Vice Chairman, Arabesque Partners

Georg Kell

Georg Kell is Vice Chairman of Arabesque Partners, an AngloGerman asset management firm offering a quantitative approach to sustainable investing.

He was the founding Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative with over 8,000 corporate signatories from more than 160 countries. Through his leadership, Georg helped to establish the Global Compact as the foremost platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of
responsible and sustainable corporate policies and practices.

Georg also oversaw the conception and launch of the Global Compact’s sister initiatives, on investment, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and on education, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), together with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative.

Georg started his career as a research fellow in engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin. He then worked as a financial analyst in various countries in Africa & Asia before joining the United Nations in 1987. A native of Germany, Georg holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.

Georg has received numerous recognitions and has been named among the “100 Most Influential in Business Ethics” every year since 2011.