Asean CSR

Tima Bansal is the Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University (Ontario). She directs Ivey's research centre for Building Sustainable Value, and founded and directs the Network for Business Sustainability (nbs.net). Both these organizations aim to strengthen the ties between research and practice. In 2008, she was awarded the Aspen’s Institute title of Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership, which was coined as the “Oscars of the Business School world” by the Financial Times. In 2011, she was appointed to the inaugural Clean50 with 49 other Canadians for the significant contributions they have made to advance the cause of sustainability and clean capitalism. In 2013, she was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability for her research contributions to the field.

Tima Bansal teaches at all levels of the business program, including undergraduates, MBAs, PhDs, and executives.  She has taught courses in strategy, business sustainability, and international business. Prior to Professor Bansal’s academic career, she worked as an economist for the Government of Canada and Province of Alberta, and in management consulting at Nicholls Applied Management.

Executive Director of the Indonesian Mining Association (IMA), Syahrir AB is known for his effectiveness in responding to the government policy in the Mining sector.  

Leading IMA since 2011, Syahrir was a bureaucrat before entering the world of mining. Alumni of civil engineering at Gadjah Mada University, he started a career in the Directorate General of Highways. After completing his master's studies in economics at University College London, Syahrir then worked at Deputy Regional and Bappenas for nine years. Enticed by the regional autonomy trend that was strong in mid-late 90s, Syahrir returned home to Bengkulu and served as deputy chairman on the Planning Board, before then leading the institution.  

Syahrir continued his career in the Ministry of Home Affairs before joining an Australian gold mining company operating in Halmahera, PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals (PT NHM), after which he became a board member of IMA and head of the Forestry Committee. In 2011, IMA appointed him Executive Director.

Yanti Triwadiantini is the Chair of the ASEAN CSR Network.  She is also the Executive Director of Indonesia Business Links (IBL), a not for profit organisation promoting and advocating good corporate citizenship in Indonesia, and a Vice-President for Learnign with the Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN).

Since 2000, Yanti has been instrumental in designing training programmes on CSR, and fostering multi-sector partnership for various development initiatives in the areas of business ethics, anti-corruption, SMEs development, youth empowerment, water and sanitation, and responsible wastes management.

She is a judge member of the Asian Forum CSR awards, an Accredited Partnership Broker for Development of United Kingdom, and a Certified Sustainability Report Specialist (GRI).  Yanti was a Commissioner Environmental Resources Management of Indonesia for 10 years and is now a Commissioner of an Action Coach subsiadiary in Indonesia. 

Daniel Dumas has been working in the energy and extractive sectors for over 25 years, holding senior positions with major international organisations.  Well-known in the industry, he has worked extensively with governments of over 30 countries, implement projects and building capacity for the sustainable development of their extractive sector.

As Head of the Economic & Legal Section (ELS) of the Commonwealth Secretariat for seven years, Daniel led the development and implementation of the Secretariat’s natural resources programme.  The international Monetary Fund (IMF) recruited him in 2012 for his broad expertise of petroleum and mining policy and governance to enhance the Fund’s capacity in these sectors.

Puvan Selvanathan is Head of Food & Agriculture at the UN Global Compact (New York) and an Independent Expert member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (Geneva).

He currently advises the Asian Peace-Building & Rule of Law Programme at Singapore Management University, and the Earth Security Initiative (UK) on global resource risks; and is on the Board of Solidaridad North America, a global NGO focused on fair markets and small-farmer equity.

An Architect by profession, Puvan holds an MBA and DBA in Corporate Sustainability. He has designed townships, innovated ICT for Development Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Local Governments, and wrote Mozambique's E-Government Strategy. He led the Malaysian chapter of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and has advised public and private sector on ethics, governance and the green economy.

Puvan was formerly Group Chief Sustainability Officer at Sime Darby, a Malaysian conglomerate and the world's largest producer of sustainable palm oil.

Shervin Majlessi is the Regional Advisor on Anti-Corruption at UNODC’s Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand, since August 2011. Before taking up his position in Bangkok, he managed UNDP’s Accountability and Transparency Project in Kabul, Afghanistan, on secondment. Within the UN system, he has served at New York Office of the UNODC and at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, focusing on good governance/corruption issues. Prior to joining the UN, he was a Deputy Counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Committee) and has also worked for the Department of Institutional Integrity of the World Bank and in private legal practice.

Shervin holds a PhD and a Master of Laws in International Economic Law from McGill University (Canada), a Master of Laws in International Finance from Havard Law School (USA), and a Bachelor of Law and Master of Public International Law from University of Tehran (Iran).

Huguette Labelle was the Chair of the Board of Transparency International till October 17, 2014.  She is also a member of the following bodies: Board of Directors of the United Nations Global Compact; External Advisors  to the Implementation of the World Bank Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy; Asian Development Bank Advisory Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development; the Executive Board of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, the Board of the Global Centre for Pluralism, member of the Advisory Council of the Order of Ontario and Vice Chair of the Senior Advisory Board of the International Anti-Corruption Academy.

In these capacities she provides advisory services to national and international institutions.

Huguette has also served for 19 years as Deputy Minister and Senior management positions in various Canadian Government departments, among them as Secretary of State, Transport Canada, in the Public Service Commission and in the Canadian International Development Agency.

In partnership with Edwin Soeryadjaya, Sandiaga Uno co-founded the investment firm Saratoga Investama Sedaya (SIS) in 1998. His business grows and even wins shares in other prominent companies, including one of the largest coal mining company in Indonesia - Adaro Energy, and the plantation company Provident Agro.

Sandiaga is also the Deputy Chairman and a controlling shareholder of Interra Resources. Within Interra Resources, he serves as a member of the Audit Committee, the Nominating Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Sandiaga once chaired the Association of Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs (HIPMI) and is currently a member of the National Economic Committee (KEN).

He is also active in campaigning for a better Indonesia through “Indonesia Setara”, a movement that encourages innovation, entrepreneurship and work ethics.

He graduated from Wichita State University (USA).