Harris Gleckman is Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston and Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting. Dr Gleckman’s latest study: Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy : A Global Challenge was published by Routledge on Oct 5, 2018
He is the former Chief of the NY Office of UNCTAD, Senior Officer for the first Financing for Development Conference, and Chief of the Environmental Unit of the Centre on Transnational Corporations. Over a period of 30 years, he undertook policy oriented research on multinational corporations, global environmental management, financing for development, global governance institutions, and the economics of climate change. He is currently working on a handbook on the governance of multistakeholderism.
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Published in: ourEconomy"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
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Published in: ourEconomyHow the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnershipA new agreement with the World Economic Forum gives multinational corporations influence over matters of global governance.
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Published in: HomeCounterbalancing disproportionate power: a response to John RuggieWhen human rights gained recognition the dominant power was the state relative to the individual and citizen. Now...
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Published in: HomeWhen elephants fight, the grassroots get hurtTo explain the new and unexpected dynamics we are experiencing, let us consider whether we are witnessing a new...
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Published in: HomeEconomic-social-environmental-gender governanceThoughts on the occasion of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) and the UN’s forthcoming 75th birthday
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Published in: HomeRe-visioning global governance: constraining the power of MNCsMultinational corporations (MNCs) have eclipsed nation-states in their power and ability to set the international...