Launch Event | Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2022

Time: 6th April, 2022, 10.00 AM – 12.30PM CET

Content

10.00: The importance of policies for promoting the sustainability of global supply chains for the German government

• Dr. Bärbel Kofler, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

10.10: Research informing policymaking: Key messages of the Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2022

• Dr. Tilman Altenburg and Dr. Gideon Ndubuisi, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

10.35 Comments on the Annual Report, the role of the research network and relevant issues for policy-relevant supply chain research

• Prof. Gary Gereffi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University


• Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, Executive Vice President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)


• Dr. Arquebe Oqubay, Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia


• Dr. Fatima Denton, Director, United Nations University Institute of Natural Resource in Africa (UNU-INRA)


• Anna Cavazzini, Head of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European Parliament

Moderator: Frauke Steglich, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

11.50: Open discussion

• Moderator: Frauke Steglich, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
  

12:20: Conclusions: What do we take away from the workshop?

• Prof. Jann Lay, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)