The conference programme will be published in February.
Keynote speech on Wednesday 11.3. by Dr. Harry Van Buren:
“Who and What Should Matter: The Problem of Marginalization and Lack of Voice in Business Ethics”
Harry Van Buren is the Z. Lupton Patten Endowed Chair of Business Ethics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Gary W. Rollins College of Business as well as an honorary professor at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and a visiting professor at the University of Bath School of Management. He came to UTC after previous positions at the University of New Mexico and the American University of Beirut. His doctorate in business environment, ethics and public policy is from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business, and he has also earned master’s degrees from the University of Illinois in finance, Princeton Theological Seminary in theology, London South Bank University in education for sustainability, and human rights law at Aberystwyth University.
He has published more than 70 articles in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Business & Society, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Industrial Relations. His current research interests include business and human rights, preventing human trafficking in global supply chains, business and peace, relational stakeholder theory, and employment ethics. He is the inaugural editor of the business and human rights section of the Journal of Business Ethics, having previously co-edited both the human resource management and the religion sections at that journal. He has held leadership positions in the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business & Society. He has co-edited (with Tricia Olsen and Judith Schrempf-Stirling) a book on business and human rights, published by Edward Elgar in January 2025.