Organizing
Workshop 2006
Preservation Park, Oakland, California June 15-16, 2006 |
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List
of Participants Click participants' name for their biography Nicola Bullard - Deputy Director, Focus on the Global South Chandra Bhushan - Coordinator, Industry and Environment Programme, Center for Science and the Environment Michelle Chan-Fishel - Publish What You Pay International/Friends of Earth Dana Clark - Senior Campaigner, Rainforest Action Network Sheila Davis - Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Deborah Doane - Director, CORE Peter Gleick - President, Pacific Institute Karen
Hansen-Kuhn - Food and Hungar Policy Analyst, ActionAid
International, USA Pierre
Johnson - Program Officer, Bridge
Initiative International Michelle
Medeiros - US Campaigns Director, ForestEthics Sandeep Pandey - National Convenor, National Alliance of People's Movements Mark
Randazzo - FNTG Coordinator, The
Funders Network on Trade and Globalization Farah
Sofa - Deputy Director of Campaign, Walhi/Friends
of Earth Indonesia Daniel Stokes - Policy and Development Associate, Transfair USA Natacha Thys - Associate General Counsel, International Labor Rights Fund Gregory Tzeutschler Regaignon - Senior Researcher & North America Manager, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Elena
Villarroel - Director, Agua
Bolivia If you are interested
in receiving a meeting report, please contact Mari Morikawa (morikawa@pacinst.org).
Biography of Participants Nicola Bullard - Deputy Director, Focus on the Global South Nicola Bullard has worked with trade unions, women's organisation, human rights groups and development agencies for more than twenty years, in Australia, Thailand and Cambodia. She has also worked as a journalist and editor and has studied geography and international relations.. Since 1997, Nicola has been with Focus on the Global South, an international policy research and advocacy organisation based in Bangkok, Thailand, researching, campaigning and writing on the political economy of neo-liberal globalisation and alternatives. She edits the monthly electronic newsletter Focus on Trade and is active in the international 'movement of movements' for another globalisation. Chandra Bhushan - Coordinator, Industry and Environment Programme, Center for Science and the Environment Chandra Bhushan has been with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) since 1997 and is currently the Associate Director of the Centre. He is a distinguished professional in the field of industrial pollution, environmental health and food safety. He has a diverse and distinguished track record in research, writing, management, policy advocacy and activism. He has researched and written about issues ranging from industrial pollution to global environment governance and from environmental health to corporate responsibility and accountability. His academic qualifications include bachelors in civil engineering and masters in environmental planning and technology. Bhushan runs a highly successful public disclosure project at the Centre - Green Rating Project (GRP) - and also directs key corporate accountability campaigns of CSE. GRP rates and benchmarks Indian industry on environment performance and disseminates the research and ratings to the public. GRP has been highly successful in influencing the policy and regulatory framework and in pushing Indian companies to improve their environment performance. Bhushan directed CSE's high-profile campaign against Coca Cola and PepsiCo and was instrumental in putting the agenda of pesticide contamination and food safety in the national mainstream. He is part of many national and international networks/ institutions and works on a wide array of environment and development issues, including on issues related to corporate responsibility and accountability. Michelle Chan-Fishel - Program Manager, Green Investments Publish What You Pay International/Friends of Earth For the past ten years, Michelle Chan-Fishel has coordinated Friends of the Earth's Green Investments project, which brings environmental advocacy to Wall Street. The Green Investments project engages in shareholder activism, promotes corporate environmental disclosure, provides outreach to financial analysts, and works with major financial institutions to develop environmental management systems. Her work has been featured in Institutional Investor and Environmental Finance, and covered in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Pensions and Investments. Michelle serves as the chair for the Corporate Sunshine Working Group, an alliance of investors, environmentalists, and labor unions working for improved corporate social disclosure requirements at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is the founder of BankTrack, an international NGO network of financial advocates. Michelle has served on the Board of CERES, an investor-environmentalist alliance for corporate responsibility; the Council for Responsible Public Investment, and the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. She is a founding member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Advisory Committee, and in 2002 she received the Social Investment Forum’s Service Award for outstanding contributions to the field of socially responsible investing. Dana Clark - Senior Campaigner, Rainforest Action Network Dana
Clark is the Corporate Commitments Campaigner for the Global Finance
Campaign at Rainforest Action Network. She is a human rights and environmental
lawyer who specializes in working at both the grassroots and international
levels to promote justice and accountability in the context of international
development projects. Dana is leading RAN's efforts to hold corporations,
particularly banks, accountable to their environmental and social
commitments and policies, and will be working to build implementation
and accountability measures into agreements with corporate leaders
to ensure compliance with, and improvements to, industry best practices.
