Professor Prabhu Guptara

Professor Prabhu Guptara Executive Director, WOLFSBERG - The Platform for Executive and Business Development (a subsidiary of UBS AG) CH-8272 Ermatingen, Switzerland Tel: +41.71.663.5605; Fax: +41.71.663.5594; INTERNET: www.wolfsberg.com e-mail: [email protected] ; Personal Website (under construction): www.prabhu.guptara.net BLOG: www.prabhuguptara.blogspot.com

Personal Annual Report 2005: Main Activities:

ORGANISING, CHAIRING AND/ OR SPEAKING AT WOLFSBERG THINK TANKS, FORUMS AND DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES (A brief report is available on most of these, at the Wolfsberg web-site: www.wolfsberg.com)

- "Why does most information on the internet remain unused?" with Dr. Christoph Glauser, IFAAR Institute For Applied Argumentation Research, Bern, Switzerland, February 23

- "Twenty-First Century Energy", with Mr. Jeremy B. Bentham, CEO, Shell Hydrogen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 1 and 2

- "Harnessing Knowledge Management in the Financial Services Industry", with Mr. Prakash Puram, CEO, iXmatch Inc., Minneapolis, USA, April 19

- "Corporate Turnaround!: a case study of Innovex/Quintiles", with Dr Justin van Gennep, Managing Director, Innovex GmbH, Mannheim, Germany, April 25

- "Lessons Learnt from an Entrepreneur's Life", with Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley, Life President Xansa plc, London, U.K., May 10

- "Macht sich Ethik bezahlt?" with Mr. Frank Straub, President, Blanco GmbH + Co KG, Oberderdingen, Germany, May 27

- "Current Challenges for the Indian Economy" with Mr. Barun S. Mitra, Founder and Director of The Liberty Institute, New Delhi, India, June 23

- "Der Traum jedes CEOs: Das lenkbare Unternehmen - Lösungen, Systeme und Methoden" with Mr. Lukas Michel, Managing Director, i3 Performance Solutions GmbH, Switzerland. July 5 & 6

- "Strength-Based Approaches to HR", with Mr Tony Awcock, Director, Organisation & Talent Solutions LLC, Binningen, Switzerland, and Mr Hartmut Stülten, Insight Consulting, Zurich, Switzerland, September 7

- "Whatever Next…?", with Mr Jeremy Clare, Director, "Whatever next…?", London, England, September 26

- "Macht, Vertrauen und Verrat" mit Dr. Patricia Seemann, CEO, Sphere Advisors LLC., Walchwil, Dr Patricia Seemann, October 3 and 4 2

- "Getting High-Tech to Serve Humanity: A Case Study" with Dr. James R. Fruchterman, Chairman, President, CEO and Founder, The Benetech Initiative, Palo Alto, USA, October 24

- "Leadership and Ethics: From Corporate Responsibility to Partner in Development", with Mr. Robert Davies CMG, Chief Executive, The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders' Forum, London, England, November 21

ORGANISING THE WOLFSBERG "In-Residence" SERIES

- Mr. Jeremy B. Bentham, CEO, Shell Hydrogen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Executive-in-Residence, February 24 to March 4

- Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley, Life President Xansa plc, London, U.K., Executive-in- Residence, May 9 & 10

PUBLICATIONS/ EDITORIAL/ INTERVIEWS

- Interviewed in "Gods of Business", National Public Radio (USA), January 27, 2005

- Article: "Regulation and Transformation of Our Financial and Economic System", Finance & Common Good (Geneva, Switzerland), Spring 2005, pages 26-32

- Book Review of Rising Elephant by Ashutosh Sheshabalaya, Common Courage Press, USA, 2005 in Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2005, vol. 168, no 5, pages 75-77

- Interviewed in the "Marketplace" program, National Public Radio (USA), May 18 (rebroadcast on APM/ Tom Peters Wire Service, and other outlets)

- Interviewed by www.big-picture.tv (permanently on the Internet at that website)

- Interviewed for "Roundtable on Spirituality in Business", Effective Executive Magazine (India), September 2005

- Article: "Facing the Challenge of Globalization, Public Justice Report (USA), Fourth Quarter, 2005

- Interviewed for "Frictions and Innovations at the Corporate Frontier, Business Digest (France), November 2005

WOLFSBERG WINDOW: WEBCASTS on UBS's intranet) with the following

- Dr. Christoph Glauser - Dr James R. Fruchterman - Dr Patricia Seemann - Mr. Jeremy B. Bentham - Mr. Prakash Puram - Dr Justin van Gennep, - Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley, 3

- Mr. Frank Straub, and - Mr. Barun S. Mitra

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

- Lecture: "Barriers to Effectiveness", World Spirit Forum, Arosa, Switzerland, January 17

- Lecture: "India today – Between Tradition, Post-Colonialism, Globalization and the Future", University of Basel, Switzerland, January 27

