CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LEADERSHIP COURSE Fordham Law School Room 430 B/C June 2–4, 2014 Program Schedule

Day 1 – Corporate Social Moderator: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, the ways in which can effectively Responsibility Today – Expectations, Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership work with these groups. Challenges and Prospects Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Program, 3:30–3:40 pm 8–9 am Leitner Center for International Law and Coffee Break and Networking Registration and Breakfast Justice, Fordham Law School Evidence shows that steps to advance corporate 3:40–5 pm 9–9:30 am citizenship improve financial performance. The Positive Impact of Sustainable Business Welcome Remarks Reducing carbon outputs, engaging with local Panelists: Christopher Aidun, Managing Speakers: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, communities, investing in education, providing Partner, Persistent Energy Partners LLC Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership safe and clean working environments, and im- Katie Hunt-Morr, Senior Manager, Values and Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, plementing robust corporate governance policies Impact, Etsy Corporate Social Responsibility Program, are just some of the measures that can lead to David Levine, Co-founder & CEO, American Leitner Center for International Law and sustainable business and increased profits. This Sustainable Business Council Justice, Fordham Law School session will examine these prospects while work- Sumeet Salwan, Senior Vice President Human Emily Smith Ewing, Executive Director, ing through some of the challenges companies Resources, Unilever North America Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership encounter along the way. Participants will hear Moderator: Professor Gay McDougall, Course; Adjunct Professor and PVH Corp. from industry leaders and will gain first hand Scholar-In-Residence, Leitner Center for Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, insight into business models that can be applied International Law and Justice, Fordham Law Leitner Center for International Law and to their own companies and practices. School Justice, Fordham Law School 12:30–2 pm While responsible business practice provides multiples gains for companies themselves as 9:30–10:30 am Lunch outlined earlier in the program, these positive Introduction to Corporate Social efforts provide enormous benefit to society at Responsibility 2–3:30 pm The Role of Stakeholders large. Hearing from a range of constituents Speaker: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, from across the business community, this Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership Panelists: Sarah Dolton-Zborowski, Adjunct session will provide a summary of some of the Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Professor, , Fordham recent, notable CSR initiatives embarked upon Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Law School; Former Director, Human Rights, by multinational corporations, social enterpris- Leitner Center for International Law and PVH Corp. es and Benefit Corporations and evaluate the Justice, Fordham Law School Jane Hwang, Director, Corporate Programs benefit that these initiatives can make Charting the development of corporate social and Training, Social Accountability to society. responsibility from a purely philanthropic International focus to a meaningful consideration of the Rachel F. Robbins, Director, Altas Mara Co- social and environmental impact of operations, Nvest Limited, FINCA Microfinance Holding products and services, this session will review Company LLC; previous Vice President Day 2 – Corporate Social and analyze the concept and definition of and General Counsel, International Finance Responsibility in the US corporate social responsibility today and will 9–9:10 am outline the law and theory that supports the Moderator: Marguerite Pettit, Strategist, Welcome and Overview of Day 2 current framework. Purpose (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) From local communities and NGOs to cus- 9:10–11 am tomers and the supply chain to shareholders in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility 10:30–11 am home markets, stakeholders play an important Coffee Break and Networking and increasing role in the advancement of cor- Panelists: John R. Cashin, previous General porate social responsibility. With effective dia- Counsel, General Insurance Division, Zurich 11–12:30 pm logue, these parties can work together to ensure Insurance Group Responsible Business: Challenges and that the business sector has a positive impact on Heidi DuBois, Senior Counsel, Office of the Prospects for Companies all those affected by the corporate activity. In Corporate Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc. Andy Hinton, Vice President, Global Ethics Panelists: Eric Grossman, Chief Legal Officer, particular, institutional investors, representing the long-term interests of large sways of the and Compliance, Google Inc. Morgan Stanley Gerald Manwah, Managing Director/Global James Leitner, President, Falcon Management population, increasingly look to corporate environmental, social and governance policies, Head of Compliance Risk and Control, Melanie Steiner, Chief Risk Officer, PVH Barclays Corp. performance and disclosure to assess invest- ment value. In this session, experts from the Moderator: Professor Sean Griffith, T.J. Ursula Wynhoven, General Counsel, United Maloney Chair in Business Law; Director, Nations Global Compact investment, business and NGO communities will discuss why these issues are important to Fordham Corporate Law Center their different constituents and will evaluate Exploring the overlap between ethics and corporate social responsibility, Professor Sean disclosure try to address some of these issues. International human rights law primarily gov- Griffith will introduce the session with a As we approach the first major deadline for erns state action in the promotion and protec- short discussion on the legal value of ethical company reporting, this session