Paul Hohnen Sustainability Strategies
Year in Pictures 2008
See also Year in Pictures 2006 and Year in Pictures 2007
October: At UN Association of Australia Peace Media Awards with Justice Philip Cummins (Victorian Supreme Court) and Mrs Cummins, and Executive Director of UNAA (Victoria), Patricia Collett, Melbourne, 25 October.
October: Address to ACCSR CSR practitioners’ event, hosted by Toyota Australia, Melbourne, 21 October. With Jon Ward (Manager, Environmental Policy, Toyota Australia) and Leeora Black (Managing Director, ACCSR).
October: CSR Master Class, Kuala Lumpur, 13-14 October
September: With (l/r) Robert Strauss (EU Commission), Valdemaras Sarapinas (Chancellor, Lithuanian Government), and Lyra Jakulevičienė (Head, UNDP Lithuania), CSR Conference, Vilnius 9-10 September.
September: Facilitating International CSR Conference on Eastern and Central Europe, Vilnius.
‘Your extensive competence on sustainability and CSR and extraordinary
ability to lead substantive discussions and master the audience were
invaluable in making this international CSR conference the successful
event it was.’
Lyra Jakulevičienė, Head, UNDP Office Lithuania
September: With (l/r) Pascale Bonzom (UNDP Europe and CIS), Ruta Skyriene (Executive Director, Board Chair, Lithuanian Economic Development Agency, Indre Kleinaite (UNDP Lithuania), Inesis Kiskis (Under-Secretary, Ministry of Environment), Gediminas Rainys (Under-Secretary, Ministry of Economy) and Lyra Jakulevičienė (Head, UNDP Office, Lithuania), Vilnius.
September: With Cornis van der Lugt (UNEP), Bill Blackburn (fellow GRI Expert) and Dante Pesce (ED, Vincular) at ISO Social Responsibility Working Group session, Santiago de Chile.
September: Standing ovation of ISO experts on the decision to move the Working Draft ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standard to the CD stage, Santiago de Chile, 5 September.
August: With Peter Oswald (Board Chair, respACT Austria and CEO Europe, Mondi) and his team, Alpbach, 25 August.
August: Facilitating the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate 2nd Working Conference, Stockholm 21-22 August, with (l/r) Swedish Minister for Trade and CSR, Dr Ewa Björling, Swedish CSR Ambassador Elisabeth Dahlin, and Gavin Power (Head, CEO Water Mandate).
August: Working on sustainable lifestyle, Ratzeburg, Germany
August: With Klaas Timmermans, thanking former German national rowing coach Hans-Peter Schmidt, Ratzeburg.
June: Tällberg Forum, Sweden
June: Zero emissions working group, Tällberg
June: Legal working group, hosted by former UN Under Secretary General and Legal Counsel Hans Corell, Tällberg
June: Pondering intergenerational issues with daughter Marieke and first grandchild, Layla.
June: June: With (l/r) Ferdinand Schipfer (Senior Director, OeKB), Dr. Manfred Schekulin (Director, Export and Investment Policy, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour & Chair OECD Investment Committee), and Johann Kinast (Director, Export Guarantees, Ministry of Finance): presenting report to stakeholders on application of OECD MNE Guidelines, Vienna.
June: With Johann Kinast, Austrian Finance Ministry, Vienna.
May: Note-taking as Rapporteur-General of Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, May 9
May: With GRI co-founder Allen White and Alyson Slater, May 9
May: Presenting paper on Earth Charter, GRI and Global Compact to High-Level Panel, Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, 8 May.
(l/r) Awraham Soetendorp, Herman Mulder, Dutch Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, and Constance Kane, Vice Chair, GRI Stakeholder Council. (Photo: Ed Lonnee)
May: With Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Global Conference, May 9
May: With Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative, May 9
April: Enjoying Dutch wind energy resources with Steve Sawyer, Secretary-General Global Wind Energy Council.
March: Facilitating opening session of annual Chatham House CSR conference, London, 13 March. With (l/r) Christine Farnish (Barclays), William Kingsmill (DFID), Rainer Geiger (OECD), Adam Greene (USCIB), and Paul Polman (Nestlé).
March: With fellow Henderson Global Investors SRI Advisory Team members, Ram Gidoomal and Adrian Henriques, London, 12 March.
March: With Colette Lewiner, Global Sector Leader for Energy, Utilities and Chemicals, and Ruud Lubbers, former Dutch Prime Minister, at Cap Gemini Energy trends conference, Utrecht, 4 March.
‘... thanks to you and the Capgemini people for an excellent, well-organised conference ... you did an outstanding job of managing the proceedings and stimulating discussion.’
Trevor Morgan (Senior Economist, IEA, Paris)
March: Chairing discussion, Cap Gemini Energy Trends conference.
‘inspirational leadership’
Cap Gemini
March: With Prof. Frans Berkhout (Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University, Amsterdam)
March: With Ramon Fiestas (Secretary-General, Spanish Wind Power Association) and Walt Patterson, at Cap Gemini Energy Trends conference, which Paul chaired, Utrecht, 4 March.
‘Paul Hohnen has worked regularly with us since 2005 to deliver public and in-house workshops, seminars, key note conference speeches and as Master of Ceremonies for our annual conference. He is our most popular international guest because he is so closely connected to the centre of international developments in sustainability and corporate responsibility and always brings fresh insights with immediate relevance to business leaders and managers. His penetrating analysis and engaging delivery ensure outstanding participant feedback and return invitations from every engagement.’
Dr Leeora D Black, Managing Director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility
February: At ACCSR/Westpac ‘Raising the Bar’ Conference, with Patrick Colmer, Australian National Contact Point, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; Serena Lillywhite, Manager Sustainable Business, Brotherhood of St Laurence; Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes; David Kinley, Chair in Human Rights Law, University of Sydney; Tim Hall, Director of Public Affairs, GSL Australia; and ACCSR Managing Director Leeora Black.
‘Facilitation is a fine art and you made it look easy.’
Nathan Fabian, Head of ESG Research, Regnan, Australia
January: With SOMO colleagues (l/r) Tim Steinweg, Esther de Haan, Irene Schipper and Bart Slob at International Roundtable on Consumer Electronics, which Paul chaired.
January: Brussels: With Emmanuel Umpula, Action Contre l’Impunité pour les Droits Humains, DR Congo.
See also Year in Pictures 2006 and Year in Pictures 2007
