Richard Samans is Director of Research and member of the Senior Management Team of the International Labour Organization and Chairman of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board. He is a former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute. He served previously as Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy and National Security Council Senior Director for International Economic Affairs in the second Clinton Administration, and as economic policy advisor to US Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A. Daschle. In the UN system, he has been a member of the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work; the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals; and the UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.