Vivendi

Civil Society

 

Christian de Boissieu, Professor at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Economic Advisor to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP)
(ASDR 2009)
« Sustainable development is too often reduced to its environmental aspect. Economists themselves too often fail to consider its cultural dimension. Yet culture is one of the pillars of sustainable development (...) »

 

Martine Brousse, Director, La Voix De l’Enfant, France
 (SDR 2007-2008)
« The way young people use the new technologies is as much a concern for parents, producers, and distributors as it is for child protection professionals (...) »
 Mobilizing young people (SDR 2006-2007)
« Mobile telephony continues to surprise us! Wireless communication means that you can talk, send an SMS messages, or send a photo even if you’re in the mountains, at sea, or at the opposite end of the world. But even more (...) »

 

Niamh Carey, 17 years old, Irish ambassadress to Pan-EU Youth
(ASDR 2010)
Pan-EU Youth, a platform where young Europeans can speak their minds
« Pan-EU Youth offers young people all across Europe a voice. A voice to express their ideas on issues relating to citizenship. This voice is heard by the European commission and doesn’t go unanswered»

 

Divina Frau-Meigs, sociologue media sociologist (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) and expert for UNESCO, the European Union, and the Council of Europe
(ASDR 2010)
Cultural diversity, a challenge for the 21st century
« Cultural diversity is one of the challenges of the 21st century, where it will be necessary to invent a way of living together globally despite the fact that we don’t share the same culture, and – to the possible extent – promote reciprocity between cultures(...) »

 

Christian Gautellier, Vice President, CIEME (Collectif interassociatif enfance et Media, a French federation of NGOs working to protect children in the media)
 Fruitful dialogue with Vivendi (ASDR 2010)
« In 2010, the CIEME continued its cooperation with the Vivendi Group to compare analyses and proposals regarding the relations between young people and media(...) »
 (ASDR 2008)
« In the context of its work on the influence of images on very young children, the CIEME had occasion (...) »

 

Salif Keita, Malian author-composer-performer and Universal Music Jazz France artist
 (SDR 2006-2007)
« Development is sustainable if it strengthens local capacities for cultural production, and in Mali there are enormous artistic hopes. From this point of view, the Young Talents Festival (...) »
 (SDR 2005-2006)
« Mali has a wealth of talent, but if young people are to get involved in a musical career, they need assistance and support and a place where they can produce their albums (...) »

 

Vanessa de Lauzainghein, Director of Sponsorship, Auteuil Foundation (ASDR 2008)
Festi-mobiles, or using film as as tool for prevention
« Since September 2008, 26 youth at Notre-Dame de la Fondation d’Auteuil (Department of Eure-et-Loir) have participated in the “Festi-mobiles” project developed with Vivendi’s support (...) »

 

Alain Lempereur, Professor at ESSEC Business School and co-author of Méthode de négociation
(SDR 2007-2008)
Vivendi: Giving sustainable development a human face
« Sustainable development is an important issue for all companies, but each company must see it in terms of its own core competencies. For industrial companies, the paths are clear (...) »

 

Katherine Miles, GRI Media Sector Supplement Manager
(ASDR 2009)
« One of the unique sustainability impacts of the media sector is its so-called ‘brain print’ (...) »

 

Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture & Communication, New York University
(ASDR 2008)
« In our project Values-at-Play, Mary Flanagan (games designer and professor, Dartmouth University, USA) and I suggest ways of taking social, ethical, and political values into consideration in the design of digital games, (...) »

 

Pascal Ory, Culture and Media Historian, Professor at the Sorbonne, Sciences-Po Paris, and EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
(ASDR 2009)
Promoting cultural diversity is a clever choice
« We all know that cultural globalization has never been as advanced as it is today. But deep down, the phenomenon is as old as humanity. The same is true for hegemony: there have always been dominant cultures (...) »

 

