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Solutions for Sustainable Development
International CSR advisory experience shared
in Romania in partnership with
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1. How to Get started with CSR from Strategy to
Reporting 1 day workshop Trainer Nikos Avlonas
visiting experts to be announced soon
Who is Nikos Avlonas? Nikos Avlonas is one of
the founders and Managing Director of the
Centre for Sustainability Excellence CSE, a
global Think Tank and Sustainable Development
Strategic advisory Network, based in Athens and
Brussels been active in more than 12 countries.
Nikos is a well known international speaker in
topics related to Sustainable Development and CSR
and has delivered speeches all over the world
(in Chicago, Kolkata, Beijing, Istanbul, London,
Paris, Cairo, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Rome,
Budapest, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Hague, Moscow,
Tehran, Luxemburg, Warsaw, Athens, Nicosia,
Singapur and Dubai). Nikos specialises in
Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility
Governance, Business Ethics and Performance
Management. He has carried out numerous projects
in leading organizations including Fortune
Global 500 Companies like BP, Dell Computers, Mc
Cain, TNT, DHL, Lafarge, Deutsche Post, HSBC,
?ank of Cyprus, TECOM ,DIFC and many others
including the European Investment Bank. In
addition he is the advisor of Lloyds TSB bank on
Corporate Social Responsibility . Nikos has
served, since 2000, as a Part -Time Professor at
the American College Of Greece (Deree College)
lecturing on Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR), Total Quality Management and Supply Chain
Management. Additionally he has lectured at a
variety of Universities including the Kellogg
School of Management (Chicago) and Sheffield
Hallam University (U.K). He collaborates with
global Non-Profit organizations like
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC ),World
Council for Corporate Governance (WCFCG) UN
Global Compact, the European Academy for
Business in Society and many others . Nikos is
also member of the advisory board of the The
EthicMark an annual global award based in the
U.S. that recognizes outstanding marketing,
advertising, and public relations campaigns and
communications designed to uplift the human
spirit and society. He is one of the founders and
Vice President of the Corporate Responsibility
Institute a non for profit organization for CSR
performance evaluation and benchmarking based on
the BITC CR Index . In the past he was the
initiator and Vice Chairman of the Greek
Institute for Business Ethics (Member of the
European Business Ethics Network -EBEN )
Scientific Advisor to the European Foundation
for Quality Management (EFQM), based in
Brussels, in the field of Business Excellence and
Corporate Social Responsibility. He has
cooperated, usually as project leaderfor the
development of a CSR European Framework
relevant tools methodologies supported by the
United Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Additionally he participated as an expert in the
EFQM Excellence model Executive Review Committee,
which created the Business Excellence Model
Ed. 2003 for more than 30,000 European
Enterprises. He has extensive international
experience in Executive training coaching (in
more than 25 countries), having taught over
4,000 managers in public private sector
organizations /foundations including
EFQM(Brussels), Dubai Government , BP, Coca
Cola, Mobistar , Rolls Royce ,Total , Deutsche
Post , Pioneer Europe ,Swiss Institude for
applied Sciences, Athens International Airport,
DELL,Tasty Foods, the Hellenic Bank Association,
Bank of Valetta, Lloyds TSB , British American
Tobacco, Cosmote, Dubai Airport ,the Volvo Group
, EDF ,Dubai Holding . He has been invited as a
key note speaker, to many international
conferences all over the world and has
contributed as chairman and advising member in
the organization and coordination of workshops
and international conferences on a variety of
business topics. Finally he has published
numerous articles surveys in international and
local magazines/ newspapers on issues related
to Sustainability, Corporate Social
Responsibility Governance, Climate Change,
Business Ethics Sustainability, Business
Excellence etc and he has given many interviews
relevant to the above issues to local
international TV channels including CNBC , CCTV (
China Central TV) and many others. Nikos Avlonas
is married, has a young son and currently resides
in Athens with his family.