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 Dr Geoffrey Williams is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of OWW Consulting in Malaysia and Singapore.
He has designed and directed numerous research projects for the UK Government (DTI), European Commission (DG-Research), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Standards Agency (CEN), among others. He has also worked with private companies and charities including PA Consulting Group, leading UK law firm Allen & Overy, and the Wellcome Trust UK. He was an economic advisor to Her Majesty’s Opposition in the United Kingdom and in Malaysia he is the Deputy Chairman of the EU Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) CSR Committee.
His recent CSR consultancy work has assisted major GLCs in the construction sector, the automotive industry and the retail and leisure industries on CSR management and reporting. He has also worked with companies in the palm oil sector and the forestry industry on sustainability management.
Geoffrey has held academic positions at London Business School, Pembroke College University of Oxford and elsewhere. He has published extensively in leading academic journals worldwide. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2004.
His work has been published in leading academic journals and has had direct impact in the business world. He has received coverage in the media including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal,
Bloomberg, CNBC, the Edge (Malaysia), the Edge Personal Money Magazine, Responsible Investor, Malaysian Business, Management (Malaysia Institute of Management Magazine), the Malaysian Accountant (MICPA), the Weekend Mail, Channel News Asia and the Sun newspaper in the UK.
His speaking events include the American Economic Association Meeting 2004 (San Diego), chair of a special session on culture and economics; the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) CSR Conference 2006 in KL; the MIA 2006 National Accountants' Conference in KL in a special session on CSR; Malaysia Investor Relations Conference 2007; the International Institute for Research (IIR Middle East) CSR Summit June 2007 in Dubai.
He was chair of two sessions at the Sustainable Responsible Investment Conference in Singapore in October 2007 and of a special session on CSR at the Arab Thought Foundation fikr6 Conference in Bahrain in December 2007. He will hold a Master Class on CSR Reporting, organised by Marcus Evans in Kuala Lumpur in February 2008. Further information can be found at his listing at the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) http://ssrn.com/author=634270 where he is ranked in the top 5% of Social Science authors in the World.
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