Janice Richardson, Senior Advisor, European Schoolnet; coordinator of the Insafe network
(ASDR 2009)
Young Europeans’ point of view at their digital practices
«Young people are the innovators when it comes to using online technology and very often the unexpected applications they come up with not only open new learning opportunities but very often also give rise to new risks (...) »

 

Michel Serres, Philosopher, member of the French Academy
(SDR 2007-2008)
Three major revolutions
« As soon as the new technologies began to emerge, we could see the hope they represented. If I were to sum them up in one word, that word would be the adjective “soft” (...) »

 

Marc Valleur, Psychiatrist and Head Physician at the Hôpital Marmottan specializing in care and accompaniment of addictive practices
 Increasing parental awareness and helping young people control themselves (ASDR 2009)
« What is addiction? Addiction is an interaction between a product, a personality, and an environment. For the person affected, it is a desire to reduce or cease a practice without being able to (...) »
 [(SDR 2004-2005)
« Clinical data confirm the existence of a phenomenon of dependency on online network games – persistent-universe adventure games, and more rarely FPS [1] games (...) »->6859]

 

Charles-Édouard Vincent, Director, Emmaüs Défi France (Emmaüs charity’s dedicated program supporting disadvantaged persons)
(ASDR 2010)
SFR and Emmaüs Défi launch the Telephony and Solidarity Program
« The Telephony and Solidarity Program is aimed at persons in a situation of precarity, oriented by social workers in Paris. This is an authentic program aimed at helping(...) »

 

Gilles Vincent, Deputy Head, “Industry and Environment” Unit – Environment Directorate-General, European Commission
(SDR 2006-2007)
« EMAS-registered companies are renowned for their high environmental performance, transparency and credibility - all assets which differentiate EMAS from the rest of management systems available today (...) »

 

Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission
(SDR 2006-2007)
«Sustainable development is a vision for the future and a long-term strategy to secure the needs, hopes and expectations of future generations. It is an overarching objective of the European Union (...)»

 

Matthieu Wemaere, Associate in charge of the Brussels office – Huglo Lepage & Associates law firm
(SDR 2006-2007)
«The need for selective, controlled management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) became clear in the mid-1990s as two things became evident (...) »

 

 

Investors

 

Isabelle Cabie, Head of Sustainable & Responsible Investment (SRI), Dexia AM
(ASDR 2009)
Forging sustainable relationships with talent, guaranteeing the independence of content, being present on local markets
« The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), established in partnership with the United Nations Global Compact, are becoming more and more important (...) »

 

George Dallas, Managing Director Standard & Poor’s
(SDR 2006-2007)
Corporate Governance, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
« At Standard & Poor’s our primary focus is providing independent risk analysis, investment research and data to the financial markets. The investment community is a core user (...) »

 

Marc Fox, Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs International
(SDR 2007-2008)
« We launched the GS SUSTAIN Focus List to identify long-term investment opportunities presented by company response to a rapidly changing, globalizing world (...) »

 

Cécile de Lasteyrie, Directorof Sales France, Dexia Asset Management
(ASDR 2008)
« In 2008, Vivendi devoted a meeting of its Sustainable Development Committee to the role of women in corporate decision-making bodies (...) »

 

Marie-Pierre Peillon, Head of Financial and Extra-Financial Research, Groupama AM
(ASDR 2008)
« Sustainable development is an integral part of our approach to investment analysis and choice at Groupama AM (...) »

 

 

Group’s Employees and Directors

 

 

• ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

 

Jean-Philippe Agati, Managing Director, Europe, Blizzard Entertainment
(ASDR 2009)
The Rest System in World of Warcraft
«World of Warcraft’s Rest System rewards players when they take breaks and are offline for a period of time. This comes in the form of a boost to their character’s rate of advancement in the game (...) »

 

