UConn Waterbury and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) are pleased to announce details of the David and Joan Reed Faculty Fellowship Lecture Series in Spring 2019. The lectures are free and open to the UConn community, and the general public.
The Reed Fellowship was created to bring outstanding UConn Storrs faculty to teach at the Waterbury campus. This year, recipient Shareen Hertel, Ph.D (UConn Storrs, Dept. of Political Science & Human Rights Institute) has collaborated to organize a series of public lectures at the UConn Waterbury campus. This year's series centers on Politics and Human Rights in Global Supply Chains, and is sponsored by UConn Waterbury, OLLI at UConn, and the UConn Center of Excellence for Teaching (CETL). The lectures will offer discussions on issues related to managing global supply chains, business ethics and compliance, innovative design for social and environmental sustainability, and related challenges.
The first lecture will be held on February 20th, 2019, at 12:30pm, in rooms 113-116 at the UConn Waterbury campus.
Speaker: Mark Nordstrom
Title: Respect for Human Rights: An Imperative that Makes Good Business Sense
Mark Nordstrom graduated from Colgate University in 1973, obtained a Master's Degree in Public Administration from S.U.N.Y and graduated from Albany Law School, where he was a member of the Albany Law Review. After law school, he served as Labor Counsel for GE's Lighting Business in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1985 and 1986. After that, he left GE to work at McCarter & English in Newark, NJ. In 1989, Mark joined GE's Corporate Legal Staff. Until April 1, 2016, when he retired, Mark served as Sr. Counsel - Labor and Employment Law with global responsibility for the legal aspects of GE's human resource policies and practices. Mark also led GE's global practices pertaining to Human Rights. Mark served as Chairman of the Pro Bono Partnership for six years until 2017 and remains a Board member. He also served on the Board of the American Employment Law Council until 2017, and was a member of the UN Global Compact Human Rights Working Group while at GE. Mark continues to consult on various labor and employment law and human rights matters.
For more information, contact: Fiona de Merell at fiona.demerell@uconn.edu