT-related projects in CSR Asia offices. She holds a BSc in Computer Networks, a Diploma in Translation and a Certificate in Education. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Yoshi has worked for the PR and marketing team in the Support Unit of the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) under Education Bureau, the HKSAR Government. She also worked as a Processing Officer for the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training under the Office of Workplace English Campaign (OWEC).

Jimmy HUEN is the Marketing Manager in the Hong Kong office. He oversees the marketing arm of the company and coordinates various training courses. He is also in charge of the annual CSR Asia Summit, the monthly CSR Wednesdays, as well as other events. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Jimmy has worked at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, conducting different trade promotion activities. For two years, he was responsible for the sales and marketing of the International Film & TV Market (FILMART). Jimmy holds a BA in English Language & Literature and a Diploma in Education from the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Vijay RAMANI, a Singaporean who grew up in India, Bahrain, London and Hong Kong before settling in Singapore nearly 20 years back, is the Strategic Partnership Manager. He oversees the CSR Asia Strategic Partnership (CASP) scheme including liaising with partners and promoting the CASP scheme. He is also in charge of managing CSR Asia training events and the monthly CSR briefings. He holds a Bachelor degree in Management.

Peter ZHU is the Project Coordinator in Shenzhen Office. His work mainly lies on worker rights, environmental, health and safety in manufacturing factory. He also undertakes project and events management, research and so on. Peter used to work with different NGOs in Beijing and Anhui on NGO capacity building, micro-finance and environmental issue. He holds a bachelor degree in Management, a certificate in Translation.

Elyse CHEN is the Project Coordinator of CSR Asia Beijing office. She holds a master’s degree on International Relations from the University of International Relations. She has one year’s experience of translation and had worked as an intern in Corporate Communications of Ogilvy China. She also worked in a local CSR consulting firm, conducting research and interviews for two CSR-related projects in Beijing.

Rohayu RAMLI is the Office Manager in the Kuala Lumpur office, responsible for administrative and support services for the company. Ayu joined CSR Asia from BioX, an international CDM and Biodiesel Group, and has worked in the hotel management industry administrating projects and human resources activities. Currently she is pursuing her study in a part time basis to enhance her knowledge that can be utilized in her career and for self development.

Rex WONG is the Event and Administration Coordinator based in Hong Kong office, responsible for coordinating CSR Asia's monthly briefing session - CSR Wednesday in Hong Kong. He also provides administrative and support services to the company directors and staff. He holds a bachelor degree in Business and Management, a higher diploma in International Business and a diploma in Business and Administration.