May 2019 / News | Social Responsibility

CTG CEO Alice Laugher Honoured With Oslo Business For Peace Award

Chelsea Group is proud to announce that CTG CEO Alice Laugher has been chosen as a recipient of the 2019 Business for Peace Award. 

Alice Laugher CEO CTG honoured with Oslo Business For Peace Award

About The Award

The Oslo Business for Peace Award is given to inspiring business leaders around the globe who have accomplished extraordinary things. The award honours ambassadors of ‘businessworthy’ values, who are shaping society for the better.

The 2019 Business for Peace Honourees are delivering opportunities for women, minorities and diverse and disadvantaged groups – and all see business as more than the bottom line.

The three business pioneers were selected through a global nomination process including the Business For Peace Foundation partners, including the International Chamber of Commerce, Principles for Responsible Investment, UN Development Programme, and UN Global Compact. An award committee of Nobel Prize Laureates in Peace and Economics then made the final decision.

Currently in its 10th year, Alice shares the award with Dr Agbor Ashumanyi Ako, co-founder of GiftedMom and Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. These three leaders are at the helm of companies which see business as a tool for change. As individuals, they look at the world around them and work to improve it.  They are in great company: previous honourees include Sir Richard Branson (Virgin), Paul Polman (Unilever) and Anders Dahlvig (IKEA).

“The 2019 Honourees have managed to create enterprises with a significant social impact. In a world of imbalance, they have taken the initiative to establish and grow businesses that offer opportunities to women, minorities, diverse and disadvantaged groups”, comments Business For Peace Founder, Per L. Saxegaard.

“These three celebrated individuals have worked tirelessly to counteract inequalities, encouraging inclusion and democratising access to health, aid, and work. Through their businesses, they promote human rights, contribute to sustaining peace and help build environments in which human potential can flourish.”

The Honourees

The Honourees for the Oslo Business For Peace Awards

Dr Agbor Ashumanyi Ako

Agbor Ashumanyi Ako is a co-founder of GiftedMom, a digital health platform based in Cameroon that gives pregnant women andmothers across Africa access to vital health information and care. As a digital-first platform, GiftedMom is able to expand faster than traditional health care systems and the start-up aims to reach 10 million women in the next 10 years. Started by Alain Nteff and Doctor Tankou Conrad in 2012, the platform now has over 150,000 users. The award-winning app has significantly improved both pregnancy check-up attendance and vaccination turnouts, with an ultimate goal to see a world free of preventable maternal and infant deaths.

Dr Agbor enthuses: “This recognition is a symbol to show that there is progress in the right direction. It comes as a reminder of the mission ahead. Being nominated by experts from the UNDP BCtA community and selected by former Nobel Peace Prize Laureates is an indication of how the work GiftedMom is doing provides a global solution to help solve today’s challenges.”

Alice Laugher

Alice Laugher is the CEO of CTG, Committed to Good, which provides employment and logistics services to development and relief programmes in fragile and conflict-affected countries. From running Ebola treatment clinics in Liberia, to food distribution in Afghanistan and South Sudan, monitoring and assisting refugees in Libya, and rebuilding government constitution in Somalia, the work of CTG is as diverse as our world’s issues.

British-born Laugher is a vocal advocate for the Sustainable Development Agenda, with a particular focus on gender equality. She is passionate about CTG being a force for good and creating economic opportunities for women in war-torn regions through her Female First initiative.

She explains: “At CTG, we’ve made empowering women through humanitarian employment in conflict-affected regions our focus. This award, this incredible recognition for our commitment, strengthens our determination that we are moving in the right direction. I hope it will inspire business leaders, both women and men, to believe that their commitments to change and peace – no matter how small or large in scale – are the only way forward.”

Hamdi Ulukaya

Hamdi Ulukaya is the founder and CEO of Chobani, the company behind the number one Greek yoghurt line in the American market. Today, Chobani has over 2,000 employees in the United States, 30 percent of which are legally resettled immigrants and refugees. Ulukaya has created a corporate culture in which everyone is welcome and has an opportunity to thrive; with innovative profit-sharing and parental leave programmes. Ulukaya has also taken a leadership role in the global business community to encourage action from the private sector to tackle the global refugee crisis.

Ulukaya comments: “I’m very humbled by this honor, and I’m proud to accept it on behalf of the women and men of team Chobani. This new way of business – where companies focus on people and not just profits, try to make the world a little bit better–should be at the heart of every modern company. As CEOs we don’t need to have more, we need to do more. When we see an injustice, we need to speak out. When we have tools and resources to solve problems, we have to use them.”

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