About the Authors

Jonas Yunus Atlas is a Christian theologian who has been involved in both local and international interfaith dialogues for many years. He lived in Istanbul for an extended period, where his involvement with the Islamic world grew, resulting in the Halal Monk project. This web project collects interreligious conversations with influential spiritual leaders and important artists of the Muslim world. The Halal Monk website also collects personal theological reflections of 99 verses of the Qur’an. These are meant to bring about a wider public discussion on contemporary spiritual, religious, and societal topics. The project can be accessed on www.halalmonk.com

Luk Bouckaert (1941) is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium). He is a philosopher and an economist by training. His research and publications fall within the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he founded with some colleagues the interdisciplinary Centre for Economics and Ethics at Leuven. In 2000 he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and some years later the international European SPES Forum. He has written numerous books and articles in Dutch and co-edited a series of English publications including Spirituality as a Public Good (with L. Zsolnai, 2007), Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life (with H. Opdebeeck and L. Zsolnai, 2008), and The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (with L. Zsolnai, 2011).

Elfrida Calvocoressi had her nurse training at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London (1962). She worked as a district nurse/midwife in rural Suffolk, night sister and operating theatre sister. She married Roy Calvocoressi in 1974 and worked with him in the West Indian projects in London. She helped set up the Uganda project in 1990 and returned to Uganda for annual visits to teach the teams. In December 2010 she was invited to lead a seminar at the Cambridge International Forum on Development on CHIPS’ methods of peacemaking. Elfrida is a CHIPS Trustee.

Manas Chatterji is Professor of Management, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, and Guest Professor, Peking University, Beijing, China. He has been Visiting Professor at many universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Professor Chatterji is currently a fellow of the international organization Economists for Peace and Security. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and United Nations and has organized international meetings on Health Care, Technology Management and Disaster Management. He is the General Editor of a book series on Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development (Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam, and Emerald Publishing Company, UK.). He has authored/edited 30 books and published nearly 80 scholarly articles. He established the Mahatma Gandhi International Center for Conflict Prevention and Management at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Perrine De Landtsheer graduated as Master of Environmental Health and Safety Management, Leuven University, Faculty of Business and Economics. Because of her passion for animal welfare, she started the Master of Veterinary Science at Antwerp University.

Gerrit De Vylder, after finishing his MA studies (Modern Economic History and Development Economics) at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Gent University (UG) in Belgium, Gerrit De Vylder obtained his PhD in Economics from Tilburg University (UvT) in the Netherlands. He is presently teaching Economic History and International Political Economy at the University of Leuven. He also has guest-lectured on India and the ethical and philosophical aspects of globalization in different countries. His recent publications focus the economic history of globalization from an Asia-centric point of view and the relationship between economics and religion (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism/Taoism, Islam, and Christianity) and between economics and Orientalist literature.

Thomas Dienberg, OFM Cap, born 1964 in Bocholt/Germany, is a priest and member of the Capuchin order, a member of the province council for 15 years and responsible for formation since 1991. He has a Doctorate in Theology of Spirituality (studied in Muenster, Nijmegen, Wien and St. Bonaventure/New York) and a Master in Organizational Management (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum). He is Professor for Theology of Spirituality at Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Münster (PTH), President of the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule (PTH) since 2002 and Visiting Professor at the Antonianum/Rome. His main subjects of research and publication include Asceticism, Mysticism, Franciscan Spirituality, Spirituality and Literature, and Spirituality and Management.

Linda Groff is Emeritus Professor, Political Science and Futures Studies, California State University, California (USA). She is Director of Global Options and Evolutionary Futures Consulting. She teaches, writes, consults, and gives talks and workshops in the United States and globally on (1) global futures/ evolution/change, (2) peace/conflict resolution/nonviolence, (3) intercultural/ interreligious dialogue, and (4) spiritual/consciousness topics. She has published numerous articles, with books in preparation, in the above areas.

Knut J. Ims is Professor of Business Ethics in the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is a member of the business ethics faculty group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). Some recent publications in English include the following: Heroes and Anti-Heroes: European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership (co-edited with Rita Ghesquiere, Antwerpen, 2010); “Deep Ecology,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); “Initiating an Open Research System Based on Creativity” (with O. Jakobsen) in Responsible Economics (Oxford, 2013); and “Social Innovations in Poor Countries: Reflections on Innovation and Ethics,” in Management for Progress (Oslo, 2013).

Ove D. Jakobsen is Professor in Ecological Economics and Ethics at Bodø Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland. He is co-founder of the Centre for Ecological Economics and Ethics. In addition to a PhD in Economics from NHH, Jakobsen holds masters degrees in Philosophy, Marketing and Administration and Management. For the last 15 years he has researched and taught issues concerning the interaction between economy, society, and nature. He gives lectures based on his research to government agencies, businesses, and organizations through participation in workshops, seminars, and conferences and has published numerous books and articles, nationally and internationally.

Thomas F. Kelly is Professor of Strategic Management and Business Ethics in the School of Management at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and long-time former School of Management Dean and University Vice President. He has served on three corporate boards of directors and on more than a dozen non-profit boards of directors. His recent publications have focused on corporate social responsibility, the ethics of the credit rating agencies, and the newly emerging social enterprises. He is part of a research group formed by the Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University to conduct research on B Corps. He received his PhD from Cornell University.

