Globalisation:IBLF People
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HRH Prince fo Wales
“When I started the International Business Leaders Forum some 14 years ago, I felt that the rapid political and economic changes that the world experienced in the late 1980s could lead all too easily to unsustainable growth and dangerous instability.
I also felt that international business could be a force for good, if it was guided by a longer-term vision for sustainability and responsible behaviour. Most importantly, it needed to be guided through partnerships focussed on practical action to develop opportunities in local communities.”'' [1]
Rainforest Project
The Prince has set up his own Rainforests Project with the support of 12 major companies - including IBLF corporate partners Shell, Rio Tinto, Morgan Stanley and KPMG - international organisations, such as the World Bank and the European Union, and representatives from Rainforest Countries, to find just such a solution. [27]
Anti-Wind turbine
The Prince of Wales believes that wind farms are a "horrendous blot on the landscape" and that their spread must be halted before they irreparably ruin some of Britain's most beautiful countryside. a friend of Prince Charles said: "This is a difficult issue for the Prince because he is in favour of renewable energy and is concerned by the effects of global warming. But he believes that wind farms are 'a horrendous blot on the landscape'. He thinks that if they have to be built at all they should be constructed well out at sea."
Stephen Timms, the energy minister, has said: "Wind energy is here and now. It is the most proven green source of electricity generation and can supply a rising proportion of our electricity needs."
Prince Charles's annual income of almost £12 million comes from the Duchy of Cornwall. The estate consists of 126,000 acres, much of it suitable for wind farms in Devon and Cornwall, but internal Clarence House documents seen by The Telegraph show that he will not consider having them on his land, or be associated with them whatsoever.
The nearest wind farm to the Prince's country home at Highgrove, Gloucestershire, is seven miles away. The Prince chooses to spend much of the summer on the Balmoral estate in Scotland which is owned by the Queen. The nearest wind farm to Balmoral is at Novar, 65 miles away. [28]
Neville Isdell, Chairman
CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director at Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, Georgia CONSUMER GOODS / BEVERAGES - SOFT DRINKS Officer since January 1989 Director since June 2004
63 years old
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and has held these positions since June 1, 2004. From January 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Isdell was an international consultant to the Company. Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. from September 2000 to May 2001 and Vice Chairman from May 2001 to December 2001.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Beverages Plc from July 1998 to September 2000.
Mr. Isdell joined the Coca-Cola system in 1966 with a local bottling company in Zambia. He held a variety of positions prior to serving as Senior Vice President of the Company from January 1989 until February 1998. He also served as President of the Greater Europe Group from January 1995 to February 1998.
He is a Director of SunTrust Banks, Inc. E. Neville Isdell, the Company's current Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors until the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareowners in April 2009.[2]
Mohammed Jameel,Deputy Chairman & Chairman of IBLF Middle East
The ALJ business was founded by the late Sheikh Abdul Latif Jameel in 1945. In 1955, he was granted the sole distributorship for Toyota vehicles in Saudi Arabia which the ALJ Group has maintained ever since. It has an active community services program, which has emphasis on education, training, and development to assist the younger generations to achieve independence and self sustainability.
Mohammad Jameel, the son of the founder, is the President of the Group. [3]
Toyota, the world's second largest automotive manufacturer, hangs its corporate environmentalist image on its Prius hybrid which emits less greenhouse gases than the standard car. Its fuel guzzling SUV models, however, are amongst the company's biggest sellers and massively outnumber sales of hybrids65 , and the company's future depends on pushing the constant expansion of the car market. [4]
Lexus LS460 into Saudi: The Abdul Latif Jameel Group, the sole agent for Toyota in Saudi Arabia, has unveiled the Lexus LS460, reported Arab News. The sedan offers a V8 engine that can generate 340 bhp and has a fuel efficiency rate of 16.8 litres per 100 km. The LS460 is equipped with eight air bags and the body structure has been equipped with AISI590 steel which is 1.3 times stronger than high-strength steel..[5]
Islamic Art in V&A
President and chief executive of the Abdul Latif Jameel Group, which in 2004 donated £5.4m to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for a display of Islamic art.
Jameel is a new kind of Saudi philanthropist. He realises that science and culture serve as much-needed bridges between Islam and the west, and his cash is reaching parts that past Saudi generosity failed to reach.[6]
19 July 2006 — HRH Prince of Wales officially opened the new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London last night. [7]
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman IBLF Asia
- ↑ [http://www.iblf.org/about_us/The_Prince_of_Wales.jsp HRH Prince of Wales & IBLF}
- ↑ Isdel Profile, accessed 4 March 2008
- ↑ Background to Abdul LatifJameel accessed 4 March 2008
- ↑ Toyota accessed 23 February 2008
- ↑ Automobile Industry accessed 4 March
- ↑ Connections to HRH Prince of Wales accessed 4 March 2008
- ↑ Connections to HRH Prince of Wales accessed 23 February 2008
