All Publications By Date, Newest First
Book
Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation: Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism through Full ESG Integration
Palgrave Macmillan, WEF
This book provides the most thorough treatment to date of the practical implications for corporate boards and management teams of a commitment to implement the concepts of sustainable enterprise value creation and stakeholder capitalism rigorously — i.e., by walking the talk in corporate governance, strategy, reporting and partnerships.
Chapter
Corporate Reporting and Accountability (Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation, Chapter 6)
Palgrave Macmillan, ILO
A practical guide for companies wishing to apply best practice in respect of their sustainability reporting.
Article
The big fallacy in the backlash against ESG and stakeholder capitalism
WEF
Article critically analyzing the backlash against ESG and stakeholder capitalism in the US.
Press Clip
Birth of a standard: Where the ISSB came from and what it will do
EuroMoney
Good analysis of the provenance of the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board and the important role therein of the organization I founded and chaired, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board.
Paper
Financing Human-Centred COVID-19 Recovery and Decisive Climate Action Worldwide: International Cooperation’s 21st Century Moment of Truth
International Labour Organization (ILO)
This ILO Working Paper outlines how the existing capital and authorities of international financial institutions could be deployed to triple international development and climate finance for low-income and most middle-income countries for the next seven years, equivalent to twice the Marshall Plan’s assistance to Europe following WWII.
Paper
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Financer une reprise centrée sur l’humain pour sortir de la crise du COVID-19 et une action décisive pour le climat à l’échelle mondiale
ILO
Ce document de travail illustre concrètement la manière dont l’architecture financière internationale existante pourrait être activée
Paper
The ILO and the future of work: The politics of global labour policy
Global Social Policy, Sage Journals
Journal article by an independent scholar describing the provenance and evolution of the “human-centered agenda for the future of work” that was articulated by the ILO’s Global Commission, on which I served.
Article
Collaborating to Break the Cycle of Modern Slavery
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Spotlights the leading role of the ILO against forced labor and suggests a holistic response for prevention and enforcement.
Article
Integrated Corporate Governance: Six Leadership Priorities for Boards Beyond the Crisis
Forbes
Harvard’s Jane Nelson and I outline a six-point leadership agenda for corporate boards seeking to strengthen their firms’ long-term competitiveness and resilience in the face of a number of systemic societal challenges reshaping the operating context of business in the 2020s.
Article
Can Governments Agree on Global Data Flows? Here Are Six Recommendations
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Under Japan’s G20 presidency in 2019, world leaders welcomed the Osaka Track – a call for closer international cooperation on cross-border data flows and emerging technologies that rely upon them.