Speakers

  • David Vogel – Haas School of Business – Department of Political Science – University of California

David Vogel is the Solomon P. Lee Professor of Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on both government regulation of business and corporate social responsiblity. The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsiblity (2005,6) received the best book award from the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management in 2008 and has been translated into French, Japanese and Korean. His most recent book is The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety and Environemntal Risks in Europe and the United States ( Princeton University Press, 2012

  • Doucin Michel, is graduated in economics and Doctor in political sciences, he is an alumnus of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration.

Michel Doucin is career diplomat, he had responsibilities in the international cooperation policy, particularly as Deputy Director of International Cooperation and Head of the Mission Liaison with NGOs. He was General Consul in Germany (Mainz) and Italy (Naples, where he also headed the French Institute), and French Ambassador for Human Rights. He held several administrative tasks outside the Quai d’Orsay: Regional Director of Cultural Affairs of Aquitaine, General Secretary of the Committee of decentralization of the Delegation for Spatial Planning and Regional Action (then Service Prime Minister) and General Secretary, High Council for International Cooperation (near the prime minister).
He is currently Ambassador for bioethics and corporate social responsibility and associate professor at the Jean Monnet Faculty of Law of the University Paris XI.
His publications include « A Guide to freedom of association in the world » (French Literature 2000 and 2007) and « NGOs, checks and balances? « (Ed Toogezer, 2007), as well as numerous articles, including recently: « CSR popular with emerging markets (despite its ambiguities)” in Industrial Realities in May 2011.

  • Fabienne RENAUD, Regional Advisor of Pays de la Loire in charge of the Social and fair economy, trade, crafts and business creation, and Deputy Mayor of St Herblain (the second city of Nantes area).

For several years, she develops projects on Global Responsibility of Enterprises, as the welcome in 2011 of Parliament of Entrepreneurs of the Future and the adoption of the Charter of Global Responsibility of companies in St Herblain. These moments have led to the creation of networks of Global Responsibility in the territories concerned with Audencia, the Regional Chamber of Economy and Social Solidarity, the Center of Young Leaders, companies, syndicates and employees …. and implementation of public policies such as an ad hoc module on Dynamic Enterprises Global Responsability in Companies. Particularly interested in issues of Equal Women/Men, it has also set up development programs Women’s Entrepreneurship. Finally, project manager of Business Tourism Nantes Métropole, in charge of major equipment, it encourages wherever possible the development of Global Responsibility in Companies in the direction of public service delegations concerned.

  • Subhasis Ray is Associate Professor at Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB), India and the co-founder of the Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility.

An engineer by training, he has a PhD in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Osmania University, India and a PGDBM from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His teaching interests include socially responsible marketing, CSR and sustainability. He has co-designed India’s first academic course on Management of Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility that features in the Aspen Institute’s Teaching Innovation Programme (TIP). He also teaches a course on Stakeholder Marketing, integrating marketing practices with stakeholder needs and concerns. His research focuses on corporate sustainability management in developing countries with a focus on policy, planning, implementing and evaluating projects and programmes related to sustainable development in the corporate context. He has trained many organizations on their CSR policies and practices. He has published many papers and book chapters on CSR and edited a book on cases in corporate social responsibility.