Bill Valentino
Strengths: Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility
Bill is a recognized expert on sustainability, social entrepreneurship, social innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). His work and research centres mainly on China and includes collaborations internationally in a wide range of sectors at the forefront of these topics. His focus is responsible leadership and the role of business in society.
As a hands-on practitioner of CSR, he was Bayer’s VP of Corporate Social Responsibility China until his retirement in July 2011 after 24 years of working for the company in China. He specializes in developing CSR and sustainability strategies and programs in both the social (including healthcare) and environmental sectors.
After retirement he has taken on two new academic positions. He has been appointed Professor and Deputy Director of the China Institute for Social Responsibility at Beijing Normal University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy. He will head up a new degree program, a “MPA Social Responsibility” that will have its first student intake in the fall of 2012.
He remains at Tsinghua University where he has been engaged since 2004 and teaching since 2006 to become the Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Care Communications in the newly established School of Public Health. In 2004 he co-founded the Tsinghua-Bayer Public Health and HIV/AIDS Media Studies Program – from 2009 renamed the “Tsinghua-Bayer Institute for Public Health”. Up until his retirement he was the Co-director of the program.
Bill holds a MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Arizona and a MA in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University, New York.
Bill is an alumnus of the following academic programs: ‘Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights” Harvard School of Public Health, 2006; the “Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program” (ELP), University of California, Berkeley, 2008, the “Executive Program for Social Entrepreneurship”, Stanford University Business School in July 2010, and also in September 2010 at Babson College, the ET&A Training Course, Entrepreneurial Though and Action.