Teresa Au
Head of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Asia Pacific Region
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

Teresa Au, reporting to the Chairman, is responsible for overall direction and management of the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability function in Asia Pacific Region where HSBC has business operations. Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability encompasses sustainable development, people and diversity, community investment and corporate governance.

Prior to this role, Teresa was Regional Head of Service and Sales for Personal Banking business. She has also held a number of management positions in HSBC including Learning and Employee Development, Cards and Consumer Finance, Wealth Management Business, Commercial Banking, Marketing and Planning, etc.

Teresa represents the Bank as a member of the final judging panel for the Hongkong Bank Foundation Junior Police Call Awards Programme and a member of the Community Chest’s Corporate and Employee Contribution Programme Organising Committee. She is elected as the honorary Certified Financial Management Planner of The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB) and is one of the Final Panel Judges in the HKIB Outstanding Financial Planner Awards.

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Melissa Brown
Executive Director
Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

Melissa Brown, Executive Director of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA). A member-based organization, ASrIA works with a broad range of groups to promote sustainable investment in Asia. Before joining ASrIA, she spent 15 years in Asia working for international investment banks in equity research and research management. In addition to building an equity research operation in South Korea for BZW, she covered regional utility stocks for JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney. Before moving to Asia in 1988, she worked as an analyst covering emerging growth stocks for the investment managers Lord, Abbett & Co. in New York and for a speciality tax policy magazine in Washington, D.C. She has an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Economics from Williams College.

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Anna Wu
SBS, JP
Advisor to the Law School of Shantou University

Ms Anna Wu is the advisor to the Law School of Shantou University which is supported by the Li Ka Shing Foundation. Ms Wu’s role is to develop a strategy to position the Law School to meet the emerging needs in Southern China.

She was formerly the Chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission (August 1999 – July 2003) and a member of the Legislative Council (January 1993 – July 1995). She initiated the Equal Opportunities Legislation in July 1994.

Ms Wu is a lawyer and an independent non-executive director of the Tom Group. She is a member of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She is also a member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government Women’s Leadership Board of the Harvard University, the Chair of the University of Hong Kong Academic Board for Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, an honorary lecturer of the Department of Professional Legal Education and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law of the University of Hong Kong.

Ms Wu was an advisor to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Non Executive Director of the Securities and Future Commission, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, Chair of the Consumer Council and the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission against Corruption of Hong Kong.

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David Arkless
Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs
Manpower

David Arkless was named Manpower Inc. Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs in 2004 and is a member of the company’s Executive Management Team. In his role, Arkless is responsible for Governmental and International Affairs, as well as various strategic relationships with high-profile organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the Centre for European Policy Studies, the European Policy Centre, the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China and the government of Shanghai.

Arkless joined Manpower in 1992 as company Vice-President and served in the Global Marketing and Strategic Services divisions before founding The Empower Group, a global consulting subsidiary of Manpower Inc, in 1999.

Arkless serves as board member of both the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and was named Special Envoy of the End Human Trafficking Now! movement.

Prior to joining Manpower, Arkless worked in various international assignments for Hewlett-Packard and subsequently established his own consulting company, Caden Corporation, which delivered both strategic and project implementation programs for corporations like ABB and Rolls-Royce NEI.

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Reza Azmi
Director and Founder
Wild Asia

Dr Reza Azmi is the founder and Director of Wild Asia, a Malaysian-based conservation initiative. Reza has over 13 years experience in issues relating to biodiversity conservation. His conservation career began with WWF Malaysia in 1994 and went on to establish Wild Asia in 2003.

Apart from botanical and wildlife surveys, he has led numerous multi-disciplinary teams conducting conservation assessments for International Aid-agencies, National Governments and NGOs.

Besides technical advisory experience, Reza has written several popular publications, which include chapters in books on natural areas in Malaysia; guides to local plant and animal life and travel to natural areas. These publications have been published both in Malaysia and internationally. Reza is also involved with talks and seminars on Responsible Tourism, and is lecturing on the subject for degree and masters students in Malaysia.

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Conor Boyle
Deputy Programme Manager
International Labour Organization - Better Factories Cambodia

Conor Boyle is the Deputy Program Manager and Training Manager for the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia project based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

His work focuses on designing and implementing training and capacity building programs for key stakeholders in Cambodia’s garment industry. Better Factories Cambodia is a multi-stakeholder initiative, involving the Royal Government of Cambodia, manufacturers, unions and international buyers’ organisations. The initiative combines factory monitoring and remediation activities, which support the growth and sustainable development of Cambodia’s most important industry.

