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CSRHub's Bahar Gidwani elected member of Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council

CSRHub is pleased to announce that our CEO and Cofounder, Bahar Gidwani, has beenGlobal Reporting Initiative's Stakeholder Council elected as a member of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Stakeholder Council. His three- year term will start at the beginning of 2017.

The Stakeholder Council takes a crucial role within GRI’s governance structure, alongside the GRI Board of Directors. The Stakeholder Council is GRI’s formal multi-stakeholder advisory body, which debates and deliberates key strategic and policy issues with a view towards providing advice to the GRI Board of Directors. The Stakeholder Council comprises a balance of stakeholder and geographic constituencies.

 


 

Bahar GidwaniBahar Gidwani is CEO and Co-founder of CSRHub.  He has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA, worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. Bahar has consulted to a number of major companies and currently serves on the board of several software and Web companies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.

CSRHub provides access to the world’s largest corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information.  It covers over 16,500 companies from 135 industries in 133 countries. By aggregating and normalizing the information from 491 data sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links millions of rating elements back to their source. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices, and seek ways to improve corporate sustainability performance.

Published by CSRHub Blogging November 9, 2016