Wayne Balta
Wayne S. Balta is the Vice President of Corporate Environmental Affairs at IBM Corporation. Mr. Balta oversees IBM’s global environmental, energy and chemical management strategy, programs and performance, as well as related legislative and regulatory issues. He also has responsibility for the company’s toxicology function. He has over a decade of experience working on IBM’s corporate environmental issues.
Mr. Balta will be participating in the panel on how we can Progress Toward Sustainability During a Recession.
Over the years, Mr. Balta has assisted IBM in developing an extensive set of policies aimed at reducing waste, promoting recycling, and challenging their suppliers to meet certain social and environmental standards. He brings an important perspective from a multinational corporation. What challenges do corporations face in implementing social and environmental standards, particularly during a recession? What kind of leadership, either political or corporate, is necessary to drive this implementation? We hope he will have interesting ideas for introducing models of social and environmental corporate responsibility to others.
