[THEME: GOVERNANCE]///[YEAR: 2026]///[STATUS: ACTIVE]

Governance

How we're organized

GRLI's governance reflects its values—distributed leadership, collective stewardship, and transparency in how decisions are made.

Co-Stewardship Model

Four interconnected governance bodies

Rather than a conventional hierarchy, GRLI's governance flows through four complementary structures, each with distinct responsibilities but shared purpose.

Structure

Council of Partners

Full institutional partners are at the heart of the GRLI and constitute the Council.

The Guardians

The Guardian Group is elected from and representing the Council and comprises a small grouping of individuals willing to ensure the core values and ethics of the GRLI are implicitly or explicitly present in all activities. The Guardian Group works with the Office of the Executive Director and the Board on behalf of the Council, to uphold the vision, mission and operating ethos of the GRLI and to safeguard that all three elements are actively supported, acted upon and visible in the GRLI and in all related activity.

The Board

The GRLI is governed legally as a Foundation established under Belgian law. The board of the Foundation has primarily a fiduciary responsibility relating to the proper management of resources entrusted to the community and the functioning of the Support Centre.

The Centre

The Office of the Executive Director, with the Support Centre, runs the operation of the GRLI Foundation and supports the coordination of the GRLI.

Guardians

Stewards of the long-term inquiry

Rumina Dhalla

Chair of the GRLI Guardians - Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph

Board of Trustees

Armand Bam

Stellenbosch Business School

Jeff Thies

Loyola Marymount University

Paulo Alves

Católica Porto Business School

Ana Simaens

ISCTE Business School

Board of Trustees

Governance and fiduciary oversight

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez

Vice President - Woxsen University (Partner Board Member)

Claire Maxwell

Immediate Past Chair

Rumina Dhalla

Chair of the GRLI Guardians - Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph

Guardians

Eileen McAuliffe

EVP and Chief Thought Leadership Officer - AACSB International

Audit Committee

Alfons Sauquet

Director Quality Services & EQUIS - EFMD Global (Strategic Partner Board Member)

Eric Cornuel

Director General & CEO - EFMD (Strategic Partner Board Member)

Wayne Visser

By invitation

Peter Møllgaard

Chair of GRLI Foundation

Dayle Smith

Dean - Loyola Marymount University (Partner Board Member)

Lily Bi

President and CEO - AACSB International (Strategic Partner Board Member)

Sanjay Sharma

Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont (Partner Board Member)

Carol Adams

By Invitation

Audit Committee

Hanna-Leena Pesonen

Dean - Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (Partner Board Member)

Michael Winter

Co-President - oikos international (Strategic Partner Board Member)

Audit Committee

Financial accountability

Philip O’Regan

Professor: Financial Reporting & Former Dean Kemmy Business School

Partner represenative on Audit Committee independent from Board

Eileen McAuliffe

EVP and Chief Thought Leadership Officer - AACSB International

Board of Trustees

Carol Adams

By Invitation

Board of Trustees

GRLI Centre

The GRLI Centre comprises the Executive Director and a small team of part-time and volunteer staff. The Centre has the responsibility to monitor, act on, coordinate and see that GRLI's work is being executed in an ethical, efficient and effective manner by resources internal or external to the GRLI community. To do this, the Centre endeavours to provide enabling servant-leadership to the community. This approach is not the traditional logic of a member-organisation where the organisation primarily exists to deliver a service to the members. The GRLI is a community of Partners and Associates and as such the focus of the Centre is on the vision and mission of the GRLI as a global community where responsible action is led by committed partners and allies.

John North

Associate with executive responsibilities (George, ZA)

Gwen Dereymaeker

Associate: Enablement (Brussels)

Darija Miletic

Associate: Ecosystem Stewardship (Belgrade)

Mareta Strydom

Administration (George, ZA)

Adolphe Komeza

Accounting (DEG&Partners - Belgium)

Anders Aspling

Founding Secretary-General (Stockholm)

Advisors

The Advisors Group consists of appointed individuals that are deeply connected to the discourse and practice of Global Responsibility or have significant institutional memory of the work of GRLI and relationships with the diverse constituents of the Global Responsibility movement. Members of the Advisors Group fully and demonstrably support the work of the GRLI and align with its agreed direction and strategy.