will discuss the tion of the human rights of citizens. However, commitments. Responding to the issues raised history, intention, development and require- as the power and influence of multinational by Professor Griffith, panelists will share their ments of the the SEC’s conflict minerals report- corporations has grown—in some cases industry perspective and experience on the im- ing provisions, as well as evaluate some of the rivaling that of countries—there are calls for portance of ethical policies and commitments issues and challenges that arise as companies are companies to be held to the same international in the promotion of CSR and the challenges compelled to report on non-financial matters standards to protect human rights. Providing they face developing these commitments in such as environmental, social and an introduction to the theory and practice of practice. governance principles. international human rights law, this session will (CLE Credits: 2 Professional Practice) (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) highlight how this area of law forms part of the basis of corporate social responsibility norms. 11–11:30 am 3:30–4 pm (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) Coffee Break and Networking Coffee Break and Networking 10:30–11 am 11:30–1 pm 4–5 pm Coffee Break and Networking Corruption and Corporate Social CSR Transparency and Disclosure 2: Responsibility Other Regions 11–12 pm Panelists: Joel Kirsch, Vice President Speakers: Professor Joey Lee, Adjunct UN Guiding Principles on Business and and Associate General Counsel, Siemens Professor and Asia Law and Justice Fellow, Human Rights: Introduction Corporation Leitner Center for International Law and Speaker: Deborah Enix-Ross, Chair, ABA M. Scott Peeler, Managing Director, Stroz Justice, Fordham Law School Center for Human Rights; Litigation Practice Friedberg Emily Smith Ewing, Executive Director, Group Manager, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Mark Stehr, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership Endorsed by the United Nations in 2011 and Moderator: Course; Adjunct Professor and PVH Corp. supported by civil society and the private sector Professor Carole Basri, Executive Director of Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, alike, the Guiding Principles on Business and the Corporate Compliance Institute, Fordham Leitner Center for International Law and Human Rights (GPs) set a global standard for Law School; Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law Justice, Fordham Law School corporations to prevent and remedy adverse School; President, Corporate Lawyering Group Building on the issues raised in the previous impacts of human rights resulting from busi- LLC discussion, this session will examine recent ness activity. This session will first provide an Highlighting developments in anti-bribery laws developments in legislation in other regions in-depth analysis of the history, development, in the US and around the world, this session around the world that require greater trans- meaning, reach and impact of the new GPs and will outline the main provisions of the FCPA parency and reporting from businesses. This will examine what these mean for both compa- and other relevant legislation, and put these session will look specifically at the Reporting nies and law firms. issues into a global CSR context. In particular, Requirements on Responsible Investment in (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) panelists will discuss the challenges that compa- Burma, the California Transparency in Supply nies face when they expand into new markets, Chains Act, and the recently proposed non-fi- 12–1:30 pm the issues that arise when relying on third nancial disclosure requirements in Europe. Lunch party intermediaries, and the action needed to (CLE Credits: 1 Professional Practice) address concerns that do arise. 1:30–3:30 pm (CLE Credits: 1.5 Professional Practice) UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights:Workshop Day 3 – Corporate Social 1–2:30 pm Speaker: Yousuf Aftab, Founder and Principal, Lunch Responsibility – International Expectations Enodo Rights Following on from the morning’s introduc- 2:30–3:30 pm 9–9:10 am tion to the GPs, and building on the topics CSR Transparency and Disclosure 1: Welcome and Overview of Day 3 discussed earlier in the week, this session will Conflict Minerals Reporting focus on the practical implications of the GPs Speakers: Zachary S. Brez, Partner, 9:10–10:30 am for CSR strategy. The session will start with Ropes & Gray International Human Rights Law and an overview of the indirect legal risks under Jon Daniels, Associate, Ropes & Gray Corporate Social Responsibility national and international law flowing from the GPs’ widespread endorsement. It will then Despite efforts to eradicate the negative impact Speaker: Professor Martin S. Flaherty, address practical challenges in implementing of the business sector, human rights abuses Leitner Family Professor of Law, Co-Founding an effective corporate human rights program, continue in almost every industry around the Director, Leitner Center for International Law including the drafting of policies, the conduct world. Recent developments in legislation that and Justice, Fordham Law School of due diligence, and the prioritization of re- require greater and sponse. The session will include a discussion Speakers of the essential, and proper, role of counsel in Yousuf Aftab an adjunct professor with New York Law School CSR strategy. Founder and Principal, Enodo Rights and Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School. Ms. Basri, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, is a graduate (CLE Credits: 2 Skills) Yousuf is the founder and principal of Eno- of Barnard College and NYU School of Law. Her do Rights, a New York-based CSR consulting work experience with the Federal Government 3:30–4 pm firm that blends legal expertise and stakehold- includes Assistant Counsel with the United States Coffee Break and Networking er engagement experience to design efficient Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee sustainability strategy. He advises