DESTIN public lecture
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Louis Emmerij and Sir Richard Jolly
UN ideas have more influence and impact than is generally realized, on economic and social development and environment as well as on human rights and peacekeeping. In this well-illustrated lecture, two of the co-directors of the UN Intellectual History Project will present the findings of a ten-year project and launch the summary volume, UN Ideas That Changed the World.
Louis Emmerij has been Special Adviser to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank, President of the OECD Development Centre, Rector of the ISS, The Hague and Director of ILO's World Employment Programme. Both have spent lifetimes in development and written or edited many books and articles.
Sir Richard Jolly is an Honorary Professor of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. From 1982-2000 he was an Assistant Secretary General of the UN, as UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director and subsequently principal coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report. From 1972-81, he was Director of the IDS.
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