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Leading Experts, Scientists and Business Leaders from the Worlds of 'Cradle to Cradle', Sustainable Building, Climate Change and SRI to Gather in Athens on May 28
CEO & CSR Conference 2008's roster of top speakers include 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Christos Zerefos, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) co-founder Prof. Michael Braungart and MBDC's CEO Ken Alston (Chief of Staff, William McDonough)
(CSRwire) May 27, 2008 - The Hilton Athens will once again be hosting the CEO & CSR
Conference with an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, panelists,
moderators and special guests.
Scheduled to take place on Wednesday, May 28, the CEO & CSR Conference
2008 entitled "Rethinking The Way We Do Business" will gather top experts
and speakers from the U.S. and Europe, including:
Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart from Germany, co-founder,
McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a product and process design firm
dedicated to transforming the design of products, processes, and services
world-wide. The firm was founded in 1995 by William McDonough and Prof.
Dr. Braungart to promote and power "the Next Industrial Revolution"
through intelligent design. MBDC, LLC employs Cradle to Cradle Design
using strategies it calls "eco-effective" (rather than the widely promoted
"eco-efficiency") to create products and systems that contribute to
economic, social and environmental prosperity. Based in Charlottesville,
Virginia, MBDC works with clients world-wide, while the firm has also
collaborated on projects with Prof. Dr. Braungart's company EPEA
International Umweltforschung GmbH in Hamburg, which has been developing
key strategies for material intelligence for fifteen years. Prof. Dr.
Braungart currently concentrates his efforts at MBDC and EPEA by working
with major industrial producers, such as Nike and Interface, on issues of
materials assessment, waste and energy balances, life-cycle design, and
designing for disassembly. He is also active in designing new products,
and was instrumental in the creation of the compostable fabric line
Climatex Lifecycle with William McDonough (www.eurocharity.org/en/article.php?article_id=3891).
Ken Alston, CEO, MBDC, LLC and Chief of Staff, William
McDonough, from the United States. Since joining MBDC, Mr. Alston has been
helping major clients -- including Ford Motor Company, Milliken and Visteon
Corporation -- lead the transition to Cradle to Cradle Design. Under his
guidance, MBDC is developing and implementing new curricula using live and
Web-based training media. A Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal
Society in Chemistry, Mr. Alston has worked in global multinational
companies in a variety of technical and business roles for over 22
years.
Prof. Christos Zerefos, Greek scientist, Chairman of the
National Observatory of Athens and regular member of the Athens Academy.
Together with his colleague and friend Alcibiades Bais, Professor at the
Thessaloniki Aristotle University, they are the first Greek scientists
honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize 2007. Both scientists shared the prize
with 45 distinguished scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) at the United Nations and with former U.S. Vice President Al
Gore. The Nobel Peace Prize went to the two Greek scientists after the
decision of the Commission President.
H.E. Thomas M. Countryman, a career member of the Senior
Foreign Service who has been Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States
Embassy in Athens since September 19, 2005. Mr. Countryman was one of the
keynote speakers at last year’s CEO & CSR Conference at the Hilton
Athens on October 31 (www.eurocharity.org/en/article.php?article_id=1621).
Joe Sibilia, founder and CEO, Meadowbrook Lane Capital
(MBLC), described by The Wall Street Journal as a "socially-responsible
investment bank" specialising in turning values into valuation, and
President, CSRwire, LLC (www.csrwire.com), the social
responsibility newswire service that distributes corporate social
responsibility news to journalists, analysts, investors, activists and
thought leaders (www.eurocharity.org/en/article.php?article_id=3890).
Jack Wysocki, Global Outreach Director, CSRwire. In
addition to managing relationships with hundreds of companies,
organisations, and nonprofits who distribute their news on CSRwire, Jack
travels around the world, speaking about corporate social responsibility
to business professionals, journalists, analysts, and investors. For the
last two decades Jack has served as an adviser to Meadowbrook Lane Capital
(www.eurocharity.org/en/article.php?article_id=3905).
