The FINANCIAL -- 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 Adjunct Professor and 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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