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ICORIA 2024

The 22nd International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) 2024 will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece) from June 27th – 29th.

Below you can find a list of important links, information about the conference venue, accommodations, bike rental, and post-conference trips and tours.

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The venue of ICORIA 2024 is the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.

Built along the coast of the city in an area of 18.000 sq.m., the Thessaloniki Concert Hall is a contemporary cultural and conference center of international standards with the capacity to host various events, including cultural and art expositions and conferences. Designed by the renowned architect Arata Isozaki, M2 (building 2) adorns the city with a unique construction that epitomizes the virtues of modern architecture. Geometrical lines, extended glass surfaces and elements of steel compose an image of imposing simplicity, that comes as an antithetic, yet equivalent complement to the neighboring M1 (building 1). Filled with natural light and enjoying a superb view to the sea, M2’s foyer is a vast space of sophisticated aesthetics that develops in three levels and adjoins all of the Hall’s important spaces. Equipped with cutting-edge technology and having an exceptional infrastructure, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall is also proud to house a Music Library and a Museum of Musical Instruments.

Recommended accommodation

These hotels have provided exclusive discounted rates for ICORIA attendees. The distance from most hotels to the conference venue is approximately

• 9 min by car/taxi
• 17 min by bike
• 45 min walk

You can enjoy a pleasant stroll along the seaside promenade, which offers a safe and picturesque route to the venue. The seaside promenade has designated cycle paths, allowing you to rent bicycles or electric scooters and conveniently visit the venue.

Rent a bike with BikeIT and enjoy a 20% discount. Each rental includes a bike helmet and lock, so you can ride safely and securely.

For reservations, please contact [email protected] and state the code “ICORIA 2024”.

Post-Conference Day Trip – Sunday 30 June

Free of charge for the ICORIA conference delegates. The maximum number of participants is 50 people. Participation will be on a priority basis. The day trip is provided by the Pierian Organization for Tourism Development and Promotion

9:00 a.m. Departure from White Tower of Thessaloniki 10:15 a.m. Visit and guided tour of the Archaeological Park and Museum of Dion 12:30 p.m. Visit and guided tour of the National Forest Olympus Museum in Litochoro 2:00 p.m. Guided tour of the organic vineyards and wine-tasting lunch at Ktima Kourtis in Rachi Pieria 5:30 p.m. Visit and coffee break at the Holy Monastery of Saint Athanasios Kolindros 7:00 p.m. Return to Thessaloniki

Post-Conference Walking Thessaloniki Tour – Sunday evening, 30 June

Free of charge for the ICORIA conference delegates. The maximum number of participants is 25 people. Participation will be on a priority basis. The walking tour is provided by the THESSALONIKI TOURISM ORGANIZATION (T.T.O.)

Indicative program

(the program will be finalized about one month before the conference) During the 2-hour tour we will see the main attractions located in the heart of the city. White Tower, Arch of Galerius, Rotunda, Agios Dimitrios Church, Roman Forum of Thessaloniki, Aristotelous Square and Modiano Market.

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22nd International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) 2024

Thu Jun 27 2024 at 09:00 am to Sat Jun 29 2024 at 08:00 pm

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ICORIA 2022 Conference /23.-25. 6./

The 20 th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA) will be hosted by the Prague University of Economics and Business. Papers on the topic Frontiers of Advertising: Re-considering Its Shapes and Forms will be presented during the two days of the conference held from June 23 to June 25, 2022. ICORIA is organized by the European Advertising Academy, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics and the Faculty of Management.

The organising committee encourages all those devoted to questioning the present and envisioning the future of advertising and marketing communication to meet in the streets where the history of Europe had been shaped and re-written and to commonly discuss the conference theme “Frontiers of Advertising: Re-considering Its Shapes and Forms”.

Those interested in the event can attend in person on-site or join on-line.

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The paper must include an abstract (max 150 words), introduction, a brief description of the hypotheses or research objective(s), methods and findings, discussion and/or conclusion, and a list of references.

• Length: max ten pages ( excluding : title page, figures/tables, and references).

Papers with 11 pages, if it is only one paragraph in the last page, will not be accepted.

• Place the tables and figures after the references and indicate their position in the text using [Table/Figure 1 near here]
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Use the word template available here:

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Papers must be prepared using the layout and reference guidelines of the International Journal  of Advertising. The template already has the correct formatting , including the title page.

