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Symposium Business In Development - New Avenues For Complementarity And Collaboration
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Welcome Address
Michael Meyer is the Vice-Rector for Human Resources, member of the academic board of the Professional MBA Program for
Social Management and member of the board of the Competence Centre for NPOs and Social Entrepreneurship at WU Vienna. He
also heads the Institute for Non-profit Management.
Opening panel
André Martinuzzi is the Head of the Institute for
Managing Sustainability and Associate Professor at
WU Vienna. He holds a Habilitation in
Environmental Management and Sustainable
Development Policy and a PhD in General
Management. His main areas of expertise are
corporate sustainability, sustainable development
policies, evaluation research, and knowledge
brokerage. Mr.Martinuzzi is the Coordinator of the
GLOBAL VALUE project.
Martin Ledolter is the Managing Director of the
Austrian Development Agency. He holds a PhD in Law
and an LL.M. degree from Columbia University.
Mr.Ledolter is a legal expert who has spent most of
his professional life in politics, notably serving as a
senior political advisor to the Vice Chancellor and
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of the
Austrian Foreign Ministry in the areas of development
cooperation, social and health affairs.
Bernhard Weber is the Co-founder and the
Managing Director of the Institute for Development
Cooperation (ICEP). ICEP is a non-profit
association headquartered in Vienna with the goal
to effectively contribute to global poverty-
alleviation. Mr.Weber holds a PhD in Business
Studies from Vienna University of Economics and
Business.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Keynote speakers
Wendy Chapple is an Associate Professor in
Industrial Economics and Deputy Director of the
International Centre of Corporate Social
Responsibility.
Ms.Chapple holds a PhD in environmental
productivity and eco-efficiency measurement. Her
research interests focus on the areas of productivity,
economics of CSR, impact and performance
measurement and comparative systems of CSR and
CSR in Asia.
Andrew Jenkins is the Coordinator of Impact
Assessment Unit at the Research and Evaluation
Division, and the Donor Liaison Officer at BRAC
Bangladesh.
He holds a Master of Science in Agricultural
Engineering. Mr. Jenkins research interests include
stakeholder engagement, impact evaluation, rural
development, water management and institutional
development.
Jim Tanburn is the Coordinator of the Donor
Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
working at the interface between development and
business.
He is founder manager of a UK-based NGO working
in enterprise development. Mr.Tanburn is a graduate
of the University of Cambridge, UK.
Practitioner panel
Lucia Reisch is a Professor of consumer behaviour and
consumer policy at Copenhagen Business School. Her
research focus is on behavioural economics, sustainable
consumption, intercultural consumer behaviour,
consumers and new technologies, consumer policy, and
corporate sustainability. She holds a doctorate degree
in Economics.
Nicole Voillat is the Director of global sustainability
program for the Bata Shoe Organization and the Bata
Children’s Program Foundation based in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Ms.Voillat has been working in
sustainability and CSR for the past 12 years with both
the private and non-profit sectors. She holds a Master
degree (MSc) in Responsibility & Business Practice from
the University of Bath (UK) and a Master in Linguistics
and Interpretation from the University of Zurich
(Switzerland).
Chris Brown is the General Manager for Environmental
Sustainability at Olam International. Olam International
is a leading agri-business operating from seed to shelf
in 65 countries. Mr.Brown holds degrees in Chemical
Engineering and Environmental Management and
Technology. He brings over 20 years of experience from
a broad variety of sectors.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Roundtable 1:
Measuring and reporting on sustainability
impacts
Esther Hougee de Vet is the Director of the
Research team of Sustainalytics. Sustainalytics is a
rating agency that provides Environmental, Social
and Governance data to responsible investors so that
they can make informed investment decisions.
Ms.Hougee de Vet is involved in overseeing the
research of the health care, chemicals and food
industry teams, as well as centralized incidents
research. She is responsible for quality management
and contributes to product innovation an
Sustainalytics. At the moment she also coordinates
Sustainalytics contributions to the GLOBAL VALUE
project. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Rural
Development Studies and a Master’s degree in
Environmental Economics.
Moritz Nill is the Director of Systain’s Berlin office
where he leads the natural resource and waste
handling team.
He has an extensive track record in consulting
companies, focusing mainly on environmental data
management and sustainability strategy. Mr.Nill has
received his doctorate degree in ecological impacts of
energy techniques.
Roundtable 2:
Tackling impact in developing countries
Kenneth Bengesi is the Deputy Director of the
Development Studies Institute at Sokoine University
of Agriculture.
He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Management. His research areas are in strategic
entrepreneurship and small business, business growth
and turnaround strategies, corporate social
responsibility, impact assessment, designing,
monitoring & evaluation of development projects with
an emphasis on rural development.
Dave Boselie is a Senior Manager for Learning and
Innovation at the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH).
He is responsible for organizing research and
mobilizing the strategic intelligence in the commodity
programs of fruit & vegetables, tea and aquaculture.
