Accounting for the Environment - Lord Michael hastings

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Accounting for the Environment - Lord Michael Hastings

Lord Michael Hastings - Biography

Michael Hastings is the International Director for Corporate Citizenship with KPMG – essentially the Global Head of CSR for the firm worldwide. Previously he was the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility delivering policy leadership for the BBC’s rich and significant community impact work. Michael is a non executive Director for British Telecom on BT’s Community Support Committee. Michael is also a Patron of ToyBOX, a charity working with street children in Latin America.

He is Chairman of Crime Concern having been a founding Trustee in 1988. With a passion for criminal justice solutions, he was a recent communications and strategy adviser to Lord John Stevens QPM, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner as well as being a founding member of the Metropolitan Police Advisory Committee. He was also a former Commissioner (1993 – 2001) with the Commission for Racial Equality and served for nine years advising on race relations in the UK. Michael was also founding Chairman of Childnet International & SpringBoard for Children, where he remains a Patron, and served on the UK Government’s Social Security Advisory Committee delivering policy direction on welfare.

Previously, Michael headed up the BBC’s Political and Public Affairs department in Westminster, where he latterly developed the BBC’s Community Affairs function. His background is in journalism, reporting and presenting programmes for ITV and the BBC and prior to that working on strategy and operations with the Downing Street Policy Unit covering race & urban policy, starting his career in education and community initiatives having graduated in Theology and Education in1980.

In January 2003, Michael was awarded the honour of a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in recognition of his services to crime reduction, after 14 years with Crime Concern and ten as Chairman. He has successfully completed business education programmes at Wharton and Columbia business schools in the USA. In July 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent cross bench peerage to the House of Lords. Michael assumed his seat on 6th December 2005. Also in 2005, Michael received the UNICEF award from the UK Chancellor Gordon Brown MP and Lord David Puttnam, Chairman of UNICEF for his ‘outstanding contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa’s children.

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Speaker: Lord Michael Hastings - International Director of Corporate Citizenship, KPMG
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