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Day One – Thursday, 15th January 2009
| 07h30 – 08h55 |
Registration |
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Chair: Hayden Turner |
| 09h00 – 09h15 |
Welcome Address
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact |
| 09h15 – 09h30 |
Inaugural Address by Chief Guest / Guest-of-Honor
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, India |
| 09h30 – 09h45 |
Opening Address
Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme |
| 09h45 – 11h00 |
The Future of Corporate Citizenship
This distinguished panel of leaders in corporate responsibility and sustainable business practice will discuss how corporate citizenship has evolved in recent years and explore it’s future. We will introduce the UN Global Compact and explain the ten universal principles it promotes so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalization.
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact
Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Adrian Hodges, Managing Director, International Business Leaders Forum
Jeremy Oppenheim, Director, McKinsey and Company |
| 11h00 – 11h30 |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 11h30 – 13h00 |
Leading Change - Advancing the Environmental, Social and Governance Agenda
Moderator: Rageh Omaar, Al-Jazeera International
Arun Seth, Chairman, BT India
Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, Pepsi Co (Invited - Not Confirmed)
Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American |
| 13h00 – 14h15 |
Lunch |
| 14h15 – 15h30 |
Panel Discussion with audience Q&A: Business Action to End Poverty
In the year 2000 the leaders of 189 countries signed up to the Millennium Declaration, a global plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015. In 2007, with over 1 billion people still living on less than $1 a day, we are far short of that goal. This panel of respected leaders will look at partnership and business-driven solutions to empowering the poor and ending poverty.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org
Harish Manwani, President, Unilever Asia Pacific, Africa & Middle East |
| 15h30 – 16h00 |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 16h00 – 16h45 |
Keynote address
Sir Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group |
| 16h45 – 18h00 |
Panel Discussion with audience Q&A: Business Solutions for Saving the Planet
The human race is pushing our planet towards the edge of disaster by flooding land, sea, and air with pollution and by over use. These issues amount to one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. This panel looks at companies developing innovative partnerships, technologies and solutions for saving the planet, humanity and the natural world.
Satinder Bindra, Director, Communication and Public Information Division, UNEP
Dr. Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International
Lorraine Bolsinger, Vice President Ecomagination, GE
Christina Koh, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications & Sustainability,
DHL Express Global |
| 18h00 |
Close |
| 18h00 - 20h00 |
Networking cocktails and dinner |
Day Two – Friday, 16th January 2009
| 07h30 – 08h55 |
Registration |
| 09h00 – 10h15 |
Social Business Entrepreneurship
In this session we look at the development of the social business enterprise, a concept promoted by Nobel Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and built on the belief that the poor can be empowered as entrepreneurs if given access and the means to start their own small businesses. We highlight larger corporations that are investing in sustainable businesses and at the same time reaching new markets, expanding their core businesses and improving lives.
Professor Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
John Elkington, Founder & Non-Executive Director, SustainAbility
Cristóbal Colón, Founder & President, La Fageda, Sociedad Cooperativa
Franck Riboud, Chariman and Chief Executive Officer, Danone |
| 10h15 – 11h15 |
Tackling The Global Food Crisis – Feeding the World’s Poor
A perfect storm of food scarcity, global warming, rising oil prices and the world’s population explosion, is plunging humanity into one of the biggest crises of the 21st century. For the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day, the worst food crisis in a generation is a matter of survival. This panel of experts will discuss both short and long-term partnership solutions to feeding the world’s poor.
Y C Deveshwar, Chief Executive, ITC Limited
Arab Hoballah, Chief, Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch,
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP
Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, World Food Programme |
| 11h15 - 11h45 |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 1145 – 1245 |
The role of governance and transparency in sustainable development
Corruption has a devastating and disproportionate impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable communities, limiting development, growth and poverty reduction. It also has a major impact on business. This panel will look at business leadership in governance and combating extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption.
Alex McGillivray, Head of Programmes, AccountAbility
Susan Cote-Freeman, Project Manager, Private Sector, Transparency International
Mary Doyle, Compliance & Ethics Director, Intel Corporation |
| 12h45 – 14h00 |
Lunch |
| 14h00 – 15h00 |
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships - Global Solutions
Here we look at companies that are creating innovative solutions to global problems through successful multi-stakeholder partnerships. We will highlight companies that are partnering with government, NGOs and civil society to promote a more holistic approach to sustainable development and advance the broader goals of the United Nations.
David Williams, CEO, Impact DTG
Isabelle Louis, Director, WWF
Roland Verstappen, VP, International Affairs and Sustainable Development, Arcelor Mittal
Alex Cole, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Cadbury-Schweppes
Khalid Malik, UNDP Resident representative and United Nations Coordinator, China
Diana Verde Nieto, Founder & CEO, Clownfish Marketing, UK |
| 15h00 – 16h15 |
Business and Human Rights
More and more companies are realizing the relevance of human rights to their business and the need to respect and promote human rights throughout their operations. This panel will deal with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how leading companies are seeing the many benefits of advancing human rights both within and outside their organization.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
John Ruggie, UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights
Michael Wilkinson, Vice President Sustainable Development, Royal Dutch Shell
Chris Avery, Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre |
| 16h15 – 16h45 |
Closing summary remarks – Actions to advance the ESG agenda
Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact
Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Adrian Hodges, Managing Director, International Business Leaders Forum |
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