When I was looking at the Kelley Business Conference, I have seen that Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Co., is being invited to talk on Energy and Environment. While I got enthusiastic about the conference outcome, as many leading industrialists will be speaking on their perspectives of energy and environment, I was also annoyed to see that CEO of Dow Chemical will also speak on issues the company never really cared to account for. You might be well aware that Union Carbide (now fully owned by Dow Chemical) was responsible for the world’s worst chemical disaster and killed 22,000 humans, and still many thousands of people are struggling with the aftermath of chemical poisoning in ground water. Neither Dow nor Union Carbide stood legal trails in courts in India and, in most unethical ways, escaped the country and refused to provide antidotes, citing it as patented information. I would strongly suggest the Kelley School to take back its invitation, to not allow Mr. Andrew Liveris to give an opportunity to mislead the IU community and to limit the conference to companies who are responsible for their own actions.
Suresh Marru\nIU employee