The project’s goal is to contribute to the growth of exports of the garment industry in Cambodia through promoting socially responsible production and compliance with Cambodian labour law and core labour standards.

Conor holds an MBA in Educational Management from the University of Leicester, England and a BA in Psychology and History from the University of Victoria, Canada.

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John Bray
Director, Tokyo Office
Control Risks

John Bray is the lead anti-corruption specialist at Control Risks, the international business risk consultancy. He is currently based in Tokyo and divides his time between Japan and the UK, as well as other places in-between, in either direction. He is the author of Facing up to corruption 2007: A practical business guide (London: Control Risks and Simmons & Simmons).

His recent assignments include: developing an anti-corruption policy with an international financial services company operating in south-east Asia; an anti-corruption training course for an international agency in the Balkans; and a briefing paper for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the role of the on private sector in post-conflict economic recovery.

John taught for three years in Kenya and India before joining Control Risks as a country analyst in 1983. He served successively as Head of Research (1988-1996), Principal Research Consultant (1996 to 2001) and Policy Director (2001-2002), before moving to his present post in Tokyo in November 2002.

John has an MA in History from the University of Cambridge.

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Richard Caines
Manager, Environmental and Social Development, East Asia and Pacific
International Finance Corporation (IFC)

The IFC is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group and its mission is to promote a sustainable private sector in order to reduce poverty and improve peoples’ lives. Sustainable development is therefore a core strategic objective for the institution.

As manager of the environmental and social development program in the East Asia and Pacific region, Richard is responsible for ensuring that the Corporation’s investment and advisory work align with its sustainability objective. Working closely with clients and other IFC staff, this includes appropriate risk management and identification of environment and social opportunities to improve a client’s business performance.

Richard joined IFC in 1998. Prior to his current position, Richard was the Manager of the Knowledge and Innovation Group, which focused on capturing the Corporation’s social and environmental ‘know-how’ and communicating it effectively to both internal and external audiences.

Richard trained as a marine biologist and prior to joining IFC, worked in the NGO sector and as an environmental management consultant.

Richard is based in IFC’s Hong Kong office.

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K. K. Chan
Managing Director of Renewables
China Light and Power Holdings Limited

Dr K. K. Chan is responsible for CLP’s renewable energy projects in Asia Pacific and corporate finance activities in China. Starting his career as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston, Dr Chan gained extensive experience in major international investment banks, and focused on the origination and execution of capital markets and advisory transactions. Dr Chan had previously conducted research on state-of-the-art semiconductor materials and microelectronic device fabrication in Cambridge University. His research work was published and quoted in major international journals. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (first class honours) in Electrical and Information Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electronic Engineering from Cambridge University. Dr Chan also holds a LLB degree from London University and is pursuing an EMBA degree at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

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Lauren Compere
Director of Shareholder Advocacy
Boston Common Asset Management

Lauren Compere is the Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Shareholder Advocacy at Boston Common Asset Management, a full-service, employee-owned U.S. social investment firm. She has primary responsibility working with Boston Common clients and oversees Boston Common’s global shareholder advocacy initiatives. Ms. Compere has worked in the social investment industry for more than 17 years and has 12 years of experience in international social investing.

Ms. Compere is the Co-Chair of the U.S. Social Investment Forum’s International Working Group and the co-chair of the Access to Health Working Group and Human Trafficking Sub-Committee at ICCR (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. She is the primary author of a white paper called How & Why: Corporations Responding to AIDS (ICCR, Corporate Examiner, March 16, 2007). Ms. Compere received her BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont, and her MS in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University. She has completed the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Certificate Program at Boston University.

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Linden Coppell
Environmental Manager
Cathay Pacific

Linden Coppell holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. She has lived in Hong Kong for the past 17 years and has been the Environmental Manager for Cathay Pacific Airways since 2003. She has led a drive towards improved awareness of environmental concerns and corporate responsibility. She has successfully reinvigorated environmental reporting including Cathay Pacific’s first CSR Report in 2006. She has led the development of a climate change strategy and the formation of a long- term action group in this respect. She has instigated a number of other environmental programmes including improved waste management both on the ground and in the air. She represents Cathay Pacific on the Environmental Committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Environmental Working Group of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).

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Marina Martin Curran
Director
Villardi Consulting

Dr Marina Martin Curran holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she studied the relationship between CSR and financial performance. She used diverse metrics for CSR (including the FTSE4Good index and the Calvert Universe of screened companies). Prior to this, Marina worked in international development and specialised in the monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of animal health programmes in developing countries. She has Masters degrees in tropical animal production and in agricultural economics.

