Michael Hastings is chair of SOAS University of London and professor of leadership at Utah State University.
Hiring, educating, and housing refugees and asylum seekers is the "next big challenge" for businesses, according to a longtime leadership professor and UNICEF vice president. Hastings praised business leaders for taking on the challenge of climate change by reducing their carbon emissions and use of single-use plastics, but said they needed to go further. "The corporate world is missing the next big challenge. Yes, climate is a big deal. We've grabbed it, but migration is the next big thing. We need to grab that one too," he said.
Hastings, who is a House of Lords peer in the U.K., said the British government needs to work out where migrants who cross the channel in small boats are coming from.