Future-Proofing Businesses: Beyond CSR, PR And Charity
Speakers
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Chairman and CEO, Royal DSM
CEO/Chairman Managing Board Royal DSM (since 2007).
Studies: Medical Biology (University of Utrecht) & Business Administration (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
In 1987, Feike joined Gist-brocades as Manager Strategy & Business Development of the Industrial Pharmaceutical Products Division and followed by Marketing & Sales Director in 1990. In 1993 he became BU Director Savoury Ingredients. In 1995, Feike was appointed as Director of the Food Specialties Division and joined Gist-brocades’ Executive Committee. After the acquisition by DSM in 1998 he became Director of DSM Food Specialties. In 2000 Feike joined DSM’s Managing Board of Directors and in 2007 he became CEO.
Feike Sijbesma is member of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Central Bank.
Feike has an honory doctorate for his contribution to a more sustainability from the University of Maastricht. Feike also became Humanitarian of the Year 2010 from the United Nations Association of New Y
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Global Vice President Social Impact, Unilever
Ms Manubens is Global Vice President for Social Impact at Unilever. She leads the strategy and implementation of the new Enhancing Livelihoods ambitions of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, Including Women’s Empowerment and Fairness, including the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Marcela is Vice-Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Human Rights at WEF. She is a member of Hillary Clinton’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership and a member of the Advisory Group on Human Rights to UK Foreign Secretary. Marcela participated in initiatives to eradicate sweatshops and advance human rights. She was a member of the Fair Labour Association (FLA) Board of Directors and its Executive Committee and chaired the Board of Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) for three years. Marcela gave testimony in the US Congress as an expert witness upon the invitation of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and represented US business in the launching of the Global Report on Child Labor by the ILO at the UN. Marcela taught Business and Human Rights at Columbia University, and Macroeconomics at the Business School of Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina. She has been a lecturer and guest speaker at numerous national and international conferences.
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Director of Plan A, Marks and Spencer
Mike is Director of Sustainable Business at the retailer Marks & Spencer.
He was part of the small team that in 2007 developed and delivered the company's groundbreaking Plan A, a 100 point, 5 year plan to address a wide range of environmental and social issues.
Reporting to the CEO, Mike is responsible for delivering M&S’ aspiration to be the world’s most sustainable retailer. His job is to work with the M&S leadership team to integrate sustainability into the heart of the business across its global retail channels and supply chains. In May 2011 Mike was named the Guardian’s inaugural Sustainable Business Innovator of the Year. He is Chair of the World Environment Center, a Visiting Fellow at the Smith Centre for Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University, a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Programme for Sustainable Leadership and sits on BiTC’s Environment Leadership Team.
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Founder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures Ltd
John Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’.
John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades”.
John serves on some 30 boards and advisory boards, where a key part of his role is to channel the future into the present across a wide range of disciplines. He is writing his 19th book alongside Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team. The book is provisionally titled The Breakthrough Challenge, exploring ways to institutionalize tomorrow’s bottom
