Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.

The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?

We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.