Japan-Europe Symposium on Business Reporting for Sustainability
Mechanisms to communicate information, including ESG/CSR, for sustainable growth
[alphabetical order by speaker's last name]
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Paul DRUCKMAN
Chairman Accounting for Sustainability After a highly successful business career as an entrepreneur in the technology sector, Paul currently operates as a non-executive chairman for a number organisations ranging from the world of software to insurance. His high profile work on sustainability matters has mainly focused around the accountancy profession - as chairman of the Sustainability Policy Group at the Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens (FEE), which is the representative organisation for the accountancy profession in Europe; and during his tenure as President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He also is Chair of the Executive Board of HRH The Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability project. |
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Ralf FRANK
Secretary General EFFAS Commission on ESG, Delegate EFFAS for XBRL European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) Ralf Frank, M.A., MBA is Managing Director with DVFA - Society of Investment Professionals in Germany and Delegate for XBRL and ESG with EFFAS - European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.
Ralf’s mission is to improve the usability of financial reporting and financial communication for professional investors and financial analysts through research of the interaction between financial data, reports and reporting instruments and their respective professional consumers.
Title of presentation(s): Reporting on Long-term Value Creation - EFFAS’ Activities in ESG and Intellectual Capital |
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Yasuhito HANADO
Professor Waseda University Yasuhito HANADO joined Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University in 2003 from Faculty of Economics, Kokugakuin University in Tokyo. Also he started to work for Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University in 2007. His work focuses on the research and teaching of international accounting and investor relations in both courses of master and doctor as a professor. Also he is engaging research and study of Waseda Intellectual Capital Research Society as its chairperson. He works as a board member for PARCO Co. Ltd. and for SANRIO Co. Ltd. Also, he joins Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. as a member of management advisory committee. Presently he is a member of Subcommittee on Management based on Intellectual Assets, Industrial Structure Council of METI, Japan. And, he is in charge of the vice-chairman of Committee on Intellectual Assets based Management for SMEs, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan (SMRJ). He joined WICI-The World’s Business Reporting Network as one of Promoting Parties in Japan in 2007. Title of presentation(s): Our Experiences and Future Perspective on Business Reporting for Sustainability in Japan |
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Nobuyuki HIRATSUKA
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) |
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Atsushi HORIBA
Chairman CEO & President, HORIBA, Ltd. Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1948, Atsushi Horiba graduated from University of California, Irvine, Graduate School (Electronics Engineering) in 1977. In 1971, he joined OLSON-HORIBA Inc. (U.S.A) as a service engineer, and later, transferred to HORIBA International Corp. and HORIBA Instruments Inc. both in California, U.S., successively. He returned to Kyoto in 1977 as Manager of Overseas Technical Service Dept of HORIBA, Ltd. In 1982, he was appointed as Director, and then Senior Managing Director in 1988. He became President and CEO in 1992, Chairman in 2005, remaining President and CEO. He was decorated L’Ordre National du Merite, Officier in 1998 and L’Ordre National de la Legion d’honneur, Chevalier in 2010 by the government of FRANCE.His external activities are as follows; Ambassador of University of California, Irvine . Chairman of Japan Analytical Instruments Manufactures Association. Title of presentation(s): HORIBA, Explore the future |
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Richard HOWITT
European Parliament Rapporteur on the European Commission Communication on Corporate Social Responsibility An elected Member of the European Parliament since 1994 Richard Howitt has served as Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) during three successive European Parliaments. He proposed the setting up of and continues to represent the European Parliament on the E.U. Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR since 2002. Richard's latest Parliamentary report in March 2007 emphasised the need for the European Union to better promote and implement global CSR initiatives and specifically called for the establishment of a formal EU-Japan business dialogue on CSR. Richard Howitt MEP represents European interests in a number of international CSR initiatives, and serves as a Member of the Governmental Advisory Group of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and as a Friend of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprise. In 2007 in Oslo, Professor John Ruggie, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights asked Richard to chair his consultation on the governmental obligations in his mandate, and Richard regularly takes part in consultation on the mandate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Alongside his work on CSR, Richard Howitt MEP is Spokesperson of the Socialist and Democrat Group in the European Parliament on Human Rights. Richard is also a leading member of the European Parliament's Committees on Foreign Affairs, and on Employment and Social Affairs. Title of presentation(s): Speech |
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Yukako KINOSHITA
Chairman CSR Committee, Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE) Yukako Kinoshita is chair of JBCE CSR Committee since 2008. The JBCE was founded in 1999 as the representative organisation for Japanese companies operating in the European Union. There are currently more than 60 member companies and 8 committees including the CSR Committee. Yukako Kinoshita is Corporate Responsibility and EU Policy Research Manager of Hitachi Cooperate Office, Europe in Brussels. She has been monitoring EU CSR policy since 2004 and is leading the Hitachi Group’s CSR project in Europe focusing on diversity and human rights which was launched in June 2009. |
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Joji KITANO
President e-Parcel Corp.
