Petronas CEO is 52nd
By Kamarul Yunus ahmadk@nstp.com.my
PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) president and chief executive officer (CEO) Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican has been named among Ethisphere's 100 most influential people in business ethics. He is one of only three Asians in the list, the other two being Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the mistress of Chinese navy deputy commander Wang Shouye. Mohd Hassan was ranked 52nd most influential in business ethics by the New York-based magazine Ethisphere, which is widely read by corporate executives. Susilo was ranked 23rd and Wang's mistress 85th. According to Ethisphere, Mohd Hassan sits on the boards of a few socially-minded groups, including the Commonwealth Business Council and the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). Ethisphere said Mohd Hassan is one of three business people on PACI's board, and the only board member from the Far East, who help move the anti-corruption debate from only western corporations and proactively engage those from the Far East as well. According to Ethisphere, the World's Most Ethical (WME) companies methodology analyses companies that go beyond making statements about doing business "ethically", to translate those words into action. Ethisphere said WME winners demonstrate real and sustained ethical leadership within their industries, putting the council's credo of "good, smart, business, profit" into real business practice. To gather the information to measure industry leaderships against the none criteria, Ethisphere researchers and editors screened thousands of companies across the globe through a rigorous multi-step process. The Ethisphere's 100 most influential people in business ethics are divided into nine main categories, namely government and regulatory; business leadership; non-government organisation; design and sustainability; media whistleblowers; thought leadership; corporate culture; investment and research; and legal and governance. Other distinguished persons in the list include Nobel Laureate and former US vice president Al Gore, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Virgin Group founder and chairman Sir Richard Branson, Wal-Mart president and CEO H. Lee Scott Jr, General Electric chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt, Nike president and CEO Mark Parker, Tesco CEO Terry Leahy, Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell, Edelman president and CEO Richard Edelman, Xerox chairman and CEO Anne M. Mulcahy, and Marks & Spencer 1/2
CEO Stuart Rose.
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