She has been working as a consultant since 2001 on a wide variety of assignments from the impact of animal health programmes in Mexico and Ethiopia to the writing of environmental reports for Singapore companies, training in CSR in Malaysia and Singapore, and the assessment of community investments for a multinational.

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Ali Darwin
Executive Director
National Centre for Sustainability Reporting

Ali Darwinis a registered Accountant. He holds a Master’s degree with a major in general management from the London Business School, UK, and is an alumnus of the Program for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. Ali continues to develop his expertise in sustainability through active market engagement in several sectors. He has carried out a number of nation-wide campaigns to promote sustainability management practices and he lecturers in the postgraduate program at The Institut Bisnis & Informatika Indonesia (IBII) for the Sustainability Management Accounting Course. He is one of the few people in the country able to offer in-depth insight on the evolving state-of-play with regard to sustainability.

Ali was Finance Director of P.T. Timah, the largest tin mining company in the world, from 1996 to 2002, and Vice-President Director of P.T. Aneka Gas Industri, the largest Indonesian-based gas producer, from 2003 to 2004. He currently serves as independent commissioner of P.T. Hero Supermarket, Tbk., is the Chairman of the Indonesian Institute of Management Accountants (IIMA) and Executive Director of the National Center for Sustainability Reporting (NCSR), a recognized GRI affiliated NGO supporting the awareness and development of sustainability practices and reporting in Indonesia.

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Jeff Denchfield
Senior Director of Global Sustainability
Mattel Inc

Jeff Denchfield is the Senior Director of Global Sustainability at Mattel, Inc. He spearheads the strategic direction of Mattel’s global sustainability initiatives, which serve to minimize the company’s impact to the environment throughout its global supply chain, and oversees execution of the company’s continually evolving Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP), which promotes the safe and fair treatment of all employees. He also serves as a member of the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) Technical Advisory Board, which is responsible for directing and implementing the Toy Industry’s ethical manufacturing program.

Before joining Mattel, Jeff was the Senior Environmental Engineer for Fleetwood Enterprises, a recreational vehicle and manufactured housing company. At Fleetwood he was responsible for environmental compliance at 65 manufacturing facilities across the US. He has a BA in Environmental Studies from Cal State San Bernardino.

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Emer Diviney
Ethical Business Research and Policy Officer
Brotherhood of Saint Lawrence

Emer has expertise and knowledge in the areas of community development, sustainability and social enterprises.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Community Development) and has worked both in Australia and overseas in the aid and development sector in the areas of education, income generation, gender and development, disabilities and health. Before working in the community sector she held management roles in the fashion industry in Australia and applies this industry knowledge to the textile and clothing industry supply chain work at the BSL.

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Darrell Doren
Supply Chain Sustainability Manager, Asia Pacific and Africa
Ford Motor Company

Darrell works for Ford Motor Company as the Supply Chain Sustainability Manager for Asia Pacific and Africa. In this role he is responsible for ensuring ethical supply chain standards throughout Fords supply chain in Asia Pacific and Africa. Darrell has been at Ford Motor Company since 2000 and previously worked in China Export and Production Procurement positions. Prior to joining Ford he held various positions in Operations Management and Logistics Management in the United States and Antarctica.

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Ravi Fernando
UN Global Compact Focal Point (Sri Lanka)
Director, Corporate Branding and Strategic CSR
MAS Holdings

Mr Ravi Fernando holds a MBA from the University of Colombo and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK). He holds an INSEAD (France) Diploma in International management (1989) and attended the INSEAD Advanced Management program in 2001.

Ravi started his career at Unilever (Sri Lanka) as a Management Trainee (Marketing) and left in 1987 as Brand Manager (DT Foods). He then joined Sterling Winthrop (Sri Lanka) as Business Development Manager in 1988, moved as Regional Marketing Director East Africa in 1989 and then progressed in his career to be the Chief Resident Representative as well as Operations Director of Smithkline Beecham International Vietnam during the period of 1996 to 1999.

He was the Managing Director/CEO of Reckitt Benckiser (Lanka) Ltd in 2000 – 2002. Currently, he is the Director of Corporate Branding & Strategic CSR at MAS Holdings Ltd. He is on the Boards of World Vision, Habitat for Humanity and the Duncan White Sports Foundation. He has been a Guest lecturer on Strategic CSR at the MBA & Advanced Management Programs at INSEAD (France) since 2005 and also leads the course on the subject of Advanced Brand Management at the University of Colombo MBA program. He functions as an advisor to the Hayleys group affiliate - Mabroc / Kelani Valley plantations. He is the United Nations Global Compact Focal point for Sri Lanka and on its UNGC Barcelona Centre Faculty on “Sustainability and Values” for both Europe and Asia.

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Glenn Frommer
Sustainability Development Manager
Mass Transit Railway Corporation

Dr. Glenn Frommer is the Sustainability Development Manager for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation where he has worked since 1992. He has the responsibility for implementing MTRC’s sustainability and environmental policies in the design, construction and operation of the Corporation’s railways, properties and associated activities. He also reports on these achievements through the MTRC’s internationally benchmarked Sustainability Reports.

He has published more than 50 technical papers and is a member and fellow of several international and Hong Kong professional, engineering, environmental and law associations. He is the past Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Environmental Impact Assessment and current Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission for the International Association of Public Transport. Dr. Frommer received his Doctorate from Stanford University in 1977 and was a Fulbright Fellow in Denmark 1977-78.

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Stephen Frost
Founder and Director
CSR Asia

Stephen Frost is one of the founders and a director of CSR Asia. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. He is a specialist in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Asia, Asian labour law, occupational health and safety standards, and labour issues and standards in Asian supply chains. He is widely published on CSR, labour standards, auditing, CSR in supply chains, and has worked with numerous companies on key supply chain issues in Asia. He is an international speaker and regularly sought after by companies, government agencies and the media.

His recent work has focused on the dilemmas surrounding labour standards and workplace conditions in China for the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) community, China's complicated and rapidly changing occupational health and safety environment, the effect of foreign direct investment on industrial relations, and CSR in Asia. His publications include articles on corporate codes of conduct in the Chinese toy sector, labour relations and regulations in Cambodia, Singapore and Vietnam, labour standards in China, mainland Chinese investment in Southeast Asia, and recent changes to the Chinese occupational health and safety regulatory framework. He is a regular contributor to specialist magazines in the region (including Fortune – Chinese edition, Asian Quality, and others). He holds a PhD in Asian Studies from Murdoch University in Australia.

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Bonnie Nixon Gardiner
Global Programme Manager
Hewlett-Packard

Bonnie Nixon Gardiner: Global Program Manager for Hewlett Packard At HP, Ms Nixon Gardiner is responsible for:
  - Managing HP’s Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility Program
  - playing a leadership role with major competitors and suppliers on a common industry code of conduct and implementation tools including risk assessment, self assessment, auditing and reporting tools
  - overseeing a worldwide audit program with 500 suppliers and providing ongoing audit training to 70 staff located in Mexico, South America, Eastern Europe, India, China and Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining HP, as Vice President of an Environmental Communications Firm, Ms. Gardiner managed more than 200 public and private sector projects with business, government, community and non-governmental entities. Her 23 years of experience spans across several industries including technology, biotech, financial, infrastructure and utilities, food processing and transportation.

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Christof Hertel
Dipl.-Geogr.
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)



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Kenth Kaerhoeg
Group Communication Director
Coca-Cola Pacific Group

Kenth Kaerhoeg (original spelling of family name: Kærhøg) has a master’s degree in communications psychology from Copenhagen University. He has more than 20 years experience in the areas of public affairs and communications. Kenth has worked with private corporations, media, political parties, unions, and non-governmental-organizations. He joined The Coca-Cola Company as Public Affairs & Communications Director for the Nordic and Baltic countries in 2002 and relocated to Hong Kong as Group Communications Director for Coca-Cola Asia in 2005.

Kenth Kaerhoeg is former board member of SAS & Coca-Cola Environmental Foundation, Member of the steering committee of the Danish Management Barometer, Member of the shareholders committee of PFA Pension, Officially appointed external examiner with Copenhagen Business School, Odense University and Copenhagen University and former officially appointed election observer at Danish national election to the parliament.

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Kim Sang-Jo
SER Executive Director
Solidarity for Economic Reform

Professor Sang-Jo Kim has played a key role in building consensus for economic reform programs following South Korea's financial crisis in the late nineties. Kim is a professor of Economics at Hansung University and chairs the Solidarity for Economic Reform (SER), a civil organization dedicated to enhancing corporate governance system through minority shareholder campaigning. Under his leadership, the group has won several landmark lawsuits, one of which is against the directors of Samsung Electronics in a case that more clearly defines the fiduciary duties of corporate directors. And he has been instrumental in improving laws and institutions related to corporate governance in Korea. The passage of the Securities Class Action Act in 2003 is one example. Kim also belonged to a special economic advisory group that counsels the President of South Korea, serving a full one-year appointment to the Korea Tripartite Commission. South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper named Kim one of Ten Economic Leaders in Korea.

