Department of Management, Society and Communication

Maria Figueroa becomes advisory board member for UN Habitat World Cities Report

Associate Professor Maria Figueroa has been invited to become a member of the International Advisory Board for the UN Habitat World Cities Report 2024 themed Cities and Climate Action.

Maria will be joining an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced human settlements researchers, academicians, practitioners, and policymakers from various regions of the world with the purpose of advising UN-Habitat on the substantive content and organization of its Flagship Report to enhance and uphold its validity and quality.  The report will be published in 2024.

About the UN Habitat work: “The United Nations Human Settle-
ments Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General

Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. UN-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system.

UN-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. UN-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty.” Read more on the UN Habitat website.

For further information, write to Maria at mfi.msc@cbs.dk

University of Oxford appoints Mette Morsing as the next Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment!

The University of Oxford has appointed ‘our’ Professor Mette Morsing as the next Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and Professor of Business Sustainability. Mette will take over from Professor Cameron Hepburn as Director on 1 October 2023. She has additionally been made a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

Mette (on leave from her position at MSC/CBS) is currently Head of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), UN Global Compact, in New York since 2020 (USA). She leads the United Nation’s largest initiative on responsible management education with more than 800 business school and university signatories signed up to advance sustainability in leadership education (including CBS).

At MSC, we congratulate Mette with this prestigious appointment and wish her all the best for her and the Smith School!

Part of the top-ranked School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, the Smith School

of Enterprise and the Environment brings public and privateenterprise together with world-leading research to achieve global net-zero emissions and sustainable development. It is known for pioneering work across climate risk, environmental economics, sustainable finance, and law, from climate conscious investment to innovative funding models underpinning water security for over 3 million people. Education – from undergraduate teaching to executive education – is also central to the School’s mission.

Read more about the appointment of Mette Morsing on the website of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

The Department of Management, Society and Communication

The department came into existence on 1 January 2017 as a result of the merger of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and the Department of International Business Communication. Read about MSC's research profile here.

MSC is located in the Dalgas Have part of the CBS campus. As one of CBS' largest departments, it occupies most of the second floor of the building.