PA Group 2010 Annual Review
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PA Group 2010 Annual Review We play all fields, all colours and jump over all hurdles Table of contents Message from PA Chairman Prof. Mark Eyskens 02 Message from PA Managing Partner Rio Praaning 03 Prawira Adiningrat Selection of PA Events in 2010 04 Reception with European Council President 04 Herman Van Rompuy and US Ambassador to the EU William E. Kennard, Brussels International Conference on CSR and 06 Combating Malnutrition: Obtaining Millennium Development Goals in Indonesia, Jakarta PA’s Centre for European Political-Practical 07 Excellence Roundtables Water Management Mission to Yunnan, 07 China Vitamin D Nutritional Policy Conference, 08 Brussels High-level Sino-European Forum on Food 08 Safety, Risk Assessment and Early Warning Approaches, Beijing The recent financial crisis indicates a lack of governance Quotes from the PA colleagues 09 of the relationship between financial institutions and Projects Initiated and Supported by the PA Group 15 their regulators and underlines the urgent need for more in the Framework of PA’s CSR Policy efficient intergovernmental coherence and convergence of economic, budgetary and monetary policies, while Photos on cover, clockwise from top left: fighting protectionist tendencies. Unfortunately the bill (From left to right) Ms Marie-Paule Benassi (Delegation of the European must be footed by the European citizen. How to ensure Union to China), H.E. Serge Abou (Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to China and Mongolia), translator, Rio Praaning that we all will recover? Something else went wrong. Prawira Adiningrat, Dr Werner Christie (Chairman, PA Asia Beijing), Dr Su Despite all good intentions Europe exported its innovation Zhi (Director General of Bureau of Food Safety Integrated Coordination and capacity – particularly to Asia – rather than promoting Health Supervision, Ministry of Health of China) and H.E. Chen Xiaohong (Vice Minister of Health of China) during a preparatory meeting at the occasion of the its own. Yet innovation is the only way to secure renewed High-Level Sino-European Forum on Food Safety, Risk Assessments and Early economic growth on a sustained basis. Allow me to remind Warning Approaches hosted by the PA International Foundation and supported you: innovation is a link in a sequence. Phase one exists by the Ministry of Health of China and the EU Delegation to China (Beijing, 12 July 2010); of stimulating knowledge, discoveries and inventions through research and development. This requires financial Pupils of SMPN I Cigalontang School (Java, Indonesia) in front of their new efforts of the Government and the private sector (the school building that was constructed with funds from the PA International Foundation after the September 2009 earthquake (June 2010); famous 3% norm). Phase two consists of converting discovery and invention into innovation; this is application Members of a Vietnamese Parliamentary Delegation visiting the German through industrial initiative. That can only happen ‘Bundesrat’ in Berlin during their study trip organised by PA Europe to study and collect information on the organisation and operation of Parliaments (September under conditions of sufficient profitability. It is of course 2010); conceivable that Government support will be paid back in the form of royalties or through Public-Private Partnerships. (From right to left) H.E. Linda Amalia Sari, Minister for Women Empowerment and Child Protection, formally opening the ‘International Conference on CSR Phase three consists of economic growth, increased and Combating Malnutrition: Obtaining Millennium Development Goals employment and trade. Economic growth is by all means in Indonesia’ (Jakarta, 13-14 December 2010); Dr Dewi Motik Pramono, required to maintain the European social model. Working MSi, Chairman of KOWANI (National Council of Women’s Organisations of Indonesia); Prof. Dr Nila Djuwita F. Moeloek SpM (K), Special Envoy on MDGs with businesses involved in food, health, biotechnology to the President of the Republic of Indonesia; Ir Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, and ICT, PA is assisting in developing strategies to not President Commissioner of PA CSR Indonesia; Anies Baswedan, PhD., Rector only promote an innovative friendly environment but to Paramadina University; and Rio Praaning Prawira Adiningrat. also ensure that innovation is at the heart of decision- (Upper drom left to right) PA Chairman Mark Eyskens, European Council making. However we should be mindful that the failure President Herman Van Rompuy, US Ambassador to the EU William Kennard to adequately regulate innovations of the past, such as (Upper from left to right) Current AECA President Anton van der Lande, PA Managing Partner Rio Praaning Prawira