Chandran Nair, Founder and Chief Executive of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), is one of our speakers for PUSH 2008: The Fertile Delta. GIFT is based in Beijing, and its work is focused on sustainable business (and, by definition, social and environmental) for Asia, offering “Honest Inquiry. Asia’s World View. Ideas to Action.”
GIFT has an inspiring program for training Global Young Leaders, which had its beginning at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005. Its next project takes students and executives to business opportunities in Cambodia:
Cambodia Rural Agricultural Enterprise Project
March 3-15, 2008
The programme taking place from March 3-14, begins with an MBA-style classroom module in Hong Kong during which GIFT facilitators and guest speakers from corporate and civil society groups will focus on the challenges of being effective in a rapidly changing business environment. In their first week, participants will examine topics such as: globalisation, civil society, role of government, business ethics, diversity and corporate social responsibility. They will then apply these concepts in a seven-day experience on-site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where they will work closely with community members in the surrounding rural vicinity and a local NGO partner, the Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), to produce a robust business plan for a Cambodian social enterprise.
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