Global ESG and Sustainability Summit

Global ESG and Sustainability Summit - 2022

Driving positive change.

Stress on organizations today is unprecedented. More than ever before leaders need to be equipped to understand and respond to rapidly changing conditions and ensure the continued sustainability of their organizations.

Our environment, society and the essential governance thereof is firmly interwoven into our future. We have a collective responsibility to pivot and transform our organizations to create, preserve and avoid the erosion of value and ensure that we effectively steward our limited resources for future generations.

Join us, as global experts help us challenge the assumption that our current economic models can expand indefinitely, and as suggested by the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), ask ourselves the uncomfortable questions that no one dares to ask. Can we find innovative solutions that grapple with the complexities ingrained within our environment and implanted deep within our society? Investigate the latest developments in governance from global thought leaders, and catalyse new ideas as we all work towards a sustainable future.

Join us for a globally interactive conversation about ESG, Sustainability and beyond – what we do now affects our future.

This Global Summit is hosted by the Good Governance Academy in association with Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), The South African Business Schools Association (SABSA) and Global Business School Network (GBSN).

Supporting organizations include the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Central and East European Management (CEEMAN), Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) and Association of African Business Schools (AABS).

Speakers

Agenda

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Learning Stream 1

E – Environment

Learning Stream 2

S – Social and Society

Learning Stream 3

G – Governance

Learning Stream 4

E – Environment

Learning Stream 5

S – Social and Society

Learning Stream 6

G – Governance

Learning stream summation and outcomes discussion

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Prof. Mervyn King

Patron, Good Governance Academy

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel, former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and designated Chartered Director (South Africa). He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town, and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes University. He has honorary Doctorates from Wits University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Leeds University in the UK, and Deakin University in Australia.

Mervyn is honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, and the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Mervyn is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, as well as of the Value Reporting Foundation (incorporating the International Integrated Reporting Council and SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally, from several institutions.

Mervyn chairs the Good Law Foundation and has chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight. He is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance and of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris. Mervyn currently chairs the African Integrated Reporting Council and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa and is Patron of the Good Governance Academy.

Mervyn has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants.

He is the author of many books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Healthy Company.”

Mette Morsing

Head of Principles of Responsible Management Education, UN Global Compact

Mette Morsing (Ph.D. 1994), Head of PRME Principles of Responsible Management Education, UN Global Compact (New York). Before May 2020, Mette Morsing was the Mistra Chair of Sustainable Markets and Executive Director of Misum: Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at Stockholm School of Economics, (Sweden) (since 2017). She was also Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Denmark) (since 2007).

Mette was the Founding Director of CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002, and she was the Academic Director of CBS Sustainability Platform 2011-2016 with the ambition to integrate sustainability across fifteen academic departments. In 2003, she was the co-founder of Academy of Business in Society (ABIS, Bruxelles), where she served as a Member of the Board of Directors for 10 years. Morsing was in 2010 appointed as a member of the executive board of directors at LEGO Foundation and Melting Pot, and in 2016 she was elected by her colleagues to serve on CBS Board. Morsing has held a large number of advisory and honorary positions in corporate and policy committees on issues related to sustainability.

Mette has been a part of PRME’s journey, participating in the launch of PRME in 2007 in New York, and she was behind CBS’ decision in 2009 to become an early signatory to PRME in her then capacity as Director of the CBS Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2013, CBS spearheaded the establishment of a PRME Nordic Chapter, and in 2018 Morsing was the Nordic Chapter Chair. In 2019, she was invited to produce the 2019 PRME Strategic Review in her capacity as Senior Strategy Advisor for UN Global Compact for PRME.

Mette’s research interests concern how organizations are governed in the context of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. With a PhD in Organization Theory, she is particularly interested in identity, communication and cross-sector partnerships in this regard. Morsing has published extensively in international books and academic journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Business Research and other outlets. She has won several prizes for her research. She is also the co-editor of a textbook on Corporate Social Responsibility published by Cambridge University Press (Rasche, Morsing and Moon, 2017).

