THE 2005 BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SEMINAR
Exploring Responsibility and Complicity
8 December 2005, Old Billingsgate, London 

09.00        Registrations
                Tea & Coffee on arrival

09.30        Keynote speeches: Setting the context for business responsibility with regards to complicity in                 human rights abuses

                Moderator: Mary Robinson (Honorary Chair, Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights & The                 2005 Business and Human Rights Seminar)

                - Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court)
                - Peter Sutherland KCMG (Chairman of BP plc & Chairman of Goldman Sachs                   International)

                Participant questions and discussion

10.45        Tea & Coffee

11.15        Panel: The various interpretations of legal and moral complicity in a business context

                Moderator: Wilma Wallace (Associate General Counsel, Vice President for Legal, Government &                 Environmental Affairs, Gap Inc.)

                - Nicholas Howen (Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists)
                - Irene Khan (Secretary General, Amnesty International)
                - Paul Watchman (Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)

                Full audience participation and discussion

12.45        Lunch

14.00        Interactive session: Examining complicity and responsibility dilemmas for business

                Moderator: Luke Wilde (Director, TwentyFifty Ltd)

                Roundtable discussion and feedback on three business dilemmas

                On-stage responses to the dilemmas from:

                - Lise Kingo (Executive Vice President, People, Reputation & Relations, Novo Nordisk A/S)
                - Alan Detheridge (Vice President, External Affairs, Exploration and Production, Shell                   International)
                - Jorge Daniel Taillant (Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Environment,                    Argentina)

                Full audience discussion

15.40        Tea & Coffee

15.50        The Way Forward - The Mandate of the Special Representative

                Moderator: Jane Nelson (Director, Business Leadership and Strategy, The Prince of Wales                 International Business Leaders Forum)

                Speaker: Professor John Ruggie (Special Representative on the Issue of Human Rights,                 Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises)

                Full room discussion

16.15        Closing remarks by Mary Robinson

16.30        Seminar ends