Sustainable Development

Dialogues

Rio de Janeiro, 16 to 19 June 2012

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Sustainable development as an answer to the economic and financial crises

(Saturday, 16

th. June 2012 – from 2.30p.m to 6p.m)

AKYUZ, Yilmaz

(Turkey)

Chief Economist, South Centre. Dr. Yilmaz Akyuz was the Director of the Division on

Globalization and Development Strategies and Chief Economist at the United Nations

Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) until 2003. He was the principal

author and head of the team preparing the Trade and Development Report, and

UNCTAD coordinator of research support to developing countries (the Group-of-24) in

the IMF and the World Bank. Before joining UNCTAD in 1984 he taught at various

universities in Turkey, England and elsewhere in Europe. He has published extensively

in macroeconomics, finance, growth and development. Since retiring from UNCTAD, he

has held the Tun Ismail Ali Chair in Monetary and Financial Economics, University of

Malaya. His current activities include policy research for international organizations,

and advising governments on development policy issues, and the Third World Network

on research in trade, finance and development. Source: http://www.policyinnovations.org/innovators/people/data/07375

BARBOSA, Fábio C.

(Brazil)

Since September of 2011, Fabio C. Barbosa is the CEO of Abril S.A. He began his career

at Nestle, where he worked for 10 years, involved with finance and controller. He spent

two years in the U.S. and two years in Switzerland. Then he worked for seven years at

Citibank in Brazil, with Treasury and Corporate Finance / Capital Markets. He was

president of ABN Amro Real since 1996 and in 2008 with the acquisition of Banco Real

Santander, became CEO of Santander Brazil. In 2011, he became Chairman of the

Board. Barbosa was president of Febraban (Brazilian Banks Association) from 2007 to

2011, and member of the Board of Petrobras from 2003 to 2011, a member of the

Council of Economic and Social Development of the Presidency, a Council member of

Endeavor Enterprise Institute, to foster entrepreneurship, and member of the Board of

the United Nations Foundation, to support the UN and to promote international

cooperation to combat global problems. This year, he received the United Nation’s

Champions of the Earth 2012 award.

BENÍTEZ, Marcela

(Argentina)

Geographer and sociologist by training, spent seven years travelling throughout

Argentina as part of her work as a researcher for the National Research Council for

Science and Technology. During this time, she observed the economic and social

problems arising in small rural villages outside of Buenos Aires and throughout the

country. After completing her degree, she began researching how these rural villages

were slowly dying, and developed ideas on how to reverse the situation. Based on this,

Benitez created RESPONDE, which has galvanized thousands of people, universities and

companies to become involved in generating new opportunities for these villages. Her

work has received multiple national and international awards, made possible through

social responsibility programmes in conjunction with the private sector, such as

American Express, LAN, Apache and the Cargill Foundation.

Source: http://www.schwabfound.org/

IGLESIAS, Enrique V.

(Uruguay)

Mr. Enrique Iglesias is the current secretary at the Ibero-American General Secretariat.

His former positions include President of the Inter-American Development Bank, in

Washington DC; Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America

and Caribbean, Santiago de Chile; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Uruguay;

Governor of the Central Bank of Uruguay; and Secretary of Planning, Uruguay. He has

also been a University professor. Mr. Iglesias has received decorations from several

countries: France (Legion d’Honneur), Spain (Isabel la Católica), Japan, Italy, Brazil,

Argentina, Chile, Mexico, etc.

Source: http://www.fdc.org.br

KOCH-WESER, Caio

(Germany)

Mr. Caio Koch-Weser is vice chairman and senior advisor of Deutsche Bank Group.

Previously, he was state secretary and deputy minister within the German Federal

Ministry of Finance until November 2005. From 1973 to 1999, he held a number of

high-level positions in the World Bank, notably as division chief for the China program,

deputy treasurer and director of treasury operations, regional vice president for Middle

East and North Africa, and managing director of operations and member of the

Executive Committee. Additionally, is a member of the advisory board of the

Bertelsmann Foundation and a trustee of the Institute for International Economics (IIE)

in Washington, DC. From 2003 to 2005, he was the chairman of the Economic and

Financial Committee of the European Union.

