- “Our world is heading off the rails”
UN’s Secretary General António Guterres, September 2024
Join the CBN Roundtable meeting Oct 17 on how to:
identify,
prepare,
pre-empt
……. risks and crises
Michael Stopford
I rundabordsmötet 17e oktober diskuterar vi säkerhet och förberedelser för svenska företag givet internationella konflikthärdar och dess påverkan på våra affärer och medarebetare.
Michael Stopford kommer efter en kort geopolitisk inledning ta upp olika praktikfall från Coca-Cola, Exxon med flera, om hur de arbetar med att identifiera, förebygga och förbereda sig för olika risk- och kris-scenarior.
Mötet avslutas med AW och middag.
Maria Wetterstrand
Vår inspiratör är Michael Stopford med ett förflutet i stora globala organisationer som FN, Nato, Världsbanken och Oxford Analytica med flera.
Michael föreläser på ett antal internationella universitet och är rådgivare till företag i bl.a. Afrika.
Moderator för dagen är Maria Wetterstrand
Mötet kommer att hållas på engelska
About Michael Stopford
Michael has long experience in foreign policy and international security, in particular with multilateral institutions. After initial tours of duty with the UK Diplomatic Service in New York and Vienna, Michael joined the United Nations and served in the Office of the Secretary-General at UNHQ in New York, as Chief of Staff of the UN Office in Geneva and as Director of the UN Washington Office. He then joined the World Bank as Head of External Relations for the International Finance Corporation. More recently (2008-2011) he served as Dep. Assistant Secretary General for Strategic Communications/Public Diplomacy with NATO in Brussels, where he also headed the Alliance’s Science for Peace and Security Program.
Michael has taught on national security and multilateral organizations as Visiting Professor/Senior Lecturer at various universities, including Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service; Johns Hopkins SAIS; American SIS; and several European and overseas universities (Milan, Rabat, Lisbon). He also taught in the MBA program at the University of Nebraska.
In the international private sector, Michael’s assignments have focused on reputation and risk management, government relations and public affairs and sustainability. He served as Senior Adviser for International Affairs with ExxonMobil at their Dallas HQ; headed Global Corporate Reputation for The Coca-Cola Company at corporate HQ in Atlanta, Georgia; and led Global Public and Government Affairs for the agribusiness multinational Syngenta at their Basel HQ. Later (2011-2015) he headed Global Corporate Strategy for the multinational Public Affairs firm Weber Shandwick, based in Washington, D.C.: clients included defense, agribusiness, healthcare, energy and higher education/universities.
From 2017 to 2019 Michael served as Managing Director, Oxford Analytica, heading the Oxford Analytica team at company HQ in Oxford, UK and managing the firm's client engagements for this long-established global geo-strategic risk advisory company. From 2019 to 2022 he was Senior Adviser to the European University Institute (an EU institution) in Florence, launching leadership training programs on human security.
In higher education, Michael served as Asst. Vice Chancellor for International Affairs at the University of Nebraska (2015-2017). Michael was the institution’s senior international officer and led the university’s global engagement. In a previous university position, Michael served as Senior Assistant to the President for International Affairs at American University in Washington, DC.
With a BA and MA from Oxford University, Michael is fluent in German, Italian, French & Spanish, with some Russian, Portuguese & Swedish. Married with four children, he is a US/UK dual citizen and a resident of Sweden.
Formerna för mötet:
Vi har ett kombinerat rundabordssamtal som tidigare: med fysiskt möte på Wenner-Gren Center med start klockan 14:15 med kaffe för och möjlighet att delta via Teams 14:25.
OBS: Deltagande via Teams sker med kamera påslagen, eftersom det är ett interaktivt möte och inte ett webinar.
Efter mötet fortsätter vi med kort AW i baren följt av middag för de som önskar.
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Välkommen!