Mr. Ball has been the Chief Executive Officer of IFAC since March 2002. In this role, Ball has responsibility for developing and managing the execution of IFAC's strategy. He previously served as a member of IFAC's Nominating Committee and as Chairman of its Public Sector Committee. In the latter role, from 1995 to 2000, he initiated the development of international standards for public sector financial reporting. Ball is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and of CPA Australia.

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Mr. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has an illustrious career in the Indian Administrative Service. Under his stewardship the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has taken a motto of “Corporate growth with enlightened regulations”. Voluntary guidelines for “Corporate Governance” and “Corporate Social Responsibility”, both prepared by the Ministry, were released in the India Corporate Week in December 2009. His previous positions include Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises in the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Government of India.

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As Global Head of KPMG Sustainability Assurance services, Mr. Bartels has had a key role in advancing the industry’s sustainability agenda. He has worked with multinationals such Shell, Philips and BASF and closely collaborated with key organizations in the field, including the GRI and AccountAbility. Wim has co-authored an extensive number of thought leadership publications including the “KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2008” and more recently ‘Integrated Reporting – closing the loop of strategy”.

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Mr. De Bruin is head of the Corporate Sustainability Office of Royal Philips Electronics, a staff function focusing on all sustainability issues for the company. Reporting to the Board of Management of Royal Philips Electronics, Mr. De Bruin focuses on strategy and policy development and stakeholder management. His office drives the execution of sustainability action programs in the company. Mr. De Bruin has developed expertise on a wide range of sustainability issues, as well as extensive skills into the area of sustainable business development. 

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Mr. Buijink studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and worked there as a junior-assistant at the Europe Institute. In 1980 he entered the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Before being appointed Secretary-general by the new cabinet in February 2007, he served the ministry in several positions a.o. director-general of Enterprise and innovation, deputy director-general of Foreign Economic Relations and Managing Director of Senter, the implementing agency for innovation and sustainable development.

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Mr. Butruille is a Director at KPMG Global Sustainability Services in Spain. During the last five years, Etienne has led numerous sustainability engagements mainly for large publicly traded companies both in an advisor and assurance provider capacity. Prior to this, he worked in an environmental consultancy in the UK. Etienne started his professional career as a research, design and production chemical engineer working both in the USA and Mexico. He also represents the Spanish National Institute of Accountants at the European Federation of Accounting Experts. 

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Mr. Cramer is recognized globally as an authority on corporate responsibility by leaders in business and NGOs and by his peers in the field. He advises senior leaders at BSR's 250 member companies and other global businesses, and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of media outlets. He is also coauthor of the forthcoming book Sustainable Excellence (Rodale 2010), about the corporate responsibility strategies that drive business success.

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Ms. Cropper has also held senior positions with the Caribbean Community and Common Market Secretariat (CARICOM) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) followed by positions as interim Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and as Senior Adviser on Environment and Development with the United Nations Development Programme. Throughout her career, she has advocated for the equitable use of natural resources and has actively participated in many high-level processes at the cutting edge of sustainable development.

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Mr. Curtiss is Head of Corporate Governance at rpmi RAILPEN Investments, the investment management and monitoring arm of the corporate trustee of railway industry pension funds in Great Britain. His main focus is on corporate governance and shareholder engagement with investee companies and others and public policy work. He is member of the International Corporate Governance Network board and chairs its Non-financial Business Reporting Committee which has a strong interest in encouraging better corporate reporting.

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Ms. Dahlin is Secretary General of Save the Children Sweden. Prior to this, she served in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Ambassador in charge of the Partnership for Global Responsibility, focusing on Business and Human Rights. As Deputy Director General of the National Board of Trade she was responsible for research, and among other things published reports on the effects of the WTO agreements for developing countries. She has been posted at the Swedish Embassies in Zambia, Brazil and Vietnam.

