Graduate Students
About the Event
The MSU’s Ethics Initiative and the Broad College of Business Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership, with support from the Office of Research and Innovation and the Office of International Studies and Programs, are partnering with True Elements to host The Ethics and Water Symposium on Monday, November 6, 2023. Together, they will explore how C-Suite and Government leaders can both tackle water management challenges, while creating new opportunities.
The symposium will be dynamic and multi-faceted, much like water itself. The program opens with keynote speaker, Mr. Saroj Kumar Jha, Global Director for the World Bank Group’s Water Global Practice (GP), who will discuss the human aspect of water from an ethical lens. Following Mr. Jha, scholars from the MSU community will deliver five-minute flash talks to provide an overview of their research and work in water. After lunch, the symposium will explore, with a panel made up of experts focused on the ways water plays in sustainability programs. Then, True Elements will share how their organization utilizes state of the art scientific and AI capabilities to translate water’s complex, multi-dimensional and interrelationships into clearly understandable patterns and scores for reliable analysis, forecasting, and informed decision making. Lastly, the event will close with a “fireside chat” with MSU experts highlighting how people with vastly different backgrounds can work together to address water challenges.
Why Water?
Access to sufficient, clean water resources underpins almost all parts of a company’s value chain. From operational continuity to secure supply chains to license to operate, water is often an overlooked but critical part of business & government functionality. With the United Nations forecasting that 90%+ of climate impacts will be experienced through changes to our water resources – natural disasters, contamination, flooding, drought — business and government leaders of the future must bring water management to the forefront of climate resilient strategies. Understanding the role water plays to all industries, and all humans, is critical to being an ethical and socially responsible leader as we move forward.
Learn more and register here: https://ethics.msu.edu/2023-symposium/