Edy Korthals Altes (1924) is a former Dutch diplomat who served as Deputy Permanent Representative at the EEC in Brussels, and as Ambassador in Warsaw and Madrid. He resigned in 1986, in connection with his public stance on the arms race. Since then, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Dutch chapter of the Pugwash Movement (1987–1995); Chairman of the Section International Affairs of the Netherlands Council of Churches (1990–1996); Co-President of EECOD, the European Ecumenical Commission on Development (1991–1993); member EKD Advisory Commission for Development Affairs, Germany (1992–1997); and President of the World Conference of Religions for Peace (1994–1999). He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Relevant Publications include Heart and Soul for Europe (1999) and Spiritual Awakening (2008).

Gábor Kovács is a PhD student at the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research topic is spiritual value-orientations in entrepreneurship. He has a background in economics and management and received his master’s degree in Buddhist studies from the Budapest Buddhist University in 2010. His research areas are sustainability and ecological-orientation in business practices.

Michaël Merrigan is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Leuven Institute for Human Rights and Critical Studies (LIHRICS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Leuven (Belgium). He obtained a Master’s Degree in Law at the University of Leuven, an LL.M. in Public International Law at Leiden University and the European Master’s Degree (E.MA) in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, Italy. During his E.MA studies, he also conducted research at the Irish Institute for Human Rights of the National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland. He is currently preparing a PhD thesis on the topic of fundamental rights and responsibilities in a democratic society, under the supervision of prof. Dr. Paul Lemmens.

Kamran Mofid is founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (www.gcgi.info). He received his BA and MA in economics from the University of Windsor, Canada and his doctorate in economics from the University of Birmingham, UK. In 2001 he received a Certificate in Education in Pastoral Studies at Plater College, Oxford. From 1980 to 2000, he was Economic Teaching Assistant, Tutor, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Universities of Windsor (Canada), Birmingham, Bristol, Wolverhampton, and Coventry (UK). His books include The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War (1990); Globalisation for the Common Good (2002); Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalisation for the Common Good (2003); Promoting the Common Good (with Marcus Braybrooke, 2005); and A Non-Violent Path to Conflict Resolution and Peace Building (co-authored, 2008).

Ingrid Molderez is a Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility and Economics at Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Leuven, Brussels and researcher at CEDON, Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability. She completed her PhD at Hasselt University in 1999, researching sustainability and location, supervised by Dr. Eric Lefebvre. She has a Master of Arts in Social Theory and Organisation from Keele University, UK.

Thomas Morgan is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Economics and Peace, Sydney, Australia. In 2013 he was a visiting researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Some of his recent publications include “Building Peace Benefits” with Daniel Hyslop in Behavioural Process and Systems of Peace (2014), and “Measuring Terrorism with the Global Terrorism Index” with Daniel Hyslop in Understanding Terrorism: A Socio-Economic Perspective.

Walter G. Moss is Emeritus Professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. He has authored Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky; A History of Russia (2 vols.); and An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces. He has also co-authored several books. He is a contributing editor to the History News Network and an advisory board member to the Wisdom Page. To these two websites and to the LA Progressive and Hollywood Progressive websites, he has contributed more than 150 essays since 2008. In recent decades he has also written more than 100 book reviews for various journals. A complete list of his recent essays is available at http://people.emich.edu/wmoss/pub.htm.

Sharda Nandram is Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit within the Center for Entrepreneurship. She is also Professor on the Buurtzorg Chair Organizational Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM) in Bangalore, India and Buurtzorg Innovator in the Netherlands, founder of Praan Solutions, an international consultancy where she guides spiritual practices for Businesses from an Integral Approach. Dr. Sharda Nandram has two bachelors and two master’s degrees to her credit, one in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and the other in General Economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She completed her PhD in Social Sciences at the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Her topics of interest are: spirituality, mindfulness, Indian leadership, entrepreneurship, and management innovation.

András Ócsai has worked for several companies and also in the public sector after graduating from Corvinus University of Budapest in 2002. He found his way back to his alma mater and started his PhD studies in 2012 under the supervision of László Zsolnai. The title of his thesis is “Values-oriented business and ecological transformation.” He is also interested in several public benefit organizations dealing with studying, teaching and promoting business ethics, classical philosophy, or Bhutanese culture.

Hendrik Opdebeeck is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Antwerp, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Ethics. He studied philosophy and economics at the Universities of Leuven and Ghent where he obtained a PhD with a dissertation on E. F. Schumacher’s theories of Intermediate Technology. His research interest is focused on the cultural-philosophical backgrounds and effects of globalization. His publications in English include The Foundation and Application of Moral Philosophy (2000), Building Towers, Perspectives on Globalisation (2002), Frugality, Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life (co-edited with L. Bouckaert & L. Zolnai, 2008), and Responsible Economics: E. F. Schumacher and his Legacy for the 21st Century (2013).

