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Mr
Tanri Abeng
former Minister for Privatizing State-Owned Enterprises
Republic of Indonesia
Political
commitment and institutional framework for curbing corruption
in Asia: some case studies
Top
Prof
Carol Adams
Deakin University
Carol
Adams took up post as Professor of Accounting and Head of
School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Deakin University
in February 2004. She joined Deakin from Monash University where
she was appointed Head of School of Business and Economics at
Monash Gippsland in August 2002. Prior to that Carol spent 12
years at Glasgow University where she was promoted to Professor
of Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting & Finance.
Before becoming an academic Carol worked with KPMG, where she
qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Scotland (ICAS), and as a Financial Controller/Company Secretary
for a manufacturing company. She has held visiting positions
at Adelaide University, Hong Kong Polytechnic and Texas A&M
University.
Reporting,
Auditing and Transparency
Top
Mr
Rob Adams
City of Melbourne
Rob
Adams is considered one of the foremost champions of urban
design in Australia today and is one of five directors of the
City of Melbourne. He has established and managed a skilled
team of designers and project managers who have assisted in
the formulation and delivery of a highly successful Urban Design
Framework and Council Works Program for the City.
The
vast range of projects undertaken by City Projects Division
have been the recipient of more than 30 awards including the
1992, 1998 and 2000 Royal Australian Institute of Architects
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design and the 1996 Australia
Award for Urban Design. In 1992 Rob was awarded the Property
Achievement Award by the Australian Property News and Arthur
Anderson Real Estate Service Groups.
Top
Prof
Cecilia Arruda
ISBEE Vice President
Cecilia
Arruda is an Associate Professor at the Fundação Getulio
Vargas - Business School in São Paulo, Brazil where she
teaches and develops research and consultancy projects
in Business Ethics, and coordinates a Center of Studies
for Ethics in Organizations. Dr. Arruda is a founding
member of the ALENE - Latin American Business Ethics Network
- and the current Vice President of ISBEE - International
Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics. She was the
Coordinator of the International Organizing Committee
of the Third ISBEE World Congress - Melbourne, Australia,
2004.
Top
Tunku
Abdul Aziz
Chairman, Transparency International, Malaysia
Tunku
Abdul Aziz is President of Transparency International Malaysia,
and a member of the World Bank High Level Advisory Group on
Anti-Corruption in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He has
been a member of the Council of the Federation of Malaysian
Manufacturers, the Malaysian National Shippers Council, the
Asean Business Council, the Asean-US Business Council, the Asian-EU
Business Council and twice Chairman of the Asean Chambers of
Commerce and Industry Working Group On Industrial Complementation.
Political
commitment and institutional framework for curbing corruption
in Asia: some case studies
Prof
N "Bala" Balasubramanian
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
N
Balasubramanian ("Bala") is a Professor since 1994 at the
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, specializing in the
areas of corporate governance, social responsibility and citizenship.
He is currently the Chairman of the Institute's Centre for Corporate
Governance and Citizenship and also its Centre for Development
of Cases and Teaching Aids. Until 2003, he also served as the
Chief Editor of the Institute's quarterly journal, IIMB Management
Review.
Mainstreaming
Corporate Governance: Recent Initiatives in South Asia
Top
Mrs
Heloisa Bedicks
Brazilian Institute of Corporate
Governance
Heloisa
B. Bedicks has been the managing director of the Brazilian Institute
of Corporate Governance since April 2001. IBGC is the leading corporate
governance organization in South America. She has spoken at numerous
international corporate governance conferences and workshops. In
2004 she joined the UNCTAD-ISAR (International Standards of Accounting
and Reporting) Informal Consultative Group on Social Indicators.
Mrs Bedicks is a member of the board of directors of Mapfre Garantias
e Créditos S.A and chairperson of Tecelagem de Fitas Progresso Ltda.
Corporate
Governance in Latin America
Actually
there is a dominant model of corporate governance in the region.
It encourages the boards of directors of companies to engage with
stakeholders, mainly with the minority of shareholders. Latin America's
publicly traded companies continue to be characterised by a high
degree of ownership. Most companies are controlled by dominant groups
(often families who fulfill the role of owners as well as managers).
Family control remains the norm for most of the region's non-listed
small and medium-sized enterprises. Latin American has watched the
shrinkage in the numbers of companies listed in domestic markets,
as companies have de-listed and gone private due to the increasing
internationalisation of industry and finance. Brazil leads the discussions
on Corporate Governance and it is the only country in the region
that has Codes of Best Practices of Corporate Governance. They clearly
stress principles and define a code of conduct as mandatory in the
companies. Business ethics can be transversally read in the Code
of Best Practice of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance.
Companies are encouraged to report their activities in corporate
social and environmental responsibility, using tools already available
as the international GRI and the Brazilian IBASE's Social Balance
Sheet and Instituto Ethos' Social Responsibility Index. The Latin
American Institute of Corporate Governance was recently created,
comprising seven countries in the region and having Brazil as its
leader. There is expectation that much can be done for business
ethics, in terms of principles, codes and training, in the several
countries already affiliated.
Prof
Larissa Behrendt
University of Technology, Sydney
Professor
Larissa Behrendt is a member of the Faculty of Law at the
University of Technology, Sydney. She is a Barrister of the Supreme
Court of the ACT, the Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of
Learning at UTS and the Director of Ngiya, National Institute
of Indigenous Law, Policy and Practice, and a member of the NSW
Sentencing Council. Professor Behrendt completed her Masters and
Doctorate in Indigenous Rights and International Law at Harvard
Law School.
