Harris Gleckman is an associate at the Transnational Institute, and a senior fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was a staff member of the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, head of the NY office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and an early member of the staff for the 2002 Monterey Conference on Financing for Development. He has written widely on Multistakeholderism and in general about the undue influence of corporate actors within the UN System. Harris is also the Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting.