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Simon Zadek (PhD) works on sustainability issues worldwide and is an independent advisor and author. He is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)[1] and Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute.[2] From 2006-2011 he was non-resident Senior Fellow at the Centre for Government and Business of Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Simon founded and was until December 2009 Chief Executive of AccountAbility, where he established the organisation’s global leadership in sustainability standards and certification, collaborative governance and responsible competitiveness, extending its impact from bases in Beijing, São Paulo, London and Washington, and through activities in South Africa and across the Middle East.

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[edit] Career

Simon sits on the International Advisory Board of the Brazilian business network, Instituto Ethos, the Advisory Board of the sustainability fund manager, Generation Investment Management, and the Boards of the International Centre for Sustainable Development and the Employers' Forum on Disability. Prior to this, he was a director at the New Economics Foundation.[3] In 2003 he was named a World Economic Forum ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’.

Simon’s work with businesses, governments and international organisations over the last decade has contributed to establishing responsible business on the global map as a core business strategy and public policy issue and practice.[4] His work has included:

  • Mediating sustainability: facilitating, mediating and convening to drive collaboration between business, civil society and governments, including being the founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative, the founding Convenor of the apparel focused MFA Forum,[5] and company-specific engagements such as with The Coca Cola Company and General Electric.
  • Progressive policy: working with governments from China to Saudi Arabia to South Africa to deepened their knowledge and attention to responsible competitiveness in policies catalyzing national competitiveness, including work with China’s Development Research Council of the State Council on Chinese investments in Africa.[6]
  • International initiatives: supporting international institutions and initiatives through advice and expert panel contributions to the UN Global Compact, the State of the World’s Commission for Globalisation, the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, and the UN Commission for Social Development.
  • Collaborative climate management: contributing to the on-going global climate negotiations with policy research focused on business and adaptation, institutional design and low carbon growth planning, including international climate policy platform, Project Catalyst,[7] involving McKinsey and the ClimateWorks Foundation.
  • Shaping narrative: contributing in shaping thinking and practice of responsible business, including Harvard Business Review article, Paths to Corporate Responsibility,[8] Responsible Competitiveness,[9] and The Civil Corporation, acknowledged as a classic in the field with a prestigious Award from the Academy of Management.
  • Academic contributions: through his academic writings and his current roles at Harvard University and the University of South Africa and previous roles as Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and as Visiting Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, as well as contributing to student initiatives and events including through Net Impact and AISEC. His Phd, entitled “The Economics of Utopia: the Democratisation of Scarcity”, was published in 1992.
  • Media communications: including the Financial Times and other leading international journals; on climate change with Brazilian media giant Globo; China’s leading English-speaking television station CCTV9 on Chinese investments in Africa;[10] and The Guardian on sustainability and fiancial markets [11]

[edit] Notes

Simon's PhD thesis was published as The Economics of Utopia (1994), and published an anthology of his writings Tomorrow’s History (2004)[1]. His book, The Civil Corporation: the New Economy of Corporate Citizenship (2001), has become a classic in the field [2], and has been recognised by the Academy of Management by being honoured as the Best Book Social Issues Award 2006.

