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PLENARY SPEAKERS

PROF ROLAND CLIFT CBE FREng

Emeritus Professor of Environmental Technology and founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey; previously Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey. He is Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers University, Göteborg , Sweden, Adjunct Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, and a Vice President of Environmental Protection UK. He is a non-executive Director of the Blackrock New Energy Investment Trust, a member of Rolls-Royce’ Environmental Advisory Board and of the International Expert Group on application of Life Cycle Assessment to waste management. From 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP). In 2004-5, he acted as Expert Adviser to a House of Lords enquiry into energy efficiency. He is a past member of the UK Eco-labelling Board and of the Royal Society/Royal Academy Working Group set up at the instigation of DTI to examine the risk and regulatory issues raised by nanotechnology. His research is concerned with system approaches to environmental management and industrial ecology, including life cycle assessment and energy systems.

MARK DREWELL

Mark Drewell is co-founder of 3 Laws Capital, the world’s first deep sustainability asset management company where he serves as investment director. He is a successful businessman with a track record of making the difference at the interface between business and society and is a regular speaker and lecturer on the changing shape of business in the 21st century.

Mark grew up in the United Kingdom and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. After spending 5 years working in the City of London as a mining finance investment analyst he moved to South Africa in 1989 where he has lived for the past 19 years. His business career has been spent predominantly with South African-based multi-national industrial company Barloworld Limited. After marketing and communications roles in the company’s ferrochrome, stainless steel manufacturing and cement businesses, he was appointed as a group executive and a member of the Executive Committee in 1997. For a decade he headed up corporate communications for the group with specific responsibilities which included investor relations, marketing, reputation management, public affairs and sustainability. He was also the CEO’s advisor and confidant on group strategy and many other issues. He left Barloworld in 2007 to pursue a broad suite of interests both locally and internationally including founding 3 Laws Capital, his current primary business focus.

Mark has always believed that business people should use their skills in broader society as well as in pursuit of the success of their own business success. He is currently the vice Chairman and immediate past Chairman of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), a global coalition of business schools and businesses confronting the challenge of what needs to change in business education in order to create a new generation of globally responsible business leaders, a senior associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Chairman of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board of the University of South Africa’s Centre for Corporate Citizenship, Chairman of the Swedish-based World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child Foundation, and Chairman of the 2008 and 2009 International Association of Business Communicators world conferences.

PROFESSOR RAIMO HAMALAINEN ( Helsinki University of Technology )

RAIMO P HÄMÄLÄINEN is Professor of operations research and Director of the Systems Analysis Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He is Director of the National Graduate School on Systems Analysis, Decision Making and Risk Management in Finland. Professor Hämäläinen has published extensively on decision analysis and game theory, control and dynamic systems, energy modelling, environmental decision making and participation, and biological systems. He is the designer of many widely used decision support software including web-HIPRE, and SmartSwaps available at the Decisionarium site: www.decisionarium.hut.fi.
His special interest is the introduction of decision models into public policy. He has lengthy experience in the decision support and facilitation in environmental and energy policy. As a consultant he has helped to solve problems especially in the areas of water resources management and nuclear risk analysis. Recently he has actively worked on the new concept of Systems Intelligence, developed by him and Professor Esa Saarinen, and its introduction to different organizations.
In 2004 The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making presented the MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award to Professor Raimo P. Hämäläinen as the highest distinction of the Society. In 2008 The Finnish Operations Research Society nominated him the Honorary President of the society for his contributions in developing the field of OR in Finland.
Professor Hämäläinen has been a visiting scholar in many foreign universities. In 1980, he was with the University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, under a Senior Fulbright Research Grant, and he returned to UCLA from 1985 to 1986 and 1991 to 1992. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1996 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2006 and University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.
For publications and more information see:
www.raimo.hut.fi, www.environment.sal.hut.fi

