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Illien Global (also known as Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation) is the company that led the multi year campaign at the United Nations in 2011 which created the International Day of Happiness. Illien Global CEO Jayme Illien brought the idea to United Nations senior officials, united a global coalition of 193 countries, and secured the endorsement of UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon to adopt UN resolution 66/281 thus establishing the new global holiday.

History
The company was originally founded in 1980, by Anna Belle Illien as Illien Adoptions International, Inc, a 501 c 3 not for profit international adoption and child social welfare organization, which aimed to help abandoned or orphaned children by permanently allocating them families and homes.

Anna Belle Illien is the adoptive mother of Jayme Illien, a prominent United Nations advisor and the current Chairman and CEO of Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation.

The company campaigned for years spending $1.5MM to give happiness a higher place international policy agenda. Jayme Illien and his company drafted the UN Resolution 66/281 which was eventually adopted under consensus of all 193 member nations in 2012. As a result, a new global day was adopted for March 20.

The resolution recognized the pursuit of happiness as a human right and a "fundamental human goal."