Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility

Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) organization in Brazil. Its mission is to "mobilize, encourage and help companies manage their business in a socially responsible way, making them partners in building a sustainable and fair society."

The Ethos Institute was founded in February 1998 by a group of five businessmen with the leadership of Oded Grajew, now Chairman of Ethos and a founder of the World Social Forum." [1]

It works in partnership with the Business for Social Responsibility.

Members

Personnel

• Ricardo Young, President
• Oded Grajew, Chairman of the Board
• Paulo Itacarambi, Executive Vice President

Steering Committee

• Ricardo Young da Silva (President)
• Antoninho Marmo Trevisan
• Celina Borges Torrealba Carpi
• Eduardo Capobianco
• Emerson Kapaz
• Guilherme Peirao Leal
• Helio Mattar
• Horacio Lafer Piva
• Jorge Luiz Numa Abrahao
• Jose Luciano Duarte Penido
• Maria Cristina Nascimento
• Mauro Farias Dutra (lay off)
• Oded Grajew (Chairman of the Board)
• Pedro Moreira Salles
• Sergio Ephim Mindlin

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Advisory Board

• Aparecida Sueli Carneiro
• Daniel Feffer
• Helio Zylberstajn
• Joao Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco
• Jose Pessoa Queiroz Bisneto
• Jose Roberto Marinho
• Nelson Pacheco Sirotsky
• Oscar Vilhena Vieira
• Roberto Egydio Setubal
• Roberto Giannetti da Fonceca
• Stephen Kanitz
• Valdemar de Oliveira Neto

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Fiscal Council

• Claudio Emanuel de Menezes - President of Disoft Solution S.A.
• Elcio Aníbal de Lucca
• Joaquim Manhaes Moreira
• Lina Menezes
• Vilma Peramezza
• Wander Telles

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International Advisory Board

• Alice Tepper Marlin - SAI – Social Accountability International, USA
• Allen White - Tellus Institute, USA
• Bernardo Toro - Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
• Bob Dunn - BSR – Business for Social Responsibility, USA
• Bradley Googins - Boston College – Center for Corporate Citizenship, USA
• Carlos Lopes - PNUD, Brasil
• David Vidal - The Conference Board, USA
• Deborah Leipziger - European Director for Social Accountability International/Leipziger & Munids, The Netherlands
• Djordjija Petkoski - World Bank Institute, USA
• Ernst Ligteringen - GRI – Global Reporting Initiative, The Netherlands
• Eric Leenson - Progressive Asset Management, USA
• Federico Cuneo - Perú 2021, Peru
• George Kell - UN Global Compact, USA
• Hazel Henderson - http://www.hazelhenderson.com/, USA
• Jane Nelson - Harvard Business School – Kennedy School, USA
• Javier Cox - Acción RSE, Chile
• John Elkington - SustainAbility, EUA
• Luis Ulla - IARSE – Instituto Argentino de Responsabilidad Social, Argentina
• Mokhethi Moshoeshoe - AICC – African Institute of Corporate Citizenship, South Africa
• Peter Davies - Business in the Community, UK
• Roberto Murray Meza - Agrisal, Forum Empresa, El Salvador
• Titus Brenninkmeijer - Good Energies Inc., The Netherlands/USA
• Simon Zadek - Accountability, UK

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Contact details

Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social
Rua Dr. Fernandes Coelho, 85/10º andar, Edifício Pantheon - Pinheiros
CEP 05423-040, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
Phone: (55-11) 3897-2400
Fax: (55-11) 3897-2424
Email: atendimento AT ethos.org.br
Web: http://www.ethos.org.br/DesktopDefault.aspx?Alias=EthosEnglish&Lang=en-US&init

Resources and articles

Related SourceWatch articles

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Ethical Markets Media

External resources

• Mario Osava, Interview with Ethos Institute founder Oded Grajew, TierraAmerica, accessed November 2010.