Source: http://www.acus.org/

MULDER, Herman (The Netherlands)

Herman Mulder is a member of the board of the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP) of

the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Mulder is a former senior executive

vice-president at ABN AMRO, and is now an independent board member with a focus

on sustainable development issues. Mulder also worked in the field of livelihood

development finance in India and Brazil, where he gained insights into the global value

chain and the positive effects companies can have on people living in lower income

countries. Mulder was appointed Vice-Chairman following the departure of Professor

Mervyn King in October 2011, and has been Acting Chairman in the interim period. The

Board of Directors resolved to appoint Mulder Chairman during their meeting on Friday

25 November 2011. Source: https://www.globalreporting.org/

RAWORTH, Kate

(United Kingdom)

Kate's research is focused on rethinking global economic development in the face of

planetary boundaries and extreme global inequalities - including discussions of green

economy, and new measures of development. She has previously conducted research

for Oxfam GB on climate change, adaptation and human rights, agricultural trade,

labour rights in global supply chains, and designing research for advocacy and

campaigning. Prior to joining Oxfam GB she spent four years as co-author and

economist of UNDP's Human Development Report. From 1994-97 she was a Fellow of

the Overseas Development Institute, working with the Ministry of Trade and Industry of

Zanzibar. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and a masters degree in

Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.

Source: http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk

SACHS, Jeffrey

(United States of America)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a professor of economics, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and

syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80

countries. He serves as Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as

Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management. He

is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium

Development Goals. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise

Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. He has authored three New

York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a

Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Sachs was born in Detroit,

Michigan, in 1954. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in

1976, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He

joined the Harvard faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1980, and was promoted to

Associate Professor in 1982 and Full Professor in 1983, at the age of 28.

Source: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/

TAVARES, Maria da Conceição

(Brazil)

Born in Portugal on April 24, 1930. Brazilian citizen since 1957. BS in Mathematics, PhD

in Economics, and Professor of UNICAMP and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

(UFRJ). Emeritus Professor at UFRJ since 1993. Economic Consultant to various national

and international public institutions. Visiting Professor at the University of Chile and

UNAM in Mexico. Honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires. Director of

the Institute of Industrial Economics - UFRJ, 1986/88. President of the Institute of

Economists of Rio de Janeiro - IERJ, for two terms. Commendations from the

governments of Brazil, Portugal and Chile. Author of several books, hundreds of articles

in journals and magazines. Elected Member of the Federal Labor Party - RJ to the 50th

Legislature, in the period 1995/99. Award Almirante Alvaro Alberto, 2011. He is

currently a research professor at the Graduate Program in International Political

Economy at the Economics Institute of the UFRJ.

WANG, Shi (PR China)

Chairman and Founder of China Vanke Co., Ltd. Since 1988, Vanke has grown quickly

into China’s largest home developer, achieving an annual growth rate over 30% in

2011. By being the first in China to introduce the concepts of prefab homes and eco-

homes, Mr. Wang greatly advanced the capacity of Vanke and Chinese real sector in

renewable energy, forest conservation, carbon footprint reduction and biodiversity,

etc. In recent years, Wang Shi used his personal influence to lead environmental

initiatives in China. In 2004, he founded Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology, one of

China’s largest environmental networks involving business leaders. Vanke was the first

Chinese private sector company to sign an MOU with WWF to join the Climate Saver

Program and Global Forest Trade Network. Wang Shi graduated with a bachelor’s

degree in Water Supply and Drainage, University of Lanzhou. He is now an exchange

fellow at Harvard University specializing in business value and ethics.

Source: http://www9.vanke.com/main/defaultEnglish.aspx