Lisette Peulen is a Business Consultant and Mediator, working in Belgium and the Netherlands. She is an educated documentalist and business engineer. In 1998, after 13 years as an employed manager, she began her own business in leading change projects and coaching (change) managers. In 2011 she published Leven en werken in verbondenheid: onderweg in organisaties van de nieuwe wereld (Creating Connected Companies). As a business coach she is an expert on a range of system theoretical tools and concepts, with a personal mission of enhancing consciousness within the working environment. As a poet she has published two books and is one of the keepers of the Chartres Labyrinth in Lanaken (Belgium).

Maria Prandi is Founder and Director at Business and Human Rights (BHR), an organization that helps companies, governments, and third sector organizations to improve companies’ impacts in the field of human rights, development and peace-building through the practice of social innovation. She is also Co-Founder of Peacestartup (www.peacestartup.org), a global initiative that seeks to demonstrate how entrepreneurs and ICT can be significant drivers to build peace by escalating and connecting social innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities that respond to the challenges of peace and sustainability in a particular country. She is an associated researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation at Esade Business School. Her main publications include A Practical Handbook on Business and Human Rights (2006), Can Companies Contribute to the Millenium Development Goals? (in Spanish, 2009), and CSR in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments: From Risk Management to Value Creation (2010). Prandi has worked with several human rights bodies of the United Nations in Geneva and she is currently participating in the setting up of an international research network on Business, Conflicts, and Human Rights.

Simon Robinson, FRSA, educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, Simon Robinson joined Leeds Beckett University in 2004 as Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics. He is director of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility. He has written and researched extensively on business ethics, corporate social responsibility, leadership, the nature and dynamics of responsibility, equality, spirituality and ethics, and ethics and care. His books include Agape, Moral Meaning and Pastoral Counseling; Spirituality and the Practice of Healthcare; Values in Higher Education; Spirituality, Ethics and Care; Leadership Responsibility; and Co-Charismatic Leadership.

Steven Scalet is the author of Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics (Pearson, 2014) and numerous journal articles in business ethics and political philosophy, which focus on topics of corporate responsibility and the foundations of liberalism. Scalet taught at Binghamton University (SUNY) for 10 years, where he directed the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law (PPL), as well as PPL in Britain, leading students on semester-long study abroad programs at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Scalet received the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004 and the Binghamton University Award for Excellence in Service in 2007. Scalet is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Baltimore (USM), a Senior Research Fellow at Binghamton University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore. Scalet received his PhD in philosophy and M.A. in economics from the University of Arizona.

Edith Sizoo, born in the Netherlands (1939), Edith Sizoo has a master’s degree from the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a socio-linguist and has worked within the framework of Development Cooperation in Hong Kong and India, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, as Director of the Netherlands federation of Non-Governmental Development Organisations and as International Coordinator of the Network Cultures and Development in Brussels. Since 2003 she has coordinated an international process, initiated by the Foundation Charles Léopold Mayer, for the promotion of a Universal Charter of Human Responsibilities. She serves as International Coordinator of the Forum on Ethics & Responsibility (www.ethica-respons.net). Her publications include Par delà le feminisme (2004), Responsibilité et cultures du monde (ed., 2008; published in English as Responsibility and cultures of the world, 2010), Societal Responsibility Today: governments, businesses, citizens (with Sipko M. De Boer, 2015).

Jonathan Smith is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and Fellow of the Leadership Trust, Leadership Development Manager at Devon and Cornwall Police. Prior to this he was Senior Lecturer at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, and involved in the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative. He is an Associate at the Centre for Leadership, Governance and Global Responsibility at Leeds Metropolitan University, Director of the Institute for Spirituality and Policing, and member of the Professional Development Committee of the UK’s Professional Body for Human Resource Management (CIPD). He has an MA in Human Resource Management and a first-class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Daniel Truran currently serves as Director General of ebbf – ethical business building the future (ebbf.org) a Baha’i-inspired organization, applying the art and science of collaboration to create prosperity at Second Muse (secondmuse.com). He is a BCorporation Ambassador (bcorporation.eu), co-founder of the Impact Hub Madrid (www.hubmadrid.com), Visiting Professor and Tutor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Instituto Empresa (www.ie.edu) and professor at the EOI Business School (www.eoi.es/nw/Ingles/), and was Judge at Stanford University’s Social Entrepreneurship E-Challenge (www.bases.stanford.edu). He has organised a number of international conferences with Progressio, Spirit in Business and ebbf. He also enjoys lecturing at conferences, MBA courses and universities on innovation that contributes to the prosperity of both companies and society.

Piet Vandeputte is a lawyer who together with his wife in 1983 founded the firm Vandeputte & Hozée (Bruges, Belgium). He is a certified mediator for social and business conflicts.

Herman Van Rompuy, elected as the first full-time President of the European Council in November 2009, Herman Van Rompuy took office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force on December 1, 2009. In 2012, he was re-elected for a second term, from June 1, 2012 until November 30, 2014. Prior to that he had served in Belgium as Prime Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007–2008) and a minister in several government positions, including Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Budget (1993–1999), Minister of State (2004) and Secretary of State for Finance and Small Businesses (1988). He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Master of Applied Economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.