Base of the Pyramid Protocol

Dr. Beebe’s primary area of research has been on intensive, team-based qualitative research, Rapid Assessment Process (RAP). RAP uses triangulation and iterative data analysis and additional data collection to quickly develop a preliminary understanding of a situation from the insider's perspective. Other major research interest and hobby is the use of computers for enhancing teaching, especially of qualitative research methodology and the application of qualitative research to understanding issues related to computers and technology. He is especially interested in technology and leadership issues such as (a) understanding current trends in the development of technology, (b) examining the impact of technology on the workplace with focus on the use of technology to facilitate the creation of "learning organizations," (c) issues of e-governance including virtual leadership and virtual teams, (d) the use of technology to address problems resulting from the information explosion, (e) exploring the relationship of technology to society, and (f) defining ethical issues such as the "digital divide" and "bogus empowerment." James is the Project Director for the U.S. State Department funded Exchange Partnership project designed to strengthen the ethics focus of the Ph.D. program in Public Affairs at the University of Pretoria and the global focus of the Ph.D. program at Gonzaga University.

James Beebe earned an MA in Anthropology and one in Food Research and his PhD in International Development Education from Stanford University.

Roland Bunch has worked in Latin America for 37 years on rural development programs for the poorest of Latin America's farm families. During that time, he has pioneered technologies and methodologies such as the A-frame for soil conservation work, green manure/cover crops, and participatory technology development, all of which have spread around the world over the last 20 to 30 years.

Roland wrote the book on extension methodology called "Two Ears of Corn, A Guide to People-Centered Agricultural Improvement," which has now been published in 10 languages and had multiple printings in four of them.

Presently, Roland is a member of the United Nations Task Force on Hunger, which was set up to plan the effort to halve the number of hungry people in the world in the next eleven years.

Nila Chatterjee
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nila Chatterjee has a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University and has done postdoctoral work in anthropological demography at the Carolina Population Center. She has taught at Bowdoin College (Maine), Queens College (NYC) and is currently adjunct faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include state planning interventions in postcolonial India in the context of refugee rehabilitation, the international fertility control regime and popular resistance to globalization.

Duncan Duke obtained a B.S. in biochemistry and resource management at Monterrey Tech, where he also completed his MBA. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina.

Duncan lived for 10 years in the Gulf of California region of Mexico, where he worked for Monterrey Tech and was involved with several NGOs and governmental organizations in addressing regional issues relating to the natural environment, education and economic development. His research interests include the roles of businesses in helping address sustainability issues and how innovation and managerial cognition interact with these issues.

David Ellerman
Adjunct Faculty, University of California at Riverside
Former Advisor to Chief Economist, The World Bank

David P. Ellerman is now returning to academia as a visiting scholar at University of California/Riverside having just retired from 10 years at the World Bank where he was the Economic Advisor to the Chief Economist (first Joseph Stiglitz and then Nicholas Stern). He worked on transitional economies, labor issues, knowledge management, and strategies of development.

For two years prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Dr. Ellerman was the founder and President of EOS/Ljubljana d.o.o. in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which provided consulting for the valuation, privatization, and restructuring of companies in Eastern Europe with substantial ownership by managers and workers.

In his prior academic work, Dr. Ellerman taught over a twenty year period in five disciplines: Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, and Accounting. He has taught at Tufts University, Boston College School of Management, University of Massachusetts (Boston and Amherst), and Boston University.

David P. Ellerman works in economics, legal theory, philosophy, and mathematics. He was educated at M.I.T., and at Boston University where he has two Masters Degrees, one in Philosophy and one in Economics, and a doctorate in Mathematics. Dr. Ellerman has published over fifty articles in scholarly journals in economics, mathematics, philosophy, and law. He has just completed a book manuscript on development philosophy and has previously published four books, including:

Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance. Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman. Forthcoming University of Michigan Press.

Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics. Rowman & Littlefield Inc. 1995.

Dr. Gordon A. Enk is the Principal of Partners for Strategic Change and the President of the Research and Decision Center. His experience includes: Creating the Center for Economic and Environmental Studies at the Institute

on Man and Science (Rensselaerville, NY); Serving as the Director of New Product Development and New Ventures at International Paper Co.; Leading the Strategic Services Division as a Vice President of H. A. Simons, Ltd. (Vancouver, BC); Serving as the Vice President of Strategy and New Venture Development at Industra, Inc. (Seattle, WA). He has also led major efforts focused on developing an understanding of how to develop a participatory process of strategic change. He has served on the Advisory Board for the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan and as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise of the University of North Carolina. He has been an Executive-in-Residence while teaching at the University of Michigan and taught courses on Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina. He holds a BA in Economics and Ecology from Ripon College, a MF in Forestry Economics from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Economics from Yale University.

