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Day 1: Inaugural Day
28 October 2020
Inaugural Thematic Session
Sustainability a key to Business Resilience in an Uncertain World
High Level Panel One
Designing an Enabling Ecosystem to Build Back Better – Government to Governance
High Level Panel Two
Pathways to our Common Future – Businesses in PostCOVID19 era
Day 2 & 3: Breakout Sessions
29 – 30 October 2020
- India Inc. Leads by Example – Responsibility in Revival
- Global Value Chains & Responsible Business
- Family Friendly Policies in A&T Sector
- Is Living Wage “Relevant” and “Urgent” in the wake of COVID-19?
- Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue
- Sustainability Information to Empower Consumers
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Deforestation free Supply Chains
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Forest Governance
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Partnership for Nutrition
- Sustainable Trade post COVID19 for India
Key Speakers & Panelists*
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Inaugural Day
SHRI. SURESH PRABHU
India's Sherpa at the G20
Former Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation
Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Vice Chairman
NITI Aayog, Government of India
Heidi Hautala
Chair
European Parliament Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct
Dr. Ashok Khosla
Chairman
Development Alternatives & Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA)
Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque
Representative
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
DR. BIMAL ARORA
Faculty Member
Aston Business School, UK
Honorary Chairperson
CRB
Dr. Sanjeev Chopra
Director
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
Ashwini Chhatre
Executive Director
Bharti Institute of Public Policy
Frank Hoffmann
Regional Project Manager
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF)
Beverley Postma
Chief Executive Officer
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Himanshu Bakshi
Managing Director
Danone India
Prof. Tensie Whelan
Director
NYU Stern School, Business’s Center for Sustainable Business
Karin Kreider
Executive Director
ISEAL Alliance
Nadia Rasheed
Deputy Resident Representative in India
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Arun Maira
Chairman
HelpAge International
Dr. Ashima Goyal
Professor of Economics
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research
Arvind Mayaram
Former Finance Secretary of India
ATUL BAGAI
Head of Country Office
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Shri Rajeev Kher
Former Commerce Secretary
Government of India
Herman Mulder
Co-founder & Chair
SDG Netherlands
Anindya Chatterjee
Regional Director, Asia
International Research Development Centre (IDRC)
Breakout Sessions
DR. CARSTEN KLEIN
Regional Director
FNST South Asia
KAMAL PRAKASH SETH
Country Head - India
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
MARKUS LOENING
Founder & CEO
Loening – Human Rights & Responsible Business
EDWARD MILLARD
Director, Landscapes & Communities
Rainforest Alliance
BHAVNA PRASAD
Director- Sustainable business
WWF
DR. SANGEETA MANSUR
Founder-catalyst
Bhairavi Business & Consultancy
Prof. MANFRED MAX BERGMAN
Professor
University of Basel
PROF. VASANTHI SRINIVASAN
Professor
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Neil Giles
Chief Executive Officer
Traffik Analysis Hub
DIPANWITA CHAKRABORTY
Regional Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Development -Asia Pacific
Cargill
Dan Strechay
Global Outreach & Engagement Director
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Joseph Wozniak
Head, Trade for Sustainable Development
International Trade Centre (ITC)
Cristina Larrea
Lead - Sustainability Standards
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Dr. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Indian National Research Professor
National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)
Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra
Senior Professor, Director and ONGC Subir Raha Chair Professor
IPE, Hyderabad
Beatriz Martins Carneiro
Programme Management Officer
UNEP
Sumit Gupta
Head of Quality Assurance & Implementation
Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)
Amresh Deshpande
India Country Manager
Forest Stewardship Council International
George Cheriyan
Director
CUTS International
Vijay Jain
India Program Manager
Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI)
George Paul
Chief Executive Officer
Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT)
Vivek Voora
Associate
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Pranshu Singhal
Founder
Karo Sambhav
Kirti Mishra
Co-Founder and Director
Ecociate Consultants Pvt Ltd.
Satish Sinha
Associate Director
Toxics Link
Girish Ramachandran
President
Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pacific
Prof. Stuart Carr
Professor of Psychology, Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Program
Massey University, New Zealand
Anirban Ghosh
Chief Sustainability Officer
Mahindra Group
Bala Reddy. V
Founder & CEO
Our Food
Dr. Ashish Aggarwal
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Dr. Tata L Raghu Ram
Associate Professor
XLRI Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur
Vidya Rangan
Senior Manager, Impacts and Evidence
ISEAL Alliance
Dr. Sandip Chatterjee
Director & Scientist F
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Sameer Sharma
Senior Advisor
ITU Regional Office, Asia-Pacific & ITU (United Nations), Bangkok Metropolitan Area
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Vice Chancellor
World University of Design
Payal Jain
Founder Trustee
Prem Jain Memorial Trust
Jason Kibbey
Chief Executive Officer
Higg Co.
