The billionaire founder of one of the world’s leading yogurt companies says that businesses have an obligation to help migrants and refugees — and that a failure to do so will make meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals impossible.
Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO of Chobani, which prides itself on employing migrants, said that the issue of migration was being used unfairly by politicians.
“The politics is the politics,” he told Devex on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. But, “in the absence of dealing with migration and refugees, we will not be able to find solutions to any other enormous topics,” he said. “So it’s essential, and businesses have an obligation to play in this.”
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
