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Keynote Speakers
lord Michael hastings – global head of Citizenship and Diversity, KpMg
Lord Hastings is KPMG’s Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity. He was previously
the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. Michael is a non-executive Director
of British Telecom (on the Board for Responsible and Sustainable Business) and
a Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation. He represents KPMG International on
the Global Corporate Citizenship International Committee of the World Economic Forum and the World Business
Council on Sustainable Development. In 2009 he became a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global
Council on Diversity and Talent. Michael is Chairman of Millennium Promise UK and sits on the BiTC International
Leadership and the Chatham House 2010 enquiry into the Future Role of the UK in Foreign Affairs.
In January 2003, Michael was awarded an Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British
Empire (“CBE”) in recognition of his services to crime reduction, including 15 years as Chairman of Crime
Concern. He was formerly an adviser to Lord John Stevens QPM (Queen’s Police Medal), the former London
Metropolitan Police Commissioner and served on the Commission for Racial Equality.
In 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent peerage to the House of Lords by Her Majesty The
Queen and now Michael serves as a member of the Communications Select Committee. Again in 2005, he received
the UNICEF award for his ‘outstanding contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa’s children.
Juliet Schor – professor of sociology at boston College, board member & co-founder, Center for a new american Dream
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College,
she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the
Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. Her most recent book is Plenitude: The
New Economics of True Wealth (forthcoming, 2010 by The Penguin Press). She is also
author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (Basic Books,
1992) and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (Basic Books, 1998). She has written
or edited 13 books and published more than 75 articles and book chapters. Schor has served as a consultant to
the United Nations, at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, and to the United Nations Development
Program. She was Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2006 she received the Leontief Prize from the Global
Development and Economics Institute at Tufts University.
Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to lifestyles and the economy.
She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream (newdream.org), a
national sustainability organization. She is a former Trustee of Wesleyan University, an occasional faculty member
at Schumacher College, and a former fellow of the Brookings Institution. Schor has lectured widely throughout
the United States, Europe and Japan to a variety of civic, business, labor and academic groups. She appears frequently
on national and international media, and profiles on her and her work have appeared in scores of magazines
and newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and People magazine.
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