Multistakeholder and Global Governance

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Transnational Institute workshop on multistakeholder governance and social movements, Amsterdam, late February to early March, 2019

Readers Guide’ to the Global Redesign Initiative for the University of Massachusetts, Boston
Democratic Global Civil Governance Report of the 1995 Benchmark Survey of NGOs, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Author of Friends of the Earth article COVAX: A global multistakeholder group that poses political and health risks to developing countries and multilateralism

Consultant on the opinion piece We Passed an American Rescue Plan. Next Up: The Global Rescue Plan, by John Feffer
Guest on the podcast miniseries The Davos Diaries, hosted by Tanvi Kanchan

"Rethinking MSIs: Where Is the Debate About Democracy and Multi-stakeholder Governance?", August 2020 blog post with the MSI and the Harvard Law School
Open Letter on #45 at the UN, August 2020 published in The African Mirror (Jo’burg) and Katoilos.world (Brussels)
"The UN System and the World Post Covid-19", May 2020 Action Plan co-author for FOGGS
"The United Nations and The Covid-19 Global Emergency", April 2020 discussion paper co-author for FOGGS
"Strengthening the UN system: The case for a Committee of the Heads of Governing Bodies", December 2019 article for FOGGS (Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability)
"They Call it Multistakeholderism. Where does that leave the UN?", September 2019 Article for PassBlue
Understanding Multistakeholderism

"Multistakeholderism: a new way for corporations and their new partners to try to govern the world", July 2018 Guest Article in Civicus
"A Four Powered World Demands a Four Chamber Governance System", September 2018 Submission to the Global Challenge Foundation
"Procedure and Format: Options for an UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights", April 2018 Briefing for the Global Policy Forum
"When elephants fight, the grassroots get hurt", March 2017 Article for Open Democracy
"Multi-stakeholder Governance: A Corporate Push For a New Form of Global Governance", Chapter 5 of TNI's 2016 State of Power Report

"Economic-social-environmental-gender governance", July 2016 Article for Open Democracy
"Re-visioning global governance: constraining the power of MNCs", April 2016 Article for Open Democracy

"Multi-stakeholder governance: a corporate push for a new global governance", January 2016 Article for Open Democracy
"Creating Standards for Multi-Stakeholder Governance", July 2015 Article for Carnegie Council

Invited to speak about COVAX as part of the Asia Europe People's Forum plenary session "The Covid-19 Pandemic & the Broken Economic System". The event was live-steamed on May 20th, 2021.
Invited by Strike-WEF, a Swiss civil society organization, to participate in a series of public events January 18-21 alongside their planned three day hike into Davos to challenge the participants in the World Economic Forum on climate justice.

"The Essential World Organisation: Reinvigorating the UN at 75" September 3-4, 2019 workshop in Duisburg-Essen, Germany

"Goodbye to Elitism : Anchoring global governance in societies" September 25-26, 2018 workshop in Duisburg-Essen, Germany

"Multistakeholder Governance and Multilateralism", 2018 UMass Boston Guest Lecture

"Designing the MSI of the Future: A Research Workshop on Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives" April 3-4, 2017 at Occidental College, Los Angelas, California.

"Equity and Accountability in Institutions of Global Governance", April 2015 UMass Boston Guest Lecture

Advisor to the Chilean chair of negotiations on General Assembly resolutions on Global Governance, 2012, 2013
Advisor to the Guyana chair of negotiations on the General Assembly resolution on the reorganization of ECOSOC, 2013
Advisor to the Guyana chair of negotiations on the General Assembly resolution establishing the High Level Political Forum, 2013
Advisor to the Assistant Director, DESA-ECOSOC Division on multi-stakeholder engagement at the United Nations

"Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance", Consultant of Report by the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, Washington D.C, June 2015