Dato' Yusli bin Mohamed Yusoff, aged 50, a Malaysian, graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Essex (United Kingdom) in 1981, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales (ICAEW), the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) as well as an Honorary Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia (IIAM). Dato' Yusli began his career with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co London and has since held various key positions in a number of public listed and private companies in Malaysia, whose activities spanned over property and infrastructure development, telecommunications, engineering and merchant banking. His career in the stockbroking industry began when he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd in January 2000. He also served as the Chairman of the Association of Stockbroking Companies in Malaysia from 2003 to 2004. Presently, Dato' Yusli is the Chief Executive Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad and a Director of its group of companies. He also sits on the Malaysian Capital Market Development Fund Board and is an executive committee member of the Financial Reporting Foundation/Malaysian Accounting Standards Board.

Mohammed Azhar bin Osman Khairuddin, a Malaysian aged 53, is the Head of PETRONAS’ Legal and Corporate Affairs Division. He is also the Company Secretary of PETRONAS, a member of its Management Committee and serves on the Boards of other main companies within the PETRONAS stable, which includes public listed company PETRONAS Gas Berhad. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Malaya and is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) as well as the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA). He started his career with PETRONAS in 1979 as a Legal Officer. In his current position as Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs, he reports directly to the President of PETRONAS on two key areas of PETRONAS’ group operations within the corporate centre, namely, Legal Services Unit and Group Corporate Affairs.

Richard Welford is one of the founders and the chairman of CSR Asia based in Hong Kong. He is also a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a director of ERP Environment, a UK-based publisher. Richard has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been increasingly Asian focused as a result of his current position as director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including the MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas. Richard’s work has had a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and social justice. Richard has worked with Cathay Pacific and the Swire group developing a climate change strategy. He has also worked on policies and implementation plans covering conservation and biodiversity. For Shangri-La Hotels he is developing initiatives not only covering environmental sustainability but also aspects of human rights and local community engagement. He has been an advocate of human rights auditing as a means of ensuring social justice and has undertaken assessments of the Freeport Human Rights audit in Papua.

Karamjit Singh is the technology editor with The Edge. His section, netv@lue2.0 covers the business impact of technology, technopreneurship and policy. He is also the editor of an SME pullout called SME's Going Global and is contributing editor for Manager@Work, a monthly pullout on management, marketing and human capital. Karamjit has been with The Edge for 14 years. He graduated with a degree in Mass Communications with a Broadcasting major and a minor in Business Administration from the University of Bemidji in Minnesota, US in 1993. He won the 2001 Malaysian Press Institute Award for Best Telecommunications Journalist. He is married with two kids.

Age 55. Ms Dorner graduated from St. Anne’s College Oxford with MA in Jurisprudence in 1976. A Barrister by profession, Dorner first joined the banking industry as an in-house lawyer. In 1982, she was the in-house lawyer of Samuel Montagu & Co Limited, the merchant banking arm of Midland Bank, which was later acquired by the HSBC Group. She was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Treasury and Capital Markets of HSBC Midland in 1995, then went on to head Treasury and Capital Markets Sales in 1998. In 1999, she was appointed General Manager, Marketing of HSBC Bank plc, and was subsequently appointed as General Manager, Human Resources in 2001. She then had responsibility for HSBC Bank plc’s branch network in the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland comprising some 380 branches and 3,900 staff in 2003 to 2006, prior to holding the post of General Manager, Premier and Wealth Management of HSBC Bank plc until May 2007. Ms. Dorner was appointed Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad on 1 June 2007.

Reza Ali is the Head of Business Development for ACCA ASEAN and Australasia and is based in Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for the continued growth and development of ACCA in the region and works closely with government regulators and agencies in ASEAN/Australasia. He also speaks regularly to ACCA’s key stakeholders in the region on key economic trends, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), accounting and policy updates and sustainability matters. Reza graduated with First Class Honours in the Bachelor of Science in Business (Finance) programme at Lancaster University in the UK and was the recipient of the Philip Andrews Memorial Prize for best performance in Economic and topped his graduating cohort. Reza worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London as an auditor and subsequently was also the head of operations and finance at a Singaporean brokerage firm prior to his roles with ACCA. He is also passionate about issues pertaining to corporate social responsibility and sustainability and comments frequently in the media in Singapore on these issues. He works closely with key stakeholders to promote sustainability and has also written a guide entitled "Sustainability Reporting Handbook for Singaporean Companies" to encourage sustainability reporting within corporate Singapore.

