Ms. Judy Njino
Executive Director, Global Compact Network Kenya & Chair, UN Global Compact Africa Region Network Council
Ms. Judy Njino Is the Executive Director and focal Point of the Global Compact Network Kenya since April 2013. The United Nations Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative with more than 13,500 signatories from 160 countries that have committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anticorruption, and taking actions that advance societal goals. Global Compact Kenya is the largest Network of the UN Global Compact in Africa, Middle East and North Africa region.
As the Executive Director, Judy is responsible for providing the strategic direction of Global Compact-Kenya to entrench ethical and sustainable business practice in Kenya's Private Sector and broker partnerships to advance the sustainable development agenda. Currently, she oversees a network membership base of 151 business and non-business signatories to the UN Global Compact in Kenya and 700 other to the Code of Ethics For Business In Kenya which includes leading multi-national, national, small and medium sized enterprises.
In her role supporting Kenyan signatory companies to live up to their commitments, Judy has successfully designed and executed capacity building programs and initiatives that has seen companies mainstream the UN Global Compact principles in business strategies and operations and make annual public disclosures to their stakeholders on the implementation of the principles. Under her leadership, she has positioned Global Compact- Kenya as a leading platform in Kenya that mobilizes business support to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth.
Judy is also responsible for building and managing the network's partnerships with a wide range of strategic stakeholders from Government, business sector, U.N agencies and the donor community.
Prior to her current position, Judy managed the Responsible Business programme at Ufadhili Trust; a Kenyan Non Profit Organization that works to promote Social Responsibility in East Africa. Judy has also worked with various development agencies such as Samaritan's Purse International relief in designing and implementing community water and sanitation projects across the country.
Judy has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology and Community Development from Daystar University in Kenya and has pursued a Masters Degree in Project Planning and Management at the University of Nairobi. She is also a national expert on ISO 26000 –Standard on Social Responsibility.