Journey so far..
3300+ Participants
150+ Partners
300+ Speakers
The Context
The theme of the 5th Annual Conference of CRB is ‘Collaboration a key to SDGs: Leveraging CSR & Voluntary Sustainability Standards’. As an organisation working in the areas of sustainable development, CRB believes collaboration is fundamental to achieve these ambitious and critical Goals (SDGs) – and its time now to assess various approaches in this direction and impacts thereof.
Collaboration is at the heart of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is enshrined in the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development as of one of the 5 Ps – Partnership. Presently, one can witness a variety of collaboration models/methods that have evolved for broadly pursuing the SDGs, or specifically one or more SDG Goals. These models/methods range from the global levels to the national and local levels.
Key Speakers & Panelists
Suresh Prabhu
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Government of India
Dr. Harsh Vardhan
Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
KAILASH SATYARTHI
Nobel Laureate
Founder, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation
PRAHLAD KAKAR
Chairman & Founder, Prahlad kakar School of Branding & Entrepreneurship
Founder, Reefwatch Marine Conservation
MARTEN VAN DEN BERG
The Ambassador of Netherlands to India
PROF. DIRK MATTEN
Hewlett-Packard Chair- CSR
Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
RENÉ VAN BERKEL
UNIDO Representative
UNIDO Regional Office in India
PROF. PAWAN BUDHWAR
Associate Pro VC International (India)
Professor of International HRM
Aston Business School, Aston University
Aston Business School, Aston University
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chair, India Sanitation Coalition
Former Group General Manager & CEO
HSBC India
HSBC India
Dr. Saskia Loer Hansen
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International)
Aston University, UK
Tony Henshaw
Chief Sustainability Officer
Aditya Birla Group
Arun Maira
Former Member, Planning Commission of India
EX- Board Member, Tata Motors, Godrej Ind. Board member UN Global Compact, WWF India.
HANS PETER EGLER
Director
South Pole Group
MR. G S KRISHNAN
Regional President
Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd
Anirban Ghosh
Chief Sustainability Officer
Mahindra Group
ADRIAN SYM
CEO
Alliance for Water Stewardship
EDWARD MILLARD
Director, Landscapes & Communities
Rainforest Alliance
TERRY NELIDOV
Managing Director
Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise University of Michigan
NAOMI SCOTT-MEARNS
Consumers International
Sustainable Consumption Manager
Dr Julie Reviere
Country Director
GIZ, India
Dr. Wolfgang Engshuber
Former Chair of the Board
UN Principles for Responsible Investment
Martin Neureiter
Founder The CSR Company International
Chair Task Group ISO 26000
Jyotsna Belliappa
Head Strategic Alliances,
The CSR Company International
Dr. Jatinder Singh
Director
PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Atul Bagai
Head of Country Office - India
United Nations Environment (UNEP)
Bharat Wakhlu
President
The Wakhlu Advisory
PROF. VASANTHI SRINIVASAN
Professor
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Akanksha Sharma
Head, CSR & Sustainability
Sterlite Technologies Limited
Rahul Bhajekar
Managing Director
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)
DOUWE JAN JOUSTRA
Head Circular Transformation
C&A-Foundation
Dr. Joe Arvai
Director, Erb Institute
Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Soyoung Park
Deputy High Commissioner
Canadian High Commission
PETER LUND-THOMSEN
Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Ravi Kumar Aggarwal
Deputy Director
ICCSPL
Alay Barah
Chief Executive Officer
ICCSPL
Dr. Zinaida Fadeeva
Sr. Advisor
United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) Office
Prof. Rukaiya Joshi
Professor & Chairperson,
Centre for Education Social Sector, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)
Marco Dubbelt
Lead Staff
Global March
Gazal Malik
Policy Research Officer,
Global March Against Child Labour
Prof. Linda Hancock
Personal Chair in Public Policy
Deakin University
Vidya Rangan
Senior Manager
Impacts, ISEAL Alliance
Jane Hwang
President & Chief Executive Officer,
Social Accountability International
Dr. Geeta Sekhon
Global Consultant,
United Nations
DR. BIMAL ARORA
Faculty Member
Aston Business School, UK
Honorary Chairperson CRB
Honorary Chairperson CRB
DIVYA JYOTI
Advisor
Centre for Responsible Business (CRB)
Prabhat Kumar
National Thematic Manager - Child Protection
Save the Children, India
Rupam Das
Project Officer
Save the Children, Assam
Dr Jana Helbig
Former Managing Director of the German Centre for Industry and Trade
Gurgaon, India
Dr. Amita Joseph
Director, Business Community Foundation and Governing Body Member
CRB
Arun Asthana
Executive Director
Centre for Responsible Business (CRB)
Noor Naqschbandi
Director
Private Sector Development, GIZ India
GIZ India
GIZ India
Pulkit Khare, IAS
District Magistrate
Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh
Ravi Kant
Advocate
Supreme Court of India
Tina Kuriakose (PhD)
Research and Development Specialist
International Justice Mission
Mr. Manoj Bhatt
Country Director
GoodWeave India
SUHAS BHUJBAL
Manager Raw Material Sourcing
Ferrero,India
Rijit Sengupta
Chief Operating Officer
Centre for Responsible Business
RISHI SHER SINGH
Associate Director
Twentyfifty Ltd
Anindit Roy Chowdhury
Programme Manager
Gender Justice and Human Rights, C&A Foundation
Parvathi Madappa
Cividep India
Workers' Rights and Corporate Accountability, Bangalore
Trishna Mohan Kripalani
Legal Programme Manager for South Asia
TrustLaw Thomson Reuters Foundation
Teenal Sethi
Senior Directo
Rabobank
Thangaperumal Ponpandi
Country Manager-India
Terre des Hommes Netherlands
Vijay Jain
Responsible Mica Initiative
Kinjal Shah
Regional Director India- Middle East
Responsible Jewellery Council
R.C. KESAR
Director General
OGTC
Satoshi Sasaki
Satoshi Sasaki
Deputy Director, ILO, South Asia & India
Deepak Arora
Vice President Public Affairs,
Nayara Energy Ltd
Ashis Dash
CEO - SMI
FIMI
Vineet Bose
Head - Legal,
Hindustan Zinc Ltd.
