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As at December 31, 2017, the following internal and external persons were members of the Sustainability Council:
• Chair Johann Strobl, CEO of RBI AG
• Dieter Aigner, Managing Director of Raiffeisen Kapitalanlage GmbH
• Rudolf Bretschneider, consultant of GfK Austria GmbH
• Klaus Buchleitner, Chairman of Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien
• Ralf Cymanek, member of the Management Board of Raiffeisen Bank Zrt. in Hungary
• Martin Essl, founder of the Essl Foundation
• Eva Eberhartinger, Head of the Tax Management Group at the Institute of Accounting
& Auditing, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
• Franz Fischler, Chair of the Raiffeisen Sustainability Initiative and President of the European Forum Alpbach
• Christian Friesl, Divisional Head of Social Policy in the Federation of Austrian Industry
• Susanne Höllinger, CEO Kathrein Privatbank AG
• Gregor Höpler, Head of the Group Executive Office of RBI AG
• Hannes Mösenbacher, CRO of RBI AG
• Andreas Pangl, General Secretary of the Austrian Raiffeisen Association
• Georg Schöppl, Member of the Management Board of Österreichische Bundesforste AG
• Andrea Sihn-Weber, Head of RBI Group Sustainability Management and Managing Director of the
Raiffeisen Sustainability Initiative
• Alfred Strigl, Managing Director of plenum gesellschaft für ganzheitlich nachhaltige entwicklung gmbh
The ten principles of the UN Global Compact, which we joined in 2010, represent fundamental guidelines for
our business activities. Our internal rules and regulations, such as our Code of Conduct (CoC), build upon this
international reference framework as well as other international principles. Special significance is accorded the
CoC and other guidelines for supporting our employees in making the right decisions in their everyday work.
Since 2013, we have used an internal tool as the central instrument for controlling and monitoring our main
sustainability efforts. This innovative software, called “mona,” is based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
and relies on scientific data as an instrument for sustainability monitoring and reporting.
Material topics
We pursue two approaches in the further development of our sustainability strategy and the definition of reporting
content and focal points: On the one hand, we want to know what standards we must meet in order to enjoy
long-term success. On the other, it is important to us as an internationally active banking group to know what our
stakeholders expect of us. Accordingly, we make use of a multi-stage materiality analysis that includes our
stakeholders, in order to identify the areas of activity and key sustainability aspects.
Since the publication of the fourth generation of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI G4), the principle of materiality
has been placed at the center of the reporting. In this way, the GRI emphasizes even more strongly than before
that sustainability reports should be focused on the key aspects of sustainability. The process of identifying and
prioritizing the relevant topics and aspects must also be systematic and well documented.
Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2017