Julia I. Walker - Sustainable Development Goals: Harnessing Business to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Through Technology, Innovation and Financing

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 10
5. Chapter 13
6. Chapter 14

1. Chapter 8
2. Chapter 12
3. Chapter 13
4. Chapter 14

This book argues that meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require the united efforts of governments and the private sector. It injects a welcome note of realism into this hugely ambitious task.

Kichimoto Asaka, Professor of Law, University of Tokyo

Digital innovation and financial technology, supported by the fourth Industrial Revolution technology such as Blockchain technology and others, have a critical role to play in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This exciting book explores how nations and businesses can join together to successfully achieve the goals.

Kanya Hirunwattanapong, International College of Digital Innovation, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Edited by Julia Walker, Alma Pekmezovic, and Gordon Walker

This edition first published 2019
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Julia Walker is a senior business executive with extensive experience in the private sector principally in finance, technology, and risk management. She currently runs market growth and strategy across Asia Pacific for Refinitiv, one of the world's largest providers of financial markets data, infrastructure and risk intelligence. Julia previously was a director at UBS Investment Bank in London and Singapore.

She is a member of the United Nations Secretary Generals Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals and a Professional Advisory Board member of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law. An advocate of gender equality, financial inclusion, and sustainable development, Julia believes the private sector can play a significant role in the SDG's. She has appeared in articles by Innovation Australia, Asian Private Banker and Risk.net; and is a frequent speaker at events including the World Economic Forum and Money2020. She is also a guest lecturer at Hong Kong University's Faculty of Law FinTech MOOC on Regulatory Technology.

Julia is an alumnus of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and the University of Cambridge's Institute of Sustainable Leadership.

Dr Alma Pekmezovic is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank. Her key areas of expertise include capital markets law, corporate law and governance, and commercial law reform. She has published numerous law journal articles on these topics and is the coauthor of three books. During 20062015, Dr Pekmezovic taught corporate and commercial law at La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia. She was a Lecturer in Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (20152018) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.

Dr Pekmezovic is admitted as an attorney-at-law in New York, United States, and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Australia. She is a BA and LLB (Hons) graduate of the University of Melbourne School of Law, Melbourne, Australia, and holds an LLM degree from UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, United States, where she served as an editor of the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal.

Dr Gordon Walker, SJD (Duke) is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Adjunct Professor at Curtin University School of Law; Visiting Professor, University of Padua Law School, Italy; and an advisor to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) designated as International Business Law Expert and International Financial Sector Expert. His research contracts at the ADB principally involve law reform in the areas of securities regulation, company, secured transactions, and FinTech within the Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI-III) in the South Pacific.

Professor Walker was formerly Professor of Law, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar (20152016); Professor of Commercial Law (19992015) and Head of Law School (20042007) at La Trobe University School of Law; Paul Hastings Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University School of Law (2006); Wallace Fujiyama Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii (2008 and 2010); Visiting Professor (MBA program) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2009); Visiting Faculty, Duke University Law School Summer School Program in Hong Kong (2010); Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Centre (20092016); Adjunct Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law (20092016); and Consultant to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, UK (20112012). He has published widely on securities regulation and is best known internationally for the twin multivolume treatises on international securities regulation published by Westlaw in the United States the eight-volume treatise