Speakers info

Global Ethics Forum 2012
28 -  30 June, Geneva/Switzerland

 This list will be updated regularly as speakers confirm their participation in the conference.

Alexander Ageev
Director General, Institute for Economic Strategies (Russia)
Professor Alexander I. Ageev is the Director General of the Institute for Economic Strategies. He is also a Professor and Academician, at the European Academy of Natural Sciences, Executive Director of the International League of Strategic Management, Assessment and Accounting (ILSM), President of the Future Studies International Academy and Director General of the P.Sorokin-N.Kondratieff International Institute.

He graduated with honors from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the World Economy and International Relations Institute, the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Kingston University (UK), the Academy of National Economy under Government RF. Professor Ageev has received training in the USA and the South Korea. He has worked in governing positions in the USSR Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs, and in the aerospace and atomic industries, in charge of strategic planning issues. He has a D.SC. (Economics), an MBA and a BA and is the author of more than 300 research papers, and a member of the Journalists Union and Writers Union.

 

Anders Aspling
GRLI - Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (Sweden)
Anders Aspling is Secretary General of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) and Senior Adviser of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Anders was senior vice president of organisational and human resource development for Siab (today NCC),  president, dean and managing director of the Swedish Institute of Management (IFL), and a  senior associate of the MiL Institute. He recently served as dean of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium.


Nadia Balgobin
Sustainable Business & Public Sector Management Consultant, Switzerland

Nadia Balgobin holds a Postgraduate in Business Excellence from the University of Applied Sciences, Lausanne and a degree in Political Science from the University of Geneva. Her field of expertise is Business Ethics, Management Organisation, M&E, TQM & Sustainable Development. Previously, she spent 13 years at SGS Headquarters in Geneva in the Consumer Products Division as a Key Account Manager and in the Legal Department where she spearheaded a 3-year compliance programme in 180 countries. Since 2002, Nadia has been working as an independent consultant providing Technical Assistance on government programmes, advising Multinationals, SMEs and NGOs in Francophone countries. Nadia is a member of the Advisory Board of Transparency International Switzerland.
 

Aliou Barry
General Director of Stat View International, Guinea
Aliou Barry is the General Director of Stat View International, Sub-Saharan African NGO specialized in investigations, Monitoring and Evaluation. He is also President of the Electoral Process monitoring and evaluation Commission at the National Transitional Council in Guinea. Mr Barry holds two M.A degrees from the University of Conakry in natural sciences and governance. He recently participated in PhD Courses on governance at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance in Netherlands. Mr. Barry also participates actively in ReseauReFID, an NGO network working closely with the International Francophone Organisation and Transparency International to promote integrity and sustainable development.


Christian Frutiger
Global Public Affairs Manager, Nestlé SA, Switzerland

Christian Frutiger, Swiss and British dual nationality is a graduate of the University of Geneva and also holds an Executive Master of Science in Communications Management from the University of Lugano. He is the Global Public Affairs Manager at Nestlé since 2007. M. Frutiger holds responsibilities in handling human rights issues, relations with major humanitarian and development organizations, participates in the UN Global Compact, as well as Public Affairs communications in French and German. He also manages the Nestlé Water Taskforce. Previously he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). 
 
Walter Fust
President of Globethics.net, Switzerland
Walter Fust is the President of globethics.net. He studied public administration at the University of St. Gallen and had a diplomatic career serving at the Swiss Embassies in Baghdad and Tokyo. He subsequently assumed various functions in the Swiss Federal Administration and in the private sector. He was managing director of the Swiss Trade Promotion Office (OSEC) and Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior. He headed the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for 15 years. He holds mandates in the UN (Broadband Commission ITU/UNESCO, Committee of Experts on Public Management (CEPA)). He furthermore serves on the Board of a number of international institutions (Coalition for Dialogue on Africa, Forum of Federations, International Risk Governance Council/IRGC, Library of Alexandria, etc) and national foundations.
 
Lazare Ki-Zerbo
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, France
Lazare Ki-Zerbo has studied philosophy with a focus on phenomenology. Since 2004 he works for the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in Paris as project manager. His main fields of action are   peace, democracy and human rights. He is originally from Burkina Faso and completed his secondary education at Saint Louis in Senegal. Along with his duties, specifically relating to campaigns on Human Rights (Abolition of death penalty, prevention of torture, business and human rights, freedom of associations), Lazare is also interested in Social Science Research in Africa. He is a regular collaborator for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and co-led in this context the volume on ‘Etudes Africaines de Géographies’ published in 2009.
 
Mervyn King S.C.
Chairman, King Committee on Corporate Governance (South Africa)
Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor in the Department of Marketing and Communication Management at the University of Pretoria, Visiting Professor in the Rhodes Investec Business School, has an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand, is Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced the King Reports on Corporate Governance, President of the Advertising Standards Authority and First Vice President of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa. He has received many awards including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges Award for Excellence in recognition of his outstanding efforts on behalf of the advancement of regulated markets.
 
Zora Ledergerber
Director and owner of Integrity Line GmbH, Switzerland
Dr Zora Ledergerber is director of Integrity Line GmbH and Advisory Board Member of Transparency International-Switzerland. She has experience in consulting organisations, businesses and public institutions on whistleblowing systems. Her 2005 doctorate thesis is on “Whistleblowing as a means to fight corruption” She has been mandated by UNDP to develop a knowledge product on implementing whistleblower legislation in the Arab region and is currently working on a whistleblowing project in Burundi. Her previous expertise includes: Business Ethics, participated in the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq, the Stability Pact Anti-Corruption Initiative, and the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, Managing Director of Transparency International Switzerland.
 