Prior to joining RAN, she was the President of the International Accountability
Project, an organization that she founded in 2003. Dana's work has
focused on development-induced displacement, improving citizen-based
accountability mechanisms at public international financial institutions,
advocating for justice and remedial measures for affected communities,
and working for systemic reform of international financial institutions.
Dana is co-author and co-editor of Demanding Accountability: Civil
Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel (Rowman & Littlefield,
2003). She has written numerous other publications about issues of
accountability and international financial institutions, including
The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability,
published in the Harvard Human Rights Journal (Spring 2002). From
1994-2000, Dana was a Senior Attorney at the Center for International
Environmental Law, in Washington, DC, where she was the Director of
the International Financial Institutions Program. While in Washington,
she also served as an adjunct professor of law at the American University's
Washington College of Law. Deborah Doane is a campaigner, writer and researcher in the area of CSR, focusing on public policy, ethical trading and global sustainability. She is Director of the CORE (Corporate Responsibility) Coalition of over 130 NGOs, organisations and individuals in the UK. She is a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative and has advised the UK Government on social and environmental reporting. Previously she was a Programme Director of Transforming Markets at the New Economics Foundation, where she lead research on the first 'Ethical Purchasing Index' and provided a watchdog to the SRI movement. She is a frequent guest lecturer, including at the London School of Economics and London Business School and has contributed to the Guardian, Independent newspapers as well as the Financial Times Handbook of Management, amongst others. Her most recent article, 'The Myth of CSR' was published in the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Social Innovation Review (www.ssireview.com) and she is currently writing a book on Business and Human Rigbts to be published next year by Amnesty International (UK). Sheila Davis - Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Peter Gleick - President, Pacific Institute Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2001, Gleick was dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the British Broadcasting Corporation. That same year he was also appointed to the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences based in Washington, D.C. In 1999, was elected an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway. Gleick
received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of numerous
journals and organizations, and is the author of many scientific papers
and four books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water,
published by Island Press (Washington, D.C.). Karen
Hansen-Kuhn - Food and Hungar Policy Analyst, ActionAid
International, USA Karen
Hansen-Kuhn has over 15 years of experience on structural adjustment,
free trade and other forms of corporate-led globalization. Shawnee Hoover - Coordinator, ExxposeExxon (USPIRG) Shawnee
Hoover has more than a decade of experience researching and working
on issues of environment, social justice and corporate accountability.
She has been quoted in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Fortune
Magazine, and other print, radio and TV media sources. Prior to taking
on ExxonMobil, Shawnee worked with Beyond Pesticides mobilizing activists
and educating the media on the underworld of the chemical industry
and federal regulation. While there she testified before congress
to maintain the integrity of the Clean Water Act and started a corporate
campaign to pressure Home Depot, the largest lawn and garden retailer
in the U.S., to carry a full range of non-toxic lawn products. In
2002, Shawnee served as the assistant to the head delegate and as
a media and advocacy strategist for Care International at the United
Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. From
1998-2000 Shawnee worked with the International Forum on Globalization
in San Francisco where she organized debates and teach-ins and participated
in international strategy meetings on corporate-led economic globalization.
Prior to that, Shawnee lived and worked in Zimbabwe as a journalist,
in Guatemala as a development consultant, and for the private sector
as an executive manager. Shawnee holds a Bachelors degree in international
relations from San Francisco State University (1993) and a Masters
degree in economic and political development from Columbia University
(2003). Saradha
is a lawyer by training. She obtained her LLB degree from the University
of Malaya, Malaysia in 1977 and her LLM from the University of Lagos,
Nigeria in 1979. She was a pioneering student in the area of international
environmental law and reamins the first female to obtian her PHD in
that area from Malaysia's premier law faculty. She is currently Legal/Research
Consultant to the Third World Network, an international network of
groups and individuals involved in efforts to bring about greater
articulation of the rights and needs of peoples in the Third World.