In Kenya 1991, Martin co-founded ApproTEC and developed a model for economic development that has lifted thousands of people in East Africa from poverty - forever. ApproTEC is a nonprofit social enterprise that develops and promotes low cost capital equipment that is purchased by poor entrepreneurs in Africa who use it to start highly profitable businesses. To date over 35,000 new micro-enterprises have been started in East Africa using ApproTEC equipment and 800 more are being started each month. Together the revenue from these new businesses is equal to over 0.5% of Kenya’s GDP, and 0.2% of Tanzania’s GDP.

Martin’s work with ApproTEC has been recognized internationally. Notable awards and accolades include CNN International featuring ApproTEC as a model for poverty solutions as part of the series “Global Challenges”, April 2004 and being the Schwab Foundation “Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2003” Award.

In 2001 Martin returned to the US where he is raising major funds for ApproTEC’s expansion in Africa and beyond. Prior to founding ApproTEC, Martin was a Fulbright Scholar in Kenya in 1985-86, where he studied the connection between technology and development. He later joined ActionAid-Kenya, a British non-profit, where he established a large rural water program and co-established and ran the Appropriate Technology Unit. Martin received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 1979, an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1980 and a PhD from Stanford in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1985.

Mr. Flis is President of Heartland Consulting, Inc. Heartland assists enterprises in internal business improvement through the effective development and implementation of management systems and develops external engagement processes to build corporate reputation as a business asset. His extensive experience working with government and non-government institutions gives him the ability to understand the different perspectives of an issue. His management leadership gives him a keen appreciation of the challenges faced by enterprises and how to incorporate different perspectives in business plans.

He currently is coordinating the African Economic Development Initiative. Its objective is to develop and pilot new approaches to multi-organization investment strategies that prudently manage investment social risk, are respectful of African aspirations and needs, and are socially sustainable. He also works with the Colorado Springs business community to develop synergy opportunities for improved communications and effectiveness. Bill has over thirty years of diverse executive management background with Exxon Mobil Corporation.

A graduate of Lafayette College, B.S. Chemical Engineering, and Lehigh University, M.S. Chemical Engineering, he also received his MBA from Lehigh University, including course work at the University of Chicago. He served in the US Army as a Signal Corps lieutenant.

Dee Gamble
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dorothy Gamble is Clinical Associate Professor University of North Carolina School of Social Work at Chapel Hill. She has been on the faculty since 1978 where she currently teaches two courses in community social work practice: Citizen Participation and Volunteer Involvement, and Sustainable Development. She has also led summer school abroad courses to Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and South Africa. Within the University she had been working for the past five years with an interdisciplinary network to provide guidance for ethically grounded community-based education. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise of the Kenan Flagler Business School, and a Center Associate of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace & Conflict Resolution. Her community service activities include numerous consultations with grassroots community groups and service on a number of public and non-profit boards. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Community Practice.

Gamble, D.N., & Hoff, M.D. (2005). Sustainable community development. In M.. Weil, (Ed.) The Handbook of community practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Castelloe, P. & Gamble, D.N. (2005). Participatory methods in community practice: Popular education and participatory rural appraisal. In M. Weil, (Ed.), The handbook of community practice, pp. 261-275. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Katherine Gibson is Professor of Human Geography in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. Trained as an economic geographer with a strong grounding in political economy, she engages in poststructuralist critiques and reformulations of economic theory, including theories of capitalist development, industrial restructuring, regional development, globalization, the enterprise, and household labour. Under the pen-name J.K. Gibson-Graham she is co-author with Julie Graham of The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell, 1996). Her current research focuses upon theorizing diverse economies and action-oriented alternative community economic development projects in the Asia Pacific region. She has field experience working in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines and is currently running a project in collaboration with NGOs and local governments in Indonesia and the Philippines on building community economies as an alternative regional development strategy. J.K. Gibson-Graham has recently completed a book entitled Reluctant Subjects: Ethics and Emotions for a Post-capitalist Politics (forthcoming 2006), which focuses on building community economies in the face of globalization. The book draws upon their ongoing action research and examples from around the world of communities that are constructing their own economic institutions, enlarging the commons, and (re)creating themselves as subjects who can desire, construct and inhabit a communal economy.

Michael Gordon
Associate Dean for Information Technology, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan

Michael D. Gordon is a Professor of Business Information Technology and Associate Dean for Information Technology at the Michigan Business School. His research interests are in the areas of effective retrieval and use of information, the application of technology and social conventions to support learning and teaching, and the relationship between information technology and social enterprise. He has published extensively on information retrieval, especially retrieval using adaptive methods, and has been one of the developers of the emerging field of literature-based discovery. Currently, he is studying how to support a group's ability to contribute, structure, and access a common knowledge base in a ways that support deeper and fuller use of its contents. In his role as Associate Dean of Information Technology, he is supporting and studying educational experiments conducted by the faculty aimed at improving learning and teaching. He is also exploring the relationship between information technology and social enterprise business in areas including: poverty, health, education, and the environment.

Julie Graham
Professor of Economic Geography
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Julie Graham is professor of economic geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Under the pen name J.K. Gibson-Graham, she co-authored with Katherine Gibson The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell 1996), which challenges the usual vision of capitalism as the dominant or only viable form of economy. Since the publication of that book she has been engaged in research, activism and teaching related to diverse development pathways and community economies, including the economy of generosity that is fueled by gifts of labor, goods and money; the non-capitalist market economy made up of worker collectives and self-employed individuals; and the social economy comprised of non-profits and alternative capitalist businesses. J.K. Gibson-Graham has recently completed a book entitled Reluctant Subjects: Ethics and Emotions for a Post-capitalist Politics (forthcoming 2006), which focuses on building community economies in the face of globalization. The book draws upon their ongoing action research and examples from around the world of communities that are constructing their own economic institutions, enlarging the commons, and (re)creating themselves as subjects who can desire, construct and inhabit a communal economy.

Stephen Gudeman is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has undertaken field research in Latin America (Panama, Colombia, and Guatemala, as well as brief explorations elsewhere). Gudeman focuses on economy, especially the relation between our formal economics and local or folk models. He tries to understand and interpret everyday practices and ideas, which usually escape formal attention, and has been developing a cultural economics, as well as a cross-cultural or anthropological economics. His books have focused on several themes. In one, he explored the transition from subsistence to cash-cropping in a small Panamanian village. To explain this transition he drew on theories from classical economics and institutionalism. He next turned to the local metaphors and models that people develop to map and explain their economic worlds. Later, drawing on fieldwork in the uplands of Colombia, he showed how peasant farmers build a household economy and a house image of economy that is local yet draws on 16^th century images of economy from Europe. This work was followed by a description of the relation between community and market as complementary components of economy. In this book he addressed, what he terms, the “base” of economy, which is the collection of material goods, services and symbols that mediate relations between people and provide the infrastructure for social development and individual achievement. Currently he is exploring the connection between local and universal models of economy as they relate to mutuality (community), trade (market), development and choice.

Gutierrez has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the Texas A&M University, which he obtained in 1994, as well as a Master in Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a B. A. in Economics from ITESM Campus Monterrey.

Professor Gutierrez is the director of the OneMBA Program at the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership of ITESM in Monterrey-Mexico, and he holds the Chair for Opportunities of Mexican Businesses in International Markets of Limited Acquisitive Power.

He has researched topics relating to environmental strategy, marketing, finance, economics and international business. He teaches at the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership of ITESM in Monterrey-Mexico for the MBA and Ph.D. in Administration programs.

He has vast experience in the academic and investigation fields, and is a member of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Southern Economic Association, and Western Economic Association and of Gamma Sigma Delta, The Honor Society of Agriculture. He has published technical and specialized articles in international magazines, and has participated in conferences and courses in different academic and enterprise forums, both national and international. Additionally, he has experience in investigation and consultancy for governmental organisms like CONACYT; SECOFI; Canada Embassy; Department of Agriculture of the United States; several Mexican state governments; Mexican private companies such as Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma Brewery; HEB; Soriana and CEMEX among others. In the ITESM he has been director of the Center of Studies Mexico-United States of America-Canada and professor of the Department of Economy.

Allen Hammond is Vice President for Innovation and Special Projects at the World Resources Institute, a non‑profit, non‑partisan policy research institute located in Washington, D.C. His responsibilities include institute‑wide leadership in Internet strategy and digital technologies and development of new initiatives. He also directs WRI’s Digital Dividends project and consults on ICT-for- development with foundations, development agencies, and a number of major corporations. His book Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century, focused on long-term sustainability issues, was published in May, 1998, by Island Press.

Dr. Hammond holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University in engineering and applied mathematics. Prior to joining WRI, he helped to edit the international journal Science and went on to found and edit several national publications, including Science 80‑86 (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Issues in Science and Technology (published by the National Academy of Science), and the Information Please Environmental Almanac (published by Houghton‑Mifflin). In addition, he broadcast a daily radio program for 5 years (syndicated nationally by CBS) and has written or edited 10 books.

Dr. Hammond has published extensively in the scientific, policy research, and business literature, including recent articles in Foreign Affairs (“Digitally Empowered Development,” March, 2001) and the Harvard Business Review (“Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably,” September, 2002); has lectured widely; and has served as a consultant to the White House science office, to several U.S. federal agencies, to the United Nations, and to several private foundations. Among other pursuits, he is a skier and small boat sailor.

Stuart Hart
Professor of Management, Johnson School of Management
Cornell University

Stuart Hart is the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management. Before joining Cornell in 2003, he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory. Previously, he taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan Business school and was the founding director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP), a joint initiative between Michigan’s Business School and School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Professor Hart’s research interests center on strategy innovation and change. He is particularly interested in the implications of environmentalism and sustainable development for corporate and competitive strategy. He has published over 50 papers and authored or edited five books.

He has consulted, or served as management educator for a number of organizations, including Arthur D. Little, Abbott Laboratories, BASF, Battelle, Baxter, BP Amoco, Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Conoco, Dow Chemical, Deutsche Bank, Dofasco, DuPont, Environmental Defense, Ford Motor Company, 3M, Gemini Consulting, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Nature Conservancy, Petrobras, Philip Morris, Proctor & Gamble, Shell, Steelcase, Monsanto, US-Asia Environmental Partnership, US Environmental Protection Agency, Weyerhaeuser, and the World Resources Institute.

Stu earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester (General Science), Master’s degree from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Environmental Management), and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Planning and Strategy).

Dr Saradha Ramaswamy Iyer obtained her LLB degree from the University of Malaya in 1977 and her LLM from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1979. Her doctoral thesis was on the implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in Malaysia. She was a pioneering student in the area of environmental law and remains the first female to obtain her PHD in that area from Malaysia’s premier law faculty.

She has taught law at both her alma mater and private tertiary institutions in Malaysia . She has wide exposure to the multilateral system having participated actively in several multilateral negotiations. She is currently Legal/Research Consultant to the Third World Network, an international network of groups and individuals involved in efforts to bring about greater articulation of the needs and rights of peoples in the Third World. She advises the Network on strategies for implementation of WSSD outcomes in particular on governance, civil society participation, legal and institutional issues. She researches, writes and speaks at national and international conferences on sustainable development issues.

Saradha is married to Ambassador S. Thanarajasingam. They have two daughters and have served in various diplomatic capacities in Nigeria, India, the Malaysian Mission to the UN in New York and most recently in Brazil.

Jim Johnson
Professor of Management, Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jim Johnson is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of management and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center.

His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, inter ethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, urban poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues. With support from the Russell Sage Foundation, he is researching the economic impact of Sept. 11 on U.S. metropolitan communities.

Dr. Johnson's research focuses on the causes and consequences of growing inequality in American society, particularly as it affects socially and economically disadvantaged youth; entrepreneurial approaches to poverty alleviation, job creation, and community development; interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies; and business demography and workforce diversity issues. Fast Company profiled Dr. Johnson and his work in “Hopes and Dreams.”

He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. His latest book is "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles".

He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.

Scott E. Johnson is Vice President – Global Environmental and Safety Actions, working in the Office of the Chairman of SC Johnson. In this role, he provides global leadership to facilitate the development and implementation of environmental and safety policies, strategies and actions which build upon the Corporation’s eco-efficiency efforts of the 1990’s and commitment to responsible environmental management. Scott has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with SC Johnson. Previous assignments include Managing Director of Corporate New Products & Technologies, Director of Sales & Marketing in North America Professional, Director for Global Business Development in Worldwide Innochem and Category Manager in Air Care/Floor Care in North America Consumer Products Marketing.

A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Johnson earned both a BBA degree and MBA degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Scott maintains delegate status to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. In addition he is a member of the International Leadership Council of the Nature Conservancy, as well as the Business & Biodiversity Council of Conservation International.

Anjali Kelkar
Lead Researcher, Urban Opportunity Project
Institute of Design, Chicago

Anjali Kelkar is currently the lead researcher for the Urban Opportunity Project at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. This project began with an exploratory phase in the summer of 2003 in Chicago and in India. The overall focus was to improve living conditions in urban slums in globally by harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit of local citizens and the financial stimulus of private investment. The initial goal was targeted towards housing oriented solutions for urban slum dwellers (illegal squatter settlements in cities), but it quickly became apparent that the underlying economic health of the communities needed to improve in order effect long-term change in living standards. The focus then became to identify opportunities to create businesses, services and products that would help the urban slums become economically viable, sustainable and attract investment. Ethnographic research was conducted in three cities in India to understand patterns of daily life in slums. This helped define design criteria needed for concept innovation and outline a strategy for economic development in the slums. The next phase involves feasibility studies and prototype testing of some of the concepts in selected slums of Mumbai, India. It is our hope that if successful, these concepts could be replicated or modified to address similar issues in urban slums around the world.

Anjali received her graduate degree from the Institute of Design, Chicago and her undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design, New York. Before coming to the Institute of Design she worked in Singapore as a Lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, where she taught Design Issues for sustainability and progress and Research Methodologies for contextual design. While in Singapore she also ran her own design company doing illustration-based advertising campaigns for major advertising agencies. Prior to that she had worked for several years in the advertising and publishing industry in Mumbai, India.

Her primary area of interest lies in developing sustainable design strategies for emerging markets that leverage existing capabilities and help create new opportunities for growth.

Lloyd D. Le Page
Sustainable Agriculture and Development Manager,
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Dupont

Allyson Lippert is currently a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and is based in San Francisco. A 2003 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel with degrees in business and political science, Allyson was a Rhodes Scholar nominee and recipient of one of four coveted Burch Fellowships. Through the Burch Fellowship, Allyson worked in Apia, Samoa with the South Pacific Business Development Foundation, an organization which provides micro-credit to groups of women to help them start their own businesses. As a part of her fellowship proposal, Allyson communicated her observations of the life-changes and cultural hybridization experienced by these Samoan women entrepreneurs through a display of 20 paintings she completed while in Samoa. While at UNC, Allyson also consulted for APPLES, the university’s service learning program.

Ted London
Director, Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ted London is an adjunct assistant professor and the director of the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) Learning Laboratory at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Ted has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA programs at UNC and abroad in the areas of strategic management, business strategies for the BOP, and sustainable enterprise. As director of the BOP Lab, Ted oversees a consortium of companies, non-profit organizations, multilateral institutions, and academics interested in exploring the opportunities and challenges associated with entering base of the pyramid markets.

Ted’s research focuses on capabilities and process of capability building. He currently is exploring how multinational corporations (MNCs) can build the capabilities needed to enter the BOP. His recent articles have been published in the Journal of International Business Studies (forthcoming), an anthology (Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking), the Academy of Management Executive, the Stanford Social Innovation Review and in the professional press.

Prior to coming to the University of North Carolina, Ted worked for more than a decade in the private and not-for-profit sectors in Asia, Africa, and the U.S. Much of this work targeted base of the pyramid markets. In Asia, he was the general manager for McCormick Spice’s Indonesian joint venture company that worked closely with local village cooperatives. For Conservation International, he directed a multi-country initiative to link income generation and environmental protection in low income communities. In Africa, Ted co-managed a regional business development program in Malawi that assisted local entrepreneurs to establish, build, and expand their companies in both rural and urban locations. In the U.S., he worked as a design engineer for General Motors, senior business valuation consultant for Deloitte & Touche, and executive director of a non-profit that provided advisory services to small- and medium-scale businesses.

Ted earned his MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Management Center at the Claremont Graduate University and his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. He expects to complete his Ph.D. in Strategy at the University of North Carolina in the fall of 2004. Upon completion, he will become a post-doctoral fellow at the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Currently serves as the Corporate Global Product Stewardship Lead for the DuPont Company. His responsibilities include responsibility for leading the global Product Stewardship Competency for all regions in which DuPont operates. He also is responsible for fostering and supporting Sustainable Growth efforts, particularly those at the Base of the Economic Pyramid. He previously worked for the Electronic Technologies Division of the DuPont Electronic and Communications Technology business platform as both its Safety, Health and Environment Manager and Product Stewardship manager. While working in product stewardship for the past 15 years, he has supported sustainability in the Electronics Industry serving as chair, vice-chair, co chair or member of numerous committees.

He has participated, contributed written sections, chaired sessions or organized the following Roadmap activities: IPC Technical Roadmaps for 1998, 1997, 1995, 1993, IPC Environmental Roadmap (1994), Framework Committee and Environmental Sections for the NEMI Roadmap (1994, 1996,1998 & 1999) and the Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap sponsored by MCC (1994). He was also a member of the US Technical Advisory Group for ISO14000. He is the author of over 50 publications, presentations and book chapters on product stewardship, environmental, health and safety issues over the past twelve years. Previously, he was an R&D scientist for DuPont in various aspects of electronic materials development for 16 years.

Over sixteen years of experience in photopolymer related R&D including photo dielectrics, flexible circuit materials, photo formable ceramic circuit materials, product and process development for electronic packaging including single chip carriers and TAB. Invented and patented several new and novel methods of creating circuits for high resolution multilayer applications, flexible circuits, membrane switches, low-cost double-sided PTH (plated through hole) printed wiring boards. Started up a prototype process for making touch screens for small computers. Developed process, directed a subcontract manufacturer, and designed, built and programmed in-process testing. Developed and successfully implemented funding efforts under DARPA for environmentally conscious manufacturing for printed wiring boards using permanent inner layer photoresist and photo dielectrics for manufacturing microvia printed wiring boards. BS (Chem.), Georgia Tech; MS (Chem.) and Ph.D. (Inorganic Chem.), Univ. of Wisconsin.

Linda Mayoux
International Consultant
Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Info Services (EDIAIS)
Women in Sustainable Enterprise

Dr Linda Mayoux is an international consultant working on gender,
enterprise development and impact assessment. Her consultancy work since 1997 has included empowerment analysis and strategies, gender mainstreaming and poverty focus in micro-finance, training, enabling environments and ethical/fair trade and integrated participatory methodologies for impact assessment and research. She has worked on these issues for DFID, UNIFEM, ILO, USAID, SDC and many NGOs in South Asia, Africa and Central/Latin America. She also has twenty years of academic research experience on these issues based at Cambridge, Open University and Glasgow University in UK. Her main current focus is the development of Participatory Action Learning Systems and empowerment strategies with ANANDI in India, Aga Khan Foundation, Kabarole Resource and Research Centre in Uganda, Port Sudan Small Enterprise Development and Trickle-Up in US with whom she has a long-term relationship. This involves development of website and multimedia training resources.

Denise Miley works for Tetra Pak Research & Development AB as R&D Manager representing North America. Tetra Pak is a global supplier of liquid food packaging and processing and a leader in aseptic technology. Denise is a chemical engineer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a master of science degree in Polymer Science from Penn State University and a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Her previous work experience includes Dow Corning, Kraft, and Unilever mainly in product and package development.

Mark Milstein
Business Research Director, Sustainable Enterprise Program
World Resources Institute

Mark Milstein is Business Research Director of the Sustainable Enterprise Program at World Resources Institute (WRI) and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests are focused on the relationship between strategic decision-making and organizational change, industry transformations, and innovation, particularly within the context of sustainable development. Mark’s BOP-related research is funded by the National Science Foundation and involves understanding how multi-national corporations’ initiatives meant to build new businesses that serve the world’s poorest people affect core organizational change and innovation.

Mark’s most recent publication, “Creating Sustainable Value” can be found in the May 2003 issue of the Academy of Management Executive. In addition to theoretical and empirical work, Mark has developed several teaching cases including “Jarcel Cellulose”, “Tandus 2010: Race to Sustainability”, and “Weyerhaeuser: The Next 100 Years.” Mark has consulted for a variety of companies and organizations, including Johnson & Johnson, Weyerhaeuser Company, Thorn Apple Valley, Ducker Research, Tandus (formerly Collins&Aikman Floorcoverings), and Muralis Creative.

Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan in 1990. In 1997, he earned both an M.B.A. in general management and an M.S. in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan’s dual-degree Corporate Environmental Management Program. From 2002-2004, Mark helped establish the internationally recognized Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was Director of Research and Adjunct Assistant Professor. Mark will soon receive a PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kenneth Robinson
Senior Research Associate, Applied Economics & Management
Cornell University

Kenneth L. Robinson is a Research Associate with the Emerging Markets Program, Department of Applied Economics and Management, at Cornell University. His research interests include economic development, planning, and public policy. His current research involves examining entrepreneurship and small business development as a community-based development strategy for low-income rural communities. As a Fulbright Fellow, Robinson conducted research on the social and economic impacts of small-scale, commercial agriculture on disadvantaged communities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Prior to Cornell, Robinson was Assistant to the Director for Policy at the USDA Economic Research Service, where he provided management and research assistance on rural development and environmental policies. He has also worked as a Washington, DC, lobbyist on housing and community development issues. Robinson received his Ph.D. in Development Sociology at Cornell.