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Rebecca MacKinnon
Journalism and Media Studies Centre
University of Hong Kong

Rebecca MacKinnon is a veteran journalist, China hand, and online media expert. In January 2007 she joined the faculty of Hong Kong University’s Journalism and Media Studies Center, where she teaches new media.

Before coming to Hong Kong, MacKinnon was a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she co-founded GlobalVoicesOnline.org, an award winning global bloggers’ network.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon worked for CNN in Northeast Asia for over a decade, serving as CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 1998-2001 and as CNN’s Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent from 2001-03.

A frequent public speaker and media commentator, her research and writing focuses on the Internet in China, corporate responsibility for free speech and privacy, and the future of journalism in the Internet age.

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Carmen Madriñán
Executive Director
ECPAT International

Ms. Carmen Madriñán is the Executive Director of ECPAT International, the NGO network that first galvanized attention on the problem of commercial sexual exploitation of children and co-organized the two World Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Today ECPAT is represented by national groups and coalitions in more than 74 countries around the world, which work collectively to combat these crimes against children.

Ms. Madriñán is an education specialist whose work has focused on program and policy development targeted to vulnerable children and youth. She has served as technical advisor to government and non government institutions guiding reforms in residential care institutions, development of programs for migrant and refugee children as well as for working children and children living on the street. Ms. Madrinan did her Masters and Doctoral studies at Columbia University. She has more than 20 years of international experience focused in Asia.

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Kay McArdle
Global Leadership and Diversity for Asia Ex-Japan
Goldman Sachs

Kay is the Head of Global Leadership and Diversity for Asia Ex Japan at Goldman Sachs. She is an Executive Director who joined Goldman Sachs, in Hong Kong, in March 2000 and spent her first six years at the firm specializing in Employee Relations. Kay is a qualified laywer and previously worked as an employment litigator at law firms in the UK and then Hong Kong. While at law firm Masons in Hong Kong, she was part of the Employment Litigation team which won the Asian Legal Business "Best Employment Law Firm of the Year" award in 1999.

In mid-2006, Kay joined the board of The Women's Foundation, a Hong Kong-based non-profit organisation, the mission of which is to promote the full participation of women and girls in all aspects of Hong Kong society through research, education and public awareness.

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Omar Merican
Chief Operating Officer
Bursa Malaysia

Omar Merican, aged 48, graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) in Economics from the University of Birmingham, England and a Masters in Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Prior to joining Bursa he founded and ran a fund management company, Merican & Partners Asset Management Sdn. Bhd. from 1998 till 2005. From 1984 till 1988, he held positions in financial services institutions including Solomon Brothers, James Capel, O'Connor Associates and CIMB.

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Jean-Michel Offe
Group Director of Food and Beverage
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts

Jean-Michel Offe was named group director of food & beverage for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in June 2000. Based at the group’s corporate office in Hong Kong, he oversees food and beverage operations at Shangri-La’s 51 properties and is responsible for driving the development of the group’s new innovative restaurant and bar concepts for existing hotels and resorts, as well as for projects under development.

Prior to his present appointment, Offe was resident manager at the Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok. He joined the company in 1993, holding various chef and food and beverage positions at Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, where he was on the opening team task force. From there, he moved to the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore as executive assistant manager – food & beverage and assisted with the hotel’s S$95 million renovation.

Before joining Shangri-La, Offe spent six years with InterContinental and two years with Hilton, working in hotels throughout the world, including properties in the U.S., Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

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Andrea Oschetti
Managing Director
Tri-Source Asia Limited

Andrea has spent the majority of his career working with blue chip companies, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. Specifically, he has extensive experience in designing and implementing supply chain solutions in China, assessing and minimizing risks, developing and managing performance metrics and monitoring programs.

Prior to joining Tri-Source Asia as Managing Director, Andrea was a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong and London, where he served as leader of the Sustainable Business Solutions practice. He led several complex consulting assignments aimed at reviewing the Asian operations and sourcing functions of global clients in order to identify opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiency.

Andrea is treasurer and member of the Boards of Directors of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. He is editor and columnist of Ticonzero, the on-line magazine on business management in Italy, where he provides though leadership on China related issues.

Andrea received his “Dottore” of Economics and Business Administration at the Universita’ Cattolica in Milan, Italy. He also holds a Master Degree in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Ricardo Pineda
Director of Worldwide Manufacturing Engineering
Plantronics Inc.

Ricardo Pineda joined Plantronics, Inc. in 1985 and serves as Director of Worldwide Manufacturing Engineering. In this corporate level position, Mr. Pineda is responsible for Test, Tooling and Packaging Engineering and has strategic oversight for manufacturing engineering activities at Plantronics operations in Mexico, Europe and Asia as well as production ramp for New Products. Mr. Pineda is also responsible for managing a worldwide cross functional team responsible for the specification, design, construction and operational ramp of Plantronics’ new factory in the Suzhou Industrial Park on the city of Suzhou in the Jiangsu province.

Prior to assuming his worldwide responsibilities, Mr. Pineda was responsible for the manufacturing engineering activities of Plantronics’ factory in Mexico where he successfully integrated manufacturing activities that were based in California, Georgia and England.

He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Tijuana Technological Institute in Mexico. He also holds a Certificate in Supply Chain Management from the University of California in Santa Cruz.

Mr. Pineda contributes to the community in which he lives by serving as the Chairman of the Board for Second Harvest Food Bank which is a non-profit organization that leads the effort of feeding the less fortunate in the Santa Cruz and San Benito California counties.

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Roger Plant
Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labour
International Labour Organisation

Since 2002 Roger Plant has been Head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labor, spearheading its work against forced labor and trafficking. He was the principal author of the ILO’s 2005 report A Global Alliance against Forced Labour, and is currently leading efforts to consolidate this new alliance and engage business actors in efforts to prevent forced labour in their supply chains.

At the CSR Asia Summit, Roger will talk about the efforts that the ILO is now making, together with other UN partners, to develop a Business Alliance against Forced Labour, and to engage with companies in different economic sectors to prevent forced labour in their supply chains. He will identify the different kinds of risk in accordance with different industries and recruitment practices, focusing in particular on deficiencies in international recruitment practices for contract labour. He comments on the main drivers of forced labour in the Asian economies including China, the mutual responsibilities of multinationals and national companies, and the need to have more dialogue between the different business actors across borders and regions.

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Joel Posters
Head of Sustainable Development
ABN AMRO

Mr Posters is ABN AMRO’s Head of Sustainability in Asia, responsible for managing environmental, social and ethical risks relating to the Bank's Asian client portfolio, as well as, coordinating the Bank’s regional sustainability initiatives.

He joined ABN AMRO's Sustainable Business Advisory team in Amsterdam in 2003, and in September 2006 was appointed to his current role and moved to Hong Kong.

Mr Posters has over 13 years experience in sustainability and four years of environmental and social risk management with various international organisations.

Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Mr Posters worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as Senior Associate for Sustainability Consulting for three years. He also worked at AT Kearnery on Environmental and health and safety management Consulting.

Mr Posters received his MBA from INSEAD in France. He also received an M.A in International Affairs / Environmental Policy from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Macalester College.
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Simon Powell
Head of Regional Research - Power, Gas and Utilities
CLSA

Simon Powell joined CLSA in September 2006 as Head of Power and Gas Research. Based in Hong Kong he covers companies in the power generation, transmission and distribution sector, power plant equipment manufacturers and companies involved in gas transmission and distribution. Prior to becoming an analyst Simon spent 15 years in the energy industry including the last 10 in Asia. He worked for TOTAL in Europe with a focus on gas pricing and marketing, before working in management consulting roles with Arthur D Little and Arthur Andersen. Simon has advised governments in the region on power privatisation, worked on M&A deals in energy, and assisted in developing growth strategies for a number of Asia based utilities. He received his BSc from the University of Sussex.

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Maria Fatima Reyes
Chair, Sustainability Reporting and Assurance Committee
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Maria Fatima Reyes is an accountant and holds an MBA degree. She is an expert in the following fields: Environmental Management Accounting, Environmental Investments and Finance, Triple Bottom Line Reporting, and Corporate Sustainability Information Systems. Ms. Reyes has worked for international organizations such as USAID, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, and APO where she served as an expert in projects involving the development and delivery of sustainability tools for businesses and governments. Starting her sustainability practice by working on projects dealing with the development and dissemination of environmental accounting tools and techniques, Ms. Reyes’s work has evolved into the area of sustainability reporting and assurance.