- Lecture: "Megatrends in the Financial Services Industry", Advanced Executive Program, Swiss Banking School, Steckborn, Switzerland, February 25

- Lectures: "Internationalisation Strategy", IIMT, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, February 7 & 8

- Lectures: "Internationalisation Strategy", Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung (HSW), Berne, Switzerland, February 11 & 12

- Lecture: "Global Trends" at a dinner meeting organised by Caret Consulting Ltd in London, U.K., May 11

- Lecture: "Global Trends" at the Global Network Conference in Hannover, Germany May 24

- Lecture: "New horizons in Corporate Risk Governance", for a group of CEOs (organised by Swiss Re, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, May 30

- Lecture: "Sustainability and Education" at the Tokyo Colloquium 2005 organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, Hosei University and other organisations, Tokyo, Japan, June 7-11

- Lecture: "The Current State of the Markets in Asia (specially China and India), Polycocktail 2005, ETH Juniors, Zurich, Switzerland, June 28

- Lecture: "Sustainability and Finance", World YES Forum of ETH Sustainability Centre, Braunwald, Switzerland, July 15

- Lectures: " Mustard tree, stunted: The Roots of Poverty in Economics, Politics, Culture, Spirituality and Society", The Greenbelt Music & Arts Festival, Cheltenham, UK, August 26-29

- Lecture: " The Robots at Aichi and the Future of Humanity", Global Future Forum/Futurescene 2005, St Paul de Vence, France, Sept 21-22

- Concluding Keynote Address: "Inspiration, Perspiration and the Rest: The Secrets of Enduring Performance" at The Performance Theatre, Oslo, Norway, October 5-7

- Lecture: "“India’s Rise and Prospects: The Role of Religion And Ideology” The Kapur Endowed Lecture, Michigan State University, USA, Oct 15 4

- Lectures on the subject of Globalisation, in Seattle, USA, November 1-4 (at the Seattle Trade Development Alliance, at Seattle Pacific University to MBA students, to the SPU Business School Faculty, to the Seattle Monthly Breakfast Meeting organised by the Center for Integrity in Business, Seattle Pacific University; to a dinner meeting organised by KIROS and SPU's School of Business and Economics, and to MBA students, University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

- Lecture: "Outsourcing, Offshoring and Responsible Competitiveness", 5th Annual Conference of the Centre for Social Markets (London, England) held in New Delhi, Dec 16

MODERATION/ CHAIRMANSHIP / HOSTING/ ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

- Moderated the Panel on "Business and Politics" at the World Spirit Forum, Arosa, Switzerland, January 17

- Chaired the Ci Group meetings (organised by The Career Innovation Company), London, Feb 21 & 22, as well as near Geneva, Sep 28-30

- Chaired the Trinity Forum meetings in Wolfsberg, Belfast, Brussels and Oslo

- Chaired the session on Asia at the UBS Philanthropy Forum, Wolfsberg, April 21-23

- Chaired a session at the European Futurists Conference, Luzern, Switzerland, July 11- 12

- Chaired the session, " Migration and Globalisation: the emerging socio-demographic diversity of the world" at the Tällberg Forum 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, July 30-Aug 3

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

- Continued supervising a PhD student at the University of Fribourg

- Lectures at various Universities and Business Schools

- Programme Advisory Committee, ESMT (European School for Management and Technology), Germany

- Examined the MBA exam papers for the IIMT (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and for the HSW Berne), May

- Supervised and examined MBA thesis, IIMT (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

- Forum of Federations research launch event, Wolfsberg, September 8

CITATIONS

- In Bernhard Koye, Ph.D. dissertation, "Pirvate Banking im Informationzeitalter" (Wealth Management in the Information Age"), supervised by Professor Dr Hans Geiger and Professor Dr Rudolf Volkart, University of Zurich, 2004 (published by Haupt Buchhandlung, Switzerland, 2005) 5

- In Peter Spiegel's book, Factor Mensch (Broschiert, Germany), page 143

- In "Controversy, Friction Challenge Globalization" by Albert M. Erisman, online at http://www.ethix.org/body.php3?id=200

- At "www.keithvaitkus.com/pvision/archives.shtml - 32k"

PARTICIPATION IN IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES:

- 1st World Security Forum Advisory Board Meeting, Wolfsberg, Switzerland, February 5

- UBS WMBB Divisional Conference, Wolfsberg, Switzerland, April 4 & 5

- ISC-Symposium, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, May 17

- Zurich Wealth Forum, Zurich, Switzerland, September 23

- Chairman of the Judging Panel, The Conversation Gap Award

IMPORTANT NON-EXECUTIVE ROLES:

- Chairman, Career Innovation Group (of non-competing global companies) till Autumn 2005

- Trustee, The Trinity Forum (USA) till year-end 2005

- Member, International Advisory Panel, Institute for Business Relations

- Member, Board of The Euro-India Center, France

- Member, Advisory Board, IFB Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (from 2005)