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Kurt Hoffman, President, Shell Foundation A development economist by training, Kurt Hoffman first practised his craft in an academic context as a Senior Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex in the UK and then worked at an advisory and operational level for private foundations as well as the UN, EU, the World Bank and various bi-lateral development agencies. A valuable grounding in the real world of raising investment capital and spinning off start-up businesses followed. In parallel with these activities, there was a prolonged period of work at board level to establish viable societal and customer value propositions to underpin airline industry support for the environment. This led to an invitation to join Shell Group in 1997 as architect and then Director of the Shell Foundation. Kurt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2003. Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact Office Georg Kell is the Executive Head of The Global Compact
Office, overseeing a network that includes several hundred companies, international
labour, non-governmental organisations and other civil society groups. Mr. Kell
was one of the chief architects of The Global Compact initiative, launched by
Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July 2000 to promote good corporate citizenship
and responsible globalisation. Mr. Kell joined the executive office of the Secretary-General
in 1997 as a senior officer responsible for fostering cooperation with the private
sector to advance broad UN objectives. Mr. Kell has extensive experience in
international trade and development issues. In 1990, he joined the New York
office of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where, from 1993-97,
he served as office head, closely interacting with delegations and the UN General
Assembly. Mr. Kell began his career at the UN in 1987, spending three years
in Geneva with UNCTAD. Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Kell worked
as a financial analyst in developing countries in Asia and Africa, appraising
industrial projects for banks and multilateral institutions. Mr. Kell holds
advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University
in Berlin. Following his postgraduate studies at the Fraunhofer Institute, he
spent two years in Tanzania where he helped establish an industrial research
institute. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Geboren am 21. November 1942 in Frankfurt am Main.
Michael Anthony, Public Affairs Spokesperson, Allianz Group Kai Bethke, Industrial Development Officer, UNIDO Dr. Kai Bethke, 42, a German national, studied business administration and economics in Germany. After first professional experiences in the private sector in Colombia and Germany he returned to university for Ph.D. studies in development economics with a focus on fiscal policies in developing countries. In 1995, began his work for the UN in Geneva, where he was working in the International Trade Centre (ITC), before he joined United Nations Industrial Development Organization in 2000. In UNIDO he is responsible for the CSR and Business Partnership Programmes, focussing on responsible competitiveness and supply chain management for small business in the developing world. Kurt Biedenkopf, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Hertie School of Governance Kurt Biedenkopf is a leading CDU politician in Germany.
From 1990 to 2002 he was Minister-President of the Free State of Saxony, where
he played a crucial role in modernizing the eastern German state. Andrew Bone, Head of Public Affairs, De Beers Group of Companies Andrew Bone (United Kingdom) is Head of Public Affairs and an official spokesperson for the De Beers Group. He has worked for the De Beers Group for 20 years, including six years (1986–92) buying diamonds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He oversees the Group's policies on corporate responsibility and sustainable development issues, regularly liaising with governments, the United Nations, diamond industry leaders and representatives of civil society. He has participated in the development of the Kimberley Process since the first meeting, in May 2000. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Westminster Business School in London. Luke Danielson, Principal, Domani LLC Mr. Danielson has more than 25 years of experience in environmental
law and in applying related public policy issues to capital projects domestically
and internationally. His current work is counseling companies, international
organizations, government agencies and lenders on international trends, policies
and practical strategies for addressing complicated and intertwined environmental,
social and economic challenges in planning and implementing projects in developing
countries. He was the Director of the Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development
Project for the International Institute for Environment and Development. As
Director, Mr. Danielson developed, organized, and managed a two-year global
program designed to examine the role of mining in sustainable development. Prior
to this position Mr. Danielson was Director of the Mining Policy Research Initiative
in Montevideo, Uruguay and a Fulbright scholar and Law Professor at the University
of Chile. He was a private practice environmental attorney from 1982 to 1998,
focusing on environmental law, natural resources law, and energy issues, and
is former Chairman of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board, the state’s
permitting authority for mining. He received a JD from the University of California
School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1975 and a BA in Economics from Antioch College