Brent Anderson has been a member of Talisman Energy Inc.’s Corporate Affairs team since 2003 and is currently Talisman’s Senior Advisor, Corporate Affairs, International Operations East. Brent plays a key role in supporting Talisman’s efforts to manage its social, political and reputation risks and opportunities related to the Company’s operations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Vietnam and the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Brent has also led Talisman’s annual corporate responsibility reporting process for the past six years, has managed Talisman's external website and supported company government affairs and stakeholder relations efforts throughout Talisman’s operations. Previously, Brent worked in Suncor Energy Inc. and SaskEnergy in various communications roles.

Dr Reza Azmi is the Founder and Executive Director of Wild Asia, a Malaysian-based social enterprise working to support the conservation of natural areas and the communities dependent upon their resources. Reza has an interest in the way people use natural areas and resources and has built a programme of work under Wild Asia to address private-sector developments that have a significant impact on natural areas. He is an enthusiastic trainer and communicator. Reza remains the main driver for innovation within Wild Asia and was instrumental in conceptualising a number of our core programmes. With a keen interest in private-sector initiatives to promote responsible developments, Reza has been an individual member of the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) from its early conception in 2003. Reza has been actively involved in field testing and conducting business-business audits of oil palm plantations against the RSPO Principle & Criteria. This experience has led to the formation of the Stepwise Support Programme, a partnership with ProForest (UK) to provide global advisory support, training and assurance for the plantation sector. Besides technical advisory experience, Reza has written several popular publications, which include chapters in books on natural areas in Malaysia; guides to local plant and animal life and travel to natural areas. These publications have been published both in Malaysia and internationally.

Dr Helena Barton is a social anthropologist specialised in advancing CR strategies, communication and management systems. An experienced assessor of CR risk management and reporting, Helena manages DNV’s CR report verification and CR training services globally. Helena provides strategic counsel and training on a range of CR and sustainability issues, from policy-making, performance measurement, reporting and stakeholder engagement, to compliance with standards and principles. During 15 years of international consulting, she has worked with a variety of organisations, including multi-nationals, SMEs, mainstream and niche (SRI) investors, governments and NGOs. She founded Corporate Context Inc., a CR consultancy business, in New York (2006) and Hong Kong (2007). Helena designs and delivers DNV’s CR solutions to customers worldwide. For the past seven years, she has worked with several organisations to develop CR reporting and assurance practices, and served as judge on the 2006 ACCA-Ceres North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting. She left her native Denmark in 1991 to study international development, and has since lived and worked in Southern Africa, Europe, North America and Asia.

Michelle has over 10 years of experience in Asia working with international development agencies and with business on partnerships for development. She has held professional posts within international development agencies in mainland China and in Vietnam and has and also worked as a consultant, advisor and trainer for numerous companies and organisations such as CLP, the adidas-Group, PepsiCo, CARE, the Asian Development Bank, the Red Cross and Oxfam. She returned to Asia in 2003 after spending some time back in Canada working as a business analyst for a multinational pharmaceutical company in Canada and then for a multi-stakeholder corporate citizenship initiative in Canada from 2001-2003. Her particular areas of expertise are around strategic community investment and engagement, impact assessment and base of the pyramid approaches although she has also worked with companies on other aspects of CSR and sustainability. Michelle is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong focusing on the links between CSR and poverty.

The IFC is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group and its mission is to promote a sustainable private sector in order to reduce poverty and improve peoples’ lives. Sustainable development is therefore a core strategic objective for the institution. As manager of the environmental and social development programme in the East Asia and Pacific region, Richard is responsible for ensuring that the Corporation’s investment and advisory work align with its sustainability objective. Working closely with clients and other IFC staff, this includes appropriate risk management and identification of environment and social opportunities to improve a client’s business performance. Richard joined IFC in 1998. Prior to his current position, Richard was the Manager of the Knowledge and Innovation Group, which focused on capturing the Corporation’s social and environmental ‘know-how’ and communicating it effectively to both internal and external audiences. Richard trained as a marine biologist and prior to joining IFC, worked in the NGO sector and as an environmental management consultant. Richard is based in IFC’s Hong Kong office.

Gabriel Chong is a Project Manager based in Malaysia. Prior to joining CSR – Asia, Gabriel was the Communication Officer at the Malaysia office of Wetlands International (WI). He represented WI at the development of the Malaysia National Interpretation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Principles & Criteria. He communicated WI’s position and concern on greenhouse gases emissions from palm oil on peatlands through various stakeholder engagement meetings, raised awareness at conferences and exhibitions, and organized technical workshops to engage stakeholders to work towards consensus. Gabriel has also managed projects addressing social issues ranging from mental healthcare, urban poverty to HIV/AIDS while living in the US, UK and Malaysia. He also taught social work at a Malaysian university, conducted and published research papers. Gabriel took a brief sabbatical from the NGO community and spent two years in the corporate sector. Gabriel holds a Bachelor in Communications and a Masters in Social Work.