[edit] Publications

  • Corporate Responsibility in African Development: Insights from an Emerging Dialogue (2010) [12]
  • Emerging Nations and Sustainability: Chimera or Leadership? (2010) [13]
  • ICT and Low Carbon Growth in China (2010) [14]
  • Unlocking South Africa’s Green Growth Potential: the South African Renewables Initiative (2010) [15]
  • From Climate Finance to Financing Green Growth (2010) [16]
  • Responsible Business in Africa: Chinese Business Leaders’ Perspectives on Performance and Enhancement Opportunities (2009) [17]
  • Radical Simplicity in Designing National Climate Institutions: Lessons from the Amazon Fund (2009) [18]
  • The Business of Adaptation: Briefing Paper (2009) [19]
  • Advancing Sustainable Competitiveness of China’s Transnational Corporations (2009) [20]
  • Responsible Competitiveness in the Arab World (2009) [21]
  • Governing Collaboration: Making Partnership Accountable for Delivering Development (2008) [22]
  • The State of Responsible Competitiveness: Making Sustainable Development Count in Global Markets (2007) [23]
  • Collaborative Governance: The New Multilateralism for the 21st Century (2007) [24]
  • The Logic of Collaborative Governance: Corporate Responsibility, Accountability and the Social Contract (2006) [25]
  • Reinventing Accountability for the 21st Century (2006) [26]
  • Governing Collaborative Governance: Enhancing Development Outcomes by Improving Partnership Governance and Accountability (2006) [27]
  • The Materiality Report: Aligning Strategy, Performance and Reporting (2006) [28]
  • Impact of Reporting: The Role of Social and Sustainability Reporting in Organisational Transformation (2002) [29]
  • Mainstreaming Responsible Investment (2005) [30]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "CIGI appoints susan schandler and simon zadek senior visiting fellows". Centre for International Governance Innovation. 2011-05-09. http://www.cigionline.org/articles/2011/05/cigi-appoints-susan-schadler-and-simon-zadek-senior-visiting-fellows. Retrieved 2011-05-09. 
  2. ^ "Mr. Simon Zadek". Global Green Growth Forum. http://www.gggi.org/staff/member/simon-zadek. 
  3. ^ David Boyle (2011-02-07). "Standing on the shoulders of giants". New Economics Foundation. http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2011/02/07/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants. 
  4. ^ "Global 100 Council of Experts". http://www.global100.org/about-us/global-100-council-of-experts.html. 
  5. ^ Simon Zadek (2007-04-14). "Reinventing global trade: the MFA Forum". openDemocracy. http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/global_mfa_4528.jsp. 
  6. ^ Long Guoqiang,Simon Zadek (2009-04). "Advancing Sustainable Competitiveness of China Transnational Corporations". AccountAbility,DRC. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Advancing-Sustainable-Competitiveness-of-China-Transnational-Corporations-_Bilingual_April2009.pdf. 
  7. ^ Simon Zadek,Maya Forstater (2009-08). "Low Carbon Growth Planning: Advancing Good Practice". Project Catalyst. http://www.project-catalyst.info/images/3.%20Low%20carbon%20growth%20planning/Publications/Advancing%20good%20practice/090805%20Project%20Catalyst%20-%20LCGP%20paper%20-%20normal%20view%20-%20Ver%202.0.pdf. 
  8. ^ Simon Zadek (2004-01-12). "Paths to Corporate Responsibility". Harvard Business Review. http://hbr.org/product/path-to-corporate-responsibility/an/R0412J-PDF-ENG. 
  9. ^ Simon Zadek, Alex MacGillivray (2008-09-28). "Paths to Corporate Responsibility". Harvard International Review. http://hir.harvard.edu/responsible-competitiveness. 
  10. ^ "Chinese Business in Africa". CCTV9. 2009-12-14. http://english.cctv.com/program/e_dialogue/20091214/101852_1.shtml. 
  11. ^ "Sustainability should tbe true measure of US creditworthiness". Guardian Comment is Free. 2011-08-15. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/15/sustainability-us-credit-standard-and-poors. 
  12. ^ Forstater, Maya, Simon Zadek, Yang Guang, Kelly Yu, Chen Xiaohong, Mark George (2010) (2010-10). "Corporate Responsiblity in African Development: Insights from an Emerging Dialogue". .Institute of West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Working Paper 60, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Mass. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Harvard_Corporate-Responsibility-in-African-Development_October-2010.pdf. 
  13. ^ Simon Zadek (2010-11). "Emerging Nations and Sustainability: Chimera or Leadership?". Politeia, XXVI, 98, 2010. ISSN 1128-2401 pp. 153-167 (reproduced by Harvard University as Working Paper 61, 2010). http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Harvard-Emerging-Nations-and-Sustainability-Zadek.pdf. 
  14. ^ Zadek, Simon, Maya Forstater, Kelly Yu and Jon Kornik (2010) (2010-11). "ICT and Low Carbon Growth in China". Digital Energy Solutions Campaign, Beijing. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DESC-paper_ICT_Low-Carbon-Development-in-China_01052011.pdf. 
