Christine Bader is a nonresident senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. She recently completed a term as Advisor to the United Nations 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.

Please click here to watch her TEDx program.

I highly recommend her book, The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, published by Bibliomotion (March 25, 2014).

To learn more about Christine and her work, please click here.

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