A summary of the formatting rules is here:

• Font: Times New Roman size 12 (except for the title that should be in 14pt)
• Spacing: double line spacing
• Margins: at least 2.5cm (or 1 inch)
• Abstract: max 150 words. Use a heading to indicate or reduce the font size
• Keywords: after the abstract. Aim for five or six (but it can be less)
• First-level headings (e.g., Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns
• Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns
• Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns

For extra guidelines, refer to: http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/tf_quick_guide/

Submissions should be uploaded via Easychair:

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Submissions should include two documents:

(1) anonymous paper (i.e., without the title page)

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If the submitted papers do not follow these guidelines, the submission cannot be accepted.

Document 1: Anonymous ten-page paper

Please submit a blind PDF document of the manuscript.

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Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt., double line spaced.

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Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing

Seventh International Conference, 2020

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• Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad 1 ,
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• Features latest research insights on topics related to retailing, private label, or national brand issues
• Shows how the retail landscape can adopt to rapid digital transformation
• Includes interdisciplinary contributions from a wide variety of areas

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (SPBE)

Conference series link(s): NB&PL: International Conference on Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing

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Table of contents (20 papers)

Front matter, consumer values: a hidden motivator of private label consumption.

• Atanas Nik Nikolov, Brandon Gustafson

Branding Strategies of European Retail Banks: A Linguistic Comparison Between Brand Names for Financial Products

• Erhard Lick, Holger Wochele, Fiorenza Fischer

Handle with Care: Adoption of Drone Delivery Services

• Maya F. Farah, Mona Mrad, Zahy Ramadan, Houssam Hamdane

Can Stock-Outs Act as Scarcity Cues? Impact of Scarcity Message Types and Their Disclosure Time on Number of Items Bought in an Online Fashion Setting

• Liliana Kowalczyk, Els Breugelmans, Katia Campo

Competition Between National Brands and Private Labels: Determinants of the Market Share of National Brands

• Philipp Brüggemann, Rainer Olbrich, Carsten D. Schultz

Markdown Optimization in Apparel Retail Sector

• Sevde Ceren Yıldız, Mustafa Hekimoğlu

Leveraging Sponsorship on Twitter: Insights from Tennis Grand Slams

• Kapil Kaushik, Abhishek Mishra

In-store Merchandisers – An Overlooked Strategic Asset for National Brand Manufacturers to Build Retailer Relationships and to Gain Product Visibility

• Jan-Hinrich Meyer, Eva Maria González Hernández, Miguel Angel López Lomelí

The Impact of Rural and Urban Advertising and Brand Context on Attitude Towards the Brand

• Anne Fota, Sascha Steinmann, Hanna Schramm-Klein, Gerhard Wagner

Potentials and Boundaries in Frontline Service Encounters Through the Infusion of Technology

• Tobias Röding, Sascha Steinmann, Gerhard Wagner, Hanna Schramm-Klein

The Vegan Revolution: Opportunities and Differences Across Countries

• Belén Derqui, Hana Gendel Guterman, Mahsa Ghaffari, Padmali Rodrigo

Assortment Mix Choice Within Shop and Drive: Customer Arbitrage on the Competition Between Private Label and National Brand

• Léopold Lessassy, Patrick Georges

Influences of Juxtaposition, Coordination and Brand Type on Product Evaluation: An In-Store Experimental Approach

• Léopold Lessassy, Alain Jolibert

Buying Veg Private Labels. Antecedents and Mediators

• Elisa Martinelli, Francesca De Canio, Emiro Endrighi

Impact of CSR Initiatives on Consumer’s Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Retailers

• Rita Coelho do Vale, Pedro Verga Matos, Vera Herédia-Colaço

“I’d like to, but I Can’t”. Store Brands’ Limited Exploitation of the Gluten-Free Opportunity

• Edoardo Fornari, Alessandro Iuffmann Ghezzi, Daniele Fornari

A View of Retailing Formats Based on the Assortment Dimension: An Analysis in the Spanish Context

• José Luis Ruiz-Real, Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad, Francisco J. Martínez-López

Sorry, Your Order Has a Substitution: The Effects of Substitution Policy in Online Grocery Retailing

• Dong Hoang, Els Breugelmans

Price or Quality? Comparing Consumers’ Perceptions of Competing Private Labels – An Illustrative Analysis in Food Retailing

• Mika Yrjölä, Harri Hokkanen, Ella Määttänen, Hannu Saarijärvi

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This proceedings volume highlights the latest research presented at the 7th International Conference on Research on National Brand & Private Label Marketing (NB&PL2020, Barcelona, Spain). The topics covered include: retailing, private label portfolio and assortment management, marketing of premium store brands, using national brands to exclude (delist) and include, optimal assortment size, consumer store patronage, etc. Several contributions also focus on private label pricing and promotion, especially on the relative pricing of standard and premium private labels, and with regard to the national brands in the assortment. Further questions addressed here include: Should store brands be promoted? If so, what types of promotion should be used? How can private label penetration, especially premium private labels, best be dealt with? Are dual branding and coupons viable options?

