Sustainable Development Goals: What Big Companies Must Do to Get Things Going
In cooperation with IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
/ Sustainability
in englischer SpracheSuccessful implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement will not be achieved by governments alone: it needs a concerted and unified effort across all sectors of society. What is the business case for private sector involvement? How will business need to evolve to meet the SDG challenge? Members of the Alpbach Laxenburg Group discuss how big companies can implement the SDGs.
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Dr. Justin Yifu LIN
Director, Center for New Structural Economics and Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University
| Justin Yifu LIN is Director of the Center for New Structural Economics, Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is the author of 23 books including Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, the Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, and New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy. He is Councillor of the State Council, a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People s Political Consultation Conference, and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World. |
David NUSSBAUM
Chief Executive, WWF-UK, Surrey
Michael PERKINSON
Chief of Staff to the Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners, Santa Monica
| Partner, Veracity Worldwide, New York | |
| US Diplomat, People's Republic of China | |
| Operations Officer, Baghdad, Iraq | |
| Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, US Sixth Fleet, Gaeta, Italy | |
| Special Assistant, Director of Central Intelligence, Washington, DC | |
| UN Peacekeeper, UNPROFOR, former Yugoslavia | |
| Deputy Special Assistant, SACEUR, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Research Assistant, US Senate, UK House of Commons |
Tatiana VALOVAYA
Member of the Board (Minister) for Integration and Macroeconomics, Eurasian Economic Commission, Moscow
| 1989-1994 | Member, Permanent Mission of the USSR and Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union (Bruxelles) |
| 2001-2012 | Head, International Cooperation Department of the Government of the Russian Federation |
| since 2012 | Member of the Board (Minister) for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission |
Dr. Pavel KABAT
Director General and Chief Executive Officer, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
| 1982 | M.Sc. Hydrology and Water Resources |
| 1983 | Advanced programme Stochastic Hydrology and Water Resources |
| 1986 | Ph.D. in Hydrology, Water Resources and Amelioration |
| 2006-2012 | Full Professor and Chair, Earth System Science and Climate Change Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre |
| 2004-2012 | Science Director and Programme Council Chair, Dutch National Climate Research Programme; Vice-Chair, Dutch National Climate Facility |
| 2007-2010 | Dutch Cabinet Appointed Member of the 'Delta Committee' |
| 2000-2012 | Chair of the Board and Director, Wageningen Climate Change and Biosphere Research Centre |
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