PROFESSOR GEOFFREY WILLIAMS
MA (Cantab), MA (oxon), MA (Liverpool), PhD (East Anglia), CMgr FCMI, FRSA
Professor Geoffrey Williams is an economist with a wide portfolio of interests in management strategy, sustainability, social responsibility, higher education management and economics and public policy. He has pioneered research on the interface of Islamic Business and Corporate Responsibility, the concept of Responsible Privatisation and management and finance of private higher education in Malaysia.
He designed and managed the research programme for the SRI-Kehati Sustainability Index for the Indonesian Stock Exchange 2009-14. He was a member of the Judging Panel for the Prime Minister’s CSR Awards 2010, the Enterprise Asia AREA Award 2009-10 and the Global CSR Summit Award 2009-present. His company Williams Business Consultancy Sdn Bhd was the local partner for the EU-funded Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) project at the EPU in the Prime Minister’s Department. In 2017 he was honoured with the Lifetime Contribution Award for his work on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability around the world.
Geoffrey has been living and working in Malaysia for 17 years and has extensive experience of working around the Asia region, the Middle East and Europe. He has worked with leading international companies and organisations including PETRONAS, Maybank Berhad, Sime Darby Berhad, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, PT Unilever Indonesia, NTUC FairPrice – Singapore, UEM Group Berhad, UEM Land Berhad, Tesco (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, PLUS Expressways Berhad, UMW Holdings Berhad, MRCB, Resorts World Berhad, DRB-HiCom Berhad, Media Prima Berhad, du – the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Emirates Foundation, the International Labour Organisation, the EU Commission and others.
Prof Williams was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor of Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK). He has held academic positions at London Business School, Pembroke College, University of Oxford and the University of London. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2004 and Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Management in 2010. He was Deputy Chair of the EU Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) (2012-14) and also Chair of the Education Committee and CSR Committee.
He has published in leading academic journals and the international media and his recent publications include Responsible Management in Asia – Perspectives on CSR, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2011 and Advancing Innovation and Sustainable Outcomes in International Graduate Education, (Mohan Raj Gurubatham and Geoffrey Williams, Editors), published by IGI Global (Pennsylvania, United States) in July 2020.
