{"id":465,"date":"2017-01-10T05:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:06:35","slug":"richard-howitt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/richard-howitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Howitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Howitt-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Howitt-222x300.png 222w, http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Howitt.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Member of the European Parliament for over 20 years, Richard Howitt is an architect of the EU\u2019s non-financial information directive, one of the biggest transformations in corporate disclosure anywhere in the world. He has been rapporteur on corporate reporting-related issues, including social responsibility, for many years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As lead-MEP on corporate responsibility, Mr. Howitt has represented the EU on many missions worldwide, travelling extensively in Asia, Africa and the Americas.\u00a0He has represented European interests in numerous international initiatives, including the UN Business and Human Rights Forum and the OECD Forum on Responsible Business Conduct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0For five years, Mr. Howitt has acted as a voluntary IIRC Ambassador, promoting integrated reporting within the policy and business communities.\u00a0The International Integrated Reporting Framework has been adopted by over 1,000 businesses globally and the IIRC has been successful in driving change in corporate reporting in more than 25 countries. Richard Howitt became CEO to implement the IIRC Board\u2019s recently approved new strategic plan to embed integrated reporting principles within corporate governance practices worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Member of the European Parliament for over 20 years, Richard Howitt is an architect of the EU\u2019s non-financial information directive, one of the biggest transformations in corporate disclosure anywhere in the world. He has been rapporteur on corporate reporting-related issues, including social responsibility, for many years. As lead-MEP on corporate responsibility, Mr. Howitt has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asiancentre.org\/asiasummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}