Inma Ramos-Perez
Associate Professor Management, Business and Law. Director of the Institute for Corporate Sustainability
Join our next free training session on sustainability
If you’d like to learn more about sustainability, please join online or in-person at a free training session which is organised by Richmond American University London.
“Embedding SDGs (UN Compact Goals) into Corporate Sustainability Practice”
Friday 21 April – 11.30am-12.30pm
Classroom 1, Building 12, Chiswick Park, London W4 5AN
Richmond Business School
Richmond Business School
The Institute for Corporate Sustainability (ICS)
Led by Richmond Business School, The Institute for Corporate Sustainability (ICS) has been launched to foster and share knowledge on sustainability throughout the University and in the wider community and to contribute to the liberal arts approach of the University as a whole.
The dissemination of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will play an important role in the ICS.
To quote the UN: “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”
The ICS will foster and share knowledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a number of ways:
- Embedding sustainability in our curriculum. Within Richmond Business School, we already cover many sustainability focused courses such as Sustainable Strategic Management, Governance & Sustainability, and Ethical Fashion and Sustainability. We endeavour to remain at the forefront of sustainability including the latest developments. We also offer a minor in Sustainability for students who want to receive in-depth exposure to sustainability.
- Offering training sessions on sustainability open to our students, faculty, staff, and the local and wider community.
- Getting our students involved – launching a Sustainability Club.
- Promoting employability within the field of sustainability. Some of our students participate in internship programmes with sustainability at the core of their functions
- Promoting a partnership of ideas on sustainability between businesses and academia. Speakers from the business world participate in conferences, seminars and lend their time to our students to enrich them
ICS Members
Dr Greg Gannon
Programme Director of Postgraduate Programme and Associate Professor of Business Management
Dr Theano Lianidou
Associate Professor of Management
Dr David M Munyinyi
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Sustainability Training Sessions
Gain FREE access to past Sustainability Training Sessions
We offer training sessions on corporate sustainability to students, staff and faculty at the University, as well as externally.
For further details including recordings of past training sessions, click the button below and complete our very quick form and we will send you all current ICS Training documentation and content.
- Training on Corporate Sustainability I – Corporate Sustainability, What’s all the fuss about?
Thursday 1 December 2022 - Training on Corporate Sustainability II – Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Thursday 23 February 2023
Any further questions, please contact ramosi@richmond.ac.uk.
Teaching sustainability at Richmond American University London
With climate change and social and governance challenges high on the agenda for national and local governments, and organisations in every sector, there is an ever-growing need for graduates trained in sustainable development.
Equipping graduates for these roles, Richmond’s new courses and options are strongly interdisciplinary, covering the three essential components of sustainability: environmental, economic and social.
Richmond becomes member of UN body promoting sustainability
Good news, the University has been successful in its application for membership of The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), the sustainability arm of the UN Compact for higher education.
This move follows the recent launch of the Institute for Corporate Sustainability by Richmond Business School and will play an important role in providing the University with a framework to integrate sustainability across the organisation to make a lasting positive impact.
PRME is an initiative of the UN Global Compact which was founded in 2007, with a network of over 850 Signatory Members, making it the largest organised relationship between the United Nations and higher education institutions. Working through a set of Six Principles, PRME’s vision is to realise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible management education.
Inma Ramos, Associate Professor Business, Management and Law, who initiated the University’s application for membership of PRME said, “Sustainability has always been part of the DNA of Richmond American University London and faculty members involved in sustainability have been aware of collaborative set-ups such as PRME over the last years. We are delighted to have formalised our connection with PRME by becoming a member of this organisation. This move will take us further along the path of sustainability and contribute further to fostering the UN Compact Sustainable Development Goals in relation to our students, staff, faculty and the wider community.”
Join our next free training session on sustainability
If you’d like to learn more about sustainability, please join online or in-person at a free training session which is organised by Richmond American University London.
“Embedding SDGs (UN Compact Goals) into Corporate Sustainability Practice”
Friday 21 April – 11.30am-12.30pm
Classroom 1, Building 12, Chiswick Park, London W4 5AN
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