Thursday 27 June 2013

DAY 1

DAY 2

Full day

09:30-16:30

WORKING SESSION 1
Responsible business conduct and the financial sector

Half day

09:30-13:00

WORKING SESSION 2
Stakeholder engagement and due diligence in the extractive sector

Conference room CC4

Organised with Netherlands NCP and ORSE Finance Club of France

Conference room CC15

Organised with Shift

 
OBJECTIVES

 
This day-long working session will be broken up in two parts: 1) Defining Due Diligence in the Financial Sector and 2) Role and Procedures of National Contact Points. The discussion will start with the overview of the current practices of the financial sector, during which results of the mapping exercise on environmental and social due diligence practices of the financial sector will be presented. The second part of the morning be an in-depth discussion on the responsibility and leverage options of financial institutions in their influence on client activities. Existing international financial corporate responsibility instruments will be discussed to provide context. The afternoon session will focus on roles and procedures of the National Contact Points  under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enteprises, with a discussion centered around reference specific instances in the financial sector and the added value of mediation.

 
Simon Smits, Vice-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands

Carlos Márcio Bicalho Cozendey, Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Brazil

 
Jose Link, General Manager, Global Link Solutions

Daniel Cossio, Member, National Executive Committee, National Mining Union

MODERATOR

LEAD RESPONDENT

Hubert des Longchamps, Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Total

PANELLISTS

 
Jon Samuel, Head of Social Performance and Acting Head of Government Relations, AngloAmerican

PANELLISTS

Jérôme Courcier, CSR Officer, Credit Agricole SA

Giuseppe van der Helm, Executive Director, VBDO, and President of the Board of Directors, European Sustainable Investment Forum

Maarten van Renssen, Senior Environmental and Social Specialist, FMO

Cyrille de Montgolfier, Senior Vice President, European and Public Affairs, AXA Group

Mercedes Sotoca, Head of Environmental Social Risk, ING

Olaf Brugman, Head of Sustainability Policy and Reporting, Rabobank Group

André Abadie, Managing Director and Head of  Global Environmental & Social Risk Management, J.P. Morgan

Serena Lillywhite, Mining Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Australia

Mattias Ahren, President, Saami Council

DISCUSSANTS

Christine Kaufmann, Thun Group of Bank and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, Centre of Competence for Human Rights, University of Zurich

Simon Clow, Sustainability Officer, Aegon

Yuki Yasui, Acting Head, UNEP Finance Initative

Lunch

Lene Wendland, Adviser on Business and Human Rights, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Hans Petter Graver, National Contact Point, Norway

Danish Chopra,  National Contact Point, United Kingdom

Anna Pot, Senior Sustainability Specialist, APG Asset Management

Joris Oldenziel, Program Manager, SOMO and Co-ordinator, OECD Watch

Pierre Habbard, Senior Policy Advisor, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD

Moving forward: lessons learned

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean for International Business and Finance at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context and the Center for Emerging Markets Enterprises

Herman Mulder, National Contact Point, Netherlands

Caroline Rees, President and CEO, Shift

Closing address

 
Richard Howitt, European Parliament Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility, European Union

14:30-16:00, Thursday 27 June 2013 - conference room CC15

Co-operative efforts to promote internet freedom

 
CHAIR

John Kampfner, European Advisor, Global Network Initiative

Marie Baumgarts, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Tele2 and Member, Global e-Sustainability Initiative and Climate Change

Christine Diamente, Head, Sustainability, Corporate Messaging & Brand, Alcatel-Lucent and Member, Industry Dialogue

National Contact Points and the ICT sector – why it matters

Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair of the Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct

Chinmayi Arun, Assistant Professor, National Law University, India

Eric King, Head of Research, Privacy International