Entries tagged with “Paul Polman”

May 26, 2021

NEW VOICES: Former Unilever CEO Says Business Leaders Should Take Stand Against Death Penalty

Saying that “the private sector can no longer be a silent bystander in the society it inhabits,” former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, has called on business leaders around the world to take a stand against the death penalty. “The death penalty has to go,” Polman wrote in a May 12, 2021 commentary in Business Insider. “Business has a vital part to play.” Polman, the co-founder and co-chair of IMAGINE, a global business consultancy promoting structural and institutional changes in corporate…