GBSN for Business and Human Rights Impact Community 6th Annual Meeting
The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the Alliance Business School at the University of Manchester, the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva, and the Global Business School Network invite individuals at business schools interested in integrating human rights in business school curriculum to the Global Business School Network for Business and Human Rights Impact Community (GBSN for BHR) 6th Annual Meeting.
The meeting will take place in-person in Geneva, Switzerland and online, Friday, 2 December. We hope to discuss new initiatives and issues pertaining to business and human rights and discuss updates, activities, and collective action within the research clusters.
Date: Friday, 2 December 2022
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 pm (CET)
Location: Uni-Mail, 40 Boulevard du Pont d’Arve, Genève, Room M 3250 / Online
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Agenda
12.00 - 13.00 – Light lunch and networking
13.00 - 13.05 – Opening of the meeting
Michael Posner, Director, NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights
13.05 - 13.15 – Video: why should labour rights be mainstreamed into business education?
Testimonies from various stakeholders
13.15 - 13.20 – ILO-UNIGE-GBSN parnership: presentation of the MoU
Manuela Tomei, Assistant Director-General on Governance, Rights and Dialogue, ILO
Stéphane Berthet, Vice-rector, UNIGE
Dan LeClair, CEO, GBSN
13.20 - 13.30 – First Technical workshop, with lecturers on forced labour in fishing: illustrating the work of the Global Supply Chains & Modern Slavery research cluster in collaboration with ILO
Charles Autheman, Lead of the cluster
Alix Nasri, Accelerator Lab 8.7 Programme Coordinator, ILO
13.30 - 14.15 – Updates from all other research clusters
14.15 - 14.25 – Mainstreaming sustainable business with human rights in business school education
Nicholas Igneri, Global chief product officer, AACSB
14.25 - 14.50 – Discussion and planning of future work: what does it take to grow the network and advance mainstreaming BHR in business education?
14.50 - 14.55 – Closing remarks
Yves Flückiger, Rector, UNIGE
14.55 - 15.00 – Closing
Michael Posner, Director, NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights & Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights