Why Attend An Ethical Corporation Event?

Ethical Corporation has an unrivalled reputation in the field of corporate social responsibility and business ethics. We place particular emphasis on the importance of networking with the right people for the right reasons.

Our conferences are not sales-orientated but industry-led and ethics-focused. We pride ourselves on offering delegates an honest, flexible and straight-talking environment in which to share experiences, and learn from other industry experts on an open and level playing field

10 Reasons to Attend

       1   Get cutting-edge insights from industry professionals and business experts

  2   Hear from prominent speakers in direct and challenging interactive discussions

  3   Get the low down on the latest product development tools and techniques

  4   Delve into pertinent CSR topics in manageable roundtable groups

  5   Find out how to use recent technical innovations to sharpen your competitive edge

  6   Explore best practices from top companies: find out why they do it, and how, then hear the results

  7   Mix with peers who share the same hopes and fears as you

  8   Gain fresh perspective and useful insights from people who work in different industries to you

  9   Fill your business card portfolio with quality contacts – at least 40 guaranteed from one session!

 10 Network like never before and have of fun doing it

 

Just look at the statistics

Ethical Corporation has a database of more than 25,000 qualified corporate responsibility professionals – one of the largest in the world.

 From Sydney to San Diego , more than 6,000 people read Ethical Corporations’ monthly magazine, including Directors and CEOs of the some of the world’s largest companies.

More than 20,000 people have signed up to receive Ethical Corporation fortnightly e-newsletter.

Ethical Corporation gets around 90,000 unique visitors to its website every month.

Ethical Corporation focuses on the three key areas – Europe, North America, and Asia – and has a rapidly expanding, global audience.

Testimonials

"As a global organisation committed to social leadership, operating in almost two hundred countries, TNT Express finds the Ethical Corporation magazine and proactive support services invaluable tools in shaping the journey."
TNT Express

"As an NGO seeking corporate partnerships for our work on children's rights in the developing world, your reports are invaluable."
Save the Children Canada

"I cannot recommend Ethical Corporation more highly as a means to update staff and students on news, views and events in the burgeoning area of corporate responsibility. The magazine brings together an all-star cast of commentators on pertinent topics and relevant issues and provides buckets of case study material for critical analysis which is key to the academic approach to corporate responsibility. I use the magazine in my teaching, and to illustrate key issues to students. I would also recommend the Ethical Corporation conferences as a means to gather intelligence on the latest trends and thinking of business. The quality is superb, down to earth, relevant and thought provoking."
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

"The world needs greater sensitivity from the corporate community. By providing valid news of corporate social responsibility, I believe the Ethical Corporation is the 'Herald Tribune' of Corporate Responsibility."
Texasnonprofits.org

"Great speakers, great topics and well- organised. The Ethical Corporation proved an excellent forum for us to communicate our work to corporate business, gain up-to-date information and interact with the CSR community."
WWF

"We found the Ethical Corporation conference and magazine are a great way to raise our profile and network with many potential clients. The event was very well run, and the delegates were exactly the sort of people we wanted to target."
Buzzacott Consulting

"The conference brought together impressive people from business and non profit organisations. The workshops and case studies were packed with transferable learnings."
ReckittBenckiser

"Having worked in corporate philanthropy and corporate responsibility for over 15 years, both as a practitioner and an academic, I have no hesitation in recommending Ethical Corporation as an unequalled source of corporate responsibility analysis and information for global business. Their level of analysis of the key issues that influence corporations' ethical behavior is second to none, and I find the archive an invaluable resource in teaching the subject to my students.This is a must read for companies, academics, NGOs and anyone concerned with corporate impacts on society in general."
ExxonMobil Foundation

"The conference was an excellent opportunity to meet representatives from other parts of the business and foundation community and to hear their ideas, experiences and lessons learnt in helping to develop business and working in developing countries. It made me think through our own experience and lessons and to identify some partners with who we might work in future in Africa. Thank you for the opportunity to participate."
Syngenta

"Excellent value, not only content-wise, but due to the diverse and knowledgeable attendees"
Sustainability Centre

"Just a quickie to say thanks for organising yesterday's workshop in Hong Kong. As an "old-timer" in social development practice but relative newcomer to CR, it is encouraging to learn of the networks and linkages that are already going on. So, many thanks indeed for providing an invaluable service."
APCO Indonesia

Speakers

Ethical Corporation specialises in building relationships with world-renowned business organizations and people, shaping tomorrow's business strategies today. Detailed below are just some of the high-profile executives that have participated in our events during the last 12 months.

 