She has taught law at public and private tertiary institutions in
Malaysia. She has wide exposure to the multilateral system having
participated actively in several international negotiations and conferences.
She is a well sought ater speaker at national and international conferences.
Saradha is married to Ambassador Thanarajasingam and they have served
in various diplomatic capacities in Nigeria, India and the United
Nations in New York and most recently in Brazil. Nity
is an independent journalist and researcher investigating and reporting
on corporations and their human rights and environmental track records.
Nity is based in Chennai, and am associated with a number of community
campaigns -- particularly among pollution affected communities --
to hold polluters accountable, and to secure rehabilitation and compensation.
Notable among these is the Bhopal campaign, with which Nity has been
associated for a decade. Alongwith other members of our voluntary
collective -- Corporate Accountability Desk -- Nity assists communities
with legal, strategic and technical advice. Nity is also advisor to
the Community Environmental Monitoring program. See: www.sipcotcuddalore.com
and www.bhopal.net Pierre Johnson - Program Officer, Bridge Initiative International MA
in Sociology and Planning in Developing Countries. Pierre Johnson
has been working with international cooperation since 1995. He has
been proactive in supporting dynamics of change and development in
Latin America, South-East Asia and West Africa through economic practices
based on solidarity, such as Fair Trade. Since the year 2000, he has
also been facilitating exchanges and the elaboration of strategies
for those innovative practices in international fora, such as the
World Social Forum and the Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy.
With an intimate knowledge of different cultural contexts, he is contributing
to the dialogue on issues related to globalization in an intercultural
setting. He coordinates at Bridge Initiative the following processes:
"agriculture and trade", "water for all" and reflection
on its methodology. Patricia
has been working at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
for the past two years in the Trade and Global Governance department.
She is focused on raising awareness and support for the United Nations,
multilateral diplomacy and for the United States to engage in foreign
affairs in a positive manner. She co-authored a report entitled, The
Treaty Database: U.S. Compliance with Global Treaties. With the Global
Cooperation project, she is networking together NGOs, community associations
and influential leaders to promote just international trade policies
and the importance of having human rights and social development as
the foundation for trade agreements. During the WTO talks in Hong
Kong in December 2005, Patricia coordinated the Fair Trade Fair and
Symposium, which included a fair trade fashion show. She is fluent
in Spanish; worked in the sourcing and production departments for
Gap, Inc. in Mexico and Miami; focused on Latino outreach for U.S.
political campaigns; and managed a natural dye studio in Seattle,
Wash. Patricia lived and worked with village craft producers in Peru,
Mexico and Guatemala; and in 2002 - 2003, she spent 15 months traveling
around the world. Patricia is on the board of directors for the Minnesota
Chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions, RESULTS-Minnesota, and the
United Nations Association of Minnesota. She is also on the coordinating
committee for the international network and publication, Social Watch.
She has an International MBA from Thunderbird, the Gavin School of
International Management and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.
Michael
Marx, Executive Director, Corporate Ethics International. Michael
has a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he
taught organizational behavior in the business school. He was the
president of Selection Sciences, Inc. His clients included Hewlett-Packard,
Memorex, Fireman's Fund, Transamerica, Pacific Bell, American Express,
and other Fortune 1000 companies. He was a consultant to and later
on the Board of Directors for the Rainforest Action Network. He designed
and directed the International Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign for the
Rainforest Action Network for four years. He then became the executive
director of the Coastal Rainforest Coalition (CRC), comprised of Greenpeace,
Rainforest Action Network, American Lands Alliance, Natural Resources
Defense Council, and Sierra Club which later became ForestEthics.
After five years in that role, Michael left ForestEthics to become
the executive director of Corporate Ethics International which administers
the Business Ethics Network and Wal-Mart Project. BEN is a network
of 50 NGOs with a mission to transform corporations by increasing
the effectiveness of marketplace campaign organizations. Conrad
is Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Program at As You
Sow Foundation. The program represents socially concerned investors
in promoting progressive corporate social and environmental policies
through dialogue and shareholder advocacy. The program has pursued
successful environmental initiatives at Coca-Cola Co., Dell Computer,
Home Depot, Office Depot and Staples Inc., among others. It is in
dialogue on labor rights issues with Gap Inc., McDonald's Corp., Nike,
Nordstrom, Wal-Mart Stores, and The Walt Disney Co. Clients have included
Citizens Funds, Domini Social Investments, Calvert Group and clients
of Piper Jaffray Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting.
He also serves as Senior Social Investment Analyst, Piper Jaffray
Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting, which provides investment
management consulting for individuals and institutions. Conrad has
researched the records of thousands of publicly-traded companies on
social and environmental issues for client portfolios during 13 years
in the social research field. Previously, he was Senior Analyst, Energy
and Environment, for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (Washington,
DC). Conrad is a former board member of the Social Investment Forum,
the trade association of ethical investment professionals. A former
journalist, he served as Washington Bureau Chief for Chemical Week
and a writer for Environment Reporter. Conrad is also the author of
Business in the Rainforests: Corporations, Deforestation and Sustainability
(IRRC, 1993) and Unlocking the Power of the Proxy (Rockefeller Philanthropy
Advisors, 2004). He holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and Public
Affairs from The American University (Washington, D.C.). Michelle Medeiros - US Campaigns Director, ForestEthics Michelle Medeiros is the US Campaigns Director for Forest Ethics where she manages all US campaigns including Forest Ethics work on the paper sector. ForestEthics' Paper Campaign endeavors to shift the world's largest corporate consumers away from products procured directly from forests and toward products that rely on an increased use of recycled and alternative fibers. Building on the successes ForestEthics has had transforming the paper industry we are moving to another large user of wood products, the homebuilding industry where we will be urging large homebuilders to move away from sourcing wood products from endangered forests and instead sourcing wood from certified (FSC) lands. Michelle joins ForestEthics from Friends of the Earth, where she worked on the international team as Senior Campaigner where she developed a program of work on Africa, which focused on the nexus between natural resource extraction and conflict. As part of her work Michelle worked on threats to our worlds last remaining pristine forested ecosystems by challenging the actions of the World Bank, which continues to fund projects that directly impact forests and forest-dependent communities in West and Central Africa. Prior to joining Friends of the Earth, she worked at Greenpeace US on international forest policy, focusing on conflict timber and illegal logging in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Amazon and Indonesia. Jason Morrison - Program Director, Pacific Institute Since
1994, Jason Morrison has been with the Pacific Institute for Studies
in Development, Environment, and Security, a non-profit, non-partisan
policy research center based in Oakland, California. Mr. Morrison
is the director of the Institute's Economic Globalization and the
Environment Program, where he is currently studying the policy implications
of private sector sustainability initiatives and voluntary international
standards, with a focus on the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO). He has co-authored numerous publications on the subject, including
Managing a Better Environment: Opportunities and Obstacles for ISO
14001 in Public Policy and Commerce, which was released by the Institute
in 2000. Since 2002 he has served as the Secretary for the International
NGO Network on ISO (INNI), which presently consists of approximately
280 organizations from 50 countries (32 developing). Kathryn
Mulvey is the Executive Director of Corporate Accountability International,
a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning
campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions
around the world. A defender of human rights and advocate for corporate
accountability for over 15 years, Mulvey has played a strategic role
in high-profile campaigns, including the GE Boycott. She has been
the key visionary and strategist behind Corporate Accountability International's
successful Tobacco Industry Campaign -- including the boycott targeting
Philip Morris/Altria's Kraft Foods. This corporate campaign contributed
to the adoption and entry into force of the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control, one of the most rapidly embraced UN treaties in history.
