This approach works in nations as diverse as Germany, Brazil, France and Argentina.
It was felt that many young scientists working in developed nations are increasingly isolated from the very people in poorer nations who could really benefit from their work.
Of major concern is the unavailability of the results of medical research from developing nations, which is published in international journals, to those who are living and working in developing nations.
The Philippines' biggest export has long been its workers, with at least 10% of the country's approximately 100 million people living and working in other nations.
Companies working in those nations would also reveal what they paid, allowing the public to reconcile the government and corporate accounts.
To this end, research collaborations among scholars working in different nations might help to foster more replication and cross-network comparison.
Among the minimum requirements for the role, Facebook lists experience "working in developing nations and with governments and civil society organizations around the world".
In part, that's because prominent European business schools often attract students from many countries and working in other nations is more common among professionals in that region.
First, they say, they are merely living up to their responsibility to care for thousands of young foreigners working in their nations, a "duty of care" argument.
One of the aims of the new council is to pressure corporations working in their nations to drop their no-deforestation pacts.
