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 next lecture will be held on March 13th, 2019, at 12:30pm, in rooms 113-116 at the UConn Waterbury campus.
Speaker: Robert Werner
Title: Business and Human Rights: The View From the Field
Bob Werner is retired from a multi-faceted, 45-year career in international business. During that career he spent almost 20 years with Timex (successor to the Waterbury Clock Co.) where he served as CFO Asia (resident in the Philippines), Treasurer of the Corporation, VPInternational Development and as Chairman of its publicly traded Indian subsidiary. He was a long-serving Executive Board Member of the US-India Business Council in Washington and is Advisory Board Chair of UConn's Center for International Business and Education Research (CIBER). Bob currently teaches international business at the undergraduate and graduate levels as an adjunct professor in the UConn School of Business and has lectured on international business, particularly developing economies, at various universities including USC and Thunderbird.
For more information, contact: Fiona de Merell at fiona.demerell@uconn.edu