Sustainability Management Program

Program Content

Sustainability is one of the key issues of 21^st Century. This is confirmed by the increased attention paid by global agencies, governments, media, academia and the industries. Malaysia has embarked upon the new Economic Transformation Plan (ETP), wherein inclusiveness and sustainability are the basic pillars of Vision 2020.

Sustainable development ultimately means sustainable business. The stakeholders of business like consumers, investors have started expecting sustainability based accountability from business and government services. The customers are asking question on components of the product. Global institutions, especially banks are concerned about the waste disposal or what happens when the product is not in use. Investors are asking how the raw materials were extracted. Governments are imposing tax. As a consequence, policy makers, industry leaders, society and academics with different backgrounds are today trying to understand how sustainability affects traditional way of doing business, and, as well, how traditional businesses are affected by sustainability. Additionally, what roles can be played by Government?

The Sustainability Management Program (SMP) will address the topic of sustainability with a particular emphasis on the main drivers of the issue. The participants will be involved in an engaging debate that will cover different perspectives of the topic, including the economic, the environmental and the social dimensions. At the end of this course, the participants will have a comprehensive understanding of the sustainability issues, the relevance for policy makers and the role of corporations.

Who Should Attend

This program is useful for middle and senior level managers from Government and Industry.

Profile of Speakers

Dr. Eng. Paolo Taticchi: Dr. Paolo is a Principal Lecturer in Management at the Royal Docks Business School in London, where he also serves as Director of MBA Programs with responsibility for the London, Cologne, Kuala Lumpur and Athens campuses.  He is actively involved in research in areas like performance measurement and management, business networks and sustainability. These research activities have been documented in many books, chapters, journals and conference papers. He is the Editor and Co-Author of the books “Business Performance Measurement and Management: new contexts, themes and challenges” and “Corporate Sustainability” published by Springer and distributed internationally. Furthermore, he has significant consultancy experience in the fields of Strategy, Operations and Internationalization with both small and large firms. He is an entrepreneur - he has started up two engineering firms in Italy.

Dr. Ajay Chauhan: Dr Ajay Chauhan is currently Professor-Strategic Management, Othman Yeop Abdullah (OYA) Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He obtained a doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (a well-known B-School, which stood 11th in Financial Times global top 100 B-schools in 2012). He received the Best Thesis Proposal from Industrial Finance Corporation of India. His current areas of expertise are Strategic Management, Leadership, Organizational Change, Sustainability and Innovation & Technology Management. He worked about 6 years in government research projects. Then he moved to private sector and worked for about 22 years (including 10 years as CEO or equivalent top positions) before taking full time career in education. He has published a book on Media Utilization and published papers in Scopus-indexed journals.

Dr. Roslan Abdul Hakim: Dr Roslan is a Professor – Sustainable Development in Othman Yeop Abdullah (OYA) Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University, USA; Master in Economics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; and a PhD in Economics from University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom. His research interests are focused on development issues ranging from economic growth and development, poverty and income distribution, microfinance, social business, and social capital and quality of life. He has presented his papers in various international conferences and his articles have appeared in national and international journals. He also has served as a consultant to Penang Rural Development Authority (PERDA) and Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has led a consultancy projects for Padiberas Nasional (BERNAS), Agrobank and Lembaga Kemajuan Wilayah Tengah Terengganu (KETENGAH).

Dr. Kuperan Viswanathan: Dr Kuperan is Professor of Economics in Othman Yeop Abdullah (OYA) Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He has more than 25 years of experience in resource economics, policy and development research, social science research capacity building, education and training. He was a member of the World Bank affiliated Centres for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) senior researchers' team from January 2004 – March 2005. He led the Global Project on Fisheries Co-management which involved extensive partnership and research development with fisheries line agencies and research centres in Asia and Africa from 1999-2003. He is also active in professional organizations in Malaysia and abroad and serves in the editorial committees of major natural resource journals of developing countries such as the African Journal of Marine Science and the Malaysian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Registration

The program fees is RM 1,800 per participant including dinner and accomodation. The payment has to be a banker’s draft for Malaysians else through International Telegraphic Transfer payable to ‘Bendahari UUM’ (Account No: BIMB 02093010000010/ Swift Code: BIMBMYKL / Bank Branch: Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd. (BIMB), UUM). All the local and overseas bank charges are to be borne by the Remitter/Delegate. 
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