Speaker: Dr. Vandana Shiva
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
"Transforming Corporations into Earth Citizens"

Responder: Frank Dixon
Managing Director, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors

Every year, ICCR welcomes members, corporate representatives, supporters and the public to our Annual Fall Event. Our event speakers are individuals who have played major roles in transforming corporate business practices, and who have sought to make the just treatment of people and the environment a standard part of corporate policy.

This year the ICCR Annual Fall Event will host Dr. Vandana Shiva, a noted Indian environmentalist and activist. She will talk about how corporations can be transformed to become agents for change. Dr. Shiva is a physicist by training, but is better known for her work on the critical role of women in agriculture in the developing world, the preservation of the indigenous seeds of India, and broader issues of biotechnology. Her talk will explore possible paths of corporate transformation, and the growing public mandate for ethical corporate practices.

Our responder, Frank Dixon, is the managing director of Innovest, an internationally recognized investment research and advisory firm specializing in analyzing companies' performance on environmental, social, and strategic governance issues, with a particular focus on their impact on competitiveness, profitability, and share price performance.

Both of our speakers offer compelling visions of a transformed corporate community, in which shareholders and corporate management act ethically to reap benefits for shareholders, employees and communities alike.

Leslie Lowe, ICCR's Program Director for Energy and the Environment, will be the Seminar Moderator.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a coalition of faith-based institutional investors. ICCR seeks to build a more just and sustainable society by integrating social values into corporate and investor decisions.

Register to attend (Hyperlink) www.iccr.org

Read more about Dr. Shiva: http://www.vshiva.net/founder_vs.htm

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a 35-year-old international coalition of 275 faith-based institutional investors including denominations, religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations, foundations and dioceses with combined portfolios worth an estimated $110 billion. ICCR seeks to build a more just and sustainable society by integrating social values into corporate and investor decisions. ICCR is one of the foremost shareholder advocacy organizations in the world. More detailed information about shareholder resolutions is available from ICCR's Ethvest (sm), the comprehensive, on-line, subscription-based, ethical investor database, www.iccr.org.

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