WFEB - Key Persons

Dr. Andreas Rickert is CEO and founder of PHINEO and incubated the organization as Director of the former program ‘civil society' at Bertelsmann Foundation. Andreas also worked as Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank in Washington D.C. Prior to this, he was Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc. globally working on public sector and healthcare projects in Bahrain, The Netherlands, UK and Switzerland. He studied Biology and did his Ph.D. on genetics in Germany and the United States. Andreas serves on various boards, e.g. expert group of the European Commission on social entrepreneurship (GECES). His large network comprises top level decision makers in the private, public and third sector. He has specific expertise in public private partnerships, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, impact investing, social business and philanthropy. Within PHINEO he is responsible for the organization's overall strategy, strategic partnerships as well as external representation. He speaks English and French.

Dr. André Hahn

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Member of German Parliament, Spokesperson of the Left Party for the Sports Committee

Dr. Axel Walz

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Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition

It should be considered as an axiomatic principle that the digital transformation and increasing use of AI requires the incorporation of ethical principles into AI driven, automated processes. The focus of the presentation therefore is to demonstrate and analyze different legal means how to make sure that ethical principles are indeed taken into account by the developers of AI systems. Different solutions shall be considered in this regard, including standard approaches based on national and international legislation as well as contractual regulation, certification and technical standardization. Axel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. His research focuses on European Civil Law, European and International Economic and Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law, Legal issues of digitalization, Civil Procedure Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Axel is a member of the Max Planck Institute's data economy research group and has contributed to the IEEE's Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Prior to his academic career, Axel has gathered extensive experience in private practice. After having worked in the EU & Competition department of the law firm SJ Berwin for three years in Munich and London and one year in the IP department of Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart, Axel held a position as legal counsel and group leader in the IP department of BMW AG from 2009 until 2011, before rejoining SJ Berwin's IP & Commercial department where he was appointed to partnership in 2014. In private practice, Axel's work focused in particular on dispute resolution matters (litigation as well as arbitration) in the field of IP and competition law as well as on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and agreements relative to distribution, licensing and merchandising, R&D, contract manufacturing, service, co-existence as well as technology transfer agreements.

Dr. Kay Firth-Butterfield

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Vice - Chair, the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, Executive Director, AI Austin

Kay Firth-Butterfield is a Barrister and part-time Judge who has worked as a mediator, arbitrator, business owner and professor in the United Kingdom. In the United States, she is the Executive Director and Founding Advocate of AI-Austin which is a non-profit dedicated to the responsible design, development and use of AI and the socially beneficial use of AI in the community, specifically in Healthcare, Education and ethical governance. She is the former Chief Officer of the Lucid.ai Ethics Advisory Panel. Kay is a Senior Fellow and Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas, Austin and Vice-Chair, The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Additionally, she is a Partner in the Cognitive Finance group and an adjunct Professor of Law. Kay is a humanitarian with a strong sense of social justice and has advanced degrees in Law and International Relations. She advises governments, think tanks, businesses, inter-governmental bodies and non-profits about artificial intelligence, law and policy. Kay co-founded the Consortium for Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Texas and taught its first course: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Law and Policy. She thinks about and works on how AI and other technologies will impact society and business. Kay regularly speaks to international audiences addressing many aspects of these challenging changes. Twitter: @KayFButterfield

Dr. Monika Griefahn

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Founding Member of Greenpeace Germany

Dr. Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO (1980-1983). From 1984-1990 she was the first female board member of Greenpeace International and responsible for trainings and founding new offices all around the world.

Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai

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Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation
Senior Research Fellow Program Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition

Dr. Kochupillai is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI) and a Program Director and faculty member at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), an international LL.M program focusing on EU, US and International intellectual property and competition law. She has also been an independent MIPLC research fellow (2008-2009) and a doctoral fellow with the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI) from 2009-2013 during which time she completed her PhD titled ‘Promoting Sustainable Innovations in Plant Varieties.' Mrinalini obtained her B.A. LL.B (Hons.) degree from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, in 2003, and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center) in 2006. She has been a faculty member at the European Business College, Munich (2013-14), an adjunct faculty at the Franklin Pierce Law Center (University of New Hampshire), and a guest faculty at various institutes in India. She has also served as a consultant (India expert) to the International Technology Transfer Institute at the University of New Hampshire. Her research areas include patents and plant variety protection, especially in developing countries. Her current research is broadly titled ‘Ethics in Innovation', with a focus on studying the philosophical and cultural foundations of eastern versus western approaches to innovation, including diverse means of promoting, protecting, adopting and disseminating innovations, and further aims to determine whether the current definitions and understanding of ‘innovation' as a term and concept are inclusive enough to embrace a wide diversity of culture and country specific innovations.