Indigenous
Knowledge and Intellectual Property
Ms
Sharan Burrow
President
Australian Council of Trade Unions
President
of the ACTU since 2000, Sharan Burrow holds many other
senior Trade Union positions. She is President of the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions Asia Pacific Region Organisation,
President of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights,
a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation,
and a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting
Initiative. As part of her ILO responsibilities, Sharan chairs
the Workers' Group of the Sub-Committee on Multinational Enterprises.
Dr
Neil Byron
Australian Productivity Commission
Since
joining the Productivity Commission at its inception in April
1998, Neil Byron has presided over four inquiries, and
assisted on three others. Amongst many other appointments, he
was Assistant Director General of the Centre for International
Forestry Research in Indonesia. Neil has published widely on social,
economic and environmental aspects of forestry and land use.
Building
a Green Utopia
The
knowledge and technologies exist to radically modify the built
environment to achieve more "sustainable" outcomes - from the
scale of planning of metropoles to the design/construction of
building components. This paper explores the conditions under
which such knowledge and technologies are likely to be applied,
and why these conditions seem to have been met so infrequently
in the past. Finally, the potential role of government interventions
to achieve more sustainable buildings and cities is examined.
Top
Prof
Tom Campbell
Convenor - ISBEE Congress 2004
Professor
Campbell is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied
Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University,
Canberra. Professor Campbell specialises in the areas of Philosophy
of Law, Justice, Rights, Business and Professional Ethics
and Adam Smith. He is planning to continue research on the
role of corporations in relation to human rights.
Mr
Paul Chadwick
Victorian Privacy Commissioner
Journalist,
author, lawyer, Paul Chadwick was appointed as Victoria's
first Privacy Commissioner on 30 July 2001. A journalist at the
Herald and Weekly Times and the Age, Paul Chadwick has published
books on FoI and on media ownership. He founded the Victorian
operations of the Communications Law Centre and served on the
review that revised the MEAA/Australian Journalists' Association
Code of Ethics. In 1997 he received the Walkley Award for Most
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism.
Ethical
leadership and Organisational Culture: Privacy and Trust
Better privacy protection, including more transparency about the
inevitable compromises of privacy in favour of other values, is
an essential element in rebuilding trust for the Information Age.
It
is in the self-interest of democratic governments and of commerce
to respect the information privacy of citizens/consumers. If people
lack confidence that their privacy is protected, they take steps
to defend it themselves, such as by providing deliberately inaccurate
data or by declining to participate in technologies or processes
designed by public or private sector providers to improve efficiency
and service. Both responses distort data and the decisions based
on it, and both diminish the returns ordinarily expected from
heavy investment in information and communications technologies.
To compel information without accompanying protection, or to conceal
privacy-invasive practices, erodes trust.
Data
protection laws are often misrepresented as barriers, or misused
to justify secrecy when privacy is not in issue. Both responses
erode trust.
Top
Mr
Thomas Chan
Director of Corruption Prevention
Hong
Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption
Since
1996 Thomas Chan has been Director of Corruption Prevention
in Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. Mr Chan's
Department works to minimize the opportunities for corruption
in the public sector, and assists private sector organisations
to put in place corruption-resistant systems and procedures. In
2000, in recognition of Mr Chan's outstanding achievements, the
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
awarded him the ICAC Distinguished Service Medal.
Political
commitment and institutional framework for curbing corruption
in Asia: some case studies
Prof
C.A.J. (Tony) Coady
CAPPE
University of Melbourne
Professor
Coady is a Professorial Fellow in the Australian Research Council
Special Research Centre For Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics,
at the University of Melbourne. Until recently he was Deputy Director
of the Centre and Head of the Melbourne division. He is a philosopher
with an outstanding international reputation for his work in epistemology
and for his writings on political violence and political ethics.
Top
Dr
Breen Creighton
Corrs
Chambers Westgarth Lawyers
ILO/
Workplace Issues
Top
Ms
Megan Davis
University
of New South Wales
Megan
Davis is a visiting fellow at UNSW and Director of the Bill
of Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Megan's
research interests include International Human Rights Law (trade
and human rights), Indigenous Peoples in International Law, International
Trade Law and the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples. A solicitor of the Supreme Court of the ACT,
Megan serves on the Management Committee of the Indigenous Law Centre
and the Editorial Board for the Journal of Indigenous Policy and
is a member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and the International
Law Association (Australia Branch).
Indigenous
Knowledge and Intellectual Property
Top
Prof
Richard T De George
University of Kansas, USA
Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy and Business Administration, University
of Kansas. Richard De George has written widely in the
fields of political and social philosophy, ethics, and applied
ethics, with an emphasis on business ethics and most recently
computer ethics. He is a founder and was the first president of
ISBEE.
Globalization,
Ethics and Information Technology
Two
issues shall be examined. The first is a tension between information
as infinitely shareable and as proprietary, which is at the heart
of information itself and so at the core of information technology
and business and at the center of the Information Age. The second
is an application of information technology in the globalization
of the world economy and of a tension between globalization of
capital, characterized by the free flow of goods and capital across
borders, and the lack of the free flow of labor.
Top
Prof
Nobuyuki Demise
Meiji University, Japan
Nobuyuki
Demise
is Professor of Business Philosophy at Meiji University, Japan.
His research interests lie at the interaction of corporate governance
and business ethics, with a particular emphasis of the roles
of stakeholders.He is the member of the steering committee of
Japan Corporate Governance Forum.
Corporate
Governance - Global Reports
Many
directors and executives in Japanese companies are former employees
of those companies. Most of them work for the same company for
a long time. Majority of the board is inside directors and also
holds post of executive. Some directors think they stand for
the interest of employees, not shareholders. The Japanese Commercial
Code was revised in 2003. Then companies may introduce a board
committee system. The board committee system is composed of
the audit committee, the nominating committee and the remuneration
committee, and the majority of each committee is outside directors.