in 1971. Achim Deja, Corporate Social Responsability, Karl Storz AG Luke Disney, Program Director “Moving the World”, TNT Luke Disney is Global Director of Communications for TNT's
Moving the World programme, the department that runs TNT's partnership with
WFP. Luke is responsible for all internal and external communications concerning
the programme including advocacy, global fundraising and community outreach
programmes. His main objectives are to engage TNT's 162,000 employees and external
stakeholders, while maintaining good lines of communication between TNT and
WFP, and to connect with potential new partners in the public and private sector. Sarah England, Medical Officer, Stop TB Partnership, WHO Sarah England is team leader in the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat at the World Health Organization in Geneva. The Stop TB Partnership is a multi-stakeholder coalition that seeks to eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050. Prior to her work with Stop TB, Dr England worked on vaccine finance at WHO. In this capacity, she wrote a 1999 paper on options for a vaccine fund, worked with members of the then newborn Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to developed that design into a proposal, and presented the proposal to Bill Gates Senior in Seattle later that year. Two weeks later, the Gates Foundation awarded US$750 million to the fund, one of the largest single donations ever made. Dr England has spent close to a decade on development field work in Asia, including Viet Nam, Lao PDR and Cambodia, and she has worked on innovative financial mechanisms linked with the Global Environment Facility at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. She holds a Doctorate in Clinical Medicine from Oxford University, an MBA from Simon Fraser University, and a BSc from the University of Toronto in Canada. She has been a research fellow and officer at the University of Tokyo's Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her peer-reviewed publications range from molecular biology to sustainable development and health policy. Sanjay Gandhi, Global Project Manager, UNDP GSB Initiative Sanjay Gandhi, joined the private sector group of the United Nations Development Program in 2003 and earlier this year took on the global management role for the GSB. Prior to UNDP, Gandhi spent four years working in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. He holds a graduate degree in International Law from the University of Oxford, where he was a Thomas Shearer Stuart fellow focusing on the settlement of international disputes. After earning undergraduate degrees in common law and civil law, Gandhi spent one year researching comparative law at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He qualified for the New York Bar in 1998. Jörg Hartmann, Executive Director, GTZ Public Private Partnerships and Global Compact Focal Point Germany Jörg Hartmann, GTZ, Leiter des Büros für die Zusammenarbeit mit der Wirtschaft/PPP. Jahrgang 1967, Studium der Evangelischen Theologie in Deutschland und Südafrika. 1998 Eintritt in die BASF Aktiengesellschaft in Ludwigshafen: Verschiedene Aufgaben in der Unternehmenszentrale, u. a. Management und Koordinierung von Nachhaltigkeitsthemen, zuletzt Pressesprecher. 2004 Eintritt in die GTZ als Leiter des PPP-Programms. Das PPP-Programm initiiert Entwicklungspartnerschaften mit Unternehmen, um die stärkere Einbindung der Privatwirtschaft in die internationale Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik zu fördern. Darüber hinaus koordiniert das Büro das deutsche Netzwerk des Global Compacts der Vereinten Nationen. Jörg Hartmann lebt in Berlin, ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Michael Inacker, Vice-President, External Affairs and Public Policy, DaimlerChrysler AG David Kim, Global Health Initiative, World Economic Forum David Kim joined the GHI as the new Project Manager for Africa and Malariain 2005. David is a former programme manager in the United Nations Development Programme’s HIV/AIDS Practice Group, and was stationed in New York, Swaziland and Ethiopia. His work at UNDP included HIV/AIDS in the workplace management, the Global Fund and in-country capacity development programmes. David brings private sector experience with Mercer Management Consulting in New York and Munich, where he worked on business strategy cases in the finance, healthcare, IT and automotive sectors. David is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in economics and international relations, and was a German government-sponsored fellow in economic research in Hamburg, Germany. Andrea Knigge, Global HIV/AIDS Strategy, DaimlerChrysler AG Andrea Knigge is Global Advisor for HIV/AIDS, DaimlerChrysler
AG, Stuttgart, Germany. Prior to this, she was responsible for implementing
Public-Private Partnership programs in South Africa for DaimlerChrysler South
Africa, Volkswagen, Robert Bosch and Roche. In 2003 she took responsibility
for DaimlerChrysler AG for implementation of HIV/AIDS workplace programs in
China, India, Russian Federation and South East Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia). Prior to joining DaimlerChrysler, Dr. Knigge served as Regional Coordinator
for Health programs for SADC, employed by the bilateral donor agency German