Roberto F. Salazar-Córdova
Chief Executive Officer
CSP INC.TECH, SCL/LATAM
Sarina Bolla
SME & Value Chain Solutions-India Program Lead,
IFC
Prof. Kalyan Bhaskar
XLRI Jamshedpur
India
Pranshu Singhal
Founder
Karo Sambhav
Priti Mahesh
Chief Programme Coordinator
Toxics Link
Sunita Prasad
Senior Manager
Sustainability & CR, Ericsson India
Dr. Sandip Chatterjee
Director
MeitY, India
Neeta Misra
IFC
Rajiv Kumar
Corporate Head- Cane & Sustainability
Olam India
Dr. Anushree Bhattacharjee
Programme Officer – Forest Landscape Restoration,
IUCN
Aya Matsuura
Gender Specialist,
ILO
Vandana Verma
Programme Director,
IKEA Foundation
Rakesh Supkar
Business Head,
Traidcraft India
Arati Pandya
Executive Director,
CEC
Navya D'Souza
Communications lead,
HomeNet South Asia
Dr. Soma Kishore Parthasarathy
National Facilitation Team,
MAKAAM
Subhadra Gupta
South Asia Head,
Fair Labor Association
Shikha S. Bhattacharjee
Lawyer and Researcher
Ranjeeb Sarmah
Head of Compliance,
Marks & Spencers
Prabh Sharan Singh
Secretary, Northern Region,
ICC
Deeksha Vats
Joint President-Sustainability,
Aditya Birla Group
Dr. Rachna Arora
GIZ, India
Dr. Pradip Kalbar
Assistant Professor, C-USE, IIT Bombay
IIT Bombay
Rajat Kumar
Program Manager
Anil Bharadwaj
Secretary General
FISME
Natasha Majumdar
amfori Network Representative
India
Gopinath Govindan
Director
Human Resources, CLP India
Abhay Pathak
Head of Corporate Sustainability
Tata Motors
Gangadhar Swamy
BASF Vegetable Seeds
Ashish Bhardwaj
India Coordinator
AWS
Joseph Woznaik
Head
T4SD, ITC
Litul Baruah
Analytics Officer
C&A Foundation
Associate Director
Sustainable Business, WWF-India
Palash Srivastava
South Pole
Vaibhav Aggarwal
Project Leader
IKEA India
Michiel Bierkens
Economic Counsellor
Embassy of Netherlands in India
Erik Bouwmeester
Deputy head International affairs
Ministry of Infrastructure & Water of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Anindya Chowdhury
Country Manager Shell
Rajeev Vijh
Director
DIPP UNIDO
Meera Mitra
Senior Adviser & Lead
Forum for State-Private Sector Collaboration for SDGs, CRB
Prajakta Mony
Principal
BlueSky CSR Company
Murari Singh
Vice President - Operations
Orient Craft Limited
Meenakshi Batra
CEO
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
Cecilia Costa
Team Lead
Delegation of the European Union to India
Vishal Phanse
Chief Executive Officer
Piramal Swasthya
Sudhir Sinha
CSR Satyagrha
Shankar Venkateswaran
Former Chief - Sustainability
The Tata Group
Vaishali Nigam Sinha
Chief – CSR
Sustainability and Communications, ReNew Power Ltd
Dipanwita Chakraborty
Regional Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Development
Asia Pacific Cargill
Bouba Housseini
Program Officer
IDRC
Dr T R Manoharan
Senior Adviser
FSC
Murli Dhar
Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Program
WWF-India
Soumitiri Das
Forestry Specialist
USAID
Rajeev Ahal
Director
Natural Resource Management, GIZ
Vijay Vardhan Vasireddy
Operations Manager
ITC
Naresh Tyagi
Chief Sustainability Officer
Aditya Birla Textile
Chaman Lal
Head of Project
GIZ MSME INNO
Tasvvar Ali
Technical Expert
GIZ MSME INNO
Munish Sharma
Director
MIT Institute of Technology
Jyotsna Bhatnagar
Private Sector Partnerships Officer
UNWFP India
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