companies and an attorney with the Federal Trade Commis- 4–5 pm across sectors on the legal implications of the sion. Other work experience includes in-house Next Steps for Participants and Closing Guiding Principles on Business and Human counsel with advertising agency NW Ayer Inc., Remarks Rights; implementing structured due diligence an associate with Baker & McKenzie, an associate and human rights impact assessments in line with Hall Dickler Lawler Kent and Friedman, in- Speakers: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Director, with the Guiding Principles; business and human house counsel with Maidenform Inc., a consul- Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership rights training programs; designing principled tant with the Perrier Group Inc, and a consultant Course; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, supply chain management strategy; and draw- to Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she helped to Corporate Social Responsibility Program, ing on the Guiding Principles for innovative create its Ethics and Compliance practice. During Leitner Center for International Law and stakeholder engagement. Before starting Enodo this time, she also served as General Counsel of Justice, Fordham Law School Rights, Yousuf specialized in private and public China On Line Inc. Emily Smith Ewing, Executive Director, international law at leading firms in New York Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership and Toronto, where he represented an array of Zachary S. Brez public- and private-sector clients and acted as Course; Adjunct Professor and PVH Corp. counsel to UN Global Compact and Canadian Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility, Business for Social Responsibility. He has also Zach Brez is a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, Leitner Center for International Law and examined complex human rights and constitu- where he is co-chair of the Securities and Futures Justice, Fordham Law School tional issues as a law clerk at the Supreme Court Enforcement practice. Zach is involved in a wide Reviewing the topics covered during the course, of Canada. Yousuf has published and presented variety of domestic and international enforce- the concluding session of the program will widely on the intersection of law and CSR and is ment activities before the DOJ, SEC, and CFTC. reflect on the main principles that participants the author of The Legal Dimension of Corporate Zach represents international and domestic should take back to their organizations to Social Responsibility (LexisNexis, forthcoming). public and private corporations on a variety of His publications and presentations are available develop and promote sustainable business regulatory matters, including advising firms on at enodorights.com. conflict minerals disclosures. Previously, he practices and effective CSR programming. The was a staff attorney in the New York office of the session will also look ahead to some of the is- Christopher Aidun SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Zach received sues that will challenge the CSR community in his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and the coming years and discuss what these might Managing Partner, Persistent Energy Partners LLC his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University mean for businesses and law firms today. Law Center. Chris has over thirty years of investing experi- ence in venture capital, private equity, structured John R. Cashin finance and mezzanine lending. Prior to creating Persistent Energy, Chris was the Managing Di- Previous General Counsel for the General rector of E+Co, a non-profit clean energy impact Insurance division of Zurich Insurance Group investor. At E+Co, Chris led the organization Until his retirement on April 1, 2014, John R. through the restructuring that resulted in the Cashin was General Counsel for the General creation of Persistent Energy Partners. Prior to Insurance division of Zurich Insurance Group, becoming the Managing Director of E+Co, Chris Zurich, Switzerland. With annual revenues of spent over ten years as a senior private equity $36 billion and over 40,000 employees, General partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Chris has Insurance is the largest business segment of the a B.A. from the University at Albany and a J.D. Zurich Group. From 2010 to 2013 John served from New York University School of Law. as the General Counsel and Head of Compliance and Government Affairs for Zurich Insurance Professor Carole Basri Group’s Life and General Insurance operations Executive Director of the Corporate Compli- in the Middle East and Africa and was, based ance Institute, Fordham Law School; Adjunct in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Prior to his Professor, Fordham Law School; President, Middle East assignment he was the Group’s Chief Corporate Lawyering Group LLC Compliance Officer. In that role, he was respon- sible for oversight and compliance direction for Carole Basri is an adjunct professor at both the Group’s operations in over 160 jurisdictions. Fordham University Law School and Peking He joined Zurich in January 2004 from the University Law School. She is currently the Insurance Regulatory Practice Group at the law Executive Director of the Fordham Corporate firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavin in New York Compliance Institute. From 1995 to 2011, she was City. Prior to his law firm practice, he served as an adjunct professor of Corporate Law with the Deputy Superintendent of the New York State University of Pennsylvania Law School and held Insurance Department where he was responsible The Grant Irey Lectureship. She also has been for the Property/Casualty Bureau. Prior to his Insurance Department experience, he spent twenty Australia and is a member of the New York Professor Martin S. Flaherty years in the reinsurance business with the major Bar Association. Leitner Family Professor of Law, Co-Founding reinsurance intermediaries in the United States. Director, Leitner Center for International Law Mr. Cashin is a frequent contributor to insurance Heidi DuBois