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Panel Speakers Jordi Juanós – Founder, Nueva Filantropía Jordi Juanós collaborates since 1989 in initiatives related to the conservation of the environment, environmental education, institutional strengthening of non-profits, promoting sustainable development, networking and social communication on both national and international platforms, specially focused on Latin-America and Mediterranean riverine countries. Since 1989 he has worked with the Lliga pera la Defensa del Patrimoni Natural, Fundación Global Nature, WWF International – Mediterranean Programme, Pangea Consultores S.L., Fundación Paraguaya and AVINA Foundation. He has been involved with AVINA for the past 10 years. Within AVINA he was deeply involved in the pursuit of opportunities in Europe for the Latin-American AVINA partners. He is also currently involved with them through the promotion of businesses in emerging economies and developing countries. More recently Jordi founded two non-profit social enterprises. The first, SocialWOM, aims to help build a consistent and effective communication strategy for SMEs and non-profit organizations that have a social focus. Through the second, Nueva Filantropía, Jordi is bringing BiDNetwork to Spain. All of these initiatives have been possible due to his accumulated experience as a Social Broker, acting as an informational hub between individuals and relevant organizations in the public, private and non-profits sectors. Oliver Karius – Partner, LGT Throughout his career, Oliver has focused on sustainable development, science, business and finance. He has strong connections to the for-profit and non-profit sustainable investment market in the US, EU, Africa and India. He is a partner at LGT Venture Philanthropy (www.lgt.com), one of Europe’s leading venture philanthropy investment organizations. He was Head of Research for Forma Futura, an independent asset management company focusing on contributing to a sustainable quality of life (www.formafutura.com). Before setting-up VPG, Oliver founded VantagePoint Global (www.vantagep.org) and served as Manager Research Services and Senior Sustainability Analyst at SAM Research for the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). 74 IESE Business School

Panel Speakers Shainoor Khoja – Director of Corporate Affairs, Roshan Shainoor Khoja, director of corporate affairs at Roshan, has established an award winning. Corporate Social Responsibility Department and a multidisciplinary health clinic in Afghanistan. Roshan’s CSR encompasses activities in commerce, health, social welfare and education. Initiatives include designing and deploying a telemedicine solution to address healthcare shortcomings, developing women’s social enterprise projects and introducing Internet technology for e-learning for women and children. Shainoor also operates as a Business Consultant for international companies looking to establish operations in the Middle East and to companies in the area of CSR. Shainoor studied in England and Canada and holds a Bachelor’s of Physiotherapy, a Master’s in Health Management and a Postgraduate Certificate from Cambridge University. SILVIA M. WYCKOFF (King) – Director of Organizational Controls and Performance and Assistant to Employee Relations, Southern Company Silvia is currently Director of Organizational Controls and Performance and Assistant To the VP Employee Relations at Southern Company (USA). Her responsibilities include Enterprise Information Governance, SCS Records Management, and internal consulting in the area of organizational effectiveness, CSR and other, frontier corporate issues. In addition, Silvia is responsible for integrated business control processes and activities for SCS. Recently, she also served as Manager, Strategic Finance and Enterprise Risk where her responsibilities included leading the risk identification and alignment process across Southern Company’s operating companies, business and corporate functions. Before joining Southern Company, Silvia was Director of Global Strategy Deployment and Operations at Arthur Andersen and has previously served in several analytical, consulting and corporate planning capacities in the oil & gas and chemical industries. Silvia is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow (1987). She received her B.A. (1987) in Economics from Pitzer College, the Claremont Colleges, and her MBA (1990) from the Tepper School of Management at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, Silvia received the Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Management from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. She is currently an affiliated researcher at the Center for Ethics Business and Economics Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon and is also serving on the Board of Trustees of the Insurance and Risk Management Program at J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. 2011 Doing Good and Doing Well 75

<strong>Panel</strong> <strong>Speakers</strong><br />

Jordi Juanós – Founder, Nueva Filantropía<br />

Jordi Juanós collaborates since 1989 in initiatives related to the conservation of the<br />

environment, environmental education, institutional strengthening of non-profits,<br />

promoting sustainable development, networking and social communication on both<br />

national and international platforms, specially focused on Latin-America and Mediterranean riverine countries.<br />

Since 1989 he has worked with the Lliga pera la Defensa del Patrimoni Natural, Fundación Global Nature,<br />

WWF International – Mediterranean Programme, Pangea Consultores S.L., Fundación Paraguaya and<br />

AVINA Foundation. He has been involved with AVINA for the past 10 years. Within AVINA he was deeply involved<br />

in the pursuit of opportunities in Europe for the Latin-American AVINA partners. He is also currently<br />

involved with them through the promotion of businesses in emerging economies and developing countries.<br />

More recently Jordi founded two non-profit social enterprises. The first, SocialWOM, aims to help build a<br />

consistent and effective communication strategy for SMEs and non-profit organizations that have a social<br />

focus. Through the second, Nueva Filantropía, Jordi is bringing BiDNetwork to Spain.<br />

All of these initiatives have been possible due to his accumulated experience as a Social Broker, acting as<br />

an informational hub between individuals and relevant organizations in the public, private and non-profits<br />

sectors.<br />

Oliver Karius – Partner, LGT<br />

Throughout his career, Oliver has focused on sustainable development, science,<br />

business and finance. He has strong connections to the for-profit and non-profit<br />

sustainable investment market in the US, EU, Africa and India. He is a partner at<br />

LGT Venture Philanthropy (www.lgt.com), one of Europe’s leading venture philanthropy investment organizations.<br />

He was Head of Research for Forma Futura, an independent asset management company focusing<br />

on contributing to a sustainable quality of life (www.formafutura.com). Before setting-up VPG, Oliver founded<br />

VantagePoint Global (www.vantagep.org) and served as Manager Research Services and Senior Sustainability<br />

Analyst at SAM Research for the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI).<br />

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