The Program

 

Eduardo Aguirre is the U.S. ambassador to Spain. 

 

Alberto Andreu Pinillos holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE-ICAI) and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, where he began his professional career in the Research Department. He worked for CEPSA (Compañía Española de Petróleos) as a manager of internal communication development. After this period, he joined the banking sector, first at Banesto, as a manager of internal communication and corporate identity; and then at Santander Central Hispano, the major Spanish bank, where he was a managing director of corporate.

In 2001, Andreu joined Telefónica, the main Spanish telecommunications operator, where he is a managing director of the corporate reputation, brand and social responsibility, within the General Directorate of Corporate Communications. He still teaches at the Instituto de Empresa, as an associate professor of Organizational Behaviour and Communication. Andreu has published several articles in the Harvard Deusto Business Review as well as in other technical publications, and had a column in the Spanish economic journal Cinco Días. He holds a seat on the Experts Commission on CSR that has recently being created by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Andreu also takes part in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholders Council and is a member of the Global Compact Spanish Steering Committee.

 

Antonio Argandoña Ramiz is professor, la Caixa chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance, chairperson of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Catalan Economics Association, a member of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris), and a member of the Committee on Standardization in Ethical Management of Aenor (Madrid). He is also member of the editorial boards of the Kluwer Series Issues in Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review and The Business Ethics Quarterly. He has been a member the Executive Committee of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) and Secretary General of Ética, Economía y Dirección (EBEN-Spain).

Argandoña is co-editor and co-author of People in Corporations: Ethical Responsibilities and Corporate Effectiveness (with G. Enderle and B. Almond; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), editor and co-author of The Ethical Dimension of Financial Institutions and Markets (Springer Verlag, 1995), and author of many articles on ethics, economics and management issues.

 

Gabrielle Bedewi is the chief knowledge officer for SIGMA Marketing Group in Rochester, N.Y. She has more than 20 years of teaching and business experience in data mining, statistical modeling and analysis, business strategy and marketing research, including her current role as the Expert Leader of Customer Knowledge and Business Intelligence at SIGMA. Her primary responsibilities include directing the development of predictive modeling, segmentation systems and survey research initiatives across several vertical industries including consumer products, business-to-business, financial, investment and retail services.

Prior to joining SIGMA, Bedewi served as the director of statistical modeling at Claritas in Arlington, Virginia. She designed and
managed the data processing and analysis of statistical databases that enhanced the efficiency and improved the processing capabilities of Claritas’s retail and financial consumer potential projections.

In addition, she served as a senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has a BA in Applied Statistics and Insurance from Kuwait University and a PhD in Management Sciences and Statistics from the University of Maryland.

 

Juan Benavides Delgado, PhD, is professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, as part of the Communication Science Faculty. He has written several books and articles about media cultural research and has participated as a lecturer at national and international conferences. His recent research and publications focus on media, corporate communication, corporate values and business ethics.

Benavides has been a guest professor at different Spanish universities, where he collaborates in several doctorate and master programs. He is also director of the Formation Program at Complutense University Foundation and director of the Permanent Seminar organized for the Javier Benjumea chair of Ethics for Economics and Business at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid.

 

Paloma Bilbao Calabuig is associate professor of Strategic Management and Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Management at the faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid. Her administrative responsibilities have included serving as deputy director of the International Business Degree Programme from 2002 to 2005. Between 1997 and 2000 she was assistant professor of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). From 1993 to 1997, she
was a consultant at Norsistemas, where she worked in Treasury Management projects for major Spanish utilities companies.

One focus of Bilbao Calabuig’s examines corporate governance, with an emphasis on the effective design and use of corporate governance mechanisms to enhance firm competitiveness. She has written and published on such topics as: the compliance of corporate governance best practices codes by Spanish companies; the relationship between corporate governance, culture and law; corporate governance patterns in Spanish companies; the relationship between knowledge and organizational and strategic change; and the impact of new technologies on the business environment. Bilbao Calabuig holds a PhD from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas of Madrid (Spain) in Corporate Governance.

 

John R. Boatright is the Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J., professor of Business Ethics in the Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Business Ethics. He has served as the executive director for the Society for Business Ethics and is a past president of the Society. He is the author of two books: Ethics and the Conduct of Business and Ethics in Finance, and the editor of a casebook. He has contributed chapters to many books, and has published widely in prestigious journals, including Journal of Banking and Finance, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business and Society Review, and Business and Professional Ethics Journal.

Boatright was recognized as Researcher of the Year in 2000 by the Loyola University Graduate School of Business. His current research focuses on ethical issues in financial services and in corporate governance. He has lectured extensively on business ethics in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and has taught in an MBA program in China. He has also provided ethics training for a number
of companies and organizations. He received a bachelor’s degree
from the College of Wooster and his MA and PhD from the University
of Chicago.

