The Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre will hold a one-day conference that brings together a diverse group of panelists and participants to explore challenges and solutions associated with the mitigation of sanctions over-compliance in the supply chains of essential goods, including food, medicine, and vaccines.  

The event will mark the end of a 2.5-year project entitled "When Money Can’t Buy Food and Medicine: Banking Challenges in the International Trade of Vital Goods and their Humanitarian Impact in Sanctioned Jurisdictions”, funded by the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS).

Speakers

• Rachel Alpert, Jenner & Block

• Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation

• Eva D'Ambrosio, United States Department of State

• Ivonne Duarte Peña, United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Syria

• Steve Harvey, Fintech for International Development

• Radhika Kapoor, Harvard University

• Erica Moret, Geneva Graduate Institute

• Jean Raphael Poitou, Action Against Hunger

• Nathanael Tilahun, University of Essex

• Patrick Weber, Siemens

This event is part of a project funded by the Swiss Network of International Studies.