Marcus Colchester received his doctorate in social anthropology at University of Oxford and has carried out extensive field research in applied anthropology in Amazonia, South and South-East Asia. His human rights advocacy related to development and conservation has earned him a Pew Conservation Fellowship and the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology. He is a founder member of the World Rainforest Movement and Director of the Forest Peoples Programme, and has carried out numerous consultancies for international organisations. He has published extensively in academic and NGO journals and is the author and editor of numerous books, including 'Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation' ;'Guyana: Fragile Frontier - Loggers, Miners and Forest Peoples'; 'Justice in the Forest – rural livelihoods and forest law enforcement'.

Born in 1959, Mr. Dietmar studied political economy, agricultural engineering at the University of Bonn and worked in the fields of agroforestry and geoecology at the University of Bayreuth. He holds a M.Sc. degree in agricultural sciences. After PhD studies in Ruanda, he worked with the Ministry of the Environment of the Federal State of Brandenburg, newly created after the German reunification, first as a consultant, later as a permanent staff member in the areas of planning and implementation of environmental policies, strategies and demonstration projects. In 1998, he came to China as Senior Advisor at the Administrative Centre for China‘s Agenda 21 (ACCA21) in Beijing under the Ministry of Science and Technology working in the areas of training and capacity building, environmental project management and implementation. Since 2002, he has been with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH as a Programme Director of the Sino-German Cooperation Programme “Environment-oriented Enterprise Consultancy Zhejiang”, which focuses on building up a model hazardous waste management system, on promoting eco-efficient production, and on promoting corporate social responsibility. In April 2007, Mr. Dietmar became Project Director of the “Sino-German Corporate Social Responsibility Project”. Apart from his formal career, Mr. Dietmar has extensive work experience working in different countries in numerous companies and organisations, for example as a coal miner and as a farmer.

Jacqui Dixon is the Director of CSR Asia Hong Kong office, responsible for developing relationships with key clients, business development and leading on consultancy projects especially in the areas of benchmarking, sustainability reporting and carbon auditing. Through her work in various countries she has developed expertise in environmental policy, international development work and CSR. She has worked as a consultant and advisor to: Cathay Pacific, PCCW, CLP, VF Corporation, KPMG, and Oxfam Hong Kong and has carried out training for various companies and organisations. She also oversaw and managed the delivery of the CSR Asia 2007 Summit. She joined CSR Asia after completing a Professional Masters Degree with Forum for the Future in the UK. During her Masters she completed sustainable development projects in the European Commission, Vodafone, the National Consumer Council and Channel 4. She has lived and worked in South Africa, Spain, the UK, and Nepal. In 2004 she lived and worked in Nepal co-ordinating a community resource programme and in South Africa she led a youth-focused environmental permaculture project in one of Cape Towns largest townships. Jacqui also holds a BSc Honours Degree in Environmental and Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town.

Stephen FROST is one of the co-founders and an executive director of CSR Asia. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is in high demand as a speaker internationally, has consulted for numerous companies, governments and multilateral organisations, and is widely published. He is regularly interviewed by local and international media organisations, and he sits on the advisory boards of major corporations and CSR initiatives internationally. Stephen has been involved in CSR in the Asia-Pacific region since 2000, when he moved to Hong Kong. Since that time, he has focused on issues surrounding supply chains and workplace standards. He has worked with numerous local and multinational companies on a host of other issues, ranging from consulting on the implementation of CSR systems to factory training and stakeholder dialogue. He developed and taught the first CSR modules in MBA programs in Chinese universities, developed and taught the first undergraduate CSR course in Asia, and along with his co-founder offered the first public training of CSR in the Asia-Pacific. He helped develop an innovative factory training program for Chinese factories, and led a team to develop capacity building for Chinese organizations to deliver service to companies in supply chains. He is a recognised pioneer in CSR in Asia.

Based in Hong Kong, Hegland serves as Director, Sustainability Practice for Edelman in Hong Kong. Hegland helps clients address social and environmental issues through strengthened dialogue and communications with NGOs, government, employees, customers, media and other critical stakeholders. His clients include/have included The Coca-Cola Company, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Samsung, and WWF, among others. Hegland joined Edelman in May 2006 after having completed his MBA degree at the Schulich School of Business (York University) in Toronto, Canada, where he specialised in Sustainability/CSR and Marketing. There, he focused his studies on corporate sustainability strategy and communications, green marketing, and corporate reputation management. Prior to his graduate studies, Hegland worked in the energy and NGO sectors in Canada and Asia Pacific. In addition to his work at Edelman, Hegland is the Chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong’s Sustainable Development Committee.