Mike Griffith, Chief Executive Officer Activision Publishing, Activision Blizzard
(ASDR 2008)
« At Activision Publishing, we realize that our social impact is greater than the games that we make. Video games are an ideal medium to promote social values and cultural diversity (...) »

 

Mike Morhaime, Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment
(ASDR 2010)
World of Warcraft® gives parents the means to supervise their childrens’ gaming practices
«Blizzard recognizes that when played responsibly, online games offer a positive environment that’s fun and socially diverse. In World of Warcraft®, players around the world (...) »

 

George Rose, Chief Public Policy Officer, Activision Blizzard
 Our video games contribute to cultural diversity (ASDR 2009)
« Video games provide a medium that allows people from different cultures and walks of life to engage in a shared entertainment experience (...) »
 Protection of Minors (ASDR 2008)
« Activision Blizzard has adopted a number of measures designed to ensure that minors are not exposed to inappropriate entertainment content (...) »

 

Chuck Shapiro, Vice President Internal Audit, Activision Blizzard
(ASDR 2009)
Activision Blizzard regularly audits its suppliers to ensure that human rights are respected
« Activision Blizzard pays a great deal of attention to ensuring that human rights are respected by its suppliers and supports, together with Vivendi, the principles of the UN Global Compact (...) »

 

Dave Stohl, Executive Vice President of Studios, Activision Publishing
(ASDR 2010)
The creative process at the core of success
«At Activision, we recognize that the creative process is at the root of our success. Everything that we do calls on the imagination, intellectual and creative talent of the engineers, artists, designers and producers(...) »

 

 

• UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

 

Kevin Garabedian, Directeur des Services administratifs Universal Music Group, Santa Monica, USA
(ASDR 2008)
« We are delighted UMG has been recognized by a number of national and local organizations for its sustainable activities (...) »

 

Max Hole, President of the Asia Pacific Region and Executive Vice President, Universal Music Group International (UMGI)
(ASDR 2008)
Promotion of Local Talents
« Universal Music Group remains committed to investing in artists & repertoires and nowhere is that more apparent than in our activities on the local level (...) »

 

Michael Lang, President of Deutsche Grammophon
(SDR 2007-2008)
Deutsche Grammophon launches its DG Web Shop
« With the launch of the DG web shop, music lovers can easily access the best and broadest collection of classical music from the best known classical label in the world (...) »

 

Jorgen Larsen, Chairman Emeritus of Universal Music International
(SDR 2004-2005)
« When following media coverage of the music industry, it is easy to gain the impression that major music companies are clearly in favor of globalization, and have as their sole objective to sell very few (...) »

 

 

Doug Morris, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Member of Vivendi’s Management Board
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Underlying our commitment to diversity is the recognition that our similarities and differences are equally central to our success - that talented, experienced and diverse individuals are necessary (...) »

 

Olivier Robert-Murphy, Head of International Business Development, Universal Music Group International
(ASDR 2009)
Our success relies on local artists
« Music can unify people in a way that few other things can. Sociologists found that Music is one of only two ways we define our nations. The culture of a nation is reflected in the artist and the music they create from and for their people (...) »

 

Rob Wells, President Global Digital Business, Universal Music Group
 Digital: A lever for local talent (ASDR 2010)
« Our business at Universal Music Group – and our success – depends on the extraordinary talent of our artists worldwide. After all, today’s music fans have access digitally to (...) »
 (ASDR 2008)
« Universal Music Group International takes very seriously the protection of minors in the digital space (...) »

 

 

• SFR

 

Blandine de Montlivault, Directrice de l’audit interne, SFR
(ASDR 2010)
Evaluating and accompanying SFR’s sustainable development process
« In a context of growing expectations in the area of sustainable development, SFR has adopted a process of continuous improvement(...) »

 

Antonella Desneux, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Secretary of the Sustainable Development Committee, SFR
(ASDR 2008)
Sustainable Development issues integrated into SFR strategy
«For several years now SFR has been committed to a sustainable development policy backed by its management, fully integrated into its strategy (...) »

