Open for conference registration: Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries

On September 26 and 27, the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains will organise a scientific conference “Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (and online). This conference aims at discussing recent research related to sustainability in global supply chains, with a focus on impacts in developing countries.

Prof. Laura Boudreau Ph.D. (Columbia Business School) will give the Keynote Speech.

There will be five (parallel) sessions at the two-day conference, dealing with various related topics, incl. shocks to supply chains, resilience and relocation of supply chains, relevance and role of sustainable investments and multinational enterprises, green trade, and environmental policy. Two sub-sessions will focus on the agriculture sector and the textile sector that are of particularly high relevance when discussing sustainability in global supply chains in developing countries.

The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The research network aims to synthesize and process existing knowledge and initiate new research on sustainable global value chains for evidence-based policy recommendations. The project is jointly led by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS, Bonn), the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW, Kiel), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP, Berlin).

Registration information can be found here.

Contact: Frauke Steglich (Frauke.steglich@ifw-kiel.de; +49(0)431-8814-360)