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Mr. Deveshwar is Chairman of ITC Limited, a $ 6 billion diversified Indian enterprise spanning Consumer Goods, Hotels, Paperboards, Packaging, Agri-Business and Information Technology. He has given expression to ITC’s Sustainability philosophy by fashioning unique business models that simultaneously contribute to shareholder value creation while enhancing natural and social capital. He has led ITC to become the only company in the world to be ‘carbon positive’, ‘water positive’ and solid waste recycling positive. The company’s businesses generate livelihoods for over 5 million people.

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Mr. Druckman has had a successful career as an entrepreneur and he is currently Chairman of Trucost plc, the Clear Group and Access, whilst his high profile work on sustainability matters has mainly focused around the accountancy profession - as chairman of the Sustainability Group at the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens; and during his tenure as President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He also is Chair of the Executive Board of HRH The Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability project.

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Dr. Dubach has a degree in economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and a PhD on 'Managing Environmental Communication in Multinational Companies' from the University of St. Gallen. Since 1997 she has been working for Holcim in several countries and functions. Among them she has been on secondment from Holcim to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as Advocacy and Communications Director. Since September 2004 she has been leading the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Coordination Team.

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Dr. Eccles first joined Harvard Business School in 1979 and received tenure in 1989. He has written three books on corporate reporting including The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game (with Robert H. Herz, E. Mary Keegan and David M. H. Phillips) and Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting (with Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr.) and One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy, (with Michael P. Krzus). Dr. Eccles is also on the board of directors of XBRL International, Inc.

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Ms. Favaretto is a print and broadcast journalist with over 20 years of experience in the field of Communications. Her diverse background spans a variety of sectors, including radio, women's magazines, communications agencies and national and multinational companies. Over the last 10 years, she has focused on the area of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, and in that capacity she was the Superintendent of the BankBoston Foundation-Brazil, the Superintendent of Sustainability at Banco Itaú Unibanco and the Sector Director of Social Responsibility and Sustainability at FEBRABAN.

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Since the network launch, Ms. Garro is in charge of its coordination and responsible for the management and the creation of the current Spanish COP. She has a Bachelor Degree in Business and Management from Comillas University of Spain. She has worked in Société Générale, in Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions; and at Ernst & Young, as Senior Advisory Services Business in the Assurances sector. Ms. Garro is also the Founder and President of BOMA, a non-for-profit association to promote development projects in Kenia.

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Mr. Gifford is Executive Director of the PRI and has been guiding the initiative since its inception in November 2003. He has a PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate environmental, social and corporate governance performance. James has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Queensland, and a Master's of Environment Management from the University of New South Wales.

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Mr. Grajew is president of Ethos Institute of Business and Social Responsibility and the originator of the Our Sao Paulo Movement and the World Social Forum. He is the founder and former President/Chairman of the Board of Abrinq Foundation for Children and Adolescents’ Rights. Grajew is member of the Board of the Council for Economic and Social Development of the Brazilian Government and of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Global Compact. He was special advisor to the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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Mr. Greenfield leads the work of WWF-UK's Sustainable Business and Economics – a unit that works to catalyse economic and business change in order that society prospers within ecological limits. Specifically, he leads work on One Planet Economy, One Planet Finance, and One Planet Business. He also leads the change projects for our business partnerships. Before joining WWF, Oliver gained ten years' experience as an associate for Booz Allen and Hamilton and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service.

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Ms. Grether is the coordinator of Petrobras Social and Environmental Report since 2005. She is the Brazilian industry expert at ISO 26000 working group since 2006. In 2007, she was nominated to the business constituency of the Stakeholder Council of GRI. Ms. Grether has MSc in Development Studies at London School of Economics, MSc in Technological Innovation and Industrial Organisation at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and BA in Economics at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Mr. Ernst de Groot studied International Law at the University of Leiden. He joined KLM on February 1, 1992. Over the years, he held various management positions including commercial alliances, labor relations, Schiphol strategy, environment and corporate center. Before joining KLM, Mr. de Groot worked as an attorney at the offices of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Effective July 5, 2007, Mr. De Groot was appointed as Managing Director and member of the Board of Management of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

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Mr. Gunther is a writer, speaker and consultant whose focus is business and sustainability. He is a contributing editor at FORTUNE magazine, a senior writer at Greenbiz.com and a blogger at www.marcgunther.com. Marc has written FORTUNE cover stories about the greening of Wal-Mart, the Chinese electric car company BYD, and spirituality in the workplace. His book, “Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business,” was published in 2004. 

