Seeds for Successful Transformation 2012

The Value of Values in Responsible Business

28-30 JUNE 2012, Geneva/Switzerland

International Conference Centre Geneva, 17 rue de Varemb
The current crisis-ridden and conflictual period in world history shows that fundamental transformation in the economy, business, politics, civil society and culture is happening and is needed. But how can society, government, business and citizens create the conditions for the needed transformation to take place based on credible and common values? And how can the seeds for successful transformation get planted in companies and institutions, so the latest could benefit from concrete value-based changes in their culture and practice? The Global Ethics Forum conference 2012 brings together decision makers and experts from the private, public, academic and civil society sectors from around the world. Plenary panels lead to interactive workshops on concrete cases and proposals for ethical transformation, based on recommendations from the Global Ethics Forum conference 2011.

Conference Programme Overview

Latest Version 23 May 2012

Wednesday 27 June | Pre-conference meetings of project workgroups, Registration 17:00-18:00 and Reception for Speakers Thursday 28 June | Morning: Plenary | Afternoon: 4 Workshops and 4 Interview Sessions Friday 29 June | Morning: 2 x 4 Workshops | Afternoon: Plenary Saturday 30 June | Morning Follow up workshop of projects for those interested

Day One
08:00-09:30 09:30-12:30 09:30-09:40

| Thursday 28 June 2012

Morning Session | International Conference Centre Geneva - 17 rue de Varemb, Plenary Room 1bis
REGISTRATION ETHICAL TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

OPENING | S.D. Shibulal, CEO and Co-Founder, Infosys Technologies, Co-Chair Global Ethics Forum, India (confirmed) Plenary Keynote The Responsibility of Politics, Business and Civil Society for Transformation and Development
The private sector has an important role to play for sustainable and ethical development and the Millennium Development Goals, in cooperation with political actors and civil society. Martin Dahinden, Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (confirmed)

09:40-10:00

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10:00-11:15

Plenary Panel I Managing the Sustainability Crisis: Next Steps after Rio+20
The Rio+20 Summit ends a few days before the Global Ethics Forum conference 2012. The outcomes, and lack of outcomes will be analysed from the perspective of ethical transformation What new accountability mechanisms are necessary to support the ethical transformation towards sustainability? What are the next steps towards a green economy and post-fuel business operations? What does the age of less mean for consumers? Moderator: Christoph Stckelberger, Prof., Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net S.D. Shibulal, CEO and Co-Founder, Infosys Technologies, Co-Chair Global Ethics Forum India/global (confirmed) Mervyn King, Co-Chair Global Ethics Forum, Judge, Chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), UK/South Africa (confirmed) Thierry Berthoud, Director Energy &Climate, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Switzerland/global) (confirmed) Germano Badi, Entrepreneur, Instituto Brasileiro de tica nos Negcios Brazil (confirmed) Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud, Director Corporate Relations, WWF International Switzerland/global (confirmed)

11:15-11.45 11:45-13:00

Networking refreshment break Plenary Panel II Managing the Debt Crisis: Financial Transformation Towards an Ethical Economy
The global economy is heavily influenced by crisis-ridden financial markets and indebtedness. Regulators, investors, producers and consumers have to include long term values in their financial decisions. The financial crisis, the debt crisis, the Euro crisis and imbalances in currency exchange rates between the North and South show the need for a new currency system, backed up by new financial policies and based on long term values. What are these values and how they can be implemented? What are the barriers that hinder financial transformation? What are the roots of the current financial crisis and what new systems and mechanisms are necessary in support of transformation towards ethical financial markets and ethical economy? Moderator: Myret Zaki, Deputy Editor in Chief of the magazine Bilan, Geneva (confirmed) Thomas Myers, certified public accountant, banking expert who has testified widely on subprime securities fraud, USA (confirmed) Antonio Usama DeLorenzo, Associate Partner, Presidium LLP (United Arab Emirates), former Regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia on Islamic Banking (confirmed) Dominique Biedermann, Executive Director Ethos, Swiss Foundation for Socially Responsible Investments Switzerland (confirmed) Chong Zhang, Financial Expert, Director Generis Capital in China China (confirmed)

