Global Child Forum
PRESS RELEASE
Stockholm/Helsinki, MAY 26
Global Child Forum is proud to announce a new partnership with Evli, a leading Nordic investment firm, to bring advanced AI capabilities to the analysis of how nearly 2,000 global companies address children’s rights in their business operations and value chains.
This collaboration will enhance the Global Child Forum’s Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark, the most comprehensive dataset in the world assessing corporate performance on children’s rights. By leveraging Evli’s AI expertise, Global Child Forum will significantly improve the speed, depth, and quality of insights derived from its data—allowing for smarter analysis, sharper trends, and more impactful action.
“This is an exciting leap forward for our work,” said Ekin Ergün Björstedt, Secretary General of Global Child Forum. “With Evli’s support, we’re unlocking new potential in how we analyse and share data—transforming static scores into dynamic, actionable intelligence that can help companies, investors and advocates drive real change for children.”
The AI-driven enhancements will allow Global Child Forum to more efficiently identify sector-specific risks, regional trends, and leadership examples, giving companies the tools to benchmark their performance and take meaningful steps toward more responsible practices that respect and support children’s rights.
“Children are often invisible in corporate sustainability reporting—yet they are stakeholders in nearly every business decision,” added Nina Vollmer, Global Child Forum’s Director of Child Rights and Sustainability. “By integrating AI into our Benchmark process, we’re equipping stakeholders with better information, faster, to help ensure children are no longer overlooked.”
Evli, known for its commitment to responsible investment, will contribute its expertise in artificial intelligence to support the development of an automated analysis that will expand access to insights and help scale the Benchmark’s impact.
“We are proud to partner with Global Child Forum, applying Evli’s Atlas Intelligence platform, to help automate and scale their groundbreaking analytical work on children’s rights in business,” said Mattias Lagerspetz, Portfolio Manager at Evli. “This collaboration leverages our AI framework, which was developed for systematic company analysis specifically to unlock more consistent insights from unstructured data. We are thrilled to support the integration of children’s rights into corporate sustainability analysis, ultimately empowering more informed and impactful action by investors and companies alike.”
The new AI-powered Benchmark will be tested in 2025 and piloted in 2026 with the aim to launch this tool in 2026. The 2025 Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights benchmark is currently underway and results will be published in November.
Media Contact:
Linda Ravin Lodding, Head of Communications
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With Evli’s support, we’re unlocking new potential in how we analyse and share data—transforming static scores into dynamic, actionable intelligence that can help companies, investors and advocates drive real change for children.
Ekin Ergün Björstedt
Secretary General, Global Child Forum
Founded in 2009 by the Swedish Royal Family, Global Child Forum is a leading forum for children’s rights and business dedicated to innovative thinking, knowledge-sharing and networking. Global Child Forum believes in the power and responsibility of business, working in partnership with all parts of society, to create a prosperous, sustainable and just society for the world’s children. In addition to forums, Global Child Forum delivers research perspectives, best practices and risk assessment tools designed to unlock opportunities for business to integrate children’s rights into their operations and communities. For more information, please visit: www.globalchildforum.org.
Evli is a Nordic asset manager that helps individuals, companies, and institutions build a more prosperous tomorrow. With 40 years of experience, we offer award-winning and result-driven wealth management, along with a broad range of investment solutions. Evli employs 300 professionals and manages EUR 19.0 billion in client assets (net as of 3/2025). Evli’s B shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. For more information, visit www.evli.com.