My Interest in Business Ethics

Region
International

Sector
Academic - Faculty/Staff

Areas of Interest
Human Rights


Me in Brief

Dr Malcolm McIntosh FRSA is Professor and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, which he joined in 2009. He started teaching and writing on corporate responsibility and sustainability in 1990. He has had careers in television production and journalism with the BBC; peace research at Bradford University; and business and language teaching in Sweden, Japan and Australia.

He has worked at the universities of Warwick and Coventry and been a visiting professor at the universities of Doshisha, Bath, Bristol, Stellenbosch, Waikato, and Sydney. He is the producer, author, co-author and editor of more than twenty-five books and numerous articles for journals, magazines and newspapers and television documentaries, and he has been a frequent commentator on television and radio around the world on social issues, business responsibility and sustainable enterprise. He has been a special advisor to the UN global Compact and was the founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship.

In the last two decades he has advised governments, corporations and international NGOs on global initiatives as well as working at a community level to establish local initiatives. In the words of one reviewer ‘in a world of siloed thinking he has concentrated on getting people to talk to people they wouldn’t normally talk to’ and built partnerships for innovative research and publishing projects, pioneered the teaching of business, human rights, and sustainability in business and management schools, and been at the heart of many corporate responsibility initiatives. A divergent thinker, he loves working across boundaries and breaking the institutionalised rules that prevent the growth of human and Earth-centred development.