The Legal Path to Sustainable Development: Module 10  

Using the Law to Finance Development (Part 2)

  Live session: 9th October 2021, 13.00 - 16.15 (BST)

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  • Pre-reading study time
    2 hours
  • Live session 
    3.5 hours
  • Community of Practice
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Session 1: Alleviating Debt for Sustainable Development

This course will explain the links between debt and sustainable development, including the causes and impact of the debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, debt relief in the 2000s, and recent increases in debt payments, before and since the coronavirus crisis began. It will analyse solutions to prevent and resolve debt crises; transparent and accountable borrowing and lending, and debt restructurings. This will include the legal aspects of transparent and accountable lending and the enforcement and restructuring of debt contracts. 
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR

Tess Woolfenden
Jubilee Debt Campaign

Tess Woolfenden is a Senior Policy and Research Officer at Jubilee Debt Campaign working on unjust debt in the global south. In previous roles she has worked on the beyond aid agenda, explored unequal power dynamics within the development sector and addressed the role of language used by development actors in upholding global poverty and inequality.
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Session 2: Measuring Sustainable Development Impacts: The future of ESG Data and the Law

This session will explore the challenges and confusion that surrounds Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) data, as a form of better understanding sustainable and impactful investing. It will consider the challenge, as explored by the MIT Aggregate Confusion Project  in creating consistent, transparent and reliable ESG ratings. 

During the session we will cast imaginations forward to imagine a 'what if' scenario, in which open-source data platforms could create an 'internet of impact' that allows for a real-time analysis of ESG data (as explored https://www.instans.net). It will consider how this might be achieved, and how lawyers might promote this possibility.
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR

Karl Richter
EngagedX

Co-founder of EngagedX, which specialises in providing consultancy, thought leadership, advocacy and policy work. Works internationally across private, public and social sectors. Experienced entrepreneur, leader, and executive. Lectures at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Previously served a 12 month assignment as Head of Research and Knowledge for the UNDP SDG Impact Finance initiative (UNSIF), where he led research to improve the analytical framework for social impact investing; was a member of Groupe d'Experts de la Commission sur l'Entrepreneuriat Social (GECES) of the European Commission to advise on its Social Business Initiative. Currently part of the OECD expert group on social impact investing; Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab; and Adviser to several organisations.

Was invited by civil society organisations, academia, governments and the media across Europe, Asia and USA to speak on social impact investing. Has guest lectured at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; advised HM Treasury on EU social investment regulations; was invited to submit evidence for alternative finance to the UK's Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards; been asked by the UK Cabinet Office to represent the UK on social investment at EU level; was invited by US Secretary of State to be a plenary panelist at the Global Impact Economy Forum in 2012.
2011, he co-authored ‘Making Good in Social Impact Investment: Opportunities in an Emerging Asset Class'.

Holds an MBA specialising in entrepreneurship and project management, writing his dissertation on data interoperability standards and collaboration principles in the building design industry. He started his career as an architect and project manager for multidisciplinary design teams, and development leader for public and private sector construction projects. Was the founding Chair of Friends of the Crystal Palace Subway, a community-led initiative to reopen a historic community asset to the public.
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