The Global Private Sector Leaders Forum (PSLF) sprung out of a commitment to engage with the private sector in advancing women's economic opportunity made by World Bank president Robert B. Zoellick, one of six he made in 2008. The Forum is comprised of a group of influential global business leaders who have made commitments to creating opportunities for women as a part of their core business, corporate social responsibility agendas or diversity and inclusion initiatives. Forum members act as “ambassadors” for the Bank’s Gender Action Plan, which houses the PSLF, and work to launch new initiatives and to share best practices and lessons learned. They provide research and project-based evidence to support the business case for increasing women’s opportunity in the private sector, often challenging existing paradigms. Some of the initiatives and achievements to date have been listed below.
MEMBERS
Eduardo Belmont, Chairman & CEO, Belcorp, Peru
Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., USA
Henryka Bochniarz, President, Boeing Central and Eastern Europe, Poland
Frank J. Brown, Dean, INSEAD, France
Kevin M. Campbell, Group Chief Executive—Technology, Accenture, USA
John T. Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Kristin Clemet, Chair, Norfund, Norway
Rick Goings, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Tupperware Brands Corp., USA
Kevin L. Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, Heidrick & Struggles, USA
Sung-Joo Kim, Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer, Sungjoo Group/MCM Group, Korea/Germany
Wendy Luhabe, Founding Member, Women Private Equity Fund, South Africa
Dennis Nally, Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA
Marylin Carlson Nelson, Chair, Carlson, USA
Hüsnü Özyegin, Chairman, Finansbank, Turkey
Nitin Paranjpe, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL), India
Mark Parker, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nike Inc., USA
Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered PLC, UK
James Turley, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young, USA
Elena Viyella de Paliza, President, Grupo Inter-Quimica S.A., Dominican Republic
Yang Lan, Chair, Sun Media Investment Holdings, China
Mona Zulficar, Chair, Executive Committee, Shalakany Law Office, Egypt