Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Raising the Bar: Home Country Efforts to Regulate Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development

On November 12-13, 2014, CCSI will host the ninth annual Columbia International Investment Conference at Columbia University in New York. This year's conference, entitled 'Raising the Bar: Home Country Efforts to Regulate Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development,' looks at home country measures that have been taken—unilaterally or multilaterally—to attempt to monitor or regulate foreign investment, what lessons can be learned from both successful and failed attempts, and what further efforts may be useful or necessary to regulate investment for sustainable development. Registration is free but required.

Confirmed panelists include Patrick Alley, Co-Founder and Director, Global Witness; Karol de Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade; Arvind Ganeson, Director, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University. CCSI welcomes partners and sponsors to support the conference; please contact us for more information about sponsorship opportunities.