Sustainable Development, Climate
Change and International Action
by Sir Nicholas Stern
18:00 hrs Thursday March 16, 2006
The
European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), in close association
with the Cambridge and Oxford Societies of Belgium, and the Harvard
Club of Belgium, are honoured to announce the launch of a series of
lectures on sustainable development in the name of Professor
Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 1998.
Audio files of the whole event are
avaliable here
The inaugural lecture before an invited audience was on 16 March 2006.
The lecture was introduced by Professor
Amartya Sen and was given by Sir
Nicholas Stern. Following the lecture there was a panel discussion.
Sir Nicholas Stern leads a
major review of the Economics of Climate Change. The review is conducted
jointly by the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury of the United Kingdom,
and will report to the Prime Minister and Chancellor by Autumn 2006.
The review has been requested to understand more comprehensively the
nature of the economic challenges that climate change poses and how
these can be met, in the UK and globally. This lecture will provide
one of the first presentations of the initial findings of the ongoing
review.
Sir Nicholas Stern's Presentation is avaliable for Download
(pdf)
EIAS and the Societies will continue to work with Professor
Sen to ensure that future lectures in the series address major
issues surrounding sustainable development and a number of leading
thinkers on the subject have been approached.
Professor Amartya Sen: Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences 1998; currently Lamont Professor of Economics
and Philosophy at Harvard University; previously Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge 1998-2003; Drummond Professor of Political Economy
and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University 1980-88; Professor
of Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University 1977-80;
Professor of Economics, LSE 1971-77; Professor of Economics, Delhi
1963-71; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1957-63; Professor of
Economics, Calcutta 1956-58.
He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian
Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International
Economic Association. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM
and is now its Honorary Advisor. The 1998 Nobel Prize was awarded
to him for his contributions to welfare economics, with particular
focus on social choice theory, welfare distributions, inequality and
the analysis of poverty and famine.
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.
Audio files of the whole event are
avaliable here
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Willem van der Geest. We will publish a selection soon.
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