Stakeholder Council
The Stakeholder Council serves as a sounding board for the Supervisory Board, Management Board, and Global Sustainability Standards Board (‘GSSB’) regarding important key strategic issues facing GRI. Its purpose is to advise and provide recommendations on these issues to the Supervisory Board, Management Board, and GSSB.
A minimum of 15 members and up to a maximum of 30 members sit on the Stakeholder Council. The Stakeholder Council is composed on the basis of GRI’s multistakeholder nature with members allocated across the following stakeholder constituencies: Business Enterprises, Civil Society Organization, Investment Institutions, Labor, and Mediating Institutions.
Its membership is diverse, and drawn from all United Nations-defined regions: East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Current membership
There are currently 17 members of the Stakeholder Council. The Chair is Louis Coppola and the Vice Chair is Adekemi Adisa.
All appointments are on a voluntary basis for three-year terms. The members are listed below, by constituency group.
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
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Adekemi Adisa (Vice Chair) |
General Manager Sustainability & Shared Value, MTN Nigeria Communications PLC, Nigeria |
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Evita Fakun |
Chief Sustainability Officer |
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Markus Pfannkuch |
Co-CEO, Precious Woods Holding Ltd, Switzerland |
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Prabodha Acharya |
Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW Group, India |
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Hongxia Duan |
Director, Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development |
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Anthony Cheung |
Managing Director, Head of ESG at Polymer Capital Management, Hong Kong S.A.R., China |
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Arletta Majoch |
COO, Impact Cubed LLP, UK |
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Vanessa Gomes |
Executive Director, Sustainable Finance Lead for the Americas, Standard Chartered Bank, USA |
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Mélanie Jeanroy |
Legal Officer, International Labor Organization, Switzerland |
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Rajendra Kumar Acharya |
Regional Secretary of UNI Apro, the Asia and Pacific Regional Organization of UNI Global Union, India |
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PUBLIC SECTOR
SERVICE PROVIDERS |
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Gabriel Hasson |
Global Head of Governance and Stareholder Advisory, Strategic Communications Advisory ICR, USA |
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Gustavo Sinner |
Director, AG Sustentable, Argentina |
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José Miguel Salazar |
CEE Sustainability Hub Manager, PwC, Poland |
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Louis Coppola (Chair) |
Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute, USA |
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Michiel Slinkert |
Founder and Director of sustainability consultancy Eevery, Belgium |
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Rupam Baruah |
Business Head - Sustainability Services, South Asia, environment services group Bureau Veritas, India |
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