Towards Effective CSR Innovations – Approach and Application
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August 9, 2016 Speaker Profiles National CSR Summit Towards Effective CSR Innovations – Approach and Application Session I India’s Development Challenges – Can CSR spur transformative solutions Chandrajit Banerjee Director General Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Government of India. He is the Co-Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has the Governing Council, Overseas Indian been with the CII for over 28 years and has been Facilitation Centre (OIFC), a not-for-profit the Director General there since May 2008. As public private initiative of Government of India Director General, he is responsible for overall and CII, established in 2007. He is a Member of operations of CII. Prior to his appointment as the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Director General, he held several senior Council on India. Chandrajit is a Member of the positions in CII. Chief Minister’s Advisory Council, Madhya Pradesh and also a Member of the Board of He is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with Governors of Indian Institute of Management specialization on Economics of Planning and (IIM), Ranchi. He is an advisory board member Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Earlier, he did his Graduation from St. Xavier's Investment Council (CWEIC). College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons). He has been honored with the China-India Chandrajit has been responsible for important Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier Wen areas of work including the sectoral verticals - Jiabao for his contributions towards the manufacturing, services, agriculture and life development of bilateral ties between India and sciences sectors and the SMEs. He has led key China. He has also been conferred with the policy work of CII in the areas of economic decoration of Knight Commander of the Order policy, financial services and corporate of Queen Isabella by His Majesty the King of governance (he was also the First Executive Spain in recognition of his most meritorious Director of the National Foundation of achievements and exceptional contributions Corporate Governance -NFCG, an organization towards promoting relations between India and set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Spain. Government of India). He continues to be in the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of He is also the Secretariat for several bilateral NFCG as a Member. Earlier, Chandrajit has CEOs forums. These include forums with served as Head of CII’s regional operations in Australia, France, Russia, Canada, Malaysia, the Northern, Southern and Western Regions. Indonesia, Myanmar, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa among others. Over the years he has worked out of the CII- Headquarters in New Delhi for several years and With 66 offices, including 9 Centres of has also been based at Kolkata, Chennai, Excellence, in India, and 9 overseas offices in Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He was Australia, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Germany, Singapore, UK, and USA, as well as Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool institutional partnerships with 312 counterpart Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA), which is organizations in 106 countries, CII serves as a a state-of-the-art centre for training, conventions reference point for Indian industry and the and trade fairs. international business community. He is in various advisory committees of the Mukund Rajan Co-Chair, CII National Committee on CSR 2016-17; Member – Group Executive Council and Brand Custodian and Chief Ethics Officer Tata Sons Ltd. Mukund Rajan serves as a Member of the Group one of the principal telecom industry Executive Council at Tata Sons Ltd., and is the associations in India. He currently serves as a Tata Brand Custodian and Group Spokesperson. Non-Executive Director on the boards of Additionally, he serves as Chief Ethics Officer Lakshmi Machine Works, Tata SIA Airlines and of the group and oversees CSR activities as TCS Foundation, and is a member of the Chairman of the Tata Global Sustainability Advisory Board of the Tata Opportunities Fund. Council. He is the Chairperson of the FICCI Environment Committee and serves as the Co-Chair of the CII Mukund joined Tata through the Tata National Committee on CSR. He is also a Administrative Service (TAS) in January 1995. member of the National Advisory Boards of two He was assigned to the office of the then youth networks, AIESEC India and ENACTUS. Chairman of Tata Sons, Mr Ratan Tata, in 1996, where he served for twelve years. In 2007, the World Economic Forum honoured him as a Young Global Leader. He was also part In January 2008, he was appointed Managing of the inaugural class of the CII-Aspen Institute Director of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra). He India Leadership Initiative. subsequently moved to Tata Capital in 2010, where in his last role, he was the Head of Private He graduated from the Bachelor of Technology Equity Advisory and Managing Partner of the program at the Indian Institute of Technology, advisory team of the Tata Opportunities Fund, a Delhi in 1989. He received a Rhodes private equity fund sponsored by the company. Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he completed a Masters and Doctorate in He has served on the boards of various Tata International Relations. His doctoral dissertation companies including Tata Teleservices, Tata titled “Global Environmental Politics – India Communications, Roots Corporation and Piem and the North-South Politics of Global Hotels. He was also President of the Association Environmental Issues” was published by the of Unified Access Service Providers of India, Oxford University Press in 1996. Venu Srinivasan Chairman & Managing Director TVS Motor Company Venu Srinivasan is the Chairman of Sundaram- (JUSE), and the Japanese Quality Medal in the Clayton Group which includes TVS Motor year 2002. In the same year, TVS Motor Company and companies that manufacture Company was also conferred with the Deming automotive components in India. Prize. He has an engineering degree from the College In recognition of his contribution to of Engineering, Chennai and a Master’s Degree manufacturing, R&D, technology and quality in Management from Purdue University, USA. excellence, he was conferred with “Doctor of In recognition of his contribution to Science” by the University of Warwick, UK in management, he was conferred with “Doctor of the year 2004. Management” by his alma-mater, Purdue University in 2014. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, the oldest IIT in India, conferred upon him, He has held various important positions in the “Doctor of Science” in the year 2009. Indian Industry, such as Chairman of National Safety Council, Government of India; President, He was bestowed with the Ishikawa-Kano award Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for the in the year 2012 by the Asian Network of year 2009-10; President, Society of Indian Quality, the apex body for quality in Asia which Automobile Manufacturers for the period 1999- covers 18 countries including Japan, China, 2001. India, Korea and Thailand. Some of the recent awards conferred on Mr. For his contribution to Leadership and Srinivasan include: “Goodwill Envoy for Public Management, Mr Srinivasan was conferred with Diplomacy” by the Republic of Korea in 2015; JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award by the “Honorary citizen of Busan City”, Korea’s 2nd All India Management Association in the year largest city, in 2014; Honorary Commanding 2005, and the Jamsetji Tata Lifetime Officer of Korean Naval Vessel, ROKS Choi Achievement award by the Indian Society for Young, in 2014; The “Padma Shri” award in Quality in the year 2004. 2010 by the President of India, for his valuable and outstanding contributions in the field of He is also the Managing Trustee of Srinivasan trade and industry; The distinguished civilian Services Trust (SST) – engaged in honour “Order of Diplomatic Service Merit” transformation & empowerment of over 3000 (Heung-In Medal) in 2010, conferred by the villages in rural India affecting over 1.6 million President of the Republic of Korea, in people. SST has received multiple awards recognition of his valuable contribution in including: Times of India Social Impact Award promoting Korea-India bilateral relations. on Advocacy & Empowerment in Corporate category (2011); Golden award on Readers Under his leadership, Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. Digest Pegasus Corporate Social Responsibility was awarded the Deming Prize in 1998 by the Award (2008); Silver award on Pegasus Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers Corporate Social Responsibility Award (2007). Anshu Gupta (Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner 2015); Founder, Goonj Popularly known as the “Clothing Man” and He is an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow apart from recipient of 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award, being a member of the Humanitarian Crisis Anshu Gupta has studied mass communication Council of the World Economic Forum and has and has masters in Economics. Starting as a been listed by the Forbes magazine as one of freelance journalist, Anshu left a corporate job India’s most powerful rural entrepreneurs. in 1998 and founded Goonj with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it Anshu brings to the table an instinctive empathy among the list of subjects to work on for the and connect with people by dignifying the act of development sector. giving. In the macro picture, he has identified some basic needs outside the radar screen of the Under his leadership Goonj has taken the development sector and the civil society, that too menacing growth of urban waste and used it by structuring imaginative solutions using urban efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale rural waste. development work. By creating a barter between two new currencies; labor of the beneficiaries An entrepreneur at heart, avid traveler, and old material of cities, he has built the photographer and a journalist by training, genesis of a parallel economy which is not cash he often pens prose and poetry, giving vent to based but trash based.