Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies

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Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Endnotes and Appendix
1 Dr. Faiz Shah co-founded Responsible Business Initiative and presently heads Development
Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He has advised governments,
companies, non-governmental organizations and UN programs on change management and
institutional reorganization. On the visiting faculty at Punjab University, he has lectured at
Michigan Business School and the Wharton School, trained over 3,000 grassroots government
officials and community leaders in Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and
overseen over 300 community service projects in diverse locations. He has led Saga, Pakistan’s
largest sporting goods company and was among the first working groups members of the
Global Reporting Initiative.
2 Ms. Ambreen Waheed, founder and Executive Director of Responsible Business Initiative, is
among the pioneers of CSR in Pakistan. She currently chairs SAARC Alliance for Responsible
Business and serves on the Stakeholder Council and Board Nominating Committee of the
Global Reporting Initiative, the Board of Trustee of Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable
Consumption and Production, national Steering Board of the United Nations Global Compact,
Member, governance structure AccountAbility‘s AA1000 SES, UNCTAD’s CSR Expert Panel
and Review Committee on ISAR, the EFMD-UNGC Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative,
the SECP’s task force on NGO Governance, the CSR expert panel for ICAP Corporate Governance
and juries of the Asian Forum Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, AIM-Intel IACRA
Awards. She has a masters’ degree in Computer Science from the University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore, a Master’s of Philosophy in Management from the University of
Cambridge, UK and post-graduate academic experience at the Speed Scientific School, USA.
She has taught at ESSEC-France, University of Michigan and the Wharton Business School at
the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
3 Dr. Simon Zadek is an acknowledged global thought leaders in CSR. He is currently a Senior
Fellow at the Center for Government and Business, the John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University. He founded and was until recently, the Chief Executive of AccountAbility.
He has authored numerous publications and sits on the boards of Instituto Ethos, Generation
Investment Management, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development,
the Council of GAN-NET and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Reporting
Initiative. In 2003 he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Leaders for
Tomorrow’.
4 Mr. Husain Dawood is among Pakistan’s leading businessmen, and is presently Chairman of
Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited, Engro Corporation Limited, Karachi Education
Initiative/Karachi School of Business and Leadership, and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation
Fund, which is the largest World Bank financed social fund in the world. Mr. Dawood serves
on the Boards of the Commonwealth Business Council, Pakistan Business Council, the Pakistan
Center for Philanthropy, and Beaconhouse National University. He is on the Board of Trustees
of Karachi Education Initiative, London, Asia House, London, Global Charter Member of The
Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and is the first Pakistani member of the World Economic Forum.
As its Honorary Consul in Lahore, the Italian Government has conferred upon Mr. Dawood
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