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Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable / Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development | Paris, France |27 JUN 2017 | Conference Programme
On June 27, 2017, Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – delivered an invited keynote address at the 6th Annual Meeting of Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable / Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development, an independent Paris-based think-tank. The international meeting – held at Deloitte headquarters in France – was sponsored by Deloitte Consulting LLP and Suez and attended by academics, civic leaders, NGO’s, business leaders, and elected officials. Dr. Sheehan’s address was profiled in Le Journal Du Grand Paris.
In advance of the annual forum, Dr. Sheehan co-authored an article in Citiscope with colleagues from Paris and Morocco titled Why the World Needs a Metropolitan Compact: A New Vision for the Future of Sustainability.
A generation ago, the United Nations launched the Global Compact, an effort to connect sustainability with private-sector entrepreneurism. Today, it is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, involving more than 12,000 signatories from over 160 countries.
The creation of the Global Compact was a landmark event in that it signalled the international community’s recognition of the need for a broad-based, multi-stakeholder approach to sustainability. Using that idea, we are now calling for new global recognition of one of the most powerful trends shaping worldwide systems today: metropolitanization. We call this new vision the Metropolitan Compact.
Learn more about Dr. Sheehan’s grant-funded work – including a two-year long initiative the resulted in the publication of an 84 page technical report – on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan – Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs – is the Director of the graduate programs in Negotiations & Conflict Management and Global Affairs & Human Security in the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore. For research or media related updates or to learn more about Dr. Sheehan, follow him at @ProfSheehan or link to his research profiles.
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Professor Sheehan is the Executive Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore where he teaches in the College of Public Affairs.
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