 

Marvin T. Brown, PhD, has twenty-five years experience as a teacher, writer, and consultant in business and organizational ethics. He teaches business and organizational ethics in the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco and at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. His written works include Working Ethics (1990), The Ethical Process (3rd ed., 2003) and Corporate Integrity (2005). Corporate Integrity shows how a civic perspective of the inter-relatedness of the cultural, interpersonal, organizational, social, and environmental dimensions of organizational life clarifies a corporation’s identity and purpose.

Brown has helped design ethics training programs in the United States for such organizations as Levi Strauss and Company, California Automobile Association, and Veolia, North America. He has also been invited to present his work on ethical decision-making and corporate integrity to academic and business groups in Venezuela, Argentina, Germany, Poland, and China. His current research focuses on the significance of corporate integrity and civic accountability for business ethics. Information about his work is available at www.workingethics.com.

 

Anthony F. Buono has a joint appointment as professor of Management and Sociology at Bentley College and is coordinator of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility. He has written and/or edited ten books, including The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions (Jossey-Bass, 1989; Beard Books, 2003), A Primer on Organizational Behavior (Wiley, 6th ed. 2005), Corporate Policy, Values and Social Responsibility (Praeger, 1985), and, most recently, Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Management (Information Age Publishing, 2005) and Socio-economic Intervention in Organizations: The Intervener-Researcher and the SEAM Approach to Organizational Analysis (Information Age Publishing, 2007). He is also editor of the Research in Management Consulting book series. His articles and review essays have also appeared in numerous journals, including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Across the Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Change Management and Personnel Psychology.

Buono is a past chair of the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division, a research fellow with the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley, and has received the college’s highest honors for both teaching and research. He has also been chair of the Department of Management at Bentley. Buono’s research and consulting focus on organizational change, inter-organizational strategies, ethics and corporate responsibilities, and firm-stakeholder relationships. He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, and an MA and PhD with a concentration in Industrial and Organizational Sociology from Boston College.

 

José Ramón Busto Saiz is Rector at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1968 and was ordained priest in Madrid in 1978. In 1989, he was appointed Regular Scientist in the CSIC (the National Institute of Research), in Historic Linguistics; he is presently on voluntary leave from this position. He is Full Professor of Holy Scriptures in the Faculty of Theology of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. Among his other positions, he has also been Dean of this Faculty. He has published several books and many papers on textual criticism, exegesis and biblical theology. He is a member of ABE (Spanish Biblical Society), founding member of CEPO (Center for Studies on the Middle East), and IOSCS (International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies). He graduated from high school (1968) with maximum honors. He is also Graduate in Philosophy (1975, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with maximum honors and Graduate in Theology (1978, Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid). He holds a Doctor in Philosophy (1978, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), also with maximum honors.


 

Jesús María Caínzos Fernández is currently chairman of JM Caínzos & Asociados, a European consulting firm specialized in strategy and corporate deals (mergers and aquisitions). He is also member of the board of the IC-A (Institute of Directors) and chairman of its Professional Regulations Committee. He is member of the board of the Forum for the Protection of the Minority Shareholders and member of the Experts Committee formed by the Spanish Government to create the new Corporate Governance Code for listed companies.

Caínzos was vice chairman of BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria), vice chairman of its Executive Committee, and chairman of the Risk Committee. Previously, was European president of Johnson & Johnson and president and CEO of Janssen Pharmaceutica in Spain. He holds a degree in Economics for the Complutense University of Madrid and several postgraduate studies at INSEAD, Northwestern University, Wharton University, Harvard University and London Business School.

 

Mariano Osvaldo Carbajales is an External Advisor for Lupicinio-Eversheds, an International Law Firm. He is also Internal Advisor to the Regulation Studies Foundation Studies and Financial Studies Foundation (Madrid). Over his career, he has been part of Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal and Bruzzón & Associates, both law firms in Buenos Aires. He was also been with the European Parliament, legal advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He has held faculty positions with Catholic University (Buenos Aires) and Autónoma University and Instituto Católico de Empresa (Madrid).

Carbajales’ books include La Regulación de los Mercados Financieros, El Estado Regulador, Teoría y Práctica del Buen Gobierno Corporativo and Teoría y Práctica del Derecho de la Competencia.  He has a Masters in Communitary Law and Competition Law from Universidad Carlos III and a Ph D in Law from Autónoma University. 

