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Professor Jem Bendell is an advisor, educator, researcher and writer with fifteen years at the forefront of innovations in business responses to sustainable development.
With a PhD in international policy, over 100 publications (including four books and four United Nations reports), Dr Bendell is an award-winning international authority on business-society relations, lecturing in fifteen countries.
Since graduating from the University of Cambridge, Bendell has sought collaboration with people who seek to contribute to, and benefit from, the transformation of markets to promote global well-being. He is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith Business School (Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise) and Distinguished Visiting Professor at IE Business School.
Director of Lifeworth Consulting, coordinating a team of four strategists and educators on social and organisational change, he has worked with UN agencies, NGOs, universities, firms and foundations in over a dozen countries, having lived and worked in eight. He has helped create innovative initiatives, including: the Marine Stewardship Council, to endorse sustainable fisheries, The Financial Innovation Lab, to promote sustainable finance, founded and runs CSR Geneva, a network of over 700 professionals in Geneva, and the Authentic Luxury Network, for professionals promoting responsible luxury goods and services. His “Deeper Luxury” report on the responsibility of luxury brands, appeared in over 50 newspapers and magazines worldwide in the month of its release and continues to appear in fashion and business press today.
He now specialises in:
* responsible business development,
* sustainable currency systems,
* alliances for sustainable development, and
* transformative philanthropy.
As an academic, Professor Bendell has lectured at business and design schools around the world, worked with the Dean of a business school in Australia to make it a leading sustainability school in the Asia Pacific, and been an academic convenor for three international conferences on this subject (in the UK, Switzerland and Australia). Bendell’s fourth book, The Corporate Responsibility Movement, was published in 2009. His latest book is Evolving Partnerships: working with business for greater social change, also from Greenleaf. In 2012 The World Economic Forum recognised him as a Young Global Leader.
Selected quotes on Dr Bendell:
“Jem was the one who helped us to look at business in a new way.”
Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact (the largest corporate responsibility initiative in the world).
“I first saw Jem speak at our 2006 AGM, giving a keynote on the need for our member banks to collaborate to further mainstream sustainable finance – a call to action that was well taken. He is both visionary and practical, and has a versatile set of skills to apply to developing and delivering work programmes.”
Paul Clements-Hunt, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative.
Thomas Ruddy said
Jem,
Just finished your “dossier”. Esp. liked the chapter on “New Regulations and Initiatives on NGO Acctability”. Have known may of the same people as you, incl’g Edwards, Zadek, Borell, Lisa, Malcolm McIntosh.
Skype is good. Which of your various past email addresses turned out to be reliable for you?
Good luck at WWF-UK. I see their int’l counterparts in Brussels a lot, http://www.wsis.ethz.ch/seri.htm
Thomas
tim said
just sent you a longish email explaining where I disappeared to, which of course bounced and I can’t guess your email -t
Jem said
try jb at jembendell.com
jem said
hi tim! put my 2 initials in front of @jembendell.com
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jone said
very interesting….
Elizabeth said
Very excited about the UN event… wonderful news! Elizabeth
Wanted: US Leadership in Sustainability Reporting | The Murninghan Post said
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Andrew said
Is West Papua less deserving than Iraq to protection from slaughter and torture? Whom did you see shooting hostages, who started shooting as the hostages were approaching the special forces troops? I assume you do recall the military operation in Geselema. And what was the response to Kelly’s dreadful demand for the UN to return to West Papua or for foreign media.
If you are willing to know how one of these disasters started, this declassified US State department summary gives a good explanation http://wpik.org/Src/1961_US_record.html
jembendell said
Thanks Andrew. I was not in West Papua. I was told Daniel Start, and other reports, that two Indonesian hostages, Navy and Tessy, were killed by the OPM with machetes. Daniel said there was no shooting at the time when they ran away when Navy and Tessy were being killed. That is also in his book The Open Cage. However, separate to that incident there are other reports about an attack on a village by people pretending to be the red cross, by arriving in a white helicopter, and it was unclear who those people were (mercenaries or military), or who they were acting for. Is that the attack you are mentioning? Clearly the West Papuans are as deserving of rights and justice as Iraqis or anyone. If you are bringing attention to the current situation, as well as working for justice on what happened in the past, then I think thats important work. Id welcome links to the latest information as its not an issue I have followed in recent years.
