The IGOPP at Davos in 2010 !

Professor Yvan Allaire, chair of the IGOPP’s board of directors, will participate at the upcoming World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Davos summit

Professor Allaire was invited to join the WEF’s recently created “Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business,” following publication of his work Black Markets and Business Blues, (which he co-wrote with Professor Mihaela Firsirotu)

This working group* was mandated to reflect on the role of businesses in society and to formulate action proposals with a global scope. The working group’s preliminary recommendations will be presented at the upcoming summit in Davos next January.

The Members of Global Agenda Council- WEF:

• Yvan Allaire, Chair, IGOPP Canada
• Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, United Kingdom
• Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr, Chief Executive Officer (2001 2009),PricewaterhouseCoopers International, USA
• William W. George, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School, USA
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA
• Georg Kell, Executive Director, Global Compact Office, United Nations, New York
• Jack Ma Yun, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba.com, People’s Republic of China
• Takeshi Niinami, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lawson, Japan
• Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA ; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
• Tarek Sultan Al Essa, Chairman and Managing Director, Agility, Kuwait
• Werner Wenning, Chairman of the Board of Management, Bayer, Germany