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Mr. Habbard is a senior policy advisor to the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). His portfolio includes international investment, corporate governance, pension systems and public governance. He is also a labour representative at the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Mr Habbard is a French national who graduated from the Université Paris IX Dauphine and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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As Executive Vice President, Mr. Hagström leads a growing global team of more than 4,000 professionals in over 50 countries throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. With a more than 20-year track record of leading high-performance organizations, he is responsible for delivering consecutive revenue growth, ensuring profit, harnessing the potential in the current market and preparing the organization for the future. Hagström is a frequent speaker on the multinational business climate at the World Economic Forum and OECD in particular.

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With more than 30 years of experience in the retail industry, Mr. Harrigan has served as the Executive Director of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), Western States Council and as a Board Member of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS). In addition to the various boards and commissions on which he services, he also provides a variety of consulting services related to investment and financial activities.

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Mr. Hespenheide serves as the Global Leader of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) member firms’ Climate Change and Sustainability group within Audit and Enterprise Risk Services. He represents DTT in various forums such as the Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and is the Organizational Stakeholder for GRI. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of sustainability particularly related to reporting and assurance matters. Eric is a CPA and has served numerous global companies during his 33 year career.

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Mr. Howitt has served as Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) during three successive European Parliaments. In 2002, Richard successfully proposed the setting up of a European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR. His latest Parliamentary report in March 2007 emphasized the need for the European Union to better promote and implement global CSR initiatives. Howitt serves as a Member of the Governmental Advisory Group of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and as a Friend of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprise.

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Ms. Ireton is Director: Group Sustainability Management for the Standard Bank Group, a leading emerging markets bank and the largest in Africa. She was previously Head of Sustainable Development: Markets and Economics at Anglo American. She has held roles as a sustainable energy advisor at Eskom and Manager of the then Industrial Environmental Forum. Her early career was in news and business journalism. She holds an MA in International Political Economy (Leeds). She chairs the GRI’s Stakeholder Council and serves on numerous environmental advisory boards.

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Ms. Jorgensen developed the "World's first Green account" 20 years ago, while working at the LCA Center of the Danish Technical University. She has advised leading companies, including the Danish Government and EC regarding Sustainability and Integrated Reporting. She led the CEO/Investor network for Business Ethics and Non Financial Reporting, Chaired the European Sustainability Reporting Association, member of the Policy Group of FEE (European Accountants) and on the board of Board of European Policy Centre. Currently, she is on the American AICPA's Sustainability Advisory Panel.

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Ms. Kayal oversees Calvert's company research and analysis in measuring ESG practices of companies and how those translate into performance. Her expertise on these issues has earned her a reputation as one of the foremost human rights practitioners in the SRI community. She serves on the Steering Committee of the International Working Group (IWG) of the Social Investment Forum. Ms. Kayal has also worked at the US Department of Labor's International Labor Affairs Bureau; the US Information Agency; and the United Nations. 

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Mr. Kell is the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative with more than 6,000 participants in over 130 countries. His career with the United Nations began in 1987 at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. In 1997, Mr. Kell joined the Office of the UN Secretary-General in New York, where he spearheaded the development of new strategies to enhance private sector engagement with the work of the United Nations. 

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Dr. Kiernan is founder and Chief Executive of Inflection Point Capital Management, a newly created, sustainability-driven multi-strategy investment management boutique. He was formerly the Founder and Chief Executive of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, which was rated the #1 research firm in the world in its field. He had previously served as Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva, and as a senior partner at KPMG. 

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Prof. King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria, Visiting Professor in the Rhodes Investec Business School and has an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand. He chaired the United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight and is the author of Transient Caretakers (with Teodorina Lessidrenska) and The Corporate Citizen.