Dr. Mustafa Alsayed

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Secretary General, Royal Charity Organization, Kingdom of Bahrain

Dr. Pascal R. Schneider

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Corporate Communications Expert
Head of Qualification, Social Entrepreneurship Academy

Dr. Pascal R. Schneider is a Corporate Communications Expert for groups, companies and foundations since 2002. Since 2006 he has held various management positions for global companies such as Siemens and thyssenkrupp. As Head of Communications of the Eberhard von Kuenheim foundation (BMW Group) he won the KOMPASS award for best communications in 2014. With the thyssenkrupp Communications Team he won as Head of Leadership Communications won the German Brand Award 2017 in the category Best Brand-Relaunch. Focusing primarily on communication strategies and leadership education, he has developed and implemented since 2010 workshops and curricula on branding, the development of messages and cross-media distribution. He has trained over 1.000 communicators and leaders around the globe. 2014 he founded vocem communications - a communication consultant and coaching agency. He is holding a doctor's degree in political science and joined in 2017 the Munich based Social Entrepreneurship Akademie and acts as Head of Qualification.

Dr. Rachel Alemu

Rachel Alemu is a lawyer at PPD Germany. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) degree from Makerere University Kampala, Uganda, a Master of Laws degree from Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and a PhD in Law from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU). Alemu's initial legal experience was in government working as an assistant law reform officer at the Uganda Law Reform Commission. It was while working on the law reform project for commercial laws that Alemu picked up an interest in intellectual property and competition law. For the last several years, her career has focused on intellectual property and competition law research and practice. Through her PhD research, Alemu has gained expertise in telecommunications regulation and competition law particularly with regards to developing countries. More recently, Alemu has shifted her attention to another regulated sector, pharmacy with specific focus on clinical trials. Thus, in her current role as lawyer at PPD Germany, she is concerned with IP protection, anti-corruption laws, and data protection.

Ewald Krishna

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Member of the Executive Management Team

Ewald Poeran

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Member of the Executive Management Team

Gudrun Kochendoerfer-Lucius

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Managing Director, InWEnt, Germany

H.E. Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

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Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Founder

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Co - Founder
Co - Founder of the World Forum for Ethics
Founder of IAHV
Founder of the International Art of Living Foundation
Founder, International Association for Human Values
Founder, the Art of Living Foundation
Quoting WFEB 's Founder

WFEB's co-founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said: "Trust is the backbone of business. We have seen the flaws in communism, now we are seeing the failings of unbridled capitalism. It is time for a new ‘ism, a humanism. Business with humanism is what I would call ethics in business" Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has for long been a strong advocate of ethics in business and good governance, and has in the past two decades spoken at numerous symposiums and conferences on the mechanisms of combating corruption. It was a rare opportunity for the audience to meet him and listen to his views on a subject of great importance. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, co-founder of the World Forum for Ethics in Business, set the tone for the conference, saying "Just as you need both scissors and a needle to make a garment, business and spirituality go hand in hand. One cuts and the other joins, and both have an important role to make the garment. In spirituality, we tap into the world of intuition, which is an important aspect of success in business." Quoting WFEB's founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in her welcome address, the president of the Forum, Rajita Kulkarni, reminded the audience of the influence sports has, ‘If every gun in the hand is replaced by a soccer ball at the feet, the world will be a much more healthier, happier and peaceful place.' Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (b. 1956, India) is a revered spiritual leader and humanitarian. His mission of uniting the world into a violence-free global family has inspired millions of people worldwide to broaden their spheres of responsibility and work towards sustainable peace. In 1997, he founded the International Association for Human Values (IAHV) to identify and foster on a global scale the fundamental human values shared by all societies, religions, cultures and civilizations. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, IAHV is working with marginalized communities to promote sustainable development, and has so far benefited over 30,000 villages and trained more than 65,000 local youth. Sri Sri is also the founder of the International Art of Living Foundation (IAOLF, 1981), which is dedicated to uplifting humanity and bringing peace at all levels of society, starting from every individual. The initiatives of IAHV and IAOLF, both volunteer-based charitable NGOs, have benefited people from diverse walks of life in over 140 countries. A leading figure in human development and social transformation, Sri Sri's multifaceted initiatives include conflict resolution, disaster relief, interfaith harmony, violence prevention, women's empowerment, environmental protection, and education for all. He is actively engaged in promoting dialogue and reconciliation in war zones and post-conflict areas across the world, including in Iraq, Ivory Coast, Israel/Palestine and Kosovo, and in conflict-ridden parts of South Asia (e.g. Sri Lanka and Kashmir). He has also designed a number of self-development programs that enhance well-being and foster human values. Sri Sri is the recipient of numerous awards, including seven honorary doctorates, and state honors from the Governments of Russia, Mongolia and India, in recognition of his tireless service to humanity. He travels to more than 40 countries every year to share his message of social responsibility, and that all great religious traditions share common goals and values. In 2003, he initiated the Ethics in Business - Corporate Culture & Spirituality dialogue series to examine ways and means of strengthening human values and ethics in business.

