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Ambreen Waheed
Executive Director - Responsible Business Initiative
PAKISTAN Lahore

Ambreen is among the pioneers of corporate responsibility andworkplace process integrity in Pakistan. Graduating from UETLahore as a National Merit Scholar, and attending graduate courses atthe Institute of Administrative Sciences, Punjab University and theSpeed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, she proceeded tothe Judge Business School, Cambridge University as a Chevening andCambridge Commonwealth Scholar where her dissertation examined supplychain integrity of five global brands sourcing in Sialkot and suggestedan assessment framework. Ambreen has retained a link with thesporting goods industry, organizing capacity-building events onworkplace standards, advising on brands supply chains and presided overa Fairtrade Workers Welfare body. Her work on fair-tradestandards for sport-balls led to the nation’s first exports in thecategory.
Ambreen is co-founder and executive director of Responsible BusinessInitiative, Pakistan’s only citizen sector organization dedicated tocorporate responsibility. She contributes to a number of processintegrity initiatives within and outside Pakistan, including the GlobalReporting Initiative, the Asia-Pacific CSR Centers Group, the SouthAsia Alliance for Responsible Business, the Asian Forum on CSR, the UNGlobal Compact Steering Board in Pakistan, the Securities and ExchangeCommissions NGO Governance Task-Force, Fairtrade Pakistan, and theGlobally Responsible Leaders Initiative of the Global Compact LearningForum & European Foundation for Management Development.
She has served as a CSR expert on the ICAP Corporate GovernanceCommittee, the UNCTAD ISAR committee, the Accountability-UNEP reviewcommittee on CSR standards, the juries for the Asia Forum CSR Awards,the ACCA-WWF Environmental reporting Awards, and chairs the GRIEmerging Markets Working Group. She has consulted internationallyfor UNDP, UNIDO and UNICEF, the corporate, citizen and governmentsectors, developing an on-line Social Impact Analysis and ReportingSystem for CIDA, the first non-food product-specific sourcing andmonitoring guidelines for Rattvisemarkt-Swedish Fair-trade, and workingstrategy outline for Pakistan Compliance Initiative.
Ambreen is a visiting professor at ESSEC-the Paris Business School, theInstitute of Administrative Sciences at the Punjab University, and hastaught at the Michigan Business School and the Wharton School of theUniversity of Pennsylvania. She is author of Pakistan’s first CSRstatus report commissioned by UNDP and SECP, and a co-author of anupcoming management text published by Nijmegen University.