and Justice, Fordham Law School industry publications and has authored a quarterly Senior Counsel in the Office of the Corporate Underwriting Insight column for Best’s Review. He Professor Flaherty is the Leitner Family Pro- Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc. has served as a member of the Board of Directors fessor of Law and Co-Founding Director of the of the United Nations Development Corporation Heidi DuBois is Senior Counsel in the Office of Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Op- the Corporate Secretary at PepsiCo, Inc., where at Fordham Law School. He is also a Visiting erating Corporation. He is a member of the bars she supports the Compensation Committee of the Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public of New York State and US District Courts for the Board of Directors and provides other corporate and International Affairs, and the New School in Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the governance support. Prior to joining PepsiCo, New York. Formerly chair of the New York City US Court for International Trade and the United Ms. DuBois served as Vice President and Assistant Bar Association’s International Human Rights States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of St. Fran- Secretary of Assurant, Inc., and was a Senior Asso- Committee, Professor Flaherty founded the Rule of cis College and received his MBA degree from the ciate at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. Ms. DuBois Law in Asia Program at the Leitner Center as well City University of New York. He received his JD coordinates PepsiCo’s Human Rights Operating as co-founded the Committee to Support Chinese from Fordham Law School and a LLM in Interna- Council and serves as the Vice President and Lawyers, and has led or participated in human tional Legal Studies from NYU Law School. Program Chair or the New York Chapter of the rights fact-finding trips in Northern Ireland, Tur- Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance key, Hong Kong, Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya, and Ro- Jon Daniels Professionals. Ms. DuBois is a graduate of Harvard mania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign College and Columbia Law School. Relations, and the author and editor of numerous Associate, Ropes & Gray LLP books, chapters, and scholarly articles, in the fields Jon Daniels is an associate in the Government Deborah Enix-Ross of constitutional law and history, foreign affairs, Enforcement practice at Ropes & Gray LLP. Jon and international human rights. Chair, ABA Center for Human Rights; has a wide range of experience in government and Litigation Practice Group Manager, Debevoise other regulatory investigations before the SEC, Professor Paolo Galizzi & Plimpton LLP CFTC, and DOJ. He also advises clients on regu- Ms Enix-Ross holds a law degree from the Uni- Director, Corporate Social Responsibility latory disclosure requirements, including conflict Leadership Course; Clinical Professor of Law; minerals reporting. Jon received his B.A. from versity of Miami School of Law (1981), a Diploma from the Parker School of Foreign and Compar- Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Harvard University and his J.D. from New York Program, Leitner Center for International Law University School of Law. ative Law of Columbia University (1989), and a Certificate from the London School of Economics and Justice, Fordham Law School Sarah Dolton-Zborowski (1979). The U.S. Departments of Commerce and Professor Galizzi is Clinical Professor of Law and State appointed her as one of the original eight U.S. Director of both the Corporate Social Responsibili- Adjunct Professor, Corporate Sustainability, members of the tri lateral NAFTA Advisory Com- ty Program and the Sustainable Development Legal Fordham Law School; Former Director, mittee on Private Commercial Disputes. She is the Initiative at the Leitner Center for International Human Rights, PVH Corp. Chair of the ABA Center for Human Rights, a Past Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. Professor Sarah has spent the last 14 years working across Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Sec- Galizzi is an expert on multinational corpora- the private sector, international organizations and tion Officers Conference, the SOC representative tions and international human rights and envi- in the field as a lawyer, consultant, and human to the ABA Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity, ronmental law, and has directed numerous legal rights advocate. She has worked in a variety of a member of the Bar Issues Commission and the research projects partnering with corporations and different roles including as the Director of Human immediate past ABA representative to the Interna- international organizations in the areas of human Rights at PVH, one of the world’s largest apparel tional Bar Association (IBA), a former Chair of the rights, the environment and corruption. He has companies, a sustainability consultant with BSR, Section of International Law, a Fellow of the Amer- also published extensively in the area of sustain- a Business and Human Rights Legal Advisor with ican Bar Foundation and a Vice President of the able development, and has worked with diverse the United Nations Global Compact Office, a con- World Justice Project. Prior to joining Debevoise public and private stakeholders on research and sultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a law- & Plimpton LLP in October 2002, Ms. Enix-Ross capacity building projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. yer in some of the world’s top law firms, Mallesons served, from January 1998 through September Professor Galizzi joined Fordham from Imperial Stephens Jaques and Jones Day. Sarah’s areas of 2002, as a Senior Legal Officer and Head of the College, University of London, and previously held expertise include international human rights law, External Relations and Information Section of the academic positions at Universities of Nottingham, international humanitarian law, international World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Verona, and Milan. criminal