  15. ^ Zadek, Simon, Maya Forstater, Kelly Yu and Jon Kornik (2010) (2010-12). "Unlocking South Africa's Green Growth Potential: the South African Renewables Initiative". Department of Trade and Industry, Government of the Republic of South Africa, Pretoria. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SARI_Unlocking-South-Africas-Green-Growth-Potential_011210.pdf. 
  16. ^ Zadek, Simon(2010) (2010-11-23). "From Climate Finance to Financing Green Growth". Project Catalyst, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Project-Catalyst_Financing-Green-Growth_November2010_opt.pdf. 
  17. ^ Zadek, Simon, Chen Xiaohong, Li Zhaoxi, Jia Tao, Zhou Yan, Li Guoqiang, Kelly Yu, Maya Forstater, Guy Morgan (2009-11). "Responsible Business in Africa: Chinese Business Leaders’ Perspectives on Performance and Enhancement Opportunities". Working Paper 54, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Mass.. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Harvard_Responsible-Business-in-Africa_November2009.pdf. 
  18. ^ Zadek, Simon, Maya Forstater, Fernanda Polacow and João Boffino (2009-12). "Radical Simplicity in Designing National Climate Institutions". AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Radical-Simplicity-in-Designing-National-Climate-Institutions_Lessons-from-the-Amazon-Fund.pdf. 
  19. ^ Forstater, Maya, Saleemul Huq and Simon Zadek (2009-12). "The Business of Adapation". AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/THE-BUSINESS-OF-ADAPTATION-BRIEFING-PAPER_November2009.pdf. 
  20. ^ Guoqiang, L, Simon Zadek and Joshua Wickerham (2009-03). "Advancing Sustainable Competitiveness of China’s Transnational Corporations (2009)". Development Research Centre of the State Council, Beijing (republished by the International Institute for Sustainable Development). http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Zadek_Advancing-Sustainability-Practices-of-Chinas-Transnational-Corporations_IISD_2010.pdf. 
  21. ^ Zadek, Simon, Alex MacGillivray, Darin Rovere, (2009-05). "Responsible Competitiveness in the Arab World 2009". AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Responsible_Competitiveness_in_the_Arab_World_May2009.pdf. 
  22. ^ Rochlin, Steve, Simon Zadek and Maya Forstater (2008-04). "Governing Collaboration: Making Partnerships Accountable for Delivering Development(2008)". AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Governing_Collaboration_April2008.pdf. 
  23. ^ Zadek, Simon, Alex MacGillivray (2007-10). "The State of Responsible Competitiveness: Making Sustainable Development Count in Global Markets". AccountAbility, London.. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The-State-of-Responsible-Competitiveness_July2007.pdf. 
  24. ^ Zadek, Simon (2007-10). "Collaborative Governance: The New Multilateralism for the 21st Century(2007)". Published in Global Development 2.0, Brookings Institute, Washington DC. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Brookings_Collaborative-Governance_October2007.pdf. 
  25. ^ Zadek, Simon (2006-01). "The Logic of Collaborative Governance: Corporate Responsibility, Accountability, and the Social Contract(2006)". Working Paper 17, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Mass.. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Harvard_The_Logic_of_Collaborative_Governance_Simon-Zadek_2006.pdf. 
  26. ^ Burgis, Tom and Simon Zadek (2006-05). "Reinventing Accountability for the 21st Century(2006)". AccountAbility, London.. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Reinventing-Accountability-for-the-21st-Century_2006.pdf. 
  27. ^ Zadek, Simon, Sasha Radovich (2006-04). "Governing Collaborative Governance: Enhancing Development Outcomes by Improving Partnership Governance and Accountability(2006)". Working Paper 23, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Mass.. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Harvard_Governing_Collaborative_Governance_April2006.pdf. 
  28. ^ Zadek, Simon, Maya Forstater and Jeannette Oelschlaegel (2006-11). "The Materiality Report: Aligning Strategy, Performance and Reporting(2006)". AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The_Materiality_Report_Aligning_Strategy_Performance_Reporting_November2006.pdf. 
  29. ^ Zadek, Simon, Catherine Rubbens and Philip Monaghan (2002-11). "Impact of Reporting: The Role of Social and Sustainability Reporting in Organisational Transformation(2002)". CSR Europe & AccountAbility, London. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CSR_AccountAbility_Impacts-of-Reporting_2002.pdf. 
  30. ^ Zadek, Simon, Mira Merme and Rick Samans (2002-11). "Mainstreaming Responsible Investment(2005)". World Economic Forum, Geneva. http://www.zadek.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/WEF_Mainstreaming_Responsible_Investment_2005.pdf. 

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