13:00-14:30

NETWORKING LUNCH

Afternoon Session |International Conference Centre Geneva 17 rue de Varemb

14:30-16:30 WORKSHOPS A: SUCCESSFUL ETHICAL BUSINESS DECISIONS: CROSS-CULTURAL SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Transformation towards ethical business in a multicultural environment leads to dilemmas, but it is possible. The existing good and bad practices provide insight about the importance of appropriate assessment analysis based on ethical values and criteria, for developing strategic recommendations and for making progress through their implementation

Workshop A1: Multicultural Staff Recruitment and Staff Management

Multicultural staff recruitment is a key element in responsible business management of multinational companies. 1. How to include value-based selection criteria across cultures? 2. How to guarantee the unity of corporate culture and respecting diversity and minorities? 3. What can companies learn from the experiences and good practices of others? Moderator: Maaike Harmsen, Centre for International Business Ethics, China (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Jean-Pierre Man, President of Transparency International Switzerland, former General Counsel, Societ Gnrale de Surveillance SGS Switzerland (confirmed) Mary Doyle, Manager Ethics & Compliance Program Office, Intel Corporation, USA/global (confirmed) Dr. Vimal K. Aggarwal, Principal Project, Cost & Management Consultant V. Kumar & Associates India (confirmed) Aparna Mehrotra, UN-Women, UN system Focal Point on Gender Parity USA/global(confirmed)

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Workshop A2: Solutions for Ethical Dilemmas in Business

The decision of a company to accept or refuse a business opportunity involves respecting international and legal frameworks and internal standards. 1. How to deal with grey zones and ethical dilemmas where the ethical conscience of individual staff is at stake? 2. How can ethical criteria, guidelines, checklists and procedural measures help individuals and companies? 3. What are the specific chances and challenges of family enterprises compared to listed companies? Moderator: Deon Rossouw, Prof Dr, CEO EthicsSA, South Africa (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Markus Schulz, Chief Compliance Officer, Zurich Financial Group, Switzerland (confirmed) Anwar Hashmi, Senior Manager Ethics, Tata Steel India (confirmed) Christian Frutiger, Global Public Affairs Manager, Nestl, Switzerland (confirmed) Pedro Montoya, EADS Group Chief Compliance Officer global (confirmed)

Workshop A3: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Francophone Africa (in French, translation)
With the economic development, regional and foreign direct investment in Africa, CSR becomes increasingly important. But there are specific challenges in Africa to be considered in order to achieve greatest benefits for society. 1. How to manage the influence of violent conflicts and wars on business? 2. How to respect human rights in countries with weak governmental and legal structures and little means? 3. How to implement CSR and international standards in the informal sector and SMEs? Moderator: Nadia Balgobin, Sustainable Business and Public Sector Management Consultant Switzerland (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Aliou Barry, General Director Stat View International, Reseau REFID Guine Conakri (confirmed) Mohammed Fikrat, Chairman and CEO, COSUMAR Group, Marocco (confirmed) Philippe Barry, President RSE/CSR Senegal Senegal (confirmed) Lazare Ki-Zerbo, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie OIF/global (confirmed) Aurlien Atidegla, President OSCAF Benin (confirmed)

Workshop A4: Business Ethics in Conflicting Legal and Ethical Systems

In a globalized world, the private, public, academic and NGO sectors work in different legal environments. The legal culture and the ethical reference values are often in conflict with those of other regions, even though there are many common standards, such as for example the international human rights and international labour standards. 1. How can such differences and conflicts be dealt with in international cooperation and companies? 2. How to implement global human rights standards in different legal and ethical environments? Moderator: Benoit Girardin, Former Swiss Ambassador in Madagascar Switzerland(confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Tim Mazur, Chief Operating Officer, Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), USA (confirmed) Danile Gosteli Hauser, Responsible for Business and Human Rights, Amnesty International Swiss Section, and Rights without Borders, campaign of 50 Swiss NGOs Switzerland (confirmed) Peter Jonker, Senior Manager Ethics & Integrity Services, former KPMG Switzerland/global (confirmed) Osvaldo Agatiello, Prof., International Expert on Governance Argentina/Africa/global (confirmed) 16:30-16.45 16:45-18:00

Refreshment Break
INTERVIEWS: CASES AND BEST PRACTICES OF COMPANIES, PUBLIC SECTOR AND NGOS Companies and representatives of public sector and NGOs share their experiences, efforts and best practices on successful ethical transformation in relation with improving their governance, leadership, operations and social, environmental and economic impacts. These panels are planned to be webcast to the Globethics.net network members and globally.

