This year the Awards Dinner honoured the following individuals for their exceptional commitment to corporate citizenship.
We showed appreciation for the work they have done in advancing the cause of equality in the workplace, their commitment to corporate social responsibility through charitable philanthropy and their willingness to promote transparency and best practice in corporate governance.
Jim Barber
Chief Operating Officer
UPS
Jayne-Anne Gadhia CBE
Chief Executive
Virgin Money
Jim Barber, COO, UPS speaks on the initiatives that are entwining Corporate Citizenship in the company’s day-to-day activities, including reducing carbon emissions by 12% by 2020, and using their 450,000 ‘UPSers’ to deliver 20m hours of volunteerism direct to communities by 2020. pic.twitter.com/xvJwA0z0kw
— BritishAmerican Business (@BritAmBusiness) June 6, 2018
BAB Corporate Citizenship Award recipient Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO, Virgin Money speaks on the importance of working to ‘make a difference’ in the world “if you can’t have a purpose in life, what’s the point?” pic.twitter.com/61Q6YAEk9w
— BritishAmerican Business (@BritAmBusiness) June 6, 2018
These business leaders are embracing the spirit of corporate citizenship, promoting trust, inclusive business models and managing global impacts – putting these values into action to drive prosperity and economic development in communities globally and locally.
A highlight of London’s transatlantic business calendar, this black-tie awards dinner brought together more than 200 influential business leaders from both sides of the Atlantic as well as other dignitaries including senior representation from UK and US Governments.
Previously known as the American Chamber of Commerce William E Channing Award, it was created to honour international statesmen but was renamed the BritishAmerican Business Corporate Citizenship Award in 2004 to pay tribute to corporate leaders who foster good corporate citizenship.
Previous Honourees
2004 – Lord Browne, CEO, BP
2005 – Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone
2006 – Todd Stitzer, CEO, Cadburys Schweppes
2007 – Ben Verwaayen, CEO, BT
2008 – James Murdoch, CEO and Director, British Sky Broadcasting
2009 – Terry Hill, Chairman Arup Group, 2004-2009
2010 – David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca plc
2011 – Peter Voser, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell PLC
2012 – Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP
2013 – Sir Michael Rake, Chairman, BT Group Plc
2014 – Peter Hancock, CEO, AIG Property Casualty and Peter Sands, Group CEO, Standard Chartered PLC
2015 – Steve Holliday, CEO National Grid plc and Dan Glaser, CEO Marsh & Mclennan Companies
2016 – Peter Grauer, Chairman of Bloomberg, Steve McGill CBE, Group President of Aon and Xavier Rolet KBE, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group
2017 – Douglas Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Chairman, New York Times Company and Kate Robertson, Founder, One Young World
