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Mallen Baker Biography
Mallen Baker is a writer, speaker and strategic advisor on corporate social responsibility and Founding Director of Business Respect.
He is a regular columnist with Ethical Corporation, as well as being a member of the Ethical Corporation Advisory Board.
Mallen was formerly the development director with Business in the Community, where he was responsible for developing BITC's approach to marketplace issues, which includes how companies manage issues that arise around their core products and services. He produced the Marketplace Responsibility Principles working with a leadership team of CEOs from major companies headquartered in the UK.
He initiated the Business Impact Review Group - the group of 20 companies who developed a common approach to CSR reporting, and was responsible for the work of the Business Impact Taskforce which produced the landmark "Winning with Integrity" report.
Mallen chairs the CSR Superbrands project in the UK, and is a member of the Social Marketing Standards Advisory Task Group. He chairs Kingfisher plc's Stakeholder Advisory Panel, and was a board member of CSR Europe 2006 - 2008.
This biog last updated Jan 2009.
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Contact: mallen@mallenbaker.net






