Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, a Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. Dr. Gonzalez-Perez has been coordinator of the Colombian universities relationship with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2009; member of the SDG 1 Global Council of the World Government Summit; and represented Colombia at meetings of the United Nations. She has been involved with sustainability efforts worldwide for more than a decade, and that is the focus for our segment. Appropriately, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat focuses on the current state of sustainability and how the world is achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by the member nations of the United Nations in September 2015.