38 listed companies introduced this system in 2003. After scandals,
a few companies introduced outside director, who is charge of
business ethics and is a former member of consumer organizations.
This is the result that some shareholders requested those companies.
Many Japanese companies institutionalize business ethics. Since
the Federation of Economic Organizations published the charter
of business conduct in 1991, many large companies established
ethics codes. Some companies adopt ECS2000, GRI, and UNGC. And
they introduce ethics codes, ethics committees, ethics communication
systems, the ethics officers, and ethics training programs.
Still ethical issues are “KAROSHI”, death from overwork, harassment
at work, “DANGOH”, illegal collusion, defrauding consumers and
governments.
Ms
Melissa de Zwart
Monash University
Ms
Melissa de Zwart is undertaking a PhD on the legal
and regulatory environment of the internet. Melissa was formerly
manager, Corporate Legal Service, at the CSIRO, and has been
interviewed on radio and television regarding copyright and
the Internet.
Ethics,
Privacy and e-business
Prof
Mick Dodson
Director
National Institute for the Study of Indigenous
Australia Australian National University
One
of Australia's most vocal and well-known advocates for Aboriginal
rights, Mick Dodson was Australia's first Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
Indigenous
Participation in Business
Prof
Thomas Donaldson
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
Thomas
Donaldson is a distinguished academic, author and
ethics consultant to companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Motorola,
Compaq Financial Services, Pfizer, FTSE and UNICEF. Professor
Donaldson's books, including Ethics in International Business
and The Ties that Bind: A Social Contract Approach to Business
Ethics, have had a major influence on thinking about business
ethics
Fairness
in International Trade and Investment: 'Ethical
Investing in international business'
Professor
Peter Drahos
REGNET
The Australian National University
Mr
Ray Elliott
Organisation Enhancement Consultancy (OEC)
(Research Associate Business Ethics Research Unit (BERU) / Centre
for International Corporate Governance Research,
Victoria University, Melbourne)
Ray
Elliott, the Director of Organisation Enhancement Consultancy
(OEC), has presented keynote addresses, papers and symposia on
the subjects of leadership and ethics at numerous conferences.
He is currently a Research Associate of the Business Ethics Research
Unit, Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University, and a
member of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
Human Research Ethics Committee.
Ethical
leadership and Organisational Culture
Transformational Pathways within Boards and Management for Enhanced
Integrity, Trust, and Organisational Actualisation
The
leadership of groups within business organisations - whether these
groups be boards or management teams - powerfully shapes organisational
behaviour, perceptions of integrity, trust and the degree to which
such groups and their organisations achieve high levels of self-actualisation
and performance over time. Transformational leadership styles
are associated with many strong outcome measures in business,
and with many desirable characteristics in both private and public
organisations. A review of empirically-supported research shows
that such change and development-orientated leadership, as distinct
from transactional or passive leadership, is linked with greater
perceived integrity and higher levels of emotional intelligence,
trust and actual moral reasoning. Some common but unhelpful purist
distinctions between 'management' and 'leadership' are criticised.
Studies show that organisations led by leaders' high on transformational
behaviours are rated as having organisational cultures that are
supportive, innovative, competitive, performance-oriented, and
socially-responsible; teams exhibiting high levels of internally-perceived
transformational behaviours are found to directly and positively
affect valued outcomes; leadership cultures regarded as both 'high
on the transformational dimension' and 'low to moderate on the
corrective transactional dimension' are associated with both high
effectiveness and perceived integrity. Several key ethical behavioural
items for discriminating between authentic and pseudo-transformational
leaders are suggested and discussed. Some challenges and requirements
for ethical leadership in business in a post-modern age are reviewed
against the backdrop of misplaced reliance on sub-human paradigms
for both management and the boardroom. It is proposed that ethical
leadership, rightly understood and practiced, is essential for
both group and organisational actualisation, and achievement of
the high levels of sustained individual and organisational adaptability
and performance required in today's global context. Practical
implications and salient directions for further research are suggested
Top
Joseph
Elu
Chairman, Indigenous Business Australia
Joseph
Elu is the Chairperson of Seisia Island Council, Chairperson
of Indigenous Business Australia, and Chairperson of the Islander
Board of Industry and Service Board. Under Mr Elu's direction,
Seisia Island Council has successfully established a number of
business enterprises and has achieved a greater degree of financial
independence. Mr Elu is Co-Chair of the Voluntary Service to Indigenous
Communities Foundation, and serves on the Reconciliation Australia
Board and the SBS Board.
Indigenous
Participation in Business
Top
Prof
Georges Enderle
University of Notre Dame
USA
Georges
Enderle is the Arthur and Mary O'Neil Professor of International
Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business, University of
Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) and President of the International Society
of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE). His research interests
lie in understanding the ethical challenges of international business
for corporate decision making, how they are to be analyzed in the
context of global pluralism and lacking background institutions,
how they can be met by ethical guidelines, corporate culture, and
promoting background institutions.
Top
Dr
Kenneth E. Goodpaster
Koch Chair of Business Ethics
University of St. Thomas
Minnesota
Kenneth
Goodpaster holds the David and Barbara Koch Chair in
Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Michigan
and holds an A.M. in Philosophy from that school, and an A.B. in
mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.
Self
Assessment and Improvement Process: A Transcultural Tool for Creating
Corporate Conscience
The
last quarter century has witnessed the emergence of numerous global
codes for corporate conduct. A challenge faced by each of them is
implementation: How is the code to be "brought to life" within the
context of particular firms? A tool based on the Caux Round Table
Principles for Business - the Self Assessment and Improvement Process
(SAIP) - represents one response to this challenge. Panel members
will describe the tool's structure and application, and outline
how its use facilitates the institutionalization of corporate conscience.
