The International Business Leaders Forum is an international non-profit organisation set up in 1990 by HRH The Prince of Wales and a group of chief executives of international companies, in response to the emerging challenges of economic growth and change in the global economy. Its mission is to promote responsible business leadership and partnerships for social, economic and environmentally sustainable international development, particularly in new and emerging market economies. Supported by more than 70 of the world’s leading companies, the IBLF has a track record of enabling leadership and sustainable solutions to local and global development challenges. IBLF believes that the support and engagement of the business sector is necessary to in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, reduce global poverty and promote economic stability.
Across the organisation, IBLF focuses on three consistent areas: developing partnerships between business, government, non-governmental organisations and other areas of society. inspiring leadership from chief executives of multinational corporations and building the capacity at a local level to effect change. IBLF works with companies, governments and NGOs in more than 50 countries around the world. The organisation operates programmes in areas such as tourism, health, enterprise development, transparency and corruption, and partnerships. The IBLF was originally established to work in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe, but has since expanded its work to Russia, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East.