As Project Manager, Sector Supplements in GRI's technical team, Katherine is responsible for developing and managing sector supplement projects in a variety of sectors. She managed the recent finalization of the Electric Utilities Sector Supplement and is responsible for the following Sector Supplements currently under development: Airports, Construction and Real Estate, Events and Media. Integral to this role is coordinating the international multi-stakeholder Working Groups that develop this guidance. Katherine is currently managing a research and consultation project in partnership with the IFC to improve the integration of gender related information into sustainability reports. As part of this project Katherine has facilitated 5 international workshops on gender practices and reporting in collaboration with the IFC. Prior to working at GRI, Katherine spent four years working in the field of government relations and business strategy, mainly with at an international healthcare company in the UK, Thailand and India. Katherine read Anthropology BA (hons) at Durham University in the UK and has subsequently gained her MSc (cum laude) in International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. As part of her course she conducted primary research in China.

Bharath Jairaj is currently pursuing a double Masters programme in Public Policy and in Law at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was previously the Director of Consumer Action Group, a not-for-profit advocacy group in India and has been associated with several environmental and consumer protection organisations in India and South Asia. Among other interests, Bharath is currently researching methodologies that measure the non-financial impact of social enterprises.

After 10 years in Africa, and 3 years in Europe, Cynthia Jones became the Head of Private Partnerships for the United Nations World Food Programme in Asia in 2007. She is responsible for developing private sector partnerships and fundraising in Asia. Prior to taking up her current position, Cynthia was seconded to the United Nations Joint Logistics Center in Sudan as its chief, and was responsible for optimizing humanitarian supply-chains ensuring over 3 million vulnerable and conflict-affected persons Sudan received emergency relief. Previously, she was the Regional Logistics Advisor for Central Africa where she was responsible for the organization’s supply chains and played a key role in WFP’s initial response to the crisis in Eastern Chad with the influx of refugees from Darfur. Cynthia began her career with the World Food Programme in 1996 in war-torn northern Uganda and has over 14 years of experience in managing large-scale humanitarian and development projects in challenging contexts.

Sombat is the Coca-Cola Southeast and West Asia Business Unit Environment Manager. He is responsible for managing environmental and safety programmes of the Coca-Cola system operations in 10 countries around the region. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand and has been with the company for 9 years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master degree of Business Administration. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, he was the Environmental Management System certification manager for SGS (Thailand) Co., Ltd, and managed the ISO14001 certification programme for 5 years.

Jockai Khaing is Director of Arakan Oil Watch and editor of Shwe Gas Bulletin which cover update news and analysis articles on Burma’s oil and gas industry and its impacts on human rights and environments. He founded Arakan Oil Watch in 2006 to focus attention on the impacts of oil and gas development in Arakan and Burma. He contributes Burma’s oil and gas related articles to exile Burmese media.

Since July 2007 Vimal Kumar has been the Head of Corporate Responsibility at DiGi Telecommunications. In her role she is responsible for the development and execution of all Corporate Responsibility initiatives and programmes. The main areas of focus is DiGi’s Deep Green programme, which addresses the company’s impact on climate change with the longer term vision of embedding sustainability into the business. Community investment and CR initiatives that encourage employee engagement, which include workplace practices that reduce environmental footprint is another area of focus. Vimal is a Chartered Accountant with degrees in Accounting and Computer Science from Monash University. She has extensive multi sector experience which was gained through her prior positions in consulting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, IBM and Microsoft.

Janice is currently with the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), part of the Securities Commission Malaysia, and is involved in researching corporate governance and corporate responsibility matters. SIDC is also the secretariat to the Institute of Corporate Responsibility (ICR) Malaysia, a network of companies promoting responsible business practices. Janice helps to oversee and coordinate the network’s initiatives and membership base. Janice holds a BSc in Management Sciences (Warwick Business School) and a Masters in Law from the University of Warwick, UK. Her postgraduate studies focused on international law and development issues, in particular governance, human rights law, and social and legal policy analyses. Past experience includes working with an international organisation looking at the impact and potential of ICT for development, and as a research analyst in public policy issues. She also has experience in development projects abroad including Morocco and Brazil.

Simon Lord is currently Group Director for Sustainability for New Britain Palm Oil Limited and Director of Global Sustainability Associates. He has over 25 years experience in agriculture and has a PhD in Environmental Microbiology. He has served on the executive Board of the RSPO as vice president, Chair of the Standards and Certification Subgroup and been involved in numerous working groups which help establish both the principles and the procedures for certifying sustainable palm oil. He is currently based in Singapore.