 

Anil Chopra was senior consultant — Management of Business Ethics, for Tata Sons in India. He was responsible for the development and implementation of programs and processes for the management of business ethics and elements of risk management in Tata Group companies in India and abroad. He now works as a management consultant in the areas of corporate and civil governance and business ethics. He is advising Tiri, a London-based NGO, on a new global partnership of companies and business schools committed to practical solutions to business integrity in emerging markets

After earning an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in India, he was a senior corporate manager with Voltas, a company within the Tata group. At Voltas, he has handled a range of assignments including marketing of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agro-industrial products and refrigerators. He also headed Corporate Communications and Public Relations and Corporate Internal Audit. Chopra was invited by Transparency International—Berlin to be a workshop panelist, at the 11th International Anti-Corruption Conference held in Seoul, Korea, in 2003, where he spoke on “International Voluntary Standards and Pressure.” In 2005, he spoke on “Focus on Asia” at The Conference Board’s 2005 Business Ethics Conference in New York City. He also presented at the Ethics Officer Association’s 2005 Business Ethics and Compliance Conference on “‘Glocalizing’ Your Business Practices Program in India.”  He has also been invited by the Institute of Company Attorneys and Secretaries of India to participate in seminars on Corporate Governance and the Evolution of Codes of Conduct.   Last October, he was a speaker at the third International Conference held in India on Intercultural Communication Competence (Learning, Teaching and Research in a Borderless World), sponsored by the European Union.

 

Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros is Chairman and CEO of DaimlerChrysler Spain. Over the course of his career, he has served on the Ministry of Trade, Madrid, Director of the Commercial Office of Spain for the Midwest (USA), Commercial Director of the
Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI), President and CEO of Iberia, Airlines of Spain and Aviaco Airlines, and CEO of Cenemesa (ex Westinghouse). He has been with Mercedes-Benz España, S.A. since 1988.  He has been involved in a number of professional associations, including serving as President of ANFAC (Spanish Automobile Manufacturers Association), President of CIRCULO DE EMPRESARIOS (Spanish Businessmen Association), and President of OICA (International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers). He is a member of the Boards of Acciona (holding of construction and utilities), Vice President of Inditex (fashion textiles), and Vice Chairman of Arcadis (Dutch engineering firm).  Espinosa de los Monteros is fluent in English, French and Italian and has knowledge of German. He holds degrees from the University of Madrid, Northwestern University and Técnico Comercial y Economista del Estado (Ministry of Trade).

 

José Luis Fernández Fernández is a professor with Comillas Pontifical University’s ICADE Business Faculty, director of the Javier Benjumea Chair of Ethics for Business and Economics, and coordinator of the area of Professional Ethics for the University. He has been president of EBEN-Spain (Ethics, Economics and Direction) since its founding in 1993. In 2000 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the European Ethics Network (EEN). Fernández Fernández also takes part in the Commission for Corporate Social Responsibility of AECA (The Spanish Association for Accounting and Business Administration) and is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Review Ethical Perspective. From 2000 to 2003, he served as vice rector for external relations and university extension for the Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid.

Fernández Fernández has written numerous articles and several
books on questions dealing with business ethics. He holds an MBA
and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Comillas Pontifical University
of Madrid.

 

Joan Fontrodona is assistant professor in the Department of Business Ethics at IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and Academic Director of IESE’s Center for Business in Society. He holds an MBA and a doctorate in Philosophy. He has been Visiting Professor at Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala) and at the McCallum Graduate School of Business (Bentley College), visiting fellow at Harvard Business School, and visiting scholar at the Center for Business Ethics (Bentley College). He is general secretary of the Spanish Association of Economic and Management Ethics (EBEN-Spain), and a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Association of the Global Compact (ASEPAM), the Academic Board of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS), and Forética, and an associate researcher for the Instituto Empresa y Humanismo (University of Navarra).

Fontrodona’s main areas of research and teaching are business ethics, corporate social responsibility, ethical and anthropological foundations for management, and social and political trends in management. He is the author and co-author of several books and articles on these topics, including Etica de la Empresa (Ariel, 2001), Tras la euphoria: Guía ética para empresarios en la nueva economía (Prentice-Hall, 2002), Pragmatism and Management Inquiry: Insights from the Thought of Charles S. Peirce (Quorum Books, 2002), and, as a co-author, Retos educativos de la globalización (Eunsa, 2003), y Globalización, Internet y Marketing: Una respuesta ética (Universidad Católica San Antonio, 2003).

