[Webinar] Briefing on the 27th GTA Report: Advancing Sustainable Development With FDI Go back »
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Time2021-06-24 | 16:00 - 17:20
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Venue:Online
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Address:Online
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Fee:Members: 200 |
Non Members: 400
The recently released Global Trade Alert (GTA) report refers to the important contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, while governments and the civil society demand multinational businesses to contribute more to achieve the SDGs, FDI’s steady decline poses a risk to achieve them. The GTA report investigates factors that are holding back FDI’s contribution to sustainable development and proposes recommendations that can reverse this trend: policy changes in FDI should enable international business to increasingly contribute to pressing global challenges.
The European Chamber is delighted to invite Professor Simon J. Evenett, co-author of the 27th GTA Report, to present key results of the report. Ms. Eleonora Catella, Deputy Director, International Relations Department, BusinessEurope, Mr. Joerg Wuttke, President of European Chamber and Ms. Madelaine Tuininga, Head of Unit – Trade and Sustainable Development, DG Trade from European Commission will join the panel discussion with Professor Evenett on how FDI could fulfill its potential in advancing sustainable development.
Agenda
16:00-16:05 Opening Remarks by Joerg Wuttke, President of European Chamber
16:05-16:25 Presentation on the 27th GTA Report, Simon Evenett, Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen; Founder, St Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade
16:25-17:00 Panel Discussion
- Eleonora Catella, Deputy Director, International Relations Department, BusinessEurope
- Joerg Wuttke, President of European Chamber
- Madelaine Tuininga, Head of Unit – Trade and Sustainable Development, DG Trade from European Commission
- Simon Evenett, Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen;Founder, St Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade
17:00-17:20 Q&A
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Speakers
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Jörg Wuttke is Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Wuttke is President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China – an office he already held from 2007 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017. Wuttke is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. He contributes regularly to the Swiss financial blog https://themarket.ch/. Wuttke has lived in Beijing for more than three decades.
Ms. Eleonora Catella
Ms. Eleonora Catella
Eleonora Catella joined the International Relations Department of BusinessEurope in September 2012. Prior to this, she was a case handler of anti-dumping investigations at the European Commission DG Trade, worked on a project on inter-parliamentary communications at the European Parliament and was a trainee on trade policy at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Permanent Representation in Brussels. She holds a Master degree in European political and administrative studies from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and a Bachelor degree in political science with major in international relations from the University of Roma Tre. Eleonora is Italian and speaks English, French and Spanish fluently.
Ms. Madelaine Tuininga
Ms. Madelaine Tuininga
Madelaine Tuininga holds a law degree from the University of Amsterdam and works for the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission since 1998.
Since 2016, she is Head of Unit in DG Trade responsible for trade and sustainable development. The unit covers a broad area of topics, including trade aspects of labour, climate and environment, development and human rights; as well as crosscutting topics such as the Sustainable Development Goals and corporate social responsibility/responsible business conduct. Activities include amongst others policy development, negotiations and implementation in relation to these areas through unilateral, bilateral and multilateral trade instruments.
Prior to that, she held management positions in trade defence investigations (2012-2015) and industrial sectors, raw materials, energy and market access (2007-2011). She was coordinator and market access negotiator for free trade agreements with Mexico, Chile and Mercosur (1998-2003) and for WTO accessions (Russia) (2004-2006).
Before joining the Commission (1995-1998), she worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands where she was policy officer for the US and Canada and for some WTO dossiers (intellectual property and government procurement).
Prof. Simon Evenett
Prof. Simon Evenett
Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen and Founder of the St Gallen Endowment, the new home of the Global Trade Alert initiative, the leading independent trade policy monitoring initiative.
After starting his career at the (then) University of Michigan Business school, he has taught at Oxford and Rutgers universities and has been DLA Piper Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University (twice) and Visiting Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan (thrice). Professor Evenett was the first Director of Economic Research at the World Trade Institute and has been Co-Director of the CEPR’s International Trade and Regional Economics Programme, the leading European-based group of researchers in international trade and economic geography.
He served twice as a World Bank official, has been a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, as well as a Member of the High Level Group on Globalization established by then French Trade Minister Christine LaGarde, a Member of the Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System after Doha, and a Member of the Zedillo Committee on the Global Trade and Financial Architecture. In 2020 he was invited to join the Global Future Council on Trade and Investment of the World Economic Forum.
Professor Evenett obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and B.A in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He has published over 225 books, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters. In addition, he has prepared over 50 reports for public bodies and international organisations and, furthermore, has written over 250 shorter pieces (VoxEU columns, other blogs, newspaper articles, and short commentaries). Professor Evenett frequently engages with corporates, government officials, and the media as well as with analysts and scholars.