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Issues such as climate change, diversity, human rights, business ethics, and corporate governance are at the forefront of public and political attention. Investors are increasingly demanding that these issues are factored into their portfolios, and fund managers are differentiating their services using environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. As Geneva is strengthening its status as a world capital of sustainable investments, the CAIA Geneva invites you to join this lunch & learn educational event at the Grand Hotel Kempinskyi, where our speaker, Dominique Habegger, will speak about this global trend.

 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas C. Niggli is Director General for Economic Development, Research and Innovation at the Republic and State of Geneva, since May 2017. At the crossroad between macro-strategic thinking and micro-economic delivery, Nicholas identifies opportunities to strengthen Geneva’s economic ecosystem to position it to benefit from the opportunities of the digital age but also of the emergence of sustainable development economics. Nicholas works on building bridges between Geneva’s diverse clusters and its unparalleled network of multilateral governance actors, takes steps to strengthen Geneva’s USP and reinforces the links between economic development and research to create conditions favouring entrepreneurship, the emergence of new sources of growth as well as innovation.
Since 2012, Nicholas has been lecturing on complex negotiation dynamics, leadership, intercultural communication and global governance as part of the INP Executive Master at the Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva. In parallel, he has been a guest lecturer on international trade, procurement, governance and Brexit in various other academic institutions across Europe. Before joining the Republic and State of Geneva, Nicholas has been working for 15 years as a senior Swiss diplomat, both as a multilateral trade negotiator at the Swiss Mission to the WTO & EFTA and as a bilateral representative for economy, finance, science and innovation at the Swiss Embassy in the UK. He has also successfully concluded two major negotiations as well as a mediation process between China and Chinese Taipei, as Chairman, at the World Trade Organisation.