Jacobs joined companies around the world in signing the Ukraine Business Compact 2023 – a declarative statement of international business support for Ukraine’s recovery.
The Business Compact officially launched at this year's Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC23) in London and mobilizes the international community to help secure Ukraine’s long-term economic future, including helping it to build back better, as a more resilient, greener and more prosperous European nation.
Both Jacobs and leading innovation and transformation consulting firm PA Consulting are participating in URC23, where Jacobs CEO Bob Pragada addressed the conference on the importance of the private sector’s role in supporting Ukraine’s recovery, some of the likely challenges international firms will face in responding to Ukraine’s needs, and what needs to be done to overcome these.
Bob spoke as part of Plenary 2 - Scale of the Recovery Challenge on June 21. Watch his presentation below.
Meet the Jacobs and PA Consulting team at URC2023
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Bob Pragada, Chief Executive Officer at Jacobs
Bob Pragada is Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs. Serving critical end markets such as global infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and national security, Jacobs generates more than $15 billion in annual revenue, and delivers integrated, purpose-driven, multidomain solutions for a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and sovereign governments globally.
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Jon Harding, OBE, Partner at PA Consulting
Jon Harding has 30 years of commercial, legal and operational experience in senior leadership roles across the private and public sectors. Jon is a partner in PA’s public sector practice leading PA’s work in economic development across government - having joined from the Cabinet Office as commercial and workstream lead on the U.K. Ventilator Programme during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon was awarded an OBE in 2006 for services to business and charity.
“The private sector can play a central role in driving collaboration across stakeholders to bring the best of each to innovate, build capacity and ensure we are doing this with Ukraine, not to Ukraine. It requires long-term commitment and continuity from all, working in an open and honest culture that welcomes challenge and feedback to find better ways to help deliver the best outcomes.”
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Sustainability
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