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David
J. Simpson, MA, Lead CSAP Director
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David is the Director of InterPraxis Consulting, a socio-economic consulting firm
specializing in international development, ethics and corporate social
responsibility, stakeholder engagement, and participatory action research
and planning methodologies.
Professional
Experience - Earlier
in his career David worked as a researcher with the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) and as an economic development officer with the
Embassy of Argentina in Canada.
A former Director of Standards and Collaborative Governance with AccountAbility,
David helped oversee the development of the AA1000 stakeholder engagement
standard (SES). He has been an active contributor to the GRI, a technical
committee member for the AA1000 Assurance Standard (AS) and the Accountability
Principles Standard (APS), and was an
expert member of the International Working Group that published the ISO 26000 Guidance
Standard on Social Responsibility. David has
also taught at Carleton University, McMaster University, University of Toronto and the Schulich School
of Business at York University.
Over the past decade, David has been involved in a number of consulting projects
both nationally and internationally. Some of the organizations he has worked
with have included:
Formerly the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for
Ethics and Corporate Policy he has most recently served as an advisor to
Environment Canada as well as to Natural Resources on Ethics
and Values in the Public Sector and has been the independent social auditor
for Metro Credit Union (now
Alterna) for its Social
Responsibility Audit since 2000 and is the lead sustainability assurance
provider for VanCity's
award winning Accountability Report. He is Canada's first Certified Lead
Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (CSAP) to be recognized by the
International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) and the Institute of Social and Ethical
AccountAbility in the UK, and holds lead auditor status with the SA 8000 certification standard from Social
Accountability International in New York and has undertaken several
international assignments in Latin America and Asia.
A dynamic speaker, David has been invited to speak on the
topic of corporate social responsibility at events sponsored by the Centre for
Ethics and Corporate Policy, the CICA, and the Conference
Board of Canada.
Education - The holder of a Master’s degree from the
Faculty of Public Administration and Management, his major research interests
include: International Development; Adult Education; Social Capital Formation;
Participatory Development and Organizational Change. He was educated at the
University of Winnipeg, Université Laval, and at the Norman
Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
Memberships - David served actively as an elected Council
Member of AccountAbility in London and as a Director of the Ethics Practitioners Association
of Canada; a member of the Participatory
Development Forum; Transparency
International (Canada), a designated trainer with Social
Investment Organization as well as a volunteer with the Canadian
Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy; and, the Canadian
Organization for Development through Education (CODE).
David has lived in various locations across the globe and currently divides
his time between London (UK), and Toronto. He has both British and Canadian Citizenship and speaks English, French and
Spanish.
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