Under Mulvey's leadership, Corporate Accountability International
has launched a new campaign challenging the water industry, and is
engaged in strategic education and visibility around abuses by industries
like food, oil and big-box retailers. Mulvey is a frequent guest on
NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and has appeared
on CBS Evening News. A graduate of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Mulvey lived and taught in China during the height
of the pro-democracy movement in the late 1980s, an experience she
credits for solidifying her commitment to human rights work. Akinbode Oluwafemi is the Programme Manager of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Nigeria's foremost environmental rights advocacy group. Before joining ERA, Mr. Oluwafemi was a journalist with The Guardian, Nigeria's leading national newspaper. As a journalist, Mr.Oluwafemi participated actively in the press freedom struggles during the despotic rule of the Late General Sanni Abacha. Upon joining ERA/FoEN, Mr. Oluwafemi was assigned the co-coordination of the organisation's Campaign and Media activities. ERA has been in the fore front of challenging corporate abuses perpetrated by Shell, ChevronTexaco and other oil multinationals operating in Nigeria' oil rich Niger Delta. In 2000, Mr. Oluwafemi took up the additional challenge of designing and implementing ERA's tobacco control programme. He has since then been actively involved in both national and international tobacco control activities. Such activities include: organising workshops on tobacco control for parliamentarians and government officials, mobilizing press coverage for tobacco control both in the Nigerian and international media, lobbying the Nigerian government to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), developing and producing campaign materials e.g Death & and Destruction: The Tobacco Attack on Nigeria (ERA,2002), The Global Treaty on Tobacco (ERA,2003). and the formation and co-ordination of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA). Alongside his anti-tobacco works Mr. Oluwafemi is actively engaged in environmental rights campaigns. He has organized workshops on a variety of environmental issues and is currently working with the National Assembly on a new Environmental Protection Bill for Nigeria. His recent works in this field included two significant publications: The Shell Report: Continuing Abuses in Nigeria- 10 Years After Ken Saro Wiwa (2005) and Before the Earth Bleeds Again (2004). Mr. Oluwafemi who is widely quoted in local and international media on tobacco control and environmental issues graduated from University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. in 1992. Sandeep
Pandey - National Convenor, National Alliance of People's Movements Farah
Sofa - Deputy Director of Campaign, Walhi/Friends
of Earth Indonesia Ms.Sofa
is currently deputy director for WALHI, the largest grass-root environmental
network in Indonesia. She is responsible for overall campaign for
WALHI nationally and internationally. Previously she was coordinating
corporate campaign for Friends of the Earth International, she based
in Jakarta, Indonesia. Before joining WALHi, she works for various
environmental organisations in Indonesia and UK. Jon Sohn is Senior Associate on the International Financial Flows and the Environment Project, and leads WRI's Financial Flows Objective. Before joining WRI, Jon Sohn worked at Friends of the Earth(FoE) for 6 years, focusing on International Financial Institutions as well as Climate Change. His work emphasized monitoring the projects and policies of IFIs in the extractive industries sector, and working with renewable energy companies for clean energy targets. Prior to his work at FoE, Jon was Counsel and Environment/Labor Program Officer for the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). His work with OPIC involved the establishment of environmental policies in consultation with industry and non-governmental organizations. He holds a JD plus a Certificate of Specialization in Environmental. and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark, Northwestern School of Law, and a B.A. in History and a B.A. in communications from the University of Michigan. Daniel Stokes - Policy and Development Associate, Transfair USA Natacha Thys - Associate General Counsel, International Labor Rights Fund Natacha Thys is a human rights attorney who serves as the International Labor Rights Fund's (ILRF) Associate General Counsel, where she litigates cases to hold U.S. multinational corporations accountable for human rights violations, including the landmark case against Unocal Corporation. She currently works on ILRF's cases against Firestone, Nestle, and Wal-Mart. Ms. Thys also serves as the Project Director for ILRF's Rights for Working Women Campaign, which she developed in 2001. Prior to joining ILRF, she litigated issues relating to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, and occupational health and safety. In particular, she worked with the National Treasury's Employee Union (NTEU) representing federal workers and with Unite for Dignity, a project of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) organizing nursing home workers. Previous to these positions, Ms. Thys was an associate with the Law firm of Gagliardo & Zipin representing Plaintiffs in employment cases. Ms. Thys is a May 1996 graduate of the American University, Washington College of Law. Gregory
Tzeutschler Regaignon
- Senior Researcher & North America Manager, Business
