[WEBCAST] Business as (Un)usual – Managing Crises in Uncertain Times
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CEOs of companies around the world are learning to crisis manage during the COVID19 pandemic. Operating in crisis-hit countries is the mainstay of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s operations, assisting victims of conflict. Even so, crises often overlap and the ICRC needs to be ready to respond to the next crisis. Asia Society Hong Kong Center has invited senior ICRC leaders with experience of managing the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the conflict in Iraq for an examination and exchange of experiences on working in crisis mode.
This will be an opportunity for corporate leaders to debate issues such as: What structures and networks help an organisation prepare for the eventuality of a crisis, what lessons have been learned? How can business continuity be assured, alongside crisis response? How to anticipate blind spots and ensure acceptance in communities (government and civil society) within which one operates? What mindsets, organizational psychology facilitate the management of a crisis? How can business be part of the solution and response when the impact of these crises is no longer local and has a global reach? Tune in to Asia Society Hong Kong Center’s exclusive online webcast as Christine Cipolla, ICRC’s Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and Daniel Littlejohn-Carrillo, ICRC’s Deputy Head of Resource Mobilisation join moderator, Professor Stephen W. Nason of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School to unpack these questions.
Christine Cipolla is Regional Director for Asia-Pacific at the ICRC and has served in that post since June 2019. Prior to assuming her current role, she served as the ICRC’s Head of Delegation in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2016 to 2019. Christine previously served as Head of Delegation in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2013 to 2016 and as Deputy Head of Operations in South Asia, in Geneva. She joined the ICRC in 2005 and undertook a number of field missions (in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Uganda, Sri Lanka and Iraq), first as a Protection Delegate, then as Head of Sub-Delegation. Before joining the ICRC, Christine worked with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Bunia, DRC and with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Gao, Mali. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Law.
Daniel Littlejohn-Carrillo is Deputy Head of Division, Resource Mobilisation at the ICRC. He has been helping to lead the ICRC’s Resource Mobilisation efforts since August 2019. Prior to this, he served with the ICRC in South Sudan, Afghanistan, Colombia and, most recently Iraq, where he was Deputy Head of Delegation. Before joining the ICRC in 2012, Daniel completed degrees at the University of London and Harvard.
Stephen W. Nason is Professor of Business Practice and Director, World Bachelor of Business Program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. He has taught at HKUST since 1995 and is a faculty member in the Department of Management and the Co-director of LABU (Language-Business Case Program). Prof. Nason has taught in a wide range UG and post graduate programs at HKUST, including the full time, part time, executive, and company specific MBA programs. Most of his teaching involves either negotiations or decision making. He was recently awarded the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (2012) and HKUST Great Minds (2012). He has worked with a variety of organizations, including Samsung Electronics, Cisco and the Health Care forum.
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Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) helps people affected by conflict and promotes the laws that protect victims of war in the Asia-Pacific region and across the world. An independent and neutral organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It is the only Nobel Prize recipient that has received the prestigious prize three times in 1917 and 1944 for its work in the World Wars and again in 1963 jointly with the League of Red Cross Societies for its international humanitarian work. The Geneva-based organization is active in over 90 countries around the world. Between 1942 and 1997, the ICRC served the people of Hong Kong during challenging times such as the Japanese occupation and the civil unrest of 1967. Among its many functions, it helped reconnect family members lost due to conflict and monitored the welfare of prisoners and prisoners of war. Since 2018, it has agreements with two universities in Hong Kong to recruit trainees to work at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva every year. Find out more at: http://www.icrc.org.
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