Erin 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 been working in Asia for over six years and has lived and worked in Indonesia as well as Singapore. 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. Erin has a strong interest in the development of CSR in Asia and has worked with clients to assess the changing regulations and voluntary agreements that are developing in Asia and the impact they have on operations. She also focuses on the development of CSR disclosure in Asia and is responsible for the CSR Asia Business Barometer. As well as advising companies and other organisations Erin is an adjunct at the Singapore Management University School of Law, lecturing in Ethics and Social Responsibility and she also teaches Corporate Governance at SAICSA. Erin studied in the UK acquiring an undergraduate degree from the University of Exeter and completed her postgraduate legal studies at the College of Law.

Terence is an authority on strategic communications management and CSR. A 16 year career in communications and software spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas gives him a unique perspective to identify Best Practice and apply it at a practical level. Career highlights include architecting Microsoft’s global stakeholder engagement strategy as part of Bill Gates media team and assisting leading companies such as Nokia, Disney and Nestle to outperform.

Colin has been working with WWF since May 2006 initially in Thailand and since September 2008 in a regional position. He is currently responsible to explore opportunities for policy harmonisation to scale up adaptation responses to the challenge of climate change across the Greater Mekong region. He has more than 17 years work experience in the South East Asian region, having worked in Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Indonesia and China. Prior to moving to the region he was a government employee (civil servant) in the UK working in a government research laboratory and as a field biologist in a National Park. He graduated from Sheffield University in the UK with an Honors Degree in Natural Environmental Science. He has worked for government, NGO’s and the private sector. In all these positions he has been engaged in developing programmes and projects that ensure effective conservation through appropriate development.

Mr. MacLeod has more than 16 years experience in the Asia Eurasia region providing leadership and vision for complex, multi-sector and decentralised development programs. He manages a portfolio of more than US$25 million throughout the Asia Eurasia region with 1,600 staff. He is known as a consensus building who is able to strengthen complex partnerships and an expert on capacity building as a development philosophy and approach. He has sectoral expertise in carbon trading, decentralisation, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption, NGO organisational capacity building, advocacy, subgrants management, management information systems, agriculture, rural economic development, HIV/AIDS, microfinance and savings-led approaches, renewable energy, institutionalisation, policy, government-nongovernmental relations. He has worked at the grassroots and policy level to bring about positive social and economic change for the region’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. He has developed partnerships between Pact and Chevron, Citibank, Pfizer, Microsoft, Terra Global Capital and Rio Tinto. Mr. MacLeod holds a Masters in International Development and Economics.

Richard Mao is Business Development Manager for Greater China and Senior Project Manager at First Climate (Beijing) Ltd. Richard has successfully sourced, developed and registered CDM projects yielding well over a million CERs and is managing a project portfolio with a contracted CER volume of 30 million. Furthermore, he was instrumental in the conclusion of the first post-2012 deal globally. Richard is an expert in CDM development, VER development, Climate Neutral services and climate change consultancy. Prior to joining First Climate, Richard was a carbon consultant at Ctrade, an Arizona-based carbon player. Richard holds bachelor degrees in Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science from Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. As a Chinese-Canadian, Richard is fluent in both English and Mandarin.

Marie MORICE is the Director of CSR Asia Singapore office, responsible for developing relationships with key clients, business development and leading on consultancy projects especially in the areas of benchmarking, environmental and climate change services. Marie joined CSR Asia from ACTE, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, where she was heading its Global CSR Program, to encourage the take up of more responsible and sustainable practices in the business travel industry. She brings an experience of five years working in the corporate sector and five years in the environmental NGO / Governmental sector. Marie started her career in the IT industry, working for a range of start ups and larger software companies, overseeing the overall business development, lead generation and sales processes as Marketing and Communication Manager. In 2004, after a year travelling in Asia, Marie joined WWF-UK to coordinate high profile lobbying and advocacy campaigns on public health issues, climate change regulation and corporate carbon disclosure, in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project. She then joined Campaigns for Better Transport to develop and head a Business Network Program for the UK Department for Transport, as part of ACT on CO2, the cross-governmental climate change campaign, to engage large companies on sustainable travel issues. Marie has a BA in European Economics and an MSc in Environmental Management, Imperial College, London.