 

Cristina García-Orcoyen is managing director of Fundación Entorno BCSD España, an organization noted for its work in sustainable corporate development. The firm’s mission is to work with the corporate sector, helping it to integrate environmental factors in its management as a way of helping to preserve the natural environment. In her role with Fundación Entorno, she promoted the creation of the Spanish Committee of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),  currently serving as its representative, and was appointed as a member of the Scientific Council of SustainAbility (United Kingdom). She is also a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Scientific Council of SustainAbility, and the Affinity Foundation (formerly the Purina Foundation). She also chaired the Awards Jury for European Commission´s European Environmental Awards 2002. She received the award for Professional Achievement in the Defense of Nature by Spain´s 6th National Congress on the Environment (2002) and the Parliamentary and Municipal Action Award for the best political initiative in “Environmental Protection and Emissions Reduction”(2004).

Earlier in her career (1983 to 1996), García-Orcoyen was Secretary General WWF Spain (ADENA/WWF) in which she represented the ADENA/WWF with the Doñana Board of Trustees, World Conservation Union, World Conservation Union Committee for Latin America, and National Council for the Environment (Spain). In 1994 she was elected Vice President of the European Union Advisory Council on the Environment. From 1999 to 2004, she was a member of the European Parliament, serving on the following Committees: Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, and of the Committee on Industry, International Trade, Research and Energy. She has been a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome since 1994. She has a BA in Political and Economic Sciences from Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Empresa IESE, and a BA in Foreign Trade from Escuela de Organización Industrial de Madrid.


 

Joaquin Garralda Ruiz de Velasco is professor of Strategic Management and CSR, and Director of PwC, IE Corporate Responsibility Center and vice dean of Academic Affaire at Instituto de Empresa. Specializing in strategy, Garralda has spent more than two decades studying the internal culture of business organizations and strategic analysis, which led him to the area of corporate social responsibility. He is currently the Global Compact’s Spanish Association Secretary. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Ethics Committee of Morgan Stanley’s Ethics Fund, and he is involved in the development of manuals that permit the measurement and evaluation of CSR. He is currently a patron of Fundación Lealtad, where he analyzes criteria for transparency in not-for-profit organizations.

Garralda holds a degree in Economic Sciences from Universidad Complutense Madrid, an MBA from Instituto de Empresa, and the ITP form London Business School. He has combined his teaching career with intense professional activity as a consultant in the fields of organization and strategy in diverse companies, as a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and member of several managerial boards.

 

Antonio Garrigues is President of J&A Garrigues, S.L. Among his many roles, he has served as a member of the Spanish group of The Trilateral Comisión, Honorary President of the Spanish Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, President of the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, and President of the Fundación Consejo España – Japón.  He has also been a member of the Advisory Council of the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation in Higher Education, President of the Toledo International Centre for Peace (TICpax), and Founder of the Spanish Chapter of Transparency International (TI), a global organization leading the fight against corruption.  He has been designated World Lawyer by the World Peace Through Law Center and is an honorary member of the American Bar Association.  Garrigues has also received numerous honorary doctorates, being honored by Buenos Aires University in Argentina, Universidad Europea in Madrid, Universidad Ramon Llull in Barcelona and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid.

 

Luis Ángel Guerras Martin is a professor of Management at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (Spain). He has been responsible for the PhD program in Business Management and is currently chair of the Department of Management and Business Organization. His research interests are related to strategic management, strategic alliances and diversification strategies, organizational design and corporate social responsibility. He has been the director of a number of research projects and doctoral dissertations in these areas, such as Iberdrola Catedra for Research in Management and Business Organization.

He is the author of several textbooks in management including Strategic Management: Theory and Practice and Cases in Strategic Management (Thomson-Civitas) each in its third edition. He has participated actively in national and international conferences on management, including the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, European Academy of Management, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He has published in several Spanish journals and in Research Policy, R&D Management and International Journal of Technology Management. He received his PhD in Economics and Management from the University Complutense of Madrid.

 

Heidi von Weltzien Hoivik is professor of business ethics and leadership, and founder and director of the Center for Ethics and Leadership at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo. She also served as executive vice president and dean of faculty (Prorektor) of the Norwegian School of Management. She is a Fellow of the Harvard Executive Program of the Institute of Education Management, and a Fellow of the Harvard Program on International Negotiations. She served as president (1999-2005) of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), an international organization she has been actively involved in since 1989. She has also been an executive member of the Caux Round Table, Transparency International Norway, and the International Society for Business, Ethics and Economics (ISBEE) for several years.

She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics – European Review, the Journal for Business Ethics Education and serves as a reviewer for Journal of Business Ethics.

Her current research interests focus on: managing values in organizations; strategy and business ethics; integrating ethics into organizational processes; and the development of ethical competency. Her second book, Moral Leadership in Action: Building and Sustaining Moral Competence in European Organizations (E. Elgar), was published
in 2002. Hoivik also consults with many companies in Norway and abroad. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor Degree (2003) by
the Estonian Business School for her work in promoting the field
of business ethics teaching and research in Europe. She was also awarded first prize (2004) in the case writing competition in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility, organized by the
European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD) in Brussels. In 2006, she received the “Best MBA Faculty Award” at the Norwegian School of Management.

