UPDATE: Global Sustain ‘Yearbook 2013/14 – Beyond borders’

The forthcoming Global Sustain Yearbook 2013/14 is rapidly gaining momentum. The 7th Yearbook is a highly-respected, international multi-stakeholder album with a global audience of key stakeholders and distribution in over 50 countries.

In face of shifting economies and global needs and after six years of consecutive publishing success, Global Sustain once more lays the foundations for a constructive dialogue, highlighting critical issues. This year, Global Sustain 7th Yearbook under the theme “Beyond Borders” is hosting a total of 30 authors (leading CEOs, top policy makers and world-renown experts) and 25 corporations (sustainability leaders in their lines of business) from around the world.

Some of the confirmed international guest authors and organisations to date, include:

• H.E. Abdalla S. El-Badri, Secretary General, OPEC, Austria
• Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UN Conference on Trade and Development, Switzerland       
• Koji Sekimizu, Secretary-General, UN International Maritime Organisation, U.K.
• Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, UN World Tourism Organisation, Spain
• Robert-Jan Smits, Director General, European Commission DG Research & Innovation, Belgium
• Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, Director, Head of Competitiveness Research, Roberto Crotti, Quantitative Economist & Manager, Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
  
• Kelly Bricker, Chair of the Board of Directors, The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), U.S.A.
• Mardi McBrien, Managing Director, Climate Disclosure Standards Board, U.K.  
• Mike Herrington, Executive Director, Global Entrepreneurship Research Association, South Africa
• Andreas Andreadis, CEO, Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, Greece   
• Ron Cörvers, Director, International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development (ICIS), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• Mari Kuraishi, Dennis Whittle, Co-Founders, Global Giving Foundation, U.S.A.     
• Joseph Mancuso, CEO, CEO CLUBS International, U.S.A. 
• Jeffrey D. Klein, President & CEO, The Global FoodBanking Network, U.S.A.
• Renate Christ, Secretary, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Switzerland
• Sune Skadegaard Thorsen, CEO & Senior Partner, GLOBAL CSR, Denmark
• Elizabeth Filippouli, Founder & CEO, Global Thinkers Forum, U.K.
  

This Yearbook will address among others the following topics:

• Exporting activity (products and services) and economic performance
• Exporting know-how (innovation and human capital) and value creation
• The role of financial institutions in supporting extroversion
• Responsible supply chain in a global marketplace
• Extroversion effects on global sustainability
• Business colonialism and human rights
• Partnerships building among countries and corporations
• Addressing global risks through responsible investing
• International development and social impact
• Corporate citizenship in underserved markets
• Organisational excellence in building global enterprises
• International collaboration for universal sustainability issues
• Assessing a company’s / organisation’s geographical footprint
• Coping with diversity in a globalised environment
• Exporting sustainable tourism
  

The 7th Yearbook will future leading CEO’s, export and extrovert driven corporations and organisations from all around the world leading the way in extroversion and sustainability. There will be viewpoints of top experts, decision-makers, policy formers, top university professors, Nobel Laureates, gurus and community leaders who will share their vision and expertise regarding this timely subject, with a global audience.

The publication will be released in June and presented at a global audience in special events.

For further information regarding the Yearbook series you may visit: www.globalsustain.org/en/yearbook.

Attached you may find informative material regarding the upcoming publication.

About Yearbooks
Yearbook series aim at highlighting critical sustainability issues and constitute a catalyst for constructive dialogue and positive change. This annual global publication is trusted by top companies and important stakeholders from all around the world. Each year, Global Sustain selects a topic of universal interest relevant to the people-planet-profit concept and analyses all the aspects through the views of internationally renowned personalities, business leaders, politicians, visionaries and academia.

Industry opinion formers and decision makers across the world contribute with policy and business intelligence to the publication, while leading corporations showcase their best practices and flagship products and services in the sustainability field. The hard copy publication is presented every year in special events and venues, with high level participants and is distributed to a worldwide targeted audience. To date, Yearbooks have been distributed in more than 50 countries on 4 continents, profiling more than 200 CEOs. www.globalsustain.org/en/yearbook