21 August 2006

GPPi to teach executive seminar on global public policy

GPPi will lead the 6-day Hertie School of Governance executive seminar on global public policy that will take place in Berlin from Sunday August 27 to Friday September 1. The goal of the week-long programme is to equip participants with some of the key analytical, managerial and political skills needed to successfully shape the new global governance environment. Some of the questions to be addressed are: What are the challenges and opportunities of public-private partnerships? How can we put corporate social responsibility into practice?

 

The seminar will bring together 30 professionals from international organisations, ministries and agencies on the national and regional level, businesses, NGOs, and foundations in a unique cross-sectoral learning forum. The course will employ a wide variety of teaching methods ranging from lectures and case study teaching to small group work. Cases to be discussed will include the Global Compact, the Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds, the Financial Action Task Force, the World Commission on Dams, and the work of the UN Special Representative on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations.

 

Wolfgang Reinicke, Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and Managing Director of galaxar s.a., Geneva, and Thorsten Benner, GPPi's Associate Director, will lead the seminar.

 

They will be supported by a number of outstanding academics and practitioners. Confirmed speakers include: 

 

• John Ruggie (Harvard University and UN Special Representative on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations)

• Klaus Leisinger (Novartis Foundation and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Global Compact)

• Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Cambridge and Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute)
• Melissa Powell (Global Compact Office) 

• Andrew Bone (De Beers Group)

• Susie Sanders (Global Witness)

 

The program will also include two evening presentations by John Ruggie and Mary Robinson (Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner on Human Rights).

 

In 2004, GPPi conceptualised the Hertie School of Governance’s first ever executive seminar on global public policy. The seminar brought together about 30 participants from the public, business and not-for-profit sectors. This successful format was used once again in 2005.

 

For more information on the seminar, click here.

 

To download the seminar program, click here. 

 

or contact Thorsten Benner

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