 

H.I. Latifee is the managing director of Grameen Trust. Before joining Grameen Trust in 1994, he was teaching as Professor of Economics in the University of Chittagong.

As a result of his experience with Grameen Bank, Grameen Trust and Grameen partners worldwide, Latifee is considered as an expert in the area of Microfinance. He has participated in various missions and conferences to promote the microfinance movement in many countries of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. BusinessWeek awarded him the Stars of Asia Award, 2001, for his leadership in the field of microfinance and poverty alleviation.

Latifee was nominated by the Government of Bangladesh as a member to the Bangladesh NGO Foundation. He is an Advisory Director of Whole Planet Foundation, USA and a member of the Consultancy Committee of the China Microfinance Promotion Network. He is a founding member of the Grameen Foundation USA Advisory Council. He also serves as member of a number of Boards of Directors, including Grameen Samogri, Grameen Shakti, Grameen Communications, Grameen Byabosha Bikash, Bangladesh and Nirdhan Uthan Bank LTD., Nepal.

 

Josep M. Lozano is Professor and Senior Researcher in CSR in the Institute for Social Innovation at ESADE Business School. His academic and professional activity focus on Applied Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. He has also published seven books, the latest of which are RSE y Pymes: Una Apuesta por la Excelencia Empresarial and Los Gobiernos y la Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa: Políticas Públicas más Allá de la Regulación y la Voluntariedad. Among his books dealing with business issues, Danone en Ultzama, won the 2005 MSD Award for Business Ethics Research. His book Business and Organizations: Understanding Business Ethics as a Learning Process (Kluwer) received the 1998 Joan Sardà Dexeus Award in Catalonia for the best book of the year on management and economics. He has also collaborated on an additional 34 books.

Lozano is a co-founder of Ética, Economía y Dirección (the Spanish branch of the European Business Ethics Network), and a member of the international board of the journals Ethical Perspectives and Society and Business Review. He is also a member of the board of trustees or on the advisory board of numerous foundations and associations. He has led various companies through processes of reflection on values and social responsibility. He was ESADE’s representative in the consortium of European universities which set up the European Academy on Business in Society (EABIS). He has been a member of the Commission for the Debate on Values, created by the Government of Catalonia, and is a member of the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs’ Forum of Experts on CSR. He was recognized as a ‘highly commended runner-up’ in the Faculty Pioneer Award (2003), delivered by EABiS and the Aspen Institute (USA). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad de Barcelona and a Degree in Theology from the Facultad de Teología de Cataluña (Theology Faculty of Catalonia). He also holds a Diploma in Management from ESADE.

 

Kasemsit Pathomsak is currently the president and chief executive of Merchant Partners Securities Ltd., an SEC licensed securities company
in Thailand. He is also the executive chairman of Pathomsak Holdings Company Ltd., his family’s private investments holding company with businesses that include financial services, property development, travel, hotel, and export. Pathomsak is vice chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Thailand, ICC, where he also serves as the vice chairman for the Commission on Financial Services and Insurance. He is also a special adviser to the Thai Parliament House Standing Committee on Commerce.

Pathomsak was the President of BT Securities Company Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Thai government owned bank) before he joined the family business. He also served as the country director for Investment Banking of Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (Thailand) Ltd. Prior to his role at CLSA, he was appointed adviser to the Minister of Commerce
by H.E. Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi. He attended the Harvard Business School Executive Program and holds a BS in Business Administra-
tion from Northeastern University and an MS in Finance from
Bentley College.
 

Dirk Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is a professor of Policy at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. His doctoral degree and his Habilitation are from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in Germany. Matten has taught and done research at academic institutions in Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and the U.S. Until 2006, he had a chair in business ethics and was director of a research centre on sustainability issues at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London, U.K. He is also a visiting professor at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University, U.K. and, in 2004, was a visiting scholar at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.

His work has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Business Ethics Quarterly and Journal of Business Ethics. He is on the editorial board of several journals including Business Ethics Quarterly. Matten’s current work focuses the changing role of business in societal governance, with a forthcoming book on Corporations and Citizenship (with Andy Crane and Jeremy Moon) for Cambridge University Press (2007). He is also interested in international comparative understanding and contextualization of CSR, which was triggered by his co-authored (with Andy Crane) textbook on business ethics (2nd ed. 2007, Oxford University Press). He also occasionally consults multinational companies and NGOs on CSR issues. He has worked more than three years in industry and prior to taking up an academic post in the UK in 1999, was a senior consultant with the Frankfurt based consultancy firm Newmark Väth & Partner. In 2004,
he was appointed to the business think tank World Corporate
Ethics Council.