Hans Chopra

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CEO Allianze Rosno

The event was attended by about 400 guests, among whom were prominent business figures, celebrities and representatives of the secular media. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar shared his views on the further development of relations in the modern business world , identified the most pressing problems, gave advice on conflict resolution, and pointed to examples of the importance of social responsibility of business in modern conditions.

Hans-Aasmund Frisak

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Vice President CSR, Statoil

Hartmut Reinke

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Director for Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, DuPont

Igor Mintusov - Chairman

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Chairman of the Board of Directors
Consultant

Jacqueline Mugo

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Executive Director Federation of Kenya Employers and Current Chairperson of the East African Employer Federations Council

Jean Daniel Laine

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SVP Ethics and Compliance, Alstom Inc

Jean Diagou

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President, Federation of West African Employers' Organization

John Smart

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Head of Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Europe, MENA & Africa, Ernst & Young LLP

Jonas Moberg

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Head, EITI Secretariat

Mahmoud Mohieldin

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Managing Director, World Bank Group

Mansour Kama

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President, Senegal Employers' Confederation

Marek Krupinski

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General Manager of UNICEF Polska and Ivo Zaniewski, Owner of Advertisement Agency PZL

Mauricio Adade

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Chief Marketing Officer, Royal DSM N.V

Michal Kobosko

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Journalist from Newsweek

Miguel Veiga-Pestana

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Vice - President Global External Affairs, Unilever

Mohamed Ibn Chambas

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Secretary General, ACP Group

Mr Binod Chaudhary - President

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President

Mr Binod Chaudhary, President Chaudhary Group, Nepal said "Any organization that fails to command respect both within and externally will not be able to inspire its stakeholders or its employees."

Mr Gerard Zovighian

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Vice Chairman, Lebanese Transparency Association

Mr Mahesh Gupta

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Chairman Kent Ro Stated That "There Is No Choice Between Spirituality and Sustainability

Mr Mahesh Gupta, Chairman Kent Ro stated that "There is no choice between spirituality and sustainability: both can coexist. Spirituality drives honesty, caring, and sharing that can take a business to new heights. Taking care of the employees increases productivity, and if the customer is well cared for, business is bound to flourish."

Mr R.N.Nayak - Chairman

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Chairman

Mr R.N.Nayak, Chairman & MD, Power Grid Corporation of India shared that "Corporates have a role in wealth creation. It's important for us to envision long term sustainability. Apart from the shareholders of a business, other stakeholders in society also need to be nurtured."

Mr. Aadesh Goyal

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Chairman of the Board of Tata Communications Payment Solutions Limited
Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources at Tata Communications

Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources; Chairman of the Board, Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd.; Director on the Board, Tata Communications Transformation Services Ltd. Aadesh is an industry veteran and a global business leader with experience in P&L Management, Human Resources, Engineering, Operations, Information Technology, Corporate Communication and Program Management. He has been involved in more than a dozen M&As as well as played a key role in the integration of these companies spread across multiple countries and performed roles spread over 5 continents. He is considered as a thought leader in Strategic Human Resources, Leadership and Talent Development. Aadesh is currently the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources at Tata Communications. In addition to Human Resources, he has global responsibility for Corporate Social Responsibility, Occupational Health and Safety, and Administration. He is also the Chief Ethics Officer of the company. He has been an angel investor and has also served on the Boards of several companies. Aadesh is currently the Chairman of the Board of Tata Communications Payment Solutions Limited and a Director on the Board of Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited. He has a Master's degree in Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and has won several awards including the ‘Great Contribution Award' from the Minister of Communications, the Best HR Head in India by National HRD Network. Aadesh has a passion for community service and has been an active volunteer for more than 15 years. He and his wife live in New Delhi. They have a daughter and a son who are both University students.

