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On Demand - Directions in supply chain due diligence - impact on business

Europe
Europe
Jun
30
Thu
09:00
-
10:30 BST
Schedule Type Title: Weekdays
Sessions: 1
Session Hours: 1.50
Virtual
09:00 - 10:30 BST
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30/06/2022

09:00 - 10:30 BST 

Virtual

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A growing number of jurisdictions are moving to bolster due diligence obligations on companies to enhance accountability around the environmental and social consequences of their operations and those of their supply chains. Legal changes being discussed in some regions, including the EU, may increasingly push the burden of responsibility – and associated liability – for upholding social rights and ensuring environmental protection from countries to companies operating in high-impact sectors. Such measures are likely to entail important changes to the roles and responsibilities of company directors and may eventually affect the ability of companies to place goods on markets.

Join us to discuss whether the trend towards greater due diligence could be a game changer for companies’ supply chains. Against the backdrop of ongoing and widespread disruption to supply chains, what steps can companies take to start to identify, prevent, mitigate and end any adverse social and environmental impacts? Can greater supply chain due diligence bring benefits as well as costs? What are the expectations of other key actors in the trading chain, including finance providers? How should finance and audit teams – as well as audit and risk committees – prepare for changing regulatory requirements?

Mark Billington, Managing Director, International, will be introducing the event and Peter van Veen, Director, Corporate Governance & Stewardship, will be chairing the panel discussion.

This event is free of charge. However, registration is essential.

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Please note that this event takes place at 09:00 BST (UK).

In other time zones, it will therefore take place at: 10:00-11:30 CEST | 11:00-12:30 EEST | 12:00-13:30 GST | 16:00-17:30 HKT | 18:00-19:30 Sydney time

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Event Organiser - Katrijn Van Vaerenbergh

Annemiek Ballesty - Senior Vice President, Head of APAC Commercial, Fossil Group, Inc.

Annemiek Ballesty is Senior Vice President, Commercial for Fossil Group Asia Pacific. Under a diverse portfolio of owned and licensed brands, Fossil Group's offerings include fashion watches, jewelry, handbags, small leather goods and wearables. Fossil brings each brand's story to life in 30,000 points of distribution across 150 countries, including 450 company-owned retail locations.

 
With more than 18 years with Fossil Group, Annemiek has held several senior roles within Fossil's APAC Commercial division, including Vice President China in Shanghai, Vice President Licensed brands APAC in Hong Kong, and Managing Director of Australia & New Zealand in Sydney.
 
Annemiek was recognised in 2018 and 2017 as being one of the '50 Top Innovative Retail Leaders' in Hong Kong. She earned her business degree from the University of Wales and is a Chartered Accountant with ICAEW. She has a strong background in leadership, focusing on strategic growth and scalability, and has managed teams around the world. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, China and Hong Kong.
 
 

Mark Billington FCA - Managing Director, International, ICAEW

Mark is the Managing Director International ICAEW based in Singapore having previously been the Regional Director Greater China & South-East Asia. He is responsible for leading ICAEW activities outside the UK to support members, grow student numbers, manage stakeholder engagement and develop ICAEW’s international capacity building.

Mark is the Managing Director International ICAEW based in Singapore having previously been the Regional Director Greater China & South-East Asia. He is responsible for leading ICAEW activities outside the UK to support members, grow student numbers, manage stakeholder engagement and develop ICAEW’s international capacity building.
 
After qualifying as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant in 1990, Mark worked in a variety of industry verticals in the Telecoms sector for multi-national, national and start-up companies. From 2003-2007 Mark was the CEO of O2 (Asia Pacific & Middle East) based in Singapore where he was responsible for the creation of a premium brand in Asia as well as dealing with the supply chain of O2 into Greater China valued at over US$500m. Prior to this, Mark was the COO and SVP for O2 (Netherlands) and oversaw one of the largest outsourcing telecoms deals in Europe during that period valued at €1bn. Before joining O2 Mark held a variety of roles in British Telecom plc including responsibility for strategic investments in France valued at over £4bn.
 
Mark has over twenty five years experience in evaluating and managing large, complex deals and organisations, and is a frequent speaker and commentator in the ASEAN region. He has sat on the Singapore Accountancy Commission’s Productivity Advisory Committee having previously sat on the Research Centre and Development Fund Committee.
 
 

Nick Wildgoose BA (Hons) FCA FCIPS

Nick is a qualified accountant, supply chain and risk professional and has held a variety of global financial, procurement and commercial positions in several industry sectors. Working for companies such as PWC, Linde Group, The Virgin Group, Zurich Insurance Group and DHL Resilience360.

He has served on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply which is the biggest procurement professional body in the world with over 100,000 members. He also served as a specialist advisor to the World Economic Forum on the topic of systemic supply chain risk and was Chairman of the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council and still serves on their Board. He has spoken and written extensively on supply chain management.

From 2008 he led the development and rollout of innovative and multi award winning supply chain resilience products for Zurich Insurance Group, which gave him the opportunity to interact with many global companies and help them address the real risk issues they are facing in terms of their supply chains and driving business performance.

Over the last three years he has been working with DHL Resilience360 and several other software companies in supporting their customer solutions in terms of the use data, AI, and technology. He worked as the senior advisor for the Institute of Risk Management in the development of their new Supply Chain Risk Management certificate training launched in 2020 and is now the module coach. He is also the supply chain advisor to the University of Cambridge Judge Business School Centre for Risk Studies.

 

Peter Burnett OBE - Regional Head, Corporate Finance, Greater China and North Asia Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited; Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

 
Peter is responsible for Standard Chartered’s Greater China and North Asia Corporate Finance business covering Greater China, Korea and Japan.
 
This encompasses all Term Lending, Loan Syndications, Leveraged and Structured Solutions, Shipping and Aircraft Finance, M&A, and Project & Export Finance. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd, and serves as the Chairman of the “One Belt, One Road” Committee for the Hong Kong Association of Banks.
 
Peter was Vice Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce from 2016, and became Chairman in 2018. Prior to joining Standard Chartered in April 2013, he spent a career of some 24 years with UBS, including, Head of Asian Equity Capital Markets, Head of Asian Investment Banking, Chief Executive  of UBS Middle East, and most recently Chairman of Global Capital Markets, Asia.
 
Peter first came to Asia in 1994 and settled in Hong Kong in 1996 where, apart from three and a half years in the Middle East, he has lived ever since. He has a long association with the region and has worked with a large number of Hong Kong and Hong Kong based corporate and Government entities. He is a graduate of Oxford University and an FCA Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a member of the ICAEW Hong Kong Committee.
 
Peter, who was born in India, is married with three daughters.
 

Peter van Veen - Director, Corporate Governance & Stewardship, ICAEW

Peter is the Director of Corporate Governance & Stewardship at ICAEW. He was until recently the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer for multinational enterprises headquartered in the Netherlands, France and Japan.

 
Prior to these roles, Peter spent over 6 years at Transparency International UK (TI-UK) where set up the Business Integrity Programme. In this role he also served on the advisory board of AIM Progress the European Brands’ ethical supply chain initiative.
 
At TI-UK Peter led the development of publications, including one on managing supply chain risk and regularly provided expert input into standard setting initiatives such as the International Ethical Standards Board for Accountants, UN Global Compact and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). He also provided input into UK and French parliamentary consultations.
 
Prior to Transparency International UK, Peter worked in corporate strategy and management consulting employed by organisations such as Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Bertelsmann and Shell. He has worked with, advised and served on boards for over 20 years.
 
Peter has postgraduate degrees in Corporate Governance & Business Ethics and in Economics, both from the University of London and a bachelor’s in Economics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
 

 

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