Interview with Michael Hopkins on Corporate Social Responsibility

He is part-time Professor of Corporate Responsibility and Business Performance (CRBP) at Middlesex University Business School and Visiting Professor at Brunel and Geneva Universities. Michael holds First and Masters degrees in Mathematics and Statistics and a Doctoral Degree in Labor Economics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Senior Economist for 11 years with the ILO in Geneva, he helped to develop the ILO's research program on social development. He continues to serve as adviser to World Bank, UNDP, UNRISD and ILO on CSR. He has published widely on social development issues, based upon both theoretical and empirical research in all the main continents, and has published nine books and around 120 articles.

His most recent book is Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development: Is Business the Solution (Earthscan, London, 2006; Stylus, New York, 2007).His previous book on CSR was The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Responsibility Matters also published by Earthscan in the UK and Stylus Publishing, USA in 2003.

Michael has given keynote speeches regularly at large corporate and international gatherings, inter alia, Oxford University, (Feb., 2001), US Bureau of Labor, Washington DC, (April, 2002) Conference on Social Effects of Globalization, ILO, Geneva,(Feb., 2003) Second National Oil Conference, London, (Dec., 2003) First Middle East Conference on CSR, Dubai (April, 2004), Doha Development Forum, Qatar (April, 2005 and April 2006) University of Geneva (Nov 2006) London School of Economics (Feb 2007) Columbia University, (Feb 2007) Georgetown University (Feb 2007) George Washington University(Feb 2007).

He can also be reached at mjdhopkins@mhcinternational.com

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