Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft, where he leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals in 56 countries. He serves as the company’s chief legal officer and leads work on a wide range of issues involving the intersection between technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, philanthropy and environmental sustainability. Described by the New York Times as “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large,” Smith has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and other governments on key policy issues. Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft’s general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company’s antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. This past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company’s work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing five lawsuits against the U.S. government on these issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy (also a lawyer). He earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He can be followed on Twitter @bradsmi and LinkedIn at bradsmi.
Årstema 2020
Med årstemaet 2020 ‘Responsible Business – A Competitive Advantage’ følger vi op på temaet ‘FN’s Verdensmål som konkurrenceparameter’ med et vigtigt perspektiv på verdensmålene
Rejsen fortsætter. Med temaet ’Responsible Business – A Competitive Advantage’ tager vi initiativ til at sætte fokus på ansvarlighed som en del af virksomhedernes strategi og som en konkurrencedygtig ledelses- og forretningsmodel. Temaet er i klar og god forlængelse af sidste årstema, hvor vi, takket være bevillingen fra Industriens Fond, kunne bidrage til at sætte dagsordenen i dansk erhvervsliv med temaet ’FN’s Verdensmål som et konkurrenceparameter’.
På vej mod 2030 ønsker VL med perspektiveringen til det nye årstema, at danske virksomheder skal være globale rollemodeller i samfundsansvar, som er forudsætningen for en stærk, langsigtet konkurrenceevne. Virksomheder er under et stigende pres for, at de ikke bare arbejder i overensstemmelse med lovgivningen, men også for at tage et moralsk og etisk ansvar for samfundet, klimaet, for ansvarlig anvendelse af de nye teknologier, for diversiteten – for en social balance. Presset kommer fra kunderne og fra næste generation af medarbejdere, som i stigende omfang handler på og foretager valg på grundlag af god og dårlig opførsel hos virksomhederne.
Derfor vil vi med det nye årstema opfordre samtlige VL-medlemmer til at involvere sig og arbejde aktivt med ansvarlig forretningsledelse som en konkurrencefordel – eller rettere som: ’Responsible Business – A Competitive Advantage’.
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Interviewserie
26. nov. 2019
Thomas Dalsgaard, Formand, Dansk Retursystem
‘License to operate’ eller ‘purpose’?
12. nov. 2019
Tom Graven-Lauritzen, Detailchef, Circle K Danmark
Kan fossile brændsler gå hånd i hånd med ansvarlighed?
28. okt. 2019
Lasse Bolander, Formand, Coop
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