The case for international engagement and openness needs to be made continually.
Bill Emmott, Outgoing Economist Editor, Valedictory, 01 April 2006
THE EVIAN GROUP AT IMD
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Urs Boegli, MBA, comes from a twenty-year career with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) where he held senior positions in the field including in Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Former Yugoslavia and at headquarters in Geneva. He has focused on helping companies to analyze socioeconomic issues, identify and interact with stakeholders, create appropriate management systems, prepare learning reviews and help develop, implement and monitor programs for communities. His work included exploring with companies how society impacted business and how corporations can play a constructive role in regions where they operate while enhancing business focus, acceptance and reputation. For the past years Mr. Boegli worked in the oil and gas industry where he helped companies to analyze and manage socioeconomic challenges in complex operating environments. He has also worked as a management systems auditor. His main experience is in Asia where has mainly worked in Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines and along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Currently, Mr Boegli is working with an organization in China that advises and promotes an emerging group of socially and environmentally responsible SMEs and social entrepreneurs. He is also an informal advisor of the Evian Group, a think tank that reunites global corporate, government and opinion leaders focusing on globalization, poverty alleviation and inequality. Mr. Boegli is fluent in French, German and English.
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