­EABIS and Cranfield SOM to hold one of the world's largest collaborative Business-Academic conferences in the field: The 2008 EABIS Colloquium.

This year's Colloquium will explore vital issues and priorities around the topic of "Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change". Keynote speeches will be given by Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of BT Group plc and former Chairman of KPMG International, John Elkington, Founder of SustainAbility, and Prof. Dexter Dunphy from the University of Technology Sydney.

Additional high level inputs will be provided by, among others:

Nigel Doughty, CEO, Doughty-Hanson
Jonathan Donner, Global VP, Unilever
Peter White, Global Sustainability Director, Procter & Gamble
Mike Patrick, Director Corporate Responsibility, TNT Express
Dorothy Mackenzie, CEO, Dragon International
Prof. Alfons Sauquet, Dean, ESADE Business School
Chris Bones, Principal, Henley Management College
Kai Peters, CEO, Ashridge
Prof. Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS
Prof Kim Turnbull-James, Director, Cranfield SOM Executive Education
Prof. Jane Nelson, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Richard Howitt, Rapporteur on CSR, European Parliament
Daniel Franklin, Executive Editor, The Economist
Stefan Stern, The Financial Times

Expecting more than 300 participants from academia, business, policy and leading stakeholder bodies, the conference will feature a combination of plenary, break-out sessions, and an International Gala Dinner. Around 80 papers and case studies on Organisational Change and Sustainability from senior researchers, business managers and international think-tanks will also be presented in an interactive debate on latest thought leadership and practice. ­

Read more on the official event website: www.eabis2008.info