• Digital and mobile technologies
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Francisco J. Martinez-Lopez

Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad

Els Breugelmans

Book Title : Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing

Book Subtitle : Seventh International Conference, 2020

Editors : Francisco J. Martinez-Lopez, Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad, Els Breugelmans

Series Title : Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47764-6

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Softcover ISBN : 978-3-030-47763-9 Published: 14 May 2020

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Series ISSN : 2198-7246

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Number of Pages : XV, 178

Number of Illustrations : 13 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

Topics : Marketing , IT in Business , Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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10th March 2024

Abstract Submission

20th November 2023

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10th December 2023

Full-paper Submission

20th January 2024

About Conference

The first LIBA International Conference on Marketing Research is conceived and conceptualised by Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai, India, to be one of the flagship events in the global academic circle, that intends to focus on the ever-evolving and contemporary fields in marketing area with special focus on consumer research, branding & advertising, technology trends, sustainable marketing and artificial intelligence

The conference will serve as a platform for industry professionals, academics, and researchers from all over the world to come together and exchange knowledge, insights, and innovations in the dynamic realm of market research. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, the conference offers a multidisciplinary approach to marketing research, encompassing various aspects of marketing, cutting-edge research methodologies, global market trends, and the transformative potential of technology and artificial intelligence.

The primary objective is to explore the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in marketing research by bringing together experts and thought leaders from around the world. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in insightful presentations and discussions that delve into key topics that will shape the future of marketing field. The conference will cover diverse aspects, ranging from the impact of digital transformation on consumer behaviour to the utilization of big data and predictive analytics. Participants can expect to gain valuable insights into leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to unlock new avenues for market exploration, uncover hidden patterns, and make data-driven decisions.

Established in 1979 within the premises of Loyola College, Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) is a premier B-school in Chennai, India. Its mission is to form competent and committed leaders who possess ethics, principles, social responsibility, a global perspective, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Managed by the Jesuits of the Loyola College Society, renowned for their contributions to higher education, LIBA upholds excellence and ethics as its core values. The institution endeavours to instil in its students the virtues of excellence, justice, honesty, and service to society.

LIBA offers a two-year Full-time PGDM course, approved by AICTE and recognized by AIU. Additionally, it provides other programs such as the AICTE-approved Part-time PGDM, Ph.D. (affiliated with the University of Madras), and one-year executive diploma programs. The Management Development Centre offers customized short-term and long-term programs focused on skill development. LIBA emphasizes the holistic formation of students, addressing intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual aspects. The institution combines classroom and experiential learning to provide its students with the best possible education.

Who can participate?

Academicians, Students, PhD Scholars, Researchers, Industry Experts.

Key Benefits

• Publication opportunity for select quality manuscripts in Scopus / WoS /UGC care listed journals*
• All other manuscripts that do not qualify for the above-mentioned category, will be published with ISBN number in the form of Book of Conference Proceedings
• Networking and collaborate with professionals and experts from the academia
• All participants will get certificates and a copy of the Book of conference proceedings

Conference Objectives

• • The conference aims to showcase cutting-edge research methodologies used in marketing research. It encourages the exploration of innovative approaches and techniques to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of data collection and analysis.
• • Explore the latest trends and advancements in marketing research, with a focus on the integration of marketing, research, global perspectives, technology, sustainability and artificial intelligence.
• Provide a platform for industry professionals, academics, and researchers to exchange knowledge, insights, and innovative ideas in the dynamic field of market research.
• Discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, changing landscape of consumer behaviour, and the increasing availability of big data in the context of marketing research.
• The core focus of the conference are advancements in marketing research methodologies, marketing in digital era, emerging technologies in marketing and sustainability & social responsibility.

