This report illustrates how Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH, as the German pillar of our group, is working to bring the Global Compact to life in our consulting operations.

This Communication on Progress is our first report after becoming a memberof the UN Global Compact in the summer of 2012. The following report is therefore mainly intended to describe the current status, rather than pastdevelopment.The upcoming pages describe what we have established so farand what we plan for the future, by setting goals related to the ten principles of the Global Compact.