Change agent with a 30 year trackrecord of promoting sustainability and diversity. As a pioneer in SDG benchmarking I set up the Access to Seeds Index, which evolved into the World Benchmarking Alliance
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Benchmarking to unlock potential for sustainable development
Securing a sustainable food future is one of the main focus areas of the World Benchmarking Alliance
An important part of the legacy of Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, was showing the world that it makes sense to set shared global targets for development. During his term in office, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight targets to be achieved by 2015. An evaluation in 2013 pointed out that a lot of progress was made, albeit not enough. One of the major lessons drawn from this experience was that the UN should do more
to mobilize the potential of the private sector to achieve the next set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which the UN unanimously agreed in 2015.