Richard Morgan was appointed Managing Director of Philip Morris (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd on 1 March 2009. Richard joined Philip Morris International in 1991 and has since enjoyed a career that has seen him work in more than 40 countries. He has held a variety of positions in management, sales training and development, sales and distribution strategy, global key accounts, and information systems in a number of diverse locations in the Middle East, Africa, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Philip Morris in Malaysia, Richard spent six years as Managing Director for Philip Morris Romania and Bulgaria. Richard first came to the Asia region in 2001 where he was based in Hong Kong for two years. Prior to that he held the position of General Manager for Philip Morris Slovak Republic from 1997, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of the business in that affiliate. As Managing Director of Philip Morris (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and oversees all business units including the operations of the manufacturing facility in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Richard Morgan holds a Business Degree (Hons) from Stirling University, United Kingdom. Over the years, he has also attended various professional in-house and institutional programmes including the Executive Development Programme at leading global business school IMD.

Shireen Muhiudeen has over 21 years of pure fund management experience. She is the founder and Managing Director of Corston-Smith Asset Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd, an Exempt Fund Manager in Singapore and Corston-Smith Asset Management Sdn Bhd in Malaysia. She currently manages the clients’ portfolios that invest in the ASEAN region which focuses on corporate governance and engagement. She was previously the Chief Executive Officer of AIG Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd, managing insurance’s portfolio and 3rd party money that were invested in Malaysia, Indonesia and India, as well as the AIG Asia Emerging Fund in the Asia Pacific ex-Japan region. She was a member of the AIG Global Asset Allocation Committee and a member of the Equity Risk Control Committee. She has been a Licensed Fund Manager Representative with the Securities Commission since 1996. She also began managing Shariah funds in 1988, with MUI Kelantan, one of the first few Shariah bodies who was interested in investments. She currently speaks at international forums on some of the issue’s within Islamic Fund Management, and ties Shariah investing with corporate governance. She is a member of CFA Institute and is a member of International Corporate Governance Network (United Kingdom) and a corporate member of Asian Corporate Governance Group (Hong Kong). As part of Corston-Smith’s Asset Management’s CSR initiative, Shireen & the team wrote (pro bono) a handbook on basic personal finance for young persons entering the work force. This free handbook is titled Learn to Make Sense of Your Money – What they don’t tell you when you first start work.

Dr. Nidhi Nagabhatla has ten years research experience in earth observation and geographical information science for natural resource planning and decision making. Socio-ecological simulation of land and water resources to investigate multi-scalar environmental change (including climate change) and transitions using indicator based simulation. She has worked five years with different centers of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Dr. Nagabhatla has extensive experience in environmental management in the Asian and African region. She is closely involved with the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) projects of CGIAR and held managerial role in partnership projects between various bilateral and multi-lateral organizations such as Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and Ramsar Convention. Dr Nagabhatla holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Science and Public Health from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India and PhD in Natural Resource Management from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India. She is an expert with Multiple Resource Use Group and Commission on Ecosystem Management, IUCN.

Jayanthi Naidu Desan is a Senior Consultant in the Kuala Lumpur office. Her experience in the area of governance and sustainability spans government, academia and consulting. At CSR Asia, her role involves advising companies and institutions in realizing their CSR strategies. Jayanthi’s portfolio of work covers companies located in Europe and within the region. She is published in the area and is regularly invited to conferences. Her particular interest lies in bottom of the pyramid strategies and pro-poor policies. Prior to joining CSR Asia, she was the Executive Director of the University Malaya Malaysian Centre of Regulatory Studies, focusing on regulatory governance. Jayanthi is a lawyer by training and was previously involved in capital market prosecution and compliance. Jayanthi has a PhD in the area from Queen Mary, University of London and teaches a CSR module on the MBA programme at University Malaya.

Carmen Niethammer is a strategy officer in IFC's Gender Team and also serves as private sector development market leader under the World Bank Group's Gender Action Plan. Previously, Carmen was the gender program manager in IFC's Cairo-based PEP-MENA facility, where she led the team that provides technical assistance solutions to growth-oriented small and medium female-owned enterprises. Carmen joined the IFC from the World Bank, where she was an Operations Officer in the Office of the MENA Chief Economist. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 1999, Carmen was an Aid Coordinator as part of the UN Resident Coordinator System in Sana'a, Yemen. Carmen is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Rikke Netterstrom is Country Director, Malaysia for CSR Asia. Rikke has over 10 years multi-sector experience in corporate responsibility strategy, stakeholder engagement and communications. She was responsible for environmental and social issues for two of the world’s sustainability leader - The Body Shop International plc and Novozymes A/S, preparing strategies for over 50 markets globally. As an investment analyst and a public affairs consultant, she provided advisory services to multinational companies within a range of sectors, including consumer goods, agrichemicals and financial institutions. She has worked extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, delivering workshops at Board and senior management level in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the US. Rikke was closely involved in the creation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as an Executive Board member, and continues to provide advisory services to companies in the oil palm sector. She holds an MSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and postgraduate qualifications from Thammasat University, Thailand.

