Dan Thomas
Chief, Communications & Strategic Events - United Nations Global Compact
Dan Thomas leads communications and strategic events for the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
Before joining the UN Global Compact in 2018, he served as Communications Director for the President of the UN General Assembly, under whose leadership in 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals were unanimously agreed by 193 UN member states.
Thomas joined the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2014 to head up communications, mobilization and outreach for the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Team in the lead up to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015.
A former correspondent with Reuters and producer for BBC and UNICEF, he has made films in more than 50 countries including Afghanistan, Ethiopia and North Korea.
