Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, and the UN Global Compact he launched.
The record calls it a 'stakeholder approach' to trisectoral governance — business, government, and civil groups sharing the rule-making.
Annan is publicly credited with reforming the UN bureaucracy and launching the UN Global Compact, announced at the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999 and officially launched at UN headquarters on 26 July 2000. The record says these 'reforms' enable a 'stakeholder approach' to trisectoral governance. The same record notes that the Compact does not establish funding lines or binding obligations on companies. Separately, cited documents describe accusations that skimmed profits from the Iraq oil-for-food program were used to buy influence at the UN and with Annan himself, and that a top adviser to Annan took a check for almost $1 million in 1997 from a fund bankrolled by Saddam Hussein's sanctioned regime.
It shows a reform presented as cleaning up the UN while giving corporations a formal seat at the table — with no binding rules attached.