 

Josep Miralles Massanés is Professor of Sociology and Corporate Social Responsibility at ESADE.  He is co-author, together with Ildefonso Camacho and José Luis Fernández, of the manual Ética de la Empresa [Business Ethics] (Desclée de Brouwer, 2002), among other publications.  He is currently President of the Board of Trustees of Intermón Oxfam and of Migrastudium. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Barcelona, a Bachelor of Theology, and PhD in Sociology (Sociology of Religion) from the École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

 

Carlos M. Moreno is full professor at the Blanquerna, Faculty of Psychology and Educational and Sports Sciences, Ramon Llull University, teaching in the areas of Anthropology and Ethics. He is a member of the Psychology Department. His primary research interest is ethics applied to organizations and companies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Ethics in Economy and Organisations (EBEN-Spain). He is currently editor of Noticias en Ética, Economía y Dirección (EBEN –Spain).

 

Mette Morsing (PhD Copenhagen Business School 1992) is associate professor and director of the CBS Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility at Copenhagen Business School. Morsing’s research interests include corporate social responsibility with a focus on management, ethics, communication, organizational identity, and image and reputation management. She has published a number of books and articles on these issues in, for example, Corporate Reputation Review, Journal of Corporate Communication, Business Ethics: a European Review and Human Relations. Her latest book Corporate Social Responsibility: Reconciling Aspiration with Application (2006) at Palgrave is co-edited with Andrew Kakabadse. Her new book Challenging Corporate Communication is co-authored with Lars Thoger Christensen and George Cheney and is forthcoming in 2007 at Sage Publications. Morsing is a member of a number of European committees and boards on issues of CSR, and she is a vice-chair of the European Academy of Business in Society’s Management Committee as well as a vice-chair of the EABIS Academic Network Board.

 

Jiban K. Mukhopadhyay is professor of International Business at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India. Prior to his current position, he was the chief economic adviser of the Tata Group, India’s most reputed business house. He was also Chief WTO Officer of the Group and Chief Editor of Tata’s famous Statistical Outline of India. Over his career, he was also an urban economist with Asansol Planning Organisation, Ministry of Planning and Development, Government of West Bengal, a research fellow with the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, and a faculty member in Economics with R. K. Mission Ashram, Narendrapur, West Bengal.

Mukhopadhyay’s areas of interest include applied macro- and micro-economics, corporate and strategic planning, international business, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. He holds a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He has more than 160 published papers, articles and pamphlets, excluding research studies and papers prepared for the Tata Group over a period of 30 years. From 1999 to 2004, he implemented Tata Group’s WTO/ Global Competitiveness Initiative, conducting more than 100 WTO awareness programs, as well as 30 WTO audits based on methodology devised by him. He was also the project director and chief author of a Tata Centenary publication, on Reforms and Productivity Trends. He also recently coauthored “Business Effectiveness – the Next Level: Being Served by the Poor,” published by the Harvard Business School in Business Solutions for the Global Poor. He sits on a number of professional bodies and is rated as an eminent corporate economist in India.      

 

John D. Neill is a professor of accounting at Abilene Christian University. He holds a PhD in accounting from the University of Florida and is a CPA. Prior to joining the faculty at Abilene Christian University, Neill taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and Chapman University in Orange, California.

Neill’s research interests are in the field of business ethics, particularly the areas of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and ethics officer independence. He has published articles in numerous journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Accounting Literature, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Applied Business Research, Financial Analysts Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Advances in Accounting, and the Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy. 

 

Ignacio J. Perez-Arriaga is professor and director of the BP chair on Sustainable Development, Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, where he also served as vice-rector for Research. For five years, he served as commissioner at the Spanish Electricity Regulatory Commission. He is a life member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He is member of the European Energy Institute, a high-level think tank providing academic input into both European Community and national decision making on energy issues. He is also director of the Training Program for European Energy Regulators at the Florence School of Regulation within the European University in Florence.

