Integrating Agricultural Economics into the Sustainable Development Goals Implementation: Challenges and the Way Forward

Special presentation by Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief of UNCTAD, New York

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier, Canadian citizen, is the Chief of UNCTAD New York. Prior to 2014, she was actively involved in the successful negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). During her tenure with DESA, she served as the Major Groups coordinator to enhance non-state actors engagement with the UN. She facilitated the participation of more than 10,000 non-state actors – a record - in the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable development. She was also the DESA focal point for sustainable consumption and production, food security and sustainable agriculture. Prior to her UN career, she served as Head of the Trade and Environment Program of the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation from 2000 to 2007, as policy analyst for the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture from 1998-2000, and as post doc for IFPRI in the Brazilian Amazon from 1996-98. She made the Ideagen 2016 100 Individuals and Organization empowering women and girl, is a 2006 Yale World Fellow, a UNEP Who’s Who’s of Women and the Environment. Dr. Carpentier is a published scholar and a frequent public speaker.  An economist by training, she holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Virginia Tech and a Masters and B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from McGill University. She competes in ultramarathon and ironmen and is second dan black belt.

Everyone is welcome to attend.