Advancements in Marketing Research Methodologies

• Consumer Behaviour & Brand perception Studies.
• Innovations in Survey Design and Data Collection Techniques
• Research methods for service marketing research
• Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing
• Using technology for conducting market research

Marketing in the Digital Era

• Digital Marketing Strategies and Best Practices.
• Social Media Marketing and Influencer Marketing
• E-commerce and Online Consumer Behavior
• Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
• Mobile Marketing and Location-Based Marketing

Emerging Technologies in Marketing

• Application of AIML in Marketing
• Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) Applications
• Voice Search and Voice-Activated Marketing
• Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Marketing Devices
• Chatbots and AI-Powered Customer Service

Sustainability and social responsibility in marketing

• Sustainable Marketing Strategies and Green Marketing
• Socially Responsible Branding and Cause Marketing
• Purpose-Driven Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Consumer Awareness and Conscious Consumerism
• Impact of Marketing on Society and Environment

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Spotlight on a symposium hosted by four OLBI professors at the Acfas conference

With this in mind, four professors from the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), namely Catherine Buchanan, Valia Spiliotopoulos, Jérémie Séror and Reza Farzi, will host a symposium on how to onboard international students and help them succeed at university, entitled: “Comment contribuer à l’insertion et à la réussite universitaires des étudiants internationaux?” According to these academics, language course materials often fail to reflect the language needs of courses in a given discipline, a problem that could be mitigated by integrating university literacy programs. This approach involves teaching language skills by drawing on subject matter from the student’s own discipline to better align the development of linguistic and disciplinary competencies. Over the past 15 years, the OLBI has mastered the use of this teaching method by fostering collaborations between language specialists and subject matter experts. According to Professor Catherine Buchanan: “It’s high time we stopped thinking in silos.”

During the symposium’s afternoon session, a partnership between the OLBI and the Fédération internationale des professeurs de français (FIPF) will be announced. The FIPF partners with organizations on five continents to promote the Francophonie. One of the joint projects they have planned involves publishing a white paper based on a global survey of the French-language teaching profession, which they intend to promote by sharing short videos not only with international government authorities, but also with French-language educational institutions and the Alliances françaises. The OLBI is proud to represent Canada internationally and to help raise awareness of the importance of French in minority language settings.

The “ Comment contribuer à l’insertion et à la réussite universitaires des étudiants internationaux? ” symposium will be held on May 14, 2024.

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WVU researchers to share expertise at international conference on mine water, reclamation

WVU will co-host the 2024 Mine Drainage Task Force Symposium and 15th International Mine Water Association Congress through April 26 at the Morgantown Event Center, Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place.

Poised to be the largest congregation of mine water experts, the event will bring together mining, water and reclamation experts from around the world who will provide the latest updates on research, regulations and practices involving mine drainage, water quality and rare earth element extraction. 

Paul Ziemkiewicz , director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute at WVU , whose work with rare earth element extraction has garnered national attention, will serve as a keynote speaker, as will Steve Feldgus, principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, under the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Other presenters include Jeffrey Skousen , professor of soil science and WVU Extension land reclamation specialist; Dorothy Vesper , professor of geology ; John Quaranta , associate professor of civil and environmental engineering ; Mike Strager , professor of resource economics; Paul Kinder , director of the Natural Resource Analysis Center at WVU ; along with other mining, reclamation and water experts from around the world.

The West Virginia Mine Drainage Task Force was formed in 1978 to investigate acid mine drainage associated with surface mining in central West Virginia. Since then, the task force has broadened its scope to include areas outside of West Virginia and research of many diverse mine drainage issues.

This year, the task force is combining its annual event with the International Mine Water Association, which boasts more than 500 members across the globe.

Chambers’ Revenue Model Tests Law Firms’ Appetite for Exposure

By Justin Wise

Once a modest directory in London, Chambers & Partners sits atop a vast, and increasingly lucrative, legal rankings industry.

Just how lucrative became clear in November, when Chambers sold for five times the price it fetched in 2018. Abry Partners, a mid-market private equity firm based in Boston, bought Chambers from London’s Inflexion Partners in a deal valuing the legal directory at £400 million ($492.4 million US).

A Chambers badge today is widely viewed in the industry as a legitimate proxy for a lawyer’s bona fides. Now, CEO Tim Noble’s challenge is to deliver revenue growth while maintaining the brand.

“You’ve got a business here that is entrenched effectively in the legal profession,” he said in an interview. “We have to make sure that we, you know, we maintain that and keep our leading position.”

Chambers’ strategy largely revolves around selling advertising and research products to the same lawyers it reviews. As it’s gotten larger, critics say the practice has increasingly toed the line between independent research and profit motive.

