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 21 members of the Stakeholder Council. The Chair is Erdem Kolcuoğlu and the Vice Chair is Constance Kane. 

All appointments are on a voluntary basis for three-year terms. The members are listed below, by constituency group. 

BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

 
 
Adekemi Adisa
General Manager Sustainability & Shared Value, MTN Nigeria Communications PLC, Nigeria
 
Clara Goyret
General Coordinator, Renault Argentina’s Foundation, Argentina
 
Evita Fakun
Group Sustainability & CSR Executive, The Lux Collective Ltd, Mauritius
 
Keli Liu
Sustainability Director, Occupational Health & Safety Assistance Inc., China
 
Markus Pfannkuch
Co-CEO, Precious Woods Holding Ltd, Switzerland
 
Prabodha Acharya
Chief Sustainability Officer, JSW Group, India
 


CIVIL SOCIETY

 
 
Constance Kane (Vice Chair)
Executive Director, Litteratus Associates, USA
 
Hongxia Duan
Director, Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development
 


INVESTMENT INSTITUTION

 
 
Anthony Cheung
Director and Portfolio Manager, ExodusPoint Capital Management, Hong Kong
 
Arletta Majoch
COO,  Impact Cubed LLP, UK
 
Ozdemir Haluk
Iboard Advisor, PharmaTech_TR VC Fund - Istanbul Portfolio Management, Turkey
 
Paul Farella
VP, Director of Sustainable Investment, ADCM, LLC dba Willow, USA
 
Vanessa Gomes
Executive Director, Sustainable Finance Lead for the Americas, Standard Chartered Bank, USA
 


LABOR ORGANIZATION

 
 
Crecencia Carina Mokofeng
Regional Representative, Building and Wood Workers International, South Africa
 
Mélanie Jeanroy
Legal Officer, International Labor Organization, Switzerland
 
Rajendra Kumar Acharya
Regional Secretary of UNI Apro, the Asia and Pacific Regional Organization of UNI Global Union, India
 


MEDIATING INSTITUTION

 
 
Erdem Kolcuoğlu (Chair)
Co-founder, Kiymet-i-Harbiye Management Consultancy, Turkey
 
Gustavo Sinner
Director, AG Sustentable, Argentina
 
José Miguel Salazar
CEE Sustainability Hub Manager, PwC, Poland
 
Louis Coppola
Co-Founder, Governance & Accountability Institute, USA
 
Tuba Atabey
Founder and Senior Consultant and Facilitator, SUSTAiNOVA Sustainability Consultancy, Turkey