The events of Fondation Guilé are designed for entrepreneurs, companies, shareholders, business and political leaders, social actors, academic researchers and media.
The goal is to help these actors confront the current challenges of globalization and become responsible players in today’s international markets.
Since 2008, Fondation Guilé co-hosts and organizes Private Events at the World Economic Forum in Davos. These meetings bring together high-level representatives of international corporations, of the Swiss government and of the United Nations.
The event topics focus on the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, and these discussions aim to exchange thoughts how to further develop the largest corporate citizenship initiative of the world.
On 6 March 2013, Fondation Guilé, together with the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) Taiwan and the Cadmos Funds managers de Pury Pictet Turrettini and Comgest, organized a dialogue for the portfolio companies of the Guilé Emerging Markets Engagement Fund and other companies headquartered in Taiwan.
The 78 participants in this dialogue in Taipei discussed the benefits as well as the experiences and expectations of corporate sustainability in general and the 10 principles of the UN Global Compact in particular.
At the 5th Global Conference of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which took place in Paris 2-3 March 2011, Fondation Guilé and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (IHEID) organized a two-hour workshop as part of the official program. Participants were extractive companies and Guilé Funds investees.
On 4-5 February 2010, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (IHEID) hosted a closed, two-day expert workshop on “Global and Local Governance in the Energy Sector: the Case of Oil and Mining” with the participation of scholars from China, Europe, and North and South America. The Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at IHEID organized the event in collaboration with Fondation Guilé.