law and corporation sustainability more Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva, broadly. She has served as a Board Member for the Switzerland. Before joining WIPO, Ms. Enix-Ross Professor Sean Griffith Australian Disability Discrimination Legal Center was the Director of International Litigation for T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Law; Director, and as a Legal Officer for the United Nations, the Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery Fordham Corporate Law Center where she focused on the signing and ratification Services Group (DA&CR) of Price Waterhouse of the International Convention on the Rights of LLP, and, before that, served, for seven years, as Sean Griffith is the T.J. Maloney Chair in Business Persons with Disabilities. A native of Australia, the American representative to the International Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center at Sarah holds a B.IT and J.D. from the University of Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court Fordham Law School in New York City. He also Technology, Sydney, and an LL.M. from Colum- of Arbitration. serves as faculty director of the Fordham LLM in bia University where she graduated a James Kent Corporate Compliance and Fordham’s Corporate Scholar with the Parker School Certificate in Compliance Institute. Professor Griffith is an International Law. Sarah is admitted as a Solicitor expert in corporate and securities law and, in ad- to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, dition to Fordham, has given courses at Columbia Law School, the University of Connecticut School City, focusing on white-collar crime. From 1989 for social auditors and consultants. At SAI, Ms. of Law, New York University School of Law, to 1994, Mr. Hinton was a litigation associate at Hwang co-created Social Fingerprint®, as well and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine as Social Fingerprint Rapid Results™, programs Professor Griffith received his law degree magna & Moore, where he focused on commercial to measure and improve management systems, cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where litigation and white-collar criminal defense. Mr. worker engagement, and social performance. She he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and Hinton is a 1989 graduate of Fordham School of has co-authored implementation guides for the a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, UN and IFC, and served on working groups such received his undergraduate degree from Sarah and a 1982 graduate of Harvard University, where as the Global Reporting Initiative G4 and the Sus- Lawrence College. Prior to entering academia, he majored in Economics. Mr. Hinton lives in tainable Apparel Coalition Higg Index. Prior to Professor Griffith was an associate at the law firm Palo Alto, California with his wife, Joy, an accom- joining SAI, she worked in corporate marketing of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. plished securities lawyer, and their two children, and legal research, and previously in behavioral Sarah and Eric. sciences and medical research. She earned her Eric Grossman B.A. and M.B.A from Columbia University. Chief Legal Officer, Morgan Stanley Katie Hunt-Morr Joel Kirsch Eric F. Grossman is Morgan Stanley’s Chief Legal Senior Manager, Values and Impact, Etsy Officer and a member of the Firm’s Operating Katie Hunt-Morr manages the Values & Impact Vice President and Associate General Coun- and Management Committees. Prior to joining team at Etsy, charged with making Etsy better for sel, Siemens Corporation the Firm in January 2006 as Global Head of the world, and making the world more like Etsy. Joel Kirsch is Vice President and Associate Litigation, Mr. Grossman was a partner in the She works on improving the company’s ecological General Counsel, Compliance Legal, at Siemens Litigation Department at Davis Polk & Wardwell, footprint, finding innovative ways to increase Corporation. He previously served as Siemens where he had worked since 1994 and became a their community engagement, and ensuring Corporation’s Chief Compliance Officer and partner in 2001. In addition to his position as Etsy’s company values are a part of everything Head of Litigation. Prior to joining Siemens, Mr. Global Head of Litigation, Mr. Grossman was they do. She is the co-founder and director of the Kirsch was an associate at Patterson Belknap appointed General Counsel of Global Wealth Jiamini Scholarship Fund, a non-profit dedicated Webb and Tyler and a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Management in November 2008. In July 2010, to providing educational opportunities to under- Department of Justice, Criminal Division. Mr. Grossman joined Morgan Stanley’s Man- privileged children in Tanzania. Before coming agement Committee and shortly thereafter, in to Etsy, she managed Reuters Media in Australia Professor Joey Lee September 2010, Mr. Grossman’s responsibilities Pacific. She received a BS in Biology from Lewis Adjunct Professor and Asia Law and Justice expanded to include all of Morgan Stanley’s ad- & Clark College, and has worked as a biological Fellow, Leitner Center for International Law visory law and litigation functions when he was researcher for the Micronesian government, and and Justice, Fordham Law School appointed Global Head of Legal. Mr. Grossman as a zoological researcher in New York. She is became Morgan Stanley’s Chief Legal Officer an advisor to the Urban Green Counsel, and has Joey Lee is the Asia Law and Justice Fellow at the with responsibility for the Legal and Compli- served as the chair of the Pacific for Women@ Leitner Center for International Law and Justice ance Division in January 2012.Mr. Grossman Thomson Reuters, was a founding board member and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law graduated from Hamilton College in 1988 and in of the Thomson Reuters Council on CSR, as well School. At the Center, Professor Lee leads re- 1993 received his J.D., magna cum laude, Order as a founding board member of the Thomson search and advocacy efforts to support strength- of the Coif, from Fordham University School of