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Mr. Kjaer is Deputy General Director of the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (DCCA), which belongs to the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs. The DCCA is responsible for implementing the Danish Governments Action Plan for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), including the Danish Act from 2008 on CSR reporting, and acts as a secretariat for the Danish Council for Corporate Responsibility. Victor is responsible for the CSR activities of the DCCA, as well as for company law regulation and control of financial reports from listed companies.

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Ms. Kruse is a Senior Sustainability & Governance Specialist at APG All Pensions Group with AUM of EUR 240 billion (December 2009). She has worked in Responsible Investment since 2000, for JPMorgan (sell-side), F&C Asset Management (buy-side) and an SRI research house. Her academic background comprises international business and Chinese studies, as well as sustainable tourism & development. She has lived and worked in Germany, China, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

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Ms. Kux is a member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. She is head of Supply Chain Management and Chief Sustainability Officer. Following studies in Switzerland and the U.S., she completed an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau. After a number of years as consultant at McKinsey, she held top management positions at ABB, Nestlé, Ford and Philips. She has been a member of the Global Leaders of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum since 1995 and is on the Board of Directors of INSEAD.

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Mr. Ligteringen is the Chief Executive of GRI and he has held this position since 2002, when GRI was established as an independent organization based in Amsterdam. Ernst holds overall responsibility for GRI, including secretariat operations and the coordination of the worldwide GRI network of active stakeholders who participate in the GRI’s governance, working groups, reviews, and consultation processes. He is a member of GRI’s multi-stakeholder Board of Directors, which has charged the GRI with the mission of making sustainability reporting as relevant and mainstream as financial reporting. 

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Dr. Loh, JP, OBE, is the CEO of the non-profit policy think tank, Civic Exchange, based in Hong Kong. A lawyer by training, Loh had a 12-year career in commodities trading before becoming a legislator in 1992. She is well-known for her wide-ranging expertise in political issues, as well as energy, climate change and the environment. Loh is senior policy adviser to the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and board member of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, and EastWest Institute.

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Ms. Lyon is an Executive Director of CSR Asia based in Singapore. Erin is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, having trained with and worked for the international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer both in Europe and Asia. Erin has advised Asian, US and European companies on Corporate Social Responsibility. Recent clients have included HP, Dell, DHL, Bursa Malaysia (the Stock Exchange of Malaysia) and Singapore Petroleum Company with projects including CSR disclosure, stakeholder engagement, community investment and sustainable supply chains. 

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Mr. Malley has been a CEO, board director, life coach, consultant, educator and benefactor in business, government, higher education and non-profit sectors. Most recently, Alex was CEO of an international professional medical association. He has also held voluntary service roles including independent chair of the audit and risk committee of the Office of Police Integrity in Victoria, board member of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children and co-founder of the Society for Knowledge Economics.

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Mr. Mantero is the Director, Corporate Citizenship Programs, for GE Corporation. Frank is responsible for coordinating the company's global citizenship efforts, developing and managing the company's Citizenship Report, monitoring the company's engagement with stakeholders, and leading the company’s presence on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He is the lead spokesperson for GE-sponsored disaster relief efforts and GE Foundation activities. In addition, he is responsible for the public policy grant portfolio for the GE Foundation, which includes programs on human rights, rule-of-law, climate change and globalization. 

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Mr. Toshiya Masuoka is currently the Director for IFC’s Corporate Advice Department which houses IFC experts on corporate advisory services. He oversees IFC’s efforts in the areas of SME development and inclusive business models as well as giving advice to IFC clients on sustainability strategies and reporting, strategic community investment, and corporate governance. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in August 1989, Toshi held various positions at the Fuji Bank, Limited. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School.

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Dr. Massie received his A.B. in history from Princeton, his masters in social ethics from Yale, and his doctorate in corporate strategy from Harvard Business School. From 1996 to 2003, Massie was the chief executive of Ceres and served as the co-founder and first chair of the GRI. In 2002 he organized the first Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the UN. In April 2009 he received both the prestigious Bavaria Impact and Innovation Awards for his transformative work on capital markets.

