Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: What Potential for New Global Trends in the Region?

This event will examine the current state of play on corporate social and environmental responsibility in Latin America. Bringing together an expert panel of corporate practitioners, NGO professionals and academics, with experience of local and transnational CSR projects in different Latin American states, speakers will facilitate an open discussion on the potential and problems surrounding CSR in the region.

Discussion will also consider the emergence of new trends in this arena, such as social enterprise and impact investing, which are taking older debates on the purpose and social responsibility of the corporation in new directions in many Latin American countries. Exploring old and new models for CSR in this vein, panellists will also discuss the role of corporate social engagement in Latin America in the current landscape of economic and political unrest seen in many states across the region.

Speakers: Daniela Barone Soares (CEO, Granito & Capital, and Chair, Muove Brasil); Cristina Bruce (Government Relations Manager - Americas, Anglo American, and Trustee of Canning House); Anne Lindsay (Lead Analyst - Private Sector, CAFOD, and one of the Directors, CORE Corporate Responsibility Coalition); Dr Jessica Sklair (Stipendiary Fellow, ILAS, University of London).

Chair: Oliver Balch (Independent Journalist and PhD candidate, Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University). 

This event is jointly organised by Canning House and the Institute of Latin American Studies, with the kind support of Anglo American.

Followed by a wine and networking reception.

Venue: The Senate Room, First Floor, Senate House, WC1E 7HU.