Georg Kell

Georg Kell is Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative with more than 2,400 participants from more than 80 countries. Following extensive experiences in Africa and Asia as a financial analyst, Kell began his career at the U.N. in Geneva, where he worked from 1987 to 1990 with the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 1990, he joined the New York office of UNCTAD, which he headed from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, Kell became a senior officer in the Executive Office of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector. He has served as head of the U.N. Global Compact since 2000. A native of Germany, Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.