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The Global Network Initiative welcomes a new independent chair - Vicky Bowman: "Former British diplomat, and business and human rights expert Vicky Bowman will join the Global Network Initiative as the new Independent Chair. ... . Bowman began her career as a diplomat, serving in several roles in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, including in the European Union and as the UK Ambassador to Myanmar. She established the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) in 2013, an initiative to encourage responsible business activities, and was based in Myanmar until being forced to leave in November 2022." (Read more: https://lnkd.in/g9b52dch ) Vicky succeeds David Kaye, Mark Stephens CBE and Jermyn Brooks. If you ever wonder whether GNI is doing important work, look at the caliber of people we've been able to recruit to Chair our board. I guess I shouldn't speak for everyone who was there at the very beginning, but speaking for myself, it is a deep source of satisfaction and comfort to know that this organization can continue to attract people of this stature. I look forward to working with Vicky Bowman! Dunstan Allison-Hope Bennett Freeman Dawn Wolfe Alexis Cheang Arvind Ganesan Chuck Cosson Cynthia M. Wong Christine Bader Rebecca MacKinnon David Sullivan Colin Maclay Robert Mahoney Patrik Hiselius Judith Lichtenberg Susan Morgan and a lot of other great people ...
📢 We're excited to welcome former British diplomat, and business and human rights expert Vicky Bowman as our new Independent Chair! "Working with such committed professionals has been a high point of my professional life. I could not be more excited to hand over the chairmanship to Vicky Bowman, who brings to the board such deep expertise and a multistakeholder commitment at exactly the right time for GNI," David Kaye. https://lnkd.in/ePy2xBQT
Director at Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business and Senior Adviser, Institute for Human Rights and Business
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