They also will describe the results of SAIP beta tests that have
been conducted in the United States and Germany, and describe how
the tool is being adapted in Japan.
Top
Mr
Charles Goodyear
Chief Executive Officer
BHP Billiton
Charles
Goodyear is the Chief Executive Officer of BHP Billiton Limited
and BHP Billiton Plc and a member of the Health, Safety and Environment
Committee. Previously Chief Development Officer BHP Billiton, Chief
Financial Officer BHP Billiton, President Goodyear Capital Corporation
and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Freeport-McMoRan
Inc. Appointed a Director in November 2001.
Global
Business Ethics: Policy into Practice
Top
Mr
Harry R. Halloran
Chairman/CEO
American Refining Group, Inc. Pennsylvania
Harry
R. Halloran, Jr. is Chairman/CEO of American Refining
Group, Inc., an independent oil refining and marketing company in
Pennsylvania with sales of over $100 million a year. He is founder
of Energy Unlimited, Inc. and serves as the Company's Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer. He is also the Founding Trustee of The
Enlightened World Foundation and Chairman of the Global Dialogue
Institute and is on the Global Steering Committee of the Caux Round
Table.
Self
Assessment and Improvement Process: A Transcultural Tool for Creating
Corporate Conscience
The
last quarter century has witnessed the emergence of numerous global
codes for corporate conduct. A challenge faced by each of them is
implementation: How is the code to be "brought to life" within the
context of particular firms? A tool based on the Caux Round Table
Principles for Business - the Self Assessment and Improvement Process
(SAIP) - represents one response to this challenge. Panel members
will describe the tool's structure and application, and outline
how its use facilitates the institutionalization of corporate conscience.
They also will describe the results of SAIP beta tests that have
been conducted in the United States and Germany, and describe how
the tool is being adapted in Japan.
A/Prof
David Kimber
Pacific Region
David
Kimber is currently co-director of the Doctor of Business
Administration program at RMIT and teaching/researching in areas
of business ethics, sustainability, corporate social responsibility,
professional development and leadership. On Victorian committee
for Australian Corporate Citizenship Alliance, Board member of Triple
Bottom Line Victoria.
Corporate
Governance - Global Reports
In
considering the characteristics of corporate governance, the extent
of stakeholder engagement and relevance and role of business ethics
in the Asia-Pacific region, one is struck by the wide diversity
of corporate governance models and social and cultural differences
that exist in a very large geographic area.
This
means that it is only possible to provide an overview of any individual
country and it becomes impossible to draw meaningful generalisations
regarding the region as a whole. The approach we have taken in this
paper is to draw upon four examples of countries in the region not
because they are representative of certain regional characteristics
but because in themselves they are representative of the diversity
that may be found in the Asia-Pacific region The four countries
we have chosen to consider are Australia, China, Singapore and India.
The
paper reviews, in broad terms, the current frameworks and processes
for corporate governance in each of the countries. Stakeholder engagement
is then considered, taking account of different groups and reflecting
on their influence. The ways corporate governance models respond
to the issue of business ethics and the ways stakeholders have responded
to corporate conduct are discussed. Underlying differences between
countries are discussed. The role of law, the impact of culture,
andthe maturity and influence of the financial markets, both regionally
and globally, are identified as factors which affect both stakeholder
engagement and how corporate governance structures and systems are
influencing business ethics in each of the regions. The picture
which emerges is a mixed bag and complex. Whilst it appears there
are moves towards a standard corporate governance model being established,
how that model influences both business behaviour and ethics in
each country is not clear. A number of different perspectives relating
culture, economic and legal systems emerge. The paper concludes
by suggesting whether or not corporate governance regimes will have
long term impact on business ethics in developing economies, especially
China and India, is a project which is still unfolding.
Justice
Michael Kirby
High Court of Australia
Justice
Michael Kirby is a member of the High Court of Australia.
His has previously served as President of the New South Wales Court
of Appeal, as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, as Deputy
President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission,
and as first Chairperson of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
Justice Kirby has held numerous national and international positions
including on the Board of CSIRO, as President of the Court of Appeal
of Solomon Islands, as UN Special Representative in Cambodia and
as President of the International Commission of Jurists. In 1991
he was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order
of Australia.
Mr
Ewald Kist
CEO
ING Group
In
addition to his duties within ING, Ewald Kist, among other
functions, serves as Vice-Chairman of the Association of Insurers,
a member of the Presidium/Treasurer of the Federation of Netherlands
Industries VNO/NCW and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Dutch Red Cross.
Reputation:
Restoring Confidence in Business
Ms
M.Charito Kruvant
President
Creative Associates International, Inc
Washington, D.C.
M.
Charito Kruvant is founder, president, and CEO of Creative
Associates International, Inc.(CAII), a professional and technical
services firm that specializes in communities in transition, education,
and training. Prior to launching CAII, she worked with the Advisory
and Learning Exchange as a prominent advocate and program designer
for bilingual education and learning disabled programs.
Self
Assessment and Improvement Process: A Transcultural Tool for Creating
Corporate Conscience
The
last quarter century has witnessed the emergence of numerous global
codes for corporate conduct. A challenge faced by each of them is
implementation: How is the code to be "brought to life" within the
context of particular firms? A tool based on the Caux Round Table
Principles for Business - the Self Assessment and Improvement Process
(SAIP) - represents one response to this challenge. Panel members
will describe the tool's structure and application, and outline
how its use facilitates the institutionalization of corporate conscience.
They also will describe the results of SAIP beta tests that have
been conducted in the United States and Germany, and describe how
the tool is being adapted in Japan.
Prof
Philomena Leung
Deakin University
Philomena
Leung is Professor of Accounting at Deakin University.