& Human Rights Resource Centre Gregory Regaignon is an international lawyer whose academic background includes degrees in African Studies and International Economics. Greg was previously an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, a leading international law firm based in New York City. At Cleary Gottlieb, Greg’s practice focused on restructuring sovereign, project and corporate debt in emerging market contexts. Greg also had a significant pro bono practice at Cleary Gottlieb, working mainly on issues of political asylum, domestic violence, women’s rights and civil rights. He has worked with Human Rights Watch in New York, the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, and the Legal Aid Institute of Indonesia, focusing on issues of labour rights, corporate responsibility for human rights, the environment and civil/political rights. He also served as an election monitor for Indonesia Election Watch during Indonesia’s historic 1999 elections. Greg’s publications include “Corporate Violator: The Alien Tort Liability of Transnational Corporations for Human Rights Abuses Abroad,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 30:359 (1999). He obtained his JD (Stone Scholar) from Columbia Law School, where he also obtained his certificate from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and was Senior Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and winner of the Gitelson-Meyerowitz Prize for Human Rights Writing. He obtained his MA in African Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he was an editor of the SAIS Review, and received the African Studies Program Paper Award. He conducted independent field research in rural Senegal on land rights issues, and published the results in the Journal of African Law. He obtained his BA in Political Science magna cum laude from Amherst College. Elena Villarroel - Director, Agua Bolivia HIGH
EDUCATION 2005 - 2006 Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA), Ramboll Natura, Stockholm International Water Institute
(SIWI) Sweden Training course in Integrated Water Resource Management
1994 - 1996 Universidad Mayor de San Simón UMSS Bolivia Master
of Science in Environment and Sustainable Development 1986 - 1991
Universidad Mayor de San Simón UMSS Bolivia Agronomic Engineer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Worked as an environmental consultant from
1997 to 1999. From the year 2000,she became part of a research team
working in water issues, including legislation, irrigation, local
water management and others. The research team belonged to the Bolivian
Commission for Integrated Water Resource Management (CGIAB). In 2004
the research team formed the NGO Agua Sustentable in which Elena Villarroel
is the Coordinator of the Water Rights Project financed by the IDRC.
The practical experience during the years of research was as coordinator
with local users organizations, hydrological and socioeconomic data
collection, building SIG data base, facilitating workshops between
users organizations and government officials and other requested activities
in the projects Steve
focuses upon large systems change and global network development.
The issues may be as broad as trade, poverty and sustainable development,
or as specific as road-building, youth employment, banking and provision
of water and sanitation services. Usually the change strategy involves
creating business-government-civil society collaborations and networks;
these collaborations may be local, national or global. Steve does
this work in the capacity of Co-Director of the Generative Dialogue
Project , Executive Director of the Global Action Network Net , Senior
Associate at Strategic Clarity and the Institute for Strategic Clarity,
and an adjunct faculty member for the innovative executive management
program he founded at Boston College. Dozens of journal articles and
book chapters by Steve have been published in English and Spanish.
His most recent publication is a 2005 book titled Societal Learning
and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies. Steve has
a doctorate in sociology and an MBA. Publications are available through
the Institute for Strategic Clarity and www.gan-net.net. Dr. Allen L. White is Vice President and Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute, Boston, and directs the institute's corporate responsibility activities. Dr. White co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative and served as Chief Executive through 2002. In 2004, he co-founded Corporation 2020, an initiative focused on designing future corporations to sustain social purpose. He is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network Committee on Non-Financial Disclosure. Dr. has advised multilaterals, foundations, corporations, and NGOs on corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy and practice. He has held faculty and research positions at the University of Connecticut, Clark University and Battelle Laboratories, and is a former Fulbright Scholar in Peru and Peace Corps worker in Nicaragua. Dr. White has served on advisory boards and committees of the Nordic Partnership, ISO, Civic Capital, and Instituto Ethos (Brazil). He is a member of Board of GAN-NET, a non-profit dedicated to innovative global governance and a member of the Steering Committee of the Institute for Responsible Investment, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, an Associate of the Center, and a Senior Advisor to Business for Social Responsibility. Dr. White has published and spoken widely on corporate responsibility, governance and accountability.
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