Executive Management

Dr. Sanjay Pradhan   
President, World Forum for Ethics in Business

Sanjay Pradhan was appointed President of the World Forum for Ethics in Business (WFEB) in June 2025. Heading into WFEB’s 20th Anniversary celebrations at the European Parliament in 2026, Sanjay’s role is to lead WFEB’s next phase, leveraging the global platform to scale up ethical and socially responsible business. To this end, Sanjay will convene – in WFEB’s flagship symposiums – leaders from business, government, civil society, academia, and lead WFEB’s high-level dialogue and advocacy globally.

Prior to this, Sanjay concluded an outstanding nine-year tenure as CEO of OGP from 2016 to 2025. Under his leadership, OGP achieved global scale, expanding its membership to 77 countries and 150 local governments along with thousands of civil society organizations who together delivered more than 5,500 reforms to make governments more open and less corrupt. As OGP CEO, Sanjay led OGP’s policy dialogue with Heads of States, ministers and civil society organizations, and served as OGP’s global spokesperson. After completing his tenure as CEO, Sanjay has been serving as OGP Global Ambassador.

Prior to OGP, Sanjay served as the World Bank Vice President for eight years holding multiple portfolios, including the World Bank’s Vice President for Leadership, Learning and Innovation, Vice President of the World Bank Institute, and the World Bank’s first Director for Governance.

Sanjay is a global spokesperson and distinguished speaker on governance, democracy, anticorruption and ethics, speaking in major world forums including a TED Talk, the UN General Assembly, the European Parliament, the BBC World Debate, London Anti-Corruption Summit, International Anticorruption Conference, and OGP Global Summits.

At the 2022 World Economic Forum Davos, Sanjay was awarded Social Innovator of the Year 2022 by The Schwab Foundation for being “a tireless champion of good governance and fighting corruption”.

Sanjay has published widely. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

Christoph Glaser 
Managing Director, World Forum for Ethics in Business 

Born and raised in Basel, Switzerland, Christoph Glaser serves since 2004 as CEO TLEX, Europe for the Transformational Leadership for Excellence (TLEX) program for leaders from the public and private sectors in more than 50 countries across Europe, Africa, USA, Asia and the Middle East. Furthermore, he has been instrumental in establishing public-private partnerships for social development initiatives and currently also leads various humanitarian service projects of the International Association for Human Values, Europe.

Christoph is also Board Member of the International Association for Human Values, Europe, and the International Art of Liv- ing Foundation, Switzerland, and serves since 2006 as Managing Director of the annual International Leadership Symposium on Ethics in Business, Brussels. He has been instrumental in developing the World Youth Forum and the “Yes – We Can! Community Leadership Training Program,” which has trained more than 700 emerging leaders in Europe. Christoph holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Humboldt-Viadrina School for Governance in Berlin and has graduated in honors from the Basel Vocational Business School. Christoph is a certified Leadership trainer of the World Bank Group program ‘Greater than Leadership’ and a certified Integral Associate Coach through Integral Coaching, Canada.

Ewald Poeran 
Managing Director, World Forum for Ethics in Business

Ewald Krishna Poeran was born in 1967 in Paramaribo, Surinam.

As a trainer of the APEX course (Achieving Personal Excellence), he has given trainings on stress management and corporate social responsibility to managers of various companies, such as Shell, ANWB, and the tax ministry in the Netherlands. Mr. Poeran has also been since 2006 a Director of the International Business & Leadership Symposium and organized several high-level conferences such as the International Conference “Living Values – A Call to Action” in Amsterdam in 2000 and the Interfaith Conference in The Hague. His work has also involved cooperation with the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Since 2001 as President of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV) Netherlands. He is also the CEO of Shankara Europe Holding BV. Previously, Mr. Poeran served in several position in the IT-field and as an officer in the Dutch army.