The International Trade Centre’s (ITC) Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) Forum is one of the leading global events on sustainable value chains and will take place in hybrid mode on 30 September 2022.

·        In-person venue: International Trade Centre, Rue de Montbrillant 54, 1202 Geneva; 

·        Online participation: Link to be provided to registered participants ahead of the event. 

 

The 2022 edition of the T4SD Forum will delve into corporate sustainability governance and will take a critical look at how the evolving regulatory landscape will impact small-business owners, especially the upstream players in developing countries.

 

This hybrid event will convene a wide range of stakeholders from the trade and development community, including small-business owners, high-level government officials, policymakers and inspirational speakers to share their expertise on the growing movement to make corporations more responsible and accountable for their impact on people and the planet.

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AGENDA

Friday, 30 September 2022 (CET Time)

Moderator and Master of Ceremonies
Stacey Vanek Smith
Author, Global Economics Correspondent, National Public Radio (NPR) reporter and host

Stacey Vanek Smith is a longtime public radio reporter and host, highly regarded for her insight and journalism on work, business, and economics. Stacey previously served as a correspondent and host for NPR’s Planet Money as well as the national public radio show Marketplace. She is the host of NPR’s daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money.

Her work has appeared on All things Considered, Consider This, Morning Edition, Up First, Weekend All Things Considered, It’s Been A Minute, with Sam Sanders, How I Built This, and Rough Translation, as well as in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Awl and People Magazine.

A native of Idaho, Stacey grew up in Boise and on her parents' cattle ranch in western Idaho. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a master’s in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. She was awarded the Ferris Teaching Grant from Princeton University in 2019 and taught a course in audio journalism.

In her new book, Machiavelli For Women, Stacey Vanek Smith looks at how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their 21st-century work lives and shatter the glass ceiling once and for all. You can get your copy here: Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace: Vanek Smith, Stacey: 9781982121754: Amazon.com: Books

10:00 - 10:30
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE
10:30 - 10:50
INAUGURAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND OPENING REMARKS
Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director, ITC

Pamela Coke-Hamilton has served as Executive Director of ITC since October 2020.

Since that time she has led to agency to meet the economic and trade challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent global supply chain disruptions.

Ms. Coke-Hamilton has a breadth of experience and expertise in trade-related capacity-building and sustainable development and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable economies such as the small island developing states and least developed countries. Ms. Coke-Hamilton has worked extensively with the private sector and academia across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to build trade-related institutional strength within member States. She also established the Women Empowered through Export (WeXport) platform to address the disadvantages that women-owned firms experience in accessing markets.

She began her career in Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and later also served as Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Rebeca Grynspan, economist and Ex-Vice President of Costa Rica, was named Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in September 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position in the organization’s 60 year history.

Prior to her appointment, she was the Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Conference, Under Secretary-General of the UN and Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.

She was elected Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998 and held the positions of Minister of Housing, Minister Coordinator of Economic and Social Affairs and Deputy Finance Minister.

A renowned advocate of human development, she has helped to focus the world’s attention on the reduction of inequality and poverty, gender equality and multilateralism.

She currently coordinates the Task Team of the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance created by the UN Secretary-General and on whose behalf she leads negotiations to reintegrate food and fertilizers from Ukraine and Russia to global markets.

10:50 - 12:10
PANEL 1
Defining the mission: what is the sustainable development moonshot?
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development at Sunway University.

Sachs has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres. Sachs was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders, and has received 38 honorary doctorates. He received the Legion of Honor from France in 2021 and the Order of the Cross from Estonia in 2019.

Danielle Morley
CEO, Bonsucro

Danielle Morley is CEO of Bonsucro, the leading global sustainability platform and standard for sugarcane. She also sits on the Board for ISEAL – the global membership organisation for credible sustainability standards. She has a range of sector expertise in palm oil, water, forests, climate change, and human rights. 

Prior to her appointment at Bonsucro in 2018, Danielle was European Director of Outreach and Engagement at Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, and Executive Director of the Freshwater Action Network at WaterAid. She holds a master's degree in Environmental Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Law.

Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director, ITC

Pamela Coke-Hamilton has served as Executive Director of ITC since October 2020.

Since that time she has led to agency to meet the economic and trade challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent global supply chain disruptions.

Ms. Coke-Hamilton has a breadth of experience and expertise in trade-related capacity-building and sustainable development and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable economies such as the small island developing states and least developed countries. Ms. Coke-Hamilton has worked extensively with the private sector and academia across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to build trade-related institutional strength within member States. She also established the Women Empowered through Export (WeXport) platform to address the disadvantages that women-owned firms experience in accessing markets.

She began her career in Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and later also served as Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

Siddharth Kara
Author, researcher, screenwriter and activist on modern slavery

Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor based at Nottingham University and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

Kara has authored three books on modern slavery, including: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery; Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia; and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective. 

