Leontien Plugge

Biography

Ms. Leontien Plugge has been active in the field of sustainable development since her work for UNEP (Division of Technology, Industry and Economics) in Paris in 2003 and 2004. From 2004, she has been working for the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam on several projects (GRI and the Millennium Development Goals and the UN Global Compact principles). She was involved in the revision of the 2002 GRI Guidelines and has coordinated the working group who was responsible for the reporting principles of the future GRI G3 Guidelines. Subsequently, she has been managing the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and supply chain reporting programme before becoming the senior manager network relations in July 2008. Her expertise is focused on communicating CSR performance by companies regardless size or sector, applying the GRI Guidelines, and the management process of sustainability reporting. She has trained many SMEs in understanding, measuring, improving and communicating CSR performance working primarily in India, Spain and South America.
Leontien has been part of the special Task Force for SMEs of the United Nations Global Compact and collaborated with the European Expert Group of the European Commission on CSR and SMEs. She also collaborated with the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank on their CSR Cluster project in the design and implementation of projects to improve SME competitiveness in Latin America through value chain and CSR strategies. She has been part of many conferences and has written articles and publications on this topic. Ms. Leontien Plugge has a masters degree in European Law and Private Corporate Law from the University of Utrecht.

This biography was last updated on August 19, 2009