“In the early days of Chambers, the sales function was a small minor thing,” said Lloyd Pearson, a former Chambers global editor who advises firms on legal rankings submissions. “Clearly that’s not true anymore. Private equity investors don’t do this for fun.”

The rankings firm is known for a submissions process so rigorous that some law firms have dedicated staff to assemble information for it and other rankings. Firms must share lists of cases and clients across different jurisdictions and practices—up to 20 cases and 30 clients for a specific practice. Chambers each year rates firms in “bands” 1 through 6, in markets ranging from New York mergers and acquisitions—led by Wall Street heavyweights such as Sullivan & Cromwell and Cravath, Swaine & Moore—to the greater China and Africa regions.

“You can be ranked by Chambers whether or not you have a commercial relationship with us,” Noble said, calling that a distinction from some pay-to-play competitors.

Still, in a marketing proposal for 2024 sent to one international firm, Chambers called the purchase of a firm profile on its website a way to “secure the best possible ranking for the firm and for your individuals.” The profile—which is priced by region and serves as a firm homepage on the website—was £8,795 ($10,800) in the US, roughly double the price of that firm’s profile in 2018, according to the documents seen by Bloomberg Law.

Another Big Law firm was quoted a price of more than $30,000 for a 2024 US website profile, according to a source inside the firm.

Asked about the language on paying to “secure the best possible ranking,” and whether firms can expect better rankings if they pay for Chambers products, Noble said “the answer is a categorical no.”

A website profile, he said, allows firms to “basically enhance” and differentiate themselves from competitors to buyers of legal services.

If two law firms are ranked “band one” in a specific practice, they “would all be listed on chambers.com, right? But you may choose to differentiate effectively your profile by talking about the cases you’ve worked on, how long you’ve done this, why that can pay. You can effectively pay for that privilege.”

Chambers also markets client and market intelligence reports, which include tailored guides on how to improve a firm or practice’s rankings. Features that also come with buying a website profile include a “referee management tool,” which give firms an ability to see which clients have responded to Chambers researchers’ outreach, who use client calls as part of their assessments.

Silvia Van den Bruel, a marketing director at global plaintiffs firm Hausfeld, criticized Chambers’ business model in a January article under the title, “Private equity and directories—are lawyers paying the price?” She contended the line between independent research and payment had faded, with law firms losing visibility on the Chambers website if they elected not to pay for its products.

“Today, if you do not pay, you can’t play, underscored by the different layout and website page presentation,” she wrote. “How far will they be able to push law firms in their quest for self-validation?”

Abry Partners didn’t return requests for comment on its interest in Chambers. The PE firm in 2021 also bought Best Lawyers, a peer-review publication that ranks lawyers, suggesting it’s building a portfolio of companies in legal information services.

Cottage Industry

In the pre-internet days, legal directories such as Martindale Hubbell were key resources for businesses and law firms in need of counsel in unfamiliar locales. Today, there are nearly 1,000 rankings sites just in the US, according to the public relations firm Jaffe PR, demonstrating how vast of a cottage industry ranking lawyers has become.

Chambers says on its website that 85% of law firms say a Chambers ranking helps them win and retain business. Internal research shows 75% of the Fortune 500 used the Chambers website since August, Noble said.

“We have statistical proof that law firms find it helps them,” said Noble, who came to Chambers in 2019 with a background in financial data analytics. “I mean, this is what they tell us.”

Research from BTI Consulting published in 2022 found few corporate counsel use directories for law firm hiring, but do use them to “validate or help them understand attorney behavior.”

“The predominant way in-house counsel find law firms to work with is through word-of-mouth,” said Susanna McDonald, the vice president of the Association for Corporate Counsel, a trade group representing in-house counsel. It is “hard to gauge how many are using legal rankings.”

Noble agreed that corporate counsel lean on their own networks. “But they will also ensure” their law firm selection by using Chambers, he said.

Under new ownership, Noble said, Chambers plans to redouble its investments in the US, meaning more rankings across states such as Texas and Florida. He said its core business remains the same: large-scale research of law practices and sharing with the market who the top lawyers in a particular field are.

Chambers employs roughly 250 researchers in offices in London and New York. Those heavy investments in research and data have made Chambers “the ranking that people really care about,” he said.

There’s no sign of any brewing revolt. More firms participate in Chambers’ submissions process every year, Noble said.

The alternative to being in Chambers, or any other legal rankings platform, is not being in there. And for many firms, not devoting the time and resources to appear alongside their competitors isn’t a real alternative.

