^{ECCT CSR Committee Lunch - Linking CSR strategy with core business competence}

Guest speaker
Dr Niven Huang, General Manager, KPMG Sustainability Consulting

12:00-14:00, Thursday, 20 November 2014
PALAIS de CHINE Hotel, Pascal&Voltaire Room (5F) /君品酒店 巴斯卡 + 伏爾泰 (5F)
No.3, Section 1, Chengde Road. Taipei 103, Taiwan / 103 台北市承德路一段三號

Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability are no longer just buzz words. They have become core components of every multinational corporation's business strategy. However, it is often the case that CSR activities unrelated to a company's core business or strengths are not effective. On the other hand, activities that draw on a company's core competencies, tend to produce much more successful results.

Our guest speaker will begin with an overview of global megatrends in sustainability and business implications of CSR. He will then present some cases of how CSR has been successfully integrated into business strategy. He will offer some advice to guests on how business core competences can be integrated into local CSR programmes.
He will wrap up his talk by highlighting that corporate governance matters in "walking the talk" on CSR.

About the speaker
Dr Niven Huang has been the General Manager of KPMG Sustainability Consulting in Taiwan since July 2013. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of ASrIA (The Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia), which is based in Hong Kong. Dr Huang is a pioneer in Taiwan in promoting CSR, sustainability reporting, SRI, corporate sustainability strategy and carbon management. Before joining KPMG, he was the Secretary General of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Taiwan (BCSD-Taiwan) for 16 years from 1997 to 2013 and regularly presents on sustainability in Taiwan and internationally.

Previously he worked for Super Max Engineering from 1992-1997 as a manager and for the YFY paper company from 1991-1992 as a consultant because of his specialised technical background in fluidisation combustion technology. He is also a part time associate professor at several universities in Taiwan, including courses on the most leading advanced MBA and EMBA at National Cheng Chi University (since 2008). He sits as a judge on panels of several public and private awards for CSR, excellence in environment and sustainability in Taiwan and Asia. Dr Huang holds a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan.

To register, please fill out the form and send to ECCT office via FAX (02) 2772-0530

Cost: NT$1,300 per member; NT$1,900 for members' guests