Dr. René VAN BERKEL
UNIDO Representative
UNIDO Regional Office in India, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Anil Bhardwaj
Secretary General
Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME)
Laura Kelly
Director
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Dr. Bhim Adhikari
Senior Environmental Economist
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Petra Walterova
Programme Officer
Trade for Sustainable Development, ITC
Aloka Majumdar
Head of Corporate Sustainability
HSBC India
Tejas Sampat
Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility & Offshore Sustainability
PVH Inc
Niraj Lal
Head CSR
Arvind Mills
Srihari Balakrishnan
President
KG Fabrics
Ines Kaempfer
Executive Director
CCR CSR HongKong
Viraf Mehta
Adjunct Faculty
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
Kamlesh Vyas
Head - Marketing and Finance
Group Mars
Sanyukta Samaddar, IAS
Adviser (SDGs)
NITI Aayog, Government of India
Soumya Guha
SDG Officer
NITI Aayog, Government of India
Dr. Tina Kuriakose Jacob
Head, Central Government Partnerships
International Justice Mission (IJM)
Chandan Kumar
National Coordinator
Working People’s Charter
Suhela Khan
Country Programme Coordinator
WEmpower Asia, UN Women
Priya Subbaraman
Chief Regulatory Officer
National Stock Exchange
Pranjit Talukdar
Associate Director - Resource Mobilization
Heifer International
Jatin Chaurasia
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Sumeru Ventures
Meenakshi Sarna
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Eastern Heritage
Manoj Bhatt
Country Director
GoodWeave India
Jill Tucker
Head of Labour Rights Programme
Laudes Foundation
Rani Bhati
Facilitator, Child Friendly Community Programme
GoodWeave India
Lee Swepston
Global human rights expert and Chair, Independent Standards Committee
GoodWeave International
Zeenat Niazi
Vice-President
Development Alternatives Group, India
Shrashtant Patara
Chief Executive Officer
TARA and IMEDF
Senior Vice President
Development Alternatives Group
Prem Das Rai
Former Member of Parliament
Sikkim, Lok Sabha
Ritu Kumar
Fashion Designer
Pankaj Pachauri
Journalist
Founder, GoNewsIndia
Anjana Seshadri
Lead - ESG
Neev Fund, SBICAPS Ventures Ltd
Chitra Prasad
General Manager, Organizational Development
Shahi Exports
Dr. A. Raj
Senior Director
Quality Council of India
Santiago Fernandez De Cordoba Briz
Senior Economist, UNCTAD
Coordinator, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards
Ranjeeb Sharma
Head of Compliance, CSR and Plan A India and Sri Lanka Region
Marks and Spencer
Deeksha Vats
Chief Sustainability Officer
Aditya Birla Group
Anita Chester
Head of Sustainable Raw Materials
Laudes Foundation
Veronika Semelkova
Sustainability & CSR Coordinator
Sucden Coffee
RAMKUMAR MENON
Chairman
World Spice Organisation
Rosy Choudhury
Director - South Asia
Rainforest Alliance
Dr. Saji M Kadavil
Manager - Sustainable Agriculture, South Asia
Rainforest Alliance
Shashank Dubey
Head of Analytics & Principal
Tredence
Dr. Waris Husain
Senior Staff Attorney
American Bar Association, Center for Human Rights
Shailaja Rangarajan
Founder & Director
Rimagined
Fanny Fremont
Executive Director
Responsible MICA Initiative
Seema Arora
Deputy Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry
Martine van Weelden
TEEBAgriFood Collaboration Manager
The Capitals Coalitions
Dr. Rahul Suresh Sapkal
Assistant Professor
Centre for Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai
Ritu Baruah
India Program Manager
Bonsucro
Alistair Leadbetter
Supply Chain Development and Business Support Manager
Traidcraft
Anita Neville
Senior Vice President, Group Corporate Communication
Golden Agri-Resources
Dheeraj Talreja
President
AAK India
Dr. Bouba Housseini
Program Officer
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Ilse Van Dijl
Agricultural Attaché
Netherlands Embassy in India
Reuben Blackie
Manager, Sustainable Agriculture (APAC and AMESA)
PepsiCo
Hem Kumar Pande
Former Secretary
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Dr. Manish Pande
Director and Head, PAD Division
Quality Council of India
Bharti Birla
Project Manager (CTA) - Sustainable Global Supply Chains
International Labour Organization
J D Giri
Director
Shahi Exports
Shubha Sekhar
Director Human Rights, Eurasia & North Africa
Coca-Cola
Dr. Ravi Kanbur
Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics
Cornell University
Ela Bhatt
Founder
Self-Employed Women's Association of India
Margie Sastry
Author
Isabel Guerrero Pulgar
Founder
IMAGO Global Grassroots
Varun Sharma
Programmes Director
ARAVALI
Prof. Indira Hirway
Director and Professor
Centre for Development Alternatives (CFDA)
Ajit Pattnaik
General Manager & Head-Tailoring, Lifestyle Business
Raymond Limited
Dr. Debapriya Dutta
Advisor - Department of Science & Technology Ministry of Science and Technology
Government of India
Sanjib Bezbaroa
Executive Vice President Corp Env Health Safety and Sustainability
ITC
Viyakula Mary
Executive Director
Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE)
Vijiya Kumari
Member
Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE)
Robin Man Amatya
CEO
