UConn Waterbury and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) are pleased to announce details of the third lecture in the David and Joan Reed Faculty Fellowship Lecture Series of 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 third and final lecture will be held on April 10th, 2019, at 12:30pm, in rooms 113-116 at the UConn Waterbury campus.
Speaker: Deborah Leipziger
Title: Human Rights and Business: Creating a Lexicon and Blueprint for Transformation
Deborah Leipziger advises companies around the world on human rights and business. She is a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute at Babson College. She has served as a Lecturer in the Bard MBA in Sustainability Program. Deborah serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship. She is the author of The Corporate Responsibility Code Book, now in its third edition (Greenleaf, 2015). She is a co-author of Creating Social Value: A Guide for Leaders and Change Makers, (Greenleaf, 2014), Living Corporate Citizenship (FT, 2002), and Corporate Citizenship: Successful Strategies of Responsible Companies, (FT, 1998). She is the author of Social Accountability 8000: The Definitive Guide to the New Social Standard (FT Prentice Hall, 2001). Her books have been translated into Portuguese, French, Korean, and Chinese. She has served on several boards including the Global Responsible Investment Advisory and Oversight Committee of Aviva plc; the Sustainable Futures Advisory Committee of Alliance Trust Investments in the UK; the International Board of Advisors of Instituto Ethos in Brazil; and the Advisory Board for the Center for Ethics at Manhattanville College, USA. Ms. Leipziger played a key role in the development of the social standard, Social Accountability 8000, and its first Guidance Document. Born in Brazil, Ms. Leipziger has a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattanville College in Economics and International Studies.
For more information, contact: Fiona de Merell at fiona.demerell@uconn.edu