Her PhD in accounting ethics provides an insight into the
issues relevant to the accounting profession. Philomena received
her auditing training with one of the Big Four in Hong Kong
and has taught auditing for more than 20 years. She has written
for a number of academic and professional journals in the
areas of auditing, ethics, internal auditing and accounting
education. Her research interests, apart from ethics and auditing,
include corporate governance and accounting education. Philomena
is extremely active in promoting professionalism. She is a
regular contributor to professional development programs,
presenting papers at numerous international and national conferences.
She is sought after for public debates on professional issues.
Philomena is a pioneer of ethics education in accounting in
Hong Kong and Australia.
Mr
Ernst Ligteringen
CEO
Global Reporting Initiative
Ernst
Ligteringen became Chief Executive of the Global
Reporting Initiative in November 2002. He was Executive Director
of Oxfam International from 1995 to 2001, and subsequently he
worked with the International Federation of the Red Cross. He
has furthermore been a management consultant for the International
Labor Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension
of Globalization and for international development organisations
working together as the Inter-Agency Coalition on Race in Latin
America.
International
Initiatives
Dr
Simon Longstaff
Director
St James Ethics Centre
Dr
Longstaff obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy at Cambridge,
his research focusing on political philosophy, ethics and the
philosophy of education. He was the inaugural President of the
Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics and is
a director of a number of companies. He is a Fellow of the World
Economic Forum and a member of the International Advisory Committee
of the Foreign Policy Association.
Fairness
in International Trade and Investment: 'Business responsibility
for global security'
Dr
David Lowry
Vice President, Social and Developmental Programs
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc
David
Lowry is rector of Christ Episcopal
Church in Manhasset, New York, a position he assumed in March
of 2004. Prior to that he served for 14 years as vice president
of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., which operates the Grasberg
mine in Papua, Indonesia. His responsibilities included human
resources and community relations/sustainable development and
human rights compliance. Dr. Lowry has written and lectured widely
about the ethical/corporate social responsibility issues that
surround the extractive industries
Ethical
Standards for the Extractive Industries
Top
Dr
Thomas Maak
Institute for Business Ethics
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Dr.
Thomas Maak is currently director
of research at the Institute for Business Ethics. He represents
the chair in business ethics this summer semester (2004) at the
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. As visiting faculty he
also co-directs a research stream within the PwC-INSEAD initiative
on high-performing organizations at INSEAD, France. He held visiting
positions at the School for International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, New York and at Georgetown University's McDonough
School of Business in Washington, DC. His research and teaching
focuses on business ethics, corporate citizenship, integrity management
and responsible leadership
Developing
Responsible Global Leaders
This
special session focuses on the challenge of developing responsible
global leaders for sustainable business. The panelists will discuss
and present insights from the "Ulysses" leadership development
program at PricewaterhouseCoopers Global. Ulysses is a very unique
program that focuses on responsible leadership, diversity and
sustainability. It provides partners - identified as future PwC
leaders - with the opportunity of a 3-month full-time program
that takes them in small teams of 3-4 people from around the world
to developing countries such as Eritrea, East-Timor, India, Moldova,
and Uganda to work with social entrepreneurs and NGO's on projects
such as capacity building, HIV-Aids or childhelpline support.
Ulysses is about a challenging individual journey, about the experience
of cross-sector work in a diverse team and in a diverse environment
with the goal of developing responsible global leaders who will
contribute to building a truly sustainable business. The panelists
will look at the program from different angles: from an ethical
point of view, from a leadership perspective, from a strategic
perspective and from a participants perspective.
Mr
T. Dean Maines
Project Director Self-Assessment and Improvement Process
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Dean
Maines is Project Director for the Caux Round Table Self
Assessment and Improvement Process, and a research associate in
business ethics at the University of St. Thomas. Prior to assuming
these roles, he spent sixteen years in various capacities for Cummins
Engine Company. At the time of his departure from Cummins, he was
the chief human resource executive for the company's Worldwide Power
Generation Business Unit.
Self
Assessment and Improvement Process: A Transcultural Tool for Creating
Corporate Conscience
The
last quarter century has witnessed the emergence of numerous global
codes for corporate conduct. A challenge faced by each of them is
implementation: How is the code to be "brought to life" within the
context of particular firms? A tool based on the Caux Round Table
Principles for Business - the Self Assessment and Improvement Process
(SAIP) - represents one response to this challenge. Panel members
will describe the tool's structure and application, and outline
how its use facilitates the institutionalization of corporate conscience.
They also will describe the results of SAIP beta tests that have
been conducted in the United States and Germany, and describe how
the tool is being adapted in Japan.
Prof
Doreen McBarnet
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford
Doreen
McBarnett is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal
Studies, Oxford University, and Adjunct Professor at the Australian
National University. A sociologist, her research interests focus
on business, law and ethics, and she has worked particularly on
such issues as creative accounting and tax avoidance. She teaches
the core course on Corporate Responsibility for the MBA at Oxford
University's Said Business School.
Ethical
Catastrophes and the Erosion of Trust
N.
R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman, Infosys Technologies Ltd
India
Infosys
is acknowledged by customers, employees, investors and the general
public as a highly respected, dynamic and innovative company. In
March 1999, Infosys Technologies became the first India-registered
company to be listed on an American stock exchange. Mr. Murthy
is a member of the National Information Technology Task Force of
India, and also of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry.
He is a Director on the board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Ethics
and Information Technology
Prof
Martin Nakata
University of Technology, Sydney
Martin
Nakata is Professor and Director of Indigenous academic programs
at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology
Sydney. He is the first Torres Strait Islander to receive a PhD
from an Australian university and his current research work is
in the curriculum development areas and online pedagogies with
a particular focus on Indigenous learners. He is a former member
of the editorial board of The Australian Educational Researcher
and current member of the editorial board of the Journal of Indigenous
Policy. Martin twice represented the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
on Indigenous issues in Australia, and later provided research
and technical support to the Commission's delegation at the UN's
World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and the
2002 inaugural session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
in New York.
