Private sector’s role in implementing SDGs - Interview: Lise Kingo, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact at the UN Global Compact Board Meeting in New York, USA.

Abstract

The UN Private Sector Forum 2017, to be held in New York this September, will bring together corporate CEOs, captains of industry, heads of state and government, UN officials and civil society to explore partnerships and other ways the private sector can finance SDGs. Africa Renewal reached out to Lise Kingo, the executive director of the UN Global Compact (which is mobilizing a global movement of sustainable companies) to discuss the role of public-private partnerships in Africa.