Kumi Naidoo Naidoo spent four days in a Greenlandic prison after scaling an oil platform owned by Cairn Energy, as part of Greenpeace's "Go Beyond Oil" campaign. He was deported to Denmark where he spent a short time in Danish custody before being released in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been a vocal critic of the failure of bodies like the World Economic Forum, to go beyond "system recovery", "system protection and maintenance" instead proposing a system re-design. Kumi Naidoo uses the WEF to amplify environmental messages to business leaders and politicians and lobby for green business practices and transformational changes in the
Euvin Naidoo June 2013, Euvin Naidoo convened and led his annual 'Masterclass' lecture on 'Doing Business in Africa' at the Wits Business School- the session was honored by the support of South Africa's Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, who delivered the closing keynote address. In 2003, Naidoo co-authored the Harvard Business School case, 'Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader', with Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Kanter and Naidoo's research and collaboration went on to form the material for the South African chapter in the BusinessWeek and "New York Times" business best-seller, 'Confidence' which focuses on the DNA and management lessons of turnarounds- moving complex businesses