Most recent peer-reviewed international journal articles

Christensen, L.T., Morsing, M., and Thyssen, O. (2020). Talk-action dynamics: Modalities of aspirational talk. Organization Studies https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619896267 (AJG 4, impact factor 3,107)
Schoeneborn, D., Morsing, M. and Crane, A. (2020). Formative perspectives on the relation between CSR communication and CSR practices: of walking, talking, and t(w)alking. Business & Society, 51(1), 5-33. (AJG 3, impact factor 5,013)
Morsing, M. and Spence, L. (2019). Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication. Human Relations, 72(12), 1920-1947. OPEN ACCESS (FT50 + AJG 4, impact factor 3,367). Nominated to best paper in Human Relations 2019.
Glozer, S. and Morsing, M. (2019). Helpful hypocrisy? Investigating ‘double-talk’ and irony in CSR marketing communications, Journal of Business Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.08.048 (AJG 3, impact factor 4,028)
Christensen, L.T., Morsing, M. and Thyssen, O. (2019). Timely hypocrisy? Hypocrisy temporalities in CSR communication. Journal of Business Research, OPEN ACCESS https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.020 (AJG 3, impact factor 4,028)
Vestergaard, A., Murphy, L., Morsing, M., and Langevang, T. (2019). Capitalism’s new development agents: A critical analysis of North-South CSR partnerships. Business & Society, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0007650319845327 (AJG 3, impact factor 5,013).
Rasche, A., Morsing, M. and Wetter, E. (2019). Assessing the Legitimacy of “Open” and “Closed” Data Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Business & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319825876 (open access) (AJG 3, impact factor 5,013)

Harry Broadman

Harry Broadman, Chair, Governing Council, The ESG Exchange, and
Faculty Member, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Harry G. Broadman is a Partner at the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) LLC, a global consultancy, where his practice is focused on structuring cross-border operational transactions and strategies of businesses worldwide, as well as serving as an expert witness testifying in international litigation and arbitration on global commercial disputes. He chairs BRG’s Emerging Markets Practice and BRG’s National and Economic Security Practice. His clients are C-suite executives and boards of directors of multinational corporations, private equity firms, pension funds, institutional investors, and sovereign wealth funds. He is also a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and serves as a non-executive director on four boards—all international firms—serving as Board Chair (The ESG Exchange); Audit Committee Chair (Partners Global); and Compensation Committee Chair (Strategic Ratings PLC). He is a Board Leadership Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a Commissioned NACD Board Advisory Services Faculty Member. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Business School Network.

Broadman is an expert on multinational corporate investment; ESG, sustainability and corporate governance; global supply chain management; cybersecurity; innovation and R&D; international investment treaties and trade agreements; and antitrust and economic regulation. His industry sector expertise spans international finance, private equity and banking; global infrastructure services, particularly shipping and logistics, aviation and land transport, utilities, informatics, telecoms, and construction; and renewable and conventional energy, mining, and natural resources. He has worked on the ground in 85+ emerging markets spanning 5 continents, especially in China and East Asia; India; Latin America; Eastern and Central Europe and Russia and the CIS; Northern and sub-Saharan Africa; the Middle East; Turkey and the Balkans.

Prior to his current posts, Broadman was Senior Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he founded and led PwC’s Global Business Growth Strategy Management Consulting Practice, and also served as PwC’s Chief Economist; Managing Director at Albright Capital Management, the international private equity firm Chaired by Madeleine Albright, where he served on the Investment Committee; a senior official at The World Bank, overseeing the bank’s largest sovereign and enterprise restructuring loans, including in China, Russia, and Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, and serving as the Economic Advisor for Africa.

Earlier he served in the White House, first as Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as United States Assistant Trade Representative, leading negotiations across all the services industries for the establishment of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the WTO and NAFTA; all negotiations of U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties; and all negotiations of all U.S. International Science and Technology Agreements. He also served as a Member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS). Before coming to the White House, he was Chief Economist, of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Previously, he served on the Harvard University Faculty; the RAND Corporation; The Brookings Institution; and Resources for the Future Inc.

He is a monthly Business Leadership Strategy Columnist for Forbes; a quarterly National Security Columnist for the International Financial Law Review; and a frequent columnist for the Financial Times. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in professional economics, finance, foreign policy and law journals. Broadman’s most recent books are Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier; The State as Shareholder: China’s Management of Enterprise Assets; and From Disintegration to Reintegration: Russia and the Former Soviet Union in the Global Economy.

He was educated at Brown University, from which he graduated with an AB in economics magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan.