Beyond Borders: How the UN Holds the World Together

For over four decades, Kevin Cassidy has held senior roles within the United Nations system, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and has consulted for the World Bank. He is currently an Executive Fellow at the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University and as the Co-Founder of iC One Global. His Global Village programme and UN Partnership train students to thrive in a global economy.  As a Consultant for the World Bank, he helped develop strategies, partnerships, and reforms that drove a transformation in Uzbekistan’s elimination of child and forced labour in the cotton sector. The UN has never been more necessary than it is today. Another project is to develop a wider set of audiences  develop an understanding of the UN and multilateral systems and its indispensable value; UN is critical in lowering trade costs, moving ships, planes, mail and weather information worldwide, and is invaluable to the US and world.