Prashant Sarin is a Senior Business Associate working with Hewlett-Packard Research Labs India in the User & Business Studies department. A Rhodes scholar, he is on sabbatical from the University of Oxford where he is currently pursuing a D. Phil in Management. His research interests are at the confluence of multi-national corporations, emerging markets and information technology. Prashant is especially intrigued with the corporate implications of utilizing technological innovations for socio-economic development. His last major project at HP dealt with exploring potential ICT interventions in the field of education within the emerging markets context. An Aditya Birla scholar at IIM Calcutta, Prashant is an MBA from the Class of 2001 with a dual major in Strategy & Marketing. He completed his under-graduation in engineering from the University of Delhi in 1999.

Peter Schaefer provides advice to governments on economic development: economic policy reform, privatization, debt restructuring, foreign and domestic investment promotion and assumes senior responsibility for all aspects of international commercial projects. He is currently an independent consultant on business and economic development, principally in Asia as well as a senior fellow to the Institute for Liberty & Democracy, Lima, Peru and Senior Counselor to ILD President Hernando de Soto. Peter has numerous clients and affiliations with diverse groups in the public sector.

In the past, he served as an advisor to the Secretary of National Defense, Philippines (2002 -2003) and Managing Director, Global Markets, Monotech International, a building system company in Santa Monica, California (2000 – 2001).

His educational background includes post-graduate studies and M.A. in international relations with Asian area studies from Georgetown University. He also has a graduate certificate of Asian Study from American University, Center for Asian Studies.

M. Shahjahan is the General Manager and head of Accounts, Finance, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation division of Grameen Bank, the leading and pioneer micro finance institution of Bangladesh. He completed his masters both in Accounting and Finance from the University of Dhaka. He also completed the first level of both Chartered Accountant and Cost and Management Accountant program. He received ICAB Silver Medal for passing the chartered accountant intermediate examination at earliest eligible chance. Earlier he held the position of a zonal manager of Grameen Bank, where he served about two hundred thousand poor families to plan, organize and run their micro-businesses. He is the founder and designer of the Internal Audit Department of Grameen Bank where he served as chief for seven years.

Mr. Shahjahan is a Member of the Board of Directors of Grameen Kalyan (Rural Welfare), a not for profit company, which primarily focuses on undertaking programs for the welfare of the poor members and employees of Grameen Bank; Grameen Telecom, a not for profit company, which facilitates Grameen borrowers to conduct cell phone business in the rural areas; Grameen Shamogree (Products), a not for profit company, which endeavors to promote goods produced by the rural poor; Grameen Securities Management Ltd., a not for profit company, which carries out functions of a Merchant Banking and Grameen Krishi (Agriculture) Foundation, which provides logistic and technological support to poor farmers. He also serves as the chairman of treasury committee and member of the Operation Committee of GrameenPhone, a multinational for profit company and the leading mobile phone service provider of the country.

Mr.Shahjahan has also delivered speeches as guest lecturer at various institutions like; BRAC, BIBM on micro credit management and financing agricultural and other related issues.

Sanjay Sharma
Professor of Strategy and Sustainability
Wilfrid Laurier University

Sanjay Sharma is a Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. His research looks at the linkages between proactive environmental strategy and firm performance via the development and deployment of organizational capabilities, contingent perspectives on the generation of proactive environmental approaches, the opportunity framing of environmental issues in organizations to spur managerial creativity and innovation, and stakeholder influences on individual sustainability practices, especially in Third World development contexts.

Sanjay’s research has been published in "Academy of Management Review", "Academy of Management Journal", “Academy of Management Executive,” "Strategic Management Journal", "Journal of Applied Behavioral Science", "Business Strategy and the Environment", and "Revue Francaise de Gestion", among other journals. He has co-edited three books on research in corporate sustainability and edits two annual book series of research on sustainability. The first, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, includes cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and the second, published by Greenleaf Publishing, includes practitioner oriented research and articles.

As the Chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Group in the Academy of Management, he has worked to establish corporate sustainability as a field of scholarship. Before pursuing an academic career, Sanjay was a senior general manager with multinational corporations in four continents for 16 years.

