(09.30-10.30) Session 6
Thematic Panel (Knowledge partnerships)
Moderator: Professor Ronald McQuaid, Professor of Work and Employment, University of Stirling, UK
Rapporteur: Dr. Hala Abou Arraj, Interim Registrar, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- The Knowledge for Development Partnership as a public-private partnership: the evolution of the Agenda Knowledge for Development
Sarah Cummings, VU University Amsterdam, Knowledge for Development Partnership, The Netherlands - Implementing the SDGs by subnational governments- urgent need to strengthen administrative capacities
Raymond Saner, University of Basel, Switzerland - Simona Constanzo Sow, United Nations System Staff College, Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development
(10.30-12.00) Session 7
Thematic Panel (Building bridges to the private sector)
Moderator: Professor Abdelkader Djeflat, Professor of Economics & Chairman Maghreb Technology Network, University of Lille, France
Rapporteur: Dr. Rui Mu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Jorge Laguna-Celis, Director of Governance Affairs and Private Sector Relations, United Nations Environment
- Elmer Lenzen, CEO Macondo Publishing GmbH
- Helen Medina, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Nestlé S.A., Switzerland
- Antonio Hautle, Executive Director, Global Compact Network Switzerland
- Andrew Brown, Director, Quid Europe, UK
(13.30-15.00) Session 8
Thematic Panel (Partnership for innovation)
Moderator: Jonas Svensson, Head of Innovations Unit, United Nations Office for Project Services, Denmark
Rapporteur: Dr. Cristian Matti, Knowledge and Learning Manager, EIT Climate-KIC , Belgium and Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Mia Rolf, CEO, Ideon Science Park, Sweden
- Elaine Chen, Senior Lecturer and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, USA
- Konrad Bergstorm, President and Co Founder, Zound Industries, Sweden
- Hiro Tamura, Partner at Atomico, UK
- Rys Farthing, Ocean Generation
- Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen, Senior Advisor and Head of Humanitarian Innovation at Innovation Norway, Innovation Norway
(15.00-16.30) Session 9
Thematic Panel (Coalescing the energies of SMEs)
Moderator: Professor Danilo Sampaio, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Rapporteur: Dr. Siham El-Kafafi, Director of Research, ICL Education Group, New Zealand
- Roberto Suarez-Santos, Deputy Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers
- Govind Venuprasad, Coordinator, South-South Trade and Investment Programme, International Trade Centre
- Willem Overbosch, Founder and CEO, Dutch Network Group, The Netherlands
- Islamic banking finance to small entrepreneurs: a case of Kenya (An Institutional Network Approach)
Mohammed Nurul Alam, Yorkville University, Canada
Nurulayn Binte Noor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
(16.30-18.00) Session 10
Thematic Panel (Measuring sustainability)
Moderator: Professor Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, Professor of Civil Engineering/Transportation, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Rapporteur: Dr. Bhabani Shankar Nayak, Senior Lecturer, School of Strategy and Leadership, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK
- José Alcorta, Manager, Technical Group, International Organisation for Standardisation
- Markus T. Schweizer, Managing Partner, Strategic Solutions, Ernst & Young Ltd.
- Sander Chan, German Development Institute, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development
- Lichia Saner-Yiu, President, Centre for Socio-economic Development, Switzerland