Peter Löscher is President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG
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Bruno Berthon is the Accenture Global Sustainability Practice Lead, based in Paris. He has worked with the top management of multinationals across several industries, including consumer goods, retail, telecommunications and media, on their transformation agenda. Over the last 14 years, he has specialized in helping organizations address the challenges of globalization, large-scale operating model change and innovation. As the global lead of the sustainability practice, Mr. Berthon’s expertise lies in helping multinational clients evaluate business opportunities related to climate change and sustainability challenges across sectors. He was previously Accenture’s strategy Practice Lead for the Gallia region (Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and also led Accenture’s Business Launch Center focusing on Internet-related activities.

Albert Alexander (Lex) Holst, worked for Shell International for 35 years.  His life-long career brought him into senior positions around the world, in Shell’s operational activities, as well as in its corporate organization.  Prior to his retirement in September 2008, he was Group Vice President Sustainable Development, HSE and Social Performance, and then Group Vice President Strategic Projects in the Corporate Centre of Royal Dutch Shell plc. In this last position he focused on the identification, avoidance and mitigation of issues and risks, connected with the environmental and social impacts of Shell’s mega projects and operations, as these develop largely in new frontier areas, and in increasingly sensitive environments and communities.  For this purpose he initiated the establishment of new, strategic partnership agreements with leading environmental and social NGOs.  Prior to these corporate roles, he served in senior positions in Shell’s global Downstream Refining and Supply Business, in Latin America, the Far East and Europe, in London as Head of Strategy in Shell Chemicals, and as Vice President Refining, Chemicals and Supply and Distribution for Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam.
Since his retirement Lex works as an independent consultant and as subject matter expert for HCSS, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies in the Netherlands.  He is a member of the Board of EABIS, the European Academy for Business in Society in Brussels, with a special focus on global governance and regulatory frameworks.

Baldomero Falcones is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas S.A. (FCC), one of the leading European services and construction groups. Previously he was a co-founder of Magnum Industrial Partners (a private equity firm), president of Eptisa and chairman of Santander Central Hispano Seguros. He was also chairman of MasterCard International in New York, where he led the merger between MasterCard and Europay and directer the IPO of MasterCard on the NYSE in March 2006. He was managing director of Banco Santander Central Hispano and a member of the management executive committee from 1987 to 2002 with different responsibilities first as head of the international division, later as vice chairman and CEO of Santander Consumer Finance (former Hispamer) and finally as global COO of the group. In his extensive carrer, Mr. Falcones has been chairman of Banco Urquijo Limited (UK), Hispano Americano Sociedade do Investimento (Portugal), Banco Hispano Americano Benelux, Banco Urquijo Chile, Fiat Finance S.A., Santander Seguros S.A.and CEO of Banco Hispano Industrial Investment Bank. In addition he has been a member of the board of Union Fenosa, CESCE, Generalli Spain, Seguros La Estrella, Europay International, BANIF as well as head of RWE Spain. He is also a member of the Economic Board of Fundación Albeniz - Reina Sofía School of Music and former chairman of Plan España Foundation, one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. Mr. Falcones earned a superior degree in engineering form Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1970 and an MBA from IESE Business School, University of Navarra in 1972.


Professor David Jackman is Chair of the BSI (British Standards Institution) Committee on Sustainable Development and a primary author and architect of the BS8900 ‘Managing Sustainable Development’ and the accompanying Handbook. Within the 8900 series some certifiable standards including for events management (Olympics London 2012), supply chain and construction have been produced. David is championing the development of a BSI standard for sustainable communities and longer term projects for sustainable investment and evaluating sustainable outcomes.
David was a financial services regulator for over 10 years, responsible for education and ethical standards, helping to establish the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) after working at 3 previous regulatory bodies. He was the first CEO of the Financial Services Skills Council.Having recognised some of the principle shortcomings of regulatory intervention in practise, David has employed various voluntary tools, often in combination, to achieve the development of more mature ethical organisational culture. In addition to standards David has designed and used a range of approaches, such as The Ethics Mark – a unique badge to distinguish truly values-led businesses due to be fully launched later this year; a GRC practice (Governance, Risk and Compliance) as part of US-based Resources Global Professionals (publishing the RGI - an index of corporate governance in 2009) and comprehensive education programmes delivered by The Ethical Space which provides a summary of his philosophy and methodologies  (see www.theethicalspace.com ).
David was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities and is a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University. ( contact: david@theethicalspace.com )

Gilbert Lenssen, is President of EABIS, in the academic spectrum Professor Lenssen has formerly taught Business Environment at 'The College of Europe' in Bruges, and Warsaw, and is currently a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Leiden University. As President of EABIS, Professor Lenssen directs the overall orientation and research content of the organization. His research and teaching areas include subjects in corporate social responsibility; the implications of globalisation for business, government and society; intercultural management, and organisational transformation.
Professor Lenssen has worked as a business executive with British Petroleum (BP) across different disciplines in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Spain as well as other global roles. He graduated in political sciences and philosophy and holds an MBA from Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH, and a PhD in social sciences from the Universities of Hamburg/Antwerp. He has written books and articles on management theory, management cultures, corporate responsibility and contemporary epistemology.
On behalf of EABIS, Gilbert is a member of the Editorial Board of the Corporate Governance Journal as well as a member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Board. In addition to sitting on their Board, Professor Lenssen is also an EQUIS reviewer for EFMD.


