Staff | Farid Baddache
Director, Europe | Paris
With more than twelve years of CSR strategy and management experience in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, Farid brings his global expertise to BSR's Paris office as a leading authority in sustainability. Farid draws on his wealth of experience in CSR strategy and program design and implementation to serve BSR's members and clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa. As part of the Advisory Services team, he leads engagements with companies from the energy, ICT, and food, agriculture, and beverage sectors. He also serves on BSR’s global Advisory Services Management team, which oversees BSR’s consulting and membership strategy and operations.
Prior to joining BSR, Farid bridged stakeholder concerns with business realities as a CSR strategy/management consultant and project manager. He has worked closely with various industrial leaders, international organizations, NGOs, unions, and public authorities to build a shared vision, where environmental and social issues are key market forces and new opportunities for value creation.
Farid is also a visiting professor at the French University of Versailles, working with its Centre of Economy and Ethics for the Environment and Development (C3ED). Widely published, Farid is the author of Le Développement Durable tout Simplement, Prévenir les Risques, Agir en Organisation Responsable, and Entreprises et ONG Face au Développement Durable, L'Innovation par la Coopération. He won a business book award in 2006.
Farid holds an M.B.A. from the ESSEC Business School in Paris and has completed studies at the National University of Singapore's Business School. In addition, Farid holds a post-graduate diploma in Organizational Sociology from EHESS, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France, where he focused on sustainability implementation. Farid speaks French, English, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.
Expertise
Social and environmental strategy development and materiality studies; risk assessment; management systems and performance evaluation; responsible supply chain management; stakeholder engagement
Thought Leadership
- Reports: Applying the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry: Version 2.0
- BSR Insight: Back to the Basics: How to Make Stakeholder Engagement Meaningful for Your Company
- Reports: BSR’s Five-Step Approach to Stakeholder Engagement
- Reports: Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry | Version 1.0
- Blog: More Safety for Offshore Oil and Gas in Europe