Technical Cooperation (GTZ GmbH). Allen Knight, Head of Standards, AccountAbility Alan Knight finished a PH.D in 1986 and worked as an academic for a couple of years. He then joined the Canadian Standards Association where he became involved with international environmental standards, eventually being part of the management team for the ISO 14000 secretariat. In late 1995 he was recruited by ICF Consulting to establish an EMS practice and to open a Toronto office. By 1999 the Toronto office had 16 staff and a client list that included a number of large private sector companies, including 6 of ten Provincial power utilities, and a range of National and International public sector agencies. In mid 1999 Alan joined VSO as Country Director in Nigeria, where he was involved in trying to reinvent the UK based volunteer organisation as a mainstream development agency. After four years in West Africa Alan moved to London and rejoined ICF Consulting, this time in its strategic climate change practice. He has spent the last two years helping FTSE 100 companies develop carbon strategies. Alan has published a couple of books and numerous articles on environmental standards and related issues. He has also published a wide range of other ephemera, and for a period of time was a regular book reviewer for the National Post in Canada. He is married to Liz Tayler and has two children, Catherine who is 3 ½ and Laura who is 1 ½. Jörg-Eduard Krumsiek, Director, Corporate Cultural Affairs, Deutsche Bank AG Joerg-Eduard Krumsiek, born 1956 in Hanover, earned his degree in Banking and Business Administration while working full-time. Since joining Deutsche Bank in 1987, he has handled various specialized management tasks, as branch manager and as a regional head for corporate clients. Afterwards he transferred to the Head Office in Frankfurt, to the Group Quality Service. From 2001 to 2004, he was member of the Executive Management of Deutsche Bank Foundation "Alfred Herrhausen Helping People to Help Themselves". At the beginning of 2005, he became responsible for Finance, Asset Management and Controlling of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, which was merged from the bank's culture and society areas. The Foundation is intended to implement the bank's corporate social responsibility as a sponsor within its areas of activity focussing on education, community development, music and art. Krumsiek is also active as a board member of business associations and volunteers as a Johanniter (The Order of St. John) in Church-related activities." Lotte Leicht, Director, Human Rights Watch Brussels Office Christelle Loupforest, External and Donor Relations Officer, United Nations OCHA A French national, Christelle Loupforest has been serving
in the humanitarian field with the United Nations from 1999 to 2005. In this
capacity, she has provided policy advice to the Under-Secretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs to promote effective and principled responses to humanitarian
crises around the world including Colombia, Chechnya (Russian Federation), DPRK,
Georgia, Indonesia, Sudan etc. Kathryn McPhail, Principal, International Council on Metals and Mining Kathryn McPhail, Principal at the International Council for Metals and Mining (ICMM) joined ICMM in 2002 following 22 years of development work with the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. and four years in the British High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya. Kathryn is responsible for ICMM’s sustainable development program that comprises ten principles, reporting indicators and verification systems. She is also responsible for its socio-economic program, which includes the Resource Endowment Initiative, the Community Development Toolkit, work on Business and Human Rights and represents ICMM on the EITI initiative and the Global Dialogue of Governments. At the World Bank, Kathryn designed the monitoring system used to track the compliance of World Bank projects with social and environmental policies. She also developed good practice social assessment guidelines for the Global Environmental Facility. She represented the World Bank Group on the Assurance Group for the Metals, Mining and Sustainable Development project (MMSD). As program manager at the World Bank and IFC, Ms McPhail participated in the design, implementation and evaluation of development operations in thirty developing countries. She has authored over 40 articles and publications. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and brought up in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Susanne Meier, Director Strategic Partnerships, Deutsche Post AG Hans-Peter Meurer, Group Environmental Affairs, RWE AG Bernd Mützelburg, Director-General, Foreign Policy and Security Adviser, Federal Chancellery Wolfgang Reinicke, Director, GPPi Wolfgang H. Reinicke is Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and Managing Director of galaxar s.a., Geneva. He was a Senior Scholar with the Brookings Institution (1991-1998) and a Senior Partner and Senior Economist in the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank in Washington D. C (1998-2000). In 1999-2000, he directed the Global Public Policy Project in Washington D. C. which provided strategic guidance on global governance for the UN Secretary General’s Millennium Report. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He holds degrees from Queen Mary College of London University (B.Sc. in Economics) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A. in International Relations and Economics) and received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. His areas of expertise include global governance, global finance, international economic institutions, public-private partnerships and global public policy networks as well as EU-US relations. His numerous publications include Global Public Policy. Governing without Government? (Brookings Institution Press 1998), Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (with Francis Deng, Thorsten Benner, Jan Martin Witte, IDRC Publishers 2000) and Business UNUsual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships (with Jan Martin Witte, United Nations Publications 2005). Petra Rosignol, Senior Expert Sustainability, Deutsche Post AG Hans-Peter Schipulle, Deputy Director General, BMZ Leitet die Unterabteilung „Globale und Sektorale Aufgaben“
im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung.