• Barclays PLC, John Varley, Group Chief Executive
• British Land, Stephen Hester, CEO
• Ecover, Gunther Pauli, CEO
• BP, Dr. Tony Hayward, CEO E&P
• WWF-UK, Robert Napier, CEO
• Cafe Direct, Penny Newman, Chief Executive Officer
• ICICI Bank (UK), Sonjoy Chatterjee Managing, Director& CEO
• Fair Labor Association, Auret van Heerden, President and CEO
• Npower, David Threlfall, CEO
• The One World Trust, Simon Burall, Executive Director
• Greenpeace UK, Stephen Tindale, Executive Director
• Marine Stewardship Council, Rupert Howes, Chief Executive
• Inditex, Javier Chercoles Blazquez, Chief Executive
• Swedish Ambassador and former Acting Director General at the Swedish National Board of Trade - Global Responsibility, Elisabeth Dahlin
• Nigerian High Commissioner in the UK, Dr Christopher Kolade
• Former Deputy Minister of Finance in Afghanistan, Seema Ghani
• Green Party MEP, Caroline Lucas
• Nestlé, Dr. Niels Christiansen, Vice President, Public Affairs
• Adnams, Simon Loftus, Chairman
• ABN Amro, Sandrijn Weites, SVP Sustainable Strategy & Reporting
• Anglo American, Edward Bickham, EVP External Affairs
• HP, Gabriele Zedlmayer, VP, Head of Corporate Marketing, EMEA
• Dell Inc, Lena Pripp-Kovac, Head of EMEA Corporate Responsibility
• BG Group, Margaret Mogford, Head of Corporate Responsibility Policy
• Microsoft Ltd, Bronwyn Kunhardt, Head of Corporate Reputation and Diversity
• Rio Tinto, Andy Vickerman, Head of Communication & Sustainable Development
• Age Concern England, Jonathan Andrews, Head of Corporate Partnerships
• SABMIller, Alan Knight, Co-Chair of UK Government's Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption, Head of Corporate Accountablity
• HVB Group, Kaevan Gazdar, Head or Reporting
• Intel Corporation, EMEA, Tristan Wilkinson, Director, Public Sector
• ScottishPower, Paul McKelvie OBE, Corporate Responsibility Director
• Microsoft EMEA, Alistair Baker, Managing Director Microsoft Ltd, VP
• Adnams, Andy Wood, Managing Director
• Levi Strauss, Manuel Baigorri, Director, Codes of Conduct
• Barclays, Alastair Camp, Corporate Responsibility Director
• Johnson & Johnson, Frank Welvaert, CSR Director Europe - Middle East
• 3M, John Stoxen, Director of Business Conduct and Compliance
• Nokia, Anne Klemetti, Senior Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility
• SAP, James Farrar, VP CSR
• Novo Nordisk, Susanne Stormer, Senior Adviser, Corporate Stakeholder Relations
• European Academy of Business in Society, Peter Lacy, Executive Director
• Carbon Trust, Tom Delay, Chairman
• Green &Black's Organic Chocolate, Craig Sams, President and Founder
• Royal Philips Electronics, Henk de Bruin, Senior Vice President and Head of the Corporate Sustainability Office
• Fairtrade Foundation, Ian Bretman, Deputy Director
• Tax Justice Network, Jon Christensen, Director
• Regen Fuels, Craig Ibbetson, Director
• Interface Europe, Karin Mortensen Laljani, Senior Vice President Marketing
• British Petroleum, Dave Welch, Marketing Communication Director
• Triodos Bank, Charles Middleton, Managing Director
• Virgin Group, Ashley Stockwell, Brand Director
• Virgin Unite, Jean Oelwang, Managing Director
• Ben & Jerry's UK, Helen Jones, General Manager
• Starbucks, Scott Keiller, CSR and Communication Manager
• O2 UK, Glenn Manoff, Communications Director
• Co-operative Financial Services, Jos Mister, Sustainability Advisor
• BT, Emma Williams, CSR Communications Manager
• HP Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Jeannette A. Weisschuh, Corporate Affairs Communications & Planning
• Greenpeace, Blake Lee-Harwood, Campaign Director
• Soil Association, Martin Cottingham, Marketing Director
• Fairtrade Foundation, Barbara Crowther, Head of Communications
• InBev, David Jerome, Head of Corporate Responsibility
• CSR Europe, Catelijne Wessels, Senior Director Membership Services
• , Paola Ghillani, Former CEO of the Max Havelaar Foundation
• Shell foundation, Kurt Hoffman, Director
• Coca-Cola, Dan Vermeer, Director, Global Water Initiative
• ABN AMRO Bank, Moumita Sen Sarma, Vice President, Head - Microfinance, India
• Insight Investment, Rachel Crossley, Director, Investor Responsibility
• The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), Adrian Hodges, Managing Director
• Syngenta Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, Andrew Bennett, Executive Director
• IFC, William Bulmer, Associate Director, Environment and Social Development Department
• USAID/Jamaica, Nancy Wildfeir-Field, Global Development Advisor
• Electricite de France (EDF), Vincent Denby-Wilkes, Access Programme Founding Director
• Alliance Water and Sanitation for the Urban poor (WSUP), Richard Sandbrook, Chairman
• Anglo American, Edward Bickham, Executive Vice President, External Affairs
• British Council, Mike Hardy, Director Indonesia
• Vodafone, Joaquim Croca, Corporate Responsibility Executive
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Kathryn Gordon, Senior Economist, Investment Division
• UNDP, Arun Kashyap, Advisor Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism
• Codespa Foundation, Javier Mart쭃avanna, Executive Director
• Ethical Training Initiative, Dan Rees, Director
• The Charity Commission, Geraldine Peacock, Charity Commissioner
• Gap Inc, Christian Wrede, Director Public Affairs
• Chiquita, George Jaksch, Senior Director of Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs
• Economist, Author: "The Truth About Markets" and Financial Times Columnist, John Kay
• Diageo, Geoffrey Bush, Director, Global Corporate Citizenship
• Citigroup, Una Gallagher, Director of Community Affairs EMEA
• Microsoft, Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Chubb and Son Inc, Donna Griffin, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, World-Wide Operations
• International Herald-Tribune, Global Economics Correspondent, Economics Columnist, The New York Times, Daniel Altman, Ph. D.
• Boots plc, Richard Ellis, Head of CSR
• The BBC, Michael Hastings, Head of CSR
• Transparency International, Jermyn Brooks, Member of the Board
• The Guardian, Jo Confino, Executive Editor
• British Gas plc, Diana Montgomery, Corporate Responsibility Manager
• Royal Mail, Andrew Kluth, Development Manager
• US Council on Foreign Relations, Elliot Schrage, Senior Fellow, Business and Foreign Policy and former senior vice president of Global Affairs, Gap Inc
• Insight Investment, Craig Mackenzie, Head, Investor Responsibility

... and many more!

Delegates profile

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