The new Global Compact Board, the United Nation's high-level body involving business, civil society and labour, gathered at UN Headquarters in New York today for its inaugural meeting.
The 20-member board, appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in April, was established following a comprehensive governance review of the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative. It is composed of ten private sector representatives, four representatives of international labour unions and employer organizations, as well as four civil society representatives. Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, the Chairman of the Foundation for the Global Compact, and Georg Kell, Executive Director of the Global Compact Office, serve as ex-officio members.
Opening the meeting, the Secretary-General stressed the "enormous breadth of experience and reach" of the board members, which hail from Latin and North America, Africa, Europe and Asia. He expressed hope that the diversity of perspectives "will become a core strength" of the new body, enabling it "to find common ground, united in the shared objective of seeing the Compact succeed in its mission".
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