Adiningrat, PA Honorary Chairman Paul financial services, cannot be redressed by over regulating De Keersmaeker and industrialist Etienne Davignon during a reception organised innovations of the future – indeed this would only result by PA Europe (Brussels, 26 February 2010); in a further loss of the innovation opportunity for Europe. (From left to right) Dr Joao Breda, Scientist, Non-communicable Diseases I am gladly at your availability for any advice or support. and Environment, WHO/Europe; Professor Jose Martin-Moreno, Director, Programme Management, WHO/Europe; Dr Werner Christie, Chairman, PA Asia Prof. Mark Eyskens Beijing and Former Minister of Health of Norway; and David Webber, Director of Studies, Public Advice (PA) International Foundation, during a meeting in Chairman PA International Foundation Copenhagen (1 October 2010) where WHO decided to map Vitamin D deficiency Chairman PA Europe in Europe. Former Prime Minister of Belgium Design: Perfect Pixel - Production: Care4Print In 2010 PA served six Governments and international organisations and a host of Multinational and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. We are grateful to those that asked our advice and contracted us while realising that we would only move in the correct political and societal contexts when supported by scores of NGOs, functionaries and individuals representing civic society. Consequently PA provided its research-based strategic advice and operational support both to clients and to third parties who directly benefited of support and access through our most senior advisers. Many of these are former (Prime) Ministers and Government officials, scientific, ecological and media experts. They secure that PA’s advice and support at all times reflects both global and local concerns in a balanced, respectful and transparent way. In so doing we continue to learn not to choose prematurely, but to combine wisdom, experience and fact from every source in a seamless way. Internally cultivating optimal interaction between different cultures and religions we provide coherent advice and take multidimensional and holistic approaches understood equally in Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo, Muscat, Jakarta, Shanghai, The Hague, Moscow, Ljubljana, Warsaw or Washington PA clients now include the most famous names DC. on the Internet, in Food and Additives Production, in Infrastructure, Transport, Packaging and We continue to use our own income to repair and build schools, Energy, in Health Care, Hospital Management to provide once-in-a-lifetime chances for underprivileged and Sports, in the Environment and Construction. students to study in or visit Europe, and to practically assist We continue to act in all theatres and confirm that all of these regions where PA holds offices and where disaster has struck. may be very different except for one thing: the understanding Through our PA International Foundation we translate our of the word GOOD. Wherever you go and with whomever you high level interface position and on-the-ground experiences – speak – we all understand GOOD. So this is what we all at PA sometimes with our feet deep in debris – into new approaches see as our task and wish for you: be GOOD in whatever you to post-crisis preparedness and management. Today we aspire and do. include a new definition of Corporate Social Responsibility in both official development aid and in crisis management Rio Praaning Prawira Adiningrat mechanisms. In many conferences of among others the United Managing Partner PA Companies Nations University, the Maastricht School of Management and Secretary General PA International Foundation the Chinese Government’s Euro-Asia Economic Forum, PA was invited to share insights and experiences. More in detail we assisted through our own Academic Chairs and senior advisors in Preparing for Drought in Yunnan, China; Combating Malnutrition in Indonesia; Adding to Preparedness and Prevention of Illness in the US; Promoting Adequate Diets for an Ageing European Constituency; Promoting Better Health Care in Indonesia; Guaranteeing Optimal Content of Infant Formula on all Continents; Contributing to Consumer Information through Effective Food Labelling in the EU; Promoting Innovation particularly among SMEs in the EU; Assisting Industries with new Sustainable CSR Strategies and Operations; Including CSR in Post-Crisis Preparedness Management; Effectively Lowering the Environmental Burden of Packaging; Lowering CO2 Emissions in different Production Processes; Promoting Waste to Energy Technology Development and Implementation specifically in China; Highlighting the Benefits of a Japanese-European Free Trade Agreement; Enhancing Understanding for Constitutional Democracy and its Key Institutions; Strategising Global Socio- Political Marketing of (new) Technologies and