Interviews Cases IC1: Switzerland

Interviewer: Deon Rossouw, Prof., CEO EthicsSA, South Africa (confirmed) Swiss Re: Britta Rendlen, Head Sustainability Risk Management Switzerland/global, (confirmed) Firmenich: Berangere Magarinos-Ruchat, Director Sustainability Partnerships, Switzerland (confirmed) Konrad Specker, Head Institutional Partnerships, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): Experiences and New Policies on Public Private Partnerships (confirmed) Ueli Locher, Director, Swiss Interchurch Aid (HEKS): New HEKS Policy on Business Relations (confirmed) Organised with and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

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Interviews Cases IC2: Russia and Turkey

Interviewer: Teodorina Lessidrenska, Program Executive Globethics.net Bulgaria/USA/Global (confirmed) Pedro Montoya, EADS Group Chief Compliance Officer global (confirmed) Hilti Russia: Vladimir Mosny, General Manager, Hilti Russia (confirmed) Tayfun Zaman, Entrepreneur, Director of Ethics and Reputation Society of Turkey (TIED)Turkey (confirmed) Alexander Ageev, Prof., General Director, Institute for Economic Strategies and President of the Association of Orthodox Business Leaders in Russia (confirmed)

Interviews Cases IC3: Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs)

Interviewer: Jrg Brgi, KMU nachhaltig GmbH Switzerland (confirmed) TRIES GmbH & Co. KG: Manfred Tries Denmark (confirmed) SkyWork Airlines AG: Steven Schller Switzerland (confirmed) Philippe Barry, President of CSR Senegal (confirmed) 18:15-20:00 RECEPTION/NETWORKING COCKTAIL with entertainment by an artist, International Conference Centre Geneva

Day Two
08:30-10:15

| Friday 29 June 2012

Morning Session | International Conference Centre Geneva 17 rue de Varemb

WORKSHOPS B: ETHICAL FINANCE: TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS FINANCIAL SERVICES AT THE SERVICE OF people The finance system and the financial markets are the fuels that fire the economy. How do we transform and harness financial markets so they serve the needs of people and enable growth of an ethical economy?

Workshop B1: Global Finance Towards a New Global Reference Currency

The financial crisis, the debt crisis, the Euro crisis and imbalances in currency exchange rates between the North and South show the need for a new currency system. What will the currency system be after the dollar? What could be a fair global reference currency, not dominated by one dominant economy? What are the political obstacles, the models and strategies to get political support for it? Moderator: Paul Clements-Hunt, Head of Unit, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Thomas Myers, certified public accountant, banking expert who has testified widely on subprime securities fraud, (USA) (confirmed) Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Founder and Director Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI), Director Development, City of Montpelier, Vermont USA(to be confirmed) Myret Zaki, Deputy Editor in Chief of the magazine Bilan, Geneva (confirmed) Chong Zhang, Financial Expert, Director Generis Capital in China China (confirmed) Jem Bendell, Prof, Director Lifeworth Consulting Australia/Switzerland (confirmed)

Workshop B2: Sustainable Finance: A New Understanding of Time Horizons

The financial and debt crises show that the volatility of extremely short term financial transactions can result in dangerous and disastrous effects on business and society. Do basic anthropological, cultural, religious and environmental challenges of dealing with time lie behind this problem? 1. What are the time horizons in the different cultures and world religions? 2. How do, can or should they influence the economic systems and financial and banking instruments? Moderator: Prabhu Guptara, Prof., former Executive Director, Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS, Switzerland (confirmed) Carol Cosgrove, Prof., Economist, Founder of the Robin Cosgrove prize for Ethics in Finance (confirmed) Antonio Usama DeLorenzo, Associate Partner, Presidium LLP (United Arab Emirates), former Regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia on Islamic Banking (confirmed) Pipat Yodprudtikan, Director Thaipat Institute on Sufficiency Economy Thailand (confirmed) Jrg Hbner, Professor of Economic Ethics specialised in Ethics of Finance Germany (confirmed) Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group (UK), Principal Advisor, Long Finance Switzerland (confirmed)

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Workshop B3: Transparent Finance: Transparency in Religious Organizations and NGOs