 

Frank Esser, Member of the Management Board, Vivendi and Chairman and CEO of SFR
(SDR 2005-2006)
« For several years now Vivendi has taken a determined approach to environmental matters and adopted an Environment Charter, a conformity program (...) »

 

Arnaud Lucaussy, Director of Regulation and Economics, SFR
(ASDR 2008)
« SFR is continuing the deployment of its mobile and fixed networks, an essential dynamic for territorial development (...) »

 

Dominique Martin, Director of Communication, SFR
(SDR 2006-2007)
« The quality of our services in contact with our customers, sales staff, and Customer Service agents in the call centers is the result of continuous efforts (...) »

 

Catherine Moulin, Director, Health and Environment, SFR
(ASDR 2010)
Information and communication technologies will play a key role in the Low Carbon Economy
« Preserving the environment is becoming a key element of the digital economy. For SFR, the challenge is twofold. It entails, first, stabilizing energy consumption in a context wherein (...) »

 

Marie-Christine Théron, Director of Human Resources, SFR
(ASDR 2009)
SFR facilitates access to information and communication technologies
« The fight against the digital divide remains a major challenge for the telecommunications sector. The technologies that play an essential role as bridges to content must be accessible to everyone (...) »

 

 

• MAROC TELECOM GROUP

 

Najib Abdelmouttalib, Regional Director, Rabat
(SDR 2006-2007)
« The human resources function at Maroc Telecom has marked a major turning point; like the company’s other activities, it too puts its employees at the core of its strategy (...) »

 

Selma Benslimane, Director, Quality and Safety Information, Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2010)
Sharing the quality culture
« Quality is among the priorities of Maroc Telecom, which in 2004 was one of the very first telecoms operators to receive ISO 9001 certification for the entirety of its activities(...) »

 

Naoual El Ouafay, Responsible for Transmission Deployment Department, Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2010)
Maroc Telecom contributes to information highways for development in Africa
« For several years, Maroc Telecom has been developing information highways linking all the cities in the Kingdom via broadband. With over 23,500 km of fiber-optic cables(...) »

 

Janie Letrot, Managing Director, Regulation, Communication and International Development, Member of the Management Board of Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2008)
Maroc Telecom subsidiaries and Sustainable Development in Africa
« Mauritel, Onatel and Gabon Telecom have listed the development and democratization of telecommunications and new information technologies among their priorities (...) »

 

Abderrahim Koumaa, Director of Network Planning and Control, Networks & Systems, Maroc Telecom Group
(ASDR 2009)
Maroc Telecom contributes to reducing the digital divide
« For several years, Maroc Telecom has been engaged in efforts to reduce the digital divide in order to fight exclusion, encourage access and sharing of knowledge, while strengthening connectivity with the rest of the world in the Kingdom and Africa (...) »

 

Mouna Mellah, Director, Human Resources Organization and Management, Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2010)
Collective bargaining agreements at Maroc Telecom Group
« Maroc Telecom’s success, in again exceeding its goals in 2010 despite sustained competition, is due principally to the mobilization of the women and men who work there each day(...) »

 

Hassan Rachad, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Member of the Management Board of Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2008)
« Internal equity and professional parity are the two main drivers of the Human Resources policy conducted by Maroc Telecom regarding women (...) »

 

Samira Shaimi, Director, Diour Jamaa sales agency, Rabat
(SDR 2006-2007)
« Thanks to MassaRH*, in 2005 we conducted an evaluation of our employees in the light of the company’s skills guidelines. We have listed their strong and weak points (...) »

 

 

• GVT

 

Gustavo Pinto Gachineiro, Legal and Human Resources Chief Officer, GVT
 GVT encourages its employees’ employability (ASDR 2010)
« In 2010 we hired over 5,000 people and ended 2010 with more than 7,700 employees. Among the actions carried out, we emphasize the Program Talento Interno(...) »
 GVT accompanies young audiences on the Internet (ASDR 2009)
« GVT takes society’s awareness of the use of new technologies, especially the Internet, seriously. With the vision of being the leader in Next Generation Services in Brazil(...) »

