Faculty Biographies Sorted by Last Name In addition to the speakers below, WBI is delighted that representatives from the following organizations are scheduled to present: (biographies will be provided) Danone SNV Netherlands Development International Finance Corporation Organization PepsiCo Technoserve Rabobank Unilever Root Capital World Business Council for Sustainable Development Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia Industries Limited Vinita Bali is currently the Managing Director of Britannia Industries Limited, a role she returned to in January 2005 after spending over 16 years overseas in a variety of positions with eminent multinationals like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes. Vinita is a non executive Director on the Board of Titan Industries Ltd., MphasiS Ltd. and Gujarat Glass Limited. She is also on the Board of Advisors of the Lal Bahadhur Shastri Institute of Management Studies.Vinita received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from LSR at the University of Delhi and her MBA at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies at Bombay University. She pursued postgraduate studies in Business and Economics at Michigan State University on a scholarship from The Rotary Foundation and worked as a Graduate Intern at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In the summer of 1984 Vinita was selected to represent India at the Global Energy Summit in Washington. Vinita is a transformational leader and credited with turning around businesses in Cadbury Nigeria and South Africa and Coke in Latin America. She is in the midst of leading a business model and culture transformation in Britannia. She has received several business and marketing awards in recognition of her performance. Vinita has served on the Boards of the American Foundation for the Blind, New York, as well as the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and several bottlers of The Coca-Cola Company. She was also a guest lecturer at Emory University s, Goizuetta Business School, as well as the Jamnalal Bajaj Institutue of Management Studies. She has published in The Economic Times and other Business publications.
Niels Christiansen, Vice-President, Public Affairs, Nestlé, S.A. Dr. Niels Christiansen is Vice-President of Public Affairs, Nestlé, S.A., based at their headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. He first joined Nestlé in 1981 in Washington, D.C., and moved to Nestlé headquarters management in 1997. He was named Vice- President, Public Affairs in 2000, managing the public affairs of the company on a global basis. Prior to his career with Nestlé, he was a member of the Faculty of the Harvard University Nutrition Department, specializing in nutrition in developing countries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative, an industry-union-ngo Foundation working to improve working conditions in cocoa growing, and President of the International Infant Food Manufacturers Association. He serves as industry head of the Food Beverage Industry World Health Organization Working Group on Obesity (Diet, Physical Activity & Health) and served as Chairman of the European Food Industry's Taskforce on the same subject. Ray A. Goldberg, Geroge M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business Emeritus, Harvard Business School A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952. Together with John H. Davis he developed the Agribusiness Program at Harvard Business School in 1955. From 1970 to 1997 he was the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business and head of the Agribusiness Program. Since July 1, 1997, as emeritus professor, he has chaired the Agribusiness Senior Management Seminars at Harvard Business School and currently teaches a course on Food Policy and Agribusiness at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is also an Honorary Professor and a member of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England. He is coordinator of the Joint Business, Scientific, Public Policy, Consumer Policy Technology Committee of the U.S. Food System which meets annually at Harvard University. He received the Distinguished Service Award from Harvard Business School in June 2001. Dr. Goldberg is the author, co-author and or editor of 23 books and over 110 articles on positioning firms and institutions in the global value added food system. 2
Stephen Jordan, Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Business Civic Leadership Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Stephen Jordan is senior vice president and executive director of the Business Civic Leadership Center, and has served in this capacity since the organization's founding as the Center for Corporate Citizenship (CCC) in May 2000. Stephen leads BCLC's engagement with a broad spectrum of companies and chambers of commerce in the United States and overseas. He has produced numerous conferences, policy papers, and other projects and programs related to the fields of corporate citizenship, business and society relations, global development, education, disaster assistance, military quality of life, critical infrastructure protection, homeland security, and public-private partnerships. Some of the most notable coalitions he has played a role in launching include the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security, the National Cyber Safety Alliance, Business Strengthening America, and the U.S. Business Education Network. In addition to his work for BCLC, he is currently serving on three non-profit boards: the Council for Corporate and School Partnerships, the New World Institute, and the Southern Business Leadership Council. Stephen is also a Caux Round Table fellow, advising CRT on projects relating to reform of business education