Date: Thursday 28 October 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Purna Sen, Clare Short
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor

In the year of his 70th birthday a panel of leading scholars discuss themes arising from Lord Desai's extensive work in the social sciences, his passionate commitment to the freedom and wellbeing of individuals, and optimism about human progress and globalisation.

Meghnad Desai has taught at LSE since 1965. He became professor of economics
in 1983 and founded LSE Global Governance in 1992.

This event and forthcoming Festschrift publication are supported by the LSE Annual Fund.

Professor Charles Goodhart, Director of the Financial Regulation Research Programme in the Financial Markets Group, LSE.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard and an honorary fellow of LSE. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His books include Development as Freedom (OUP), The Argumentative Indian (Allen Lane/Penguin) and Identity and Violence (Allen Lane/Penguin), and have been translated into more than thirty languages. His most recent book is The Idea of Justice.

Dr Purna Sen, Currently the Head of Human Rights at the Commonwealth Secretariat, former Director for the Asia-Pacific Programme at Amnesty International and and previously taught Gender and Development at the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), LSE.

Clare Short was MP for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010 and Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to May 2003, when she resigned from the Government over the Iraq war and in 2006, she resigned the Labour whip. Since 2006, Ms Short has been a member of the Advocacy Panel of Cities Alliance and of the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa, as well as a Trustee of Africa Humanitarian Action. She chairs the International Advisory Board of the Cranfield Masters in Security Sector Management Programme. .

Update, 17 September: Professor Gareth Stedman Jones will no longer be participating in this event due to unforeseen circumstances.

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