 

Alcides Troller, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales, GVT
(ASDR 2010)
Protecting youth: A success factor for GVT
« We ended 2010 with 88% penetration of broadband in our customer base. We are, by far, the operator in Brazil with largest broadband service penetration. This is our strategy for offering high quality, high performance (...) »

 

 

• CANAL+ GROUP

 

Manuel Alduy, Head of the Canal+ Cinema division
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Supporting diversity in film means taking a chance on young talents (more than 40 French first films supported each year), but also encouraging filmmakers (...) »

 

Rodolphe Buet, Executive Vice President, International Distribution and Business, StudioCanal
(ASDR 2008)
« Managing a back catalogue as rich as StudioCanal’s, including prestigious films and directors like Senso by Luchino Visconti, À Bout de souffle (Breathless) by Jean-Luc Godard, and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (...) »

 

Christine Cauquelin, Directrice Director, Documentaries, Canal+ Group
(ASDR 2009)
Canal+, a creator of progressive documentaries
« In 2009, Canal+ reaffi rmed its documentary policy of engaging today’s world. Playing a major role in exploring major national and international issues (...) »

 

Françoise Le Guennou-Remarck, CEO of Canal+ Horizons Ivory Coast and Vice-President of the Ivory Coast National Council of Employers
 (SDR 2006-2007)
« Belonging to certain groups of influential companies has provided Canal+ Horizons with a way to get involved in the search for partners (...) »
 (SDR 2004-2005)
« Canal+ Horizons Côte d’Ivoire today has 74 staff members (61 employees and 13 temporary staff), 52% of whom are women. The company is very vigilant in providing (...) »

 

Frédéric Mion, General Counsel, Canal+ Group
(ASDR 2010)
Canal+ wants to be examplary in protecting young audiences
« Canal+ made an impression from its inception by offering its subscribers programs reserved for adults – a type of programming that had never been common on French television before(...) »

 

René Saal, Deputy Managing Director in charge of Programming and operations, Canal+ Group
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Canal+’s Le Bouquet bundles have added Canal+ Family, the first premium channel for the entire family in France. This general-interest channel, launched (...) »

 

Arielle Saracco, Head of Canal+ Original Programming, Canal+ Group
(ASDR 2008)
Using content to promote Sustainable Development
« Canal+ programs provide a forum for sustainable development issues every day. These issues include solidarity, the fight against exclusion, discrimination, discovering other cultures, protecting the environment, (...) »

 

Dorota Zawadzka, Director of Communications, Canal+ Poland
(ASDR 2009)
Canal+ in Poland has produced 120 feature films and 30 documentaries
« In Poland, Canal+ not only presents fi lm to its subscribers – broadcasting 400 films a year, including some of the best work from Poland and around the world –, but also contributes to Polish cinema with financial support for some of the most interesting projects developed in the past 15 years (...) »

 

 

• Vivendi’s HEADQUARTER

 

Pierre Allain, Executive Vice-President, Social Affairs, Vivendi
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Vivendi’s contribution to the economic and social development of employment bases particularly affected by unemployment is made up of a financial chapter and an accompaniment chapter (...) »

 

Francis Borensztein, Vice President in charge of Administrative Services
(ASDR 2009) Environmental initiatives at Vivendi Headquarters
« In 2009, Vivendi’s Corporate headquarters obtained EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) registration. As part of the process, several environmental protection initiatives were implemented during the year (...) »

 

Philippe Capron, Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)
Finance and sustainable development go hand in hand
« A company’s financial performance also relies on its sustainable development policy, which enables it to understand its extrafinancial risks as well as create opportunities(...) »

 

