Conference speakers

From the project record

Speakers

Leaders from business, civil society and government will discuss what sustainability reporting means for them. Many have embarked on the GRI journey, using the guidelines to embed sustainability in their organisations and to manage change.

This list of speakers is continually growing, as we get new confirmations, and includes:

• HRH The Prince of Orange
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Roger Adams
  Executive Director-Technical, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Mr. Juan José Barrera
  Director General for Social Economy, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
  Spain
  
  
• Mr. Peter Blom
  CEO, Triodos Bank
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Paul Clements-Hunt
  Head, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI)
  Switzerland
  
  
• Mr. Job Cohen
  Mayor, City of Amsterdam
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Aron Cramer
  President & CEO, Business for Social Responibility (BSR)
  United States
  
  
• Ms. Elisabeth Dahlin
  Swedish Ambassador, Global Responsibility
  Sweden
  
  
• Mr. George Dallas
  Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Governance Services, Standard and Poor's
  United States
  
  
• Mr. Richard Edelman
  President & CEO, Edelman
  United States
  
  
• Mr. John Evans
  Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Mr. Ricky Fukada
  Chair, Keidanren - Council for Better Corporate Citizenship (CBCC)
  Japan
  
  
• Mr. Dan Gagnier
  Senior Vice President, Alcan
  Canada
  
  
• Mr. Gonzalo García
  General Secretary, CMPC
  Chile
  
  
• Mr. Al Gore
  Chairman, Generation Investment Management
  Former Vice President, USA
  United States
  
  
• Mr. Toshihiko Goto
  Chair, Environmental Auditing Research Group
  Japan
  
  
• Mr. Sean Harrigan
  Former President, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
  United States
  
  
• Prof. Stuart Hart
  Samuel Johnson Professor, Cornell University
  United States
  
  
• Ms. Judy Henderson
  Chair of Board of Directors, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  Immediate-past Chair, Australian Ethical Investment Ltd
  Former Commissioner, World Commission on Dams
  Australia
  
  
• Mr. Jeremy Hobbs
  Executive Director, Oxfam International
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Mr. Ernst Ligteringen
  Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Hanns Michael Höltz
  Global Head of Sustainable Development and Public Relations, Deutsche Bank Group
  Germany
  
  
• Mr. Gerard Kleisterlee
  CEO, Royal Philips Electronics
  Netherlands
  
  
• Dr. Matthew J. Kiernan
  Founder & Chief Executive, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc.
  United States
  
  
• Mr. Mervyn E King
  First Vice President, Institute of Directors (IoD)
  South Africa
  
  
• Dr. Alan Knight
  Head of Standards and Related Services, AccountAbility
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Ms. Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel
  Assistant Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
  France
  
  
• Dr. Maria Jose Garcia Lopez
  Associate Professor, University Rey Juan Carlos, and Fundación para la investigación en Salud (FUINSA)
  Spain
  
  
• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
  Chairman, Anglo American plc
  Former Chair, Royal Dutch/Shell
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Mr. Herman Mulder
  Former Senior Executive Vice-President, ABN-AMRO Bank
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Lynn Patterson
  Head of Corporate Responsibility Communications, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
  Canada
  
  
• Mr. Alberto Andreu Pinillos
  General Manager, Corporate Reputation & CSR, Telefonica S.A.
  Spain
  
  
• Mr. Hugh Y. Scott-Barrett
  Chief Financial Officer, ABN AMRO Bank
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Gabriel Solórzano
  President, Financiera Nicaraguense de Desarrollo S.A.  (FINDESA)
  Nicaragua
  
  
• Mr. Bjorn Stigsön
  President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
  Switzerland
  
  
• Mr. Pieter van der Gaag
  Project Leader Ecology and Economy, Netherlands Committee of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
  Netherlands
  
  
• Ms. Karien van Gennip
  Minister of Foreign Trade
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Leo van Wijk
  CEO, KLM Group
  Netherlands
  
  
• Ms. Margot Wallström
  Vice President, European Commission
  Belgium
  
  
• Mr. Sandrijn Weites
  Senior Vice President, Sustainability Strategy & Reporting, ABN AMRO Bank
  Netherlands
  
  
• Mr. Allen White
  Vice President, Tellus Institute
  United States
  
  
• Mr. Peter H. Y. Wong
  Senior Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hong Kong
  Board Member, International Federation of Accountants
  China
  
  
• Mr. Ricardo Young
  President of the Board of Directors, Instituto Ethos
  Brazil

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