Furthermore, he organizes the impact and
performance evaluation studies for IDH. Mr.Boselie
holds a PhD in Social Science.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Roundtable 3:
Business-development partnerships
Andrew Jenkins is the Coordinator of Impact
Assessment Unit at the Research and Evaluation
Division, and the Donor Liaison Officer at BRAC
Bangladesh.
He holds a Master of Science in Agricultural
Engineering. His research interests include
stakeholder engagement, impact evaluation, rural
development, water management, institutional
development.
Gottfried Traxler is the responsible programme
manager for Latin America and Eastern and
Southern Africa at the Business Partnership Office
of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).
In this position, he has been promoting innovative
and sustainable public-private partnerships between
internationally active Austrian enterprises (e.g.
ALPLA, SONNENTOR, AGRANA, RHI) and their local
partners in Latin America and Africa since 2011.
Previous experience includes the Austrian Foreign
Ministry in Vienna and in Washington D.C. As an
Expert for Latin America, he studied History,
Hispanic Studies and Political Science in Vienna,
Madrid and Lima, Peru.
The organising committee
The Institute for Managing
Sustainability has been active in the
fields of Corporate Social
Responsibility, corporate sustainability and responsible corporate
conduct for over a decade. Our objective is to contribute to the
achievement of sustainable development at all societal levels (i.e.
individual, corporate, municipal, regional, national and international) by
developing and applying scientific insight. For more information, please
see www.sustainability.eu.
Austrian Development Agency
(ADA) is in charge of implementing all
bilateral projects and programmes of
the Austrian Development Cooperation. Austrian Development
Cooperation supports countries in Africa, Asia, South Eastern and
Eastern Europe, Caribbean region in their sustainable development. For
more information, please see: www.entwicklung.at.
Institute for Cooperation and Development
Projects (ICEP) advises partners in developing
countries regarding the integration of
impoverished people into economic cycles. ICEP
has established corporAID - an Austrian platform for business,
development and global responsibility. It provides companies with a
forum for information exchange, communication and mainstreaming
their societal responsibility. corporAID aims to support the collaboration
between development cooperation and companies as well as to improve
the overall conditions for Austrian companies within this field. For more
information, please see: www.corporaid.at and www.icep.at.
doc_438492505.pdf
Symposium Business In Development - New Avenues For Complementarity And Collaboration
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Welcome Address
Michael Meyer is the Vice-Rector for Human Resources, member of the academic board of the Professional MBA Program for
Social Management and member of the board of the Competence Centre for NPOs and Social Entrepreneurship at WU Vienna. He
also heads the Institute for Non-profit Management.
Opening panel
André Martinuzzi is the Head of the Institute for
Managing Sustainability and Associate Professor at
WU Vienna. He holds a Habilitation in
Environmental Management and Sustainable
Development Policy and a PhD in General
Management. His main areas of expertise are
corporate sustainability, sustainable development
policies, evaluation research, and knowledge
brokerage. Mr.Martinuzzi is the Coordinator of the
GLOBAL VALUE project.
Martin Ledolter is the Managing Director of the
Austrian Development Agency. He holds a PhD in Law
and an LL.M. degree from Columbia University.
Mr.Ledolter is a legal expert who has spent most of
his professional life in politics, notably serving as a
senior political advisor to the Vice Chancellor and
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of the
Austrian Foreign Ministry in the areas of development
cooperation, social and health affairs.
Bernhard Weber is the Co-founder and the
Managing Director of the Institute for Development
Cooperation (ICEP). ICEP is a non-profit
association headquartered in Vienna with the goal
to effectively contribute to global poverty-
alleviation. Mr.Weber holds a PhD in Business
Studies from Vienna University of Economics and
Business.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Keynote speakers
Wendy Chapple is an Associate Professor in
Industrial Economics and Deputy Director of the
International Centre of Corporate Social
Responsibility.
Ms.Chapple holds a PhD in environmental
productivity and eco-efficiency measurement. Her
research interests focus on the areas of productivity,
economics of CSR, impact and performance
measurement and comparative systems of CSR and
CSR in Asia.
Andrew Jenkins is the Coordinator of Impact
Assessment Unit at the Research and Evaluation
Division, and the Donor Liaison Officer at BRAC
Bangladesh.
He holds a Master of Science in Agricultural
Engineering. Mr. Jenkins research interests include
stakeholder engagement, impact evaluation, rural
development, water management and institutional
development.
Jim Tanburn is the Coordinator of the Donor
Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
working at the interface between development and
business.
He is founder manager of a UK-based NGO working
in enterprise development. Mr.Tanburn is a graduate
of the University of Cambridge, UK.
Practitioner panel
Lucia Reisch is a Professor of consumer behaviour and
consumer policy at Copenhagen Business School. Her
research focus is on behavioural economics, sustainable
consumption, intercultural consumer behaviour,
consumers and new technologies, consumer policy, and
corporate sustainability. She holds a doctorate degree
in Economics.
