Faculty | Roome, N. (Nigel)
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Roome, N. (Nigel)
Professor of Corporate Global Reponsibility and Governance
n.roome@tiasnimbas.edu
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 Biography
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Biography
Nigel Roome is Professor of Global Corporate Responsibility and Governance at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Academic Director of the Globus Competence Centre for globalisation and sustainable development at TiasNimbas Business School. In addition he holds the Daniel Janssen Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at Solvay Business School, Free University of Brussels. He previously held chairs in The Netherlands (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tilburg University) and Canada (Schulich School of Business), and academic positions in Britain.
He is widely published on topics that examine the relationship between business strategies, innovation and technology, and, corporate responsibility, sustainable development and global change. His books include: Management education for sustainability and corporate environmental management (1994); Sustainability strategies for industry (1998); and The ecology of information and communications technologies (2002). He chaired the European Commission expert group and authored its report on sustainable production: challenges and objectives for EU research policy (2001).
He has received a number of research grants, where his role has been to coordinate interdisciplinary research teams. In addition, over the past 15 years he has studied and published work on some exceptional companies, which have undertaken significant progress in embedding sustainability and corporate responsibility into their strategy and practices.
Professor Roome’s career has involved innovations in both education and research. In educational terms he developed the environmental management curriculum in the 1970's and the business and environment and corporate responsibility curricula in the 1990's. He has been involved in the foundation of institutes for Corporate Responsibility [UK: 1990-3], Business and the Environment [Canada: 1993-6], and, Globalization and Sustainable Development [Netherlands: 1996-9] and was involved in organising, or serving on the advisory board of, more than fifteen national and international research and education conferences and collaborating on the design of more than 50 workshops at these and other conferences. In addition to his work establishing new centres he was Head of Department at Erasmus University Centre for Sustainable Development and Management from 2000-3. In 2004, the World Resources Institute acknowledged his role as a faculty pioneer in his field and his achievements as a European Faculty Pioneer over 20 years were acknowledged by The Aspen Institute in 2006. Professor Roome was nominated as chair of the Academic Board of the European Academy of Business in Society to 2008 and is a member of the Academy’s management board.
He seeks to put his knowledge into practice through his own consulting company Capability Dynamics - advising companies and policy makers on the links between strategy, corporate responsibility, sustainability and innovation. He has worked with companies, trade associations, professional institutes and the voluntary sector in Europe, North America and Japan. Clients include companies in the forest products, chemicals, mining, power utilities, ICT, manufacturing and food sectors.
His past work with professional bodies includes the American Academy of Management, the American Association for Engineering Education and the US National Academy of Sciences. He has also advised with the World Bank, the European Community and the government of Canada, UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Mexico.
He has a distinguished record of public and community service. Past positions include: Chairman of the UK Environmental Information Committee, member of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Committee, Chairman of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council, member of the judging panel for the Canadian Business Environmental Awards, Environment Councillor, adviser to the president of Ontario Hydro and the Office of the Canadian Commissioner for Environment and Sustainable Development, member of ABB’s global stakeholder advisory group.
He has provided advice to the European Commission’s as an expert to their ‘Futures’ project, as Chairman of the European Commission’s expert group on competitive and sustainable production systems to the year 2020, on the future of manufacturing systems in Europe, and, the coordination and integration of sustainable development into the research themes identified under FP7. He has been invited to contribute his views on corporate responsibility and sustainability to meetings of the European Union, under successive Presidencies of Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and Germany.
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