Name Simon Zadek | Role Writer | |
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Discipline Sustainability
Economics
Corporate responsibility
Green growth Books The Civil Corporation, Third Generation Corporat, Eco‑China Inc, An Economics of Utopia, Doing Good and Doing We | ||
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Simon Zadek is a writer and advisor focused on business and sustainability. He is the Co-Director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.
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- Simon zadek china is shaping our carbon footprint iq2 debates
- Simon zadek hub culture interview in davos
- Education and career
- Books
- Selected articles and working papers
- References
He is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute. and Visiting Scholar at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
He has been a leading pioneer in the development of the corporate social responsibility movement, first as the Research Director and later Deputy Director of the New Economics Foundation (from 1992-1999), and then as founder and CEO of the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability (from 1995 to 2009).
His book, The Civil Corporation: the New Economy of Corporate Citizenship (2001) received the Academy of Management's Best Book Social Issues Award in 2006 and has been called one of the most influential books on sustainability, by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
In 2003 he was named as one of the World Economic Forum's 'Global Leaders of Tomorrow' and he currently serves as an advisor to WEF on sustainability.
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Education and career
From 1979 to 1981 he was an economic planner for the Government of St Lucia, followed by a period of consulting with Coopers and Lybrand. In 1992 he joined the New Economics Foundation, becoming its Development Director and leading its work on corporate social responsibility. He helped to found the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability in 1995, acting as its CEO from 2002-2009, and was Founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative.
Zadek has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, an Honorary Professor at the University of South Africa and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Centre for Government and Business of Harvard University's Kennedy School.
He is currently Co-Director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.
Zadek is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, Advisor on sustainability initiatives to the World Economic Forum, Senior Advisor to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). and Visiting Scholar at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Zadek sits on the International Advisory Board of the Brazilian business network, Instituto Ethos, the Advisory Board of the sustainability fund manager, Generation Investment Management, and the Boards of the International Centre for Sustainable Development and the Employers' Forum on Disability.