“There’s a degree of FOMO here,” said Jocelyn Brumbaugh, the head of Builden Partners, a law firm marketing consultancy. “FOMO wins the day a lot.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Justin Wise at [email protected]

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bernard Kohn at [email protected] ; Chris Opfer at [email protected]

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Feed the Future Deputy Coordinator for Development Dina Esposito at the Innovations in Climate Resilience Conference

Washington, dc, [remarks as prepared].

FEED THE FUTURE DEPUTY COORDINATOR DINA ESPOSITO:  Good morning. Thank you, Lauren [Herzer Risi], for that introduction. I’m delighted to be here today representing USAID and to take you on a journey outside the United States to talk about how USAID is working to advance climate action. 

I understand it’s the first time this conference is being held here in the heart of Washington. And that’s fitting – given the massive scale of the challenge and the critical role the public sector plays in building climate resilience. That’s true through our domestic policy, where President Biden has spearheaded the most significant climate action in history. And it’s certainly true in our foreign policy and international development agenda, which I’m here to discuss today. My thanks to Batelle and the Wilson Center for your commitment to adding an international lens to this discussion. 

Let me start first with a few observations about the problem from USAID’s vantage point: Climate change knows no borders, and its effects spare no one. 

You may know that in 2023 the United States experienced 28 separate $1 billion dollar climate and weather related disasters – more than any year on record. Across those 28 disasters, a total of 492 people died. And while that is certainly 492 too many, that number is far lower than the devastation we see from climate change in the countries where USAID works.

Take Cyclone Daniel, which hit Libya in September last year. Torrential rain caused widespread damage and collapsed dams. Entire neighborhoods were swept away. More than 4,300 people were killed. This one storm, in this one country, killed nearly 10 times as many people as all the climate disasters in the United States combined. 

In addition to the tragic loss of life, extreme weather events like this also cause economic devastation. Economists estimate, for example, that climate change could reduce Africa’s gross domestic product by an average of about seven percent over the long term. A continent that contributes just four percent of global carbon emissions will suffer its worst effects.

The humanitarian fall out is also growing, especially for slow-onset drought emergencies like the five seasons of failed rains in the Horn of Africa in recent years. I started my career as a disaster relief officer working on the Somalia famine of 1992 that was caused by a devastating combination of drought and conflict. It used to be that droughts hit this part of the world once a decade or so, but the gaps between droughts have become much shorter. We see them roughly every two to three years – they’re not only more frequent, but they’re also more intense and longer in duration. Analysts suggest that climate change made this latest historic drought in the Horn of Africa at least 100 times more likely to occur. Millions were displaced as they moved in search of food and water and the drought, coupled with other factors, left more than 20 million people – or roughly the population of New York State – in need of lifesaving food assistance. 

There are, of course, other knock-on effects – hotter and wetter climates are hastening the onset of new crop and livestock disease, increasing the spread of malaria and other vector-borne diseases, destroying habitats and affecting child nutrition and education outcomes. Livelihoods suffer and projections are that climate impacts could push an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030. 

All of this matters greatly to our own economic prosperity and national security. Extreme weather can send damaging ripple effects up and down vital supply chains that we count on. It can prompt individuals in vulnerable communities to take desperate action to survive. In Africa’s Sahel region, young men report that it’s not so much ideology that compels them to join extremist groups like Boko Haram, but the loss of their livelihoods as farmers, fishers and herders because of climate change. And we see statistical correlations between drought, hunger and migration in parts of Latin America, which contributes to the results we see at our borders. 

While the challenges of the climate crisis are immense, so too are the opportunities to address them and that of course is a central topic of your work here this week. 

This morning, we’ve heard about the impressive efforts underway to respond to climate change here in the United States. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed the signing of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will strengthen the resilience of the country’s infrastructure and economy. We’ve seen the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act with an investment of over $360 billion dollars in the transition to a clean energy economy. This is the single largest investment in climate and energy ever, that independent experts say could halve America’s emissions this decade. 

All of us together – across nations and across the public and private sector – need to bring this same ingenuity, urgency and increased investment abroad if we are to scale solutions and truly address a crisis that knows no borders. 

USAID is a key partner in this regard. For those of you who don’t know us well – we’re the world’s largest bilateral relief and development agency, with programs in more than 100 countries and over 13,000 staff worldwide. We pride ourselves on tackling the world’s toughest challenges – poverty, hunger, disease, conflict. And we do this in collaboration with national governments, local communities, farmers, businesses, and everyone in between.  

