Djordjija Petkoski

Dr. Petkoski is a Lecturer and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, the founder and managing director of Global CDL , and co-chair of the Ideas for Action and SDGs&Her, joint World Bank and Zicklin Center at Wharton, global initiatives. He serves as a consultant and adviser to the World Bank, Organization of American States, International Labor Organization, and other leading development organizations. He has engaged with over 100 MNCs with consulting experience across a broader range of industries, including IT and high technology industries, agribusiness, food and beverage, beauty and hygiene, consumer good, packaging, and manufacturing.

Dr. Petkoski held various senior positions at the World Bank, including head of the Business, Competitiveness and Development Program. During his 20-year tenure at the World Bank, his focus was on sustainability, competition and strategy; corporate governance; business and development issues; CSR and CSV, competitiveness, social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, disruptive innovations, and sustainable development at the national and corporate level; and business lead collective action. While at the World Bank, he managed over 340 global projects and was the founding member of the team that led the World Bank privatization and corporate restructuring programs in Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union, Africa, and China. In 1999, he worked on the launch of the Global Corporate Governance Forum - a leading knowledge and capacity building platform dedicated to corporate governance reform in emerging markets and developing countries. The Forum was a multi-donor trust fund facility located within the IFC, co-founded by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He also led the creation of the Business Alliance for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). GAIN was a multi-donor initiative with support from Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and many leading MNCs. Petkoski launched and led the Business Lead Collective Action against Corruption international consortium of organizations and companies and Middle East and Northern Africa and Africa Responsible Business Networks.

Dr. Petkoski teaches courses on Responsibility in Global Management; Social Impact and Responsibility; and Corporate Responsibility and Ethics at Wharton. He led the design and delivery of, and lectured at nearly 30 executive development programs, blended, and e-learning programs; sits on several International Advisory Boards; and has taught at several Executive Development Programs at Wharton, Harvard Business School, and Joint Vienna Institute. He is an internationally recognized speaker and has delivered over 300 lectures at leading universities, international conferences, and organizations around the world, including several Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank and at the European Parliament. He is the author or co-author of 15 books and over 180 articles and reports.

Dr. Petkoski was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990's and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. In addition to two Ph.D. (one in Economics - Corporate Strategic Management); and one in Electrical Engineering – Large Scale/Complex Systems), he has a MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Economies in Transition/Agribusiness/Environment).

His most recent publications include:

• How Innovation and Partnerships Can Save Lives:
  Firmenich’s Positive Contribution to the Global Sanitation Crisis, Zicklin Center Case Study, 2019;

• Sustainable Development Goals as a Business Case: Redefining the Post 2015 Development Agenda for the Private Sector, GIZ, 2016;

• PepsiCo and the Challenge of the Eco-Challenge: Authentically Engaging with Youth, Zicklin Center/WBCSD Case Study, 2016;

• Firmenich in Uganda: Sustainable Vanilla Sourcing through an Innovative Partnership, Zicklin Center WBCSD Case Study, 2015;

• Firmenich in India: Changing the Rules of Engagement with Low Income Consumers, Zicklin Center WBCSD Case Study, 2014;

• Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Harvard Business School Case Study, 2013;

• Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid, Harvard Business Review, June, 2011;

• Climate Management: The Biggest Future Shock to the Global Food System. Harvard Business School Note, N9-911-403 (2011);

• “Collective Strategies in Fighting Corruption: Some Intuitions and Counter Intuitions”, Journal of Business Ethics, January 2010;

• Managing Anti-Corruption at Siemens“, Harvard Business School Multi Media Case Study, (2012);

• “Case for Collective Action: The World Bank Institute“ in The Anti-Corruption Handbook: How to Protect your Business in the Global Marketplace, John Wiley&Sons In, 2009);

• “Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World”, Harvard Business School Note N9-909-406 (2009);

• "Emilija: Harvard Business School Case Study No. 9597-053" (1997).