The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities. It was established in 1998 with a $1 billion gift to the United Nations by philanthropist Ted Turner, who believed the UN was crucial for addressing the world's problems. Originally primarily a grantmaker, the UN Foundation has evolved into a strategic partner to the UN, mobilizing support to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and help the UN address issues such as climate change, global health, gender equality, human rights, data and technology, peace, and humanitarian responses. The UN Foundation's main work occurs through building public-private partnerships, communities, initiatives, campaigns, and alliances to broaden support for the UN and solve global problems. The UN Foundation has helped build awareness and advocate for action on, among others, antimicrobial resistance, regional action on climate change, local implementation of the SDGs, as well as global campaigns such as Nothing But Nets against malaria, the Measles & Rubella Initiative, the Clean Cooking Alliance, Girl Up, Shot@Life, and the Digital Impact Alliance, among others. In March 2020, the UN Foundation was also a key founder of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO), helping to raise over $200 million USD within the first six weeks to support the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab.
The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact to get businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiative, with more than 20,000 corporate participants and other stakeholders in over 167 countries. The organization consists of a global agency, and local "networks" or agencies for each participating country. Under the Global Compact, companies are brought together with UN agencies, labor groups and civil society.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group headquartered in New Delhi, India, founded in 1895.
Richard Attias is a Moroccan events producer, founder and former chairman of PublicisLive and currently the executive chairman of Richard Attias and Associates. He is also the founder of The New York Forum and the co-founder of the Global Clinton Initiative and the Nobel Laureates Conference. From 1995 to 2008, he was the Executive Producer of the Davos Forum.
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is a non-profit, non-partisan, private sector organisation with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into a modern, globally competitive, sustainable, inclusive, open economy.
UHC2030, formerly known as the International Health Partnership (IHP+), is a global platform which brings together multiple stakeholders to take action to advance progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) by mobilizing political commitment, demanding and tracking accountability, and promoting collective action for health systems. The global platform is co-hosted by the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the OECD.
The phrase women in business refers to female businesspeoples who hold positions, particularly leadership in the fields of commerce, business, and entrepreneurship. It advocates for their increased participation in business.
Wolfgang Lehmacher is an international expert, thought leader, technology evangelist, and practitioner in the field of supply chain, transport, and logistics. He has been involved in various transformational initiatives in the industry. The seasoned executive with vast global industry experience anchored in dozens of positions in management and on boards of directors is also a prolific writer and regular speaker at events all across the globe. Important roles include president and CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental, the global investment and expansion vehicle of French La Poste, and director, head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum. The business mentor is advisor to RISE and Global:SF, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to paving the way for international companies to locate, invest, and grow in the San Francisco Bay Area while helping local companies expand into global markets. As an advocate of the circular economy, he is involved in CIRPASS, an EU-funded digital product passport initiative. He also is a member of the Ethical Committee that informs Dynex Moonshots, the investment, strategic, and ethical steward of the Dynex Ecosystem. Dynex is the world's only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud. Jointly with other experts and academics he also conducts surveys like a Claros study, a new method that starts with a ChatGPT-generated list of issues validated by a pool of experts, yielding actual schools of thought in the maritime industry. With his engagement in numerous publications, including the books Wie Logistik unser Leben prägt, Logistik im Zeichen der Urbanisierung, Disrupting Logistics - Startups, Technologies, and Investors Building Future Supply Chains, Circular Economy, and Maritime Decarbonization he contributes to the public discourse. Many of his books have been published at Springer Gabler. He is a Financial Times, Nikkei Asian Review, Business Insider, World Economic Forum Agenda and BVL-Blog contributor. Lehmacher contributes to a broad range of papers, such as "How Technology Can Unlock the Growth Potential along the New Silk Road", "Blockchain Technology for Ports", "Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Supply Chains", "Trade Tech – A New Age for Trade and Supply Chain Finance", and “Reducing port city congestion through data analysis, simulation, and artificial intelligence to improve the well-being of citizens”. Lehmacher is the lead author of the “Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation”.
Dominic Barton, known as Bao Damin in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments as well as the chancellor of the University of Waterloo. He served as the Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, Barton was the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm, from 2009 to 2018 and has previously served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden.
Fondation Guilé is a Swiss foundation. This non-profit organization of Swiss private law has been founded in 1997 by the Charles Burrus family headquartered in Boncourt, Switzerland. The foundation’s mission is to promote corporate responsibility in the process of globalization, focusing on human and labour rights, environmental protection and business ethics. The foundation supports and promotes the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact through the engagement with companies about their sustainability and corporate responsibility efforts and by organizing high-level events on the topic. The foundation defines its role as “catalyst in helping companies implement and report on the ten principles of the Global Compact” according to the founders Nado and Charles Burrus.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an independent think tank founded in 1990 working to shape and inform international policy on sustainable development governance. The institute has three offices in Canada - Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Toronto, and one office in Geneva, Switzerland. It has over 150 staff and associates working in over 30 countries.
Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance. He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growing wealth, increasing decent employment, and reducing persistent poverty. Pavan was also the Study Leader for the ground breaking TEEB study commissioned by G8+5 and hosted by UNEP. Under his leadership, TEEB sized the global problem of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in economic and human welfare terms, and proposed solutions targeted at policy-makers, administrators, businesses and citizens. TEEB presented its widely acclaimed Final Report suite at the UN meeting by Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan.
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) is a policy leadership alliance owned and led by member central banks and financial regulatory in developing countries with the objective of advancing financial inclusion.
HeForShe, often referred to as He for She, is a solidarity movement for the advancement of gender equality initiated by the United Nations. Grounded in the idea that gender inequality is an issue that affects all people, socially, economically and politically, HeForShe is a global effort that seeks to involve men and boys in achieving equality by taking action against negative gender stereotypes and behaviors. Its logo represents the union of women and men working together to achieve gender equality, by joining together aspects of both the female and male symbols.
Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is an American entrepreneur and business executive. She is the founder and managing partner of Global Space Ventures, a venture capital firm, and was the president and chief operating officer of Escape Dynamics.
Paul Rawlinson was a British intellectual property lawyer who was the Global Chair of Baker McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms.
Ing Kantha Phavi is a Cambodian physician and politician who has served as the Minister of Women's Affairs since 2004. She is currently the longest-serving cabinet minister.
Sustainable Development Goals and Lebanon explains major contributions launched in Lebanon towards the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and the 2030 agenda.
The Reykjavík Indexfor Leadership is a measure of how society perceives women and men in terms of their suitability for leadership, exploring how comfortable society is overall with female leadership. It was launched in 2018 as a partnership between Women Political Leaders and Kantar, with the Index being presented for the first time by Michelle Harrison at the 2018 Global Women Leaders Forum in Reykjavík.
