S. Prakash Sethi, President

Dr. Sethi is an internationally renowned expert on international corporate codes of conduct and has been instrumental in advocating new approaches with regard to their formulation, implementation and performance evaluation. Dr. Sethi has had extensive front-line experience in the field of business ethics. He is the author, most recently, of Setting Global Standards: Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003). He spent over 12 years working and studying the operations of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa and their impact on U.S. corporations who were breaking down the apartheid barriers in South Africa. His book on this historic process, co-authored with Rev. Oliver F. Williams of the University of Notre Dame, is The Ethical Corporation: The Sullivan Code of Corporate Conduct in South Africa and the Shaping of a New Vision for Global Business (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, and University of Notre Dame Press, paperback, 2001). He also conducted the seminal study of the infant formula code enacted by the World Health Organization and the Nestle boycott controversy which resulted in a book entitled: Multinational Corporations and the Impact of Public Advocacy on Corporate Strategy: Nestle and the Infant Formula Controversy (Boston: Academic Publishers, 1994).

Dr. Sethi has published 24 books and over 135 articles in professional and scholarly journals. He has extensively addressed, in his writings and in speeches around the globe, such topics as political advertising, corporate social responsibility, free markets and business ethics, dynamics of competition, corporate crimes, corporations and politics, corporate governance, economic development, international business and multinational corporations. Between 1998 and 2002, Dr. Sethi served as the Chairperson of the Mattel Independent Monitoring Council for Global Manufacturing Principles (MIMCO). Mattel is one of the world's largest producers of toys. The Global Manufacturing Principles (GMP) are a set of standards dealing with workers' wages, working and living conditions, and human rights, that Mattel has committed itself to adhere to in its worldwide manufacturing facilities. MIMCO is responsible for monitoring Mattel's compliance with the GMP, advise and assist Mattel on improving its performance with regard to the Code, and make regular reports to the public of Mattel's performance and its evaluation by the Council.

During 1998 -1999, he served as an Advisor to the Executive Office of the Secretary General on the U.N. sponsored code of conduct called the UN Global Compact, and designed to implement a unified set of global principles pertaining to the treatment of workers. Dr. Sethi regularly advises and consults with multinational corporations, national governments and regulatory agencies, international and multilateral financial institutions on the issues of codes of conducts, their implementation, monitoring and verification. He serves on the boards of directors/advisors for a number of NGOs. He is also a member of editorial boards of various academic and professional journals. Dr. Sethi is University Distinguished Professor, Academic Director of Executive Programs, and Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Prior to joining Baruch College in 1982, he has taught at the University of California - Berkley, and University of Texas - Dallas. He holds a Masters in Economics from Delhi University, India, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York.