Over the last two decades of a 37-year career, Bennett Freeman has worked at the intersection of governments, international institutions, multinational corporations, responsible investors, and NGOs, to promote human rights and sustainable development around the world. An innovative leader in the fields of business and human rights, natural resource governance, and responsible investment, Freeman has helped develop multi-stakeholder initiatives and global standards that have strengthened corporate responsibility in industries ranging from extractives to information and communications technology.
Drawing on his experience as a former U.S. State Department human rights diplomat and, subsequently, as an international human rights advocate, Freeman will contend that renewing American leadership in the world means reasserting and adapting -- not redefining or abandoning -- our commitment to human rights.
Freeman earned an BA in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 and a BA/MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford, where he studied as an English-speaking Union Churchill Scholar at Balliol College from 1978-1981.
Admission/Cost:
Monday, October 14 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Drawing on his experience as a former U.S. State Department human rights diplomat and, subsequently, as an international human rights advocate, Freeman will contend that renewing American leadership in the world means reasserting and adapting -- not redefining or abandoning -- our commitment to human rights.
Freeman earned an BA in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 and a BA/MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford, where he studied as an English-speaking Union Churchill Scholar at Balliol College from 1978-1981.
Admission/Cost:
Monday, October 14 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
