CSR and Sustainability Now and FUTURE!

Professor Dr. Michael Hopkins FRSA is both an academic and a businessman, as well as a widely published author on CSR and Sustainability. He has worked for IBM, ITT, BAT and others in the Corporate sector, the United Nations (ILO in Geneva for 13 years as a senior economist), advises UEFA on CSR RESPECT program), and been an academic (IDS, University of Sussex, UK). He has held a number of Professorships (Middlesex, Brunel, Geneva and George Mason Universities). Formerly he directed and initiated CSR courses and research at Middlesex University, Geneva University, and Director of Doctoral programs on CSR at Geneva Business School. He continues to be an Adjunct/Visiting Professor of CSR at George Mason University, Virginia, USA, the Management University of Africa in Nairobi and the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi.

In 2013 Michael was nominated as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders and in 2014 received for his work on CSR and employment a lifetime achievement award from Delhi University and then an Honorary Doctorate from London Metropolitan University (in addition to his Ph.D. from Geneva University).

Videos and references can be found on https://www.csrfi.com/?page_id=1620 – for instance, a short video on What is CSR all about.

In 2019 Michael was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London and co-founded the Institute of Responsible Leadership – https://responsible-leadership.org/.