The Future of Work

Date:  January 28, 2020

Time: 12:45 to 2:15 pm

Venue:  Baruch College - 151 E. 25th Street, Room 750 (between Lexington and 3rd Avenue)

About the Program:

Ronnie Goldberg, Senior Counsel at the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), will address the audience on the topic of "The Future of Work." Dr. Goldberg will examine the impact technological and demographic change is having on labor markets and the implications for employers, employees and governments in the next decade and beyond.

About the Speaker:

Ronnie Goldberg advises USCIB’s President and CEO on strategic matters and regularly represents American business in high-level international forums. Ms. Goldberg served as USCIB’s top policy executive for over 25 years, most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer, overseeing a wide range of activities on international trade, investment, economic and regulatory matters, and supervising a staff of policy professionals with expertise on a host of issues affecting American companies engaged in business abroad. Among her responsibilities was coordinating USCIB policies in relation to its international affiliates – ICC, BIAC and IOE – and various other groups. She was elected to three terms as the U.S. employer representative on the International Labor Organization’s Governing Body, and has chaired the BIAC Employment, Labor, and Social Affairs (ELSA) Committee.

Prior to joining USCIB in 1987, Ms. Goldberg served as vice president for international affairs at the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and as a vice president in the trade and export finance division of Chase Manhattan Bank. From 1978 to 1982, she was a project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, specializing in East-West trade, technology transfer and Soviet energy development.

Ms. Goldberg received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bryn Mawr College. The recipient of both Woodrow Wilson and Ford Fellowships, she holds a master’s degree in the history of political thought from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Registration:

Register online or via email to Matthew.LePere@baruch.cuny.edu