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Title of presentation(s): e-Parcel Management and Business Reporting |
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Mart KIVIKAS
Partner Wissenskapital GmbH Mart Kivikas, born 1967 in Lund, Sweden, graduated in 1991 from the Stockholm School of Economics. He worked for ten years as a controller on international markets based in Sweden, Estonia and since 1996 in Germany, where in 2001 he founded the company Wissenskapital Edvinsson & Kivikas GmbH, in Oberreichenbach, Germany (http://www.wissenskapital.info/). He focuses his work on IC Reporting and ECI™ (Earnings Capability Index) with assignments from the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The clientele includes companies like Commerzbank AG, Baker Hughes Inteq GmbH, the German Caritas Association, EnBW AG and the VR-Banking Group (the biggest group of Savings and Loan banks in Germany) among others. Title of presentation(s): The Earnings Capability Index - ECI™ on the Company Ökoring GmbH and its Implication on the External Communication Appendix - How to Measure and Evaluate Financial Performance |
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Chitoshi KOGA
Professor Doshisha University
Expertise
Education
Experience
Title of presentation(s): Japan-Europe Symposium on Business Reporting for Sustainability |
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Pedro ORTUN
Director European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry Mr. Ortún is an Industrial engineer, specialised in Chemistry and in Industrial Organisation, with a Doctorate in Business Administration, Director in the European Commission since 1988, in charge of different industrial and services sectors. Since January 2000, he is responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility within DG Enterprise and Industry among other sectoral responsibilities. Since January 2007, he is the Director responsible for the “New Approach Industries” (Equipment Goods, Construction Products, Toys), the Standardisation Policy, Tourism and CSR. |
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Susanne STORMER
Vice President Global TBL Management, Novo Nordisk A/S Susanne Stormer is Vice President, Global TBL Management at Novo Nordisk, charged with setting the strategic direction for the company’s positioning as a sustainability leader and a pioneer in demonstrating the long-term business value of incorporating economic, social and environmental perspectives into its market proposition. Susanne joined Novo Nordisk in 2000 to ingrain the TBL concept in the business. Among her achievements are the successful merging of the company’s financial and sustainability reporting that has brought Novo Nordisk at the cutting edge of integrated reporting. Title of presentation(s): Creating and communicating sustainable value |
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Takayuki SUMITA
Chairperson World Intellectual Capital Initiative (WICI) Takayuki Sumita, born in 1962, graduated from Tokyo University and joined MITI in 1985. After working for several years, he studies in Graduate School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University between 1991 and 1993. After coming back to Japan, he engaged in various tasks including environment policy, energy policy, specific industry policy for software and IT, comprehensive economic policy on corporate tax, corporate disclosure, intellectual assets based management or IPR and FTA/EPA negotiation. After his present job as Executive Director, Japan Machinery Center in Brussels until 2012 or 2013, he will go back to METI again. He also works as the chairman of World Intellectual Assets Initiative since September 2009. |
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John SWANNICK
Executive Director, European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS) Co-chair, European Laboratory on Valuing Non-financial performance John Swannick joined the European Academy of Business in Society as executive director in January 2010. Prior to this John was a corporate responsibility and stakeholder relations specialist for Lloyds Banking Group. His work included public policy, issues management, investor relations, communications and change management. He developed Lloyds’ corporate responsibility management system and corporate reporting, supporting the corporate responsibility steering group of senior executives. John led external engagement on corporate responsibility issues with policy makers and institutions in the UK and EU. He was a member of the European Foundation for Quality Management working group which delivered the EFQM’s CSR Framework and sat on the UK Small Business Consortium of leading SME representative groups and stakeholder organisations promoting and supporting corporate responsibility in small business. He authored a 2004 report for the UK government’s then CSR Minister on the business benefits of investment in deprived communities. He has been a member of EABIS’ management committee since 2007 and was elected chair of its Business Board in 2008. Since 2006, John co-leads the European Laboratory on Valuing Non-financial Performance, examining the relationship between financial and non-financial performance. He represents the Laboratory on the EU Commission’s ESG Disclosure Working Group and is collaborating with leading investor and professional bodies to make recommendations on future reporting approaches. John is an economics graduate of the University of Bath. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Title of presentation(s): Mr. Swannick's presentation |