Indigenous
Knowledge and Intellectual Property
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Justice
Neville Owen
Supreme Court of Western Australia
Justice
Neville Owen is a distinguished judge of the Supreme
Court of Western Australia. He has been on the bench since 1 February
1991 and has conducted trials at first instance in all areas of
the Court's civil and criminal jurisdictions. Justice Owen has a
special interest in commercial litigation, corporate insolvency
and defamation. He has conducted many complex commercial matters.
Justice Owen was the Royal Commissioner investigating the failure
of the HIH Insurance Group - the largest bankruptcy in the history
of Australia.
Idle
Musings on Corporate Cacophony - Ethical Issues Arising from a Business
Collapse
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Professor
Thomas Pogge
CAPPE Canberra / Columbia University
Since
receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas W. Pogge
has been teaching moral and political philosophy at Columbia University.
His recent publications include World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity
Press 2002), Global Justice (edited, Blackwell 2001), “What We Can
Reasonably Reject” (NOÛS 2002), “Can the Capability Approach be
Justified?” (Philosophical Topics 2002), “On the Site of Distributive
Justice” (Philosophy and Public Affairs 2000) and, with Sanjay Reddy,
“How Not to Count the Poor” (www.socialanalysis.org). Pogge is editor
for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.
His work was supported, most recently, by the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study,
All Souls College (Oxford), and the National Institutes of Health.
He is currently working at the Center for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics (CAPPE) at ANU (Canberra).
Fairness in International Trade and
Investment
We
citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations
toward the distant needy in terms of donations and transfers, assistance
and redistribution: "How much of our wealth, if any, should we give
away to the hungry abroad?" This way of conceiving the problem is
a serious moral error, and a very costly one for the global poor.
It depends on the false belief — widespread in the rich countries
— that the causes of the persistence of severe povery are indigenous
to the countries in which it occurs. There are indeed national and
local factors that contribute to persistent poverty in developing
countries. But global institutional rules also play an important
role in its reproduction, in part by sustaining the national and
local factors that affluent Westerners most like to blame for the
problem. Since these rules are shaped by our governments, in our
name, we bear moral responsibility not merely by assisting the distant
poor too little, but also, and more significantly, by harming them
too much.
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Ms
Robynne Quiggin
University of Technology, Sydney
Robynne
Quiggin has worked as a solicitor and senior policy officer
in Indigenous legal issues including Indigenous intellectual and
cultural property, native title, human rights and other social justice
issues. She has participated in international forums including the
Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the Conference of the Parties
to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Human Rights Committee
and the First Nations Roundtable on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Robynne is currently working as
a lecturer in the Law School of the University of Technology Sydney
(UTS), a researcher at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at
UTS and as a consultant. Her areas of research include intellectual
property, genetic resources, bio-prospecting, traditional knowledge,
micro-credit and banking in remote areas. Her consultancy work has
included projects relating to Indigenous legal issues including
intellectual property, heritage, banking and commercial development,
human rights, access to legal services, consumer issues, media and
criminal justice.
Indigenous
Knowledge and Intellectual Property
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Mr
Peter Roberts
CAPPE, Charles Sturt University
Peter
Roberts is a Senior Research Fellow with Special Research CAPPE,
and also teaches post graduate law enforcement courses through the
Centre for Investigative Studies and Crime Reduction (CSU). Prior
to joining CSU, Peter Roberts had been in the Australian Public
Service for thirty years and a Senior Executive for twelve years
with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and the National
Crime Authority. He was instrumental in the development of the Commonwealth's
fraud control campaign from its inception in 1987 and had continuous
responsibility for it until mid 1999.
Business
and Corruption
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Joe
Ross
Bunuba Incorporated
Joe
Ross is a Member of an Australian
Indigenous organization who represent the interests of Bunuba People.
Bunuba Inc has approximately 600 members and like many Australian
Indigenous communities they have many issues to contend with including
low health conditions, limited employment opportunities, globalization,
reduction in services (Banking, Hospitals, Education) and opportunities
for youth. Joe is passionate about the socio/economic development
of his Bunuba community, he has been striving to improve the socio
economic conditions for his Bunuba People in Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley,
WA.
New
Approaches to Building Indigenous Business Relationships
The
position of the Indigenous peoples of Australia will become increasingly
important to the way Australia as a nation projects itself to the
world. There are a range of pressures developing that will cause
substantial changes to the relationship between Indigenous people
and our Australian nation.
In
the past, the nature of that relationship has always been determined
by the dominant society (ie the non Indigenous society). The future
demands a new relationship involving negotiated agreements and partnerships.
And, a different style of Indigenous leadership is required to forge
this new relationship.
The
Indigenous peoples of Australia people survived for thousands of
years in a harsh and difficult land. They had a complex and complete
social order that suited their environment. They were, in effect,
masters of their environment.
Today,
there is a crisis in living. That is, there is an almost total loss
of control over their lives and living environment. There is a learned
helplessness that is, to a large extent, the result of a misguided
and misdirected welfare system, and a lack of options and choices.
In many cases, this has lead to apathy and social disintegration.
And, in extreme cases is causing young people to commit suicide,
the middle generation to seek roles in drug and alcohol abuse and
the older generation to feel disenfranchised and helpless. Before
Indigenous Australia can move forward it must challenge the way
that it does business. It must be prepared to acknowledge it's own
weaknesses and confront it's self-denial and reluctance to change.
The
contemporary world demands that Australian Indigenous communities
progress the political, social and land rights gains of the last
thirty years into social and economic prosperity, primarily through
equitable partnerships rather than passive engagement. To achieve
such control and prosperity, Indigenous communities need to concentrate
on developing the four major building blocks of any healthy society
- Attitudes, Skills, Knowledge and Relationships.