Reuters Counsel on Diversity. She was also a ening of rule of law and human rights protections Law, where he was a member of the law review. founding member of the environmental advisory in Asia, with a focus on China and Myanmar. He Mr. Grossman clerked for the Honorable Richard counsel for Thomson Reuters worldwide. She has also co-teaches in the Corporate Social Respon- J. Cardamone, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second received the United Way Women in Philanthro- sibility clinic, directing projects on corporate Circuit, from 1993 to 1994. Mr. Grossman is the py Award, the DUMBO Dozen Award, and the accountability for human rights impacts, partic- President of the Board of Directors of Advocates Thomson Reuters Women to Watch, Community ularly in the information and communications for Children of New York. He serves on the Champion, and Emerging Women in Leadership technology sector. Previously, he worked on these Dean’s Planning Council at Fordham Law School Awards. and other issues at Human Rights in China as a and as a board member of the Fordham Law Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights Alumni Association. Mr. Grossman also serves Jane Hwang and later as Hong Kong Senior Program Manag- on the New York City Bar Task Force on New er. Prior to joining HRC, Professor Lee practiced Director, Corporate Programs and Training, Lawyers in a Changing Profession. business litigation at the Boston office of Edwards Social Accountability International Wildman LLP, with a focus on directors’ and Andy Hinton Jane Hwang is Director of Corporate Programs officers’ liability. and Training at Social Accountability Interna- Vice President, Global Ethics and Compli- tional (SAI), a global NGO whose mission is James Leitner ance, Google Inc. to advance human rights at work. SAI engages President, Falcon Management Corporation Andy Hinton is the Vice President of Global diverse stakeholders around evolving labor Ethics and Compliance at Google. In this role, issues, and drives practical implementation and James Leitner grew up in Germany and Turkey. Mr. Hinton leads the company’s efforts to identify measurable improvement. Ms. Hwang oversees He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Yale in and mitigate compliance risk and to nurture and SAI’s global capacity building programs and Economics with an emphasis on Russia and East- expand upon the company’s core value of “Don’t strategic initiatives, which include: corporate ern Europe. He also holds a Masters Degree from be evil.” Mr. Hinton joined Google in November advisory services for corporations such as Disney, Columbia University specializing in International 2006. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Hinton was the HP, Gap, and Tata; public-private partnerships Finance and Russian Studies and a JD from Ford- Chief Compliance Officer at two GE Capital with governments and multi-lateral agencies ham University Law School. Mr. Leitner serves financial services businesses. From 1994 to 2003, such as the World Bank IFC; technical assistance on the Dean’s Planning Council and the advisory Mr. Hinton was a federal prosecutor in New York for supplier factories and farms; and training board of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University Law School. Professor Gay McDougall felonies, including economic fraud, coercion and He is also a Fellow of Yale’s Pierson College, and Scholar-In-Residence, Leitner Center for narcotics trafficking. Mr. Peeler successfully tried a member of the Dean’s Council of the School of International Law and Justice, numerous state and federal jury trials, garnering International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Colum- Fordham Law School vast experience in directing large-scale govern- bia University. Mr. Leitner was a member of the ment investigations and litigation in the areas of Yale Investment Committee from 2004 through Professor McDougall is Distinguished Schol- bribery, official corruption, health care fraud and 2010. In 2009, he received the Columbia University ar-In-Residence at the Leitner Center for Inter- abuse, money laundering, anti-counterfeiting, tax Alumni Medal for his distinguished service on national Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. violations, commercial bribery, export violations, behalf of SIPA and during the 2010 Fordham Law Prior to coming to Fordham, she served as the first fraud and securities violations. Serving on both Diploma Ceremony he was honored with the Eu- United Nations Independent Expert on Minority the New York State Bar Association’s and Chief gene J. Keefe Award, which is given to the person Issues, as a member of the UN treaty body that Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Jonathan who has made the most important contribution oversees compliance with the International Con- Lippman’s Wrongful Conviction Task Force, Mr. to the Fordham Law community. In 2010, he also vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Peeler is a tireless advocate fighting to end wrong- received the Yale Medal which is the highest award Discrimination, and as Executive Director of the ful convictions in New York State. presented by the Association of Yale Alumni, international human rights NGO, Global Rights. She was one of five international members of the conferred solely to honor outstanding individual Marguerite Pettit service to the University. South African Independent Electoral Commission that administered the first democratic, non-racial Strategist, Purpose elections in that country. For 14 years prior to that David Levine Marguerite Pettit is a strategist with Purpose, a appointment, she had served as Director of the leading progressive consultancy that helps organi- Co-founder & CEO, American Sustainable Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers Commit- zations put participation and purpose at the core of Business Council tee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she worked what they do. In the aftermath of the deadly build- David is the co-founder and CEO of the American to secure the release of thousands of political ing fires in Bangladesh Marguerite worked