Simon Zadek Author

Dr Simon Zadek is Chief Executive of the international non-profit organisation, AccountAbility. He serves or has served on numerous Boards and Advisory Councils, including that of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, the State of the World's Commission for Globalisation, the ILO's World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, the UN Commission for Social Development Expert Group on CSR, and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University, and was previously Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, the Development Director of the New Economics Foundation, and founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative. In 2003 he was named one the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders for Tomorrow". He works directly with numerous global corporations, focusing mainly on the integration of corporate responsibility into core business strategy, most recently including Anglo American, Barlow World, Gap, Nike and Novo Nordisk. He is also currently convening and cochairing several initiatives, including a multisector alliance working on the transition of the textiles and garment industry following the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement; and co-chairing the British Standards Institute's Sustainability Standard Technical Committee.