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Simon Zadek

Simon Zadek is chief executive of AccountAbility, a senior fellow at the Centre for Government and Business of Harvard University's Kennedy School, and an honorary professor at the University of South Africa. He is the author of The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship (Earthscan, 2001)

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