Teodorina Lessidrenska
Programme Executive Business Ethics, Globethics.net, Switzerland
Teodorina is from Bulgaria and has worked principally in the USA, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey and Eastern Africa. She holds a doctorate in chemical engineering and environmental management and a masters in chemical engineering. She is an expert in sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues and is one of the founders of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in which she remains actively involved as a GRI ambassador.  She joined Globethics.net in November 2011 and as Programme Executive Business Ethics is mainly responsible for the development of the Global Ethics Forum project. 


Tim C. Mazur
Chief Operating Officer, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association ECOA, USA
Tim C. Mazur is COO of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), a leading member organization serving members of ethics and compliance teams around the world. Previously, Tim was Vice President, Ethics, at Countrywide Financial Corporation. Tim joined Countrywide after serving as regional Ethics and Compliance Officer and regional Privacy Officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Tim is an ethicist with 25 years of experience managing ethics, compliance, and social responsibility issues in corporations, non-profits, and other organizations. Tim earned his M.B.A. degree in business economics and public policy at The George Washington University and a B.A. degree in political science at San Diego State University. Tim has delivered testimony to the US Sentencing Commission, worked with the U.S Congress and served as an expert in federal criminal case.
 
 
Jean-Pierre Méan
President of Transparency International Switzerland & Caux Initiatives of Change
Jean-Pierre Méan is a lawyer admitted to the bar in Quebec/Canada and in Switzerland. He has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of SGS, the Swiss inspection company from 1996 to 2008, with an interruption in 2002 and 2003 when he was Chief Compliance Officer of the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction in the UK. He is President of the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International and of the Board of Trustees of Caux Initiatives of Change and a member of the Anticorruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce.

 

Thomas Myers
 Lawyer, USA
 Thomas Myers is a preeminent forensic accountant from the United States who has   lectured widely on Wall Street securities fraud in connection with the current credit  crisis. He has provided training for all of the major banking regulatory agencies, the  FBI, Secret Service, SEC, and the U.S. Attorney’s office. He has testified before the U.S.  Congress on banking matters. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve  engaged Mr. Myers to chair a U.S. symposium on subprime structured finance  products
 
  

Deon Rossouw
Professor, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Dr. GJ (Deon) Rossouw is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Centre for Business and Professional Ethics at the University of Pretoria. He was the Founding President of the Business Ethics Network of Africa (BEN-Africa) and a former President of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE). He served on the Sustainability Committee of the Third King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa. 

 

Stephan Rothlin
General Secretary, Center for International Business Ethics (CIBE), China 
Stephan Rothlin, born in Zurich, Switzerland, after completing his studies in philosophy, sociology, theology and ethics in various cities in Europe started teaching business ethics at the institute for empirical research in economics of the University of Zurich between 1992 and 1998. Since 1998 he moved to Beijing where he taught business ethics at various business schools of different Universities. Together with Chinese colleagues he founded the Center for International Business Ethics at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, in 2004 where he serves as Secretary General. His main research interest is the development of business ethics in the Chinese and Indian context. Dr. Rothlin teaches also regularly at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Hong Kong University and the INSEAD business school in Singapore. He assists companies operating in China to develop and implement Ethical codes.
 
S.D. Shibulal
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and designated CEO, Infosys, India
S.D.Shibulal has a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Kerala and a MS in Computer Science from Boston University. He is one of the co-founders and member of the Board of Directors of Infosys Technologies Limited. He has played a pivotal role in the Infosys journey and a seminal role in the evolution of the Global Delivery Model. He is a member of several international forums, namely, the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), the International Board of Foundation, Globethics.net; the Global Corporate Governance Forum’s Private Sector Advisory Group, the Board of Trustees, Boston. Since 2007, He is the Chief Operating Officer of Infosys.
 
 
Markus E. Schulz
Chief Compliance Officer Global Life & Group Financial Crime Officer
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, Switzerland
Markus E. Schulz, Chief Compliance Officer Global Life & Group Financial Crime Officer Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. Previously he worked for 13 years at ABN AMRO Bank, Global Head Compliance Service Center and COO AML Compliance, as Corporate Senior Vice President and a member of the Global Compliance Management Team. He also served in a variety of senior in-country, Regional and Global management positions located in Germany, UK and the Netherlands for almost a decade. Markus also is a very frequent and regular presenter, panelist, key note speaker, moderator and chairman at Compliance, AML, Anti-Financial Crime and Anti-Fraud conferences in Europe, Middle-East and the US. Markus is also an Advisory Board member of ACAMS®, the well known Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists®.
 
 
Vasanthi Srinivasan
Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship at IIMB, India
Vasanthi Srinivasan is the Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and is Associate Professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management area at IIMB.  She is co-director of Globethics.net India. Her main areas of research are integrity and organizational character, leadership and ethics in decision making.
 
 

Christoph Stueckelberger 
Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net (Switzerland)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Stückelberger is Founder and Executive Director of Globethics.net. He is part-time Professor of Ethics at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel in Switzerland. Economic ethics, political ethics, environmental ethics and development ethics are his main fields of research. Until January 2008, he was Director of the Institute for Theology and Ethics of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches in Berne, Switzerland. Prior to this position he was Director of the Development Organisation Bread for all. He was Founder/President of Transparency International Switzerland and member of the bioethics Committee of the Swiss Government. He is author of many books, published in six languages.