Secretary-General Appoints New Global Compact Board Members

( New York, 11 March 2009 ) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed six new members to the Board of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative. The appointments followed the recommendations made by the Board’s own Nominations Committee, tasked with the selection of candidates for the United Nations’ highest-ranking advisory body involving business and civil society.

The new Board members are:

• Fernando Chico Pardo, Founder and President, PROMECAP, S.C. (Mexico)
• Juan De La Mota, President, Global Compact Network Spain
• Charles O. Holliday, Chairman of the Board, DuPont, (US)
• Cecilia Ibru, CEO & Managing Director, Oceanic Bank International (Nigeria)
• Jamshed Irani, Director of the Board, Tata Sons Ltd. (India)
• Chey Tae-won, President & Chairman, SK Group, (South Korea)
  

The Secretary-General further thanked Board members Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Anthony Ling, and B. Muthuraman, who have completed their terms of appointment, for their championship, dedication and commitment to the initiative.

Earlier, the Secretary-General approved the Board’s new terms of reference, the body’s key governance document. The latest version clarifies the Board nomination and selection process, as well as operational and procedural matters.

Chaired by the Secretary-General, the UN Global Compact Board was created in 2006 as a multi-stakeholder body to provide strategic and policy advice for the initiative as a whole and to make recommendation to the UN Global Compact Office, participants and other stakeholders. With now 23 members representing business, civil society, labour, and the United Nations, the Board also oversees implementation of the UN Global Compact’s integrity measures, under which more than 900 companies have been delisted (as of March 2009) for not communicating on progress made in the implementation of the Global Compact principles.

Global Compact Board Members

Business   Mr. Toshio Arima Director and Executive Advisor to the Board, Fuji Xerox, Japan Mr. José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo President and CEO, Petrobras, Brazil Mr. Guillermo Carey Senior Partner, Carey & Allende Abogados, Chile Mr. Charles O. Holliday Chairman of the Board, DuPont, US Ms. Cecilie Ibru CEO & Managing Director, Oceanic Bank International, Nigeria Mr. Jamshed Irani Director of the Board, Tata Steel, India Ms. Anne Lauvergon Chair of the Executive Board, Areva, France Mr. Juan De La Mota President, Global Compact Spanish Network Ms. Ntombifuthi Mtoba Chair of the Board, Deloitte, South Africa Mr. Mads Oevlisen Chair, Lego, Denmark Mr. Fernando Chico Pardo Founder and President of POMECAP, S.C., Mexico Mr. Chey Tae-won President & Chairman, SK Group, Republic of Korea Mrs. Chen Ying Deputy Director General, China Enterprise Confederation, China International Labour and Business Organizations Mr. Antonio Penalosa Secretary-General, International Organization of Employers Mr. Guy Ryder General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation Mr. Guy Sebban Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce Mr. Manfred Warda General Secretary, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions     Civil Society Mrs. Habiba Al Marashi Chair, Emirates Environmental Group Mr. Oded Grajew Chair of the Board, Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social Dr. Huguette Labelle Chair, Transparency International Mrs. Mary Robinson              Chair, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative     Ex-Officio Mr. Georg Kell   Executive Director, UN Global Compact Office Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Chairman, Foundation for the Global Compact

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