with Sustainable Business Council(ASBC). ASBC is a prisoners. international unions to call on apparel companies growing coalition of business organizations and to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety. She companies committed to advancing a new vision, M. Scott Peeler has also mobilized thousands of people to support framework and policies that support a vibrant, just Managing Director, Stroz Friedberg communities in Australia adversely affected by and sustainable economy. Today, the organizations mining. In her role as a CSR consultant she has that have joined in this partnership represent over M. Scott Peeler is a Managing Director and leads supported the Estee Lauder Companies’ global 200,000 businesses and social enterprises and more the Stroz Friedberg Global Compliance Navigation CSR team, convened stakeholder engagement than 350,000 entrepreneurs, owners, executives, Practice. Mr. Peeler combines immense compli- sessions for Cisco and wrote and project-man- investors and business professionals. These diverse ance expertise with innovative technology to help aged GRI reports for clients in the banking and business organizations cover the gamut of local the firm’s clients understand and navigate complex finance and education sectors. She has a masters in and state chambers of commerce, microenterprise, regulatory challenges, like the Foreign Corrupt Environmental Law from the University of Sydney social enterprise, green and sustainable business Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act. Mr. and her research on carbon finance and human groups, independent and small business groups, Peeler oversees the strategy and development of rights was published in the Asia Pacific Journal of women business leaders, economic develop- the firm’s compliance services. Mr. Peeler joined Environmental Law. ment organizations and investor and business Stroz Friedberg from Chadbourne & Parke LLP where he served as a partner in the Commercial incubators. Rachel F. Robbins Litigation Department and a member of its White Collar Defense, Regulatory Investigations and Director, Altas Mara Co-Nvest Limited, Gerald Manwah Litigation group. During his tenure, Mr. Peeler led FINCA Microfinance Holding Company Managing Director, Global Head of multiple internal investigations and compliance LLC; previous Vice President and General Compliance Frameworks, Policy and Training, projects for some of the largest and most profitable Counsel, International Finance Corporation Barclays companies in the world. He successfully directed Rachel F. Robbins, served as Vice President and Gerald Manwah is currently a Managing Director multiple Fortune 50, 100 and 500 companies in the General Counsel of the International Finance Cor- within Barclays compliance. He is the Global Head tailored development and implementation of an- poration, the private sector arm of the World Bank of Compliance Frameworks, Policy and Training. ti-corruption compliance programs which were de- Group, and was as a member of its Management Prior to joining Barclays, Gerald was the Global signed to exceed industry and legal standards. Mr. Group from 2008-2012. Ms. Robbins joined the Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Credit Peeler is considered the author of ‘gold-standard’ IFC with three decades of experience in legal and Suisse and managed the end-to-end compliance global anti-corruption policies and is highly sought financial services, including extensive experience program related to Anti-bribery and Corruption, after for his keen insight into risk mitigation in corporate governance and in managing global Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions. strategies, especially as they relate to law enforce- teams through periods of change. Between 2006 Previously he held various legal and compliance ment and conducting business overseas. Widely and 2008, Ms. Robbins was Executive Vice Presi- positions at American Express, ABN Ambro and considered a global expert on anti-corruption, he dent, General Counsel, and Secretary of the New Citigroup. Gerald is admitted to practice law in speaks to thousands of people around the globe York Stock Exchange and NYSE Euronext, joining New York State and completed a Masters degree at on an annual basis. Mr. Peeler also designed and the NYSE just before the historic transatlantic Harvard Law School. created Navigator, a unique suite of desktop and merger with Euronext. From 2003 to 2004 she was mobile applications which change the way both General Counsel of Citigroup International and employees and compliance professionals interact served as a consultant to Citigroup in 2005 and with their compliance policies and programs. Mr. 2006. Ms. Robbins was a founding partner of an Peeler served as an Assistant District Attorney for international management consulting company New York County under former District Attorney focused on the legal industry from 2001-2003. Robert Morgenthau where he prosecuted major She spent most of her career at JP Morgan & Co. Incorporated (“JP Morgan”), which she joined in working with companies across a range of indus- and non-financial reporting advisory and assur- 1981. During her 20 years at JP Morgan, she was tries on their CSR initiatives. Prior to joining the ance. Before that, she spent 15 years in law and part of the management team building JP Morgan’s Leitner Center, Emily was the Executive Director policy, first practicing commercial and environ- securities and investment banking business and of Hands On Hong Kong, a small NGO that’s work mental law, and then working as a Senior Policy built its global legal and compliance department. included advising companies on CSR programs. Advisor at the international level She became General Counsel of JP Morgan Secu- Emily also worked at Norton Rose Fulbright as a rities Inc. in 1986, Deputy General Counsel and corporate lawyer in both the London and Hong Ursula Wynhoven Head of the Legal Department of JP Morgan in Kong offices, specializing in multi-jurisdictional General Counsel, United Nations Global 1992 and General Counsel and Corporate Secre- M&A transactions and public company regulatory Compact