To celebrate the 5th Birthday of the SDGs we are bringing together a panel featuring a variety of speakers who have been working towards realising, researching or monitoring the progress of the SDGs across a variety of sectors.

Confirmed panellist include:

Matt Dagger - General Manager Kaibosh

Christian Schott - Associate Professor Victoria University of Wellington

Rebecca Barnes-Clarke Director, Policy Ministry for Women.

This event is co-hosted by the SDG hub and UNA NZ

www.sdg.org.nz // www.unanz.org.nz

Please note that if we are still at alert level 2 social distancing, contact tracing and hygiene measures will be in place.

This event is part a 5 day campaign to mark the 5th anniversary of the SDGs - check out the details of the broader campaign here.

https://www.unanz.org.nz/learn/news-and-events/our-5-day-campaign-to-mark-the-5th-anniversary-of-the-sdgs/

Full speaker bios:

Matt Dagger- Kai Bosh- general manager

Matt Dagger is General Manager of Kaibosh Food Rescue. Kaibosh has bases in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Paraparaumu and was New Zealand’s first food rescue organisation.
Kaibosh links the food industry with community groups that support people in need ensuring that quality surplus food reaches those who are struggling rather than being needlessly discarded. This benefits both our community and our environment.
With a background in Community Development, Matt thinks there can be nothing crazier in this world than quality surplus food being thrown away when people don’t have enough to eat.
Matt sees Kaibosh’s food rescue service as an important contribution to community groups that are working hard to help those who are less fortunate.

Christian Schott- Victoria University of Wellington- Associate Professor

Christian is Associate Professor in Tourism Management and at faculty level holds the role of Chair of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Steering Committee.

Christian's research interests cover three broad areas. Firstly, he is interested in sustainable tourism development and tourism’s interrelationship with climate change. This area of work has seen him engaged in research projects in the Sub-Antarctic, South America, the Pacific and New Zealand. Secondly, he studies the ‘youth’ life stage in the context of travel, exploring aspects such as self-development of young travellers and long-term youth mobility practices in different cultures; this has led to fieldwork in Central America, South East Asia and Europe. Christian’s third research interest evolved from merging the above two research themes by developing a strong interest in education for sustainability. This includes a strong research interest in pedagogies for sustainability as well as a passion for research-driven teaching innovation which has seen him teach Sustainable Tourism Development in Canada and Vanuatu.

A research-driven VR-for-sustainability project he leads was awarded AACSB’s prestigious ‘2018 Innovations that Inspire’ honour, selected for EFMD’s ‘Ideas that Inspire’ Plenary at the 2018 Annual Conference, and recently won the highly competitive Bronze Award Oceania Region at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2019 in London.

Christian serves on the editorial boards of four tourism journals and was awarded Research Article of the Year 2018 in Tourism Recreation Research with Sochea Nhem.

Rebecca Barnes-Clarke - Ministry for Women- Director, Policy

Rebecca leads the Ministry’s policy advice on economic and international issues such as the gender pay gap, pay equity; APEC and various UN organisations. Rebecca has a wide variety of policy experience across the public sector – focussed on economic and international issues, strategic policy, and futures policy. Rebecca’s background includes roles at The Treasury, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry for Primary Industries, and the Ministry of Defence. Rebecca has a first-class honours degree from the University of Otago (International Politics) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics).