Mads Øvlisen visits United Nations

Along with other corporate members of the United Nations Global Compact Board, the UN’s highest-level business and civil society advisory body, Mads Øvlisen joined a panel discussion addressing the General Assembly’s Second Committee on 1 November 2007 at UN Headquarters in New York City. The purpose of the discussion was to highlight the progress to date of the UN Global Compact, discuss the role of the initiative and provide further input to the Second Committee for a resolution on the mandate of the Global Compact Office.

The UN Global Compact is a framework for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. As the world's largest, global corporate citizenship initiative, the UN Global Compact is first and foremost concerned with exhibiting and building the social legitimacy of business and markets.

Mads Øvlisen was appointed member of the UN Global Compact Board by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in April 2006. He has been affiliated with the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (IKL) and the Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (CBSCSR) as Adjunct Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility since 2003.

Read more about the UN Global Compact here.