Harris Gleckman
Harris Gleckman is a senior fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston, and director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting. His latest study, "Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy: A Global Challenge," was published by Routledge in 2018.
He is the former chief of the New York office of Unctad, among other previous roles. For 30 years, he undertook policy-oriented research on multinational corporations, global environmental management, financing for development, global governance institutions and the economics of climate change.
- Georgios Kostakos  and Harris Gleckman
- • June 4, 2020
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Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate change to biodiversity. The General Assembly has not been able to meet as a group physically, but Security Council meetings have migrated online, with…
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- Opinion by Harris Gleckman
- • September 2, 2019
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Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN’s governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led…
- Categories: Development, Governance, OPINIONS, SDGs