Perez-Arriaga is the author of a white paper on the Spanish electricity sector that was delivered to the Spanish Government in July 2005. He has been the principal researcher on more than 40 projects and he has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has worked and lectured extensively on power system dynamic analysis, monitoring and diagnosis of power system devices and systems, intelligent computer design of industrial systems, planning and operation of electric generation and networks, and regulatory, economic and environmental aspects of the energy sector. In this latter area, he has been a consultant for governments, international institutions, industrial associations, and utilities in more than 30 countries. His current research interests center on energy regulation, the design of regional electricity markets, and energy sustainability. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Comillas University, Madrid, Spain, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 

Armin Ritz is ambassador of Switzerland to Spain. He joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1976 and did his diplomatic training in Berne and with the Swiss Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He started his career in Berne in 1978 and was transferred in 1982 to the Swiss Mission to the European Communities in Brussels. Promoted counsellor in 1986, he was assigned to Rome, in charge of the economic affairs. Back to Bern in 1991, he worked as head of the Service of Disarmament and Nuclear Affairs of the Political Division III. He was appointed ambassador and head of the Political Division III in 1995 and vice-director of the Political Direction in 1998. He was posted as Ambassador to Argentina in 2000, with additional accreditation to Paraguay and Uruguay since 2004. Since September 2004 he has served as ambassador of Switzerland to Spain as well as to Andorra. Ritz studied law in Geneva and economic and political sciences in Rome. He is married and the father of two sons, born in 1985 and 1987.

 

Jose M. Rodriguez-Carrasco is professor of business organization at Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), since 1975. His particular areas of current research are business competitiveness and corporate governance. He has published more than 30 articles in a variety of journals and 14 books, including Estrategia Y Politica De Empresa (2004). His is also former director of the journal ICADE (1998-2005). He holds an MBA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Oviedo (Spain).

 

Jean-François Schock is a Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) based out of SSgA’s Brussels office. He leads the EMEA Strategic Growth Group focusing on key accounts and strategic initiatives in view of accelerating SSgA’s development across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after having directed SSgA’s European business and sales efforts for the past six years. Prior to joining the firm in 1990, Jean-François spent six years developing a European presence with State Street’s Global Custody division. He started his career in banking with Morgan Guaranty in Brussels and New York and spent four years with the Euro-clear Operations Centre.


                                                                           
Jean-François holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence (France) and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France). Jean-François is the Chairman of State Street Banque S.A. He is a member of SSgA's Executive Management Group and sits on State Street's European Executive Board.             

 

Rajendra S. Sisodia is professor of Marketing at Bentley College, and was previously trustee professor of Marketing and the founding director of the Center for Marketing Technology. Until 1998, he was director of Executive Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. An electrical engineer from BITS, Pilani (India), Sisodia holds an MBA in Marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Bombay, and a PhD in Market¬ing and Business Policy from Columbia Univer¬sity, where he was the Booz Allen Hamilton Fellow.

His research, teaching and consulting expertise spans the areas of marketing frameworks, marketing ethics, relationship marketing, measuring and improving marketing productivity, strategic uses of infor¬mation techno¬logy, the market¬ing of services and marketing strategy. In 2003, he was cited as one of "50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” and named to the “Guru Gallery" by the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing (the largest marketing association in the world). Sisodia’s book The Rule of Three: How Competition Shapes Markets (with Jagdish N. Sheth, Emory University; Free Press, 2002) has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Japanese and Chinese. It was also the subject of a seven-part television series by CNBC Asia, and was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. His recent books include Tectonic Shift: The Geoeconomic Realignment of Globalizing Markets (with Jagdish N. Sheth, Sage Publications), Does Marketing Need Reform? (co-edited with Jagdish N. Sheth, M.E. Sharpe) and Firms of Endearment (with David Wolfe and  Jagdish N. Sheth, Wharton School Publishing). Forthcoming books include, The 4As of Marketing (with Jagdish N. Sheth, American Marketing Association) and Marketing Management (with Jagdish N. Sheth, John Wiley & Sons). He has also published nearly one hundred articles in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Strategy, European Business Forum, Journal of Global Business and Journal of Professional Services Marketing. He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, the Economic Times, Upside and numerous other publications, radio shows and television networks such as CNN, CBC and Fox.

 

Carmen Valor is currently associate professor at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and visiting professor in postgraduate programs at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UNED) and the University of Bath. She has been an invited guest speaker in several national conferences and seminars.Valor is a researcher member of the Observatorio de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa and the Fundación Economistas Sin Fronteras. She has taken part in several national research projects on CSR, and her research focuses on the implementation of CSR, firm-NGO relationships, socially responsible investments, responsible consumption, and poverty alleviation as a business strategy.

Valor’s work has been published in books, conference proceedings, and academic journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: a European Review, Business and Society Review, Journal of Strategic Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Management. She holds an MBA from Universidad Carlos III and MSc Business and Community from the University of Bath, and a PhD in Marketing from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

 

Virginie Vial-Kilner is an assistant professor at Euromed Marseille School of Management, where she teaches Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, and Organizational Behavior. She studied International and Development Economics at the Sorbonne in Paris 1 (MPhil) and Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (MSc and PhD), with a special focus on the effects of social and institutional factors on growth and profitability.