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Koshi TAGUCHI
President Sakigake Semiconductor CO.,LTD. Dr.eng. Date of Birth： 11.12.1973 1998～2001 worked at the certain semiconductor production device maker. 2001～2004 a student of the Ph.D. program. 2002 established a company. Title of presentation(s): About Intellectual Asset-based Management Reports |
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Alison THOMAS
Director, Corporate Reporting PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Dr Alison Thomas joined the Corporate Reporting team in September 2000 as Director of Global Research. In this role she aims to further the profession’s understanding of the relationship between corporate reporting and economic returns. She brings to PricewaterhouseCoopers a depth of expertise in corporate reporting that spans the practical (as the former Director of Global Research at Baring Asset Management) to the theoretical as a Management Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. She has published numerous academic articles, contributes regularly to business journals, is a contributor to several books and acts as an advisor on a number of international reporting committees. |
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Alexander G. WELZL
Chairman CIC The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) Alexander G. Welzl is a Senior Researcher with ECONOMICA a Vienna/Austria based macroeconomic think tank. Besides this he holds the honorary position as Chairman of the EFFAS Standing Commission on Intellectual Capital (CIC) based in Frankfurt am Main/Germany. In 2007 he was a WICI founding member at its inaugural meeting in Paris under patronage of OECD. Born in 1967 Mr. Welzl’s experience spans the research, business, government, finance and nonprofit sectors. In 2007 and 2008 he was as a performance management expert with Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance headquarters’ DG I. In previous years he worked as Executive Consultant for corporate disclosure and enhanced valuation techniques as well as in several functions with Austrian Institute of Technology/AIT. In 2003 and 2004 he acted as advisor to Prof. Terenius then a Member of the Nobel Assembly and The Nobel Committee on Physiology or Medicine. He is a frequently invited expert to give lectures amongst others at The World Bank, OECD, Harvard University and University of Oxford as well as in international conferences and seminars on finance, management, innovation, education and macroeconomic developments in Asia, Europe and the US. Title of presentation(s): Reporting on Long-term Value Creation - EFFAS’ Activities in ESG and Intellectual Capital |
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Stefano ZAMBON
Chairman WICI Europe Stefano Zambon is Chair of Accounting and Business Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Ph.D. and M.Sc. from London School of Economics, and B.Sc from University of Venice. Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Economics and Management and Director of the “CFO Master Programme” at the University of Ferrara. Visiting scholar at London Business School; ESCP, HEC, and CNAM in Paris; the Universities of Reading, Melbourne, Boston, Metz, Canterbury (NZ), Waseda (Tokyo), and the Stern School of Business (NYU). He is a vice-president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER). Member of the editorial boards of various international scientific journals. He has published several books and articles in international journals in the areas of management and reporting of intangibles, international financial reporting, and accounting history. He has been the coordinator of a study for the European Commission on the measurement of intangible assets, and an invited key-note speaker at OECD, United Nations, European Parliament, European Commission, and Chinese and Japanese Governments’ events. He is a founding member of the global network “World Intellectual Capital Initiative” (WICI) as well as of the network “WICI Europe”. He is the Acting Chairman of WICI Europe. Title of presentation(s): From Sustainability Reporting to the Sustainability of Reporting: The Policy Terms |