Erik Simanis is an MBA graduate and current Ph.D. Candidate at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina. Erik has published in the field of Sustainable Enterprise and has experience in the integration of sustainability into corporate strategy through his work with Monsanto Corporation, Dupont, and the Ecos Corporation. Erik was also a co-founder of the Base of the Pyramid Co-Laboratory at Kenan-Flagler and served as its director. Prior to completing his MBA at Kenan-Flagler, Erik established a tire-retreading factory in Riga, Latvia and worked in the wood products industry in the United States. He brings a multi-disciplinary, participatory approach to stakeholder engagement and corporate strategy formulation that considers the role of power/knowledge, discourse and the politics of difference.

Richard Wells is President and founder of The Lexington Group, a management consulting firm that specializes in environmental and sustainability strategies. Over the past 25 years Mr. Wells has consulted to U.S. federal and state government agencies, foreign governments, private sector companies, nonprofit organizations, the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank on the design of environmental and sustainable development strategies. He has led important, successful, community-based “supply chain” efforts to establish environmental management systems in small and medium suppliers to large companies, and he has developed large-scale corporate environmental management systems. He is now taking this expertise to work with small companies in addressing “base of the pyramid markets.”

Mr. Wells is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a Master’s degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina and Executive Research Professor at the Business School of Mexico’s Monterrey Institute of Technology. In 2001 he was recognized by the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO for “Outstanding Achievement in Standard Development” based on his contribution to the development of the ISO 14000 series standards.

Wilfred Wentzel is the Chief Executive Officer for the Centre for Integrated Rural Development (CIRD), whose core programmes include: BEE,Rural SMME facilitation, support, training; institution building and training; communications, networking and resource mobilisation; and community health care.

Wilfred worked for the Rural Foundation as the manager of Research and Development where the departmental portfolio included designing, implementing, monitoring community based pilot projects in – community health; pre-school; adult basic education and training; rural SMMEs; rural CBOs.. He has consulted with many organizations, including assignments with the World Bank (Land Reform in the Western Cape), the President’s Office (National Participatory Poverty Assessment), a Sector Study on Community Development in S.A: GTZ, among others.

Local Economic Development: Case Study Material from South Africa’s rural communities, Eastern Cape. December 2000. United Nations Development Programme.

South Africa: Economic, Institutional and Social Development challenges in S.A.’s countryside. April 2001. F.O.S.

Bill Wiggenhorn
Vice Chairman, Global Education Management
Former Chief Learning Officer at Xerox, Motorola & Cigna Corp

Bill Wiggenhorn is currently vice chairman of the GEM group [Global education management company headquartered in Singapore and shanghai]. He has a been the CLO at Xerox, Motorola, and Cigna corporation.

While at Motorola, Bill expanded Motorola University to 101 education offices located in 24 countries, developed two corporate museums, several corporate customer briefing centers, the archives of the corporation, a university and secondary-education relationship team, and an externally focused consulting team that worked with key Motorola customers and suppliers, as well as with government organizations such as the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy Federal Labs, the U.S. Department of Defense, and 40 universities around the world.

In addition to his work in the marketing, engineering and financial industries, Bill has, or currently is, participating on many Boards, including the ASTD Council of Governors; the Board of Directors of the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was Board Chairman; the Center for Creative Leadership Board of Governors; and more.

Bill has done graduate work in Human Resources, Business and Adult Learning at Penn State, George Washington University, Ohio State University, and the University of Indiana. He has an MA in Public Administration and a BA from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Faye Yoshihara brings over two decades of private sector experience with Nike Inc. and SC Johnson Inc., specializing in Latin American and SE Asian business management. Working across a spectrum of industries, including post-harvest agriculture, health, hospitality, consumer package goods and sporting goods, she has developed expertise in business development, management and enterprise restructuring.

Faye applies her broad business background to sustainable development projects in diverse emerging and developed markets. Her recent projects include integrating sustainability initiatives into business and strategic plans, a cross-sector partnership to address childhood asthma, a start-up social enterprise, supply chain life cycle analysis, corporate social responsibility programs and internal capacity building through training and coaching in multi-national corporations. Presently, she is project director for a sustainable enterprise initiative in sub-Saharan Africa, advising business units on the creation of a sustainable business model, including cross-sector partnerships to prevent malaria and improve the supply chain; a member of the Biomimicy Guild and a founding member of a start-up, financial services cooperative. Faye also serves as an adjunct instructor at Portland State University School of Business, Masters in International Management.

As a WK Kellogg Foundation Fellow, she recognized the need to build bridges between the often polarized sectors of society. These experiences prompted Faye to launch her own company, Pontes Consulting LLC, where she now focuses on cross-sector partnerships, integration of sustainable business practices and supporting social enterprise start-ups. Faye holds degrees from Oregon State University, and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.