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 More(Davos, 23 January 2017) — The United Nations Global Compact and Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) called for systemic changes in business and management education today at a high-level dinner today in Davos, Switzerland. Over 40 academic leaders and corporate executives...
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 More(Quito, 21 November 2017) — The United Nations Global Compact and Global Compact Network Ecuador co-organized a high-level regional event in Quito, Ecuador to explore “The Business Sector Contribution to the 2030 Agenda in Latin America.” With the theme of “Making Global Goals Local Business,” th...
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