Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE

Driving impact through Corporate Social Responsibility

Please join the Africa Oxford Business Network (OBN) and the Social Impact OBN, at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, as we welcome Lord Dr Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE as speaker in our Joint Speaker Series. Dr Michael Hastings is Global Head of Citizenship for KPMG International.

Michael began his career as a teacher moving into government service in 1986 supporting policy initiatives to bring employment and development to Britain’s inner cities. In 1990 he started working for TVAM on education programming and then GMTV as its Chief Political Correspondent. In 1994 Michael moved to the BBC as a presenter on the weekly Around Westminster programme before joining its Corporate Affairs division. In 1996 he became the BBC’s Head of Public Affairs and then its first head of Corporate Social Responsibility in 2003 before becoming KPMG international’s Global Head of Citizenship in 2006.

Michael has represented KPMG International on the Global Corporate Citizenship Committee of the World Economic Forum from 2008 to 2010. In 2009 he became a Member of the WEF’s Global Council on Diversity and Talent, in 2010 served on the Global Agenda Council on the Next Generation and in 2011 became a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business. In 2012-2014 he led the WEF Global Agenda Council, The Future of Civil Society and in 2016 joined the WEF Global Futures Council on Migration.