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

RICHARD CHANCE
		Richard Chance was born in Durban, South Africa and completed his schooling at Michaelhouse. Thereafter he attended the University of Cape Town where he graduated with a BA Llb degree. Richard completed his articles and was admitted as an attorney in 1985. He became a partner of Shepstone & Wylie, specialising in labour law and industrial relations. In 1989 he was employed by The South African Breweries (Beer Division) as Industrial Relations Manager. Thereafter he spent some time as General Manager of the Central Region of SAB, before being appointed as Corporate Affairs Manager. He is currently Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for the company. Richard's responsibilities include Sustainable Development, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Social Investment and Stakeholder Relations. In addition to his BA Llb degree from UCT, Richard has an IRDP (Stell), and has attended the Senior Executive Programme (Columbia University Graduate School of Business, New York).
DR HENRY KING (Unilever)
		Dr. Henry King is the Science and Technology Leader for Sustainabilityin the Safety and Environmental Assurace Centre (SEAC) for Unilever. He has a background in environmental sciences and leads the development of life cycle management across all functions within Unilever including the supply chain, marketing and product development. Henry is Unilever's corporate issue manager for climate change.
DR KIRSTIE McINTYRE
	Kirstie McIntyre leads Hewlett-Packard’s environmental compliance responsibilities in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Her remit covers all product-related environmental laws and agreements on energy efficiency, chemical and material restrictions and end-of-life considerations. She has a particular interest in the development of waste electronic management systems. She liaises with Government, industry partners and peers, supply chain members as well as business customers and consumers on the implementation of environmental directives and the takeback and recycling of HP's products. Kirstie has worked for a number of years in the strategic development of end-of-life programmes for various companies in the electronics sector . She has an engineering doctorate in environmental technology and has published widely on sustainability and supply chain issues. Please see www.hp.com/ecosolutions for more information.
DR BENNY MOKABA
	Benny Mokaba, Executive Director, Energy joined Sasol on 1 May 2006. He is responsible for the South African energy cluster, including Sasol Mining, Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Oil and Sasol Gas. Benny is a member of the Sasol Limited board and the Group Executive Committee, as well as serving as a director of various group companies and divisions. Before joining Sasol, he was the Executive Chairman and regional Vice President of Shell Southern Africa. He also worked for, amongst others, the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He was acting Director General in the national department of welfare, Group MD of Steinmüller Africa, and once served as the Chairman of Siemens Southern Africa. Benny completed his undergraduate studies at Fort Hare University, obtained a Masters Degree from Boston College in the USA in 1988 and completed a doctorate at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in the United States in 1993. He also completed the Advanced Executive programme at the University of South Africa in 1997.
PROFESSOR EDGAR PIETERSE (University of Cape Town)
	Professor Edgar Pieterse is the Director of the Centre for Cities in Africa, University of Cape Town. From 2004-2007, he was appointed Special Policy Advisor in the Office of the Premier, Western Cape Provincial Government. He is a co-founder and Board member of the Sustainability Institute. He is also co-founder and Director of the Isandla Institute, a development policy think-tank. He has worked extensively in the NGO sector in South Africa in various capacities, ranging from policy research (including local governance, democratisation, urban policy, NGO enablement, gender), to training and management. In 1995 he obtained his Masters Degree in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands and his PHd from London School of Economics in 2006. His PhD dissertation was based on research that seeks to trace and analyse government policies in South Africa aimed at promoting ‘urban integration’ since democratisation in 1994. His most notable consulting work involved both policy research and process facilitation with government agencies, donor organisations and civil society structures. For example, during 1998 – 2000, he provided policy research and development support to the South African Non-government Organisation Coalition (SANGOCO) on issues pertaining to poverty reduction and macro economic policy. During 2000, he worked closely with the Board of the National Development Agency in South Africa to assist them with formulating a strategic policy framework on poverty eradication to guide their funding decisions. A significant international contract was with the Urban Management Programme (UMP is a joint programme of UNDP, the World Bank and Habitat) during 1999. This project involved assessing the experience of the UMP in promoting city consultations in four regions in the world, towards writing a policy manual for municipal practitioners on constructing participatory governance systems in their own cities and towns. One of the more ambitions projects that Edgar Pieterse worked on was a contract with the Unicity Commission in Cape Town, leading up to the second democratic local government elections in December 2000. The work entailed the formulation of a provisional city development strategy and a detailed process proposal to establish a multi-stakeholder forum in Cape Town. It is envisaged that the stakeholder forum will lead an inclusive process to formulate a twenty-year vision for the city and a series of programmes to progressively realise the vision. In addition to the management of Isandla Institute and consultancy assignments, Edgar Pieterse also maintains a keen academic interest through teaching and writing. He teaches ‘urban development in the South’ on a postgraduate programme at the University of Cape Town (Geography department). His most recent published writing is on urban policy in South Africa, metropolitan governance and strategic planning, social formations in South Africa, poverty eradication and capacity building, and development theory. He is also co-editor of a book, Democratising Local Government – the Emerging South African Experiment (UCT Press). His most recent book was the acclaimed ten year review entitled the Poetics, Policies and Politcs of the Transition which was published in 2004.

DR CLAUS STIG PEDERSEN (Novozymes)

Senior Director, Head of Sustainability Development, Novozymes A/S

Dr. Claus Stig Pedersen is Head of Sustainability Development for the Novozymes Group.
Dr. Pedersen began his career with Novozymes in 2006, where his office is responsible for developing and implementing sustainability strategies and initiatives in the product value chain of the Novozymes Group, worldwide.
Dr Pedersen currently holds the following positions:

Novozymes Sustainability Development Board (Chairman)
PReventive Environmental Protection Approaches in Europe, PREPARE (Chairman)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Liason Delegate)
Danish Business Council for Sustainable Development (Council member)
Wal-Mart´s Sustainable Value Network for Chemical Intensive products (Member)
Procter & Gamble´s Supplier Sustainability Board (Member)

Before joining Novozymes Dr. Pedersen was Head of Sustainability & Quality for the Hartmann Packaging Group, where, for more than a decade, he developed and implemented practical and value-creating approaches to sustainability at company level.

Dr Pedersen holds an M.Sc degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Life Cycle Management, both from the Technical University of Denmark.

Dr Pedersen has gained extensive practical experience from implementing sustainable business solutions in Europe, Asia, South and North America and he is a frequent speaker at business conferences, universities and business schools on sustainable business solutions and product design.