Dr. Jeanne Ng is responsible for the development of corporate environmental policy and strategy across the CLP Group. She joined CLP upon the establishment of the Group Environmental Affairs department in 2003. Dr. Ng has extensive experience in the environmental industry and has held senior roles in international environmental/engineering consulting companies prior to joining CLP. She was involved in most of the early Hong Kong governmental air pollution and climate strategy and policy studies and is regarded as one of Hong Kong's experts in air and greenhouse gas emissions inventories. Dr. Ng is a frequent guest lecturer on environmental and sustainable development issues at various Hong Kong universities. Dr. Ng holds a BSc in Toxicology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of Hong Kong. She is currently the Chair of the Air and Waste Management Association (Hong Kong Section) and is on the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong People's Council for Sustainable Development.

Paul Norton took over as Chief Risk Officer, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad in January 2008. Prior to coming over to HSBC Bank Malaysia, he was working in the Asia Pacific Regional Credit Risk Unit based in Hong Kong, as a Senior Manager Credit where he was responsible mainly for Corporate and Institutional Banking clients in several countries in the Asia Pacific region. He started his banking career in London where he was primarily involved in corporate and commercial banking. He has worked for the HSBC group for over 29 years. Paul has however spent the majority of the last 15 years in Asia, including two stints in Hong Kong and also over 4 years in HSBC Indonesia where as the Chief Risk Officer, he was responsible for credit risk management and corporate recovery. He is British and married with two children.

Malar Odayappan is the CR Manager for Nike managing Malaysia and Singapore based factories. She oversees labour practices which revolve around recruitment, employment and sustaining workforce at Nike vendor factories based on local labour laws and Nike Code Leadership Standards. Malar has educational background in human resources and business management. She is well versed Malaysian labour law as well as labour practices in Asean countries. She has hands-on experiences in collective bargaining, union relations, grievance handling and other facets of human resources management. She also has working experiences with hotel and construction industries.

Ms. Lavanya Rama Iyer is the National Project Coordinator of Malaysia’s Second National Communication (NC2) to the UNFCCC project which is a UNDP/GEF funded project, spearheaded by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Malaysia. She has attended UNFCCC meetings as part of the Malaysian delegation. Ms. Rama Iyer is a law graduate from the University of Kent at Canterbury and practiced as an advocate and solicitor at Messrs. Zain & Co., Malaysia for 6 years after being called to the High Court of Malaya in 1994. She then worked at the United Nations in Geneva from 2000 - 2006, first with the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), then at the Post Conflict Branch (PCoB) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She has several years experience of environmental assessments of post-conflict countries especially in the middle-east, and has participated in UN technical missions to the middle-east.

Tara Rangarajan is the Program Manager of Better Work Vietnam. Ms. Rangarajan comes to Better Work after 10 years at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), an organisation that works with businesses to help create a just and sustainable world. Ms Rangarajan has worked extensively on international labour standards issues with the apparel, electronics, automotive, and agriculture sectors in many countries around the world. Much of Ms Rangarajan’s work has focused on facilitating dialogue between international companies, local enterprises, unions, governments, and civil society representatives. Prior to her time at BSR, Ms Rangarajan was a journalist, covering topics of international development in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. Ms Rangarajan has a master degree in international economic and political development from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Veronica Rubio hasextensive experience working in Europe and Latin America. She has a bachelor’s degree in Commercial Law and a master’s degree in Foreign Trade and International Business and eight years experience in social and economic development. She worked as Fair Trade Certification Manager for Latin America for four years where she developed a social certification methodology for all Central and Latin American countries. She worked as a consultant on social and economic development in Brazil for 3 years, where she was responsible for: creating the Public Social and Environmental Certification Scheme for produce from the Amazon Rainforest; diagnosing the cocoa value chain towards promoting sustainable development in the Rainforest; developing a Fair Trade Labeling Initiative for the domestic market; developing the Environmental and Sustainability Analysis of the State of Amazon, published by UNCLAC in July 2007. Currently, she is Project Manager Primary Production at Business Social Compliance Initiative to promote social compliance in the food sector.

David started his career in Standard Chartered Bank. Subsequently, he helped found an environmental consultancy based in Hong Kong. For the past fifteen years he has been consistently involved in CSR, SRI and sustainable development related initiatives in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region and he has been a partner in several community oriented businesses. He manages the content and news on the ASrIA website, has led training on sustainable finance and conducted research on behalf of ASrIA. David has a masters degree from Hong Kong University. He currently lives in Taiwan.