Jean-François Dubos, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Secretary of the Supervisory and Management Boards
(ASDR 2009) The Group’s business is based essentially on the subscription economic model
« The Group’s business is based essentially on the subscription economic model, which requires that personal data directly related to the consumer be collected. These administrative and financial data are essential to managing commercial relations with our customers (...) »

 

Diane Emdin, Coordinator of the Create Joy program, Communications and Sustainable Development Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)
Create Joy, Vivendi’s solidarity program
« Under its solidarity program Create Joy, Vivendi supports some twenty projects in France, the United States, the UK, Africa (Morocco, Mali, and Burkina Faso) and Brazil (...) »

 

Sylvie Forbin, Vice-President, Public and European Affairs, Vivendi
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Vivendi’s annual seminar on the struggle against piracy and deriving value from the group’s content had innovation as its theme for 2007 (...) »

 

Sarah Frank, Member of Vivendi’s Supervisory Board
(SDR 2007-2008)
« Society today demands that corporations be more than just engines for making money; it expects that they will also look with care at the big issues which concern society and make their contribution to advancing the public good (...) »

 

Donald MacLeod, Vice President Audit, Europe & Asia, Internal Audit and Special Projects Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)
Constructive cooperation between Audit and Sustainable Development
« For several years now, the Internal Audit Department and the Sustainable Development Department have worked hand in hand on developing, implementing, and verifying initiatives (...) »

 

Solange Maulini, Press Director and Shareholder Relations, Vivendi
(ASDR 2008)
« Vivendi wants to keep its 600,000 individual shareholders thoroughly informed at all times. The Shareholder Information Service contributes greatly to achieving that (...) »

 

Amata Nowik, Director, Budget and Reports, Communications and Sustainable Development Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)
EMAS: A successful involvement of headquarters employees
« As EMAS correspondent at Vivendi’s corporate headquarters, and being in charge of the budget at the Communication and Sustainable Development Department, I work to raise providers’ awareness (...) »

 

Stéphane Roussel, Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources
(ASDR 2009)
Innovation also means anticipating change in order to reconcile technological time with social time
« Vivendi, with its positioning as world leader in communications and entertainment, and given its business sector, driven by the accelerated pace of the new technologies, must count on the talent of its employees (...) »

 

Daniel Scolan, Executive Vice-President, Investor Relations, Vivendi
(SDR 2007-2008)
« The sustainable development process is a part of Vivendi’s strategy and of its management. Out of a concern for responsibility, it makes use of the environmental, social and governance issues (...) »

 

INTERVIEW with Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker, Member of the Supervisory Board
(ASDR 2010)
« The three strategic challenges defined by Vivendi are in themselves an innovation because they broaden the concept of sustainable development.»

 

David Thomas, Vice-President, Environmental Affairs, Health and Safety, Vivendi
(SDR 2007-2008)
« In 2001 Vivendi formally adopted an Environmental Charter which commits the group to: “Limiting the long-term environmental impact of its activities (...) »

 

Pascale Thumerelle, Vice President, Sustainable Development, Vivendi
(ASDR 2008)
« Vivendi, which has considerably strengthened its business activities through major acquisitions in recent years, now stands as a world leader in communications and entertainment (...) »

 

Vincent Vallejo, Senior Vice President, Audit and Special Projects, Vivendi
 (ASDR 2008)
« With the creation of the Risks Committee, chaired by Jean-Bernard Lévy, sustainable development issues are taken into consideration at group level (...) »
 (SDR 2007-2008)
« The Audit department, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Management Board, has integrated sustainable development issues into the process of risk monitoring and analysis (...) »

 

Dominique Welcomme, Vice President, Employee Stcok Plans, Human Resources Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2008)
« The Vivendi group has adopted a policy of encouraging employee shareholding, and has strengthened its efforts on behalf of this type of share acquisition over the last two years (...) »

 

Last updated on Wednesday 29 June 2011.