International Growth Centre Growth Week public lecture
Date: Thursday 24 September 2009
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Lord Stern
Chair: Howard Davies
Over the next few years, we have a real chance to set a path towards a low-carbon future. It is the only realistic future for growth and for overcoming world poverty. The global economic downturn is an opportunity to invest in green technology while costs are lower.
Nick Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE and chairman of LSE's new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He also directs the Asia Research Centre and the India Observatory at LSE. He was Chief Economist of the World Bank (2000-2003), then Head of the UK Government Economic Service and led a Review of the Economics of Climate Change which was published in October 2006. In October 2007 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party political peer.
The next public event in Growth Week will be on the evening of Thursday 24 September, and will be a public lecture on Developing Rural Areas by Professor Esther Duflo.
The International Growth Centre promotes sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC was initiated by and is funded by DFID.
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