Liber Amicorum for Roel Nieuwenkamp, chapter authored by Raymond Saner and titled “The Academic Network of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises”

The article narrates the creation of the academic network in 2013 of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Guidelines).

Background

The goal of this short recall is to narrate an important development which occurred in 2013 around the time of the First Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) held at the OECD in Paris. It was my first international conference that focused on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (Guidelines) and that’s where I met Roel Nieuwenkamp the first time.

Roel Nieuwenkamp is Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, an Intergovernmental Working Group, focused on Corporate Responsibility. He supervises and provides leadership to CSR programmes on the Financial Sector, Mining Sector and conflict minerals.