IOE President Erol Kiresepi and Secretary General Roberto Suárez Santos together with ITUC General-Secretary Sharan Burrow will be joined by: Ahmad Alzahrani, Deputy Minister and Chair of the G20 Employment Working Group Anousheh Karvar, Government Representative to the ILO Governing Body & Labour & Employment Sherpa to G7-G20 Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General. Following the recent Joint Statement by IOE and ITUC, this digital summit will provide an in-depth […]
Business at OECD Trade Committee Meeting will be held in Paris, France on April 6, 2020. The Business at OECD Trade Committee ensures that business views and priorities are adequately reflected in the OECD’s trade agenda. The Committee identifies existing problems, barriers and protectionist measures based on its members’ on–the–ground expertise, and promotes its priorities through participation in OECD projects […]
OECD Trade Committee Meeting will meet in Paris, France from April 7-8. The OECD Trade Committee provides a unique forum for senior trade policy officials to build mutual understanding of important policy issues and developments in trade relations. Proceeding through dialogue and peer review, which involves sharing information and exchanging views, among Members, non-Members and other International Organisations, the Committee […]
Director General Francis Gurry of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will conduct an on-line public briefing on WIPO’s 2019 results and also discuss how the organization is managing the current crisis. For more information please contact USCIB Vice President for Innovation & Product Policy Mike Michener (mmichener@uscib.org).
The United Nations will host a high-level event on Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). The event will be organized by the President of the UN General Assembly. The interactive panel discussion will be held on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 10:00am – 6:00pm. The letter of invitation and concept note states that the objective […]
The next meeting of the USCIB Competition Committee will take place on Thursday, April 16, from 12:00-2:30pm in Washington, DC. The meeting will begin with a working lunch. We are pleased to announce that we will be joined by Alexander Okuliar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. If you would like to attend the meeting, please RSVP […]
Please check back soon for a new date; this meeting has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) will hold the 2020 Banking Commission Annual Meeting in Dubai on April 20-23. Successors in Trade (SIT) was established in 2018 as a strategic programme to identify and support the future generation of experts in the […]
Europe is the Covid-19 most affected continent, putting health care systems throughout the region under massive pressure and causing nearly 82,000 deaths to date. The impact on employment, industry and services has been severe. Many countries in the region have taken drastic measures to mitigate the impacts of the crisis. Eurozone finance ministers recently reached an agreement on the economic response […]
USCIB Sustainable Development Goals Working Group call on Tuesday, April 21 at 11:00 am – 12:30 pm. Confirmed guest speakers include: Irena Zubcevic, Chief, Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Michael Urban, Policy Analyst, Office of Economic and Development Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department […]
Please check back soon for a new date. The new meeting will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The spring meeting of the USCIB Corporate Responsibility & Labor Affairs Committee will take place: April 22-23, 2020 Location: White & Case Washington DC (701 13th St NW # 600, Washington, DC 20005) RSVP Information: Please send your RSVP to […]
