15:00–15:10
Welcome
Welcome by Anita Ramasastry, Chairperson, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Niels Annen, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Germany
15:10–15:20
Opening
- Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice
- John Ruggie, former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights; Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
15:20–15:30
Remarks by UN Project Partners
- Peggy Hicks, Director, Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Mourad Wahba, Associate Administrator a.i., UNDP
15:30–15:45
Government perspectives
- Jens Frølich Holte, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
- Silvia Lara Povedano, Vice Minister of the Presidency, Costa Rica
- Krystyna Marty, State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
- Stefano Sannino, Deputy Secretary General for Economic and Global Issues, European External Action Service
15:45–15:55
Introducing the UNGPs10+/NextdecadeBHR project
Conversation with UN Working Group Chair Anita Ramasastry and Vice-chair Dante Pesce
Conducted by Christopher Schuller, independent business and human rights expert
15:55–16:25
Reflections on UNGPs10+ and reinforcing coherence
Moderator: Lene Wendland, Chief, Business and Human Rights, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- Sharan Burrow, Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation
- Mthunzi Mdwaba, Vice-President, International Organisation of Employers
- Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact
- Christine Kaufmann, Chairperson, Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, OECD
- Josep Wilde-Ramsing, Senior Researcher, SOMO; Coordinator OECD Watch
- Victor van Vuuren, Director, Enterprises Department, ILO
16:25–16:35
Break
Conversation with UN Working Group Chair Anita Ramasastry and Vice-chair Dante Pesce
Conducted by Christopher Schuller, Former Senior Policy Advisor at German Institute for Human Rights
16:35–16:50
Perspectives and expectations from the ground
Moderator: Mauricio Lazala, Deputy Director & Head of Europe Office, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Joan Carling, Co-convenor of the Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development
- Nnimmo Bassey, Defender of victims of climate change, Nigerian activist and poet
16:50 –17:35
The road ahead: how to scale action to move business respect for human rights from aspiration to action?
Moderator: Salil Tripathi, Senior Advisor, Global Issues, Institute for Human Rights and Business
- Heidi Hautala, Member of the European Parliament
- Fiona Reynolds, CEO, Principles for Responsible Investment
- Jeanette von Wolfersdorff, Director of Commission for Transparency, Quality and the Impact of Public Expenditure, Chile; former Director of the Santiago Securities Exchange
- Liang Xiaohui, Chief Researcher at the China National Textile and Apparel Council
- Fernanda Hopenhaym, Co-executive director, PODER (Latin America); Chair of the board, ESCR-Net
- Ron Popper, CEO, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights
17:35–17:55
Answers, take-aways and next steps
Virtual Q&A with the Working Group Chair and Vice-chair
17:55–18:00
Closing remarks by the co-host
- Bärbel Kofler, Commissioner for Human Rights Policy of the German Federal Government