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Prof
Deon Rossouw
Rand Afrikaans University
South Africa
Deon
Rossouw is Professor of Philosophy at Rand Afrikaans University,
South Africa. Professor Rossouw specialises in the field of Business
Ethics. He has published and taught extensively in this field, and
he is the President of the Business Ethics Network of Africa (BEN-Africa).
Corporate
Governance - Global Reports
Prof
Lori Ryan
Management Department
College of Business Administration
San Diego State University
Lori
Ryan is Research Director of the Corporate Governance Institute,
and a professor of corporate governance and business ethics at San
Diego State University. Her research interests lie at the interesection
of corporate governance and business ethics, with a particular emphasis
of the roles and responsibilities of investors. Professor Ryan is
active in the Academy of Management and the Society for Business
Ethics, and serves on the Board of the International Association
for Business and Society.
Corporate
Governance - Global Reports
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Alfredo
Sfeir-Younis
Directors Office
World Bank Washington
Alfredo
Sfeir-Younis is Senior Adviser to the Managing Director's Office
of the World Bank and former Special Representative of the World
Bank to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. Dr
Sfeir-Younis leads and coordinates the Bank's work in relation to
human rights issues. He publishes articles and lectures internationally
on spirituality and global issues, and is currently involved in
developing a new paradigm based on the non-material and spiritual
dimensions of economic and social development.
International
Initiatives
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Mr
Shigeru ("Lefty") Sato
Advisory Member
Caux Round Table - Japan
Advisory
Member of the Caux Round Table (CRT) in Japan and Member of the
CRT Self-Assessment and Improvement Process (SAIP) CRT Japan Working
Group, Shigeru "Lefty" Sato previously was employed by
Sumitomo 3M Limited, the Japanese operations of 3M, where he participated
in numerous projects and programs that focused on bridging differences
in culture, business practices and legislation between the U.S.
and Japan, as well as globally. Sato worked on the adaptation
of the SAIP for Japanese businesses under the leadership of Hiroshi
Ishida, Executive Director, CRT Japan.
Self
Assessment and Improvement Process: A Transcultural Tool for Creating
Corporate Conscience
The
last quarter century has witnessed the emergence of numerous global
codes for corporate conduct. A challenge faced by each of them
is implementation: How is the code to be "brought to life" within
the context of particular firms? A tool based on the Caux Round
Table Principles for Business - the Self Assessment and Improvement
Process (SAIP) - represents one response to this challenge. Panel
members will describe the tool's structure and application, and
outline how its use facilitates the institutionalization of corporate
conscience. They also will describe the results of SAIP beta tests
that have been conducted in the United States and Germany, and
describe how the tool is being adapted in Japan.
Prof
S. Prakash Sethi
City University
New York
University
Distinguished Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of
Business, Professor Sethi is an international authority
on corporate codes of conduct. The author of many books and articles
on the social responsibilities of multinational corporations,
Sethi is also the Chairman of MIMCO, the independent agency set
up by the toy manufacturer Mattel to monitor working conditions
in its overseas factories.
Converting
an Aspirational Code into an Operational Document: Ethical, Tactical
and Accountability Considerations: The Case of Freeport-McMoran
Code of Conduct
Prof
Peter Singer
Princeton University
USA
A
leading philosopher, Peter Singer best known for his philosophical
text Practical Ethics and for generating the debate on treatment
of animals. His work dealing with ethics and aspects of human life
has generated intense debate within the academe as well as in the
wider community.
One
World
As
the world becomes more closely interconnected, the need to extend
our ethics beyond national boundaries increases. Ethics does not
require us to obey absolute rules, but rather to take into consideration
the interests of all those affected by our actions. I shall describe
the implications of this kind of ethical approach to the following
issues:
1.
The use of the atmosphere as a waste disposal unit for gases that
contribute to global warming.
2. The impact of free trade and the nature of the WTO rules, especially
the "product/process" distinction.
3. The obligations of the rich to reduce global poverty.
4. The exploitation of other species.
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Mr.
David Teller
Global Compact Cities Program Coordinator, Melbourne
David
Teller is Deputy Director
of the Committee for Melbourne, a private, not-for-profit network
of leaders drawn from Melbourne's business, scientific, academic,
community and government sectors. He is keenly interested in urbanism
and urbanisation-related issues and is the author of the Melbourne
Model - a new mechanism to tackle intractable social, economic and
environmental urban problems by facilitating and coordinating partnerships
between business, government and civil society. David is also the
International Coordinator of the UN Global Compact Cities Program
that currently includes cities in Brazil, Australia, Jordan, Kenya,
USA, UK, China and Germany. David's academic background is in languages,
Asian studies, economics and marketing. Besides English, David speaks
Mandarin and French.
The
UN Global Compact Cities Program: Solving hard urban problems
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Australians
consider themselves privileged to have had an association with the
UN Global Compact (UNGC) Program since its inception in 2000. This
involvement in the UNGC continues a national tradition of constructively
engaging the private sector in societal issues to benefit local
and international communities. Priding itself on this and other
examples of innovation within business and civil society, Australia
has created two Global Compact 'world-firsts': 1. The first city
(Melbourne, Victoria) to engage (2001); and 2. The first university
(The University of Melbourne) to engage the Global Compact (2001).
Australia
continues to play a pioneering role in the UNGC program by building
on the concept of 'Ideas to Outcomes' - translating the underpinning
Nine Principles (around human rights, environmental sustainability
and labour rights) into concrete outcomes. This pragmatism was cemented
within the new Global Compact Cities Program launched in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil in 2003. Designed and implemented in Australia, the Cities
Program is at the forefront of fresh global thinking about resolving
issues relating to urbanization. Indeed, the Cities Program proposes
a new methodology, known internationally as The Melbourne Model.