Simon Siburat started his planting career in 1989 with Sarawak Oil Palms Sdn Bhd that was formerly managed by Commonwealth Development Corporation as a cadet planter. Then in 1992 he joined Sapi Plantations Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of PPB Oil Palms Bhd. and was involved in the field operations before switching his career to research and advisory line in mid 1995. The advisory unit, Eco-Management Unit (EMU) is providing agricultural services in the form of agronomy and IPM Advisory, Crop quality monitoring and GIS mapping. Ever since the merger with Wilmar International Limited in 2007 he has taken a new role as the Sustainability Coordinator for Wilmar International Limited in spearheading the implementation of RSPO and other sustainability issues, in particular community and environmental issues.

David Smith is Head of Asia-Pacific corporate governance research for RiskMetrics Group’s ISS Governance Services unit. Based in Singapore, he joined RiskMetrics in 2007 from HIM Governance, where he provided corporate governance research analysis and proxy voting advice to institutional clients. He has previously worked for Hermes Pensions Management in London providing research advice on voting and engagement programmes, and has worked for the Asian Corporate Governance Association as a research consultant. David has also undertaken research on the private equity industry for a major independent ratings agency in the UK, and has lectured on micro-economics at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo (China). He has a PhD in corporate governance and an MA in Corporate Strategy and Governance (both from the University of Nottingham), and a BSc in Business Economics (from the University of Wales).

Marie So is the co-founder of Ventures in Development, a non-profit that catalyses creation of social enterprises in the Greater China region. Marie graduated from Harvard Kennedy School’s Masters in Public Administration/International Development program (MPA/ID), Master in International and Public Affairs from Hong Kong University and Bachelor in Economics, Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University. She worked for the United Nations Development Program; Dubai Development and Investment Authority; Procter and Gamble, Merrill Lynch. Marie is a Board member of the Chen Yet Sen Family Foundation, Bright China Group Social Enterprise Steering Committee. She is an award recipient of Echoing Green Fellow 2008, Asia 21 Young Leader 2008.Outstanding Chinese Entrepreneur Award 2008, Business in Development (BID) 2006 and recently, selected as World Economic Forum Global Young Leaders 2009.

Cherie Tan is the Responsible Forest Finance manager for WWF International based in Singapore. She supports the organisation’s effort to engage with the financial sector on responsible lending and developing a number of key sector guidelines for investments in forest conversion (palm oil), forest management, pulp & paper and forest carbon. Prior to joining WWF, Ms Tan worked with Rabobank as VP of Corporate and Investment Banking covering the food and agribusiness portfolio and managing relationships with key agribusiness conglomerates throughout Southeast Asia. From 1999-2005, Ms Tan worked in development and served as a rural finance project manager in Latin American and Africa on programmes supporting small farmers through microfinance and market creation. She worked on projects for USAID, the Inter American Development and the World Bank and was based in the field in Haiti (1999-2001), Canada (2002-2003) and Peru (2003-2005).

Mark Watson works for Cathay Pacific Airways in Hong Kong as the airline’s Head of Environmental Affairs. Having previously been Head of Environmental Affairs at the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) in London, he led the trade association’s environment and sustainability activities, including the UK Sustainable Aviation initiative, working with major airlines, aerospace manufacturers, airports and air navigation services providers. Mark returned to Asia in 2008 to work in a new front-line role addressing the key challenges of aviation and climate change for one of the world’s leading airlines. At Cathay Pacific he works on a wide range of strategy and policy-related initiatives aimed at reducing the airline’s emissions, both on the ground and in the air, including long term technology acquisition and deployment and, as part of the Aviation Global Deal (AGD) group, seeking a global approach to aviation emissions as part of a post-Kyoto framework at this year’s UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. Mark also leads Cathay Pacific’s work on sustainability and taking forward key initiatives to drive the company’s CSR agenda.

Richard Welford is one of the founders and the chairman of CSR Asia based in Hong Kong. He is also a professor at the University of Hong Kong and a director of ERP Environment, a UK-based publisher. Richard has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been increasingly Asian focused as a result of his current position as director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including the MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas. Richard’s work has had a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and social justice. Richard has worked with Cathay Pacific and the Swire group developing a climate change strategy. He has also worked on policies and implementation plans covering conservation and biodiversity. For Shangri-La Hotels he is developing initiatives not only covering environmental sustainability but also aspects of human rights and local community engagement. He has been an advocate of human rights auditing as a means of ensuring social justice and has undertaken assessments of the Freeport Human Rights audit in Papua.

Aged 31, Mr Yoon graduated from Hongik University with a BA in business administration in 2004. In 2004, he joined LG Electronics as a sales marketing assistant for 2 years in the Korea electronic market. Now he plays a role of corporate staff in CSR strategy & activities for LG Electronics.