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Sustainable Development, Climate Change and International Action
by Sir Nicholas Stern
18:00 hrs Thursday March 16, 2006

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Sir Nicholas Stern is Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. He was knighted for 'services to economics' in June 2004. Previously, he was Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, Washington D.C. 2000-03 as well as Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1994-99.

Prior to 1994, Sir Nicholas Stern's career was mostly in academic life. Starting his teaching career at Oxford, he went on to hold chairs at Warwick and the London School of Economics. He has taught and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in France, India, China and Japan and at the International Monetary Fund. His books include works on public finance, tax reform, the theory of economic growth & development and the role of the state. He is Hon Fellow St. Catherine’s, Oxford and holds a first class Hons. Maths, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1969. His doctorate is from Oxford and he is a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.