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Financing a Just Transition to Net Zero

Join this session of the Gerhart Center Webinar Series titled "Financing a Just Transition to Net Zero" featuring Nick Robins, professor in practice - Sustainable Finance, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics. To be successful, climate action needs to deliver positive social impacts for workers and communities, particularly in developing countries. This is the agenda of th...

Feb

Slavery and Child labor in Global Supply Chains

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Learn about the phenomena of slavery and other modes of servile labor exploitation at the bottom of the global supply chain from human rights activist Siddharth Kara.

Feb

A Panel Discussion with the Egyptian Private Equity Association - EPEA

11:00 am

AUC Tahrir Square

Celebrating the successful launch of Executive Education's Private Equity Diploma and re-instating the fruitful partnership between the AUC School of Business and EPEA, a panel discussion will be taking place at the Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Campus, by invitation only. EPEA is the Egyptian Private Equity Association working on developing the Private Equity and Venture Capital industries in E...

Jan

Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2021: Rating Fairness in the Platform Economy

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Online

This online panel is the launch event of the Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2021 report in collaboration with A2K4D. Speakers: Matthew Cole, postdoctoral researcher on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute Nagham ElHoussamy, associate director for research, Middle East and Africa, Access to Knowledge for Development Center, AUC School of Business Salma Hussein, regional research m...

Feb

How to Make COP27 a Success

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join Thomas Hale of the University of Oxford as he explores managing transnational problems effectively and fairly.

Mar

Business and Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Sanchita Saxena of UC Berkeley argues that the very nature of global supply chains has led to a fragmentation of work.

Feb

Systems Thinking for Social Change

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

David Peter Stroh explains the critical differences between conventional and systems thinking.

Jan

Inequality and How to Eliminate Structural Barriers for Achieving Equality

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join Richard Wilkinson as he outlines the social and psychological processes behind rich and poor income patterns.

Dec

AUC Venture Lab Exclusive Fall '21 Demo Day

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

AUC Venture Lab's Fall '21 Cycle is coming to an end and it is time to celebrate the graduating startups at the AUC Venture Lab Exclusive Fall '21 Demo Day. The physical event is by invitation only. The Fall '21 Demo Day will feature 21 startups from the Startup Accelerator and the Fintech Accelerator, physically pitching their innovations across fintech, healthech, e-commerce, AI, creative ...

Dec

Macroeconomic Implications of Global Supply Chain Bottlenecks for the Egyptian Economy

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

This webinar will cover the global outlook on growth, employment and inflation, and risks to it, followed by supply chain disruptions and the reasons and implications thereof.