Religious communities and non-governmental organizations often manage large institutions and programmes, including schools, hospitals, social, development and emergency programmes. Many of them have large properties and financial management that in instances are affected by corruption. 1. What are the experiences with codes of ethics of religious institutions and NGOs? 2. How can whistleblowing systems contribute to financial transparency in religious organizations and NGOs? Moderator: Christoph Stckelberger, Globethics.net (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Zora Ledergerber, CEO IntegrityLine Switzerland (confirmed) Marian Casey-Maslen, Policy Officer, ACT Alliance Geneva/global (to be confirmed) Jacob Belly, Secretary of the Pastors Association, Church of South India (confirmed) Yvan Maillard Ardenti, Programme Officer, Finance and Corruption, Bread for All, Board member of Transparency International Switzerland Switzerland (confirmed) Dominique Biedermann, Executive Director Ethos, Swiss Foundation for Socially Responsible Investments Switzerland (confirmed) Rev. Simon Pierre Ngomo, Founder and president of Reformation Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, World Peace Ambassador Cameroon(confirmed)

Workshop B4: Ethical Finance: Lessons from Transparency Initiatives in the Extractive Industries
Extractive industries have been heavily criticised and a debate continues on appropriate balance of foreign and national investment in the sector for economic development with positive national and community benefits. At the same time various standards and mechanisms for the respect of ethical and environmental standards are in place in order to have common platforms for reporting on and evaluation by companies of their performance and impacts. 1. What are successes in the ethical and environmental standards in the extracting industries? 2. What are lessons to be learnt and improvements to be made in existing and new initiatives? Moderator: Teodorina Lessidrenska, Program Executive Globethics.net, GRI Ambassador for Russia Bulgaria/USA/global Tamara Bergkamp, Reporting Framework Coordinator, The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) The Netherlands/global (confirmed) Ccile Epondo Fouda, Head of Communication Department, National Hydrocarbons Corporation-SNH, Cameroon (to be confirmed) Lorenz Kummer, Policy Advisor Extractive Industries, SWISSAID Switzerland (confirmed) Eleni Regli, Investor Relationship Management, Responsible Resources & Roots Engagement Switzerland/global (confirmed) Ian Doyle, Associate, Lifeworth Consulting Switzerland/global (confirmed) 10:15-10:45 10:45-12:30

Networking refreshment break

WORKSHOPS C: TRANSFORMATIVE NETWORKING: LIMITS, OPPORTUNITES, INSTRUMENTS Today, local, regional and global professional and social networking is a key instrument of business and of transformation. What are the values at stake, the opportunities and limits and the instruments and structures to make it ethical?

Workshop C1: Social Media for Transformation and Peace

Millions of people around the globe, through social networking are building online local, regional, and global communities to communicate their shared interests and activities, disseminate information, and interact through a variety of webbased tools. The growth of new media means that journalism ethics is undergoing a difficult transition from traditional, professional ethics that needs to evolve to a new kind of mixed media ethics. 1. What is the ethical role of social media in transformation and peace building? 2. How peoples trust, relationships and civic/political involvement are affected by social networking? 3. What are economic dangers and opportunities of social media? Moderator: Alexis Kalagas, Deputy Editor, The Global Journal Switzerland(confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Philip Lee, World Association for Christian Communication WACC, Canada (confirmed) Maryam Al Khawaha, Head of Foreign Relations, Bahrain Center for Human Rights (Bahrain) (to be confirmed) Kristine Greenaway, WCRC Switzerland (to be confirmed) Nathalie Labourdette, Head of the Media Academy, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Switzerland (confirmed)

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Workshop C2: Business Schools with a new Paradigm of Sustainable Global Responsibility
Since the financial crisis in 2007 management education has been challenged worldwide to reflect on new education models and values. The 50+20 project will present new models at the Rio+20 Conference. It is a project of the World Business School Council for Sustainable Business (WBSCSB), the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) and Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). 1. What is the paradigm shift and ethical frame of this new model? 2. How can this initiative be promoted and supported? Moderator: Deon Rossouw, Prof., CEO EthicsSA, South Africa, (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup: Anders Aspling, General Secretary of Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative GRLI (confirmed) Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Prof. of Management India (confirmed) Dr. Michael Hopkins, CEO MHC International Ltd, Founder & Director, MHCi/Univ of Geneva, CSR Advanced Diploma & CSR Summer School Switzerland/global (confirmed) Ian Doyle, Associate, Lifeworth Consulting Switzerland (confirmed)

