Manifesto for the Corporate Idealist (Video)

Christine Bader, ES ’83 HS ’89, was a nonresident senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in 2011-2012 and wrote the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Analysis and Interpretation. She currently serves on the Kenan Institute Advisory Board and recently completed a term as Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative for business and human rights. From 1999-2008, Bader worked for BP in Indonesia, China, and the UK. With stints in investor relations and corporate planning, she spent most of her time with the company addressing the social impacts of its projects on communities in the developing world. Among many other activities, she serves on the advisory board of The OpEd Project, an initiative to broaden the range of voices in public discourse.