Across twenty-two years of field research, Kara has traveled to more than fifty countries to document the cases of several thousand slaves and child laborers. Kara’s current research efforts are focused on conditions in cobalt mining in the DR Congo, which is also the topic of his forthcoming book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (St Martin’s Press, Jan 2023).

12:10 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 13:20
SPECIAL KEYNOTE
Helene Budlinger Artieda
State Secretary, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland

State Secretary Helene Budliger Artieda has been director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) since 1 August 2022.

Prior to that, she was Switzerland’s ambassador in Bangkok, Thailand, with additional accreditations to Cambodia and Laos. Until 2019, she held the same position in Pretoria, South Africa, with cross-accreditations to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mauritius and Namibia.

From 2008 to 2015, Helene Budliger Artieda was head of the Directorate for Resources at the FDFA. In this capacity, she was advisor to the Head of Department on resource matters and a member of the FDFA Management Board.

In 2000 she graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá (Colombia) with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). After graduating from commercial school in Zurich with a Federal VET Diploma in Commerce, she completed internal training at the FDFA as a consular officer.

13:25 - 14:45
PANEL 2
Building the spacecraft: corporate sustainability due diligence
H. E. Dr. Yasmine Fouad
Minister of Environment, Arab Republic of Egypt

Dr. Yasmine Fouad was appointed Minister of Environment of the Arab Republic of Egypt on 18 June 2018. She was previously Assistant Minister of Environment since 2014.

Dr. Fouad holds MSc in Environmental Science and PhD in Political Science - Euro Mediterranean Studies. She has more than 20 years’ experience in Environment and International cooperation, working in Government, UN organizations, NGOs and Universities.

She leads a transformational change in environment sector in Egypt by creating more business oriented enabling environment, through

  1. leading the processes of developing the Waste Management Law (202/2020);
  2. leading the development and implementation of National Solid Waste Strategy;
  3. developing waste to energy as new economic instrument;
  4. participating in progressing the first governmental green bonds in Egypt and Middle East;
  5. co-leading mainstreaming environmental sustainability aspects into national investment plans, as well as
  6. improving Greater Cairo air quality and supporting construction of waste management infrastructure.
Francisco Pirez Gordillo
Senior Adviser on Sustainability, Due Diligence and Accompanying Measures, ITC

Francisco Pirez Gordillo is a Senior Adviser on Sustainability, Due Diligence and Accompanying Measures at the International Trade Centre (ITC). He is the coordinator of the Pilot on the CSDDD Accompanying measures.

He is the former Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, and the International Trade Centre, from 2010 to 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

During this period, he occupied different posts within the bodies of these Organizations as a Chairman, and as a Group Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC). He led and represented the national trade interests of Uruguay in different negotiations during the last five years. He also participated as a Discussant in the Trade Policy Review of Mongolia and Viet Nam.

From 2016 to 2020, he worked at the Eastern Republic of Uruguay Bank as legal adviser of the Second vice president.

He is a Uruguayan lawyer graduated in 2004, and specialized in international trade law, with experience on trade policy, trade analysis, development, dispute settlement among states, and trade negotiations. He holds a Master´s degree (LLM) in International Trade and Business Law from The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, US.

On November 3, 2011, the International Bar Association awarded Mr. Pirez the IBA 2011 Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award at the Annual Conference in Dubai UAE. 

Mr. Pirez taught International Relations and Organisations as well as Civil law at the College of Law, University of the Republic in Montevideo - Uruguay.

Gabriel Quijandría
Regional Director for South America, IUCN, Ecuador

Gabriel Quijandría is an experienced professional in environmental management and natural resources, with 20 years of experience in the Latin American region.

Peruvian national, he is an expert in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of environmental policies with an emphasis on climate change, financing of sustainable development and conservation of biological diversity.

He has an extensive experience in fundraising activities with official bilateral and multilateral cooperation agencies and private foundations. He has been Minister of the Environment of Peru, Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Regional Director for Peru, Colombia and Ecuador of the Conservation Strategy Fund, Co-president of the Green Climate Fund and Representative in Peru of The Nature Conservancy.

He has performed consulting services for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank, the AVINA Foundation, GIZ and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute. He is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.

He has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and a Master's degree in Natural Resources Administration from INCAE Business School in Costa Rica.
Heidi Hautala
Finnish Member of European Parliament for the Greens & Vice President, European Parliament

Heidi Hautala is Vice-President of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament in the Greens/EFA group and former Minister for International Development and State Ownership Steering in Finland.

She was born in 1955 in Oulu, Finland, and has a master's degree in agriculture and forestry.

She was elected as a Vice-President of the European Parliament in October 2017 and continues in the office.

Heidi serves on the Committee on International Trade, the Subcommittee on Human Rights and as a substitute on the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament.

