CSR TURKEY

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Melsa Ararat

Dr. Melsa Ararat is an international advisor and an academic on Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Strategy.

She held various international management and board positions in Asia Pacific, Japan and Europe for over 15 years prior to returning to academia. Her focus in her professional career was on Strategic Initiatives, New Business Development and Joint Ventures. Dr. Ararat's current work focuses on the overlap between corporate governance, CSR and business strategy as well as on the corporate governance reforms in emerging economies. She was a member of the committees which developed TUSIAD's and Capital Market Board's CG Guidelines for Turkey. She is the initiator and the manager of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Management at Sabanci University .

David Murphy

David Murphy recently joined the UN System Staff College (UNSSC) in Turin as Senior Associate with responsibility for the programme cluster 'Partnerships and the Global Compact'. He previously worked for the New Academy of Business for seven years. His international research and consultancy experience includes projects for: the International Labour Organisation (ILO), United Nations Volunteers (UNV), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), UK Department for International Development (DFID), and the British Council. David has a PhD in International Policy from the University of Bristol, which focused on business-NGO partnerships for sustainable development. He also has extensive development NGO management experience in West Africa and Canada . His most recent book is "Something to Believe In: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations" (Greenleaf 2003). David is a member of the Amnesty International ( Italy ) Business Group on Human Rights. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Bath , Lancaster University and the University of Bristol .

Prof. Ronen Shamir

Ronen Shamir is a professor of sociology and law at Tel Aviv University, Israel. A graduate of Northwestern University, Shamir has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, and spent time as a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Author of three books and many academic articles, Shamir has been studying the development of corporate social responsibility in the last few years. His forthcoming book with the University of Chicago Press offers a broad overview of the way CSR develops as a field of expertise and of the way CSR is applied in various national settings. Shamir taught at Sabanci University in the fall semester of 2004-2005.

Peter Whates
www.whates.co.uk

Peter Whates has been an adviser, author and speaker on corporate social responsibility, business ethics and cross-sector partnership for more than 20 years. Peter has advised on more than 50 major projects for a diverse group of companies, charities and public authorities including Barclays, Shell UK, Whitbread, BP and the Welsh Assembly Government. He has devised a number of award-winning CRM and CSR programmes including 'Laing Helping Homeless People', 'Whitbread Brighter Futures' and the 'Barclays Chairman's Awards'. Peter is the author of several handbooks and is currently writing a book on CSR with Marjorie Thompson to be published by Gower. He is also editing a book on 'Business Ethics in the 21st century Organisation' for the British Standards Institute. He has spoken at well in excess of 100 conferences and seminars, including a number as chair.

George Dallas

George S. Dallas is Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in Standard & Poor's Governance Services unit, based in London.

Prior to this assignment Mr. Dallas was head of Global Emerging Markets for Standard & Poor's. He also has served as regional head for Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in Europe and has been head of Standard & Poor's London office and practice leader of the company's international corporate ratings group. Mr. Dallas is editor of the book Governance and Risk (McGraw Hill, 2004), and has written numerous articles and several book chapters on themes relating to corporate governance and international finance.

Mr. Dallas holds a B.A., With Distinction, from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of the University of California at Berkeley .

Adrian Hodges

Adrian Hodges specialises in issues of corporate responsibility as they relate to international business strategy and practice, and is a regular commentator on the development impacts of globalisation. He has managerial experience in business, local government and non-governmental organisations and is co-author of the best-seller on corporate responsibility 'Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Today's Global Society' - published by Dorling Kindersley and The Financial Times.

He is currently Managing Director responsible for corporate and partnership development for The Prince of Wales Business International Leaders Forum (IBLF), the international not-for-profit organisation promoting business practices that produce business benefit and development gain.

Thiery Sanders

Thierry Sanders, Programme Manager Business in Development for the Dutch National Committe for Sustainable Development in Amsterdam. Thierry has set up and coordinates a programme that aims to engage Dutch companies in reducing poverty through entrepreneurship in developing countries. This programme has launched the world's first business plan competition combining poverty reduction and profit. It has also engaged Dutch designers in improving product design in emerging markets. The programme also acts as a matchmaker between NGO development projects and companies interested in investing in them. It publishes research such as the world's first guide for venture capital funds investing in developing countries, containing 260 listed funds. Thierry Sanders has lived in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. Has advised numerous companies on their CSR policies and has worked in the Dutch financial, IT and carbon emissions trading sectors.