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Since November 2003, Mr. McKinley has been Deputy Secretary-General of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Prior to this, Kevin was Director of Standards at the SCC (Standards Council of Canada), the organization responsible for Canada's National Standards System. In addition, he held a number of posts at the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) working with stakeholders on standardization matters related to occupational health and safety, transportation, mechanical equipment, public safety, and business management.

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Ms. Mironesco joined Vigeo in 2008 having previously been Director of SRI Research with Natixis Asset Management. Estelle graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP) and spent the first 10 years of her career in commercial banking, primarily in London, holding positions in corporate analysis and in sales. She then worked, for the following 10 years, in asset management companies in Paris where she successively created and managed three buy-side analysis teams on the credit, equity and SRI markets.

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GRI Board Director, Mr. Mulder, is an independent advisor, Director-General at ABN AMRO Bank (until 2006), and currently Member Steering Committee at Worldconnectors. Mr. Mulder created and coordinated the ABN AMRO initiative on Sustainable Development (SD), positioning the bank as a sector leader in sustainable development issues. He was also one of the initiators of the Global Compact network in the Netherlands.

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Mr. Naidoo is the Chair of the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) (www.tcktcktck.org) and the Co-Chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) (www.whiteband.org). He was the Secretary General of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation for 10 years and has taken on the role of Executive Director of Greenpeace International from November 2009. He has worked as a researcher, journalist, university lecturer, and youth counsellor.

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Dr. Nieuwenkamp studied Economics, Law and Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1998, he became interim manager at the Ministry of Education. From 2001 until August 2006, he was managing director of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Since September 2006, he has been the Director of Trade Policy & Globalization in the Ministry of Economic Affairs (DG Foreign Economic Affairs). His responsibilities include a.o. trade policy (WTO), investment treaties, corporate social responsibility, and regulation of strategic goods.

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Mr. Nyoni is the Director of the Zimele Institute, a Division of the Organization of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) one of Zimbabwe's oldest and most widespread NGOs. Zimele Institute invests in the development of rural education systems across the western region of Zimbabwe. He is also serves as a member of the Earth Charter International Council and in 2007 was elected an Ashoka Fellow, the world’s largest and oldest network of social entrepreneurs.

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Mr. Ortún is an Industrial engineer, specialised in Chemistry and in Industrial Organisation, with a Doctorate in Business Administration, Director in the European Commission since 1988, in charge of different industrial and services sectors. Since January 2000, he is responsible in particular for Tourism, as well as for Corporate Social Responsibility within DG Enterprise and Industry. Since January 2007, he is the Director responsible for the 'New Approach Industries' (Equipment Goods, Construction Products, Toys), the Standardisation Policy, Tourism and CSR.

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Mr. Pesce, Chilean, studied History and Political Science at Catholic University of Chile, MPA at Harvard and PhD candidate at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris. He was prosecuted by the Pinochet regime and has worked in grassroots NGO´s in Chile (91-99). Dante is an elected Chair's Advisory Group (CAG) member to ISO 26000 and to the GRI Stakeholder Council. He is the founder of Vincular (2001), University Center specialized in CSR, which leads the process of Reporting for 160+ companies, half of them SMEs.

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Ms. Picker has had 26 years' experience with Ernst & Young. She is Global Leader - Global IFRS Services, based in London. Before this, she was Managing Partner of Ernst & Young Melbourne, Oceania Leader – Climate Change and Sustainability Services and a Partner in the Technical Consulting Group. She is a member of Ernst & Young’s Global IFRS Policy Committee. She is also a member of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) as Ernst & Young Global’s representative.

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Mr. Rademaker is a member of the Robeco Management Board as of 1 February 2010. He is responsible for Mainstream Investments. Before, mr. Rademaker was Director of Fiduciary Management at Kempen Capital Management. Prior to this, he held a range of positions at Mn Services, including that of Chief Investment Officer. He was also involved in the launch of Transtrend which now forms part of the Robeco Group and he started his career at Van Lanschot Bankiers.

