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November 11, 2008
Qantas Foundation, in conjunction with CSI, hosted a lecture on social impact presented by Lord Michael Hastings. CEOs and executive managers of Qantas and Australia's biggest not-for-profits flocked to the October 14 lecture to hear Hastings, who is the International Director for Corporate Citizenship with KPMG.
Hastings didn't disappoint, with impassioned and sometimes controversial dialogue on how, in this ‘millenni
Hastings spoke of how business leaders often nurture public ambitions of being active in providing solutions to society's dilemmas. Business needs strong and stable societies to prosper and should embrace social impact as central to their business, not an adjunct, he said.
Introduced by Shirley Davies, General Manager of the Qantas Foundation, Hastings is a non-executive Director for British Telecom's Community Support Committee. With a passion for criminal justice solutions, Hastings is Chairman of Crime Concern and was a founding member of the Metropolitan Police Advisory Committee. He was a Commissioner with the Commission for Racial Equality from 1993 to 2001 and advised on race relations in the UK for nine years.
Hastings was awarded the honour of a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in January 2003, and an independent cross bench peerage to the House of Lords in July 2005. Hastings also received the UNICEF award in 2005 for his contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa's children.