Timiebi is an assistant professor of Space and Society, in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society with a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, USA. Timiebi was a post-doctoral fellow and fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada where she focused on environmental governance.
Timiebi was Executive Director of the World Space Week Association coordinating the global response to the UN 1999 declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated Oct 4-10 annually. She is currently on the Advisory Board for the Space Generation Advisory Council supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications. She is also on the Advisory Board of World View Enterprises.
Machiavelli in the ruins of Greensill Capital
May 09,2021 - Last updated at May 09,2021
PRINCETON The collapse of Greensill Capital, a London-based financial services firm, offers a timely but costly warning about a number of contemporary trends. Clearly, we should be wary of the hype around financial innovation. But we also need to shine a brighter spotlight on the shady world of corporate lobbying, the regulation of risk, and other issues at the intersection of capitalism and government.
Greensill reportedly tried to use former British prime minister David Cameron to entice the Saudi government to press investors to contribute more funds to SoftBank so that SoftBank could increase its backing of Greensill. Then, following the start of the pandemic, Cameron reportedly lobbied for Greensill to secure access to an emergency loan scheme and pressed the National Health Service (NHS) to adopt an app owned by Greensill to pay NHS staff daily instead of monthly.
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The possible revival of trade talks between the European Union and India could be a positive signal for Canada, which, like Europe, has struggled to convince Asia’s third-biggest economy to embrace freer trade.
Various news outlets reported this week that officials from the EU and India were getting close to announcing the resumption of trade talks that have been on ice since 2013. An agreement between the two would be a major development, as it would unite the world’s richest economic bloc with a country that is on track to leapfrog China as the most populous nation on the planet before the end of the decade.
TORONTO The Canadian government is considering whether or not to lend its support to a World Trade Organizationâs (WTO) proposal to waive intellectual property (IP) rights and patents on COVID-19 vaccines, as pressure mounts to follow the example set by the U.S. Dozens of Canadian MPs across all parties have signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to âeliminate all potential barriers to the timely access of affordable COVID-19 medical products, including vaccines and medicines, and scale up the manufacturing and supply of essential medical products.â On Friday, Minister of Small Business, Export and International Trade Mary Ng said in a statement that âCanada is ready to discuss proposals on a waiver for intellectual property protectionâ¦we understand that the pandemic isnât over anywhere until it is over everywhere.â