Andrew said
Thanks for reply, it is over a decade since those reports and I could well have some wires cross. I’d have to admit some sensitivity, these people have shown so much more restraint than the Irish, Palestinians, than just about anyone you could name.
My area of research has the colonisation process 1935-1963 which is what you’ll find mostly documented at my information kit. These days there are several reasonably good sites, just google ‘west papua’.
hari laxman said
“Ideal Globalization –The Solution for Sustainable Developments”
(Worldwide Mails: 130000-130100)
15/4/10
To
The President/The Secretary General/Members,
UNO, IPCC, UNFCCC, UNDP, UNEP, WMO.
&
TO ALL WHOM SO EVER CONCERN.
Sub: Consideration for The Agenda “Exploring further the goal of Globalization” to the next General Assembly Meeting.
I kindly request, the following, to be mentioned in the agenda of next General Assembly Meeting, just for the purpose of exploring further the goal of Globalization and to start healthy debates about various options to find the solution of climate change and bio diversity loss.
THE AGENDA.
Let UN very clearly define the Globalization, both in its General and Ideal form, keeping our Individual, National and Common interest of planet earth.
While doing so,
a) Let UN clarify the present definition of the Globalization being applied and list out the matters/fields to be covered under this definition.
b) Whether UN Prefers to accept and continue with the present idea of limited Globalization only or in future going to expand the Globalization as per its ideal definition to be defined as per the above agenda, by the UN.
c) Let UN justify the reasons of going, either for limited or ideal form of Globalization.
I believe, the idea of Globalization, so far being applied by UN is undefined. Anything needs to be defined first, to understand and implement in its most effective ways.
Thanks with Regards.
Hari Laxman
(Shriji Aptt, LM Road, Navagoan, Dahisar-W, Mumbai-68)
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“COMPLEXITY But UN-DESIGNED”
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Hari Laxman
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carmilla5 said
Hi Jem absolute loved yr TED talk I am so glad more & more people are talking about what money is. Thank you do much. Am sending yr talk off all over social media as I want people to ‘get’ the knowledge of what false enslavement we’ve been living under with debt as money. Tks for all the links to new forms of money. I dream of a world called Utopia where we are all supported by each other & we support the world instead of pillaging it for more growth. Jem, lovely to have found a lkindred spirit. Cheers Lisa x
ZIKUN LIN said
I love your speech in TEDX Transmedia, yes’ just money’ ,healty and happy is important in individual life….
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Bendell and Kleanthous: Deeper Luxury -Quality and Style when the World Matters « Kristy Hsu said
[...] Dr. Jem Bendell, an award-winning authority on business-society relations, along with Anthony Kleanthous, Senior Policy Advisor on Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, together performed a study for the World Wildlife Fund United Kingdom (WWF-UK) called Deeper Luxury: Quality and Style when the World Matters, which was widely acknowledged to have inspired the luxury industry to increase efforts on social, environmental and ethical performance. The comprehensive study provides a vision and rational for a more sustainable luxury industry through a compelling business plan for a new type of luxury with deeper values presented in smarter methods of sourcing, manufacture, marketing, and distribution. The report presents a new luxury consumer, a new luxury marketplace (featuring industry challenges), the environmental and social performance of the ten largest, publicaly-traded luxury brand owning companies, and the important role of celebrity endorsements influencing consumers and therefore companies. Ranking of environmental, social, and governance performance and reputation of luxury corporate groups (L'Oreal, Heremes, LVMH, Coach, Tiffany & Co., Swatch, PPR, Richemont, Bulgari, and Tods) [...]