In 2017 Heidi established a Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct in the European Parliament.

She has complemented her extensive political career at national and European level with other professional activities (journalist, founder of a restaurant) and combined it with her various voluntary work commitments related mostly to human rights.
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:20
PANEL 3
Ready for take-off?
Emi-Beth Aku Quantson
Founder & CEO, Kawa Moka Coffee Company, Ghana

Emi-Beth is the Founder and CEO for Kawa Moka Coffee Company.

She is a coffee entrepreneur and chartered accountant with over 15 years experience in accounting, consulting and manufacturing.

Kawa Moka is a social enterprise coffee company that strives to change the African narrative by adding value (processing and roasting) to a highly sought-after cash crop, coffee, in Ghana thereby creating jobs and wealth along the value chain particularly for women coffee growers.

As a pioneer in the coffee industry in Ghana, Emi-Beth seeks to boost local consumption by creating avenues to drink Ghana coffee through the Kawa Moka café, participation in trade shows and pop-up markets.

Emi-Beth graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Cum Laude) and is on Leadership Council of the Coffee Roasters Guild of Specialty Coffee Association.

Daniele Giovannucci
President & Co-founder, Committee on Sustainability Assessment

Daniele Giovannucci is the president and co-founder of the Committee on Sustainability Assessment. 

He is a systems thinker committed to accelerating viable sustainability approaches in pragmatic ways.

His 3 decade career includes advising 11 national governments and 5 UN agencies. With experience spanning 40 countries, he leads active systems guidance for top global companies from PepsiCo and Mars to McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

An IETI Fellow, and co-founder of the Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA), his work is reflected in 70 books and papers that rank in the top 1% of the 900,000 professional authors tracked by SSRN-Elsevier.

Ana Yaluff
Head of Sustainability EMEA, ADM

Ana Yaluff is the Head of Sustainability EMEA at ADM.

She has more than ten years of experience within the Sustainability area in the food industry, with strong expertise in tackling global sustainability challenges for the agricultural commodities and building local and regional solutions to face those challenges, from the private sector perspective.

Currently she works as Head of Sustainability at ADM for the EMEA region. She holds a Master Professional in International Economy from Sorbonne University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Value Chains from Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Marike de Peña
President, CLAC (Latin American and Caribbean Network of Fair Trade Small Producers and Workers)
16:20 - 16:40
CLOSING DIALOGUE
Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director, ITC

Pamela Coke-Hamilton has served as Executive Director of ITC since October 2020.

Since that time she has led to agency to meet the economic and trade challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent global supply chain disruptions.

Ms. Coke-Hamilton has a breadth of experience and expertise in trade-related capacity-building and sustainable development and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable economies such as the small island developing states and least developed countries. Ms. Coke-Hamilton has worked extensively with the private sector and academia across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to build trade-related institutional strength within member States. She also established the Women Empowered through Export (WeXport) platform to address the disadvantages that women-owned firms experience in accessing markets.

She began her career in Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and later also served as Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

Marie Claire Graf
Climate justice activist, youth advocate and public speaker

Marie-Claire Graf is a climate justice activist, youth advocate and public speaker for an intergenerational just transition towards sustainable development and ambitious climate action through her diverse engagement in several local, national and international initiatives.

It’s her aspiration to inspire and empower youth to take meaningful, impactful and positive actions to create momentum for change.

She was initiating and is leading several associations and movements around climate action, sustainable development, youth and women empowerment, food systems transformation and education such as Sustainability Week International or Youth Constituency YOUNGO of United Nations Climate Change.

She was the youngest climate negotiator for Switzerland at the Climate Conference in 2019 and is currently training young negotiators from around the world for the upcoming UN Climate Conference, COP27.

16:40 onwards
COCKTAIL

The 2021 edition "Sustainable Trade: the Heart of the Post-COVID Global Economy" brought together

25 +

speakers

900 +

participants

90 +

countries 

Welcome Address - Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC
Welcome Address - Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC
Keynote - H.E. Andrés Valenciano, Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
Keynote - H.E. Andrés Valenciano, Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
Kick-off Dialogue -Gabriela Alvarez, Co-founder, No Name Chocolate, Colombia
Kick-off Dialogue -Gabriela Alvarez, Co-founder, No Name Chocolate, Colombia
Panel - The Role of Standards in Sustainable Trade Policy
Panel - The Role of Standards in Sustainable Trade Policy
Fireside Chat - AfCFTA: A New Hope for Sustainability?
Fireside Chat - AfCFTA: A New Hope for Sustainability?
Special Dialogue - What’s cooking? A Fresh Take on Sustainability with Chef Thiam
Special Dialogue - What’s cooking? A Fresh Take on Sustainability with Chef Thiam
Panel - Sustainability Standards in Practice
Panel - Sustainability Standards in Practice
Closing Ceremony
Closing Ceremony
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