Mark Meaney recently was elected chair of the newly established North America chapter of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. Meaney, who is the executive director of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) at CU-Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, also is part of the initiative’s International Advisory Board.
Launched in 2007, PRME is the first organized relationship between the United Nations and business schools. The initiative focuses on inspiring and championing responsible business management education, research and leadership globally.
Key areas the North America chapter will focus on include developing resources to foster student experiential learning in business ethics and establishing and sharing best practices to align with U.N. sustainable development goals.
“This is a significant opportunity for a vast network of educational leaders to collaborate and make a difference in critical areas of student learning such as business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability,” said Meaney. “We have an opportunity to develop widely accepted best practices and contribute on a global scale.”
About 138 U.S. and 18 Canadian business school signatories comprise the new North America chapter, which is part of a collective of over 600 business schools worldwide.
Meaney has 20-plus years of experience and an international reputation in business ethics. CESR, which is one of the Leeds School’s centers of excellence and was founded through the support of the Leeds family, focuses on developing socially conscious, values-driven business leaders to manage the ethical challenges of a global economy.
Mark Meaney.
