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Juan Somavia |
Robert Taylor |
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Director General of the ILO |
Employment Editor, Financial Times, London and author of a number of books on labour markets and industrial relations. He was an adviser in the preparation of the ILO 1997-98 World Labour Report on the future of industrial relations. |
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Charles Handy |
Thomas Kochan |
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Widely recognized as one of Britain's top-tier management writers. He is the author of six highly acclaimed business books, including his most recent book, The Hungry Spirit. He is one of the foremost thinkers on management and the social implication of information technology and global economics. |
The George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has a long and distinguished career which incudes serving as a member of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity and the Clinton Administation's Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations. One of his recent books is The Mutual Gains Enterprise. |
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Paul Evans |
Jim Baker |
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Professor of Organizational Behaviour, INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France), where he has been responsible for building his competency in human resources and organizational management since the mid-70s. He has taught at MIT, Stockholm School of Economics, Cornell University, London Business School and has worked as a consultant with a wide variety of international companies. |
Director of Multinational Enterprises; Organizing and Recruitment for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). His department is responsible for working with international trade secretariats and national centres on campaigns and other activities related to both policy and action on multinational enterprises and efforts to stimulate and support trade union organizing. |
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Angeline Low |
Gisèle Yitamben |
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When Angeline Low left Malaysia in 1986 and headed for the Australian shores, the Australian Institute of Management described her as "Australia's Import Gain". As Partner and CEO of the largest management consulting firm in Malaysia, Ms. Low would prefer to be known then as a successful Malaysian export. She is a Founding Member and a Director on the Board of the Australian Council of Businesswomen, a peak group lobby organisation. Her mission has been to focus on the need to nurture the growing breed of businesswomen around the globe to reach their true potential and to be recognised for their contribution to wealth and job creation. Currently she is involved in family business and research on female entrepreneurship. |
Gisèle Yitamben is Executive Secretary of the Association for Support to Women Entrepreneurs (ASAFE), Cameroon, a non-governmental organization that provides training and alternative financing systems to support underprivileged youths and women entrepreneurs. She has extensive experience in the field of economic empowerment, gender and development, planning, monitoring and evaluation, and legal rights. She has been awarded the Theresa Hoover AWARD from the Global Board of Global Ministries Women's Division for contribution to the advancement of women's status in Africa and also the Laureate of "Comité de l'Excellence Africaine" for her contribution to socio-economic improvement of underprivileged in Cameroon. |
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Susana Pinilla Cisneros |
Maureen Foers |
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Susana Pinilla Cisneros is Founder and Executive President of the Institute for the Development of the Informal Sector, (IDESI), Peru. This Institute has established a network of organizations throughout Peru specialising in programmes on micro-credit, training and other business development services. An experienced development practitioner, Ms Pinilla has written numerous articles on the informal sector and women's entrepreneurship development. She is also the Chairwoman of the EDPYMES PROEMPRESA's Board of Directors, a formal financial |
Maureen Foers was an employer representative at the ILO Conference in 1997-98 and participated in the Recommendation relating to the Employment Potential of Small Business. She was able to bring over 20 years of experience of working with, and assisting in, the development of many entrepreneurial businesses and their employees, to the discussions. Many of the recommendations are already successfully implemented in the United Kingdom and are used by Maureen to help her many small business clients to develop and increase employment opportunities. She has considerable experience at networking and breaking down barriers that can exist for developing businesses |
