Gary Rynhart has worked with and in the UN system for twenty years. He has developed and ran programmes to support the private sector on social risk assessment, mitigation, and management in over 40 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
He has authored ground-breaking and innovative research that has influenced government policies. He has negotiated several international Treaties and was part of the team that negotiated SDG 8 (Decent Work). Working for the UN, he has been based in Geneva, Beirut, Bangkok, and Pretoria. He currently lives in South Africa. In 2020 he published a book on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (New Internationalist). He recently developed a toolkit to support SMEs in utilising the SDGs.
He has published extensively, the following are recent publications: The Role of the Social Partners in the Nepal Peace Process (ILO 2019); Multinational enterprise investment in conflict-affected zones in Southeast Asia (ILO 2017); Enterprise creation, employment & decent work for peace and resilience: The role of business and employer membership organizations in conflict zones in Asia (ILO 2016) and ASEAN in transformation: how technology is changing jobs and enterprises (ILO 2016). He writes a daily column for South Africa’s most influential daily newspaper.