While teaching Economic History at the LSE, Vial worked on various research projects, including the effects of Eastern European accession candidates’ institutional and social capabilities on their potential to catch up with the rest of Europe. At the Institute of Management, she worked on the impact of management quality on corporate success in the UK food retailing business. Vial has also has taught at the University of Auvergne. Part of her current research focuses on corruption issues and the effect on companies’ productivity level and failure probabilities.

 

David J. Vidal joined The Conference Board in 1997 as director of Research, Global Corporate Citizenship. Over the course of a thirty-year career, he has held positions at the Council on Foreign Relations, Continental Insurance, the Partnership for New York City, the U.S. Department of State, the New York Times and the Associated Press.

At the Board, he is responsible for the newly created Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability, and leads research and program development in corporate citizenship/CSR, business conduct and ethics, corporate philanthropy and community involvement, corporate preparedness/security and sustainability.  Additionally, for several years he served as Publisher of Across the Board, now The Conference Board Review magazine.  In addition to expertise in business and society issues, his professional practice, study and experience include languages and literature, journalism, business and non-profit administration, government, and theology.  In 2007 he led the establishment of the new Conference Board Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability.

Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, he is proficient in French and earned degrees in language and literature from Princeton University and business administration from Columbia University.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fulbright Scholar and a White House Fellow.

 

Nuria Villagra Garcia is professor of Corporate Image and Corporate Communication in the Communication Area at Villanueva University (Madrid). She is also professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (Communication Science Faculty). Villagra has published several books and articles on communication and has participated as a lecturer at national and international conferences. Her recent research and publications focuses on Reputation Management, Corporate Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility. She is guest professor at Montevideo (Uruguay) and at different Spanish universities. She is also a member of the Meeting of Communication Research (membership of scientific committee) and an active managing member of Javier Benjumea Chair of Ethics for Economics and Business (Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid).

Villagra has worked as a communication strategy consultant for different projects in companies and organizations such as the Complutense Foundation, Starmedia Network (UniversitasDigital Division), and Universia (Canales Tematicos Project). She holds a PhD in Communication from Complutense University.

 

Sandra Waddock is professor of Management at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at BC’s Center for Corporate Citizenship. She holds an MBA and DBA from Boston University and has published more than 100 articles on corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, and inter-sector collaboration in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Human Relations, and Business & Society. She is also the author of Leading Corporate Citizens, co-author with Charles Bodwell of Total Responsibility Management: The Manual, and co-editor of Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking and Learning to Talk.

Waddock is a founding faculty member of the Leadership for Change Program at Boston College, and co-founder and Steering Committee member of the Institute for Responsible Investing in the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. She also initiated Business Ethics’ 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking with co-author Samuel Graves and editor Marjorie Kelly, and edited the Journal of Corporate Citizenship from 2003 to 2004. She received the 2004 Sumner Marcus Award for Distinguished Service from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, and the 2005 Faculty Pioneer Award for External Impact by the Aspen Institute Business in Society Program and the World Resources Institute.

 

Stephen B. Young is the global executive director of the Caux Round Table, an international network of experienced business leaders who advocate a principled approach to global capitalism. Young has recently published Moral Capitalism, a well-received book written as a guide to use of the Caux Round Table ethical and socially responsible Principles for Business. He came to Minnesota in 1981 to be the third dean of the Hamline University School of Law. Previously, he had been an assistant dean at Harvard Law School. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, Vietnamese history for the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota and Public Office as a Public Trust for Minnesota State University-Mankato. He has published articles on Chinese jurisprudence, the culture and politics of Vietnam and Thailand, legal education, law firm management, Native American law, the history of negligence, and the law of war. Recent articles appear in the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review (“The Moral Basis of American Law: An Hypothesis” and John Kidd and Frank-Jurgen Richter’s Development Models, Globalization and Economics (“Moral Capitalism”).

He has written numerous opinion articles for the Pioneer Press and the Minnesota Journal on Law and Politics and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Minneapolis StarTribune, and the Minneapolis St Paul Business Journal. Young has also appeared as a commentator on public affairs and international events for KSTP-TV, KTCA-TV, WCCO-TV, and KARE-TV. He conceptualized and initiated the public affairs program Face-2-Face. Young is currently on the Board of the John Vessey Leadership Academy, a charter school in St Paul, Minnesota, and of Ready4K, an advocacy group promoting the benefits of early childhood education. He has served on the boards of the Citizens League, Resources for Child Caring, Vietnam's Women Memorial, Vietnam Social Service, Minnesota Sons of the Revolution and as Chair of United Arts in St Paul and the Minnesota Museum of Art. He is also the founding board chair of the Center of the American Experiment.

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