Kaevan Gazdar

Born in 1951 in Calcutta, where he grew up, the financial analyst and human resources expert Kaevan Gazdar studied economics and social sciences in Munich, Bologna and Paris, and lives and works in Munich. He has worked as a journalist and lecturer, and also as project manager at one of Germany's leading management consultancies. Gazdar is a senior research fellow of the [http://www.corporatecitizen.de/ Center for Corporate Citizenship] in Ingolstadt and holds a senior post at the HVB Group. He has published extensively in German and English, both articles and books, and mostly on economic and socio-economic issues; journals in which his articles appeared include [http://www.ethicalcorp.com "Ethical Corporation"] and [http://www.thecrossbordergroup.com/pages/56/IR+magazine.stm "IR magazine"] . He has held seminars and talks at various venues including [http://www.mce-ama.com Management Centre Europe] (Brussels), [http://www.ftknowledge.com/ftk/index.html FT Knowledge] (London) and [http://www.iir-events.com/IIR-conf/Default.aspx IIR] (London and Zurich).

The discussion forum [http://www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/programm/reihe.asp?ID=31 "Literatur und Wirtschaft im Dialog"] ("Literature and Business in a Dialogue") at the [http://www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/ Literaturhaus München] is his brainchild.

Kaevan Gazdar is a member of a number of juries:
* Annual Report on Annual Reports (e.com, Belgium)
* Good Company Ranking (manager magazin, Deloitte, Germany)
* Jahrbuch der Unternehmenskommunikation (Econ Verlag and Handelsblatt, Germany)

Books by Kaevan Gazdar:
* Informationsmanagement für Führungskräfte. Konkrete Perspektiven für Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik. Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 1989.
* Die Chancen der Informationstechnik. Über die Informationsverarbeitung. Stuttgart: IBM Deutschland 1991 (edited).
* Köpfe jagen. Mythos und Realität der Personalberatung. Wiesbaden: Gabler 1992 (edited).
* High-Tech-Handbuch. Praxis, Märkte und Zukunft neuer Technologien. Bonn: Economica Verlag 1992 (edited).
* Germany's balanced development. The real wealth of a nation. Westport, Conn. etc.: Quorum Books 1998.
* Geschäftsbericht ohne Fehl und Tadel. Sprache, Gestaltung und Botschaft erfolgreicher Finanzkommunikation. Neuwied etc.: Luchterhand 1999, 2nd edition 2001 (with Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff).
* Unternehmerische Wohltaten – Last oder Lust? Von Stakeholder Value, Corporate Citizenship und Sustainable Development bis Sponsoring. München etc.: Luchterhand 2004 (with Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff).
* Erfolgsfaktor Verantwortung. Corporate Social Responsibility professionell managen. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag 2006 (edited with André Habisch, Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff and Sam Vaseghi).
* Herrscher im Paradies. Fürst Franz und das Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 2006.
* Reporting nonfinancials. Chichester etc.: John Wiley and Sons 2007.

Audio editions of important political speeches:
* Helmut Schmidt – ein deutscher Staatsmann. Redebilanz. Henstedt-Ulzburg: Extra Records & Tapes Böhnke 1988.
* Reden, die Deutschland bewegten. 40 Jahre Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Redebilanz. Henstedt-Ulzburg: Extra Records & Tapes Böhnke 1989.
* Reden in bewegten Zeiten. Deutschland 1919-1949. Redebilanz. Diepholz: Deutsche Austrophon 1990.
* Helmut Schmidt – ein deutscher Staatsmann. Die Reden. Henstedt-Ulzburg: Extra Records & Tapes Böhnke 2002.