Nicole Voillat is the Director of global sustainability
program for the Bata Shoe Organization and the Bata
Children’s Program Foundation based in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Ms.Voillat has been working in
sustainability and CSR for the past 12 years with both
the private and non-profit sectors. She holds a Master
degree (MSc) in Responsibility & Business Practice from
the University of Bath (UK) and a Master in Linguistics
and Interpretation from the University of Zurich
(Switzerland).
Chris Brown is the General Manager for Environmental
Sustainability at Olam International. Olam International
is a leading agri-business operating from seed to shelf
in 65 countries. Mr.Brown holds degrees in Chemical
Engineering and Environmental Management and
Technology. He brings over 20 years of experience from
a broad variety of sectors.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Roundtable 1:
Measuring and reporting on sustainability
impacts
Esther Hougee de Vet is the Director of the
Research team of Sustainalytics. Sustainalytics is a
rating agency that provides Environmental, Social
and Governance data to responsible investors so that
they can make informed investment decisions.
Ms.Hougee de Vet is involved in overseeing the
research of the health care, chemicals and food
industry teams, as well as centralized incidents
research. She is responsible for quality management
and contributes to product innovation an
Sustainalytics. At the moment she also coordinates
Sustainalytics contributions to the GLOBAL VALUE
project. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Rural
Development Studies and a Master’s degree in
Environmental Economics.
Moritz Nill is the Director of Systain’s Berlin office
where he leads the natural resource and waste
handling team.
He has an extensive track record in consulting
companies, focusing mainly on environmental data
management and sustainability strategy. Mr.Nill has
received his doctorate degree in ecological impacts of
energy techniques.
Roundtable 2:
Tackling impact in developing countries
Kenneth Bengesi is the Deputy Director of the
Development Studies Institute at Sokoine University
of Agriculture.
He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Management. His research areas are in strategic
entrepreneurship and small business, business growth
and turnaround strategies, corporate social
responsibility, impact assessment, designing,
monitoring & evaluation of development projects with
an emphasis on rural development.
Dave Boselie is a Senior Manager for Learning and
Innovation at the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH).
He is responsible for organizing research and
mobilizing the strategic intelligence in the commodity
programs of fruit & vegetables, tea and aquaculture.
Furthermore, he organizes the impact and
performance evaluation studies for IDH. Mr.Boselie
holds a PhD in Social Science.
Symposium "Business in Development -
new avenues for complementarity and collaboration"
Speaker Profiles
Contact
Norma Schönherr & Adele Wiman | Institute for Managing Sustainability | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel. +43-1-313 36 – 5454 | Fax +43-1-313 36 - 90 – 5454 | Email [email protected] | www.sustainability.eu
Roundtable 3:
Business-development partnerships
Andrew Jenkins is the Coordinator of Impact
Assessment Unit at the Research and Evaluation
Division, and the Donor Liaison Officer at BRAC
Bangladesh.
He holds a Master of Science in Agricultural
Engineering. His research interests include
stakeholder engagement, impact evaluation, rural
development, water management, institutional
development.
Gottfried Traxler is the responsible programme
manager for Latin America and Eastern and
Southern Africa at the Business Partnership Office
of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).
In this position, he has been promoting innovative
and sustainable public-private partnerships between
internationally active Austrian enterprises (e.g.
ALPLA, SONNENTOR, AGRANA, RHI) and their local
partners in Latin America and Africa since 2011.
Previous experience includes the Austrian Foreign
Ministry in Vienna and in Washington D.C. As an
Expert for Latin America, he studied History,
Hispanic Studies and Political Science in Vienna,
Madrid and Lima, Peru.
The organising committee
The Institute for Managing
Sustainability has been active in the
fields of Corporate Social
Responsibility, corporate sustainability and responsible corporate
conduct for over a decade. Our objective is to contribute to the
achievement of sustainable development at all societal levels (i.e.
individual, corporate, municipal, regional, national and international) by
developing and applying scientific insight. For more information, please
see www.sustainability.eu.
Austrian Development Agency
(ADA) is in charge of implementing all
bilateral projects and programmes of
the Austrian Development Cooperation. Austrian Development
Cooperation supports countries in Africa, Asia, South Eastern and
Eastern Europe, Caribbean region in their sustainable development. For
more information, please see: www.entwicklung.at.
Institute for Cooperation and Development
Projects (ICEP) advises partners in developing
countries regarding the integration of
impoverished people into economic cycles. ICEP
has established corporAID - an Austrian platform for business,
development and global responsibility. It provides companies with a
forum for information exchange, communication and mainstreaming
their societal responsibility. corporAID aims to support the collaboration
between development cooperation and companies as well as to improve
the overall conditions for Austrian companies within this field. For more
information, please see: www.corporaid.at and www.icep.at.
doc_438492505.pdf