The Masters
Gilles Carbonnier: professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Director, Master in Development Studies. Former Head for Private Sector Relations with the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is adviser to the Guilé European Engagement Fund, a fund investing in - and engaging with - UN Global Compact signatory companies.
Philip Jennings: is the first General Secretary of UNI Global Union, launched in 2000. Under his leadership, UNI has been transformed into a global union focusing on building dialogues between unions and multinational corporations. He is the link between UNI and the World Economic Forum to ensure that the concerns of working people and their unions are acknowledged by the business and political community. Philip was previously General Secretary of the white collar FIET and began his trade union career with the UK finance union.
Chris Marsden: Chair of the Business
Group of Amnesty since 2001. He is currently chairing a Steering Group
exploring the need for an international Institute for Business and
Human Rights. He is also Chair of Trustees of the Business and Human
Rights Resource Centre and member of the Global Compact Working Group
on
Business and Human Rights. He also teaches Business ethics and is
Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Business in
Paris and Associate
Fellow of the Daughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield
University. He formerly was responsible
for promoting and networking BP's community activities around the
world, and as such he produced BP’s first international report on its
community relationships.
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: non-executive chairman of Anglo American plc, former chairman of Royal Dutch
Shell and director of HSBC Holdings and of Accenture. He is now chairman of the Foundation for the Global Compact and a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Gerald Pachoud: serves as Special Adviser to Professor John Ruggie, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. He is mainly responsible for policy planning and strategy development. He is currently on leave from the Swiss department of foreign affairs, where he initiated and led the program on business and human security. His other prior work experience included the Swiss ministry of economic affairs, the Swiss mission to the United Nations in Geneva, and an international management firm. He has a BA in international relations and a MA in international law from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies and is a research fellow with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Auret van Heerden: was Executive Director of the Fair Labor Association from Dec. 2001 to Dec. 2003 before being named President and CEO. He came to the FLA with thirty years experience in international human and labor rights. He began campaigning for worker rights as a young student in apartheid South Africa and even endured torture for its revendications. He joined the international Labor Organization in 1988 and worked on their Program of Action against Apartheid in Geneva until 1994 when the new democratic South African government appointed him Labor Attaché in the South African Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva.
