Multilateralism Matters to Business
Virtual Symposium on Partnership Solutions at UNGA75 co-organised by IOE and USCIB on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 7:30–9:30am EST
This Wednesday 16 September 7:30am New York time, 13:30 Geneva time, IOE, USCIB and the All In Campaign, under the auspices of the Business and Industry Major Group to the UN in NY, will convene a virtual symposium on Multilateralism Matters to Business: Partnership Solutions at UNGA 75.
The virtual symposium will bring high level voices from business, member states, the UN and other stakeholders together on the urgent need for inclusive multilateralism on the occasion of UN75. Speakers will underscore the commitment and enthusiasm of business in all its diversity to advance sustainability and recovery imperatives hand in hand with the UN. High level representatives and leading experts from the private and public sectors will discuss:
- support to MSMEs and SMEs,
- informality and rule of law
- job creation
- regulation
- debt relief
- partnership building, and
- inclusive growth
Speakers include
- H.E. Evelyn Wever-Croes, Prime Minister, Aruba
- H.E. Ambassador Munir Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan and President of ECOSOC
- H.E. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General, Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
- Johnny C. Taylor, CEO, SHRM
- Sangita Reddy, President, FICCI
- Andrea Ostheimer de Sous, Executive Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung New York Office,
- Beate Andrees, ILO New York,
- Marina Walter, UN RC - Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Aruba, Curacao and Saint Maarten,
- Laura Frigenti, KPMG Global Head of International Development Assistance Service,
- Peter Robinson, President USCIB,
- Norine Kennedy, VP, USCIB,
- Roberto Suarez-Santos, IOE Secretary-General,
- Matthias Thorns, Deputy Secretary-General, and
- Shea Gopaul, IOE Special Representative to UN.
