The Readers’ Choice Survey Report:
The Users’ Take on Sustainability Reporting Today
Thursday 8 May
09:00 – 10:30am
Hotel Okura – Grand Ballroom
The results of the GRI Readers’ Choice Survey will be a key focus for The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency 2008. Throughout the conference, speakers and panel members will discuss the outcome of the first ever global GRI Readers’ Choice Survey. Read more about the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards and Survey here.
Thursday 8 May, the second day of the conference, will open with the Plenary Session in which high-level representatives from diverse stakeholder groups will share their views on the results of the Survey. There will be speakers representing the business community, labor unions, civil society, and financial markets.
NB Please note that the session will be broadcast live in another room in the venue.
Following the Plenary Session; four interactive Plenary Arena Debates are scheduled on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, each focusing on the current state of transparency and sustainability reporting from the perspective of a different stakeholder group.
Speakers confirmed for the Plenary Session are:
- Wim Bartels, Chair, KPMG Global Sustainability Service;
- Jo Confino, Executive Editor, The Guardian;
- Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International;
- Nicky Newton-King, Deputy CEO, JSE Limited;
- Guy Ryder, General Secretary International Trade Union Confederation;
- Björn Stigson, President World Business Council for Sustainable Development; and
- Sophia Tickell, Chair, SustainAbility.
For more information on the Plenary Arena Debates see: