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Delving Deep into Global Governance and the Role of Business
The 6th Annual Colloquium created an outstanding arena for participants to engage with leaders from business, academia, policy and civil society on the emerging global governance paradigm. The conference addressed this subject in plenary from four different angles:
- he Context of Global Governance and the Role of Business in Society
- New Forms of Global Governance - Self Regulation, Voluntary Standards and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
- Business, Global Governance and Global Issues - The Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change
- New Kinds of Leadership for Global Governance and the Implications for Management Developmen
Emphasis was placed throughout on a high level of audience participation and a genuinely interactive debate of the core issues.
Engaging Leaders from Across the Stakeholder Spectrum
This
year's conference attracted some of the most respected international
voices in the global governance arena. Prominent speakers &
panelists from across Europe, the US and Brazil include:
- Hans Ulrich Maerki, Chairman (EMEA), IBM
- Dr. Lex Holst, Global Vice President, Shell International
- Maria Luiza Pinto, Executive Director, ABN AMRO Real
- Benjamín Palomo - Repsol YPF Chemicals Executive Director
- Dr. Andrew White, Managing Director, Innovest
- Ramon Ollé, former Chairman, Epson Europe & Director
- Daniel Litvin, Director, Critical Resource and Author of "Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility"
- Chris Marsden, Chair, Amnesty International Business Group
- Dr. Manuel Escudero, Head of Networks and Academic Initiatives, UN Global Compact
- Mark Goyder, Founder & Director, Tomorrow's Global Company
- Prof. Anders Aspling, Secretary General, GRLI and Dean, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
- Prof. Robert E. Keohane, Senior Professor, Public & International Affairs Department, Princeton University
- Prof. Xavier Mendoza, Dean, ESADE
- Jordi Canals, Dean, IESE
- Frank Brown, Dean, INSEAD
- Dr. Chris Hope -Senior Lecturer, Judge Business School; Specialist Advisor to UK House of Lords
- Polly Courtice, Director, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry
- Prof. Ans Kolk, Research Director, University of Amsterdam Business School
- Prof. Atle Midttun, Centre for Corporate Citizenship Director, BI Norway
These
senior figures reflected not only the multi-stakeholder ethos of the
conference, but also surpassed the Colloquium's demanding standards for
relevance, experience, insight and diversity of opinion.
New Innovations To Showcase Outstanding Content
Shaped
by feedback from previous Colloquia, we also set out to introduce a
number of significant innovations in terms of format and process. Our
objective was understandably to use these to deliver added value to all
participants by raising the bar on the levels of input and interaction.
These included, among others:
- Online tools to submit plenary questions on global governance New "Question Time" session incorporated pre-conference and in-conference input and break-out groups
- Dedicated audience Q&A session for opening keynotes
- Inaugural EABIS World Café to celebrate international collaboration
- Competitive selection for Education & Training Exchange initiatives
- Participant voting for brand new Education & Training Exchange prizes
Beyond
the high level plenary sessions, participants enjoyed the following
spectrum of debate, networking and activity in Barcelona:
Please click here for the Colloquium Final Programme
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