Workshop C3: New Business Ethics Networks in Emerging Countries

Participants in a number of workshops during the Global Ethics Forum conference 2011 proposed to establish business ethics networks especially in emerging countries. 1. Why business ethics networks? What is the relation to networks on CSR, compliance or transparency? 2. How to address key challenges and steps in development of regional or national business ethics networks? Moderator: Christoph Stckelberger, Globethics.net (confirmed) Presentation of Results and Recommendations of the project workgroup (by the moderator): Vasanthi Srinivasan, Director Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore India (confirmed) Bettina Ferdman, Director of Philias (Switzerland) and representing CSR Europe Belgium (confirmed) Stephan Rothlin, General Secretary, Centre for International Business Ethics (CIBE) Beijing, China (confirmed) Alexander Ageev, Prof., President of the Association of Orthodox Business Leaders Russia (confirmed) Mohammad Asif, Pakistan Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan (confirmed) Philippe Barry, President of CSR Senegal (confirmed)

Workshop C4: Globethics.net Directories and Libraries for Networking

Globethics.net offers one million online documents in its online libraries, special collections on business ethics, a Global Directory of Business Ethics Experts and Institutions and a Directory on Ethics and Responsibility. 1. How can these databases be used, promoted and enlarged for research and networking? Presentation on line of the Globethics.net Directories and Library: Nadia Gianoli, Program Executive Network, Globethics.net Switzerland/global (confirmed) and Teodorina Lessidrenska, Globethics.net Programme Executive Business Ethics Switzerland/global (confirmed) Among the workshop attendees, users of the directory and the libraries will give feedbacks and inputs for next steps. 12:30-14:00 NETWORKING LUNCH

Afternoon Session |
14:00-16:30 14:00-14:20

CONCLUSIONS AND COOPERATION: NEXT STEPS Plenary Summary and Outlook of the conference From Seeds to Trees: How to Mainstream Best Practices and Make Ethical Transformation Sustainable?
Ambassador Walter Fust, President Globethics.net (confirmed) Dr. Ibrahim Souss, President, Institute for Global Dialogue and Peace, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates(confirmed)

14:20-16:00

Plenary Reports and Follow up Results, Products and Recommendations from 12 Workshops A1-4, B1-B4 and C1-C4
Moderator: Christoph Stckelberger, Prof., Director and Founder Globethics.net Panel with the 12 workgroup moderators: developing presenting and discussing main reactions and consequences for follow up of the Global Ethics Forum projects.

16:00-16:15

Final Remarks and Closure

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Day Three

| Saturday 30 June 2012

Morning Session | Ecumenical Centre Geneva, 150 route de Ferney, first floor, Rooms II and III
(10 walking distance or two bus stops from the International Conference Centre Geneva)
08:30-14:30 NEXT STEPS Workshops on demand of participants for follow up The possibility is offered for networking and concretization of cooperation projects among those conference participants who would like to do so. Rooms will be made available and the details will be included in the documentation given to the participants 13:00-14:30 Networking Snacks / Lunch

The Global Ethics Forum is a project of Globethics.net, the global ethics network and Swiss Foundation based in Geneva. www.globethics.net. More information about the Global Ethics Forum can be found at: www.globethics.net/gef
Organisation Co-Chairs of the Global Ethics Forum conference 2012 S.D. Shibulal, CEO and Co-Founder of Infosys Technologies, India Mervin King, Chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) UK/global, Former Judge in the SA Supreme Court, South Africa Walter Fust, President, Globethics.net, Switzerland Steering Committee Christoph Stckelberger, Prof., Executive Director and Founder Globethics.net (Moderator) Anders Aspling, Secretary General Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative GRLI Jacques Spelkens, Dr., Head of Social Innovation, GDF Suez Nadia Balgobin, CSR Expert and Consultant Deon Rossouw, Prof., CEO Ethics South Africa Institute Contact: For the conference programme: +41 22 791 60 43 Christoph Stckelberger, Prof., Director and Founder of Globethics.net, [email protected] Teodorina Lessidrenska, Dr., Programme Executive Business Ethics, [email protected] For the conference organization and media: +41 22 791 62 49 Lucy Howe Lopez, Programme Coordinator, [email protected] Rosa Abaa Hnseler, Project Assistant, [email protected] Stephen Brown, Dr, Media Coordinator, [email protected] Nadia Gianoli, Communications, [email protected]

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Funding Partners the full list of Forum partners is available online

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Infosys Technologies Ltd

State of Geneva

Organisation International de la Francophonie

Airbus

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