The Sustainable Development Goals:
What Role for Multinational Enterprises?

Tuesday, June 15 
4pm New York/EST, 8pm GMT, 10pm Berlin/CET

Can the UN's Sustainable Development Goals be fulfilled by 2030? Contributors to the recent Journal of International Business Policy Special Issue—The Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Multinational Enterprises?—will discuss the part MNEs have played in making progress towards the SDGs, what is needed from them in the future, and how IB scholarship can help spur productive discussion and action.

Save your spot today—registration is free and open to the public, but you must sign up by Monday, June 14 in order to take part.

WEBINAR PROGRAM

Evidence-based policymaking and the wicked problem of SDG 5 Gender Equality
Lorraine Eden, Fernanda Wagstaff
Presented by: Lorraine Eden, Texas A&M University (Emerita); Fernanda Wagstaff, The University of Texas at El Paso

Corporate uptake of the Sustainable Development Goals: Mere greenwashing or an advent of institutional change?
Addisu Lashitew
Presented by: Addisu Lashitew, Brookings Institution

Business alignment for the “Decade of Action”
Jeffrey Sachs, Lisa Sachs
Presented by: Lisa Sachs, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Small- and medium-sized enterprises and sustainable development: In the shadows of large lead firms in global value chains
Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf Sinkovics, Jason Archie-Acheampong
Presented by: Noemi Sinkovics, The University of Auckland

Co-Moderators:
Klaus Meyer, Western University
Rob Van Tulder, RSM Erasmus University