UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka co-hosts three sessions at UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2021

The United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit on 15-16 June will convene Heads of State, CEOs of major corporations and UN leaders to address the converging global crises of climate change, the COVID-19 global pandemic, worsening social and economic inequality and unchecked corruption in order to offer a roadmap for a sustainable recovery.

Confirmed speakers include the President of Singapore, Halimah Yacob; Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Kim Boo-kyum; UN Secretary-General António Guterres; UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed; President of COP26, Alok Sharma; UK’s High-Level Climate Champion Nigel Topping; Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP; Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Sharan Burrow, Secretary General of the International Trade Union Confederation and Sanda Ojiambo, CEO & Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, a media release from Sri Lanka’s UN Global Compact Network SAID.

The UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka will be co-hosting three sessions. The first session, Network Sri Lanka has joined forces with Networks Mexico, United Kingdom and Turkey to host the “Responsible Business: Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace” on 15th June 2021 at 10.45pm to 11.30pm (IST) featuring Ms. Sharmila Sherikar, Senior Vice President – Talent Management Head – Americas Business, Virtusa.

Additionally, the second session, Network Sri Lanka will host the session titled “Sustainable Manufacturing for an Equitable Future” at the Virtual Leaders’ Summit, on 16^th June 2021 from 8.15am to 9.00am (IST).  The panelists for the Sri Lanka Network session are Dilhan Fernando - CEO of Dilmah Tea and Chairman of the UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka; Hajar Alafifi – Chairperson and Managing Director, Unilever Sri Lanka; Dr. Rohan Fernando – Managing Director, Aitken Spence Plantations Managements PLC and Executive Director, Aitken Spence PLC; Shakthi Ranatunga – Chief Operations Officer, MAS Holdings; and Rajitha Kariyawasam - Managing Director, Haycarb PLC & Eco Solutions and Deputy Chairman, Dipped Products PLC (Hayleys Group)

Furthermore, for the third session, Network Sri Lanka has partnered with Networks Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan to host “Towards Economic Prosperity: Perspectives from South Asia” on 16th June 2021 at 9.30am to 10.30am featuring Krishan Balendra, Chairman – John Keells Holdings