{"id":24921,"date":"2021-01-20T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=24921"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:51:22","slug":"beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business-and-investment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business-and-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Covid-19: Rebuilding SDG-aligned business and investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Recommendations to the United Nations World Investment Forum<\/h2>\n<p>Over the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/\"><b>The Legal 500<\/b><\/a> joined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-blended-capital-group\/\"><b>The Blended Capital Group<\/b><\/a> to host a dynamic debate and exploration of how business in different countries across the world have mitigated the seemingly never-ending uncertainty and risks of the Global Pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the United Nations World Investment Forum has devoted two, two-hour Panel Sessions on <b>Thursday 28 January<\/b> to the findings of <b>The Legal 500<\/b>and <b>TBCG<\/b> process.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, some of the most senior officials in the <b>United Nations<\/b>, investors such as <b>CalPERS<\/b> and the <b>New Zealand Sovereign Wealth Fund<\/b>, and business leaders from Japan to Brazil and many countries in between, will discuss the recommendations made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/businessbeyondcovid19.org\/\"><b>Business Beyond-Covid-19<\/b><\/a> dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org\/beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business-and-investment\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><u>Register now<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To register for free for the <b>United Nations <\/b>sessions on January 28th &#8211; each with different speakers &#8211; being held at <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>8.00am-10.00am UK<\/b><\/span>and then again at <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>3.00pm-5.00pm UK<\/b><\/span> do so here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org\/beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business-and-investment\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>UN REGISTRATION SITE<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Leading legal minds<\/h2>\n<p>The online event series was kicked off by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mervynking.co.za\/\"><b>Judge Professor Mervyn King<\/b><\/a> of South Africa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paul-watchman-a9762614\/\"><b>Professor Paul Q. Watchman<\/b><\/a>, from the UK where he was a former senior partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Both Professors have kindly supported the online series from the start and will help deliver final recommendations to the <b>United Nations World Investment Forum. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Confirmed speakers for 28 January UN events include:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Judge Professor Mervyn King<\/b> \u2013 Chair Emeritus GRI\/ Founder Good Governance Academy (South Africa)<\/li>\n<li><b>Professor Paul Watchman<\/b> \u2013 Professor of Law, University of Glasgow (UK)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dr James Zhan, <\/b>Director, Investment and Enterprise, World Investment Forum, UNCTAD<\/li>\n<li><b>Nardos Bekele-Thomas<\/b> \u2013 UN Resident Co-ordinator, South Africa<\/li>\n<li><b>Anne Simpson, <\/b> Managing Investment Director, Governance and Sustainability, CalPERS (USA)<\/li>\n<li><b>Archana Hingorani<\/b> \u2013 Founder, Siana Capital, former CEO of IL&amp;FS (India)<\/li>\n<li><b>Matt Whineray<\/b> \u2013 CEO, NZ Superannuation Fund (New Zealand)<\/li>\n<li><b>Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu<\/b> \u2013 CEO, Tony Elumelu Foundation (Nigeria)<\/li>\n<li><b>Kasemsit Pathomsak\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Director, Board of Trade Thailand, former Chair of ICC Thailand (Thailand)<\/li>\n<li><b>Yasuo Izumi<\/b> \u2013 Executive Consultant, Oriental Consultants Global (Japan)<\/li>\n<li><b>Martin Rich<\/b> \u2013 co-founder, Future Fit Foundation (UK)<\/li>\n<li><b>John Oliphant<\/b> \u2013 Founding Partner, Third Way Investment Partners (South Africa) and Former CEO\/CIO of GEPF SA<\/li>\n<li><b>Ingo Kumic<\/b> \u2013 Panel Respondent \u2013 Partner, The Blended Capital Group (Australia)<\/li>\n<li><b>Ertharin Cousin<\/b> \u2013 Former Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, founder, Food Systems for the Future (USA)<\/li>\n<li><b>Luiz Maia<\/b> \u2013 Managing Partner, Brookfields Asset Management (Brazil)<\/li>\n<li><b>Mike Sherry<\/b> \u2013 Founder, Mwezi Co., Ltd (UK\/Kenya)<\/li>\n<li><b>Tara Callinan <\/b> \u2013 Board Director, SGS Economics &amp; Planning<\/li>\n<li><b>Pierre Thiam<\/b> \u2013 Senegalese chef and activist, Member SOS SAHEL International Board (Senegal\/USA)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sean Flannery<\/b> \u2013 Vice Chair, Corporate Knights, former CIO, State Street Global Advisors (USA<\/li>\n<li><b>Geoff Kendall<\/b> \u2013 co-founder, Future Fit Foundation (UK)<\/li>\n<li><b>Gordon Noble<\/b> \u2013 Partner, The Blended Capital Group Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations to the United Nations World Investment Forum Over the past year, The Legal 500 joined with The Blended Capital Group to host a dynamic debate and exploration of how business in different countries across the world have mitigated the seemingly never-ending uncertainty and risks of the Global Pandemic. Now, the United Nations World Investment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business-and-investment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond Covid-19: Rebuilding SDG-aligned business and investment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":20789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24921","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25475,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24921\/revisions\/25475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}