Mark Haggan is a UK-based businessman and charity activist, particularly in the fields of student volunteering

Volunteering

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be...

, education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 and international development

International development

International development or global development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development — the development of greater quality of life for humans...

. He is currently chairman of two British NGOs, The AIESEC Foundation, and the award winning READ International

READ International

READ International is a charity that aims to improve access to education in East Africa by collecting school textbooks and children’s literature from primary and secondary schools throughout the UK, sorting through the books and sending the most relevant, up-to-date, and high quality ones to...

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He is also a quoted source on both Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model...

  and Graduate recruitment

Graduate recruitment

Graduate recruitment or campus recruitment refers to the process whereby employers undertake an organised program of attracting and hiring students who are about to graduate from schools, colleges and universities....

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He has been recognised by the charity AIESEC in the UK

AIESEC

AIESEC is a global youth organisation that develops leadership capabilities through their internal leadership programmes and engaging students and graduates in international student exchange and internship programmes for profit and non-profit organisations. Its international office is in...

, of which he is a former director, with various awards for his ongoing support and commitment.