tary of JP Morgan from 1996 to 2001. She started work, in addition to being a member of the pro her legal career as a banking associate at Milbank, bono and charity committees. Emily has been Ursula is General Counsel and Chief, Governance Tweed, and Hadley & McCloy in 1976. Ms. Rob- admitted to practice law in New York and England and Social Sustainability for the United Nations bins is currently a director of Atlas Mara Co-Nvest and Wales. Global Compact. She is a member of the office’s Ltd, a UK- listed company focused on investing in Senior Management Team. In addition to manag- financial services in Africa, FINCA MIcrofinance Mark Stehr ing legal affairs and governance matters, Ursula Holdings Company, LLC, a global microfinance founded and leads the office’s work programmes Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP institution in 23 countries, and a member of the on the human rights and labour principles, in- Board of Trustees of the New York University Mark has served multinational clients for over 28 cluding on women’s empowerment, business and School of Law (“NYU”). She is also a member of years across the life sciences, media, technology children, indigenous peoples’ rights and human the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Robbins and consumer product sectors in connection with trafficking. She began working with the office in holds a JD from NYU, where she was Order of the matters relating to third party risk management, 2002. Previous positions held within the office Coif and Managing Editor of the Annual Survey internal investigations and contract compliance in include Head, Legal & Policy, Special Assistant to of American Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Europe, Middle East, Asia/Pacific, and The Amer- the Executive Director, Human Rights Adviser, and French literature from Wellesley College. icas. He has lead numerous client assignments Programme Manager, Learning Forum. A lawyer involving financial, legal and regulatory risks by background, Ursula worked in private practice Sumeet Salwan inside his client’s organization and throughout the and government human rights agencies in both client’s external business relationships with third Australia and the United States before joining the Senior Vice President Human Resources, parties including: distributors, licensees, strategic UN. Ursula has also worked for the Secretariat of Unilever North America alliances, healthcare institutions, manufacturers, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Sumeet leads the human resources function for vendors etc. He has significant experience in mat- Development on the Guidelines for Multinational Unilever in North America. Sumeet joined Uni- ters relating to FCPA, whistleblower allegations, Enterprises, the OECD’s corporate responsibility lever as a summer intern in 1992 and worked in financial fraud, product diversion, and other types initiative. Among other academic qualifications, the India office for 10 years, leading human rights of enterprise-wide risks. He has also provided Ursula has two Masters of Law degrees – from Co- for the foods business. In 2003, Sumeet moved guidance at all stages of business transactions, from lumbia Law School, where she was also a Human to Rotterdam as the HR director for Leadership consulting on language in contract negotiations to Rights Fellow, and from Monash University Law supply and OE in the Global Foods division. This strategy and advice during settlement discussions School in Australia. She is an Adjunct Professor role had additional responsibility of being the with third party business partners. Mark’s insights in Business and Human Rights at Fordham Law Executive Assistant for the Chief HR Officer in Jan have been featured in a number of recent life School in New York. She is admitted to practice 2005. In 2006, Sumeet moved to London as the VP sciences-focused publications, including a point of law in jurisdictions in Australia, United States HR, Leadership and Organisation development view on addressing risk and vulnerabilities related (California), and England and Wales. for Asia, Africa, CEE. During this period Sumeet to strategic alliances with distributors and vendors, partnered the business category teams based in the illegal price schemes, and inducements to purchase region, moving in the same role to Singapore in product. He also contributed to a Deloitte publi- 2009. In 2010, Sumeet became Vice President for cation on navigating within increasingly stringent HR South East Asia & Australasia. In 2012, Sumeet regulatory environments, particularly referencing moved to New York as SVP HR, North America. third-party involvements. Mark has also served as Sumeet graduated in Economics from the Uni- an expert witness on various matters and holds a versity of Delhi and has an MBA in HR from the BS from SUNY Binghamton. Xaviers Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) in India. Melanie Steiner Emily Smith Ewing Chief Risk Officer, PVH Corp. Executive Director, Corporate Social Respon- Melanie is Senior Vice President and Chief Risk sibility Leadership Course; Adjunct Professor Officer. Based at the company’s New York City and PVH Corp. Fellow in Corporate Social headquarters, Melanie is responsible for managing Responsibility, Leitner Center for Internation- risk efficiently and effectively within PVH. This al Law and Justice, Fordham Law School position includes overall responsibility for internal Emily Smith Ewing is PVH Corp. Fellow in Cor- audit, enterprise risk management, corporate porate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Adjunct social responsibility, and human rights. Prior to Professor at the Leitner Center for International joining PVH, Melanie worked at Ernst & Young as Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. Emily Market Leader, Climate Change and Sustainabil- co-directs Fordham’s CSR Program and co-teaches ity Services. There she provided her clients with the CSR and International Law and Development assistance across a range of services including risk in Africa clinics. Emily has extensive experience assessments, internal audits, strategy development,