June 9, 2006-Today kicks off the first-ever student led conference on global corporate social responsibility.  The three-day conference, Being Globally Responsible Conference (BGRC), was held at the China Europe International Business School's main campus in Shanghai.  Approximately 150 students from graduate business schools including: AIM, HKUST, Nottingham, IESE, NTU, SJTU, Waseda, and Melbourne attended this event.

The EU Ambassador, Serge Abou and Eric Baden, Chairman & CEO of Degussa (China) Co. Ltd. presented and addressed the meeting. Nine representatives from Consulates General from countries including the Phillipines, United States, Italy, Germany, and the Republic of Korea attended the "Shanghai Consensus Signing Ceremony".  This was a student led pact where all participants of the ceremony signed an agreement on the BGRC board committing themselves to the following:

As an MBA student, a participant of BGRC, and a future business leader, we commit ourselves to the following;

• We will NOT work for companies that are irresponsible in an environmental or social context. 
• We will return to our schools and become Global Responsibility Ambassadors.
• On every business decision that we make in the future, we will consider not only the business issues but also the issues involved for society as a whole and the environment.
• We will encourage our colleagues and motivate our companies to make changes and to do the right things as a business. We will also try to utilize the knowledge acquired at BGRC in the future.
• We will uphold industry and company ethics to the highest degree and also abide by all relevant laws and government regulations.

The opening signing ceremony was then followed by the first session of the conference which focused on the development of corporate responsibility, with a keynote speech by Fred Dubee, Senior Advisor, United Nations Global Compact.

Tomorrow's session will go into further topics related to CSR including: sustainable development, corporate governance, bribery/anti-corruption, CSR strategy, community outreach, private/public sector partnership, UN Global compact, social entrepreneurship, CSR evaluation, media/internet and CSR, money laundering, micro-financing, and environment and business.
 
For more information, please contact:

Michele Tung
International Marketing and Media Relations Manager, CEIBS
Tmichele@ceibs.edu