Mr. Alexander Koch

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Deputy Head of Communication, FIFA

Mr. Alojz Peterle

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Member of the European Parliament

Alojz Peterle has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 and is currently member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). He is as well Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and Member of Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee. Besides, he is President of the parliamentary group Friends of Turkey, President of MAC group, Co-chair of ENVI Health Working Group and Member of governing board of Knowledge4Innovation. Mr Peterle has been an active promoter of cancer care, in particular as President of the informal all-party forum, ‘MEPs against Cancer'.

Mr. Christian Arbeit

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Communications Director, 1. FC Union Berlin

Mr. Christoph Daum

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International Football Manager

Mr. Christoph Glaser

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Director
Member of the Executive Management Team

Born and raised in Basel, Switzerland, Christoph has served since 2006 as Managing Director for the International Leadership Symposium of the World Forum for Ethics in Business. As a leadership expert and personal development coach, Christoph has delivered leadership programs in more than 50 countries over 15 years. This rich experience of diverse cultures and an understanding of global social economic and political scenarios has helped him to establish several public-private partnerships for social development. Since 2009 he acts as CEO for the TLEX Europe (Transformational Leadership) Seminars. Some of the organizations which he has worked with include: Harvard Business School, Accenture, Beiersdorf, Boston Consulting Group, General Electric, Microsoft, Shell and the World Bank Group. Christoph currently serves on the Boards of a number of Non-Governmental Organizations internationally such as the International Association for Human Values. He holds a Master's degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the Humboldt-Viadrina School for Governance and graduated with honors from the Basel Business School, Switzerland.

Mr. Dirk Zingler

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FC Union Berlin President
President, 1. FC Union Berlin E.V.

Mr. Eugen Gehlenborg

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Vice - President, Social Responsibility, German Football Association

Mr. Florian Bauer

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Special Sport Political Journalist, ARD German TV

Mr. Francesco Zaccà

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Director in ICT at the European Patent Office
Director in ICT, European Patent Office

Francesco Zaccà is director in ICT at the European Patent Office in The Hague; he has operational responsibility for several teams of highly qualified patent examiners. In the ICT management team he is responsible for strategic external relations with applicants, international institutions, standardisation bodies. He regularly represents the EPO at technical conferences, exhibitions, international symposia. He has been in charge of business re-engineering projects, member of the steering board of major IT development programmes, advisor to senior management. He is the chair of the internal jury board for the European Inventor of the year Award, which has reached its 12 th edition this year in Venice. Previously he has been director in Telecommunications, in Medical Technologies, examiner in the Radar field, coordinator for applied research and development in the documentation department. Before the EPO he has been senior researcher in Electromagnetics and Electronic Warfare with a System Engineering consulting firm. Francesco received his Master in electrical engineering from Pisa University, specialising in telecommunications.

Mr. Günter Conrad

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Chairman, Con - First GmbHMr
Management Strategy Consultant

Mr. Günter Conrad, Chairman, Con-First GmbHMr. Conrad is a top management strategy consultant working with his clients on transforming their enterprise to be relevant in the future. He served in Andersen Consulting/Accenture for twenty-seven years until 2001 and then founded his own company to work with his clients in reviewing their strategic positioning and in charting their future course. During the past twenty years he has been developing and implementing enterprise transformation plans with his clients. His present research topic deals with effective leadership styles of entrepreneurs and executives in extraordinary turbulent times, moving from motivational to inspirational leadership to respond to the urgent call for aligning leaders' actions with the universal rules of this world.

Mr. Günter Conradt

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CEO, CON - First GmbH

Mr. Conrad is a top management strategy consultant working with his clients on transforming their enterprise to be relevant in the future. He served in Andersen Consulting/Accenture for twenty-seven years until 2001 and then founded his own company to work with his clients in reviewing their strategic positioning and in charting their future course. During the past twenty years he has been developing and implementing enterprise transformation plans with his clients. His present research topic deals with effective leadership styles of entrepreneurs and executives in extraordinary tur- bulent times, moving from motivational to inspirational leadership to respond to the urgent call for aligning leaders' actions with the universal rules of this world.