A decade ago, our climate strategy focused on optimizing the programs that worked directly on climate change – things like expanding renewable energy or conserving tropical forests, which remain vital – but are clearly not enough. Today, we’re taking a hard look at managing the risks of climate change across everything we do, from our work in agriculture and nutrition to global health and education to governance and conflict mitigation. 

We’re doing this because we know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In fact, every dollar invested in adaptation can yield between $2 to $10 dollars of benefits and save up to $4 dollars of emergency humanitarian assistance down the line.

This shift in strategy includes making organizational changes. I lead a new bureau at USAID – the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security – that brings together our climate and biodiversity centers with our agriculture, nutrition and water centers, among others. We recognized that we cannot resolve the climate crisis without integrating both climate adaptation and mitigation into our sectoral work. Agriculture and food systems alone are responsible today for roughly 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, yet are also highly vulnerable to climate shocks. And, by the same token, we cannot solve challenges like global hunger and malnutrition, or lack of access to clean water and sanitation, or conserving tropical forests and biodiversity, without catalyzing climate adaptation for all sectors. I suspect many of your organizations are similarly looking at potential synergies spanning sectors that create win-win solutions for the benefit of both people and the planet.

The global agenda I describe is driven not just by our own sense of urgency, but because there is a groundswell of demand from the low- and middle-income countries where we work. 

I’d like to highlight three concrete ways USAID is partnering with communities and nations to discern and co-develop locally led and adapted solutions, and deliver on our ambitious climate strategy goals. 

The first is access to information. 

Consider the power of information to a community facing the arrival of a storm or heat weave. Just a 24-hour warning of an impending weather emergency can cut weather-related damages by 30 percent. And yet one-third of the world’s population and nearly 60 percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to these systems.

At USAID, we’re working with our partners to expand early warning systems in places like Bangladesh, where much of the land is barely above sea level and storms and floods are becoming more frequent and severe. With NASA and the Government of Bangladesh, we’re strengthening flash flood early warning systems and helping local governments use satellite data and forecasting systems to better prepare and respond. In 2022, a quarter of a million Bangladeshi farmers gained access to timely and location-specific weather advisories. This saved them an average of $467 dollars a year by avoiding weather-related losses – crucial savings in a country where the average annual income is just under $3,000 dollars.

Our overall goal is to assist 500 million people to adapt to a changing climate over the next decade, and we’re intentionally focused on ensuring information and other services get into the hands of people and communities too often left behind. 

Women, for example, are significantly more likely to die from climate-related disasters than men. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization recently issued a report titled  The Unjust Climate , which puts a lot of facts and figures to what we know to be true – that climate change is disproportionately impacting the most marginalized – especially women, the extreme poor, and those living in rural areas. When it comes to information access, we need to think about who has access to the cell phone or radio, the timing and language of notices, the location of material distribution events, and who is contributing to key decisions made when it comes to early warning access. A precursor to our success – and I suspect yours as well – is designing with and for the most affected.  

A second area of focus for USAID is on research and innovation. 

In the food security space – which has been a dedicated area of focus for me over many years – the world has lost ground in the fight against global hunger and malnutrition. After decades of progress, a series of unprecedented shocks, from COVID-19 to Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, have reversed many of our gains and as a result some 120 million more people are hungry today than in 2019. The rising cost of food, including food imports, and the growing climate-related challenges to production have created a new sense of urgency among our partners in the developing world to move more rapidly towards building resilient local and regional food systems. 

Central to that agenda is helping farmers adapt to the climate crisis, where in addition to the need for better information, we also need to develop and scale climate-smart technologies and practices. 

Through  Feed the Future , the United States’ global hunger initiative, we’re investing in research and development through a network of Feed the Future innovation labs. These labs harness the best minds from nearly 70 universities across 42 U.S. states. They work through demand-driven collaborative research partnerships to address food security constraints across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and in so doing, intentionally build local capacity to identify and meet future challenges. 

In just four years, using genomic selection and working with public and private sector partners, our investments supported the development of new heat tolerant hybrid seeds that yield more than the best existing seeds across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan.

In eastern and southern Africa, some seven million farm families are growing drought-tolerant maize hybrid seeds on 18 million acres. These seeds yield 40 percent more than regular varieties during times of drought. This is not only helping families feed themselves at a precarious time, but is also injecting more than $1 billion dollars per year into the regional economy and reducing the need for emergency relief. 

And in Asia, we’re helping to develop rice varieties that require less water, conserving energy and reducing methane emissions in the process. This is a win-win for both farmers and the planet. 