SAARC Business Association of Home-Based Workers (SABAH Nepal)
Shanta Shakya
Member
SABAH Nepal
Gillian Dowie
Senior Program Officer, Employment and Growth
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Dr. Jyotsna Goel
Senior Researcher
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
Dinesh Mehra
General Manager (Finance & Administration)
Richa Global Exports Pvt. Ltd
Nidhi Jamwal
Deputy Managing Editor
Gaon Connection
Kiran Thete
Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Craig Hanson
Vice President of Food, Forests, Water & the Ocean
World Resources Institute
Dr. Vikas Rawal
Professor
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Dr. Ruchika Singh
Director, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration
World Resources Institute India
S Vijay Kumar
India Country lead - FOLU
Distinguished Fellow - The Energy and Research Institute (TERI)
Manoj Joshi, IAS
Additional Secretary
MoFPI
Monika Agarwal
Researcher
WRI India
Aruna Rangachar Pohl
Chairperson – Advisory Committee
India Foundation for Humanistic Development (IFHD)
Abhishek Mazumdar
Co-Founder & CEO
The Logical Indian
Dinni Lingaraj
Group Manager, Sustainability
Wipro
Dr. Vidya Tikoo
Senior Vice President - Sustainability
Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
Gauri Sharma
Co-Founder
SUSS
Wioleta Burdzy Seth
Co-founder
Human Circle Foundation
Pauline Laravoire
Co-Founder
Y-East
Aashish Beergi
Co-founder & CEO
MASH Project Foundation
Elaine Mitchel-Hill
Business & Human Rights Lead
Marshalls plc
Ashish Garg
President
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India
Sanjay Singh
Group Head - Paper & Packaging
ITC Limited
Punyasloka Panda
Co-founder & CEO
Blueyard Education
Girish Deshpande
Sustainability Director
Procter & Gamble
Prabhat Bezboruah
Chairman
Tea Board India
Reema Nanavaty
Director
Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Lakshmi Bhatia
Kriti Tula
Founder
Doodlage
Venkat Kotamaraju
Director
Circular Apparel Innovation Factory
Rohan Preece
Business and Human Rights Manager
Traidcraft India
Smita Singh
Senior Project Manager
EU Delegation to India
Dr. Pratibha Singh
Director
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Rajasthan
Angelica Cardiel Alanis
Leader of Water management projects
AB Inbev, Mexico
Deepak Arora
Vice President – Public Affairs
Vice President – Public Affairs
Amit Kumar Singh
Country Representative- India
Tanager
Sandeep Mukherjee
RBL Bank Ltd
Stephen Ekka
Director
PAJHRA
Katherine Torres
Senior Technical Officer, Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Supply Chains
International Labour Organization
Manish Singh Gour
Secretary
Manjari Sansthan
S.N. Venkataraman
Executive VP - Marketing & Commercial
ITC – PSPD
Govind
Kripa Stones
Nadia Bunce
Manager, Social Sustainability
The Consumer Goods Forum
Naomi Scott-Mearns
Sustainable Consumption Manager
Consumers International
Deepak Maheshwari
Senior Visiting Fellow
ICRIER
Ms. Nidhi Pundhir
Director
HCL Foundation
Mukul Rastogi
Chief Executive Officer
Centre for Development of Stones
Utkarsh Kalani
Director
Shree Agencies Pvt Ltd, Cerapave Ceramics World of Stones, CERAPAVE
Dr. Chemba Raghavan
Chief/Officer in Charge, Early Childhood Development
UNICEF
Nancy Gillis
CEO
Green Electronics Council (GEC)
Ranu Bhogal
Director- Policy, Research & Campaigns
Oxfam India
Meetu Kapur
Executive Director- Food and Agriculture Center of Excellence
Confederation of Indian Industry
Dr. Joshua Bishop
Conservation Economist
WWF Australia
Anjana Shanmugavel
Senior Manager, Sustainable Business
WWF India
*as of 28th October 2020
About ‘India and Sustainability Standards’
Centre for Responsible Business CRB’s annual flagship conference ‘India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogues and Conference’ convenes international and Indian businesses, policymakers and all stakeholders to dialogue and develop roadmaps across issues and industry sectors – in supporting the momentum towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The journey of India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogues and Conference (ISS) conceptualized as a dialogue platform by the CRB – began in 2012. With overwhelming response and encouragement over the years from Indian and international partners, standard setters, large companies, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), civil society supporters, policymakers and government agencies, media and delegates, ISS evolved into a India based international Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Platform, and as an annual flagship conference.
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CRB believes that sustainable business principles are a key ingredient that businesses of the future (and businesses with a purpose) should integrate into their enduring core values – that should ultimately inform their strategies and operations.
In the seventh edition of ISS, our endeavor, is to convene a diverse set of stakeholders to understand and deliberate on the opportunities and challenges of integrating sustainability in core business practices and strategies to build a resilient business in an uncertain world.