Mr. Inge Andersen

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Secretary General, Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports

Secretary General of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (Norwegian NOC) since 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Andersen had a successful career as head coach of both the Norwegian and the Swiss cross country national teams, before he entered the Norwegian bank sector as head of Human Resources at Storebrand Bank and Finansbanken. Mr. Andersen holds a major in sports science from The Norwegian School of Sports Science. As the Secretary General of the Norwegian NOC, Mr. Andersen has the daily operational responsibility of the largest non governmental organization in Norway with 2 million memberships and 12,000 sports clubs. The Norwegian NOC is the only sports organization in the world that encompasses the grassroot sports, the Olympic sports, the Paralympic sports, sports for people with intellectual disabilities and sports for people with hearing disabilities.

Mr. Jamilon Mülders

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Coach of Germany

Mr. Jo Leinen

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Member of European Parliament Board Member
Member of European Parliament Member of the Board
Member of the European Parliament

Mr. Jamilon Mülders, Coach of Germany women's national field hockey team, Hockey world champion in 2002 Jo Leinen was born in the Saarland at the German-French border. He concentrated on laws and economics at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Bonn. He continued his studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and the Institute for World Affairs located in Connecticut, USA. Leinen began his career as a legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court Koblenz and soon after became a well-established lawyer in Freiburg/Breisgau. Before becoming an MEP, Jo Leinen was Minister for the Environment in the State Government of Saarland, Germany from 1985-1994. From November 1994 until September 1999, he played the triple role of Chairman of the Committee for European Affairs in the State Parliament of Saarland, Germany and member of both the Committee of the Regions and Congress of Regions of the Council of Europe. After being President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) from 1997 to 2005 he was appointed the organization's Honorary President. He served as a Vice President of the European Movement International (EMI) from 2003 to 2011, before becoming its President in November 2011. Since July 1999 Mr. Leinen has been a Member of the European Parliament. He was a Member of the Convention for the Elaboration of a Charter of Fundamental Rights for the EU. From 2004 to 2009 he was President of the Constitutional Affairs Committee and from 2009 to 2011 he chaired the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a full member in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a substitute member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and of the EP's Working Group on EU-UN relations. He is also a full member of the Delegation for the relations with India and a substitute in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Mr. Johannes Zutt

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Country Director

Mr. Jules Goudsmit

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CEO, Acropoles SA

Mr. Jürgen Trittin

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Member of German Parliament, Member of the Foreign Committee, Federal Minister a. D

Mr. Klaus Wiedemann

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Doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition

Klaus studied law at the University of Würzburg, at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and at the University of Heidelberg with a focus on public international law. After graduating in 2013 (First State Examination in Law, Heidelberg) he started his Judicial Service Training where he focused on private international law. The training included stages at Linklaters LLP in Frankfurt/Main (litigation department) and at the University of Oxford's Institute of European and Comparative Law (Great Britain). In 2015, he passed the bar exam (Second State Examination in Law, Stuttgart) and qualified as a German lawyer/Rechtsanwalt. Since November 2015, Klaus has been a Doctoral Candidate and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. His research interests lie in the fields of data protection and privacy law, with a particular focus on the legal implications of the data-driven economy. His doctoral thesis, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, deals with the intersection of data protection law and the law on unfair competition.

Mr. Madhu Rao

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CEO Shangri - La Hotels
CEO, the Shangri - La Hotels
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Shangri - La International Hotel Management Limited

Madhu Rao is the managing director and chief executive officer of Shangri-La International Hotel Management Limited (commonly referred to as Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts). Mr. Rao has more than 20 years experience with Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, which he joined in 1988 as group financial controller. He was appointed chief financial officer of Shangri-La Asia Limited in 1997 and continues to concurrently hold that position. Previously, he was 17 years at a leading chartered accountancy practice in Mumbai, India, responsible for the management consultancy practice of the firm, including 12 years as partner. He is a graduate in Commerce from the University of Mumbai and a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Mr. Mark Warnecke

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CEO AM Sport, Former Professional Swimmer, Olympic Medal Winner, World and European Champion

Mr. Matthias Schmidt

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Member of German Parliament, Member of the Sports Committee ( SPD )

Mr. Michael Steiner

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Ambassador Rtd

Michael Steiner is a top diplomat of Germany, experienced in international negotiations and peacemaking. He studied law in Munich and Paris, passed State Law Examinations and entered the German Foreign Service in 1983. After positions in Kinshasa, Bonn, New York and Prague, he became

Mr. Nirj Deva

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Member of the European Parliament

Nirj Deva was born in Sri Lanka and holds Sri Lankan and British citizenship. He has a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He became in 1981, Chairman of the Bow Group (leading British political think-tank).