The
Melbourne Model develops local solutions to complex and often intractable
economic, social and environmental problems in the urban setting.
In order to produce concrete solutions to intractable problems,
the Model harnesses and combines the extraordinary range of ideas,
skills, resources and information inherent in business, government
and civil-society, within a given city. Once proven, the solutions
then become available, via a Global Compact Learning Forum, to cities
around the world facing similar issues.
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Karin
Timmermans
World
Health Organisation
Karin Timmermans is working as technical officer
for pharmaceuticals at the World Health Organization office in Indonesia.
She has previously worked in Uganda, Guinea and India. Her areas
of work and interest include pharmaceuticals, trade agreements,
intellectual property rights and traditional medicine.
Roles
of Various Institutional Actors with Regard to the Ethics of Globalization
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Dr.
Marta Sañudo
Velázquez
University
of Monterrey, Mexico
Marta
Sañudo studied Philosophy and Theology in the University of
Louvain, Belgium (KUL). She did research for her doctorate studies
at the University of Leeds, England. After her studies she returned
to her hometown in northern Mexico. She is professor of Modern Philosophy
and Business Ethics in the University of Monterrey, Mexico, where
she also coordinates various programmes on ethics. She works as
advisor in various grass-root projects and is interested in the
promotion of gender equality in Latin America. She has been invited
to publish and contribute to her state’s newspaper, radio and television.
As a lay woman theologian she works for a transformed understanding
of Christian spirituality as a call to bring about social justice.
She is advisor to the Monterrey branch of the International Christian
Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC).
Fairness
in International
Trade and WTO
No
matter what advocates or opponents of globalization wish the term
to mean, to most citizens the concept of globalization means the
expansion of international trade. International trade is a fact
of our world, and a fact that many applaud, others question and
few dare to oppose. But whether this fact can be regulated in ways
that bring about more social justice is an issue involving all camps,
from fans of globalization to globalophobes. Discussions around
this issue must consider the role of fairness in international trade.
Concern for fairness in international trade translates as concern
for ensuring that if there are inequalities in trade agreements
they should be to the advantage of the least well off countries.
But can such an organization as the WTO be seen in this light, i.e.
as a fair system of social cooperation? Should it be?
I
will look into various problems that international trade face today,
for instance problems related to labour and the environment, and
present ways of approaching these issues bringing fairness to the
fore. I will also discuss whether the changes undergone in the WTO
over the last four years point towards a hopeful, fairer, horizon.
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Prof.
Henk van Luijk
Netherlands
Henk
van Luijk was professor of business ethics at Nyenrode University,
The Netherlands, from 1983 to 2000. He published six books and one
hundred thirty articles in his field. He writes a column every two
weeks in the Dutch Financial Times. He is active as an ethical adviser
to single corporations and professional organisations, and as a
member of Advisory, Supervisory and Executive Boards both in The
Netherlands and abroad.
Roles
of Various Institutional Actors with Regard to the Ethics of Globalization
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A/Prof
Matt Warren
Deakin University
Matt
Warren is the Head of School and a Professor in the
School of Information System, Deakin University, Australia, and
taught within Australia, Finland, Hong Kong and the UK. Professor
Warren is a member of the Australian Standards Committee IT/12/4
Security Techniques, the Chair of IFIP TC 11 Working Group 11.1
- Security Management. He is a former Director of the Australian
Institute of Computer Ethics.
Ethics,
Privacy and e-business
Dr
John Weckert
CAPPE
Ethics,
Privacy and e-business
Prof
Josef Wieland
KIeM Institute for Intercultural Management, Values and Communication
FH Konstanz University of Applied Sciences
Germany
Josef
Wieland is Professor of Business Administration and Business
Ethics, and Academic Director of the Centre for Business Ethics
(ZfW) at the University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz. He is Associate
Chairman of the Board of The German Business Ethics Network and
Founder Member and Scientific Director of the KIeM Institute for
Intercultural Management, Values and Communication.
Corporate
Governance - Global Reports
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Prof.
Oliver F. Williams
University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University; University
of Notre Dame, Indiana / USA
Oliver
F. Williams serves as a Visiting Professor in a joint appointment
at the Graduate Schools of Business of the University of Cape Town
and Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. He is also
Professor of Business Ethics and the Director of the Center for
Ethics and Religious Values in Business at the Mendoza College of
Business at the University of Notre Dame. His research in business
ethics has been published in journals including Journal of Business
Ethics, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Business
Horizons, Theology Today and Horizons: The Journal of the College
Theology Society. He has served as the chair of the Social Issues
in Management Division of the Academy of Management (1990-91). His
most recent books include Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose
Time Has Come, ed. (2000); Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values
in Global Business: The South African Experience and International
Codes Today, co-authored with Prakash Sethi (2001); and Business,
Religion, and Spirituality: A New Synthesis (2003).
United
Nations Global Compact: The moral purpose of business.
Kofi
Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, addressing the Davos
World Economic Forum in January 1999, challenged business leaders
to join a “global compact of shared values and principles” and give
globalization a human face. Following the Davos meeting, Annan and
a group of business leaders formulated nine principles which have
come to be known as the UN Global Compact. The principles focus
on human rights, labor, and the environment. (A tenth principle
on corruption was added in June 2004). To date over eleven hundred
companies and some NGO’s and other key actors in society have joined.
The
intention of the Compact is to increase and diffuse the benefits
of global economic development through voluntary corporate policies
and actions. If successful, it will help guide a new and emerging
role for business in society. The presentation will summarize the
Compact and highlight it’s major contribution: advancing the moral
purpose of business.
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