Date: Monday 24 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: TW1.G.01, Tower 1
Speaker: Dr Nina Hall
Discussant: Dr Robert Falkner
Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

Climate change is increasing the frequency of natural disasters and undermining development efforts. How are international development and humanitarian organisations adapting to climate change? In this talk, Hall will look at the responses of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization for Migration. She will identify changes in their organisational rhetoric, policy, structure, operations and overall mandate to address climate change. Hall will argue that international bureaucrats can play an important role in mandate expansion, influencing whether and how to expand and lobbying states to endorse this expansion.

Nina Hall (@Ninawth) is a Lecturer in Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. She has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford. She has researched and published on climate change and humanitarianism, global refugee and migration governance, climate adapation financing, and leadership in international organisations. Her work has been published in Global Environmental Politics and Global Governance and in newspapers including the Guardian.

Robert Falkner (@robert_falkner) is Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE. His research focuses on international political economy, global environmental politics, and the role of business in international relations.

Erik Berglof (@ErikBerglof) is the Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE.

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