Dr. Liad Ortar

Director

Phone : 03-3075634

Email : L.Ortar@Shibolet-esg.com

LIAD started his way some 20 years ago in politics working in the Israeli Government. In 2000, he shifted his career toward environmental issues and was appointed as Greenpeace manager in Israel. Later, Liad completed his MA in environmental studies and opened his own consultancy firm where he worked with Israel’s largest corporations in implementing social, environmental and governance (ESG) programs and consulting them in publishing non-financial / sustainability (GRI) reports.

Until June 2021, Liad was head of the Israeli Corporate Social Responsibility Institute (CSRI). One of CSRI’s recent projects is translating the SDGs to Hebrew and making them available to the Israeli public. He is also the founder of the Israeli CSR & Business Sustainability Society and a doctor of Gerontology, University of Haifa. Liad’s doctoral project correlate the societal challenge of aging with the realm of business conduct. He thought in leading universities in Israel and lecturing about these topics globally.

Education

2020 Ph.D. – University of Haifa – Department of Gerontology | “Corporate Social Responsibility in an Aging Society”

2006 M.A. Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University. Thesis: “The Hourglass Model: An applied model for analysing environmental public discourse”

2000 B.A. Society and Politics, Tel-Aviv Yafo Academic College

Professional Membership

Certified Assurance Provider – AccountAbility AA1000

International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC, Legal Training in International Humanitarian Law

United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) – Environmental & Social Risk Analyst

Publications

Ortar, L (2021). CSR in Transition: from Voluntary to Mandatory – the Indian Case. The Institute for Law and Philanthropy, the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University & CSR Institute, College pf Law & Business.

Ortar, L (2021). Corporate Philanthropy in Israel – An Overview. CSR Institute, College pf Law & Business.

Ortar, L. (2020). Materiality Matrixes in Sustainability Reporting: An Empirical Examination. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability 15(1)

Ortar, L. (2016). From flexibility to specificity: practical lessons from comparing materiality in sustainability reports of the world’s largest financial institutions. International Journal of Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility (IJCSSR), Vol. 1, No. 1

Ortar, L (2015). Towards Mandatory CSR Reporting in Israel. The Corporate Social Responsibility Institute, College of Law & Business

Ortar, L (2015). “CSR & Climate Change – Can Voluntarism Pay?”. The Corporate Social Responsibility Institute, College of Law and Business. Commissioned by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Alyason, V; Ortar, L (2016). Making (more) Connections: Sustainability Reporting Vs. Social Compliance Assessments. The Corporate Social Responsibility Institute, College of Law & Business.