1/1/2024 As Global Enlightenment Leaders, we extend our heartfelt greetings for the year 2024, envisioning a world bathed in the radiance of peace, safety, and prosperity. In the spirit of global enlightenment, we stand united in our commitment to fostering global...
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Co-Founder, Chairman of The Board of Directors and Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum. Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents. He attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School and served in the United...
Robert Kuttner is Meyer and Ida Kirstein Professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. He is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, and a senior fellow at the think-tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to...
Name Title 1 Ali E. Adiguze President and COO, HeidelbergCement Trading Group, Turkey 2 Henrik G. Andersin Chairman Evli Bank PLC, Finland 3 Kalpona Akter Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity 4 Nazmar Akter General Secretary &...
Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, Emmy Award-winning producer for PBS’ show Frontline and author of five best-selling books, Hedrick Smith, explains what happened to America’s economy after WWII in his book Who Stole the...
With all eyes on Bangladesh, it's worthwhile to take a look at safety standards in garment factories in other countries. An International Labor Organization report discloses a disappointing decline in worker safety in Cambodia. Fire safety standards in Cambodian...
In yet another testimony to how the garment industry in Bangladesh is evading reform, Emran Hossain, writing for the Huffington Post, states that the reforms made by the Bangladesh government targeted at the garment industry "barely improve safeguards for impoverished...