curricula, formation of social capital for more responsible business, and implementation of the CRT Principles for Business. William S. Laufer, Professor of Legal Studies and Director Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Dr. William S. Laufer is Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Teaching since 1987, his subjects include criminological theory, corporate and white collar crime, and business ethics. Dr. Laufers research has appeared in a wide range of journals. He is Julian Aresty Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology and Director, Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and Chairperson, Department of Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences. Bérangère Magarinos, Senior Manager, Investments and Partnerships Program, Global Alliances for Improved Nutrition Dr. Bérangère Magarinos joined GAIN in March 2004 as Leadership and Partnership Development Advisor before she started her new assignment as Senior Manager for the Investments and Partnerships Program. Prior to this she worked for the United Nations System Staff College in Turin Italy as Project Manager of the Partners in Action Initiative, a training program focusing on developing the partnering skills of UN officials in UN country teams. Prior to that, Dr. Magarinos held a range of research, teaching and consultancy positions in Switzerland and in the US, focusing 3
on New Public management projects as well as a strong emphasis on creating linkages between the public and the private sector. Dr. Magarinos was trained in public management and international relations in Switzerland and in the United States. She has a PhD from Maxwell School Syracuse University NYC and a Masters in Public Administration from the Swiss Graduate Institute for Public Affairs. She also specialized in partnership management at Cambridge University. Jane Nelson, Senior Fellow and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Jane is also Senior Fellow and Director of the M-RCBG's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and Director of the Business Leadership and Strategy at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, preparing a report for the United Nations General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector, which supported the first UN resolution on such cooperation. She holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and a BSc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Natal, South Africa. Djordjija Petkoski, Head of Business, Competitiveness and Development Program, World Bank Institute Djordjija Petkoski is Lead Specialist at the World Bank and the Head of the Business, Competitiveness, and Development team at the World Bank Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, the Wharton School. Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr. Petkoski has focused on competitiveness and sustainable development, governance, corporate responsibility, ethics and anti-corruption, leadership and leading change, with work experience in Asia, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990's and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He has published extensively on issues of strategic management of complex technical, economic and social systems. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 120 articles. His publications include "Stability Analysis of Large-scale Economic Systems Which Have a Multi-time Scale," in Applied Decision Analysis and Economic Behavior (1984); "Knowledge-based Systems for Robustness Analysis of Large-Scale Economic Systems," in Systems Theoretical Methods in Economic Modeling (1991); and "Emilija: Harvard Business School Case Study No. 9597-053" (1997). He has delivered lectures at leading universities and international organizations around the world. He teaches a course on Corporate Responsibility and Ethics at Wharton Business School jointly with Professor Laufer. He is also serving on the Academic Advisory Board of the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, the Wharton School, and is a member of the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee at Harvard University. He also sits on the International Advisory Board of Instituto Ethos, Brazil, and the International Advisory Council of the International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc. Before coming to the World Bank, Mr. 4
Petkoski was the Director of the International Post-Graduate School in Large Scale Systems and Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Mr. Petkoski received his Master's degree in Public Administration at Kennedy School of Governance, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. He has also completed the Harvard Executive Development Program. V. Kasturi Rangan, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Director of Research, Harvard Business School Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Until recently the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school s Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA courses, including the core First-Year Marketing course (was its head across multiple sections from 1993-1996), and the second-year electives, Business Marketing and Channels-to-Market. He has also taught marketing in the Advanced Management Program for senior managers. Currently Rangan teaches the elective courses, Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Approaches to Private Creation of Social Value, and Business Approaches and Solutions for Base-of-the-Pyramid. In addition, he teaches in a number of focused executive education programs: Business-to-Business Marketing Strategy, Strategic Perspectives on Nonprofi t Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Rangan has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1983. 5