Additional confirmed speakers include: H.E. Stavros Kalafatis
(Deputy Minister of Development, Greece), H.E. Mr. Erkki Huittinen
(Finnish Ambassador to Greece), Angelos Mosconas (Deputy Mayor of
Athens, Greece), Emmy Labovitch (Head of Investment Specialists,
Fortis Investments, Luxembourg), Franca Morroni (co-founder and
Managing Director, OpenSRI, France), Aegina-based architect Elias
Messinas (founder and President of ECOWEEK and consultant in
environmental projects), Rene Estermann (Managing Director,
myclimate - the climate protection partnership, Switzerland),
Konstantinos Tsolakidis (Environmental Consultant, Interamerican
Group, Greece), Nikos Vitantzakis (Sol Energy Hellas S.A., builders
and tenants of Europe's first 'energy autonomous' building located in
Athens, Greece), Giorgos Kazantzopoulos (CEO, Global
Challenges-Sustainability Advisors, Greece), Manolis Koutlis
(Managing Director, Talent, Greece), Rika Vayianni (journalist,
anchor, "Green Team", Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. (ERT), Greece) and
others.
This year's conference programme will focus on the following four main
themes:
1) Cradle to Cradle: Introducing the Concept;
2) Green Finance and Socially-Responsive Investing (SRI);
3) Sustainable Building;
4) Climate Change Solutions.
The CEO & CSR Conference 2008 will be a Climate-Neutral event with the
assistance of Switzerland's myclimate - The Climate Protection Partnership
(www.myclimate.org/index.php?lang=en), which is based on the concept of
voluntary and innovative solutions for climate protection as well as the
promotion of renewable energies and energy-efficient technologies. The
myclimate foundation is a flourishing, non-profit, tax-exempt organisation
which supports projects that lead to a direct reduction of greenhouse gases
and thus making tangible climate protection possible.
This year's conference will come to a close with the special annual "CEO &
CSR Awards 2008" ceremony, where prestigious organisations, senior
executives, leading entrepreneurs and CSR professionals will be honoured
for their actions, visionary achievements and sustainable development
solutions.
CSRwire is, for the second consecutive year, among the Communication
Sponsors of this exciting one-day event in Athens, which is being
co-organised by:
Money Conferences (www.moneyconferences.com), an
Athens-based firm specialised in organising international conferences with
a particular emphasis on high-calibre financial and economic events in
South-East Europe. The company represents the Euromoney Conferences in
Greece and will be organising the following events in 2008:
1) CEO & CSR Conference 2008 entitled "Rethinking The Way We Do Business",
May 28, Hilton Athens
2) South-East Europe Î’anking Conference 2008, June 24, Athenaeum
InterContinental
3) South-East Europe Insurance Conference 2008, October 9, Athenaeum
InterContinental
4) South-East Europe Investment Conference 2008, November 6, Athenaeum
InterContinental
EuroCharity (www.eurocharity.org/en/).
Founded in 2006, EuroCharity is a values-based, internationally-run and
socially-responsive firm with a mission of making a world of difference in
the citizen sector and business community by building bridges, both locally
and globally. EuroCharity owns, publishes and daily updates Greece's only
bi-lingual (Greek and English) Corporate Social Responsibility Directory.
Headquartered in Athens, EuroCharity pro-actively supports and
co-organises conferences, events, awards, competitions and campaigns that
focus on raising awareness of numerous issues related to sustainability,
CSR, business excellence, SRI, ethics, corporate philanthropy, clean
technology, green innovation and entrepreneurship, and accountability.
Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (www.cse-net.org), a leading specialised
organisation for sustainability with offices in Brussels and Athens. It
represents the outcome of the co-operation between experts and scientists,
who deal with, apply and provide support in the most advanced practical
methodologies towards sustainability, while adhering to social and
environmental criteria. Through its network of international partners, CSE
offers coaching in a vast array of services promoting Sustainability and
Excellence to organisations, society and governments. Providing services
that are based on contemporary management methodologies, the ultimate aim
is to create positive impact and added value for all stakeholders
(customers, employees, suppliers, society, shareholders, etc.) leading to
more sustainable business and better organisational models.
For further information on the CEO & CSR Conference 2008, please visit: www.moneyconferences.com/eng/synedrio1.asp.
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