CSR governance and reporting

The head of TCR reports directly to Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith, who sits on our Senior Leadership Team and reports directly to CEO, Satya Nadella. We work together to earn the trust and confidence of the public, our customers, partners, employees, and shareholders.

The charter for the Microsoft Regulatory and Public Policy Committee includes the responsibility to "Review and provide guidance to the Board and management about the Company's policies and programs that relate to corporate social responsibility."

At Microsoft, our focus on corporate social responsibility fosters sustained long-term business success. Our corporate governance framework, policies, and practices are described in detail in our annual proxy statement and the corporate governance section of out Investor Relations website.

Our compliance and ethics policies and programs include our Standards of Business Conduct, which applies to employees, executive officers, Board of Directors, and Microsoft subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (where Microsoft directly or indirectly owns more than 50 percent of the voting control).

Microsoft works to align our CSR commitments and reporting to global standards.  We base our CSR reporting on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Standards.

In 2006, we began endorsing the United Nations Global Compact and we file an annual Communication on Progress implementing the 10 UNGC principles.

Microsoft was among the first companies to align our human rights work with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and to adopt the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework.

We're actively engaged in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and publicly report how Microsoft contributes to the global effort to achieve the SDGs.