Part 2: Sustainable Development Goals
In our last episode, we looked at Sustainable Development Goals, also known as SDGs, and how businesses can make the world a better place. On this episode, we'll be diving even deeper into fascinating interviews from the Salesforce World Tour in London as part of the Fortune CEO Series. If you haven't had the chance, we suggest going back to listen to Part 1 of our SDG series in Episode 4. We speak with Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. As well as fighting for human rights in her professional career, Cherie is an active campaigner on equality and human rights issues. Cherie remains closely involved to charities with a special emphasis on women and children. Learn about the three C's of the Cherie Blair Foundation and more. Hear from another international advcocate for women, specficially in the tech indsutry and in the realm of female entrepreneurship - Neelie Kroes. Currently serving as Special Advisor to Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, she’s also a Board Member for Salesforce. Kroes served 11 years as EU Commissioner, the first term as EU Commissioner for Competition Policy and the second term as Commissioner in charge of the Digital Agenda for Europe. Check out our sit-down with Kroes to discuss what it's like to work with such complex and intricate organizations and more. Guy Standing's storied background is deep in economics and global organizations. Currently, he is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Famed for his book The Precariat, his most recent book is Basic income: and how we can make it happen. In our last look into our conversations from the Fortune CEO Series, Standing takes on topics like the share economy and it's effects on the global labor market.