No matter the research investment, the real proof of their value of course is in their adoption and the impacts they generate. We’ve made significant strides, in part by learning from the private sector, to engage user communities and social scientists right from the start. And we’ve learned that this is as critical as the hard science to scaling innovation.   

Women and men, for example, will seek different improvements in different crop types and have interest in different improved traits. Where women may prefer varieties that cook faster, men often look for varieties that grow faster. And they will have different constraints when it comes to applying certain technologies, such as lighter or smaller drying systems for grains or differences in irrigation products.  

We’re moving not just to intentionally improve women’s access to information and technology, but also working to advance their leadership roles – including in the laboratory. Over the last ten years, we have helped 10,000 women scientists build their professional skills and assisted 2,000 women with graduate education and training. And we’re investing in women policymakers and entrepreneurs because their voices are essential at decision-making tables if we are to address policies and norms that keep them disproportionately hungrier and impacted by climate change.

This brings me to my last point: what we’re doing to crowd-in investment for climate resilience. 

For a long time, when you talked about climate finance for adaptation globally, the words you would hear most often were things like: ‘overlooked’ and ‘underfunded’. But the tide is starting to shift both in terms of public and private sector investments in adaptation. 

We’re urging Congress to support the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request to provide $3 billion dollars per year for international adaptation to support the  President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience . Known as PREPARE, it is dedicated to advancing access to information, expanding climate finance, and mainstreaming adaptation in all policies and programs. That goal is within reach. In 2022, the United States invested $2.3 billion dollars in global climate adaptation – which is already more than quadruple where we were just a few years ago. 

Our adaptation investments are intentionally designed to crowd-in additional public and private sector funding and create win-win solutions for both people and the planet. At USAID, we have set an explicit target of mobilizing $150 billion dollars in climate finance over the next decade through public-private partnerships.

In Peru, many urban centers depend on water flow from the mountains, and water scarcity is a growing issue during the dry season. USAID is working with the Peruvian government to scale up investments in natural infrastructure, including watershed restoration often hundreds of miles upstream from urban centers. This program has already leveraged almost $300 million dollars from national budgets, water utilities, and private companies and has generated impressive results. Management of over 20,000 hectares of land has improved and created more than three million days of paid labor and improved access to water for thousands of people in downstream cities despite climate variability. 

Advances in technology are also creating new opportunities for public-private partnerships. Remote sensing technology, for example, is opening up access to weather-based index insurance as a key risk mitigation and recovery measure for farmers and herders alike, many of whom have never before had access to such a product.

In Kenya, new partnerships between government, donors and the private sector are spearheading livestock insurance to help mitigate the heavy losses caused by droughts and floods. In Mali and Burkina Faso, USAID-supported insurance programs paid out more than $20 million in disaster relief for farmers hit by drought.

Beyond insurance, businesses across the board are finally starting to recognize the value – and necessity – of investing in adaptation. A landmark report from the Boston Consulting Group released last year notes that every dollar a company invests in implementing adaptation and resilience measures can yield $2 to $15 dollars in financial benefits. 

And companies providing adaptation and resilience solutions could be worth nine times their current revenues in the future. While the case for profitability in adaptation investment has lagged far behind mitigation investments, the Boston Consulting Group reports finds that there is a growing pipeline of opportunities that can yield attractive, long-term returns for private investors.  

We see our job as both derisking private sector investments as well as working with governments to design resilience projects with openness, transparency and community buy-in – because doing so is both better for communities and, in the end, is going to be far less risky for investors.  

We know that real progress is possible – we see it in our own countries and in the places where we work. 

But accelerating the pace of change and unleashing the full potential of solutions that benefit both people and planet will mean breaking down our own silos and institutional barriers – between sectors; between research and implementation; between international and local. Sometimes we need to bring very different people and skill sets together to bridge the gap between what’s possible technologically and what’s desirable and achievable locally. 

My own journey took me from working directly with affected communities to working on policy reform. It has taken me from famine response to focusing on systems change and addressing the root causes of hunger, which in turn has taken me into the climate space. 

I urge you to not just press for innovation and accelerated change within your own fields of endeavor – though it is certainly critical in its own right – but to also move outside your comfort zone and seek new partnerships so that we can more rapidly advance multi-win, integrated solutions. And to ask the question, “who benefits?” and whether together we’re addressing the needs of those who will be most impacted by the changing climate.

This conference is a great place to connect with some of the people and ideas to make that happen. I wish you a productive week here in Washington.

Thank you. 

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