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David Arkless
Manpower Inc.
In his role as Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs, 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 the People’s Republic of China and the government of Shanghai.
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. He was also appointed to the advisory board of UNODC with his main responsibility being a core advisor on the Private Sector Panel of UN.GIFT, the recently launched global initiative to fight human trafficking.
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John Bray
Control Risks
John Bray is Control Risks’ lead anti-corruption specialist. He is currently based in Tokyo office but spends most of his time on international assignments. He is the author of Facing up to corruption, published by Control Risks and Simmons & Simmons in 2007.
His recent assignments include: developing an anti-corruption strategy with a northern European investment company expanding into Asia; benchmark reviews of anti-bribery policies for two leading Japanese trading companies; an anti-corruption audit for an energy company operating in Hungary; and a background paper for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on private sector development in conflict-affected environments.
John has an MA in History from the University of Cambridge, and has more than 20 years’ experience with Control Risks. He speaks plausible German, acceptable French, conversational Urdu and survival Japanese.
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Ravi Fernando
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 a Diploma in International Management (1999) and completed the Advanced Management Program(2001) at the INSEAD Business school in (France).He is an Alumni of the University of Cambridge University Programme for Industry having done the Climate Leadership Programme in 2007.
Ravi started his career at Unilever (Sri Lanka) as a Management Trainee (Marketing) and left as Senior Brand Manager (DT Foods) in 1987. He commenced his International Career with Sterling Winthrop as Regional Marketing Director East Africa ,moved to General Manager Gulf Region and Regional Marketing Director Middle East to Chief Resident Representative/Operations Director of Smithkline Beecham International Vietnam during the period of 1988 to 1999. Between 2000-2002,He was Managing Director/CEO of Reckitt Benckiser (Lanka) Ltd and is currently Director Corporate Branding & Strategic CSR at
MAS Holdings Ltd and on the Board of MAS Fabric Park .He is the United Nations Global Compact Focal point for Sri
Lanka and on its Barcelona Centre and Asian Faculty on “Progress and Values” .He is on the Boards of LOLC,World Vision
,Habitat for Humanity, Environmental Foundation of Lanka and the Duncan White Sports Foundation. He is a Guest lecturer on
Strategic CSR at the Advanced Management Programs at INSEAD (France) since 2005 and leads the course Advanced
Brand Management at the University of Colombo MBA program. He functions as Marketing advisor to the Hayleys group
affiliate Mabroc / Kelani Valley plantations.
In September 2007 he won a “Global Strategy Leadership award” at the World Strategy Summit for his work on Ethical branding for the Sri Lankan Apparel and Tea sectors.
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Heinz Landau
Merck Limited
Mr. Heinz Landau is a 51 years old German national. He is working with the German
based Merck Group since 33 years. After having spent nine years in sales and marketing positions in the head office of Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany, he started a working career abroad. His first destination took him from 1984 until 1987 to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he worked as a Regional Manager Pharma for the Gulf states.
In 1987, Mr. Landau moved to Lagos, Nigeria as General Manager for Emedia Ltd. (a
Merck subsidiary). In 1988, he was promoted to the position of Managing Director of Farmex Ltd. (another Merck subsidiary in Nigeria).
In 1992, Mr. Landau took up a new assignment in Bangkok as Director Chemical
Division of Merck Ltd., Thailand. In 1993, he was promoted to the position of Managing Director of Merck Ltd., Thailand. In January 2001, Mr. Landau has been appointed as Chairman of Merck Ltd., Thailand, a position that he still holds today.
Mr. Landau has become a sincere advocate for CSR and has been a regular speaker in
CSR – related events in Thailand and Germany where he is encouraging participation in corporate responsibility.
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Kasit Piromya
Democrat Party of Thailand
Kasit Piromya is the Director of International Affairs of the Democrat Party of Thailand and advisor to the party leader, Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva. He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Shadow Government. He was the former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States from 2004 to 2005. His previous postings as Thai Ambassador include: the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan, where he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 2004.
He is the Thailand Representative of the Caux Round Table and Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Governance. He is a member of the Sub-Committee of the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) and of the National Human Rights Sub-Committee (NHRC).
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Dr. Sopon Pornchokchai
Thai Appraisal Foundation
Dr. Pornchockchai serves as a member of the Board of Ethics and the Board of Sufficiency Economy of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. He was a consultant to the ESCAP, UN-Habitat, International Labour Organization and other international organizations. He gained a Ph.D. in land and housing from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and had further property valuation training from LRTI-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and in housing development from Katholieke Universeit Leuven (Belgium). He is currently the President of the Thai Appraisal Foundation, President of Agency for Real Estate Affairs which is a UN Global Compact company, board member of ASEAN Valuers Association, and Council Member of the Appraisal Foundation (USA) - the International Advisory Board which is the regulatory body of appraisal profession in the USA. His research master pieces include the discovery of 1,020 slums (1985), CAMA (computer-assisterd mass appraisal) modeling (1990), forecast of 300,000 unoccupied housing units (1995 and 1998), study for property information centre (2000), and the roadmap for Vietnamese valuation profession (2006).
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Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon
ECPAT International
Ms. Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon (Mam) is the Programme Associate Combating Child Sex Tourism and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes. Working at the ECPAT International Secretariat, she implements the programmes, doing advocacy, prevention, awareness raising, data collection and collaborating with the private sector while supporting the global ECPAT network. An alumnus from the Monterey Institute of International Studies with a Master’s in International Policy – Human Rights with focus on human trafficking, she previously worked with the Emerging Social Issues Division of UNESCAP and the disaster services for the Carmel Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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Richard Welford
CSR Asia
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 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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