Mr. Patrick Gasser

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Senior CSR Manager, UEFA

Mr. Peter Marti

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Owner & CEO, Marti Communications AG, Switzerland

Peter Marti has studied communications in Switzerland and in the USA. After a career as a communications consultant, he became President & CEO of Ogilvy group in Switzerland and was head of small countries of the Ogily European network. Later he founded his own communication company in Zurich/Switzerland. He is a member of the Swiss Advertising Association and he was a member of the Art Directors Club in Switzerland. Peter Marti was elected as "Advertiser of the year" and won several awards at international communication festivals. During his career, he worked for some major NGO's such as the World Wildlife Fund, Green Cross International and the Red Cross and also some foundations like the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Cambodia, the "Foundation pour la Formation Hoteliere" and the Dr. Rau Foundation have mandated Peter Marti and his team with their brand reputation work. Today he is strongly involved in brand reputation development for mid-sized and bigger global companies. He leads Corporate Social Responsability programs for these companies and is handling their internal and external communications.

Mr. Peter Nünlist

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CEO, PETER NÜNLIST AG, Investment Management & Services

Mr. Ram Lakhina

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Chairman, Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce and Trade ( NICCT )
Founder and Executive President of the Netherlands - India Chamber of Commerce & Trade
Founder and Executive President of the Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce and Trade ( NICCT )

Ram Lakhina is the Founder and Executive President of the Netherlands-India Chamber of Commerce & Trade (NICCT). Earlier he was the President of the Indo Dutch Chamber of Commerce from 1979 to 2001. He was the first Chairman of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO). He drafted the constitution of GOPIO and steered its adoption by the world body. In 1980 he created the Foundation for Critical Choices for India to mobilize intellectual and material resources of Non-residential Indians/People of Indian Origin for identifying critical problems facing India and for suggesting policy options for the solution of those problems. He was the President of the Foundation from 1983 to 1991 and then again from 1994 to 2003. He is the President Emeritus of this organization at present. The publishers of "The Indian", based in Hong Kong, have named Ram Lakhina as one of the ‘100 Global Indians - luminaries, achievers and entrepreneurs'

Mr. Roland Glaser

Roland Glaser is born and raised in Switzerland and holds a degree in history and mathematics from the University of Basel, Switzerland. From 1965 till 2002 he served as CEO and owner of the Minerva Schools Switzerland and helped to make it one of Switzerland's biggest and most recognized private schools.

Mr. Rutger Koopmans

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President, Netherlands

President, Netherlands-India Chamber of Commerce and Trade Former Senior Executive Vice President, ING Bank, The Netherlands Rutger Koopmans graduated in law, political science and business administration in Leiden, Rotterdam and Rochester (USA). During his career in the financial sector, he worked in the Netherlands, London and New York, both for Mees Pierson (1982-1995) and for ING Group (1996 to September 2008). He has considerable experience in corporate banking, for both large and medium sized enterprises. He sees a great importance in including people in the financial system, to empower them and give them a chance to participate in the economy. He is also Chairman of the Netherlands-India Chamber of Commerce and Trade, and Chairman of the Working Group India of the Dutch Trade Board. Furthermore, he was a board member of the Nationale Nederlanden insurance company in the Netherlands. In November 2007, he won the Ethics in Business award of the International Association for Human Values, and in June 2008, he received the Leadership Award of the Cruyff Academics International Institute.

Mr. Sanjay Pradhan

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Chief Executive Officer, Open Government Partnership
Vice - President, the World Bank
Vice President of the World Bank Institute
Vice President, World Bank Institute

Dr. Sanjay Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute (since October 2008). Prior to this, he was the Director of Public Sector Governance for the World Bank. He was responsible for providing the strategic directions for the World Bank's global work on improving public sector governance and combating corruption. He earlier served as the World Bank's Sector Manager, Public Sector and Poverty Reduction for the South Asia region. Prior to that, he was responsible for managing the Bank's unit supporting governance and public sector reform in 26 countries. Dr. Pradhan was a Principal Author of the World Development Report 1997, The State in a Changing World. He presented the WDR in 20 countries, including press conferences, high-level seminars, and presentations to Heads of State and Parliament, including the British House of Commons. He is the author of numerous publications, including articles, books and policy papers. Dr. Pradhan completed his PhD from Harvard University (1988), and his Bachelor's degree from Harvard College, Harvard University (1982). Sanjay Pradhan joined the Open Government Partnership in May 2016. Sanjay supports the countries, local governments and thousands of civil society organizations working to make governments more open, participatory and less corrupt. He leads OGP's policy dialogue with Heads of States, senior ministers and civil society organizations across the partnership, and serves as OGP's global spokesperson. Bringing a wealth of open government and innovation experience to the role, he previously served in three senior positions at the World Bank: as the Vice President for Leadership, Learning and Innovation, the Vice President of the World Bank Institute, and the Director for Governance. While at the World Bank, Mr. Pradhan tirelessly promoted open development. He led the World Bank's Governance and Anticorruption Strategy, launched the Global Partnership for Social Accountability, incubated ICT-mediated citizen feedback to improve governance, initiated Open Contracting with Partners, and rolled out a flagship Collaborative Leadership for Development program to help government and civil society leaders undertake collaborative actions. During his tenure at the World Bank, Sanjay gained extensive experience working in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia. Mr. Pradhan is a global spokesperson and distinguished speaker on open governance and anticorruption issues, appearing in major world forums including the TED Global Conference, the UN General Assembly, the European Parliament, the BBC World Debate, South by Southwest (SXSW), London Anti-Corruption Summit, IACC, and OGP Global Summits in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has published widely, and was a principal author of the 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Chaging World. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Business and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Mr. Vivek Vig

