The Keynote Speakers
Robert Edward FREEMAN
Kanji TANIMOTO
Geert DEMUIJNCK
Olga BOBROVA-SOKOLOVA
Adriana GRIGORESCU
Robert Edward FREEMAN
University Professor and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, is particularly known for his work on stakeholder theory (1984) and on business ethics. Holds a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Duke University a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in 1978. He is also adjunct professor of stakeholder management at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, visiting professor at Nyenrode Business School (Netherlands), adjunct professor of management at Monash University (Melbourne). He has held honorary appointments as the Welling Professor at George Washington University and the Gourlay Professorship at University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to the Darden School, Freeman taught at University of Minnesota and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Author or editor of over 30 volumes and 150 articles in the areas of stakeholder management, business strategy and business ethics he is best known for his award winning book: Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Cambridge, 2010), originally published in 1984, in which he traced the origins of the stakeholder idea.
He was recently awarded honorary doctorates (DHC) in economics from Comillas University in Madrid, the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, and an honorary doctorates in management from Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands and Sherbrooke University in Canada for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. Throughout his career, he has received a number of teaching awards from the Wharton School, the Carlson School, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the State of Virginia and the Academy of Management. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the World Resources Institute and Aspen Institute, the Humboldt University Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, the Academy of Management and the Society for Business Ethics. He has worked with many executives and companies around the world, and his writing on stakeholder theory has been translated into many languages.
Kanji TANIMOTO
Kanji Tanimoto is Professor of Business and Society at the School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan. He is Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi University. He recently was Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Cologne Business School, Durham University, National Taipei University, and Parahyangan Catholic University. Prior to joining Waseda, he was Professor at the Graduate School of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University. He received his doctorate in business administration from Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University.
He is Founder and President of an academy: Japan Forum of Business and Society, which is the first academic society in this field in Japan to spark the theoretical and practical discussion. He is Associate Editor of Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, Editorial Advisory Board Member of Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, and Journal of Business Administration. He also is a program committee member of some international conferences on Sustainability and Responsibility.
He has been consulting and providing advices to leading Japanese companies on CSR management over the last 20 years. He also has engaged and led some government committees on business & society and social business. He is a member of board of trustees Hitachi Global Foundation.
His research interests include the relationship between business and society, corporate social responsibility, social business and social innovation. He has published numerous books and papers on these topics. His personal website: https://tanimoto-office.jp
Geert DEMUIJNCK
Professor of Business Ethics at EDHEC Business School. He joined the school in 2008. He teaches courses in business ethics, economic ethics and philosophy. His research and publications focus on business ethics, economic ethics and political philosophy. He studied philosophy, economics, and politics and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Leuven. At the AC in Lille in 2014, he was elected for the EBEN Executive Committee. Vice-président - Responsable du Pôle Recherche du Cercle d’Ethique des Affaires (Paris) - Editorial board member of Business & professional ethics journal (Chicago), Ethical Perspectives (Leuven), Ethique Economique – Ethics and Economics (Versailles). Consultancy work for Auchan, Trois Suisses, Orange, external advisory board of KBC Bank.
Olga BOBROVA
Olga Bobrova, PhD in Management, is teaching students at St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Russia. Bobrova currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Economy and Management of Enterprises and Industrial Complexes. In 2007 she presented her PhD thesis titled Forming a System of Socially Responsible Management of Enterprise. She also has wide experience working since 2004 in NGO sector in Russia. Now Olga holds a position of Deputy Director of Russian Business Ethics Network. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship in Russia, stakeholder management and Japanese management. Her recent works include:
1. Business Essentials: textbook and practicum for academic bachelors (published in Russian),
2. Stakeholder Management of Japanese Companies: the View from Russia
3. CSR of Japanese Companies after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster of 2011
Adriana GRIGORESCU
Professor of management at NUPSPA since 2003 and Correspondent Member Academy of Romanian Scientists Department IX of Economic, Legal and Sociological Sciences, is Ph.D. Supervisor at Valahia University from Targoviste Doctoral School, Member of National Council for Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU), Evaluator of The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS). With a multidisciplinary education (Bachelor in Chemistry-Physics and Commerce-Marketing, Master of Modern Governance and European Integration and Ph.D. in Accounting she is teaching courses of Project Management and Marketing for Public Sector. Researcher in comparative analysis and diagnosis, forecasting and integrated systemic studies, knowledge transfer from business to public, education and labor management is holding the position of General Director of Global Economy and Governance Interdisciplinary Platform. She is President of Holistic Research Academic Association (HoRA), Editor in Chief of HOLISTICA Journal of Business and Public Administration and starting with 2020 President of EBEN-Romania. .