Richard Holme (1936–2008)

Richard Holme had an active career in business and in public life; and in recent years had been at the forefront of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. He was a main board director of Rio Tinto, and Adviser to BG Group, Standard Chartered Bank and NTL, and a member of the Advisory Board of Liberty Global in Boston and Montrose Associates in London. He was the recipient of special awards for his contributions to both the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the International Chamber of Commerce. He was Chairman of the World Business Awards in 2004. Outside of business, he was Chairman of LEAD International and Chair of the Royal African Society as well as Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. He was also a Trustee of Bennington College in Vermont and a Visiting Professor at the Thunderbird Graduate School of Business in Phoenix, Arizona. He was Chairman of the Select Constitution in Parliament.

Doug Miller

Doug Miller is a leading pollster and commentator, regularly briefing corporate leaders and government officials in North America, Europe, and Asia on global public opinion and stakeholder views. He has presented GlobeScan findings and their strategic implications at Davos, UN Headquarters, the White House, the World Bank, Oxfam International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. After starting his career at 3M Company, Mr. Miller worked in both NGOs and government agencies before founding Synergistics, the issues management and social marketing firm, in 1978. In 1987, he founded Environics International, which he re-branded GlobeScan in 2003.

Dr. Kellie McElhaney

Dr. Kellie McElhaney is the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. McElhaney teaches courses on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, which include consulting with companies on real-world, high-visibility strategic CSR challenges, in all of the MBA degree programs at Haas. Her research focus is in three areas: (1) Analyzing and developing companies  CSR strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and business value; (2) Exploring the linkage between diversity and CSR and leveraging CSR to re-engage women with business as employees, consumers, and investors; (3) The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR, on which she has written a book entitled Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand.

Steven Kull

Steven Kull is a political psychologist specializing in the study of public and elite attitudes on public policy issues and the Director of the University of Maryland's Program for International Policy Attitudes, which he founded in 1992. Dr. Kull regularly gives briefings for Congress, the State Department, NATO, the UN and the EU. The author of several books, his articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Harpers, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Kull is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Richard G. Fitzsimmons

Richard Fitzsimmons is President of Fitzsimmons & Company Professional Corporation, a Toronto-based law firm specializing in tax litigation and is general counsel for several private corporations.

Greig Clark

Greig Clark is the Founding and Managing Partner of the Horatio Enterprise Fund, a venture capital fund that brings both management and money to growth companies. He also serves on the board of a number of small and medium sized companies. He also served as the CEO of several of the portfolio companies in times of transition. Most recently he was CEO from 2002 to 2006 of Arxx Walls and Foundations of which he continues to be a board member. Greig is also known as one of Canada's successful entrepreneurs. He founded College Pro Painters in 1971 while attending university. He grew it to $40 million in sales, with 550 franchisees and over 4000 painters in 1989. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in 1979 and Top Ten Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1990. College Pro remains the largest residential painting company in the world today. He is also a writer for Profit Magazine--the Canadian magazine for growth companies.

The Rt Hon. Joe Clark

The Right Honourable Joe Clark is president of Joe Clark and Associates, an international consulting firm based in Canada, and a director of other commercial and not-for-profit organizations operating primarily in North America and Africa. He is a member of, among others, the Global Leadership Foundation and the InterAmerican Dialogue, and is a professor and board member of the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University.

Mr. Clark was elected eight times to the House of Commons of Canada, and served as Leader of the Opposition, Prime Minister of Canada, Foreign Minister, Minister of Constitutional Affairs, and Acting Minister of both National Defence and Justice. He is married to the Canadian author and lawyer Maureen McTeer, and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence and l’Ordre de la Pleiades.

Matthew Cadbury

Matthew Cadbury is currently Managing Director of Bottle-to-go. He was the Managing Director of Cadbury Schweppes Plc in India. He has twelve years working on business development in the confectionery industry. He holds a Masters degree in engineering from Cambridge and MBA with distinction from INSEAD. Matthew was chosen as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.