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& Group CEO of Destimoney, India

Mrs. Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer

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Head of Section at the BMJ
President, German Patent and Trade Mark Office

Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer was born in Bad Camberg/Taunus in 1957. After completing her Abitur (equivalent to A levels) she studied law, politics and journalism in Mainz. From 1984 to 1991, after the second State examination in law, she was a research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law (now MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law) in Munich and at the Department of Industrial Property Law of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. In 1991, Ms. Rudloff-Schäffer joined the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) in Bonn, where she first worked as deputy head of section on national legislative projects concerning patent and design law. Three years later, the focus of attention shifted to trade mark law. In 1996, Ms. Rudloff-Schäffer was appointed head of section at the BMJ, where she was responsible for legal issues concerning new technologies in science and bioethics. In 1998, she returned to the field of industrial property protection.

Mrs. Rajita Kulkarni - President

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President

Rajita is a humanitarian, an educationist, a writer, a leadership guide and a global leader. She is the President of the World Forum for Ethics in Business and a Board member in a number of non-governmental organizations at a national and international level. She helps organizations globally to achieve excellence in governance, finance & administration. She is committed to create global advocacy to inspire individuals and corporations to embrace an ethical way of life. She has been instrumental in leading a number of action-oriented initiatives towards this goal. Apart from global responsibility of WFEB, her key current projects include the launch of the prestigious Sri Sri University in India, global design & roll out of TLEX & overseeing the administration of over 100 educational institutions. Her expertise lies in leading large, multicultural, multi country, diverse teams to unleash their full potential and fulfil their vision. She travels the world addressing various international fora to advocate the message of excellence, ethics and human values. Before committing her life to society 3 years ago, Rajita was a banker for 18 years with Citi. She held many international leadership positions in her career, last of which was Asia Pacific Head for Customer Advocacy & Training for the Retail Assets Business. Considered an expert in her field, she designed 85 management exercises and learning tools released in a book Focus Forward. She has won 17 awards for professional excellence in her field and has clocked over 1 million man-hours in training and development of over 100,000 participants. WFEB President Mrs Rajita Kulkarni announced in her speech the launch of an online curriculum for ethical leadership in the near future. Rajita is a humanitarian, an educationist, a writer, a leadership coach and a global leader. She is the President of the World Forum for Ethics in Business and a Board member in a number of non-governmental organisations at an Indian national and international level. She helps organisations globally to achieve excellence in governance, finance and administration. She is committed to create global advocacy to inspire individuals and corporations to embrace an ethical way of life. She has been instrumental in leading a number of action-oriented initiatives towards this goal.

Mrs. Yvonne Feri

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Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Member of the Swiss National Parliament

Yvonne Feri is a member of the Swiss National Parliament and local councilor in Wettingen. Yvonne Feri is active in a number of committees and is president of SP Frauen Schweiz. She started her political career, serving for 10 years until 2008 as a member of the cantonal parliament of Aargau, and was in this capacity an active advocate for family and gender politics. When her parliamentary term ended in 2008, she became chief executive of the Zürich Teachers Association, a position she held until 2012. At the same time, she continued as a council member for the municipality of Wettingen (population 20.000), taking management responsibility for all health and social security related departments. During this time, she remained an active member of the Swiss Socialist Party, contributing actively to improve the position and influence of women in the work place and in wider Swiss society. In 2011, she was elected as a socialist member of the Swiss national parliament, representing the Canton of Aargau. Aside from the day-to-day parliamentary work in the chamber and in committee, she advocates the humanitarian contribution Switzerland can make internationally and seeks to improve the equality and position of working women in Switzerland.

Ms. Anja Jessurun

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Entrepreneur, the Netherlands

Anja Jessurun is a Dutch female entrepreneur who values ethics in business very highly. From an early age on she has an interest in building networks, developing new concepts and creating opportunities by connecting ideas to people and people to ideas. She is known by fellow entrepreneurs as an active and inspiring colleague in the construction industry with a keen eye for environmental issues. Her recent focus as an entrepreneur is on creating awareness for Ayurveda ( a lifestyle and medicine originating from ancient India) in Europe. Not only on the individual, spiritual level but also as an interesting business opportunity. Her strength lies in analysing and solving structural problems in enterprises and organizations. The quote of Anja Jessurun is: Carpe Diem

Ms. Birgit Nössing

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Moderator, Sky Germany

Ms. Erika Mann

Erika Mann was initially elected to the European Parliament in 1994 for Lower Saxony in Germany. She is currently serving her third term and is a Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She is Chairwoman of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. She is also a Member of the Committee on International Trade and is spokesperson for trade for her political family. As a substitute Member she sits on the Budgetary Control Committee and the Industry, Research and Energy Committee. She is also part of the delegation for relations with the United States. Ms. Mann is Senator of the Max Planck Society (MPG), Board Vice-Chair of "Frauen für Technik neue Impulse" (women promoting technology), a German association based in Berlin. She is also the Chair and Co-Founder of the European Internet Foundation (EIF) and European Chairwoman of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN). Erika Mann is a member of the Board of Directors for the Salzburg Seminar. Erika Mann qualified as a teacher of further education early in her career and was researcher at the University of Hannover before becoming a business consultant in information technology. She is patron of a primary school in Berlin, named after the famous Erika Mann, daughter of Thomas Mann, and an academician of the International Informatization Academy of the United Nations. In 2006 she received an award in Washington for outstanding transatlantic commitment, from the European-American Business Council.

Ms. Neeva M. Pradhan

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Coordinator, World Forum Ethics

Ms. Sylvia Schenk

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Chairman of the Working Group Sport at Transparency International
Senior Adviser on Sport, Transparency International

Sylvia Schenk, Chair of the Working Group Sport at Transparency International urged that ‘It is not enough to just proclaim values in sports. We need to live them everyday anew.' Schenk also commended that the creation of such open discussion platforms is a step forward and a ‘healthy approach'.

Ms. Wendela Kuper

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Chairman of the EPAS Governing Board, Council of Europe

Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili

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Vice President Africa, World Bank

Olajobi Makinwa

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Head of Transparency & Anti - Corruption Initiatives, United Nations Global Compact

Peter Moors

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Director General for Development Cooperation, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

Prof Maya V Chakravarti

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Director, Symbiosis Institute of Media

Prof Maya V Chakravarti, Director, Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication said that "Trust is the breath of business," adding that honesty and trust are essential for technology and innovation. Her view was that the concept of CSR is sharing and caring.

Prof. Dr. Andreas de Bruin

Andreas de Bruin was born in Delft, the Netherlands. After he finished his study in Industrial Engineering and Management in Rijswijk he studied Biopsychology in Leiden. 1993 he went to Munich, Germany to pick up a third study in Anthropology and received his PhD 2003. He then became to be an advisor in the field of education and professor for Aesthetic Education 2006. His main fields of research and teaching are mindfulness and meditation. Here he especially is studying the effects on the physical, emotional, cognitive and social level. Besides this he teaches classical music, painting and high giftedness. Andreas de Bruin is working at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. He is an initiator and board member of a special research and education cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for the exchange of expertise between the two universities and - among other things - support collective research and publications, bundle fields of studies and open new ways for students to finish their thesis. De Bruin is practicing meditation since 1991 intensively and founded the Munich Modell "Meditation at University" in 2010. He is now teaching meditation classes in nine fields of studies at four faculties. Recently he has started a new project "meditation and art" that deals with consciousness listening to classical music and consciousness looking at paintings of the Great Masters.

Robert Korzeniowski

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Founder of Sportowa Polska Foundation, Multi Olympic Medalist Discussed Issues of Ethical Responsibility of Business to Create and Grow True Sport Heroes

Robert Korzeniowski, Founder of Sportowa Polska Foundation, multi olympic medalist discussed issues of ethical responsibility of business to create and grow true sport heroes.