Some of the companies she has assisted are Coca Cola, adidas, Panasonic, Land Bank, and several of the businesses under the First Philippine Holdings Corporation, the most diversified holding company in the Philippines.

Ms. Reyes served as a member of the GRI G3 Advisory Panel on Environmental Indicators. Currently she is a member of the International Federation of Accountants’ Sustainability Experts Panel where she is engaged in activities promoting the accounting community’s active role in the global sustainability agenda. She is also a founding member of the Environmental Management Accounting Network for Asia Pacific (EMAN-AP) and the Chair of the Sustainability Accounting and Reporting Committee of the Philippine Institute of CPAs (PICPA).

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Yvonne Sadovy
Professor
University of Hong Kong

Prof. Sadovy joined The University of Hong Kong in 1993 after five years as Director of the Fisheries Research Laboratory of the government of Puerto Rico and then as biologist with the Caribbean Fishery Management Council of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA, USA). She was previously based at the Marine Science Department of the University of Puerto Rico. Current teaching activities emphasize the biology, fisheries and conservation of fishes. Courses include Fish Biology, Fisheries and Mariculture at the undergraduate level and Environmental Management to postgraduates. Her principal research interests involve the biology and conservation of marine fishes, with emphasis on the biology of groupers (Serranidae), and other valuable reef fishes that are particularly vulnerable to fishery exploitation. Investigations of trade in live tropical food and ornamental fishes, both locally and regionally, complement and direct these interests as does the more theoretical issue of the risk of endangerment to marine pelagic spawning species from fishing, in general.

Current field and laboratory-based research involve studies on reproduction, the impacts of fishing in relation to reproductive biology, the consumer role in sustainable resource use, education and outreach on natural resource stewardship and the role of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) in sustainable seafood use. Other ongoing collaborative projects include the humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, a reef fish listed as threatened in the famous IUCN Red List and was included on Appendix II of CITES in 2004. Research and outreach are underway on this species in Indonesia and with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Liam Salter
Head
WWF Hong Kong Climate Programme

Liam Salter is the Head of WWF Hong Kong’s Climate Programme, established in September 2006, with the aim of supporting action on climate change in Hong Kong and southern China.

From 1999 - 2006 Liam initiated and directed WWF International’s Asia Pacific Climate Programme, building a team of campaigners across the region. Between 2001 and 2006, WWF set up 10 new national programmes focusing on climate and energy issues, becoming the largest NGO network on the issue in Asia. At the national level Liam worked with his team to develop a wide variety of initiatives, covering issues such as policy reform, carbon trading, private sector capacity building, clean energy trade promotion, international UN negotiations, the impacts of climate change and public awareness raising.

Liam also co-led a team that developed the Gold Standard for carbon offsets, now an independent institution and the leading quality standard for project based carbon credits.

Prior to joining WWF, Liam worked as a political analyst for the Climate Action Network, representing nearly 80 European environmental groups in Brussels. He focused on the promotion of renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency within the EU, collaborating with a wide variety of groups from the European Parliament to industry trade associations.

Liam holds a Masters of Science in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London.

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Suchada Saengarun
Junior Graduates and Mobility Coordinator - Asia
ACCOR Asia

Suchada first joined Accor as a management trainee at the Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square after graduating from Mahidol University International College in Thailand. She worked at the Front Office Department for 4 years before joining Accor Asia Corporate Office in 2003 as Human Resources Coordinator.

Her main responsibilities include recruitment, campus relations, internal communication among the HR network, as well as, coordinating activities related to corporate social responsibility organized in Accor hotels in Asia.

She is very much involved in expanding the Accor & ECPAT partnership to hotels in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam by way of rolling out ECPAT awareness training and fund raising activities.

She coordinates the different CSR programs sponsored and supported by Accor in SE Asia, India, S.Korea and China.

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Roland Soong
EastSouthWestNorth blogger
EastSouthWestNorth

Roland soong is a media researcher who has worked in television, radio, print and Internet audience measurement in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He writes the English-language blog EastSouthWestNorth, which is known for its translations from the Chinese-language mainstream media and Internet forums and blogs in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His specific interests are on media, culture, politics and business.

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Shane Spuway
Carbon Markets Asia
Fortis Bank

Fortis Bank is the leading participant in the emission markets in Europe, offering the entire spectrum of Carbon Banking Services including Origination and Trading, Trust and Custody, Carbon Debt and Equity Solutions and Renewable Energy Financing. Shane has been involved in the Carbon and Emissions markets since 2001. He was a founding partner of an Australian company that provided emission risk management and carbon advisory services in the region. In 2002 he established the Hong Kong branch, and as Managing Director, expanded coverage to HKSE listed companies and worked on various projects that would qualify for emission reduction credits via the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.

He has worked on emission abatement and renewable energy projects on all major continents. Prior to shifting his career to environmental finance, he worked in the financial markets as a principal trader for leading international banks for fifteen years in their foreign exchange and bullion dealing rooms.

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Rita Sully
Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Asia Pacific and Japan
Hewlett-Packard Company

Rita Sully is HP’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan. She is responsible for aligning and communicating HP’s citizenship activities in the region.

Rita joined HP in March 2005 and previous to her appointment to her present CSR role in November 2005, she was responsible for managing HP’s e-inclusion initiative in Asia Pacific and Japan.

Rita is based in Singapore having transferred from Australia in 2002 with Cisco Systems.

Rita has a BA in International Relations from RMIT University and an MA in Applied Anthropology from the Australia National University. She is currently completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management from Murdoch University. She volunteers with the National Office of the United Nations Development Program for Women (UNIFEM). Rita is also an avid traveler and sports enthusiast. She also blogs about HP’s CSR initiatives and related issues.

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Scott Warren
Managing Director, Japan
Kroll

Mr. Scott A. Warren is a Managing Director of Kroll Japan specializing in business intelligence & investigations and risk consulting services for corporate clients and government agencies. His areas of specialty include protecting intellectual property and anti-cyber crime efforts.

Prior to joining Kroll, Mr. Warren was Senior Attorney and Director of Internet Safety Enforcement for North Asia for Microsoft Corporation, based in Tokyo. His responsibilities included leading Microsoft’s cyber crime enforcement and child safety efforts in Japan, Korea and Greater China, and working with local police to substantially increase the arrest of cybercriminals throughout the region. He was also the worldwide director of Xbox antipiracy, leading teams to protect the Xbox and Xbox 360 platform from pirates, as well as working with technical security experts to build those platforms in an enforcement-friendly way. He further served as the director of Microsoft’s anti-counterfeiting efforts in North Asia, helping to direct one of the largest seizures of counterfeit goods in company history, as well as negotiating the largest anti-counterfeiting settlement to date for Microsoft in Asia. In addition, he was the lead attorney responsible for the launch of the Xbox platform in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. As such, he supported the entire commercial and IP transactions related to the distribution, service, support, internal game development and 3rd party incentive agreements for Xbox and Xbox Live (its online component) in Asia. He worked for Microsoft for 5 years.

Mr. Warren is the prior General Counsel of Sega Corporation, the renowned videogame company, at its Tokyo headquarters, where he oversaw the US and European subsidiary legal departments and all other international transactions, licensing, litigation and the company’s overall anti-piracy efforts. He was responsible for the negotiation, licensing and roll-out of Sega-branded amusement centers throughout Asia and the Middle-East. He spent 7 years at Sega.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Warren wrote a book on Japanese employment practices for the publisher CCH and was a trial attorney litigating civil cases in Los Angeles, California. While in law school, Mr. Warren specialized in Entertainment Law and interned with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. Music.

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Richard Welford
Founder and Director
CSR Asia

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

Richard has considerable expertise in international business, environmental management and corporate social responsibility. He has been working with businesses in these areas for 20 years. 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. Other clients have included the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, Oxfam, the Business Environment Council, TXU Europe and The Body Shop.

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 making him one of the few people to be able to evaluate exactly the state of play with regard to Asia.

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Brian Williams
Senior Regional Manager (North Asia) Anti-Counterfeiting and Internet Safety
Microsoft



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Linda Zhang
Program Manager
Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control

Ms. Linda Zhang is program manager of the Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis Prevention and Control which is a non-profit organization to raise Hepatitis awareness and enhance health of population. Ms. Zhang's efforts have helped to increase public awareness on CHB status in China and been engaged in various CSR projects as well as vaccine and education policy and advocacy initiatives.

Ms. Zhang successfully organized the first educational meeting among government, enterprise and HBV carriers in China and lobbied the Suzhou city Mayor to revise physical examinations to cancel Mandatory Hep B check-ups, making the city the first city to protect Hep carriers rights. She also attended the consultation to draft protections of Hep B carrier employment and planned and completed vaccinations for about 55,000 Peking University students and Tibetan children, and education programmes for 340,000 rural women in western province. Now she is a consultant and advisor for enterprises such as Total and IBM for their Hep B education and vaccination programmes.

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