Jan Muehlfeit, is Chairman Europe in Microsoft Corporation. He joined Microsoft in 1993and during his seven years in the company s Czech and Slovak operations, he held a variety of leadership roles including the position of General Manager.  He received the Microsoft President s Award for Excellence in 1994. He was named Regional Director of Microsoft Eastern Europe in 2000 and promoted to Vice President 2002. Under his leadership, Eastern Europe became company s best performing region worldwide for four consecutive years. Following he assumed the role of Vice president of Microsoft s Public Sector team in Europe, Middle East and Africa( EMEA) in 2005.  He was promoted to his present position 2007.


John Peters is Chief Executive of Emerald Group Publishing Limited, based in Bradford, England, and President of Emerald Publishing Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass. He became CEO in 2005, since which time Emerald has grown consistently through investment in content development and digitization, building a global sales and customer management approach, building strategic partnerships, and an acquisition taking the company into scholarly book publishing. Emerald today is the world’s leading publisher of management research, with offices in the UK, India, China, Australia, USA, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Dubai and Malaysia. 
He holds an English degree from Manchester University and an MBA from Bradford School of Management.  John has held visiting posts at universities in the UK, USA and Australia, and was a founding Advisory Board member of the E-TQM College Dubai and the International Business School Kochi, India. He joined Emerald in 1999, having worked previously in consultancy, management development and academia in Europe, North America and Australia.
John is Editor of the journal Management Decision, and co-author of the textbook The Management of a Student Research Project, and has written and presented widely on business, management and publishing industry topics.

Nigel Roome is professor of Global Corporate Responsibility and Governance at TiasNimbas Business School, The Netherlands and Academic Director of Globus, Competence Centre for Globalisation and Sustainable Development. He holds the Daniel Janssen Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at Solvay Business School, Free University of Brussels, Belgium and is Chair of the EABIS Academic Board.
He previously held chairs in the Netherlands (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tilburg University) and Canada (Schulich School of Business), and academic positions in Britain. He is widely published on topics that examine the relationship between business strategies, innovation and technology, and, corporate responsibility, sustainable development and global change.
His books include management education for sustainability and corporate environmental management (1994); sustainability strategies for industry (1998); and the ecology of information and communications technologies (2002). He chaired the European Commission expert group and authored its report on sustainable production: challenges and objectives for EU research policy (2001).
He has received a number of research grants, where his role has been to coordinate interdisciplinary research teams. In addition, over the past 15 years he has studied and published work on some exceptional companies, which have undertaken significant progress in embedding sustainability and corporate responsibility into their strategy and practices. Professor Roome’s career has involved innovations in both education and research. In educational terms he developed the environmental management curriculum in the 1970s and the business and environment and corporate responsibility curricula in the 1990s.

Baroness Lutgart Van den Berghe is Executive Director of GUBERNA (l’Institut des Administrateurs / Het Instituut voor Bestuurders) and Extra-Ordinary Professor at the University of Ghent (B) and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Her main topic of interest is “Corporate Governance”. In the school, she serves as Chairman of the Competence Center "Entrepreneurship, Governance and Strategy”, where she founded the impulse centre Business in Society. 
She is a Member of the Belgian Commission for Corporate Governance and Non-Executive Director in several international companies, such as CSM (NL), SHV (NL), ELECTRABEL (B) and BELGACOM (B). She is also a Member of the Advisory Board of Lazard (Benelux). At EcoDA (European Confederation of Directors’ Association), she is a Member of the Management and chairwoman of its policy committee.
She was a member of the Board of the ING Group (NL, 1991-2003), KLM (NL, 2001 - 2004), Solvay (NL, 2003-2007), Capco NV (B, 2000 – 2003), DVV (B, 1995 - 1997), member of the Audit Committee of the Flemish Government  (B, 2000 – 2004) and Chairman of the Proximus Foundation (until 2005).
Lutgart Van den Berghe is doctor in Business Economics of the University of Gent (B).

Dr. Mark Wade offers a unique range of experiences and competencies to bring sustainable development thinking into the mainstream of major corporations and institutions. His groundbreaking work encompasses both the ‘hard-wiring’ (reporting, governance, key performance indicators, systems and processes) and the ‘soft-wiring’ (winning the hearts and minds of leaders) to generate the ‘will, thrill, skill of sustainable development’.
Mark joined Shell in 1979 as a research biochemist. He served in a variety of posts, moving in 1997 to the Corporate Centre of Shell International as a founder member of the Sustainable Development Group. Mark relinquished his position as Head of Sustainable Development Policy, Strategy and Reporting early 2003 on moving to Shell Learning’s Leadership Development group.  Here he led the Sustainable Development Learning programme incorporating this approach into all stages of the talent pipeline from graduate attraction to senior executive development.
Until his retirement from Shell in 2006, Mark was Shell’s Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Chairman of the Business Network of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABiS). He now serves on the Supervisory Board of EABiS.  He is Chairman and non-executive director of the consultancy Future Considerations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The Centre for Tomorrow’s Company, a member of the Responsible Investment Advisory Board of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.  He is also Sustainability Advisor to the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Beachheads programme.
During his time with Shell, Mark was recognised internally and externally as a key player and architect of Shell’s sustainability journey.  He now works with senior executives in major corporations, institutions and government trade & enterprise organisations helping them understand the operational and strategic importance of sustainable development and guiding individual and organisational change.
Mark is an accomplished public speaker and facilitator.
Married with two grown up children and is an experienced ocean sailor.

Patricia H. Werhane is the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She was formerly the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden School at the University of Virginia where she is now Professor Emeritus.  Professor Werhane has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of  over twenty books including   Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making and Organization Ethics for Health Care with Oxford University Press and Employment and Employee Rights (with Tara J. Radin and Norman Bowie) with Blackwell’s.  She is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. Professor Werhane is a member of the academic advisory team for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics housed at the University of Virginia. Her latest book is Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships with Laura P. Hartman, Dennis Moberg and Scott Kelley.