How Southeast Asian businesses champion their ESG impact
This hybrid conference for academics and practitioners will help conference participants better understand ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) frameworks adopted in the Southeast Asian region.
It will demonstrate various ways businesses benefit by collaborating with governments, civic society and academia to align interests and create mutually beneficial and impactful ESG agendas. It will also help organisations transition to sustainability-oriented practices, by eliciting local/Asian perspectives.
Topics to be presented and discussed by practitioners and academics include::
· The influence of crises or major shocks such as COVID-19 on ESG.
· The use of technology and technological innovations in enhancing ESG.
· The use and usefulness of big data, machine learning, and other advanced technologies in ESG matters.
· Interactions between cultures related to shared purpose, values, beliefs, norms, ethics and ESG.
· Interactions between national culture, legal regimes and/or industrial sector norms and ESG.
· Relationships between multiple stakeholder considerations and ESG.
· The design of ESG to help attain the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
· Impact of ESG on governance reform.
Speakers
Puan Nurul Izzah Anwar, Co-Head, Secretariat of the Advisory Committee to Finance Minister (ACFIN)
Ms Anwar currently co-heads the Advisory Committee to Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican, advisor to the Malaysian Finance Minister.
She was formerly Member of Parliament for Permatang Pauh, and her third term in the Malaysian legislature ended in 2022.
Her long political career began with the creation of the People’s Justice Party (KEADILAN) in 1999 where she played a vital role in its establishment. To this day, she remains a member of KEADILAN after serving as the political party’s Vice President from 2010-2018. Ms Anwar is currently serving her fourth term as Vice President after her reappointment in 2022.
Prior to being an MP, Nurul Izzah was known as a strong proponent of political and civil rights with a special interest in prisoners of conscience, bent on pursuing a holistic reform agenda to expand Malaysia’s democratic space.
Honorary Professor Tim Gocher (OBE), Founder/CEO, Dolma Impact Fund
Hon Prof Gocher is a private equity executive with a background in renewable energy and technology. Before founding the Dolma Impact Fund, where he is the CEO, he worked at Deloitte Corporate Finance in London, J.P. Morgan in New York and energy giant E.On. As an entrepreneur, he has started and sold two successful technology businesses.
He is Honorary Professor of Sustainable Business at The University of Nottingham and Guest Lecturer at London Business School where he gained his MBA.
He was awarded the OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Jubilee Honours List for services to British investment and economic development in Nepal.
Professor Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Prof Marquis’ research and teaching focus on how businesses are creating a more resilient and sustainable capitalism. He is the author of the award-winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, the latter a Financial Times Best Book of 2022.
Prior to joining Cambridge he worked at Cornell University for more than six years, and Harvard University for more than 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship.
Prof Marquis is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business, and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association.
He earned a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan and BA in History from Notre Dame University. Before his academic career, he worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase
Event host and conference chair
Christo Karuna, Associate Professor of Accounting and Founder Director of International Consortium for Values-based governance (ICVG), Monash Business School, Monash University.
Organised by
The Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly Special Issue
In conjunction with this conference, selected articles presented at the conference may be published in a special issue of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly (ASWQ). As such, the conference will be recorded and transcribed.
Learn more about the ASWQ editorial team, and contact asw@nd.edu if you have any questions related to the special issue.
Program
Contact
Please contact A/Prof Christo Karuna at christo.karuna@monash.edu with any enquiries about the conference.
Event Details
- Date:
- 30 November 2023 at 8:30 am – 1 December 2023 at 2:00 pm
- Venue:
- Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 47500 Subang Jaya Selangor, Malaysia and online via Zoom
- Categories:
- Accounting; General; International Consortium for Values-based Governance
Description
This hybrid conference for academics and practitioners will help conference participants better understand ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) frameworks adopted in the Southeast Asian region.
It will demonstrate various ways businesses benefit by collaborating with governments, civic society and academia to align interests and create mutually beneficial and impactful ESG agendas. It will also help organisations transition to sustainability-oriented practices, by eliciting local/Asian perspectives.
Topics to be presented and discussed by practitioners and academics include::
· The influence of crises or major shocks such as COVID-19 on ESG.
· The use of technology and technological innovations in enhancing ESG.
· The use and usefulness of big data, machine learning, and other advanced technologies in ESG matters.
· Interactions between cultures related to shared purpose, values, beliefs, norms, ethics and ESG.
· Interactions between national culture, legal regimes and/or industrial sector norms and ESG.
· Relationships between multiple stakeholder considerations and ESG.
· The design of ESG to help attain the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
· Impact of ESG on governance reform.
Speakers
Puan Nurul Izzah Anwar, Co-Head, Secretariat of the Advisory Committee to Finance Minister (ACFIN)
Ms Anwar currently co-heads the Advisory Committee to Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican, advisor to the Malaysian Finance Minister.
She was formerly Member of Parliament for Permatang Pauh, and her third term in the Malaysian legislature ended in 2022.
Her long political career began with the creation of the People’s Justice Party (KEADILAN) in 1999 where she played a vital role in its establishment. To this day, she remains a member of KEADILAN after serving as the political party’s Vice President from 2010-2018. Ms Anwar is currently serving her fourth term as Vice President after her reappointment in 2022.
Prior to being an MP, Nurul Izzah was known as a strong proponent of political and civil rights with a special interest in prisoners of conscience, bent on pursuing a holistic reform agenda to expand Malaysia’s democratic space.
Honorary Professor Tim Gocher (OBE), Founder/CEO, Dolma Impact Fund
Hon Prof Gocher is a private equity executive with a background in renewable energy and technology. Before founding the Dolma Impact Fund, where he is the CEO, he worked at Deloitte Corporate Finance in London, J.P. Morgan in New York and energy giant E.On. As an entrepreneur, he has started and sold two successful technology businesses.
He is Honorary Professor of Sustainable Business at The University of Nottingham and Guest Lecturer at London Business School where he gained his MBA.
He was awarded the OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Jubilee Honours List for services to British investment and economic development in Nepal.
Professor Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Prof Marquis’ research and teaching focus on how businesses are creating a more resilient and sustainable capitalism. He is the author of the award-winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, the latter a Financial Times Best Book of 2022.
Prior to joining Cambridge he worked at Cornell University for more than six years, and Harvard University for more than 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship.
Prof Marquis is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business, and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association.
He earned a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan and BA in History from Notre Dame University. Before his academic career, he worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase
Event host and conference chair
Christo Karuna, Associate Professor of Accounting and Founder Director of International Consortium for Values-based governance (ICVG), Monash Business School, Monash University.
Organised by
The Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly Special Issue
In conjunction with this conference, selected articles presented at the conference may be published in a special issue of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly (ASWQ). As such, the conference will be recorded and transcribed.
Learn more about the ASWQ editorial team, and contact asw@nd.edu if you have any questions related to the special issue.
Program
Contact
Please contact A/Prof Christo Karuna at christo.karuna@monash.edu with any enquiries about the conference.