The following is a letter from Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, to all participants of the UN Global Compact initiative, sent on 24 January 2018. I am writing to thank you for your support of the United Nations Global Compact, and to ask you to embrace our next leadership phase — “Glo...
Read MoreThe following is an article by Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact published on 20 December 2017 on GreenBiz. Throughout my travels this past year, it has often struck me how 2017 has felt like a year in reverse, rather than a progression forward. In this “year of movin...
Read MoreThe following is an article by Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact published on 24 November 2017 on Huffington Post. “I am asking you to misbehave…” This was UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ plea to business during his opening of the High-Level Meeting of Caring f...
Read MoreThe following is an article by Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact published on 6 October 2017 on Huffington Post. The UN General Assembly week in New York last month was an important and inspiring gathering of leaders from Government, business, civil society and ac...
Read MoreThe following is an article by Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, UN Global Compact published on 18 August 2017 on Huffington Post. In her 1958 address to the United Nations in New York, Eleanor Roosevelt posed what she called "the great question," saying: Where, after all, do univer...
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