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Mr. Ravenel leads Bloomberg’s global sustainability initiatives - a Chairman’s Office effort and the result of his 2006 Bloomberg Global Leadership Forum proposal. Curtis has worked for Bloomberg in multiple roles including Financial Controller for Asia managing accounting, tax, treasury and audit services for 23 legal entities. This was preceded by various roles in the Capital Planning and Financial Analysis Groups. Curtis earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in History from Davidson College.

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Mr. Renaut works at SustainAbility, the London-based think tank and consultancy. His experience ranges from identifying trends that affect business operations, assessing socio-economic impact, to improving sustainability reporting systems. He leads SustainAbility’s Engaging Stakeholders Program, dedicated to raising the bar in accountability and reporting and equipping its members to be effective change agents in their own organizations. JP previously worked at a large IT consultancy and studied Environmental and Development Economics. He loves outdoor adventures and occasionally tweets @jprenaut.

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Ms. Rosemblum is journalist and has graduated from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, with specialization in Graphic Design by the School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP). She worked at Gazeta Mercantil, O Estado de São Paulo, Companhia de Noticias, and has worked since 2000 at Valor Econônico, as editor of special projects, among which the Company& Community section, a monthly supplement focused on corporate social responsibility that is currently named Sustainable Businesses.

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Ms. Skypala has been editor of FTfm since 2004. She joined the Financial Times in 1999, initially as investment editor on FTyourmoney.com, a personal finance website. In 2001 she moved to the paper, becoming deputy personal finance editor. Prior to joining the FT she was freelancing for three years, for the FT, Daily Mail and other publications. She has won numerous awards over the years, the last being in 2008 for Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism in the annual State Street institutional press awards. 

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Ms. Stormer is Vice President, Global TBL Management at Novo Nordisk, charged with setting the strategic direction for the company’s positioning as a sustainability leader and a pioneer in demonstrating the long-term business value of incorporating economic, social and environmental perspectives into its market proposition. Among her achievements are the successful merging of the company’s financial and sustainability reporting that has brought Novo Nordisk at the cutting edge of integrated reporting.

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Mr. Sukhdev is the Project Leader for UNEP's 'Green Economy' initiative, a major UNEP project suite to demonstrate that the greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growth, employment, and the reduction of persistent poverty. Pavan is also Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned report on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity ('TEEB'), a project he was appointed to lead in March 2008 by the EU Commission and Germany whilst still working full time at Deutsche Bank.

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Ms. Townsend is a leading international voice on communicating sustainability. In 2001 she co-founded Futerra Sustainability Communications, specialising in behaviour change, sustainable communications strategy and building recognised sustainable brands. Solitaire was named Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year, is a Board Director of the leading think-tank Tomorrow’s Company and was appointed a London Leader for Sustainability. Solitaire holds Masters Degrees in both Sustainable Development and English Literature. 

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Mr. Wackernagel, Ph.D., is President of Global Footprint Network, an international policy think tank dedicated to making ecological limits central to decision-making everywhere. Mathis has lectured at more than 100 universities and is visiting professor at Cornell. His awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of US Society for Ecological Economics.

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Dr. White is Vice President and Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA, and directs the institute’s Program on Corporate Redesign. In1997, he co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and served as CEO until 2002. In 2004, he co-founded and is now Director of Corporation 2020 that focuses on designing future corporations to sustain social mission. He has served on advisory groups and committees of the International Corporate Governance Network, Civic Capital, Instituto Ethos, and the Initiative for Responsible Investment, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University.

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Ms. Heather White is the founder of New-Standards, a research and consulting firm advising on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and global labor standards. For the last 15 years, Ms. White has been advising global brands on their suppliers’ compliance with labor laws and international codes of conduct, and regularly consults on corporate sustainability reports. She has advised over 300 U.S. and European companies on CSR and supply chain issues pertaining to labor practices and health and safety issues. 

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