Von 1987 bis Mitte 1999 war er als Umweltbeauftragter des BMZ verantwortlich
für die Sektorpolitiken im Bereich Umwelt- und Ressourcenschutz. In dieser
Zeit vertrat des BMZ in Verhandlungen u.a. über internationale Regelwerke
und Konzepte im Bereich Umwelt und Entwicklung (Agenda 21; Konventionen zu Klima,
Biodiversität, Bekämpfung der Wüstenbildung, Schutz der Ozonschicht;
Tropenwaldfragen; CSD), über das Tropenwald-Pilotprogramm Brasilien und
über die Gründung der Global Environment Facility/GEF, in deren Verwaltungsrat
er Deutschland vertrat. Im Rahmen seiner jetzigen Tätigkeit war er auch
für internationale Prozesse anderer Bereiche verantwortlich, wie die Verhandlungen
über den Globalen Fonds zur Bekämpfung von HIV/AIDS, TB und Malaria,
die Fast Track Initiative zur Förderung der Grundbildung sowie die Finanzierungskonferenz
in Monterrey und die Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz in Johannesburg (einschl. deutsche
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie). Praktische Erfahrungen in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
sammelte er von 1981 bis 1986 als Landesbeauftragter des DED in Burkina Faso.
Zuvor war er – u.a. als Pressesprecher – in verschiedenen Funktionen
in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des BMZ tätig. Charlotte Streck, CEO, ClimateFocus BV Charlotte Streck is Director of Climate Focus B.V., Rotterdam.
Climate Focus is a consultancy company that provides services to public and
private entities active in the international carbon market. Before founding
Climate Focus, Charlotte worked for five years as Senior Counsel with the World
Bank in Washington, DC. In her work at the World Bank she specialized on providing
advice on emissions trading operations and on questions related to the UNFCCC/Kyoto
Protocol. She was educated in both Law and Biology at the Universities of Berlin,
Regensburg and Freiburg, Germany, and Cordoba, Spain. Before she joined the
World Bank in 2000, she cooperated with the "Global Public Policy Project",
which provided strategic advice for the Secretary General of the UN. She is
a founding and Board member of the ‘Global Public Policy Institute’
and authored and co-authored several books and a series of articles on environmental
governance, law and policy. Ralph Thurm, Chief Operating Officer, Global Reporting Initiative Cornis van der Lugt, Program Officer, UNEP Valerie Weinzierl, Senior Project Manager Global Institute for Partnership and Governance, World Economic Forum Jan Martin Witte, Associate Director, GPPi Jan Martin Witte is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). Jan Martin holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University/SAIS and the University of Potsdam. He is currently completing a Ph.D. thesis at Johns Hopkins University. His work experience include consulting and research assignments at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank (Washington, D.C.), the Office of Development Studies of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), New York. From June 1999 to June 2001 he served as a Research Associate with the Global Public Policy Project, Washington D. C. Jan Martin has published widely on issues of global governance and transatlantic relations, most recently "Business UNusual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships" (New York: UN Publications 2005). Jan Martin received scholarships from the German National Merit Foundation (European Recovery Program Fellowship), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2003, he was the recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler Fellowship for Transatlantic Affairs at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Monika Wulf-Mathies, Managing Director, Corporate Public Policy and Environment, Deutsche Post AG
Thorsten Benner, Associate Director, GPPi Paula-Marie Hildebrandt, Project Manager, GTZ and Global Compact Focal Point Germany Petra Pinzler, Brussels Correspondent, DIE ZEIT Melissa Powell, Project Manager, UN Global Compact Office Julia Steets, Program Officer, Global Public Policy Institute Nicolaus von der Goltz, Desk Officer PPP and CSR, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
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